What's with MSM push for Huckabee these days?

[gilliganscorner]

Hi Folks,

Has anyone else noticed this? It seems that MSM is co-ordinating a "divide and conquer" strategy for RP supporters.

I have seen more articles appearing these days talking about the "up and coming" challenger Mike Huckabee to the MSM favourites (Ghouliani and Romney). Take a look at this article.

In it, they construct sentences like:

"Add to that a new twist in Mike Huckabee. The former Arkansas governor is moving up in the polls in Iowa and is now within striking distance of Romney."

"Romney, who thought he had a lock on Iowa and New Hampshire, is now looking in his rearview mirror and seeing others. Huckabee is a threat in Iowa, and anything can happen after that in New Hampshire."

"Rudy Giuliani is not a major player in Iowa since he, along with John McCain, skipped the straw poll. But Giuliani is undoubtedly cheering Mike Huckabee on," said CNN's other senior political analyst, Bill Schneider.

"If Huckabee overtakes Mitt Romney in Iowa, it will be a serious, perhaps devastating, blow to Giuliani's toughest competitor."

In fact, Huckabee's name is cited 6 times in this article.

Only one mention of Ron Paul, again framing him as some sort of joke.

"In ring three: Fred Thompson and John McCain try to grab the spotlight with some daring moves on the trapeze. There is also a sideshow: Ron Paul. Step right up, folks," says Schneider.

I worry about RP. With all of the co-ordinated MSM attacks/suppression/spin being fired at RP, sometimes the obstacles seem so high.

I was looking at the teaparty07.com site and they only have about 21,000 people pledged to donate that day. OK, so I know for sure that there are 21,000 people who are going to vote for RP. I also know that everyone who will vote for him are not necessarily signed up here.

But let's assume that these 21,000 folks represent 10% (pick a number) of RP supporters. That translates to 210,000 real votes. Is that enough to win the GOP? What number is?

Sorry about my doom and gloom feelings here. Perhaps you folks have a better interpretation or more facts than I do.

What I do find interesting is that in all of these typical barbs being exchanged with candidates (i.e. Clinton/Barrack, Romney/Huckabee, Romney/Ghouliani etc), no one, and I mean no GOP candidate is choosing to spar with Ron Paul (other than the TV debates)....at least what MSM is reporting.

Unfortunately, this is how I see the average voter:

 

[FreeTraveler]

Huckabee is a member of the CFR. When it became obvious that the first choices of the committee (the ghoul and the mormon) weren't cutting it with the rubes in the stands, they rolled out another huckster. If he gets squashed, McCain will suddenly make an amazing recovery, according to the MSM.

I've never been a "conspiracy theorist"; I'm a firm believer in Occam's Razor; but David Rockefeller and the CFR strike me as the Occam's razor in this case. To believe otherwise is to believe that the MSM are all idiots, the leadership of the Republican Party is too dumb to realize that the ghoul and the mormon won't play in Peoria, and otherwise intelligent people like Penn Jillette, Jack McCafferty, and Lou Dobbs are idiots when it comes to the pulse of the American people.

Frankly, a conspiracy by the CFR is easier to believe than all those other things, when taken in total. You have to look at the whole picture, all the indicators, to realize that the "conspiracy theory" of the CFR is the most likely scenario.

 

[Kingfisher]

Huckabee is a member of the CFR. When it became obvious that the first choices of the committee (the ghoul and the mormon) weren't cutting it with the rubes in the stands, they rolled out another huckster. If he gets squashed, McCain will suddenly make an amazing recovery, according to the MSM.

I've never been a "conspiracy theorist"; I'm a firm believer in Occam's Razor; but David Rockefeller and the CFR strike me as the Occam's razor in this case. To believe otherwise is to believe that the MSM are all idiots, the leadership of the Republican Party is too dumb to realize that the ghoul and the mormon won't play in Peoria, and otherwise intelligent people like Penn Jillette, Jack McCafferty, and Lou Dobbs are idiots when it comes to the pulse of the American people.

Frankly, a conspiracy by the CFR is easier to believe than all those other things, when taken in total. You have to look at the whole picture, all the indicators, to realize that the "conspiracy theory" of the CFR is the most likely scenario.

I DO beleive theres a conspiracy, but DITTO everything else

 

[gilliganscorner]

Huckabee is a member of the CFR. When it became obvious that the first choices of the committee (the ghoul and the mormon) weren't cutting it with the rubes in the stands, they rolled out another huckster. If he gets squashed, McCain will suddenly make an amazing recovery, according to the MSM.

