The Grassroots Conservative Message:

"Please, kill our children, give our tax dollars away to corporate fat-cats, wreck the economy, destroy education, send our jobs overseas, spy on us, invade our homes, throw everyone in jail if you want to... but please, Lord Jesus, whatever you do, don't make me think about a boy kissing another boy!"

"If Gov. Romney is on your ticket, many social conservative voters will consider their values repudiated by the Republican Party and either stay away from the polls this November or only vote down the ticket," warns a list of 26 conservative activists to McCain in the print ad that screams "No Mitt" in bold.

This should cause the Right Wing pundit's heads to asplode considering they heralded Romney as candidate of choice while McCain was Judas McRINO.

McCain should pick Romney just to get these Huckabee "us-or-nobody" morons out of the Republican Party

/Democrats have their morons too. They do no good for either party.

helix400: McCain should pick Romney just to get these Huckabee "us-or-nobody" morons out of the Republican Party

/Democrats have their morons too. They do no good for either party.

This.

McCain is an oooold guy. Considering how much the office ages people, there's more than a slight chance he may not be able to finish even one term.

Huckabee as Veep sends a real chill down my spine.

Huckabee is probably one of the very few out there who could make Bush look like a GOOD president in comparison.

And next week prominent fiscal conservatives will post an open letter warning McCain not to pick a tax and spend fundamentalist loon like Mike Huckabee.

Sucks to be the candidate when the coalition collapses.

John Hancock approves Government Is Not God's layout, loads musket in response to their policies.

The only person in the Republican race I would want less than Mitt Romney is Huckabee.

/Vote Mike Huckabee 2008!
//He's batshiat crazy!

RemyDuron: The only person in the Republican race I would want less than Mitt Romney is Huckabee.

/Vote Mike Huckabee 2008!
//He's batshiat crazy!

McCain's in a pretty tight spot. If he chooses a traditional Repub or a neocon, he shores up his shaky base, but loses some of his independent appeal. If he chooses a moderate, he maintains his maverick appearance, but his base might not turn out.

As jolly of a guy the Huckster is, if McCain picks him for VP, he loses all independent appeal and a good portion of the Wall St. Repubs as well. No one but the fundies wants Huckabee in the same room as the Constitution.

The only problem with a McCain/Romney ticket is McCain.

torquestripe: The only problem with a McCain/Romney ticket is McCain.

And Romney.

As a potential national delegate I fully agree.

I could see McCain right now.

He's thinking "How do I appease the Kool-Aid drinkers in the party without offending everyone else?"

He grabs a shovel and a voodoo priest and digs up zombie Reagan.

Remove all Republicans: If he wants the social conservatives, he should just pick Fred "common sense" Thompson.

You made sense. Bravo.

/I like Thompson... guess it's the fact that I can relate to his empathy and laziness.

No, no, no, no.

Rick Perry

You heard it here first.

By Katie Humphrey
AMERICAN-STATESMAN STAFF
Thursday, February 28, 2008

A friendly crowd including many present and former Boy Scouts greeted Gov. Rick Perry at BookPeople on Wednesday to ask the first-time author to sign copies of his new book.

In the tome, "On My Honor: Why the American Values of the Boy Scouts Are Worth Fighting For," Perry shares memories of being a Boy Scout in West Texas.

He also opines that the American Civil Liberties Union is creating a "cultural war" and attacking religious believers by fighting to force the Boys Scouts to include gays, agnostics and atheists.

Perry said scouting was about building character and not about sex. The word "homosexual," he said, suggests that gay people are focused on sex.

How about this guy:




He was able to read John Hancock's signature without taking off his glasses -- or at least that was Hancock's plan.

Not Impressed.

McCain is too old to cheat on his wife anymore, how can he possibly be President?

Riche: McCain is an oooold guy. Considering how much the office ages people, there's more than a slight chance he may not be able to finish even one term.

Huckabee as Veep sends a real chill down my spine.

Huckabee is probably one of the very few out there who could make Bush look like a GOOD president in comparison.

I'd say THIS, but I'm not sure that's what I mean.
The thought of Huckabee one shot away from President makes repeal of the 22nd Amendment a distinct possibility.

Social conservatives need to take a farking hike already. How the hell did a bunch of bible thumpers that want to control people's lives ever get aligned with the supposed party of limited government?

Funny thing about democracy and power. You encourage or allow power to be heavily concentrated in a federal government, and it forces the wisdom of the mobs on everyone and everything. This is quite nice when you agree with the mobs; problem is there is absolutely no guarantee the mobs are correct, or moral, or make good decisions.

It would have only taken a few million people with a different opinion on right and wrong to turn Brown v. Board of Education into another Dred Scott. A few million opinions made the difference between the national guard integrating a school in Arkansas or maintaining (perhaps even forcing) the segregation of schools elsewhere.

What does this have to do with you, me, McCain, Romney, or social conservatives? 9% of Americans believe biodiversity is the result of a natural (as opposed to supernatural) process. Better work on your acting skills; the new dark age is going to need plenty of magicians, fourtune tellers, mystics, and shaman.

It will be a ex/current governor that is young, socially moderate and a very strong economic conservative. Maybe Mitt but I doubt it, he really pissed off a section of the RR. I stand by my theory that it will be Sanford.

I do like Remove's suggestion of Fred though.

I will probably write in I P Freely if McCain picks someone that I find disagreeable. McCain by himself is not enough to have me vote for him. The other possible main candidates, I find enough stuff to be disagreeable with to not even be swayed towards them.

Huckabee frightens me.

Frightens me like an Islamic extremist cleric frightens me.

Veepstakes? Did I seriously just read that?

Lenny_da_Hog: "Please, kill our children, give our tax dollars away to corporate fat-cats, wreck the economy, destroy education, send our jobs overseas, spy on us, invade our homes, throw everyone in jail if you want to... but please, Lord Jesus, whatever you do, don't make me think about a boy kissing another boy!"

The most succinct GOP policy statement I've read in years.

I wouldn't be surprised if McCain's campaign was behind organizing this effort. McCain despises Romney and this could be an easy excuse to avoid having him as his VP because there are a lot of conservatives that are dumb enough to still think Romeny is a good candidate.

Riche

I disagree. Every time I hear Huckabee speak I gain more respect for the guy. In particular it was nice to hear him speak up as the voice of reason during "Pastorgate" and defend Wright and Obama.

The fundy bits of his politics would never make it anywhere in congress and other than those hes pretty centrist.

Id rather see him than Romney. Romney is the original empty suit.

and I like the ideas of either Fred or Sanford alot better.

Sanford would be fun as president. I loved when he brought the pigs into the statehouse to make a point in the media about our state governments pork spending.

He knew a policy speech wouldve been buried in the local news section of the paper and been given 3 lines of text.

walking 2 pigs in on a leash got front page with pics coverage.