Posted on 12/07/2007 11:53:05 PM PST by dano1
Mike Huckabee has vaulted from nowhere into second place in the Republican presidential race, a nationwide poll showed yesterday.
The surge by the former Arkansas governor has come with support from evangelicals, Southerners and conservatives, and largely at the expense of former Tennessee Sen. Fred Thompson, according to the national survey by The Associated Press and Ipsos.
Former New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani remains the front-runner at 26 percent among Republican and GOP-leaning voters, about where he has been since spring.
Huckabee has 18 percent, up from 10 percent in an AP-Ipsos survey a month ago and 3 percent in July. Arizona Sen. John McCain has 13 percent, former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney 12 percent and Thompson 11 percent. The poll has a margin of error of plus or minus 5 percentage points.
Giuliani also remains the favorite of voters age 18 to 24. In a separate Harvard University Institute of Politics poll, he has the support of 26 percent, compared with 15 percent for McCain.
Among Democrats, Illinois Sen. Barack Obama was the choice of 38 percent of young voters and Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton was next at 33 percent.
Obama: The Illinois senator is already reaping the benefits of Oprah Winfrey's high-wattage celebrity backing.
Thousands of Iowans have flocked to his office for tickets for two events today in Iowa. The campaign declines to say how many tickets have been distributed but says no one will be turned away from the unique opportunity to attract new voters.
Clinton: The New York senator yesterday turned to 32 former U.S. ambassadors and diplomats appointed to top positions by then-President Bill Clinton and confirmed by a Republican-led Senate to endorse her diplomatic skills as first lady.
The backers included former career diplomat Joe Wilson, the Iraq war critic who previously served as ambassador to Gabon; former Michigan Gov. James Blanchard, who served in Canada; former House Speaker Tom Foley, D-Wash., who served as ambassador in Japan, and former Sen. Walter Mondale, D-Minn., who also served in Japan.
Thompson: Campaigning in Ohio yesterday, the former Tennessee senator criticized rival Huckabee, saying it was "surprising" a presidential candidate wouldn't know about a newly released intelligence report that said Iran suspended its nuclear weapons program in 2003.
Huckabee told reporters earlier this week he was not aware of the National Intelligence Estimate report on Iran.
Thompson has been tripped up by news events himself. In September, he said he was not aware that the Supreme Court had decided to hear arguments on the constitutionality of lethal injection.
Early in his campaign, Thompson sidestepped a question about the Terri Schiavo right-to-die case, saying he didn't remember the details.
McCain: The Arizona senator yesterday said in New Hampshire that if he loses his bid for the Republican nomination, he'll return to the Senate. McCain would have two more years left in his fourth term.
He is a flip-flopper with a liberal record. That he has spent a fortune in Iowa and may lose to someone with limited resources ought to tell you that is a disaster of candidate. He doesn't come off as credible.
“There is one Republican who, given his credentials”.....
BWAHAHAHAHAHA!
Is the Richmond Times Dispatch a conservative publication?
You win nothing, but you might get stung by the Bee!
“He is a flip-flopper with a liberal record. That he has spent a fortune in Iowa and may lose to someone with limited resources ought to tell you that is a disaster of candidate. He doesn’t come off as credible.”
Like I stated before, IMHO, Iowa churches are urging their congregations to vote for the ‘real’ christian, Huckabee, the wolf in sheeps clothing. That’s the only reasonable explanation for his rise in the Iowa polls.
Huckabee running as the “Real Christian” is beyond disgusting.
Duncan Hunter has done more by himself to secure the borders, than the rest of the candidates, both Democrats and Republicans, collectively. Hunter wrote the bill for the fence that is now law that Bush and Chertoff seem to think was just a suggestion. Here is an entire chronology for your further edification: http://www.house.gov/hunter/border1.html
Who is YOUR candidate, then?
I must have missed YOUR preferred choice.
In fact, the thing that irks me most is NOT that you don't care for Romney. That is your God-given right and duty in fact.
It is that the Romney haters are only out to destroy --- but rarely if ever offer THEIR preference.
It's like the obsessed DUmmy crowd who constantly rails againsnt Pres. Bush's successful anti-AlQaeda or economic policies, but never offer THEIR vision of what we ought to do.
I'd prefer Fred Thompson. But, if he can't win, Huckabee is my second choice.
Your boy is being used, abused, and exploited by the media, if you can't figure this out then your less intelligent that what I previously thought.
Great. Fred is a fine choice also.
