Values Voter Summit -- Bring on the Clowns -- Huckabee and Romney reprise bitter feud

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There is nothing so insipidly bitter as a Republican Party that is without a clear leader.

Whenever this happens the party goes through a bloodletting feud between the practical conservatives and the fundamentalist branch to wrest control over party machinery.

Bush's appointment of Cheney insured that the Republican party would go through a nasty successionist struggle. McCain then repeated the problem by picking Palin. Heir apparents must now fight it out.

So, before the President has finished a full year in office the Republican presidential hopefuls have already initiated attacks on each other.

Here is Huckabee on Romney

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WASHINGTON (CNN) – An old rivalry flared up again at the annual Values Voter Summit on Friday, when Mike Huckabee took aim at the health care system in Massachusetts that was implemented in 2006 by then-Gov. Mitt Romney.

Huckabee — who did serious damage to Romney's presidential hopes last January by winning the Iowa caucuses and has made clear his disdain for the former Massachusetts governor — told the crowd at the conservative conference that the Bay State health care system is a model for the kind of government-run health care President Obama wants to implement.

"It's going to bankrupt their entire budget," Huckabee said of the Massachusetts system, which requires residents to purchase health care or risk tax penalties. "In fact, the only thing inexpensive about Massachusetts health care bill is that there you can get a $50 abortion."

"Frankly if that's where we're headed with the public option and government run health care, thank you but no thank you, our wallets and our babies will be better off without it," Huckabee said.

Romney Spokesman responded with a tepid "that's not true" and then tried to make points by pointing out facts, always a losing proposition in a Republican civil war.

This prompted this freeper thread where some condemned one or the either but 90% condemned both, there is really very few things quite as satisfying as bitter all out civil war between one well funded Republican and another that has thousands of churches praying for him:



He’s right, Romneycare is pointless and annoying, just like the Huckster.

“Nanny-state” Huckabee berating Romulan....should make a good couple ;-)


I hope healthcare keeps Romney out or pushes him out early. And I don’t want Huckabee to run again either. I don’t want anyone who ran last time to run this time - it would be the same old “their turn” phenomena.

Two worthless, party-killing RINOs.




I support The The Huckster and Hairboy going at it.
Lets have a duel: Flamethrowers at twenty paces.



Are you smoking crack? Huck gets one thing right about socialized medicine and the disaster in Taxachusetts going national. Romney gets one thing right about Huck and McCain's love for illegal aliens over Americans. But neither is fit to wash Sarah Palin's backside.

All I can say is if you guys get low on ammunition, let us know we gut a bunch more on either of these clowns, but whatever you do please don't nominate your favorite, Palin, we got nothing on her at all.