Yomin, I was on FreeRepublic on Friday night and saw the story about Huckabee attacking President Bush for the war on terror and saying that we had needed to reach out to Iran earlier in the decade. Huckabee makes me ill. WE SHOULD ALL BE ON THE LINE MONDAY AM, TELLING THE FORMER GOVERNOR TO GO FLY KITES. I see enough traitors and attackers of the military in the Democrat Party w/o supporting a Republican who doesn’t know what’s going on
I pulled up the article. I’m very against his Iran comment but it seems that the rest was a criticize of the way the Administration explains the war, not against policy. The reporter covering the story twisted it to be anti-war. We do need better PR. The case for the war is simple and straightforward. We gave Saddam 12 years, Pres. Bush himself gave 18 months of constant warning and Saddam kept rebuffing, evading inspectors, etc. We had to act against a maniac who had used gas weapons in the past. By trying to off a former President he showed that he had no fear of starting with America and needed to be handled. He could have caused plenty of problems without nukes. I wish Huckabee wouldn’t have said what he said but it does seem the article took a criticism on communication and twisted it (the stupid Iran comment notwithstanding). If he does more of this I’ll indeed switch. Right now we need someone who’s at least conservative - Huckabee largely fits this bill and is a good communicator. Rudy and Mitt don’t and I don’t see Fred advancing.