I've never been a "conspiracy theorist"; I'm a firm believer in Occam's Razor; but David Rockefeller and the CFR strike me as the Occam's razor in this case. To believe otherwise is to believe that the MSM are all idiots, the leadership of the Republican Party is too dumb to realize that the ghoul and the mormon won't play in Peoria, and otherwise intelligent people like Penn Jillette, Jack McCafferty, and Lou Dobbs are idiots when it comes to the pulse of the American people.

Frankly, a conspiracy by the CFR is easier to believe than all those other things, when taken in total. You have to look at the whole picture, all the indicators, to realize that the "conspiracy theory" of the CFR is the most likely scenario.

Thank you. Of course. I did not realize Huckabee was a member of the CFR. It all clicks now. What other candidates are members (please back up with your source) or give me a URL (I have not been able to dig one up).

I did see a Huckabee speech to the CFR here.

 

[Kregener]

ANYBODY BUT RON PAUL!!!!

 

[rockwell]

The word conspiracy really gets a short shrift these days, wonder why that is?

Criminals ARE running the show folks, printing money out of thin air, torturing human beings in literally unimaginable ways, committing mass murder in our name, every single day- do I need to go on? What part of criminal do we not understand? If every single thing they do is supposed to be a "mistake" or an "oversight" they should have cleaned house a long, long time ago if there was a shred of honor or dignity, but not only is that not the case, you'd have to be close to braindead to accept that excuse for the mountain of criminality we've witnessed in the last year alone, nevermind the past twenty five to fifty years of this.

Criminals- once again- CRIMINALS run our nation from the top down and they've gotten away with it because they've been wise enough to conceal the vast bulk of their enterprises, and that is a conspiracy.

So yes, Huck is the man of the hour for these criminals because even they know that the pulse of America is quickening and that literally no one is still believing in the cross dresser from Manhattan as a viable candidate, or McRomney or Aw Shucks Fred- My guess is that of those who are politically active, Ron Paul is probably registering in the high 50's in reality. They are going to have a very, very hard time convincing people of another "close call" election like the last two rip-offs, so they are going with the guy they think they can foist off on us as they "alternative", RP light.

IMHO

 

[Kingfisher]

The word conspiracy really gets a short shrift these days, wonder why that is?

Criminals ARE running the show folks, printing money out of thin air, torturing human beings in literally unimaginable ways, committing mass murder in our name, every single day- do I need to go on? What part of criminal do we not understand? If every single thing they do is supposed to be a "mistake" or an "oversight" they should have cleaned house a long, long time ago if there was a shred of honor or dignity, but not only is that not the case, you'd have to be close to braindead to accept that excuse for the mountain of criminality we've witnessed in the last year alone, nevermind the past twenty five to fifty years of this.

Criminals- once again- CRIMINALS run our nation from the top down and they've gotten away with it because they've been wise enough to conceal the vast bulk of their enterprises, and that is a conspiracy.

So yes, Huck is the man of the hour for these criminals because even they know that the pulse of America is quickening and that literally no one is still believing in the cross dresser from Manhattan as a viable candidate, or McRomney or Aw Shucks Fred- My guess is that of those who are politically active, Ron Paul is probably registering in the high 50's in reality. They are going to have a very, very hard time convincing people of another "close call" election like the last two rip-offs, so they are going with the guy they think they can foist off on us as they "alternative", RP light.

IMHO

DITTO.....EXCELLENT

 

[jb4ronpaul]

before this started the word was out from inside the GOP that they wanted to set Huck up as the vp to Goul. I think these parties have a lot of control of the media, at the very least they know how to manipulate the major media to achieve their desired goals.

 

[rockwell]

before this started the word was out from inside the GOP that they wanted to set Huck up as the vp to Goul. I think these parties have a lot of control of the media, at the very least they know how to manipulate the major media to achieve their desired goals.

You have the cart before the horse, the media controls the government.

 

[wsc321]

Huckabee is a member of the CFR...Frankly, a conspiracy by the CFR is easier to believe than all those other things, when taken in total. You have to look at the whole picture, all the indicators, to realize that the "conspiracy theory" of the CFR is the most likely scenario.

Good post - sounds reasonable to me.

 

[hard@work]

So yes, Huck is the man of the hour for these criminals because even they know that the pulse of America is quickening and that literally no one is still believing in the cross dresser from Manhattan as a viable candidate, or McRomney or Aw Shucks Fred- My guess is that of those who are politically active, Ron Paul is probably registering in the high 50's in reality. They are going to have a very, very hard time convincing people of another "close call" election like the last two rip-offs, so they are going with the guy they think they can foist off on us as they "alternative", RP light.

