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I think people are underestimating Huckabee...I mean, aside from his name being Huckabee, and well, him being from Arkansas...he is a candidate the religious right could get behind though....
Well, he didn't do any wonders for my state. Put a damn trolley car system in downtown Little Rock that crosses the Arkansas to North Little Rock, and a dollars tax went up 3 cents and it hasn't gone down either.
Arkansas itself has now said nay to a lotto, and or a casino that would also donate to the education system even. , Bill even giggled at Arkansas being a tough state to govern and being the president was easier.
Huckabee did lose about 200lbs, and help develop the second largest race for a cure to breast cancer. Which I find funny when we have bigger issues than that but hey it was a good job. He is a motivated individual and intelligent. As far as being able to lead a country it's a tough call. It's not that he couldn't basically flip flop our economy or what we have now you can say, its is he convincing enough? And every time I see him talking, on the late show, cnn, whatever, it's like he upped his game or some crap. He was mostly a fat all talk politician and then somehow changed on the job to what he should have been all along.
So looking at the ballot thus far I have to put him at the top. Hillary is consistently acting like a pompous queen. Like some little dictator or a hunny do this and that show. Ol'bama is pretty much digging his own grave, and nobody else has a shot imho at this point.
I really think Huckabee is going to give a run for the money. He isn't a hick like where he's from like Clinton was, yet more straight forward than Hillary and Obama. I don't know if he can handle the pressure, but he seems to be the most real politician I have ever seen without being bias.
I think people are underestimating Huckabee...I mean, aside from his name being Huckabee, and well, him being from Arkansas...he is a candidate the religious right could get behind though....
Oh... every grandma and grandpa are falling behind him like terrorists in a hot bed. I'm pretty sure he has the first generation locked down..
.....plus, I've heard rumors that big money is waiting to see if the small fish will bite on Huckabee.....
nothing says fiscal conservative like...Tax Hike Mike!!
http://taxhikemike.org/
He is the guy I like most on the GOPer side.....
I actually like Huckabee but he simply does not have the war chest needed to win the nomination. But with a name like Huckabee...he's bound to be good.
A Tale of Two Candidates
http://www.spectator.org/dsp_article.asp?art_id=12205
If the Religious Reich like him, they'd better take up an extra collection on Sunday. Last count had him with about $650K in the coffers. He's doing OK in Iowa and NH, but he's barnstorming with personal appearances and tons of face time in the runup. When those two primaries are over, he won't be able to barnstorm the 30 primaries in the next 3 weeks, and will be drowned out by the big money candidates' TV spots.
Well Arkansans like me mostly know you have to start somewhere and if it was ethics then um, so what? Ethics in Arkansas? Um, spending what Bush is on the 'war' doesn't seem as screwed up to us.
As far as spending dough on good nights, that's backwash. Wanna pull that up on everyone else too to make it fair? That lovely home isn't half of what most other governors have. Besides wifey came from a rich family aside from the facts.
You know there's always going to be downers or whatever no matter who is running. But in the end he's less of a crook than what else I got to choose from my lovelies.
walker TX ranger, Ted Nugent and Now the nature boy, Ric Flair....Mike Huckabee could be one NASCAR driver endorsement away from being a front-runner!
– CNN South Carolina Producer Peter HambyCOLUMBIA, South Carolina (CNN) – In the race for presidential endorsements, Mike Huckabee has the kitschy pop culture celebrity vote on lockdown.
First it was martial arts hero and "Walker, Texas Ranger" star Chuck Norris, who appears with Huckabee in his first TV ad.
Then hard-rocking hunting enthusiast Ted Nugent jumped on the Huckabee bandwagon, citing the Republican's support for second amendment rights.
Now, Huckabee is getting ready to rumble: wrestler Ric Flair, a.k.a. The Nature Boy, is supporting the former Arkansas governor in his bid for the White House.
CNN has confirmed the former WWF and WWE star wrestler is on board with Huckabee, and will co-host a campaign tailgate with the candidate at the South Carolina vs. Clemson football game on Saturday afternoon in Columbia, South Carolina. More details are forthcoming.
Just as we posted was likely to happen, Mike Huckabee is surging in Iowa, but as folksy as it all might seem for Christian Conservatives, Huckabee maybe a few apples short of a full basket....
AlertnetSurging Mike Huckabee may talk about poverty and trade, but the wild-eyed Baptist goofball doesn't believe he is evolved from primates. Does that even worry Republican voters?
Huckabee, who in recent years has lost 100 pounds, has the roundish, half-deflated physique of an ex-fatty. With his button nose and never-waning smile, he looks slightly unreal, like an oversize Muppet. I was so taken aback by his appearance that I checked his hands to make sure they had the right number of fingers. After the Richards tale, he went on to tell me about the band he plays bass for, and how he has jammed with the likes of Percy Sledge and Grand Funk Railroad, and how he prefers John Entwistle to Flea's slap-and-pop style of bass-playing. Ten minutes later, driving away from the fund-raiser, I caught myself thinking: Hey, this guy doesn't seem like a total head. I can almost see him as president. ...
