Huckabee's Family Field General (daughter Sarah Huckabee)

Sarah Huckabee is desperately looking for a volunteer. It's a frigid Des Moines Sunday afternoon and the daughter of the upstart Republican presidential candidate is holding court in her new corner office above the campaign's Iowa headquarters. Her dad, former Arkansas Governor Mike Huckabee, may suddenly be a front-runner in Iowa, and in South Carolina as well, but his rising profile has its own complications. Today she is dealing with a shortage of drivers...

At 25, Huckabee is no dilettante trying to ride Daddy's coattails. After leaving her job as a regional liaison with the Education Department in Washington, Huckabee has spent the past year directing field operations for her father's campaign. Six weeks ago, overcoming her hatred of the cold, she moved to Des Moines to be her Dad's eyes and ears on the ground in the state that will make or break his presidential hopes. "There is a degree of trust between them that is very special. It's special for family and special in a political adviser — and in her he has both," said Eric Woolson, who runs the Huckabee campaign in Iowa.

Sarah — who has two older brothers, one of whom is also working full-time for the campaign — thought about going to law school after graduating from her father's alma mater, Ouachita Baptist University in Arkansas. Instead, she switched gears, heading to Washington and the Department of Education; along the way she has worked on two of her Dad's gubernatorial campaigns, a local race in Oregon and President Bush's reelection campaign in Ohio. She inherited the organizational talents of her mother, Janet (who until recently worked for the Red Cross in Little Rock), and the passion for politics of her Dad, and no small amount of his famous charm...

Personnally, I’m more concerned about losing freedom because more “law” will be necessary to keep the inmates in order because they no longer have morals to police themselves. A moral people don’t need large goverment, only the immoral and lawless. IHO the greatest danger to the “American” way of life is the ever increasing lack of common morality and decency in American culture.

What you are saying is very true. Richard Nixon wrote it in his autobiography. Although he was hardly a conservative. Nixon wrote that a free country without any moral standards would soon devolve into a cesspool like ancient Rome.

Frank Meyer had the original idea when he conconcted the fusionist shotgun wedding between libertarians and socons nearly half a century ago.

Communism was the common enemy back then. The idea was that communism threatened both religious and personal freedom and we needed to unite against it. The same is still true today. Philosophy is real complicated stuff. Selfishness is much easier. Just give me the candidate I want and threaten everyone else with Hillary if they don't support him.

Mike Huckabee jamming on bass.

At the FREE REPUBLIC 2001 INAUGURAL BALL.

Yes, there are shills, ain't there. Shills and no-account newbies.

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