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Meehan gets Huckabee endorsement

Meehan gets Huckabee endorsement

Republican congressional hopeful Pat Meehan now has one of the country’s most visible conservative backing him.

The political action committee for former Arkansas governor and presidential candidate Mike Huckabee has endorsed Meehan, 7th District candidate and former U.S. Attorney.

“Pat is not just a Republican,” Huckabee said in a statement. “He’s a strong fiscal conservative whose values reflect those of Huck PAC and Team Huck and the 7th Congressional District of Pennsylvania. He realizes our country faces difficult economic times because Congress refuses to listen to the people it represents—instead, trading sensible and sound economic policies with runaway spending and huge deficits.

“Pat has listened to the people of Pennsylvania and he understands they are concerned about unemployment and immediate job creation,” Huckabee added. “However, he knows the proposals being pushed in Washington such as government takeover of health care, higher taxes, and continued bailouts make it harder for the economy to grow, harder to create jobs and harder to move Pennsylvania out of the current economic crisis.”

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March 28, 2010 at 1:20 pm

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  1. David Diano

    Mar 26th, 2010

    “Pat is not just a Republican,”
    No, he’s a Delco GOP puppet and political hack.

    “whose values reflect those of Huck PAC and Team Huck” Well, that’s two more reasons not to vote for Meehan.

  2. sick of it all in delco

    Mar 26th, 2010

    The southern super conservative former governor of arkansas endorsement blabber on fnc endorsement…not sure its a big help in the 7th congressional district…what’s next…rush and hannity? beck? meehan is in trouble

  3. David Diano

    Mar 26th, 2010

    Maybe the Delco GOP will build another stage at the courthouse and Palin can give Meehan a lap dance.

  4. Reality

    Mar 26th, 2010

    An endorsement from a guy who has praised the Tea Party movement, calling it the “most positive thing that I’ve seen in my lifetime in politics.”

    Right….like when they called John Lewis, a hero, the N-word. Or slurred Barney Frank. Real positive people and developments.

    Nice pick up, Pat…your campaign is firing on all cylinders.

  5. Stosh

    Mar 26th, 2010

    Oh no, the Lentz supporters on the board don’t like the Huckabee endorsement! Whatever will Meehan do?

  6. P. O'Neill

    Mar 26th, 2010

    David, why you hatin’ on Pat and Sarah??? Quick, somebody get Gil Spencer to write a favorable article about Joe Sestak so that poor David’s head will explode!

  7. phensley

    Mar 26th, 2010

    The Meehan camp must be really worried about their legal problems. Unfortunately for them, Huckabee can no longer provide pardons and commutations to his political cronies.

  8. BB

    Mar 26th, 2010

    Stosh-I’m not a Lentz or Meehan supporter but I still don’t know how anyone in the U.S.could like Mike Huckabee, period. What does being a supporter of either candidate have to do with it? Huckabee is NOT a good human being.

  9. john cannella

    Mar 26th, 2010

    almost everytime we read Meehan’s name, its followed by his last job; US Attorney. those positions are political appointments. remember Meehan was a campaign worker on one of Specter’s many campaigns. George Bush appointed Meehan based on Specter’s phone call. and most of Meehan’s work as US Attorney was going after republican machine opponents. so the average person shouldn’t consider his US Attorney job as a creditable accomplishment.

  10. Brett

    Mar 26th, 2010

    Huckabee is a Has Been and a Blowhard, no way he will ever be president nor change this Meehan match up, Meehan is toast…marshmallow toast.

  11. SLAYER

    Mar 27th, 2010

    Reverend Pat and Reverend Huck, two losers!!!

  12. Tommy

    Mar 27th, 2010

    John Cannella is right (see above). Why didn’t US Attorney Meehan investigate his Delco GOP pal, Curt Weldon and his cronies?

  13. TB

    Mar 27th, 2010

    Since when did the good people of Delaware County have anything in common with a red neck, bible beating, abstinence preaching blow hard like Mike Huckabee?

  14. Ed H.

    Mar 27th, 2010

    Stosh-

    He could retire. US Attorneys get some pretty decent pension bennies.

