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.
“Anyone but Rudy and Huckabee? Maybe your old buddy and fellow orange bleeder, Al Gore will run after all!”
You think Al Gore has ever worn Tennessee orange? Unlikely. The guy never attended Tennessee. And on top of that, Tennessee kept him out of the White House in 2000 by going for Bush.
[Nominate (Huckabee), and its over for republicans in 08.]
Nominate a rino with liberal leanings and it is over for the republicans in 08.Mitt,Rudy, and McCain are rinos and will lose the presidents office to the marxist progressive Kool aid drinkers of the lockstep left.
We as conservatives want a conservative for our President and despise the rinos who want a compromise candidate.
You think this will help Thompson? How?
South Carolina and Iowa would seem to me to be the two biggest states that Thompson could make a run at. He has appeal with southern conservatives. But Huckabee is a guy who can eat into that support. See he and Thompson splitting gun endorsements and Pro-Life endorsements. I don’t see how that’s good for Fred. I’d think he’d match up far more competitively with Romney.
And that said, I find Romney far more appealing than Edwards. Edwards made a career playing the scheister, the ambulance chaser. Romney made his building up failing corporations, reorganizing, restructuring, putting people to work, recognizing talent, and analyzing data. They’re night and day in my book, with Romney having lived a life of far greater substance.
I don’t see a scary thing about the guy. I just see a hard worker with an amazing mind for business and a love of family.
I don’t know where this weird thing comes from. It’s almost as ridiculous to me as Thompson’s “lazy” label.
I wasn’t talking about the Huckster...
And, Fred never wore Tennessee Orange either!
I don’t agree with you, truthfully. I think Romney or Giuliani would do very well in a general.
Both are charismatic. Both are excellent speakers. Romney at least would win the Pro-Life vote. Both have vision and would do the party well, I think. In some areas more than others, yes.
And they’re electable exactly because of their charisma and their backgrounds and past successes in life.
I’m not into the name-calling business on this site. Nor do I think Romney fits into this “rino” crowd you depict. Giuliani? Perhaps. But it’s funny how many kudoes and how many VP suggestions Joe Lieberman picks up around here.
So to does a very clear majority of the knowledgeable conservatives here on the most popular political site on the net and the number on Conservative forum.
By the end of his ten-year tenure, Governor Huckabee was responsible for a 37% higher sales tax in Arkansas, 16% higher motor fuel taxes, and 103% higher cigarette taxes according to Americans for Tax Reform (01/07/07), garnering a lifetime grade of D from the free-market Cato Institute.
Under Governor Huckabee’s watch, state spending increased a 65.3% from 1996 to 2004, three times the rate of inflation (Americans for Tax Reform 01/07/07).
They are concerned with truth and consistency in it.
God after all does not change as a God of truth
They are concerned with:
1) Saying the same thing on an issue over the years - truth does not change,
2) Real facts such as: Addressing the fact that the present congress under Democrat control would not let either a constitutional amendment banning abortion or homosexual marriage (gay is a euphemism) out of committee. Which means supporting either, as a candidate (whether one is sincere or insincere), is a form of pandering to the ignorance of the gullible.
3) That from a Christian point of view being a “preacher,” unto the saving of souls to eternal glory, could not possibly be forsaken to be an earthly politician in an earthly kingdom,
4) That being subject to the “higher powers” (Rom. 13:1; , I Peter2:13) includes the Governor of a state as a Christian in honoring the immigration laws of the federal government and his oath of office
You say, “”He is resolutely ...a Man of deep faith” In a Christian sense, I hope so, and will leave this to the one who Judges the heart.
But Hillary was a Sunday school teacher.
Obama goes to a church
Jackson & Sharpton are so-called “Christian Preachers”
Mitt is a devout Mormon
“They are not all Israel who are of Israel” Romans 9. There are weeds in the wheat field (tares Matt. 13:25ff. _)
Could you be more substantive on the issues.
Huckabee’s chances of winning anything outside the Bible Belt are less than zero.
Those Republicans who claim to be afraid that he’ll get stomped in a general election needn’t worry because he won’t come close to being the nominee. If Iowa wasn’t the first contest in the whole process — or, more precisely, if the first contest was not in a Bible Belt state — Huckabee’s name would not even be out there.
So be it.
But this also means will will NOT have a wartime President, with Huck or a member of the traitorous Dem party.
Time to bring the troops home from Iraq and Afghanistan, the WOT is over. They will be in great danger without a unapologetic, unafraid, and ruthless CIC.
And Fred isn’t done yet!! GO FRED!
http://www.radioiowa.com/gestalt/go.cfm?objectid=B0A00993-C193-CCE0-A66592FE19D1CDEA
I think we need someone to shake up the national race a bit. At this point, it is near certainly that the Democrats will hold all the states they won in 2004, and will bein excellent shape to win one of the following states, Ohio, Florida and Virginia. If it’s Obama or Edwards vs a Republican like Huckabee, it’s game over for us, we won’t have ashot.
Another point to add about Mitt Romney is that Mitt was a full-time Governor of Massachusetts for only the first two years of a four year term. Mitt Romney has been running for the ‘08 Presidency since the summer of ‘05. There are a lot of “Massachusetts problems” that are not even fully discussed having to do with Mitt Romney’s term as Governor, and it’s very possible that the MSM will fully elaborate upon this if Mitt Romney does end up as the final choice for President for the GOP.
I have been a freeper for almost eight years but have sadly neglected the forum for the past six.
Upon my recent return,I had expected that those who eschew rational debate and simply enjoy mindless argument were weeded out.
My bad and my apologies to flaglady47 for questioning her disgust with you.
Our communications are thus now terminated as you are on my intelectually useless list.
Best.
What have any of the candidates running done to secure the border? What are any of the leading candidates qualifications on national security?
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.
I don't you opposing Huckabee. There is more to dislike than like about all the top-tier candidates other than, maybe, Fred.
But, the Mitt wit is a complete fraud. He was a liberal in Massachusetts and doesn't come off as credible. If it wasn't for his money, he never would have been anything but a second-tier candidate.
How can you blame social conservatives for supporting one of their own over a con man like Willard?
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