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

Hi mww7786,
If Clinton eats Huckabee's lunch it will definitely help him keep the weight off...
In the meantime go to mikehuckabee.com, learn what Mike's campaign is all about, and lighten up a bit - this process does not have to be as serious as you suggest.
Mike Huckabee very effectively governed a state (Arkansas) for 10 1/2 years AND he has a sense of humor.

There's too much hate and selfishness in this country.

Let's try to focus on what WE can do for OUR country instead of what is or isn't good for us. One rate for all, NO IRS beauracracy, and exemptions for basic necessities IS fair.

please be careful who you support, thank carefully about this so called fair tax, because low income and folks on SS will be the ones not being treated fairly more than anyone, I paid a pretty high income tax most of my working life, and I dont see how it could be fair for me to now lose my detuctions and pay the same as all, before I heard this I was considering Governor Huckabee as a choice but not now

Good, because he's been skipping his lunches anyway. Huckabee's 'food' is from truth and wisdom.

If she wants to widen her hips, it's all ok to Mike Huckabee.

And me too :)
Keep smiling.

I am glad we have pundits at the Wash. Post. Where are we to get honest news, with no strings attached? Everytime I see an artical or soundbite on MSNBC it makes me want to throw something at the TV. These guys are not reporting honestly. Oblerman is tilting so Democrat, that it's really amazing how they keep him. Why watch someone who does not give fair analysis or you know exactly what position he's going to take before he takes it for an hour each day.

My opinion is about Huckabee. He's gained a few, but will certainly peter out. He was a Libral Govenor, and he's way too silly to represent us at a G-8 Summit or in Peace Talks with Iran, or anyone else in the middle east for that manner. Clinton would eat his lunch!

Mike Huckabee's surge is the voice of America saying Washington is not for sale...any more!

Dr. Ron Paul is a doctor and is probably a good one at that. But that doesn't make him right on foreign issues. I don't care if he and even 99% of Americans oppose fighting terrorism (in Iraq or anywhere else) - it's the Presidents job and responsibility (he takes an oath) to protect the USofA from enemies both foreign and domestic.

Again, our biggest threat today is from terrorism and it doesn't matter WHERE they are. Iraq canNOT be a 'safe' sanctuary for killers that have and want and work towards and still declare to kill Americans.

Maybe we can't stop discrimination, burglaries, or bank robberies either - but a great country doesn't give up protecting innocent women, children, and men - of ANY race of ANY age of ANYthing else. EVEN Hillary agrees with that and opposes a quick suicidal pullout.

It's not a presidents job to be 'popular' - and it's not a voter's job to be 'ignorant' or 'self centered'. It's a voters job to love our constitution and to vote for the person that will uphold it.

Now that the 'surge' has worked, we CAN begin to pull troops out. However, if the terrorists do NOT want us to pull out, then they will begin terrorizing Iraq and we will have to stay a while longer so that innocent Iraqi's can live in peace. EVERY human being has that right.

Why would Republicans want a president that would embarrass them like Clinton (Bill) embarressed the Democrats? I'm an independant. I would vote for Hillary over Ron Paul. Ron Paul (as I see him) is a loose cannon and a very angry individual. I vote for the best man (or woman) no matter what the political party....

I believe, however, (and it appears that a growing percentage of Americans too) that Mike Huckabee has more to offer than ANY of the other candidates (dem and rep combined).

What the press and the pollsters are failing to notice is that - as Americans REALLY get to know Huckabee - he wins the majority. I would support Huckabee as a Democrat, Independent, or any other political party.

As I see it, of all those running for president (from both parties), ONLY HE understands the people and can bring them together - and I believe too, the world....

Can we have world peace again? I believe so. Maybe having been a minister, he's had sufficient practice, but this I know - he has made people smile again. America (and the world) needs that now more than ever.

