Comments on: Despite Pressure, Huckabee Stays In Race

Washington Post: Conservatives Rally Around McCain, But Rival Says He Won't Drop Out

[honestabe8]

singingrick: i agree that there is a huge difference between educating someone and forcing someone to believe something. there is also a difference between a personal belief and making it public policy.

[honestabe8]

honestabe8: so, by a candidate saying that they feel that homosexuality is right and then using that feeling to impose legislation to give gay couples the same rights regarding passing on assets to their "spouse" as straights, that is not "pushing" his/her beliefs?

of course that is pushing their belief. congrats to your daughter about her straight A''s. there are plenty of people i know who see through theism, so where does that lead us?

[honestabe8]

singingrick: no, no one has "forced" me to believe in christ, but plenty of christians, hearing i am an atheist, have taken it upon themselves to educate me on the glory of their savior.

[honestabe8]

repscott: so, by a candidate saying that they feel that homosexuality is wrong and then using that feeling to oppose legislation to give gay couples the same rights regarding passing on assets to their "spouse" as straights, that is not "pushing" his beliefs? it doesn''t matter to me all that much, as i am straight, but don''t go around telling me that candidates (from whatever party) do not push their beliefs. if a candidate reveals his belief system, it is in the hope that others of that belief system will vote for him/her.

[todd_i-2009]

I don%u2019t think Huckabee supporters understand what happened here. McCain doesn%u2019t have the credentials to be the GOP candidate but, he will get it and then lose in November.

Neither does Huckabee. He is conservative only on social issues and moderate (sometimes liberal) on all the rest. His rise has never been about his policies, issues, or personality. His rise was due only to him being an alternative to Romney--who a significant amount of evangelicals were unwilling to support due to his religion.

In the early 1980%u2019s Baptists learned that 40% of Mormon converts were from their churches. They started an active campaign to defame Mormonism that was and is mostly dishonest and inflammatory. I would suggest that evangelicals study Mormonism from the Mormons prior to the next election so that the man who should be president gets the GOP nomination.

[honestabe8]

singingrick: where are all these atheist evangelicals who feel it is their duty to convert theists? there are certainly those who feel that it is their duty to tell people about their dubious "savior".

[repscott]

You go singinrick

[repscott]

ZOE2006, look at your rude and uncalled for comments. Instead of blasting someone because they don''t agree with you, have a civil conversation. When it comes to the issues you discuss, there''s no candidates in the field looking to regress our civilization, but provide progress. Realize the words you put down are read by many, and your ignorance & bias flows through that which you write. Huckabee is not a bigot nor is he putting women''s issues back 100 years...you should look in the mirror and ask yourself if it''s your thinking that sets those issues back 100 years.

Honestabe8, I don''t think there''s anything wrong with a "Preacher" running the country. I don''t think he trying to push his beliefs or faith on anyone. I wouldn''t expect him to belittle it either, just to get votes.

[honestabe8]

i am assuming the when singingrick says someone is blown away, he is not talking about the ted haggard scenario...

[honestabe8]

lucysmom: do you really want a preacher running the country?

[honestabe8]

singinrick is right. people do not think for themselves. that is what the bible is for, to tell people what is right and wrong. as far as blowing mccain away at being a conservative, is the point of this to fall over each other pushing partisanship to the extremes?

[pareidolia-2009]

Maybe even the neocons do not want a THEOCRACY.

[random_radar]

It''s half time...your team is down by three touch downs...you were the underdogs anyway...everyone says you never had a chance, you don''t deserve to win, you need to quit and take your loss like a man...is that how we play football or any other sport?

Do we give up at half time because we are behind? What happened to "It ain''t over till its over?" Plenty of teams have come back and won in the second half.

The primaries are half over. Of course it is very likely that McCain will win. But what in the world is wrong with playing the whole game? Why do people admire determination in a football game but ridicule a candidate who won''t give up at halftime?

[lucysmom3]

SOME of us do not want a HOT HEAD like McAmnesty running this country! He is a Washington insider and it''s time for a change! Huckabee 2008!

[repscott]

However, he is soft on immigration,questionable on tax cuts, he also entertains the thought of an International Criminal Tribunal,that could put people like Don Rumsfeld and our own American Troops on trial.These, in addition to others,are differences I have with him.There''s no question that I think any and all of these candidates, Republican or Democrat are qualified to be our president,I just think Huckabee far outpaces the others,but because of the media suppression and their efforts to make John McCain the premature nominee,they aren''t giving him a fair shot.
I predicted Romney''s departure before Super Tuesday, saying that Huckabee would do well in the South, better than most would give him credit for.I also said if this happens and Romney doesn''t win CA, than he would leave the race.I am going to predict again, that Huckabee may not win in MD or DC,but satnds a chance in VA.Yet, even if he loses all three, he will go on to win Texas and maybe even Ohio.However, watch the next debate at the end of February.Huckabee hasn''t been given equal time as of recent in these debates but now they will be forced to do so,and watch what happens. God Bless, I''m in MD I have to go VOTE....FOR MIKE HUCKABEE!!!

[repscott]

Honestabe8,I appreciate your substantive comment.I believe Huckabee has a chance. Romney releasing delegates is one way, Romney endorsing Huckabee and putting his delegates behind Huckabee is another,and yet another is the fact that Huckabee doesn''t need to get to 1191,he just needs to keep McCain from getting to 1191.If neither do,it goes to convention.I believe there are serious fundamental differences between McCain and the majority of conservatives.There''s no question he is a great American and a war hero.

[hosers22]

Huckabigot is now pointing out all the differences between he and McComplain. He is doing exactly what he ******* about Romney doing! Pointing out differences. Yet when Romney "pointed out differences between the candidates" both Huckabigot and McDisdain, ganged up together and called Romney a hater and claimed he was attacking them. What a Hypocrite!!!

And the MSM isn''t calling them on it. Figures.

[elkc]

Huckabee wants to take away my rights and replace them with his desires. I don''t want that and I do not want another American being forced to worship one God of choice by an amendment to the Constitution of The United States. I also do not want future generations to have to fight to regain progress in America, which has been made in the last 100 years. If the route of government continues as stipulated by the religious rights movement to help George Bush in to office, only to begin a Holy War thru their lies, that has our troops committing suicide at alarming rates, and the agenda of a sect or Klan, continues to be promoted, in another ten years America will fall behind Mexico in social standing, economics and foreign trade. No to their version of life! No to their version of leadership! No to their dictating our America!

[honestabe8]

True Conservative (TM) this, True Conservative that...partisanship is killing this country. We get what we deserve.

[todd_i-2009]

The Republican contest is already over. Romney bowed out gracefully nearly a week ago. There is no real choice left. McCain is anointed. Huckabee is a joke. And Ron Paul%u2019s policies are out of the ball park.