Posted on 11/10/2007 5:02:45 AM PST by dano1
After months of dismissing Huckabee as a nice guy with no chance to win, Iowa's influential social conservatives are giving him a second look. The latest polls give him anywhere from 13% to 19% of the vote in Iowa, up from 2% to 3% a few months ago. Those numbers put him in second place behind former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney.
His campaign suggests he can win the state's Jan. 3 caucuses outright, then make a strong showing in New Hampshire, where he's polling fourth.
"I plan to surprise a lot of people," said Huckabee, 52.
To pull it off, he will need thousands of conservative evangelical voters to disregard the advice of their leaders.
Televangelist Pat Robertson this week threw his support behind former New York Mayor Rudolph W. Giuliani, saying he wanted to back the man he thought could best protect the country from terrorism. Several intellectual architects of the religious right support Romney, among them James Bopp Jr., a top antiabortion activist, and Paul Weyrich, a founder of the Moral Majority. Kansas Sen. Sam Brownback, who is popular among evangelicals, recently dropped his bid and backed Arizona Sen. John McCain.
In Iowa this week, Huckabee's supporters did not try to hide their disappointment -- and bewilderment -- at the string of big-name endorsements going to other candidates. Their man is not only a preacher, but a lifelong crusader for the causes they cherish. He wants to make abortion a federal crime and to outlaw same-sex marriage. He would like public-school students to learn creationism alongside evolution.
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All of your posts seem to come from his web site or left wing media.
LOL
The “conservative evangelicals” who vote for this guy are the same ones who bought Jimmah hook, line, and sinker.
[To pull it off, he will need thousands of conservative evangelical voters to disregard the advice of their leaders.]
I was and still believe Duncan Hunter would be the best conservative President but Huckabee would do well. The GOP is going to lose the election is they run a liberal rino like the top three, Rudy and Mcain and even Romney. When a President can not see the fact that killing children by dismemberment is evil, they can not be trusted to do what they say they will do. President Bush is the last social liberal I will ever vote for.
“They are looking to see who will give them a seat at the table instead of standing up for what’s right,” said Bob Vander Plaats, the campaign’s Iowa chairman.
Huckabee also says the evangelical leadership is out of touch. But he didn’t turn away an endorsement Thursday from an old-guard activist, Donald E. Wildmon, founder of the American Family Assn. in Tupelo, Miss. Though not a household name, Wildmon has considerable clout; his group has a vast mailing list and a proven ability to mobilize Christian conservatives by the hundreds of thousands.
After a standing ovation from more than 100 supporters Thursday in Cedar Rapids, Huckabee said he sensed the evangelical base turning against traditional power brokers. “Our website just lit up with people who said they would take their contributions from [Robertson’s TV ministry] and send them to us,” he said, pumping his fist in the air.
He makes a strong point there. I’m getting interested.
[The “conservative evangelicals” who vote for this guy are the same ones who bought Jimmah hook, line, and sinker.]
Unlike the liberal rinos who are conservatives and buy the lies of the rino candidates like Rudy who are liberals running under the guise of conservatives?
The GOP will destroy itself and rightfully so if they continue their downhill slide to the left.
That's all Huckabee is, a trojan horse pushed relentlessly by the liberal media.
The media attaches itself to Huckabee for its own reasons. He’s had a meteoric rise in the polls recently, making him automatically newsworthy. The media really doesn’t understand social conservatives, and Huckabee indubitably ranks among them. This article purports to show a fracturing evangelical movement, and while social conservatives and evangelical Christians may disagree on the best primary nominee, few will vote for any Democrat.
The media easily can ride Huckabee now, but their favorable coverage of him (or any Republican) will end after the decision in the primary contest. We should anticipate that Hillary Rodham Clinton can and will raise and spend three to ten times more funds, primarily because campaign-finance rules do not apply to her. She can raise thousands of dollars each from paupers, beggars, homeless persons, schoolchildren, infants, and others whom no Republican dares to intimidate into donating.
Huckabee couldn’t be as bad as Jimmuh Carter, no way. His “liberalism” is the kind at the state level that so many voters of both parties demand — the kind that “fixes” problems caused by liberals in the first place. Jimmuh Carter was committed to spreading his Georgia style of liberalism worldwide.
That's not "all he is".
He's a legit Christian, an evangelical, who is motivated politically by some sort of social gospel "Kingdom on Earth" theology which leads him to embrace quasi=Marxist economics and an open-borders view of immigration.
Unfortunately, the marriage of "evangelical" with "conservative" tends to produce offspring like this, with W as exhibit #1.
Give the national government the power to meddle in people's personal business, and it can do whatever else it wants.
If Huckabee were to be the nominee, he would lose AR handily in the fall, as AR voters continue with their long-held penchant for Democrat liberalism. They, for instance, preferred Bumpers liberalism to Rockefeller liberalism by a wide mile. HRC would just melt him away.
I remember Dole saying Carter reprented “southern-fried McGovernism” but Dole kind of admired McGovern, didn’t he?
[He’s a legit Christian, an evangelical, who is motivated politically by some sort of social gospel “Kingdom on Earth” theology which leads him to embrace quasi=Marxist economics and an open-borders view of immigration.]
Wrong. It is the rino right that supports the marxist economic policies of the liberal left and it will sever the GOP. You are so wrong, evengelical conservatives are pro captalists who recognize that God gave every Jew who came into Israel after the exodus a part of the land and therefore started the captalist system that includes land ownership. Liberals and rinos do not understand private property rights and it shows.
Blah, blah, blah.
Huckabee’s VERY pro-ILLEGAL immigration, hence the guy is unaccaptable to us regardless of any other positives he may have.
He could be 2008’s Ross Perot, and split the GOP vote, however.
That’s why he is VERY DANGEROUS.
“That’s all Huckabee is, a trojan horse pushed relentlessly by the liberal media”
BUMP
The bus is leaving the station. Two of them, actually. Going to two very different places. ...
I read the Republican destination platform. We're on the right bus. We just need to quit throwing paper-wads at each other long enough to hire the driver who agrees to take us where we want to go. May I suggest a driver without a long record of traffic violations like driving the wrong way on one-way streets such as abortion, marriage and judicial appointments?...
By the way, if you're willing to compromise on life and marriage, go buy a ticket for the RINO safari bus, because you're a Republican in name only. Besides, if Giuliani or Romney were at the wheel, a whole lot of passengers would head for the emergency exit. And of those who remain, they're not likely to chip in for gas or help change a flat tire.
“He’s a legit Christian, an evangelical, who is motivated politically by some sort of social gospel “Kingdom on Earth” theology which leads him to embrace quasi=Marxist economics and an open-borders view of immigration.”
You nailed him!!
From what I've seen so far, you have captured the essence of this guy's approach. And we have seen how well it has worked for W.
Interesting that both Huckabee and Bush talk about staring into people's eyes and thinking they are gaining some kind of insight. Weird. And a risky delusion for "deciders" wielding power.
When a President can not see the fact that killing children by dismemberment is evil, they can not be trusted to do what they say they will do. President Bush is the last social liberal I will ever vote for.
Well spoken!!!! I commend you for the thought!!!
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