I don't see why there isn't more press about why liberals would rather face ANYONE but Dr. Ron Paul. Much as we'd like politics to be positive, it is in fact ruled almost entirely by negatives. For instance, what's the biggest negative the Republican Party is facing in 2008? Iraq - a staggering 70% of people favor IMMEDIATE withdrawl from Iraq. Who is the only candidate that doesn't have that negative? Dr. Paul, who advocates using those trillions of dollars to secure our border (perhaps against Saudis who were 20 of the 24 terrorists in 9/11) and rebuild our crumbling infrastructure which is far more worrying than the loss of Social Security. Hm, full employment, withdrawl from Iraq and a huge boost to our economy from rebuilding our infrastructure - what Democrat wants to run against that. Hence the behavior of known liberal biased network CNN, who wants us to nominate either Guiliani or Romney - both of whose negatives are so high the copy practically writes itself!

You couldn't be more wrong.
Huckabee's riding the wave - and while I may be sad that Romney wasted all his money only to be tied with Huckabee (who never spent any) - the truth is the truth. Huckabee is another Ronald Reagan. Get used to it.

Mike Huckabee has wit, solid character, swiftness of thought, common sense, and more love and understanding for the American people than all the other candadates put together. Those that try to knock Huckabee around only embarrass themselves. Americans love him.

And as president, so will foreign leaders.... He has class.

Looking for the real deal------

Disc jockey for president
Tuesday, Nov 27, 2007

By John Brummett

One of the national writers putting together a profile of Mike Huckabee asked how it might be that this preacher showed such an affinity for popular culture.

The Chuck Norris alliance, the tailgate party in South Carolina with the wrestler, the pardon for Keith Richards, the playing of bass guitar in a rock cover band offering Lynyrd Skynyrd - isn't all that out of character for a man from the Southern Baptist pulpit?

Actually, Huckabee was a radio man before he was a preacher and he has remained more decidedly a media man than a pulpit man.

His superficially likable nature, which provides the essence of his oddly succeeding presidential campaign, comes via a disc jockey's shtick rather than a pastor's. I refer to the rich intonations of his professional voice, the music, the hip topicality, the impersonations, the jokes, the Mr. Glib.

It can't be those radical policies. Outlawing abortion altogether, not merely leaving it to the states, is extreme. A national sales tax to replace the income tax is a gimmick, either scandalously regressive or entirely too difficult to design so that it wouldn't be. He barely scratches the surface on foreign policy with what got described over the weekend as "cheerful know-nothingness." He denies the better points of his record in Arkansas, since they're entirely too moderate for modern Republican primary voters.

His is wholly a candidate of personality, and, as such, is more Don Imus than Billy Graham.

Yes, Imus. Huckabee can be mean and inappropriate. It usually doesn't get revealed until the second impression. He's still making his first out there on the trail.

As a midteen, Huckabee found work, including some on-air, on a Hope radio station. Then he had one of those seminal religious moments. So he figured he'd apply his talents and interests to serve Jesus through Christian broadcasting.

That led him to the seminary, after which, almost by accident, he got preaching work in Pine Bluff, then Texarkana. In both towns, he supplemented the preaching with work for which he was better-suited and that he more enjoyed. That would be a local cable television show.

He attained the presidency of the Arkansas Baptist Convention not so much by conventional preaching as by the clever politics of making himself palatable both to fundamentalists and moderates. It was from there that he moved to secular politics.

When Huckabee was lieutenant governor, needing something to do in that pointless job, he accepted an invitation to substitute for a vacationing radio talk show host. He invited me to be his guest, mainly so he and his callers could berate me. He was fully at home and adept in the radio booth.

One day as he prepared to ascend to the governorship, Huckabee had a news conference. I was struck by his intimacy with the TV cameramen. He joshed with them authoritatively about their equipment, specifically about the comparative modernity of one station's gear versus another's.

Then the producer of his cable show in Texarkana, Gary Underwood, joined the governor's staff. Huckabee and Underwood transformed the governor's conference room into an audiovisual studio. They produced a slick, self-promotional cable television program that they distributed for use by ever-pliable local access channels.

As Huckabee prepared to become governor, he said one of his dreams was to do radio play-by-play for a Razorback football game. Naturally, as the new governor, he was obliged. He described a few downs, smoothly and ably, of course.

