9 February 2008
Weekend Chat - 2/9/08 and 2/10/08
Posted by Terrie Soberg under: General; What's News .
Here is the place to put news items and comments for the weekend. Today is my first wedding anniversary with Dave, so I won’t be around much, but I will be checking in!
Have a great weekend!
20 Comments so far...
Roy Bischoff Says:
9 February 2008 at 10:30 am.
Are you sure it has been a year. I only count a few months since you tied the knot.
Stumpy Says:
9 February 2008 at 10:56 am.
Glad to see somebodies writing. Y’all are bout as interesting as a convention of slugs this morning.
Iffer Says:
9 February 2008 at 12:27 pm.
I’m sure it will get interesting if you stick around Stumpy 
Carrie Says:
9 February 2008 at 12:28 pm.
Congratulations, Terrie and Dave!
Terrie Soberg Says:
9 February 2008 at 12:38 pm.
I found this article online. It drives me nuts how he keeps holding up his Christianity for all to see and admire. I hate the “Holier Than Thou” attitude that he has.
Huckabee Pledges to Stay in Race
By WILL LESTER
The Associated Press
Saturday, February 9, 2008; 11:07 AM
WASHINGTON — Republican Mike Huckabee on Saturday rejected suggestions that John McCain is the party’s inevitable nominee and said he won’t quit the presidential race.
“I didn’t major in math,” the former Arkansas governor told a cheering crowd at the Conservative Political Action Conference meeting. “I majored in miracles.”
Huckabee, who trails in the nomination race with 198 delegates to McCain’s 719, said he was aware there had been rumors that he might quit the race, but reassured them: “I’m not quitting.”
He said he is comfortable with where his campaign is now given the resources he’s had and he planned to stay in the campaign until he could win or his opponent has the delegates to claim the prize. A total of 1,191 delegates are needed to secure the GOP nomination.
Huckabee said that his fundraising has been doing very well lately, and added: “We raised a quarter of a million dollars online yesterday.”
Hank Says:
9 February 2008 at 12:47 pm.
Hey Terrie, sounds like you should go celebrate. The first is an important one.
Glad I found this place because my brother was pressuring me this morning to vote for McCain. For the good of the party and because nothing was more important than the war. Because I read a bunch of articles here I had good answers for him. I told him about the Constitution being more important than the war. We can’t give up values for one issue. Besides I don’t think Hillary would get us out of the war. She wouldn’t want to take the hit for that. Who knows? Maybe I will change his mind.
Pickles Says:
9 February 2008 at 12:52 pm.
Here’s a toast to the happy couple.
Stumpy Says:
9 February 2008 at 1:01 pm.
Iffer let me tell you what would be really interesting -
Cavetrollhead Says:
9 February 2008 at 1:35 pm.
It would be interesting to see if the conservative vote goes more wholly to Huckabee now and he wins because of it. The first time in history that a VP candidate becomes presidential nominee.
Nalvy Says:
9 February 2008 at 2:34 pm.
Cavetrollhead that would be ironic really but it also would be at the back of the list for possible firsts of presidential nominees…. this race is by far the strangest i have ever encountered
Hey Stumpy and Iffer… maybe you guys should go get your own private blog…I dont know light some candles or something lol cuz I am feeling the chemistry between you two!
Jan W. Says:
9 February 2008 at 3:19 pm.
Hank I am proud of you. It happens one person at a time.
Roy Bischoff Says:
9 February 2008 at 3:55 pm.
I want to share a little of an article by Pat Buchanan that my friend Peter Anderson sent me:
Bottom line: If the presidential race is between Hillary and Amnesty John, the border security battle is over and lost. As Laura Ingraham asks, “If Congress passes McCain-Kennedy in 2009, would President McCain sign it?”
For conservatives, the stakes could not be higher.
For on the great controversies, McCain has sided as often with the Democrats and the Big Media that pay him court as with conservatives.
Where President Bush has been bravest, on taxes and judges, McCain has been his nemesis. Not only did McCain vote against the Bush tax cuts twice, he colluded to sell out the most conservative of the Bush nominees to the courts.
In 1993, McCain voted to confirm ACLU liberal and pro-abortion Ruth Bader Ginsburg. But when Bush set out to restore constitutionalism, McCain colluded with Democrats who wanted to retain power to kill Bush’s most conservative nominees.
McCain helped form the Gang of 14, including seven Democrats, who agreed to block a GOP Senate from using the “nuclear option” — allowing a simple GOP majority to break a Democrat filibuster of judicial nominees — unless the seven Democrats approved. McCain thus conspired with liberals to put at risk the most courageous conservatives nominees of President Bush.