My point, of course, is why can't you and others just promote YOUR preferred candidate and leave the ad hominim politics-of-destruction attacks to the smarmy Democrats.
It is really uncoming of Republicans to go around with these personal, and I emphasize personal, attacks on a good an decent man like Mitt Romney.
I and many others don't care for Rudy Guliani, (or McCain, or even Fred) yet you don't see us (rarely) going deranged bonkers in attacking Rudy.
Because he is also a decent man.
One more thing. Don't you find it odd, considering your ceaseless animosity toward Romney, that he is being supported by such respected and rock-ribbed conservatives such as Laura Ingraham, Michael Medved, Hugh Hewitt, Charles Krauthammer, Rush Limbaugh, Dennis Prager, James Dobson, Dr. Joe Campano (evangelist), Bob Jones III, Oral Roberts University, etc.
I could go on and on and on.
Are they so dumb, and all the Romney despisers so smart?
Somehow, I don't think so.
“Given the lack of a conservative alternative candidate that is strong on social issues, Evangelicals and are flocking toward Huckabee. Why wouldn’t they? Huckabee is the best candidate on those issues.”
Because he is the con artist you accuse Mitt of being. The Huckster has absolutely no foreign policy experience at all, none, zip. And we are fighting int’l terrorists and two wars in Afghanistan and Iraq, in case you didn’t notice. He knows NOTHING about foreign policy. I wonder how many trips he’s even ever taken abroad. He’s from a dinky little backward state of Arkansas, just like Bill Clinton was, even from the same town of Hope. Bill played the saxaphone, the Huckster plays guitar. Both are smooth talkers with quaint little phrases, one is a baptist minister, the other trotted around always holding his bible in his hands on Sunday. The similarities are way too close for my tastes. And he’s basically pro-immigration, tax hikes, in-state tuition for illegals, and had ethical problems in Arkansas. And he has smooth talked his way up the ladder with no background experience in running anything other than a two-bit dinky state.
Romney built up a company from scratch, and is a CEO. Romney saved the Olympics and brought it out of debt and into the black. Romney ran a much more sophisticated high tech state as Gov than did Huckabee. Romney has led the most conservative lifestyles of all the frontrunners. Huckabee hides his wife because she ain’t so pretty. So, all the one-issue evangelicals flock to Huckabee based on his religion, and nothing else. Such myopic behavior will be the ruin of our Party. And the bigotry of it all disgusts me, that to base one’s decision as to who should be the President of our country should be based on what that person’s religion is. What mental midgets.
“You gals with crushes on mitt are disgusting.”
Are you ugly and jealous? I think its great when a man is not only brilliant, talented, and conservative, but good looking to boot. No sin there. I’d rather look at Romney for 4 years than Hillary, but that’s just my opinion.
“I’d vote for McCain before I will vote for rootiromneyhuck. I will not vote for President if any of those three are the nominee... and I have voted Republican since I could vote... and I voted for NIXON my first time out! I will never again vote for a liberal... and all three are screaming liberals... and their records prove it!”
Nixon was a RINO, and you voted for him.
First of all you sound like all of the fluttering women that supported ‘toon... and you say the same things about mitt... truly sad... and then you want to attack me for voting for Nixon... who should I have voted for... Humphrey or McGovern?
As far as being ugly and jealous myself... that is laughable. There is not one facet of mitt’s life that I would emulate... I am a self made millionaire... I have people tell me that I have not aged since college... and I can fit into the Tux I was married in 24 years ago. Nice try... you sound more like a groupie than a Conservative voter... I played music in another life and I would know!
LLS
“I am a self made millionaire... I have people tell me that I have not aged since college... and I can fit into the Tux I was married in 24 years ago. Nice try... you sound more like a groupie than a Conservative voter... I played music in another life and I would know!”
Puff piece. Self aggrandizement. Sounds like the middle part of your name, a....
and you say the same things about mitt... truly sad... and then you want to attack me for voting for Nixon... who should I have voted for... Humphrey or McGovern?
P.S., so, if you voted for Nixon rather than vote for a Dem such as Humphrey or McGovern, then you will vote for Romney if he is the Pub candidate rather than vote for Hillary Clinton or Barak Obama, right?
In what way is a con artist? He hasn't flip-flopped on virtually every issue like Romney has. He really is socially conservative and he isn't even denying being liberal on certain issues.
What foreign policy experience does Willard have?
There is a lot to criticize with Huckabee. But, not if you're going to claim Romney is the better candidate.
The bottom line is that I trust Huckabee on social issues and to nominate conservative judges to the judiciary. I don't trust Romney to do that.
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