From time to time I've written an unoriginal but incisive line, which is that Huckabee is really running for his own show on Fox or MSNBC. I'm sticking with that.

But I'll admit there are moments lately when I wonder if he'll have to go through the motions of being the Republican presidential or vice presidential nominee first.

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John Brummett is a columnist for the Arkansas News Bureau in Little Rock. His e-mail address is jbrummett@arkansasnews.com; his telephone number is (501) 374-0699.

There are Anti every candidate out there. We have to get the truth guys!

HAND: Family feud in the GOP

Saturday, December 1, 2007 1:06 AM EST

The Republican Party in Massachusetts is a small, clubby organization, but an intrafamily feud is testing its solidarity.

Former Gov. Paul Cellucci and former state Treasurer Joseph Malone are tugging at the stitches that hold the party together by campaigning against fellow Massachusetts Republican Mitt Romney in the presidential primary.

Cellucci and Malone are supporting former New York Mayor Rudy Guiliani and are trashing the gubernatorial record of Romney, saying he raised taxes.

Former Lt. Gov. Kerry Healey has tried to come to Romney's defense, making for a messy situation all-around.

Now, some might claim that Romney was never really a Bay Stater, given his roots in Michigan and the disdain he voices for his adopted state on the campaign trail, but it is unusual for high profile officials to oppose a candidate from their own state.

Michael Dukakis and John Kerry have not always been the most popular of figures, but when they ran for president you never heard big-name Massachusetts Democrats like Sen. Edward Kennedy bashing them.

In fact, Kennedy and Kerry reportedly have long had a cool relationship, yet Kennedy campaigned vigorously for him.

State Rep. Betty Poirier, R-North Attleboro, said she believes the GOP feud might be personal.

She said Romney upset some of the old guard from Beacon Hill when he was elected governor and brought a lot of outsiders from business into state government.

"He really started fresh and brought in some terrific people," Poirier said of Romney.

The old guard wanted Romney to hire their friends, she said.

"Malone and Cellucci all have their noses bent because he didn't go to them. It's all sour grapes. It's personal."

Political consultant Charlie Manning, however, might have had the best comeback in the dust up. He questioned Cellucci's credibility on budget matters given the staggering cost overruns under Cellucci on the Big Dig project.

"This from the man who said the Big Dig was on time and on budget," Manning cracked.

Whose children?

How hot is the issue of illegal immigration among Republican primary voters?

When Sen. John McCain said at a debate this week that illegal immigrants are children of God and deserve compassion, the response among a focus group of voters monitored by Fox News showed it was the most unpopular answer of the evening.

Blacked out

'Claudia, you crack me up! You must really hate Rudy! Okay - I do too. The prospect alone of him possibly making it into the White House should scare the bejesus out of all Americans. With the exception of Huckabee and McCain to a much lesser degree, the GOP candidates are a pretty scary lot if you look at the big picture and are not a one-issue voter.'

Nick, he's a totally loathesome character. Having experienced him as NY mayor [I don't live in the city but only 20 miles from it] I knew long ago how dangerous he is, how poor his judgement is. His foreign policy is the Bush Doctrine -- without the restraint.

But Huckabee is scary too--his support of a Constitutional amendmnt banning ALL abortions--[plus he wants to get rid of contraceptives too,] and another one banning gay unions of any kind, creeps me out--that plus his idea of converting taxation from income based to sales based, and not taxing corporations - at all, and his idea of ME policy is deporting all palestians to Saudi Arabia--well, it's not really very sane, is it?

Anyone interested in a funny (but it really happened) column about what Huckabee is really like face-to-face should try:
http://goupstate.us/index.php/lanefiller/2007/11/02/title_14

Santa Claus is endorsing Romney?

Hmmm...this is a change! Fantasy, magical thinking, giving away stuff, no consequences...Santa has always been on the Democrat side!

What is "American culture" anyway? Is there such a thing? Can there be in a nation where almost all of us are descendents of immigrants?

