[gopgen]

The Arkansas “Leader” is a left-wing rag that’s not fit to line a chicken coop with. Total trash from Clinton-worshipping Arkansas Dims.

[kingu]

He’s the ‘conservative’ choice, whereupon the go on to show us all the liberal things he has done. Whee; higher taxes, more welfare state, more tolerance for illegals - who was it that was trying to say he’d be our best choice?

[Lancey Howard]

As we have had occasion to observe, that is not exactly his record as governor of Arkansas. He shepherded greater tax hikes into law than any governor in Arkansas history — all for worthy causes, we think — and expanded government services for the poor.

LOL, well, that's all she wrote.
Bye, Mike, we hardly knew ye.

[stephenjohnbanker]

And still losing.

[iowamark]

Huckabee... dares to challenge party orthodoxy

Note that no Dem ever dares to challenge party orthodoxy, except for the rare Zell Miller or Joe Lieberman, who are promptly thrown out of the party.

However, Republicans are rewarded for betraying their party: Giuliani, Romney, McCain, and Huckabee all attained fame by attacking conservatism.

[dano1]

"American workers who have not imbibed the heady elixir that the party’s billionaire backers have enjoyed the past three or four years."

I wonder how many Republicans would agree that the system is rigged to help "the party’s billionaire backers"?

Or how many Republicans believe that the role of the Federal government is to run a welfare state?

It's odd that Huckabee's most radical proposition, eliminating the Federal income tax, rarely seems to draw much discussion, either pro or con.

[gusopol3]

Gravel is the iconoclastic lefty from Nebraska who brings up the rear in the Democratic field.

Well, at least it rhymes with Alaska. Obviously, an intelligent editorialist. But at least the article outlines Huckabee's stances and confirms me in my position never to have read anything about him until now.

[saganite]

A committed liberal pushing Huckabee? That’s a death sentence for him if the word gets out.

[goldstategop]

No one named Huckabee or Gravel will be elected President. AS names, they rub people the wrong way.

"Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached." - Manuel II Palelologus

[DoughtyOne]

Folks, I know the Arkansas Gazette is a liberal rag. Is the Leader also?

[gridlock]

His Straight Talk Express was derailed in South Carolina when the Bush campaign spread rumors about him, including a tale that he had fathered a child by a black woman. McCain never recovered.

If this is the level of analysis in this piece, there is no reason to read further.

First, it is an unsupported smear against Bush.

Second, it had nothing to do with McCain's collapse.

People who are still obsessing about McCain's fall in South Carolina are like the people who can't handle it that Algore lost in Florida. In fact, they are probably the same people.