Huckabee who?

Obviously, by Sam's comment, he is fresh in from living under a rock.

"MAY" become a factor? Huckabee has just cancelled out somebody in the "top tier" AND Brownback to boot. (It's only in larval stage though.)
I suspect the Romney campaign has just become a grand illusion. Money plus nothing.
The "traditional values" voters have only open-borders advocates though. That's what makes this race already very interesting.
And that's Huckabee's big flaw: I don't know if he's a Purdue man or a Tyson man, but couching undefended border policy within the Bible is laughable. See Esau, replace lentils with chicken wings or baby back ribs, that's the inference.
Other chinks: 1 Willie Horton incident, and 1 supposedly animal-abusing PK son.
So it will be FreddyMcRomback and Huckabee vieing for the Bush III MexiGWOT place, Tancredo and Hunter vieing for the patrioticGWOT place, and Ron Paul with a 24-pack of whup-ass ready to go!

ThinkAware, nice blog but rationalizing Paul's flash poll wins is pretty weak. Add up the non-Paul votes. The total is greater than Paul's. Get it?

And calling Paul "looney" while citing Ron "prayer cloth" Parsley as a positive influence?
Priesthood of the believer, not the TV star. Relics schmelics.

The momentum has certainly shifted. People I talk to are interested in Thompson but are already leaning heavily towards Huckabee. Thompson let the opportunity slip by. He could make up for it by accepting Huckabee's request for a debate, but I'd be surprised to see anyone best Huckabee in that format.

Rudy Giuliani just lost a lot of support by declaring that criminal aliens are not criminals. Why do we call someone who shoplifts a dollar item a criminal, and a Mexican criminal alien that steals $20-40 K per year from the American taxpayers are not criminals. Rudy has proven to be a typical brain dead New Yorker.

A kick-ass deconstruction of the Paul-Huckabee debate centerpiece. Read through then revisit the hyperlinks. Raimondo always has great links!

http://www.antiwar.com/justin/?articleid=11570

Huckabee is very good in the debate format. He's smooth, unflappable, humorous and well spoken.

If he pulls anyone away right now, it will be from Brownback, whose supporters have to be seeing the futility of his candidacy. Huck can fill the void for the Brownback family/values/anti-abortion voters.

Don't even know why Brownback is still in the race. If it was throw one guy off the debate stage, I'd vote Sam off, even before Paul.

Despite Huck's good performances, I ain't buying him. I thought before he got in the race I thought he had nanny state tendencies and I haven't been convinced otherwise.

In one of the first debates he was challenged on tax increases while he was Governor and he boasted about turning a deficit into a billion dollar surplus. That means Arkansas over taxed it's residents. Did he propose a tax cut before he left office?

A couple of weeks ago he came out, right after Hillary, saying he thought a national smoking ban was a good idea!

And now he supports the DC Voting Rights Act.

Huckabee: Nanny stater and populist. No thanks.

Add: I would like to see Huckabee run for the Senate. Either in 2008 vs. Pryor, or in 2010 vs. Blanche Lincoln.

As one Senator he could be contained and it would still be an improvement over the two now from Arkansas.

bD, Ron Paul and Justin Raimando are just as deluded as all the rest of you poor Lose the Warriors. The War in Iraq has been over for a week. Couldn't you at least make an effort to get the news out, so the Democrats can quit making fools of themselves?

Hey, the globe is cooling, too.
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