Dear Mr. Bopp:

Above, you stated; "I love Mike Huckabee," , quickly adding: "Something I know for sure [is] he does not have the resources to compete."

You truly are misinformed, sir. Gov. Huckabee has more than enough resources to run an effective and winning campaigne.

In point of fact, I direct you to the actual budgets of both Romney and Huckabee in respect to their Iowa polling and the relationship of their monies spent.
Romney @25%: $7 MILLION SPENT
5000 COMMERCIALS AIRED
Huckabee @28% : $300,000 SPENT
1ST COMMERCIAL BEGAN 7 DAYS AGO
In addition, the latest Rasmussen NATIONAL poll has Gov. Huckabee in 2nd Place at 15% and Mitt Romney in, sorry I didn't count down, 4th or 5th Place at 10%.

Gov. Huckabee is also polling in 2nd place in Florida. GA Right to Life endorced him yesterday, 11/30, and the Iowa Right to Life endorsed him earlier this week.

Your "argument" is ridiculous and I urge every America interested in seeing this nation pull together for Freedom, Family and Security to vote for Gov. Huckabee.

His GRASSROOTS organization is ablaze with activity! We raised over $2 million in November from the "mom's and pop's" of this great country. Mike Huckabee is not Beholding to the monied-corporate wing of the Republican Party. We the People appreciate his wisdom and humility.

So, YOU want ME to vote for Romney? As my 2nd choice? NOT!

www.mikehuckabee.com for the FACTS

So, candidate A attacks the others hoping if A can make the others look smaller A will look bigger and get the votes. The ballots, and polls, needs a NO column and the highest net yes wins so voters, if so convinced. could vote against B, the trashee, without having to vote for A, the trasher. Why do we have to say we want parsnips to say we don't want broccoli? All the polls show all the candidates with support ranging in the quarter to one-third levels or less. That means the vast majority do not support whoever will become the eventual nominee, given their choice out of the original field. A NO column would let the voter support their party while not registering endorsement for their party's nominee. Wouldn't that be interesting. It would provide beneficial information to all, winners, losers and the public as well. It's time to be able to say no when you mean no, not by saying yes where you don't really mean it.

Claudia, you crack me up! You must really hate Rudy! Okay - I do too. The prospect alone of him possibly making it into the White House should scare the bejesus out of all Americans. With the exception of Huckabee and McCain to a much lesser degree, the GOP candidates are a pretty scary lot if you look at the big picture and are not a one-issue voter.

Judge, this Romney quote from The Trail:

"There is a big difference between us in terms of our life experience," said Romney of Huckabee. "I spent my life in the private sector and then running the Olympics, he spent his life in government. So we have a lifelong politician versus somebody who has been in the business world for most of his career."

I posted to remind people that G.W.B. spent his life in the private sector before becoming governor of TX - and then the White House. Look where that got us.

Romney tries to make it sound as if there is something wrong with devoting one's life to public service. People in the military, civil service (state or federal) should find that statement extremely offensive. Thank heaven there are people who are willing to work the low paying government jobs! Romney is a joke. I hope Huckabee cleans his clock in Iowa. If I had to have a social conservative as a president, I would want it to be someone who has true heart -- true compassion vs. the lip service that the buffoon now in the White House gave us.

The only area in which I've agreed with G.W. is in immigration - I think his "guest worker" program makes tremendous sense. But who hates him for it? His own party. THAT, to me, is very telling of how increasingly heartless the GOP platform has become. I root for Huckabee to get the nomination because he seems to be the only one who might bring back compassion to the GOP platform.

Amazing -- we've spent $90 billion on security for Iraq, but guess how much Bush wants to spend on secuirty for US citizens - $1 billion.

'The Bush administration intends to slash counterterrorism funding for police, firefighters and rescue departments across the country by more than half next year, according to budget documents obtained by The Associated Press.

The plan calls for outright elimination of programs for port security, transit security, and local emergency management operations in the next budget year. This is President Bush's last budget, and the new administration would have to live with the funding decisions between Jan. 20 and Sept. 30, 2009.'

let me repeat --'The plan calls for outright elimination of programs for port security, transit security, and local emergency management operations'

I guess Bush has decided to simply not try to pretend anymore that he's interested in protecting this country.

