There is a lot of hyperbole around here about all the candidates.
I may look into Huckabee a little more, just so I can verify any complaints I have about his record — up till now, I’ve been pretty quiet about him so I didn’t need to know much.
But every day there are things he says that turn me off, and scare me about his ability to run a campaign much less be the President of the United States.
Like when he said we should change the constitution to be more like the Bible. Of course he didn’t mean it, he just meant amend it to put in the HLA, but any person with a brain would know NOT to say it that way.
Or his “living, breathing document” comment about the constitution. Again, he didn’t mean it, but anybody who had tried to understand the strict constructionist movement would have know not to use that liberal phrase.
Then there’s the politics of division. Like when he brought up the Confederate flag in South Carolina. NOBODY is talking about that, it was an issue in 2000, and South Carolina resolved the issue for themselves. But he drug it out again, just to try to ding McCain on it, driving a wedge again into the electorate. The worst part — it’s a STATE matter, and he actually said so, while making it part of the national election. He is very slick.
Then there is how he often uses feelings instead of logic in his arguments. He says we can’t deport illegals if they are kids, but doesn’t give a LOGICAL reason for it, instead he says if I want to deport them I’m being unchristian. Or says we can’t be “mean”. That’s not an argument.
Then there is the cross advertisement, and worse his campaigns “we aren’t that smart”. Or his “here’s the Ad I’m not running”, when the ad itself did NOT do what he claimed it did to begin with.
It all begins to add up and becomes a big wall that you just can’t ignore, doesn’t it?
You do realize Huckabee thought abortion should go to the states and only changed when he decided to run for President?
But every day there are things he says that turn me off, and scare me about his ability to run a campaign much less be the President of the United States....
Yeah, as I just noted to another poster, even if I were to decide Huckabee is my guy, I'm not convinced he is ready for prime time, either as a national candidate or as President ... for some of the very reasons you mention.