With his record of voting for liberal justices Ginsburg and Stephen Breyer, and of colluding with Democrats in their campaign to kill the most conservative Bush nominees, what guarantee is there a President McCain will nominate and fight for the fifth jurist who would vote to overturn Roe v. Wade?
http://www.humanevents.com/article.php?id=24666
Cavetrollhead Says:
9 February 2008 at 5:28 pm.
Excellent comment Roy. Very good points.
Cavetrollhead Says:
9 February 2008 at 5:31 pm.
Hank,
Great point about Hillary. She is just pandering to the left when she speaks on the war. Remember, she was publicly for the war for a couple of years at least. Not only that, but the war seems to be winding down. There are already public ‘timetables’ for troop reduction I think.
Chuck C Says:
9 February 2008 at 6:12 pm.
Roy, Pat Buchanan’s article underscores the need to do all that can be done to elect senators that will shift the balance of power to the light… I mean, to the right.
Cavetrollhead Says:
9 February 2008 at 8:29 pm.
Hey Terrie,
I hesitate to be negative, but I can’t resist tell y’all this.
When ever someone in our household sneezes, or something of the sort, I say ‘”Pardon me Huckabee”
“I didn’t major in Math, I majored in miracles.” That is really clever. I wonder what he could do about my neck ache.
Cavetrollhead Says:
9 February 2008 at 8:43 pm.
Huckabee just won Kansas. Can you imagine what a target Huckabee will make for Obama? OOO! it makes me wince.
Cavetrollhead Says:
9 February 2008 at 8:50 pm.
I don’t remember which of you referred me to this article by Chuck Baldwin has this take:
http://www.newswithviews.com/baldwin/baldwin426.htm
“Furthermore, the capitulation and compromise of principle by the Religious Right has also significantly sealed the death warrant of conservatism within the GOP. ”
We can’t accept this!! If we help elect McCain, this is true!!
Cameron Says:
10 February 2008 at 11:50 am.
Here is part of an article from the Washington Post. I just read another one too that is all about President Bush saying McCain is a true conservative. What’s up with that?
“On just about every major vote on Iraq, McCain has been right there, voting for Bush’s position,” said Eli Pariser, MoveOn’s executive director. “When you look to the future, McCain is more Bush than Bush. He seems determined to keep us there for a long time.”
Rep. Rahm Emanuel (Ill.), chairman of the House Democratic Caucus, said Bush will be both a boost for McCain and a drag on him. “He will probably help him where he has weakness with Republicans and probably hurt him with the rest of the country, which wants to move on from George Bush,” Emanuel said.
McCain hopes to fend off the Bush-clone argument with his long-standing reputation as an independent-minded politician willing to fight his president and his party when he disagrees with them. While boasting of his support for the troop buildup in Iraq last year, the candidate regularly reminds audiences that he also criticized Bush’s management of the war and called for Donald H. Rumsfeld’s resignation as defense secretary.
He is “running here to be his own man,” said Charlie Black, a senior McCain strategist who has also been an informal adviser to the Bush White House over the years. “And politics is always about the future and not the past. I’m sure the Democrats will try from time to time to run against President Bush. That won’t work.”
The relationship between Bush and McCain has been at the center of so many dramas that it seemed somehow inevitable that it would come full circle. By many accounts, it took years for the two men to recover from the bruising days of the South Carolina primary in 2000, when the charges and countercharges became increasingly savage and Bush effectively destroyed McCain’s campaign. After Bush took office, McCain fought his tax-cutting proposal and forced him to sign a campaign finance overhaul despite his own reservations.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/02/08/AR2008020800964.html?hpid=topnews
Cameron Says:
10 February 2008 at 6:38 pm.
I just grabbed a comment from an article about Mitt. I read about 100 comments and only one was supportive. All the others were anti-Mormon. I had no idea you guys had to put up with this kind of hatred. It is spooky and insane. There are a few of your doctrines I definitely do not believe in but I could say that about a few religions. It’s okay to disagree but for this kind of rabid hatred to exist in America is shocking. I was interested in one comment. The non anti-Mormon stuff was telling. We have been talking about how we are perceived by liberals. This comment below is a good example and kind of tells us where we are with a lot of America:
“Anyone who has professed to follow a Republican idealogy over the past 8 years will have a tough time getting elected: Being a Republican these days means spending money you don’t have, big tax giveaways to the rich, religious warfare and bigotry.”
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