IMHO

Agreed

 

[Original_Intent]

Huckabee is the flavor of the month. that is all.

I picture a medieval jousting tourney, With Ron Paul at one end of the field, untouched, Rudy, Romney, and Fred being carted off the field seriously roughed up and Huckabee mounting his horse with his knees knocking.

Huckster is better amred than Ron paul's previous opponents - he has that southern smoothness of Bill Clinton and also the fact that he is a pastor makes him a darling of the Values Voters (at least their leadership)

He has plenty of chinks in his armor. He will join the scrap heap eventually.

 

[RlxdN10sity]

I noticed listening to the most readilly available conservative talk shows within the last few weeks there has been a large friendly push for Huckabee. References like "Dark Horse", "Surging in the polls", "The American Underdog Story", and the like. It seems to me they are trying to offer Huckabee as the underdog, David vs. Goliath candidate in order to slow the evergrowing support for Ron Paul by handing them Huckabee, the seemingly anti-establishment candidate who will care about the people, before they have time to hear about the true hero in the race, Ron Paul. I've also noticed that Huckabee has more than once adopted Ron Paul's language in the debates. It seems to me it is an overall effort to dillute Ron Paul, both in his constitutional postitions as stated in debates and his amazing success story as the candidate that is truly of the people.

 

[Zapparulez]

CFR Members....

I read somewhere back in March that RON PAUL is the ONLY Presidential candidate from BOTH parties who is NOT a member of the CFR.

Also there has not been a President who was not a CFR member since the CFR was creating in 1920(or so?).

Sucks don't it?

 

[MN Patriot]

I've tried to understand why Rush Limbaugh, Shawn Hannity, Mark Levin and the rest of the conservative talkers don't embrace Ron. Of course the Iraq War is probably the main reason, but disregarding that, he is the most consistent conservative in the field.
Even the right wing seems to be promoting the Agenda, but they make themselves out to be doing the USA a favor by "opposing" the Democrats. Sure seems like a conspiracy from both sides to marginalize Ron.

 

[Zapparulez]

This is a major blow for us though. Nothing less than 10 million dollars on December 16th will do any good for the Ron Paul campaign. We will not garnish any more support than what we have now unless we break that incredible barrier.

 

[therealjjj77]

I worry about RP. With all of the co-ordinated MSM attacks/suppression/spin being fired at RP, sometimes the obstacles seem so high.

I was looking at the teaparty07.com site and they only have about 21,000 people pledged to donate that day. OK, so I know for sure that there are 21,000 people who are going to vote for RP. I also know that everyone who will vote for him are not necessarily signed up here.

But let's assume that these 21,000 folks represent 10% (pick a number) of RP supporters. That translates to 210,000 real votes. Is that enough to win the GOP? What number is?

Sorry about my doom and gloom feelings here. Perhaps you folks have a better interpretation or more facts than I do.

First, let's reflect a little. Earlier this month it was 38,000+ donators. I was one of them. Now, let's add in the people who I am getting to come to the caucus with that are friends and family: 20+. (This is not including the people who I am calling in my precinct to show up.) Now, let's also consider that very few people go to the caucuses on a cold January 3rd Tuesday night. In my county, last time it was about 450 people. Now, I know I'm not the only Ron Paul supporter and I know that other RP supporters are bringing people to the caucuses. So if we each bring 30 people and there are 10 RP supporters(which is a low number) in my county(30x10=300 RP votes out of 750 attendees), that means we will have the majority of the votes. Now, let's also add in that many caucus goers are somewhat undecided so many will easily be swayed with a 2 minute, well prepared speech. This is in a county with about 95,000 people. 450/95,000 means that only about 1/211 people will attend the caucuses. If that is the case across the board, then we have a good chance at huge success.

But that doesn't really even matter. What really matters is who is going to the national convention. Have you done what is necessary so you can be a delegate for the national convention? Donating the max amount does not even come close to the amount you can give by giving your time to become a delegate from your state at the GOP national convention. There is a limited number of them and that's where the rubber meets the road.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Republican_National_Convention

This is what we ought to focus on. Get in there with the majority of Ron Paul supporters and we will take home the prize.

 

[MoneyWhereMyMouthIs2]

I noticed all of the Huckabee talk as well. I just figured it was a way to not talk about Paul.

 

[USCisCarolina]

Huckabee looks like Gomer Pyle.

 

[M.Bellmore]

Big surpise, Hannity dumps the Ghoul and has a butt-snorkling fest with Huckabee on his radio show today. How long until he gets a big chunk on H&C?