It was just a matter of time before the Socialist Conservatives decided that the whole freedom thing wasn’t going to work, and that they needed higher taxes and a bigger government to tell the little people what to do.
The SCOTUS nomination was a coincidence—not much of a turning point, as the push to expand government was already there and helped by President Bush. It didn’t need to be a “realization,” since Pres. Bush was already acting Huckabeesque in many ways.
There is more to the GOP platform than homsexuality and abortion. This is a race for president, not pastor.
Even so, Huckabee isn’t consistent on abortion anyway.
They were? Her nomination was pulled, so we never got to see any votes from her on anything.
Like the previous poster said, a stretch.
Huckabee is simply the smoothest talker of the bunch and is able to come across as conservative even though he has liberal views on many issues. Huckabee knows how to sound conservative and knows how to connect with Christian voters. Huckabee is not my first, second, third or fourth choice, but he is better than Rudy.
It worked like a charm. The democrats in the Senate were made to look like fools supporting Miers. When her replacement (Justice Alito) was then nominated, the democrats couldn't resist.
President Bush has always been able to see several moves ahead of the democrats and that's why he always gets what he wants.
I’ve been saying the same thing for months, but folks here don’t get it. You sir, have said it more clearly and succinctly.
Yesterday I actually donated money to Mike Huckabee’s campaign. I have never donated to any presidential campaingn before. Was it a deep love and trust of Mike that caused this. No, it was the unrelenting critisism and distortion and caluminies Huckabee (and by association myself) has been subjected to.
The moral conservative is tired of being to the GOP, what Black voters are to the Dems. Taken for granted.
It was the media that put out the story that the Miers nomination was an attempt to finesse the concerns of the Christian conservative elements in the party. It amazed me that the Bush administration just let the story lie there and did nothing to answer it. Scott McClellan was not an asset to this administration.
Short answer, he isn't.
Why the Huckabee “Surge”?
the press wants a horse race, everyone gets to be in the front. Clinton was leading, the Obama and now, guess what Edward is leading in Iowa.
The two year elections are just silly.
Harriet Miers???? LOL.
Same reason there was a Ted Haggard "surge". There are a remarkable number of utter imbeciles out there.
Interesting point—valid but likely that it only explains part of the Huckaboom. Similar and other reasons for Huckaboom in these:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1940652/posts?page=1
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1941516/posts?page=1
This has it exactly backwards. Miers might well have been perfectly fine on those issues. Her problem was that she was appallingly unqualified to do anything else that a Supreme Court Justice is supposed to do.
Those who supported the Miers nomination did not support her for her political positions. They supported her because they thought that the president's judgment in selecting the nominee should be respected.
In the end, the nomination set conservatives at each other's throats, over a nominee with an extremely light resume who had problems with simple English grammar. The nomination was a disaster for Republicans, a completely unnecessary disaster. For once it's true: Bush did it.
The fiaso said plenty about Bush's overall judgment, but nothing about his commitment to conservatism.
I followed the argument up to tis point--a monster non sequitur. The fact that Bush sold out with the Meiers nomination and the border security give-away in no way means that Huckabee is any less liable to sell out as well. I have absolutely no reason to think a Baptist minister is any more trustworthy than the corner pusher, and this article gives me none.
Just say NO ! to RINOS .... The clear choice in 2008 is Fred Thompson.