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Mark E. Smith Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Dec-14-07 05:14 PM
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Former Reagan Campaign Director Ed Rollins Joins Mike Huckabee
Source: Fox News.com

Friday, December 14,2007

Veteran Republican strategist Ed Rollins has been named the new national campaign chairman and senior advisor for Mike Huckabee, lending credibility and experience to his surging presidential campaign.

Rollins, who most famously directed Ronald Regan's 1984 re-erlection campaign and helped the former president carry 49 states, said Friday at an announcement in Concord, N.H., that Huckabee was the candidate who most reminded him of Reagan.

"Gov. Huckabee has probably inspired me as much as Ronald Reagan ... he can connect with ordinary voters," Rollins said. "I was with the old Reagan and I can promise you this man comes closer to anyone in filling those shoes."

The Reagan comments could be a shot across the bow for Republican rival Mitt Romney, who frequently invokes Reagan principles on the campaign trail.

Read more: http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,316853,00.html



The current crop of dismal runts running for the GOP nomination has certainly helped increase my belief in de-evolution.

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RUMMYisFROSTED Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Dec-14-07 05:34 PM
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1. Early scum.
My mortal enemy.




Bernstein and Rollins?


:wtf:
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Bongo Prophet Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Dec-14-07 06:51 PM
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2. Certainly a case of rat jumping ONTO a sinking ship.
...and you sir are no ronald reagan.

Hell, even Reagan was no Ronald Reagan.
Just a fantasy in their rightwing heads.
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Joe Bacon Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Dec-14-07 08:03 PM
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3. I wonder how Rollins will spin Wayne Dumond????
Oh why even ask when you know the answer--Blame it on the Clenis!
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GoddessOfGuinness Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Dec-15-07 12:30 AM
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4. Reagan Reagan Reagan
Can we stop genuflecting yet? :puke:
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