[xzins]

This man is the clear pro-life, anti-gay agenda, pro-gun, pro-family, candidate.

The above hit piece by left wing PFAW proves that these have been Huck’s positions for decades.

He’s not a recent convert.

[opus86]

We could do a lot worse than Huckabee as the nominee, though I don’t think he’s the best person for the job. My biggest problem with him is that he’s an ordained minister...What’s he doing in politics?

[JDickeson75]

I have to agree there. He is not my first choice, Fred was.

[wagglebee]

I’ve never questioned Huckabee’s commitment to social conservatism, my problem is his positions on fiscal matters and illegal aliens.

[jmyrlefuller]

pro-life, anti-gay agenda, pro-gun, pro-family, big government, nanny state, tax raising, FairTax scheming, pro-amnesty, corrupt former Governor of Arkansas.

[RockinRight]

He's what I call a "half-conservative." Rudy is also a "half-conservative." But they're opposite. Huck is great on a few very important issues. He is dead wrong on a lot of other very important issues, like taxes, immigration, defense, spending, and the role of government.

By comparison, Rudy is great on defense, good on taxes and spending, also wrong on role of government to some degree, and wrong on gays, guns, and abortion.

[blue-duncan]

As far as I am concerned the man is either an apostate of a fraud. Either he never was “called” to the ministry and he was a politician all along or he was “called” and he thinks a political position is more prestigious than the pulpit.

Os Guinness, in his book “The Call” captures the essence of God’s calling,

“Calling is the truth that God calls us to Himself so decisively that everything we are, everything we do, and everything we have is invested with a special devotion and dynamism lived out as a response to His summons and service.”

Render unto Caesar and all that jazz!!

[Dr. Eckleburg]

This man is the clear pro-life, anti-gay agenda, pro-gun, pro-family, candidate. The above hit piece by left wing PFAW proves that these have been Huck's positions for decades. He's not a recent convert.

I tend to agree.

And for those who think he's a "big spending big government kind of guy," what would they call President Bush?

No one is perfect.

I don't agree with those Republicans who will sit back and say there's no one out there to vote for. ANY Republican is light years ahead of ANY democrat. That is just a fact.

Anyone who calls himself a democrat means he accepts so many vile things -- abortion, homosexuality, tax increases and gun restrictions.

At least a Republican will give lip service against those things and thus be held more accountable for not keeping his word.

McCain is too old. If he gets the election then Hillary is supposed to win because it will be Bob Dole all over again.

Guiliani is a thrice-married, cross-dressing liberal who's estranged from even his children. No thanks.

I actually like Romney but his religion is a big hurdle for many Christians. He's my second choice.

That leaves Huckabee who has successfully run a state; who has survived everything the evil Clinton machine could throw at him; and who is trying to put an empathetic face on the party while still holding to fiscally-conservative principles.

And I understand B-D's argument against leaving the ministry, but there isn't a politician alive who is without a peculiar sense of ambition that most people would find alien to their own lives.

So I see Huckabee not as a pastor who is running for office, but as a politician with a background in theology.

And as far as politicians go, that's not so bad.

[Sloth]

This man is the clear pro-life, anti-gay agenda, pro-gun, pro-family, candidate.

And if he were also pro-freedom and anti-big-government, that'd be enough.

[TradicalRC]

I actually didn’t realize it was a hit piece until halfway through. It seemed more like a ringing endorsement. He sounds good to me.