  15. Progressives suck

    Mar 27th, 2010

    The Left seems to have their feathers ruffled! Huckabee for President. Meehan 2010

  16. sick of it all in delco

    Mar 28th, 2010

    didn’t see this “major” endorsement get any play in delco times or daily news or Inky…maybe meehan’s trying to hide it from the masses in delco?

  17. Anonymous

    Mar 28th, 2010

    As a Catholic priest who lives in Mr. Meehan’s district, my colleagues and I are not voting for Mr. Meehan. Selling out one’s faith and tradition are heretical. Mr. Huckabee has a long history of anti-Catholic rhetoric as per example the article below, and therefore Mr. Meehan joining the Huckabee network is inexcusable.

    http://www.catholicnewsagency.com/news/mike_huckabee_to_speak_at_strongly_anticatholic_preachers_church/

  18. Nick C.

    Mar 29th, 2010

    Father,

    Will you be supporting the pro-choice Bryan Lentz?

    Please don’t sell out your own faith..

  19. David Diano

    Mar 29th, 2010

    Nick-
    What’s better anti-abortion and anti-Catholic or pro-choice and pro-Catholic?

  20. Please

    Mar 29th, 2010

    Huckabee is hardly anti-catholic:

    http://www.catholic.org/national/national_story.php?id=26312

    GOVERNOR HUCKABEE: “I am invited to speak at thousands of diverse venues each year. My willingness to address a group says nothing about whether or not I agree with every tenet, policy or belief espoused by a group.

    To be honest, I have never thought about having “a view” about Catholics in America.

    Rather, I have enjoyed strong, personal relationships with many Catholics over the years and I would hate to think about my life without those relationships having been there.

    For more than a decade, I marched side-by-side with Catholic Bishops in Arkansas’ annual March for Life.

    Throughout my years as Lieutenant Governor and Governor, I enjoyed a very close relationship with leaders and members of the Catholic Church in Arkansas.

    My pro-life record is largely the result of this close working relationship.

    My relationships with Catholics predated my entry into politics. When I was pastoring a Baptist church in Texarkana, I had the opportunity to work closely with the Sisters of Charity of the Incarnate Word at the St. Michael Hospital near my church. I was always welcomed warmly by the sisters when I visited the sick.

    As a pastor, I held joint services with my neighboring Catholic congregation, was invited to speak in Catholic churches for special services, and had regular breakfast meetings with the Bishop of the Arkansas Diocese, Bishop Peter Sartain, now in Illinois.

    Those early years of ministry showed me the value of working with caring people whether or not every one of our religious tenets line up exactly.

    In short, if I held any animosity toward Catholics, I don’t think Justice Scalia would have ever taken me up on my invitations to go duck hunting.

    As I mentioned before, many of my top-level staff and closest advisors are Catholic, including my national campaign manager, national campaign director, my policy advisor and my campaign’s chief operating officer.

  21. Nick C.

    Mar 29th, 2010

    David—

    Although, I am no spokesperson for the Catholic Church. I’m pretty my church leaders would rather people hate us but follow our teachings then love us and go against our teachings…

    Thanks for bringing up a great point!

  22. David Diano

    Mar 30th, 2010

    Nick C-
    When the leaders of the Catholic church (especially the Pope) come clean about their cover-ups of child molestation, then maybe they might have something to say worth listening to.

    As for abortion, I don’t recall Jesus mentioning it in the Bible. Maybe it wasn’t that important to him (or Him).

    Of course if the gender distribution within the priesthood matched that of the general population, there’d be enough women around to straighten the men out on this point.

  23. Daisy

    Apr 27th, 2010

    Vote Jim Schneller. Cut the dialogue. Vote against corruption and the crime culture. How long do we have to disagree while the rug is pulled out from under us ?

  24. Nick

    May 13th, 2010

    I love when you sissy libtards get all wound up. I can’t wait to hear you losers after your AZZKICKIN in the fall…waaaaaahhhaaaahhhhahhh.

    Pat Meehan 2010!!!!!!!!!!

  25. Nick

    May 13th, 2010

    David Diano-

    you sound like an absolute simpleton…..go back to our XBOX.

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