If Huckabee fizzles, his followers will be looking for another prolife evangelical to fill the void. Hunter fits that bill, no one else in the race is evangelical.
The GOP doesn’t get it. They need to let this faction find a home. The amount of invective aimed at evangelicals is surprising, but then everyone wants their votes.
Huckabee has surged because he won a couple of debates and he’s got evangelical support. If a quick rise can happen to the liberal pro-life evangelical Huckster, it can happen to the conservative pro-life evangelical Hunter.
Prolife evangelicals will be very comfortable in Hunter’s camp, since he’s a prolife evangelical staunch conservative.
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On Poll Results and the End of Conservatism
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Yes, for liberals and those who want another Jimmah Carter for prez.
Mike Huckabee supported Comprehensive Immigration Reform Amnesty that failed in the US Senate and was rejected by a large majority of Americans. He stated that those who opposed the legislation are “driven by racism or nativism.”
Setting aside their opinions of Huckabee, when have they ever been wrong about the public policy issues we all care so much about??
You sound like one of those multi-level marketing hucksters with their "new paradigm" cons: "Forget your common sense life experiences that would make you think I'm trying to sell you on a losing pyramid scheme, learn to think differently and it will all make sense."
Sure. Whatever you say. He's still an unappealing liberal.
Mike Huckabee is Bill Clinton without the bimbos.
According to Coulter, the former Arkansas Governor believes sodomy is protected by the Constitution.
He responded to my column last week — pointing out that he is on record supporting the Supreme Court’s sodomy-is-a-constitutional-right decision — by saying that he was relying on the word of a caller to his radio show and didn’t know the details of the case. Ironically, that’s how most people feel about sodomy: They support it until they hear the details.
I don’t want a president who constantly sides with illegal aliens, frees felons and has no clue on foreign policy. You’re only telling half the story.
Governor Huckabee should run for Senate instead.
We might just take the Senate back if he ran against Pryor.
And today he promised free college tuition for national service. John Kerry promised the same thing in 2004. Huckabee sounds like the clear choice for the dem nomination.
I assume you mean...
the mitigating circumstances surrounding his oversight of a 65% of Arkansas state spending.
Or was it the mitigating circumstances surrounding his opposition to the school vouchers proposed by his own appointed commission.
Or was it the mitigating circumstances surrounding the 1100 criminals he got out of jail.
Or was it the mitigating circumstances surrounding the label he gave to his own party members of "Shi'ite Republicans" when they opposed his tax increases.
Or was it the mitigating circumstances surrounding his support of Democrats against Republicans in state races.
Or was it the mitigating circumstances surrounding his support of multiple increases in taxes.
I know, he's gettin a bum rap. Poor Mr. Mike.
Huckabee surely is the clear choice: I can see right through him!
“My point is that this election – as much as we don’t like it – is going to be won by someone who appeals to the middle-class, “working American” (or out of work) who doesn’t understand supply-side economics, Milton Friedman and will not come to understand it in the 60 second sound bites of an election campaign.”
Thanks for this. If the above comment is the best one can say to justify the soft-on-crime tax-and-spend immigration-flipflopper Huckabee, well it’s a great anti-endorsement!
The voters who elected Ronald Reagan didn’t ‘understand supply-side economics’ BUT RONALD REAGAN DID. And THAT is the difference. The voters wanted prosperity, and Reagan delivered on a prosperity based on more economic freedom, and he PREACHED IT. Huckster is defending and preaching tax hikes and big Govt ways and class warfare rhetoric.
Reality is - Huckabee is not a conservative.
Huckabee’s Liberal Ways
Endorsed a federal smoking ban.
“Huckabee committed to sign a nationwide smoking ban in public places, should such a measure win approval in Congress.” (Grant Schulte, “Candidates Agree To Fight Cancer, Split On Strategy, Des Moines Register, 8/29/07)
Called for Closing Guantanamo Bay
In December 2007, Huckabee flipped on Guantanamo Bay, now saying it should be closed because it has become a symbol people are angry about. “I have also come to understand that from a perspective of the way the world looks at us, GITMO has become a symbol of what a lot of people are angry about, and whatever value it has, it’s being lost by the ill-will that it has generated. So rather than continuing something that is doing us more harm than good, there’re other places to keep these detainees. I want to make clear. Closing Guantanamo is not letting these detainees loose. It’s simply putting them in a different location and not allowing this symbol, which has become a part of Guantanamo, to further damage the prestige of the United States.” (Fox News, 12/4/07) http://hotair.com/archives/2007/12/04/war-questions-for-mike-huckabee/
And suggested sending terrorists at Guantanamo Bay to Ft. Leavenworth, Kansas. “My concern is that the facility has become a distraction from our Global War on Terror. Other facilities, like Fort Leavenworth, can serve the same purpose without the controversy.” (Mike Huckabee, “Statement on Guantanamo Bay Detention Facility,” Blog Post, 12/4/07)
Endorsed by the New Hampshire Teacher’s Union
The New Hampshire National Education Association endorsed Hillary Clinton and…Mike Huckabee. “The New Hampshire chapter of the National Education Association, the country’s largest teachers union, has endorsed Hillary Rodham Clinton and Mike Huckabee for the Democratic and Republican presidential nominations respectively.” (Philip Elliott, “NH NEA To Endorse Clinton, Huckabee,” AP, 12/5/07)
Championed In-State Tuition and Tax-Payer Funded Scholarships for Illegal Immigrants
”Another bill in the draft stages, backed by Gov. Mike Huckabee, would make illegal aliens eligible for state-funded scholarships and in-state tuition if they graduate from high school in Arkansas.” (Laura Kellams, “Senators research U.S. law on aliens,” Arkansas Democrat-Gazette, 1/27/05)
Huckabee: Bush Administration has an “Arrogant Bunker Mentality”
Huckabee: “American foreign policy needs to change its tone and attitude, open up, and reach out. The Bush administration’s arrogant bunker mentality has been counterproductive at home and abroad.” (Mike Huckabee, “America’s Priorities In The War On Terror,” Foreign Affairs, Jan. 2008)
I'm sold. Eliminating inflation by saving the honey bees sounds like a winning campaign platform to me.
The clear choice for the open border loons. The bubba hucksters and the clintoon clones. Just think, with buba Gunp in office, the illegal they arrested in Florida, for beating his 4 months old to death, could repent and huckster would pardon him.
The Clear Choice for European-style Christian Socialists, for the open-borders crowd, for those who want to give habeas corpus rights to Gitmo terrorists, for those who didn’t get enough of Jimmuh Carter and Bill Clinton, etc.
For being a Christian he doesn’t seem to have passed his values on to his kids.
But I guess prayer saved the dog his son deliberately hung at camp.
Also, if recall, he did a Clinton when he moved out of the Arkansas Governor’s Mansion, taking State property that the family evidently felt entitled to.
BTW, why hasn’t there been an expo on Huck’s family? Everyone else’s family has been put under the microscope.