The Trail: A Daily Diary of Campaign 2008

I'm so glad the Governor Huckabee is going after slick Mitt, real conservatives can't afford Mitt or his club for greed cronies. Just to clear the record, even if Governor Huckabee were to drop out of the race, his supporters would not vote for Mitt they would support John McCain. http://www.foxnews.com/projects/pdf/020108_election_release_web.pdf

Check out the facts on slick Mitt www.trueromney.com

Go Huckabee

Me too!

Gov. Mike Huckabee is the best person running for President and a true conservative.

Michael Shear suggests puberty statement because Romney's negative attack in Iowa. I guess it is more related to recent Romney's two-men-race comments.

Actually "puberty" is a quite vivid way to describe Romney's flip-flops. He lost his political credibility.

Please watch how Romney conflicts himself.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PURfrORhWPc

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cFMdK0TWtks&feature=related

America does not need Mitt Romney. He thinks life is about making as much money as possible, and then buying political power with it. For his record,see TrueRomney.com. He has tried to buy the election with massive and dishonest advertising. Only Fascist talk radio personalities like Limbaugh and Hannity are for him because he would protect the rich and the powerful. A vote for Romney is a wasted vote because he will NEVER be elected President.

America does need Mike Huckabee. He was voted one of the 5 best governors in America. He has progressive ideas about economics, health, education, immigration, and defense. He has character, judgment, intellect, and courage. He has run a frugal campaign and would make a great President.

Help David slay Goliath by voting for Mike Huckabee.

First I'd like to say if Huckabee received even half the media coverage Romie has received I truely beleive Romie would not even be in this race any longer. This is a fact, if you see Mike Huckabee, you like him! Hands down he is the best canidate in the race and if the people are allowed to chose their canidate, not the media, he will be our next president.

I'm from Canada and have been watching your election from the first time I saw Mike Huckabee. I am very impressed with him. He is the most honest of all the candidates of both parties. He is exactly what the US needs in a President. If the American people are not smart enough to ignore the media and put this man in power, we'll take him in Canada. I'd love to have him as our next Prime Minister.

I think Gov. Huckabee has shown that he is the most conservative of the 3 candidates. He certainly is graceful under pressure. He has forward thinking ideas on how to change America for the better. We need a candidate with good ideas and experience to go up against the democrats, and furthermore, unite our country after the election. Romney has no real plan other than what the polls dictate. McCain is considered too far left for conservatives. Huckabee has humble roots and understands the lower and middle classes. Romney has never had financial woes like the average American and cannot relate to the common people. Romney, with all his wealth, cannot buy a personality or experience.

All you "Mike" supporters are brainwashed. Are you sure your not part of a cult?

Without his personal $35 million, Romney raised $54 million in 2007 and spent $88 million. McCain raised $37.5 million and spent $39 million. Mike Huckabee raised $9 million and spent $7 million.

Huckabee can manage my money anytime!

Here's an idea considering how many votes Huckabee has with 6 million money. Imagine howmany votes he could have with Romney's money. C'mon mitt write Huckabee a big check and lets have a HUCKABOOM!!!

I agree, it is about time Governor Huckabee went back after that slimy Mitt Romney! Romney has told so many lies in this election and has literally tried to buy the White House with his fortune and with his purchased media -- he forgot one thing -- WE THE PEOPLE!!!

TAKE IT TO HIM MIKE!!! I'll guarantee you that Mitt Romney will never take a debate against Mike Huckabee (even with his cheating whispers).

According to Rasmussen's daily presidential tracking poll, HUCKABEE HAD GAINED 5% NATIONALLY in the past five days. In that same time, Romney has lost ground.

Mike Huckabee has the momentum--and just in time for Tsunami Tuesday.

"Give Hope Another Chance'
www.mike-huckabee.blogspot.com

My candidate is Mike Huckabee. He's authentic. He's the consistent conservative Governor who completed 10 1/2 years in office with high approval ratings, improved roads and education, and only increased the tax burden on the average Arkansan two tenths of one percent. Compare that to Romney's one term as Governor of Massachusetts where the tax burden increased four percent during his four years in office. And he left office with sinking approval numbers.

Mitt Romney can't be trusted. He's demonstrated that he will say anything to reach his goal. Maybe that's fine in business. But it's not attractive in an office where trust is important.

Huckabee has praised every Republican candidate but Romney for the tone they have taken in their campaigns.

But, you can bet that if Huckabee has anything to do with any GOP presidential campaign after Super Tuesday, the Democrats are going to make it look like Romney was taking it pretty easy on him.

They will use the politics of personal destruction to do as much damage to the party and the evangelical movement as possible when they take him down. They'll do it like a sniper, wounding him before the kill, in order to get notable names to come to his defense, so they can be smeared by association.

A lot of the weaponry that will be used already is public knowledge, but his supporters have been ignoring it.

