Huckabee in South Carolina

The New York Times ^ | December 9, 2007 | Katharine Q. Seelye

[dano1]

Mike Huckabee, the newest sensation in the Republican presidential primary, waded into a jammed restaurant here Saturday morning and, despite stepped-up scrutiny of his record as governor of Arkansas, delivered a folksy, feel-good message that was greeted warmly.

He had good reason to smile. A new McClatchy-MSNBC poll shows him surging to the head of the Republican pack in South Carolina, ahead of Rudolph W. Giuliani, Mitt Romney, Fred D. Thompson and John McCain, in that order...

Here at the Lizard’s Thicket, a popular family restaurant despite the skin-crawling name, about 400 people (four times capacity) had pushed in to see Mr. Huckabee...

“I think a whole lot of people in this country, even though they have deep convictions, as do I, are tired of the horizontal politics, where everything is left, right, liberal, conservative, Democrat, Republican,” he said. “People want there to be some vertical leadership, that leads us up and not down. And that’s what I’m going to try to do for this country if I get the opportunity to be president, and from the looks of things, it might just happen.”

That prompted a big round of applause from the people crushed around him...

“Families are the backbone of our society, not the government,” Mr. Huckabee said. “In fact, as I often remind people, long before God ever created a government structure, the basic structure was the family. Mothers and fathers raised their kids to train replacements. And that’s what we’re about. If we don’t have strong families, it’s hard to have a strong country. And that’s why you’ll never hear some YouTube moment from me from generations ago saying something different about the family and about marriage than I would say today.”

[org.whodat]

You know.... zinging Huckabee

You know telling the truth about the parole king is not zinging huckster.

[WFTR]

Twelve years of free education is more than enough reward for children who are in this country illegally. He can cry all he wants about not punishing children for their parents' crimes, but giving them a free high school education is a reward for their parents' crimes. Adding a free college education is a further reward. His trying to spin the argument into an issue of punishing anyone is either dishonest or deluded. He disqualified himself when he defended that policy during the debate.

Bill

[stand watie]

SC PONG!

free dixie,sw

[upchuck]

Didja see #19?