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Huckabee: 'I Feel Like Seabiscuit'
CNS News ^ | January 4, 2008 | Susan Jones

Posted on 01/04/2008 11:56:22 AM PST by Cecily

Many Americans like to know that the underdog can win, Mike Huckabee said on Friday morning, fresh off his first-place showing in the Iowa Republican caucuses.

Huckabee joked about being the "Seabiscuit" candidate, a reference the thoroughbred race horse that defeated a Triple Crown champion in 1938 after a lackluster start to his career.

In an interview on "Fox & Friends" Friday, Huckabee said people are connecting to his campaign "because I'm talking about how to make America better." He said he won't change what he's doing because it's working.

The Limbaugh factor

Asked about Rush Limbaugh's comments that Huckabee is not a true Ronald Reagan conservative, Huckabee responded that he was an early supporter of Ronald Reagan when Reagan ranked last in the polls.

Limbaugh called Fox News Thursday night, saying Huckabee doesn't have "Reagan credentials" and that very few of the Republican candidates do.) Huckabee said he finds the criticism "ridiculous."

(Excerpt) Read more at cnsnews.com ...


TOPICS: News/Current Events; US: Iowa
KEYWORDS: huckabee; ia2008
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To: Bahbah

Was Seabiscuit a horse or a jackass? Inquiring minds want to know! :>)


21 posted on 01/04/2008 12:08:12 PM PST by PurpleMan
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To: Charles Martel

Is your screen name taken from the early medieval king, Charles Martel, who stopped the Muslim invasion into France in approximately 700 A.D.?


22 posted on 01/04/2008 12:08:31 PM PST by American Quilter (In order to become the master, the politician poses as the servant. - Charles De Gaulle)
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To: Cecily

Huckabiscuit


23 posted on 01/04/2008 12:08:38 PM PST by PetroniusMaximus
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To: Cecily
Huckabee: 'I Feel Like Seabiscuit'

Ridden hard by Toby McGuire?

24 posted on 01/04/2008 12:10:35 PM PST by Anitius Severinus Boethius
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To: Cecily

Lewis Carroll mocked the complexity of caucuses in Chapter 3, "A Caucus-Race and a Long Tale," of Alice in Wonderland. Here, after handing out prizes to others, Alice receives a thimble from a Dodo as her prize from the caucus race

25 posted on 01/04/2008 12:10:48 PM PST by TexasCajun
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To: Paladin2

The French love to eat horses.


26 posted on 01/04/2008 12:10:51 PM PST by gunservative
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To: Cecily

I think Thompson will be the Seabiscuit.


27 posted on 01/04/2008 12:11:29 PM PST by Vicki (Washington State where anyone can vote .... illegals, non-residents, dead people, dogs, felons)
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To: Cecily

28 posted on 01/04/2008 12:12:27 PM PST by Jeff Chandler (It takes a father to raise a child.)
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To: Paladin2

Beat me to it.


29 posted on 01/04/2008 12:12:59 PM PST by NavVet (If you don't defend conservatism in the Primary, you won't have it to defend in the Election)
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To: Cecily

30 posted on 01/04/2008 12:13:08 PM PST by Jeff Chandler (It takes a father to raise a child.)
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To: Jeff Chandler

The server is acting strangely.


31 posted on 01/04/2008 12:13:50 PM PST by Jeff Chandler (It takes a father to raise a child.)
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To: Cecily
He may feel like Seabiscuit but he is really Blue (the Mule).
32 posted on 01/04/2008 12:16:23 PM PST by vetvetdoug
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To: Cecily

Feeling a little hoarse? Yo Mike, why the long face?


33 posted on 01/04/2008 12:17:09 PM PST by wbill
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To: Cecily

I’m sure that Barbaro felt the same way.


34 posted on 01/04/2008 12:17:18 PM PST by kaboom
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To: Cecily

...and smells like an airbiscuit.


35 posted on 01/04/2008 12:20:05 PM PST by fieldmarshaldj (~~~Jihad Fever -- Catch It !~~~ (Backup tag: "Live Fred or Die"))
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To: Cecily; Borges
What's next? Giuliani saying he feels like "Cinderella Man."?

McCain saying he feels like "The Natural"?

Hmmm . . . I'm running out of feel-good Hollywood epics set in the Depression era.

36 posted on 01/04/2008 12:23:07 PM PST by wideawake (Why is it that so many self-proclaimed "Constitutionalists" know so little about the Constitution?)
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To: All
+"I believe in things like a strong national defense, less government, lower taxes. I believe in the integrity of small business, knowing that that's where 80 percent of our jobs come from...I'm also pro-life, I'm pro-Second Amendment; I believe in the 10th Amendment -- let there be more power in the states, less in the centralized federal government. Now, if that's not conservative, somebody needs to hand me a new book and show me what conservatism is about."

Huckabee said he "loves" Rush Limbaugh, but he doesn't understand what information Limbaugh is basing his criticism on. "I've been a big fan of his show for many years, and I hope to make it so someday he loves me as much as I love him." Limbaugh has said he's looking at Huckabee's record as Arkansas governor.

And there you your answers!... I like what I hear... it seems to me he is being VERY CLEAR

:)

37 posted on 01/04/2008 12:25:56 PM PST by ElPatriota (Duncan Hunter 08 -- I am proud to support this man for my president)
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To: American Quilter
Is your screen name taken from the early medieval king, Charles Martel, who stopped the Muslim invasion into France in approximately 700 A.D.?

Indeed it is.


38 posted on 01/04/2008 12:26:58 PM PST by Charles Martel (The Tree of Liberty thirsts.)
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To: All

Does anyone think Huckabee will be strong amongst socially conservative, but otherwise not so conservative Catholics? I’m not describing all Catholics, but many in my area of Northern New Mexico fit this description. We had a conservative preacher win against a popular, liberal Hispanic candidate who decided to champion women’s rights and abortion. Old Hispanics turned out in big numbers to elect a white, protestant conservative. If Huckabee has the same effect on Catholics here, he will win New Mexico in a walk. Any thoughts? Has anyone considered this?


39 posted on 01/04/2008 12:28:39 PM PST by pallis
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To: Vicki

Fred wanted to dance to his own tune; he danced yesterday to the melody of 13%.


40 posted on 01/04/2008 12:29:11 PM PST by bulldozer
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