Then I woke up and did some homework that changed my mind. But I confess: It took a little while. Huckabee is that good.
Ever since Huckabee turned in a dominating performance at a summit of Christian voters in Washington a few weeks ago, he has been riding a surge among likely Iowa voters (he's now second to Mitt Romney, and gaining). The media, like me, have been charmed by their initial impression: "It's hard not to like Mike Huckabee," gushed Newsweek. Even The Nation said he has "real charm."
But all the attention on his salesmanship skills obscures the real significance of his rise within the Republican Party. Mike Huckabee represents something that is either tremendously encouraging or deeply disturbing, depending on your point of view: a marriage of Christian fundamentalism with economic populism. Rather than employing the patented Bush-Rove tactic of using abortion and gay rights to hoodwink low-income Christians into supporting patrician, pro-corporate policies, Huckabee is a bigger-government Republican who emphasizes prison reform and poverty relief. In the world of GOP politics, he represents something entirely new -- a cross between John Edwards and Jerry Falwell, an ordained Southern Baptist preacher who actually seems to give a about the working poor.
Coupled with his apparent gift for wooing the star- ing national media class, Huckabee's seizure of political territory long claimed by the corporate right is what makes him so dangerous. Because for all his political waffling in other areas -- Huckabee has flip-flopped on a host of earthly political issues, from taxes to local control of school boards -- he leaves absolutely no doubt about his commitment to religious wackohood.
Huckabee has also been accused of paying himself as a consultant to his own senatorial campaign, allowing special interests to pay for airline tickets for his daughter, receiving a canoe from a Coke bottler and -- hilariously, if you're wont to laugh at the sheer small-town gauche greediness of it all -- setting up a "wedding registry" at Target and Dillard's department stores so citizens could lavish the Huckabees with gifts as they renewed their marriage vows. The long list of desired goodies included twenty-four settings of Lenox "Holiday Nouveau" china, a KitchenAid mixer and a "Jack La Lanne power juicer." If you didn't want to pick out something yourself, the Huckabees were glad to take straight cash. "Message from the couple," the registry noted. "Target GiftCards are welcome."
I like Mike Huckabee and would like to see him beat Mitt Romney and Rudy for the nomination. I truly do like him.
Huckabee is a creationist/new-earth nutter. I'm sure he'll do wondrous damage to federally supported research
dubya is already one new-earth asshole too many in the WH.
A charming, charismatic, forceful guy, apparently, but hick Huck still an anti-scientific, irrational religiously radical nutcase.
Last edited by boutons_; 11-28-2007 at 10:57 AM.
I don't see him that way at all. Now Hillary on the other hand is starting to get on my nerves with her pompous at ude towards the nomination and already thinking she has it in the bag. I think she's qualified for president but her response that she hasn't even given a thought about not winning the democratic nomination doesn't sit well with me. But that doesn't change the fact that I do think she is ready to be president.
Disliking a candidate for personal reasons is something I try to avoid.
Joe, what makes her ready to be president? Her
marriage to a president? Or managing his love life?
Huckabee, makes a lot of sense when I have heard him
speak. But I really don't know much about the man.
Well that excludes you from being a republican
ray, why are you so interested in others love lives? are you one of those dirty old men?
as long as it has nothing to do with s ... (not that there is anything wrong with that)..
ray is such a hypocrite. he brags about having sex in the middle east with women that are being held as sex slaves, refers to God in the cons ution, and then judges others.
what a worn out, old, republican gas bag.
"Disliking a candidate for personal reasons is something I try to avoid."
If religious nutcase politicians (or govt-employed person, esp including the military) would keep their militaristic, infantile, aggressive, Christian-supremacy bull out of the their public/govt lives and policies, then I wouldn't be against them, just like I wouldn't be against Hillary if she were a lesbian/bi-sexual.
But if she were to support policies proselytizing lesbianism in public schools, then her private life would have spilled over to her public policies and I would be vehemently against her.
The USA has an intentionally secular form of government that has and will suffer from being polluted and distorted by militant "Christian" supremecists.
Politicians, and all govt employees, are elected/employed to serve the will of the people, not to serve their own consciences. If they can't reconcile their public duties/jobs with their conscience/religion, then get the out of govt.
Last edited by boutons_; 11-28-2007 at 12:46 PM.
I like Huckabee more than G-man from NY.
He has no chance of getting rid of the IRS and implementing the Fair Tax does he?
Plus He's Chuck Norris Approved... Can't beat that.
http://youtube.com/watch?v=MDUQW8LUMs8
Hey Clam and GGA, you promised you wouldn't tell. Now you
let the whole world know of our relationship......shame on you!
The false conservative--good article about the huckster
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn...501547_pf.html
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