Posted on 05/07/2015 10:41:08 AM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
OSKALOOSA, Iowa (CNN) - If Mike Huckabee hopes to be anointed victor of the Iowa caucuses once again, he better prepare to retread a lot of familiar ground.
"Luck is good. Voters are better," Huckabee quipped as Nathan Johnson wished luck upon the newly official presidential candidate as he stopped by a local coffee shop Wednesday.
Huckabee had Johnson's vote when he won the 2008 Iowa caucuses. This time around, the 33-year-old from Oskaloosa is eyeing a top tier: Huckabee, Texas Sen. Ted Cruz and Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal. He's biding his time to see how the candidates perform as the race carries on.
"I think a lot of times they make mistakes down the road," Johnson said. "It's a long way to the caucuses."(continued)
(Excerpt) Read more at kspr.com ...
Huckabee looks at his flock and all he sees is fleece...
I know he’s solid Christian, and that’s great. But I look at him and see an outmoded, outdated man whose time came and went.
And I’m 46. 47 in 6 days :( Imagine what the younger folk will think.
Good one. Huck is the only reason I hope Santorum gets back in the race just to KO him. Santorum is a decent fellow with absolutely no chance of being president, but he appeals to the same group of social conservatives without the Jim & Tammy Baker stench on him.
Mike and Rick are there to split the conservative vote. It has been shown that they can’t win, but they can help the GOPe candidate.
hopefully not
gold fleece
Huck, get the flock out of here.
I've been exposing the false reporting so far. Why don't you read Huckabee's true words at those links? It reveals the truth about the elite-media's anti-Christian attacks on Huckabee.
Let Huckabee supporters talk on FR. It's good to have all views here.
Your alienation of Huckabee voters is not going to get Cruz elected. Bush-43 needed every one of those votes.
>> Huckabee looks at his flock and all he sees is fleece...
...and cute sheep heinies.
(well, he *is* from Arkansas.)
Why are to attaching Gov. Huckabee to them? Was there a connection?
>> Let Huckabee supporters talk on FR. It’s good to have all views here.
What’s stopping them?
I sure hope not.
He won’t win back his Iowa flock if we can get this list into the hands of some Conservative activists in Iowa and they spread it state-wide. Maybe we need to try to get it into the hands of the Ted Cruz Campaign. It was posted by a FReeper on another thread earlier. Here it is:
TEN THINGS YOU NEED TO KNOW ABOUT MIKE HUCKABEE:
1. Soft-on-crime Governor who went on a pardon/commutation spree
2. Pro-instate-tuition for illegal aliens and other giveaways – poor record on immigration
3. Fiscal liberal Tax-and-spender as Governor
4. Dissembled about his record when challenged (pardons, taxes, ethics)
5. Not a conservative, hurt conservatives in Arkansas
6. Ethics issues, taking public money for private use
7. Flipflopper, on immigration, Cuba and other issues
8. An incompetent Jimmy Carteresque boob on foreign policy
9. Is a nanny-stater supporter of smoking bans and enviro-wacko CO2 caps
10. Fired the prosecutor who filed animal cruelty charges against his son David
The good folks of Iowa need to be informed that the Mike Huckabee of 2016 is NOT the same Mike Huckabee of 2008. He has been corrupted big time.
Not really. Both Mike and Rick are about themselves. They love being in power. Both are out of office and yearn for the days gone by when they received lot of attention.
Please see my Post #14 and tell me how many of those points you can refute.
1) How is this article “anti-Huckabee?” (2) When did you buy Free Republic and how much did you pay for it? (3) Telling the truth about Mike Huckabee hardly qualifies as false reporting and (4) Your bringing up Dubya is quite revealing.
We should not use those false elite-media reports to do the work for them.
Did you ever hear of the “fellow travelers” of communism? What's the difference?
Most of the leading Republicans running for president show some support for Bush’s ideology, but no other candidate so completely embodies it.
As governor of Arkansas, Huckabee dramatically increased state spending. During his two-term tenure, spending increased by more than 65 percent — at three times the rate of inflation.
The number of government workers increased by 20 percent, and the state’s debt services increased by nearly $1 billion. Huckabee financed his spending binge with higher taxes. Under his leadership, the average Arkansan’s tax burden increased 47 percent, according to the Arkansas Democrat-Gazette, including increases in the state’s gas, sales, income, and cigarette taxes. He raised taxes on everything from groceries to nursing home beds.
Huckabee answers these complaints by pointing out that he “cut taxes 94 times” while governor. True. But most of those tax cuts were tiny, like exempting residential lawn care from the sales tax. Some cuts reduced overall state revenues by as little as $15,000. On net, Huckabee increased state taxes by more than $500 million. In fact, Huckabee increased taxes in the state by more than Bill Clinton did.
“He truly appears to believe that if something is a good idea it should be a federal government program.”
On its annual governor’s report card, Cato gave Huckabee an “F” for fiscal policy during his final term, and an overall two-term grade of “D.” Only four governors had worse scores, and 15 Democratic governors got higher grades, including well-known liberals like Ted Kulongoski of Oregon, Rod Blagojevich of Illinois, and Ed Rendell of Pennsylvania.
But Huckabee doesn’t just embrace big government in the form of big taxes. He truly appears to believe that if something is a good idea it should be a federal government program.
For example, having become health conscious while losing more than 120 pounds (a remarkable feat), he now calls for a national smoking ban. Because he believes that “art and music are as important as math and science” in public schools, he wants these programs funded — and thus, directed and administered — federally.
Huckabee is, incidentally, the only Republican candidate for president who opposes school choice.
Huckabee has called for increased federal spending on a variety of programs from infrastructure to health care. He wants more energy subsidies, including, naturally, more subsidies for ethanol. In fact, he supports increased agricultural subsidies generally. He is the only Republican candidate who opposes President Bush’s veto of the Democrats’ proposed expansion of the State Children’s Health Insurance Program, and he is skeptical of most conservative proposals for entitlement reform.
Calling himself “a different kind of Republican,” Huckabee often appears to be channeling John Edwards or Lou Dobbs. He rails against high corporate profits and attacks free trade agreements. As governor, he raised the minimum wage and increased business regulation. He says it is “a biblical duty” to pass more regulation to fight global warming.
Perhaps Huckabee’s only claim on conservative credentials is that as a former Baptist minister, he is more anti-abortion and anti-gay than the other candidates. In many ways, he has been running an overtly religion-based campaign. But even here, his preference is to increase and centralize federal government power. Unlike Fred Thompson, John McCain, or Ron Paul, Huckabee rejects federalist solutions to these issues and would have the federal government overrule state abortion and marriage laws.
Under the Bush administration, the Republican Party has increasingly drifted away from its limited government roots. It has come to be dominated by a new breed of conservatives who believe in increasing the size, cost and power of government to achieve “conservative ends,” even if that means limiting personal freedom in the process. Bush has brought us No Child Left Behind, the Medicare prescription drug benefit, and a 23-percent increase in domestic discretionary spending, and Huckabee’s been right there with him.
On election night in 2006, 55 percent of voters leaving the polls said they believed the Republican Party had become the party of big government. Mike Huckabee is doing his best to convert the other 45.
I’m sorry and I don’t mean to be rude, but I can’t make sense out of your comment.
Are you perhaps saying that posting media attacks on Huckabee is silencing Huckabee supporters on FR?
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