This summer when the moment seems just right, they'll start off with his sellout to the tobacco industry and all of his ethics violations and his misuse of public office for personal greed.

The "wedding" gift registry he used to shake people down after leaving the governor's office won't seem like a big deal at first.

But Democrats will expand on the picture of greed, bringing up the Jonesboro school shooting and how Huckabee promised survivors no one would profit from it, only to cut a book deal a few days later and reject pleas to share the proceeds in the form of scholarships.

Use of another Huckabee book will start establishing his dishonesty along with his greed, when Democrats start having fun with what they'll portray as his pretense that dieting took 110 pounds off him, rather than bariatric surgery or some similar procedure.

At this point some fringe blog desperate for attention will use public doubt about Huckabee's character to seek traction for an ethics-type charge that can't be proven but will tend to attract heavy web site traffic when played correctly: the dog torture incident.

Everyone knows there is something seriously wrong in a family when a teen old enough to be a Boy Scout counselor tortures or helps torture a dog: It was hung by a wire, stoned and had its throat slit.

Democrats will say it is especially wrong when the crime is minimized and the father steps between the son and a state police investigation, then fires the guy who would not immediately back off. The guy who says he suffered the injustice loves an audience and the liberal mainstream media will be only too happy to provide him one at the perfect time. Juicy!

Then it will be time for the Willie Horton-type stuff, taking Huckabee to task for granting convicted criminals 1,033 pardons and commutations of sentence - about twice as many acts of amnesty as his three predecessors in the governors office combined.

After Huckabee pressured a parole board to release a sex offender early, the rapist went on to murder a mother in Missouri. And people who don't have a special loyalty to Huckabee are going to be outraged by this as it gets more and more attention.

He pardoned or commuted the sentences of 669 criminals, including 11 murderers. And this time instead of media playing down the evangelical connection, it is going to be played up.

The way Democrats will portray it, criminals who said they were saved will have used pastors to get special consideration from Huckabee. And you know they'll ask if the pastors and Huckabee got anything in return, and they'll ask in a way that implies corruption. (Remember all the ethics violations and gift demands?)

If the race is tight at all, you know this question will not be beneath them. And it won't be beneath them to ask Huckabee about accepting contributions from televangalists under Congressional investigation.

Liberal mainstream media may wait for fringe blogs to raise these subjects, but then they'll report on what the blogs have been saying with glee and they'll amplify that with what they're able to dig up through their own muckraking. It won't be pretty.

And no one will be able to say any of this came without warning.

If this unfolds, when the party is looking for someone to blame, Republicans will know a lot of their elected officials and other leaders saw it coming and did nothing to stop Huckabee, and practically invited the bus to run over everyone.

A vote for Huckabee is a vote for McCain.

McCain is as big a flip flopper as any...see therealmccain.com

Huckabee uses personal attacks rather than sticking to the issues. How mature is that?

NOT

A vote for Huckabee is a vote for McCain.

McCain is as big a flip flopper as any...see therealmccain.com

Huckabee uses personal attacks rather than sticking to the issues. How mature is that?

NOT

I find it a bit dishonest and very inaccurate for the writer of this article to say that Huckabee has done "poorly" since Iowa. He consistently and soundly beat other "higher tier" candidates such as Thompson and Giulini. He very nearly won the primary just prior to Florida (South Carolina). He also has spent nearly ALL of that time near or AT the top of the national polls. He's a GREAT candidate who deserves credit for doing the virtually impossible in rising from national obscurity to where he is today always fighting the headwind of the millions of dollars spent on misleading negative ads and often the subtle bias of writers like this one.

Romney could not possibly understand the plight of the working poor of which I am part of. And he follows a faith that claims the strong leaders of it will have their own planet when they die and will be able to rule it. I couldn't vote for him based on these two factors alone, not to mention his back-and-forth on abortion, his recent $50 co-pay abortions, etc.

Go, Huck, Go!

http://www.domersforhuckabee.net

I sure thought this was a Republican primary. Where did all this anti-capitalist and anti-free market sentiment come from. McCain/Huckabee attack Romney as if building businesses and creating jobs were a shady occupation.

I am only a student, but that is my life's ambition. I want to earn a good living, but more important to me is to help lift others up with me.

The reasoning the Mitt-haters use against him proves to me that Romney is a better candidate. Look who someone's enemies are and you see where he really stands.

If you want global warming tax hikes (McCain-Lieberman), squishy stances on tax cuts (McCain was against them, Huckabee raised taxes), class warfare rhetoric (McCain and Huckabee, and apparently Huck's supporters above), and Washington status quo, I see no difference between McCain, Huckabee, and Clinton.

Besides Huckabee can never win. He is just running to be vice president. If you want McCain, vote for Huckabee. I want something new to choose between. Romney and Obama are the only chance we have to see something new.