Are Giuliani And Huckabee Conspiring To Beat Romney? Now UPDATED with Video
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GOP presidential candidates Rudy Giuliani and Mike Huckabee have opposing weaknesses. Rudy has no morals, but plenty of cash and Huckabee is a former Baptist minister whose campaign is low on funds. In other words, they could do a lot of good for each other and there appear to be some subtle, yet telling signs that the two may be working with each other behind the scenes to tackle the most potent common enemy between them -- Mitt Romney.
Last Sunday during an interview on ABC's This Week, the Huckster defended Rudy when asked about Trystgate:
Mr. Huckabee could easily have piled on, either overtly or with subtlety, but instead he offered a rather rousing defense of Mr. Giuliani, framing the story as the product of overzealous, context-ignorant reporting.
"I thought it was a cheap-shot at Rudy," Mr. Huckabee declared. "There's no point in trying to dig through what his security detail did, unless they can specifically say that he personally ordered something.
Mr. Huckabee and Mr. Giuliani are ostensibly political opponents, but each is faced with the same immediate imperative in the Republican presidential race: to prevent Mitt Romney from running the table in the early primary and caucus states and running away with the nomination.
And there's this -- An organization called Common Sense Groups, claiming to support Huckabee, hit Iowa voters with robo-calls attacking his opponents recently. Upon further review, it turns out that the mastermind behind CSG just happens to be a Giuliani donor.
A newly-formed group claiming to support Mike Huckabee hit the phones of Iowa Republicans tonight with an automated push-poll attacking Huckabee's GOP opponents and praising the former Arkansas governor....
The group claims to be affilliated with a larger 501(c)(4) called "Common Sense Issues."
...The legal architect behind Common Sense Ohio and Common Sense 2006 is Columbus attorney Bill Todd, the brilliant master of the campaign-finance loophole.
Buckeye State Blog tells us Bill Todd is a Giuliani donor, which a search of campaign finance records confirms.
It absolutely cracks me up that Mitt is their most potent rival. That empty suit isn't worth his weight in splashed-on Kmart cologne and these two are afraid of him? It speaks volumes all around.
HAR!
We're going down the tubes.
Nail down anything you have if you want to keep it.
Thugs conspiring? Knock that silly little idea out of your purty little haid!
Hey look! ROMney kissing babies!
http://www.plaidstallions.com/marvel/rom.jpg
[badoom boom *rimshot!*]
“The world's most popular leader”?
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article18817.htm
Bonkers @ 1:
Empty suit? Sorry, it's quite stuffed....with corporate donations.
L.A. Confidential @ 5:
With apologies to Gary Kasparov, who claims differently, Russians loooove their autocrats.
In brighter news, I'm glad Chavez's initiative to hold on to power in Venezuela was narrowly shot down. I didn't mind the guy before he asked fer- and was given- dictatorial powers. I don't care if they come from the left or the right, autocrats ain't to be tolerated.
Andy K @ 7:
I like this part. . . .
"What American wouldn't prefer a leader who stuck up their national interests rather than the interests of global Capital? Has Putin repealed habeas corpus, due process and the presumption of innocence? Has Putin abducted innocent suspects from the streets of foreign capitals and taken them to black sites where they've been tortured, water-boarded and sometimes killed? Has Putin initiated war's of aggression on defenseless countries killing and maiming a million or so civilians on “a pack of lies”? Has Putin created 4 million refugees and a humanitarian crisis which is likely to erupt into a region-wide conflagration?
Those aren't Vladamir Putin's Daisy Cutters and cluster bombs falling on Samara, Falluja and Tal Afar. That isn't Putin's armada in the Gulf off the coast of Iran. Those aren't Putin's intelligence agents and mercenaries executing covert operations in Mogadishu, Beirut and Islamabad.
Putin's crime is that he rejects Washington's “unipolar” world model. As he said in Munich:"
Andy K @ 7:
No truer words could be said of it! But at least he seems to have taken it well ... after reading National Security Presidential Directive 51, I'm a little concerned for what will happen when King George is asked to relinquish power......
Lex Talionis @ 9:
George and Dick should be called "The Yeltsins". Oligarchs free to loot and otherwise abuse the American economy, with former Yeltsins who used their political connections to amass obscene wealth draining the nation's lifeblood like a flock of vampires on the hunt.
ahhh, the C word.
Giuliani and Huckabee
No further comment.
Dumb and Dumber vs. God-zilla
L.A. Confidential @ 8:
Quite right. He's not Bushco.
But ask the Chechens if he's as cuddly as a teddy bear and I'd bet ya'd get a big fat "NO!". Then take a look at how Putin's been workin' to get the Ukraine (take a look at Victor Yuschenko's face if ya want proof) and Georgia back under the control of the Kremlin. If Putin wants somethin' from the EU he simply threatens to shut off the supply of natural gas. Just 'cause he hasn't rolled out the tanks yet doesn't mean he's taken the option off the table.
So, no, no daisy cutters. And Stalin didn't gas his enemies. But he killed many in the purges and disappeared a lot of 'em to the gulags. Hitler bad. Stalin bad. Mao and Pol Pot bad. Bush and Putin both bad.
What's the topic again?
