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Huckabee Strikes Partisan Tone at RNC; Blasts Biden, Defends Palin
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ABC News' Ursula Fahy reports: At breakfast with the Texas delegation at the Republican National Convention in Minneapolis-St. Paul, at least one Republican took off his "America" hat and struck a partisan tone.
Former Republican presidential candidate, and ex-Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee, spent a couple of minutes Tuesday defending John McCain's vice presidential pick, Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin, chastising the media for focusing on her Monday statement about her pregnant 17-year-old daughter, and taking a shot at Democratic vice presidential candidate Sen. Joe Biden, D-Del.
Huckabee said Palin got more votes running for mayor in Alaska than Joe Biden got running for president, twice.
"She knows where she stands on issues that are important to so many of us," Huckabee said of Palin. Huckabee, a former Baptist minister, won the Iowa Republican primary in 2008 and garnered a lot of support from Christian evangelicals throughout the GOP primaries.
"When life begins and how to treat it, how to respect it, how to embrace it, how to elevate and celebrate every human life, and I'm so grateful that Sen. McCain has added not only to his extraordinary consistent record of voting for life issues, but to put someone on the ticket and team with him who will uphold and share those values and those important principles that mean so much to us.
"Over the past few days, we’ve been hearing all this stuff about how Gov. Palin doesn’t have experience. Let me tell you something, I can assure, having been a governor, myself, for 10 and a half years, she’s had more executive experience in two years than her counterpart Joe Biden has had in all the years that he’s been making speeches, because she’s been making decisions -- he’s been making just simple speeches," Huckabee told the crowd.
"In fact, I don’t know if you realize this, but Sarah Palin got more votes running for mayor in Wasilla, Alaska, than Joe Biden did in two quests for the presidency -- that oughta tell you something. I'm proud of her record as a reformer, as a leader -- somebody who believes in something that’s right, and I'm gonna tell you something. If the press believes that they can try to somehow move any of us in any direction by trying to smear her daughter, boy, have they picked on the wrong bunch of people, because I want you to understand, some of the chattering class still don’t quite get it. We appreciate a mother who gives the unconditional love and support that a daughter needs, deserves, and would want to have, and she has only affirmed our own appreciation for Sarah Palin," he said to applause. Huckabee, himself, is an ardent opponent to abortion rights.
"It's an unfortunate thing that the media has wanted to focus on things that have nothing to do with Sarah Palin's being a wonderful vice president for Sen. McCain, but we know what matters, and we know that when we face a tough crisis in our country, we are far better served by Sen. McCain and Sarah Palin, and that’s why I sense an enthusiasm and an energy in our party. There's going to be a kind of activity that we had hoped would happen, people knocking on doors and making phone calls and getting out there and getting out the vote."
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Sarah's Pastor.
But Pastor Kalnins has also preached that critics of President Bush will be banished to hell; questioned whether people who voted for Sen. John Kerry in 2004 would be accepted to heaven; charged that the 9/11 terrorist attacks and war in Iraq were part of a war "contending for your faith;" and said that Jesus "operated from that position of war mode."
Posted by: Thinking | Sep 2, 2008 1:35:38 PM
After a weekend of watching McCain surrogates stumbling and fumbling to find a coherent defense of this pick, we seem to see an emerging strategy.
Both from Huckabee and numerous posters here, we see this indignant claim about how the Democrats are attacking a teenage pregnant girl.
Does it matter this isn't true? Nope, not really. Not to Republicans. Doesn't matter at all - so long as it undercuts the questions people really are asking about this pick.
Posted by: Paul | Sep 2, 2008 1:36:21 PM
That's funny Huckabee... Especially since only 909 citizens of Wasilla voted for Sarah Palin in 1999. In a town of over 7,500, it means she won with less than 12% of the city supporting her.
Posted by: Braden | Sep 2, 2008 1:40:21 PM
Attacking a teenage girl? Laughable claim. Putting a pregnant teenager in the whitehouse is an attack on America's international image, if anything...
Posted by: Reginald | Sep 2, 2008 1:40:34 PM
More Sarah's Pastor
Kalnins has preached that the 9/11 attacks and the invasion of Iraq were part of a "world war" over the Christian faith, one in which Jesus Christ had called upon believers to be willing to sacrifice their lives.
Posted by: Thinkling | Sep 2, 2008 1:41:17 PM
Huckabee never could do math.
Posted by: Political Dean | Sep 2, 2008 1:41:27 PM
Population Wasilla is a village in the Matanuska-Susitna Borough in the U.S. state of Alaska, part of the Anchorage Metropolitan Statistical Area. As of the 2000 census, its population was 5,469, but the 2005 estimate gave a population of 8,471.
Palin didn't win in a landslide election in her 10 years as a Mayor.
In 2007 Biden got 300,000 votes for this years Presidency.
Huck, you being a lying Pastor does the Soul good huh?
GOP=Lying Sack of shytes
Posted by: Alex in Alaska | Sep 2, 2008 1:42:07 PM
Does Pastor Kalnins like male escorts or just his parishioners' wives/daughters?
