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Huckabee and Don Young: Two Peas in a Pod

Submitted by Langley Perry on Tue, 07/01/2008 - 14:25
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The Alaskan Representative with Potomac Fever gets the endorsement of Huck PAC.

Republican Lt. Gov. Sean Parnell, challenging Young in the party primary, has the endorsement of Gov. Sarah Palin (rapidly gaining attention beyond the blogosphere in recent weeks) and of the Club for Growth.

I'd say that's a pretty good litmus test, and a microcosm of the battle within the Republican Party. On one side you have the Huck PACs and incumbent Don Youngs, and on the other side you have the upstart reformist conservatives. My bet? Young gets bested in the primary. Another RINO bites the dust. Slowly but surely, conservatives manage to accrue more power within the Party. This could mean great things for 2012, 2016, or beyond.

Cross-posted at Save The GOP.

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A little perspective on Young/Huckabee

Submitted by Rensen on Tue, 07/01/2008 - 18:44.

I'm surprised it has taken this long for news of this endorsement to be bellowed across the rightosphere. It caused quite a stir in our own neck of the woods last week.

We're still not happy about the endorsement, but can uderstand and even 'appreciate' why it was given.

This was Mike's response when we made a stink about the endorsement over on the huckpac blog.

I have been following the comments regarding Don Young today with interest. Your opinions are important to me and our team, so having read another comment just now asking for an explanation of our endorsement, I wanted to make sure you heard from me directly. 

Don Young has been a consistent pro-family, pro-life vote in the Congress. Don also endorsed my campaign and stood by me in the public arena defending my record from false attacks when other members of Congress wouldn't be seen with me. I don't expect everyone to agree with each endorsement we make. I am thankful that we are able to talk about our differences openly and respectfully (emphasis mine) 

McCain and Obama both this season have repeatedly thrown friends, supporters and endorsers under the bus when it became politically expedient to do so in facing the heat of controversy.

Mike Huckabee is very politically astute, he knows, given the challenges that were posed to his record during the campaign, that going on the record with support of Young would be the equivelent of shooting himself in the foot.

He knew that he may even lose supporters or disillusion some of his base in making the choice.

BUT.. he also knew that stabbing a faithful supporter, and one who took a chance advocating with congressmen on his behalf during the campaign in the back, was never going to be an option.

Mike Huckabee has always advised his supporters, " Never sacrifice your principles for anybody's politics"  With this risky endorsement, Huckabee proved to us that he is a man of integrity who keeps his word. Politically, the most benificial thing he could have done was stay neutral, but he chose to do the hard thing.

Mike's supporters, contrary to popular belief, do not believe in the type of big government that Young represents, so we are not going to flock to embrace his candidacy. In the end, this endorsement will net Young few votes that he does not already have. But we can appreciate the character of a politician making a difficult choice.

Mike will probably be savaged for this... I hope having a clean conscience is worth it.