Shoulda linked this before/after shot of Yushchenko (with the improved spellin').
not to take anything from the body of the post, but the title is kind of a "gee, d'ya think?" response-getter.
candidates conspiring to beat the opposition for the same office? nah, that would never happen!
skippy @ 17:
The point of the post was to point out evidence that the two candidates might be working together, not whether it's possible that this sort of thing could happen. I could have gotten creative with the title, but there was no need.
Right on, skippy! Perhaps there should be another category to file this under: Three Stooges. 'Cause this is pretty rudimentary comedy.
But, ya know, the gag bein' perpetrated by Common Sense Groups has been perpetrated by Republicans aginst Democrats in the past, and I'm sure the GOP'll employ these tactics in the future.
Logan, I awit the week that goes by when ya don't get called out fer somethin'.
But look at it this way- yer gonna be calloused enough shortly to not feel it. Until then, keep doin' what ya do, knowin' that ya can't keep everyone happy all of the time. That week will be here soon! ;)
And I'm awitin' my own week w/out a typo.
Andy K @ 20:
Thanks, Andy. I was just making a clarification, that's all. If I can take being called out by Fox News, I can take anything. By the way, thanks for trying to find the topic again. :)
Fine. I'll take it.
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too true
Logan Murphy @ 18:
sometimes, straight-forward and simple blows right past some people.
When William "The Bloody" Kristol hits the circuit on Sunday he'll have to be carried to and from the set because he'll so twisted into a pretzel trying to spin this that he'll be one big human knot. But his logic will have us wanting to vomit and/or choke him.
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Trittydi @ 26:
Whooooooooops - still thinking about Iran. . . .
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Rudy Giuliani has a new best friend. With Mitt Romney holding twin leads in Iowa and New Hampshire and Rudy's former wingman Bernard Kerik now under indictment, Giuliani's position as the national GOP presidential front-runner seemed increasingly precarious. Enter former Arkansas Governor Mike Huckabee, whose surge in Iowa is just what the doctor ordered.
For the details, see:
"Mike Huckabee: Rudy Giuliani's New Best Friend."
Let me get this straight. A preacher and an adulterer are going to pair up against a cultist? God does have a since of humor.
Rudy with Huck?
The Democrats dream team.
If the USA elects ANOTHER GOP this next time around, I swear to you I am denouncing my citizenship and moving to an intelligent country.
2 follically challenged d00ds jealous of Mitt's mane
If you really want to see religion and politics brought together to respect all faiths see the greatest speech ever given by a presidential candidate. Indeed it is really a JFK/MLK moment.
http://link.brightcove.com/services/link/bcpid463869411/bctid416343938
It is sure to blow Huckabee's fundamentalism out of the water and heal American's division on Faith.
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L.A. Confidential @ 8:
Umm... let me get this straight... you're defending Putin??? He's ex-KGB. Remember how he had that guy poisoned with polonium. I've talked to people who lived under the old USSR. They don't want to go back to it.
Will you tell me what the hell difference it makes, because in a free and fair election all of these right wing ass holes are going to be very, very embarrassed.
Are Giuliani And Huckabee Conspiring To Beat Romney?
Who cares? One less repug in the mix is a good start. Romney brings nothing to the national debate, he is a meat puppet who's 15 minutes are up. Besides, the fix is in and Rudy is going to win the nomination anyway.
Andy K @ 6:
Most of it from ...Romney himself!
ASK ALL OF THEM ABOUT THIS....
http://justanothercoverup.com/?p=334
http://justanothercoverup.com/?p=334
http://justanothercoverup.com/?p=334
http://justanothercoverup.com/?p=334
AND WATCH THEM RUN FOR COVER
.......DON'T GET CAUGHT UP IN THE SMOKE AND MIRRORS....
SAME WITH THE RECENT IRAN "INFORMATION"..... FOLLOW THE POWER
Romney seems a win-win for the Republicans to me. He has the best qualities of Huckabee (religious wing nut, stupidity) and Guiliani (no morals, vicious). What's not to like?
Bumblebees don't make honey. They pollinate, but they don't make honey. Honeybees make honey. I'm not sure what huckabees do, except to show confusion about nature.
Ohhh... the old Bumble Bee can't fly bit!
Yep, another litttle "factoid" from the scientifically illiterate seeking higher office.
http://myrighteye.korv.us/2005/03/nj-ignorant-people.html
http://www.paghat.com/beeflight.html
Hey...
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Dont ya know...
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Bumble Bees Can't fly!
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Why, no, Bob, that just can't be true.
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Oh, but it is... IT IS....!!
This little scenario is like a sweetheart deal between two time-share salesmen who agree to help each other out in order to keep the new, slick guy in the office from getting to the top of the sales board and making them look bad.
It's like something out of Glengarry Glen Ross. As soon as Romney falls on his face, these amoral scumbags will go back to stabbing each other in the back.
No wonder who wins the Cadillac, they're all tainted goods.
With the bumblebee reference, Emily Dickinson is spinning in her grave.
The Mental Design of the Repugnican it's scientifically impossible for the Repugnican to think. Being unaware of this intelligent design, the Rupugnican thinks he can think.
Why am I watching the $H!+???
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