Posted on 12/26/2007 6:11:47 AM PST by Fred
I like Mike. Thats not to say I dislike Mitt, Fred or Rudy. I, along with others, have been simply sitting back watching the Republican dark horse advance in Iowa.
My liking for Mike is not based on reasoning. Its a gut, emotional reaction to his ease in the debates, his self-deprecating humor and his apparent emotional health.
His colloquial persona might make it easy for world leaders to relax in his non-threatening presence. I believe people are more satisfied with their compromises when they have negotiated with a friend rather than with a technocrat.
Mitt has more business experience. Rudy managed a city almost three times the size of Mikes state of Arkansas. Fred is more circumspect in his sound bites. However, I find myself cheering anytime the underdogs polls go up.
Maybe I want to think we all have a chance to come out of obscurity and can handle the big league. Plus, I tend to like Huckabees maverick style. Is he a Republican or a Democrat?
He wants to spend more money (democrat) on a manned spacecraft to Mars, and he would propose Hillary be the first person sent to Mars (republican).
He wants to build a wall along the Mexican border (republican), but wants to give the children of illegal aliens a higher education (democrat).
While governor of Arkansas, he never saw a tax he couldnt lower (republican), while at the same time, he never saw another tax he couldnt raise (democrat).
Mike has a theology degree and is pro-life (republican), but half the Southern Baptists are mad at him for running his denomination in a liberal direction (democrat).
He wants to lure more recruits into the military to make it so fearsome no one would dare to challenge it (republican), but wants to fight the propaganda war by moving the prisoners of Guantanamo somewhere else and closing it down, and forbidding water boarding (democrat).
He brazenly calls attention to how he believes President George W. Bush has failed at global public opinion by claiming Bush Administration has an arrogant, bunker mentality (democrat), but says he has nothing but respect for Condi Rice who chided him for his over-the-top comment (republican).
His redemptive beliefs are rooted in his evangelical Baptist faith (republican), but those beliefs prompted him to pardon far too many criminals during his tenure as Arkansas governor (democrat).
He is a glib politician who was born in Hope and was governor of Arkansas (democratic Clinton rerun?), but took on the entrenched appointees from the Clinton regime and won (republican).
His maverick style of relying more on his own counsel over others advice makes him as unpopular to some as it does popular to others. Regardless, I am always intrigued by his witty responses to his critics.
Even though I suspected his handlers were fully aware the bookcase in the background of his Christmas TV commercial formed a cross, I chuckled at Huckabees denial. He joked that anyone who thought the bookcase contained a subliminal message should play the commercial backwards to hear Paul is dead Paul is dead, just as we all did on the Beatles White Album in the 1960s.
Huckabee seems to try to find solutions independent of the party line. He seems emotionally secure enough to search for the right thing to do instead of the popular thing.
Although I am not endorsing any candidate at this point (and Huckabee sure isnt done being vetted), I enjoy toying with Huckabees possible campaign slogan. Ive already alluded to it; the 1950s Kansan General Eisenhowers I like Ike slogan can be updated to todays I like Mike slogan.
That is dangerous. Its the same for voting based solely on skin color.
Kinda like George Bush.
WorldNet Daily:
Huckabee’s theology degree? Now says ain’t necessarily so
Campaign admits candidate doesn’t have claimed religious credential
Posted: December 14, 2007
7:20 p.m. Eastern
© 2007 WorldNetDaily.com
Former Gov. Mike Huckabee
Republican presidential candidate Mike Huckabee told the Christian Broadcasting Network he had a theology degree, he told voters in Iowa he had a theology degree, he repeated the claim in last month’s CNN YouTube debate ... but, his campaign now says, it was not true.
Huckabee’s claim began unraveling following his offhanded comment about Mormonism in a New York Times interview last weekend.
Reporter Zev Chafets wrote: “I asked Huckabee, who describes himself as the only Republican candidate with a degree in theology, if he considered Mormonism a cult or a religion. ‘I think it’s a religion,’ he said. ‘I really don’t know much about it.’
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In the interview, Huckabee’s account of his education made no mention of his having earned a theology degree.
Chafets wrote: “If young Mike Huckabee was ever rebellious or difficult, there’s no record of it. He preached his first sermon as a teenager, married his high-school sweetheart and went off to Ouachita Baptist University in Arkadelphia. There he majored in speech and communications, worked at a radio station and earned his B.A. in a little more than two years. He spent a year at Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary in Fort Worth, Tex., before dropping out to work for the televangelist James Robison, who bought him his first decent wardrobe and showed him how to use television.”
(Story continues ...)
http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=59222
That is two good reasons why he should be leader of the free world. He is a Minister and Chuck Norris endorses him.
/sarc/
I can't think of a single issue he is to the right of Bush on. Bush was solid on tax cuts, Huckabee is a tax and spender. Bush almost single-handedly pushed the stem cell research in a new direction, while Huckabee promoted one of the biggest embryonic stem cell companies. Bush has been tough on law order issues.
The only way anyone can say Huckabee is to the right of Bush (or just about any Republican) on any issue is to ignore completely his dismal record in Arkansas.
Huckabee, Romney, Guiliani, McCain are liberals as far as I’m concerned.
I don’t like Mike.
Not at all.
Evangelicals aren’t the only ones who can threaten to stay home.
Domestically there might something to that, other than Huck's willingness to cave to Arkansas democrats on tax increases. But as for foreign policy, he's pure Jimmy Carter.
It's worse than that. He want to the legislature and asked THEM to decide what taxes to raise and he would sign whatever they came up with.
And this guy thinks he's a leader?
He’ll be at least as good as Jimmah Carter.
Now there's a high bar to set.
He seems like a populist Southern Democrat of half a century ago.
Such weight loss is not impossible. A woman I know, 4’11’’ tall went from 315 to 160 in a year and a half when “Jesus told me to lose weight.” She has had no surgery. She changed her eating habits and got a treadmill which she righteously uses.
He’s a bum.
God bless her. She must feel much better.
FReeper Plutarch makes a VERY convincing case that Huckabee did have bariatric surgery and is lying about it.
The thread is
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/1937730/posts
The change in her looks and demeanor is astounding, especially as I did not see her for 7 months and then only recognized her because she had her mother’s face. That, itself, was a shock because her mother died almost twenty years ago.
At 4’11” she must have been extremely miserable weighing in at over 300 pounds. What a wonderful story.
Huckabee has surged because he won a couple of debates and hes got evangelical support. If a quick rise can happen to the liberal pro-life evangelical Huckster, it can happen to the conservative pro-life evangelical Hunter.
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According to Intrade, the winner of the December 12th GOP debate was... Duncan Hunter.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1938773/posts
Why the smart money is on Duncan Hunter
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1926032/posts
In this poll Hunter is up 3% and even with Paul and Thompson.
http://www.wxyz.com/news/local/story.aspx?content_id=3481ef60-8195-46a9-af04-b87b907bcfdd
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