Posted by: Vetter | Sep 2, 2008 1:43:30 PM
McCAIN HAS BEEN NEUTRALIZED!!!
He and the Republicans will spend every waking moment from now until election day DEFENDING HIS POOR JUDGMENT BY SELECTING PALIN AS VP!!!
All this valuable time lost defending this trailer trash, when he should be on the attack against Obama...
So, so sad Mr. McCain, bye, bye now!!!
Ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha!!!!!
Posted by: Davis | Sep 2, 2008 1:44:18 PM
"I'm proud of her record as a reformer"
you mean "as a liar"
Posted by: Vetter | Sep 2, 2008 1:45:31 PM
Heaven help us. NO SERIOUSLY... What is going on that the right wing can consistently hijack an election? This woman is a disaster ... believing our country's forefathers put the "under God" in the Pledge of Allegiance (which was actually inserted into the original pledge in 1954 -- the original pledge was written in 1892 by Christian Socialist). She's said that she thinks running for VP is "fun". She mentions her son being in Iraq as evidence of her national security qualifications. Check out her daughter's boyfriend's myspace page and see if you really want these family values brought into your living room or kitchen table discussions. Her daughter's pregnancy is relevant is because of the hypocrisy of the whole thing -- evangelical Pentecostal Christian, supports teaching abstinence in schools rather than sex education. McCain stated that his chief concern in choosing a VP was that he/she was qualified as commander in chief. His Hail Mary choice to calm the evangelicals and grab some former Hillary supporters shows how desperate old and feeble he's turned out to be. Country first? Doubt it.
Posted by: rachel | Sep 2, 2008 1:45:52 PM
chris if by genuine you mean corrupt and evil then yea sara wins over obama every time!
Palin said she didnt vote for the bridge to nowhere, but she campaigned in ketchikan (im from ketchikan) and she indeed voted for the bridge
Palin has how many firing scandals?
she isnt a fighter of pork barrel spending but someone who hired lobbyists to garner MILLIONS for her home town, and she ahs more pork then a pig farm...
this was a disastrous pick
Posted by: bhrandon | Sep 2, 2008 1:45:53 PM
Poor NeoConnies, all the kings horses and all the kings men can't put their party together again. Ms Palin is a total mess and no amount of shaking their pom-poms or whining is gonna make it go away.
Posted by: Chuck | Sep 2, 2008 1:46:31 PM
I wanna hear 9/11 9/11 9/11 9/11 9/11 9/11 9/11 9/11 9/11 9/11 9/11 9/11 9/11 9/11 and more 9/11
Posted by: Vetter | Sep 2, 2008 1:46:44 PM
PAULIN WITH SEXUALLY ACTIVE UNDERAGE DAUGHTERS?
-HEY NEO CONS, TELL US AGAIN ABOUT THOSE FAMILY VALUES.
Posted by: Alex in Alaska | Sep 2, 2008 1:47:11 PM
"As a born again, bible-toting Christian, I'm offended by these hypocrites" Mary, you should take the plank out of your own eye before spamming your unChristian remarks. Perhaps, you need a little more love, forgiveness and redemption from Jesus to soothe things over for you.
Posted by: former dem in chicago | Sep 2, 2008 1:47:48 PM
EXPERIENCE EXPERIENCE EXPERIENCE
we cant trust someone in the presidency with no experience!
a vp pick is someone who needs to be ready to lead should something ahppen to the president
teh vp pick is the first big decision to be made by our future commander in chief
all those lines were pulled by the mccain camp...
so what happened?
they just ran over their own lines, months and months of focusing in on a theme and htey destroy it to pander to women,,,
i mean they really think that any women is going to replace hillary clinton in the eyes of women?
at least hillary had experience, this women is a joke
Posted by: bhrandon | Sep 2, 2008 1:49:03 PM
More Sarah's Pastor
Kalnins has preached that the 9/11 attacks and the invasion of Iraq were part of a "world war" over the Christian faith, one in which Jesus Christ had called upon believers to be willing to sacrifice their lives.
Posted by: Thinkling | Sep 2, 2008 1:41:17 PM
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Palin has a NUT Pastor?
Woo Hooo! Can you say Reverend Wright? Let the VETTING FUN BEGIN!!!!!
Thinking do you have a link to any info on that one? We need to get the e-mail machine cranked up!!!!
I just got two e-mails this AM from a couple of my Repub friends of Palin in a bikini holding a gun!!!
What a riot!!!!!!
Ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha!!!!!
Posted by: Davis | Sep 2, 2008 1:49:26 PM
In 2007 Biden got 300,000 votes for this years Presidency.
Bidengot 300,000 votes before the primaries even started. Sounds about right. Was Beau involved?
Posted by: geevill | Sep 2, 2008 1:50:18 PM
So Sarah Palin is another religious nutcase?
Great, that was all the GOP was missing, a religious nutcase to impose her veiws on me because god tells her she is right.
God talks to me too, he says that anyone who speaks for him is full of sh*t.
Posted by: Tim | Sep 2, 2008 1:50:37 PM
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