"Would you vote for a President who signed nonaggression deals with the KKK or the Nazi party?"

Would you follow the advice of someone who is clearly off his meds?

" 'Either a conservative is going to emerge" with the financial and organizational power to take on Giuliani, predicted Bopp, or 'Giuliani is going to be the nominee.' "

OR maybe Romney will win.

Hard to believe that someone who was the governor of Massachusetts could hope to paint himself as a true conservative. Too much time in the business world where 'packaging' counts for everything and the truth is irrelevant, eh Mitt?

A Tale of Two Polls in NH

Fox:

GOP: Romney 29, McCain 21, Giuliani 19, Huckabee 7, Paul 4, Thompson 4

Dems: Clinton 30, Obama 23, Edwards 17, Richardson 12, Biden 3, Kucinich 3

Americn Research Group:

Democrats:
Clinton 34%
Obama 23%
Edwards 17%
Richardson 10%

Republicans:
Romney 36%
Giuliani 22%
Huckabee 13%
McCain 11%

' the liberal Giuliani' -- I laugh every time I read this. He isn't liberal -- he is whatever it will take to get elected. He's a sexual libertine, certainly, but not by an stretch of the imagination a 'liberal' whatever you think that word means. Guiliani's foreign policies are like the Bush Doctrine, only without the restraint.

Regarding the column by Chris Cillizza. The choice of the word "surrogate" is a biased media characterization. James Bopp is a very astute observer of the politics of the presidential race. Why did Giuliani recently and very dramatically increase his efforts for New Hampshire, even though he is down in the polls and an by his own staff's assessment an unlikely winner? The answer is that Huckabee is running a one state campaign in Iowa focusing the limited resources he can muster. Giuliani is an opportunist and now thinks if he focuses on New Hampshire that Romney will not be able to defend both states and therefore Romney will lose in Iowa and Giuliani will emerge to the advantage having weakened both Romney and Huckabee. I hope the people of Iowa and New Hampshire can see through this divisive divide and conquer strategy. It could defeat both candidates. Don't let the liberal Giuliani defeat our Christian Values and put him in a controlling position to win the nomination.

So in other words, "vote with your head, not with your heart." The same kind of mindset that caused us to overlook Howard Dean and nominate the dull John Kerry... Actually, yeah, conservatives. Go ahead and nominate Romney.

HERE'S MORE ON HOW RUDY USED CITY TAXPAYER'S MONEY:

'The Shag Fund not only paid for the 11 tryst visits to Hamptons.

-- It paid for hotel and other expenses for mayoral aides -- in addition to the security detail -- who also went with the mayor to the Hamptons on the tryst weekends.

-- Nathan's NYPD-chauffeured trips (without Rudy) to visit her parents in Pennsylvania, 130 miles outside the city.

-- NYPD detectives and city-owned undercover Dodge to drive Nathan around the city.

-- NYPD detectives and city-owned undercover Dodge to drive Nathan's friends and family around the city even when she wasn't in the car.

-- NYPD security detail for Nathan, personally approved by Bernard Kerik.

-- NYPD cops to walk Nathan's dog.'

It is possible that Senator Clinton is the best candidate. However, even though any may like the policies that Senator Clinton proposes, they should also consider her record, just as Senator Clinton insists.
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The last Clinton Administration, when faced with the fact that protection rackets where torturing people with poison and radiation, chose to avoid its responsibilities to incarcerate the criminals and to protect the citizenry.
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Instead, they made a deal with the criminal gang stalker protection rackets to leave them alone and to consequently abandon the citizenry.
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Do we want a President who sells out the citizenry for votes?
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Do we want a President who sends a "crime does pay" message to society?
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Would you vote for a President who signed nonaggression deals with the KKK or the Nazi party? Gangs that torture with poison and radiation are much like the KKK and Nazi Party.
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We do not need a sellout President. We need a principled leader President.
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