Comments on: Populist Message, Evangelical Appeal Help Mike Huckabee Win First Contest for GOP Nomination

By: David

David — Sat, 05 Jan 2008 00:39:03 +0000

I think Mike Huckabee said it best when he instructed Iowians that a vote for him would show the other canidates that its about message not money. His message and his consistent record as a legitimate yet compasionate conservative is exactly what this country needs.

By: Ike

Ike — Sat, 05 Jan 2008 00:08:13 +0000

If anyone has seen any of my posts, I am obviously not a Huckabee supporter. I have seen a lot of pro-Huckabee posts that tell all to find out the truth at mikehuckabee.com. This made me laugh since no candidate is going to point out there own faults. I have gone to the site to see what Huckabee says about the negative things said about him. Obviously it is the exact opposite of what other people are saying about him. So hey, why not do my own research. Good idea, right? Well not so good if you are a Huckabee supporter. One of my main concerns about Huckabee is his battle with the Ethics board. His site, under the link “Truth Squad: Ethics” says, “The overwhelming majority of ethics complaints filed against Governor Huckabee in the state of Arkansas were regularly dismissed and / or proven to be frivolous.” I checked to see if this was true. A majority of them have been thrown out, but not ALL. I find it disturbing that the EVANGELICAL RIGHT voted for a man who had, by his own admission, ethics issues. He never said all of them were thrown out. I wanted to know what wasn’t thrown out. I wanted to know in what areas he had ethics issues. I would suggest that all others do the same. He also tried to get a statute of limitations on ethics issues? Why would he do this. If he had so many issues with ethics why is anyone voting for him? That is a legitimate question. I would like an answer. I assume the answer will be that he will get rid of the IRS. I have done my research there too. It won’t happen. It isn’t possible. Even if the Fair Tax was possible, which i doubt it is, the IRS must still exist to collect that tax. SO why, why is the RIGHT voting for a man that doesn’t have a fiscal conservative record? Why is the right voting for a man that has ethics issues? Can some one answer this?

By: Del

Del — Fri, 04 Jan 2008 23:40:58 +0000

It is interesting that Huckabee is now advocating abolishing the IRS. Where do you think
he got that idea? Perhaps a revelation! I don’t recall Hackabee every promoting
eliminating the Internal Revenue Service before 1/3/08. If he did, show me where I can see
it for myself. Could it be that he knows Ron Paul has advocated for years that collection
of income taxes by the IRS is not constitutional and that this is what the people know to
be true. He thinks he can use this ploy to fool people and get the nomimation. Huckabee,
how long have you talked about doing away with the IRS? I think this is political fraud.

By: Rick

Rick — Fri, 04 Jan 2008 20:30:02 +0000

Right on, Huck!
Maybe when people realize when God is in the picture, money means nothing. We need some morals brought back into this country. Huck’s issues are also great (fair tax, etc.) We need someone who is “really” for the middle class citizens. Huck is real, all the rest of the republicans are, in my view, democrats using the republican ticket.

By: Ed

Ed — Fri, 04 Jan 2008 15:55:27 +0000

The Democrats and their protege John McCain (who by the way merely poses as a Republican but is really more of a Democrat, just look at McCains voting record if you donot beleive me, especially on the illegal immigration issue) should be in seventh heaven today and breathing a sigh of releif knowing the people in Iowa just blew it and voted for a GOP candidate Mike Huckabee, who by the way will be totally ripped to shreds by the DEMs in Nov and whos chances of winning in Nov really are very slim. Now donot get me wrong as I do like Mike Huckabee but feel his convictions to his faith will not allow him to make the really tough decisions that will be needed to me made on such issues as illegal immigration and other issues of this nature. His record already proves this. The Republicans across this country better wake up and really need to quit allowing religion to outweigh other very important factors when making voting decisions, or, this country will be further in the gutter than where it is now. Romney is the only GOP candidate that I see right now (that at least stands a chance of winning in Nov against the DEMs) that I trust enough to make the tough decisions that need to be made in order for this country to really get back on track. So please Conservative Republicans, before making anymore very serious voting decisions on any GOP candidate, please research their voting records, they donot lie. Thanks for your time!!!

By: R.Hadley

R.Hadley — Fri, 04 Jan 2008 09:58:12 +0000

If issues matter. then why would you want Romney? He’s a flip-flopping plastic candidate who is nothing but a democrat in republican clothing. Huckabee is the only hope this nation has!

By: Joel in VA

Joel in VA — Fri, 04 Jan 2008 07:55:49 +0000

Wake up and smell the coffee America!!

The people are revolting. We are tired of the candidates that the upper echelon want us to vote for. A change is coming and if the Republican’s can’t get on the bandwagon they be left behind.

I’m a proud veteran, teacher, writer, Christian Republican. My wife was a Venture Capitalist and now is in M&A and my dad is a retired preacher and chaplain to inmates. This makes me about as conservative as it gets.

However, the America I’ve come back to has changed. Gone is cheap gas. Gone is reasonable health cost (if you had insurance). Gone is reasonable prices of food and other everyday necessities. Everything (but clothing) has skyrocketed and the middle class is paying the toll.

We will not take is sitting down. We will not watch as the wealthy tell us stupid comments that everything is all right, the economy is great. We will not sit down and watch the richest citizens’ wealth explode while we have to tighten our belts.

If the Republicans don’t get on board, a Democrat will take office and run the economy into the ground. We need someone who will not raise taxes but find ways to use the already stupidly huge budget to FIX these issues. We need the government to fight for the middle class. Wealth is power and power corrupts. Sorry but non intervention will not stop the wealthy from finding ways to make themselves richer on the backs of the working man. Cutting taxes some more will not solve a man’s problem if his job is lost to overseas competition. Republicans had better learn to sell themselves to the middle class or all is lost.

By: Concerned

Concerned — Fri, 04 Jan 2008 07:24:35 +0000

I am concerned by the callous, non chalant disregard that most evangelicals have regarding the way Mormons are feeling persecuted. I am neither Mormon nor evangelical, but it seems to me that evangelicals could do more to alleviate this growing feeling. You don’t have to agree on everything, but perhaps evangelicals could do a better job of accepting and reassuring Mormons that they do not loath them.

No one should feel that way and I would expect “God’s people” to be kinder, gentler, less suspicious and overall more tolerant. Both sides need to come together on this or before we know it this will be Palistine and Israel.

By: Mitt 08

Mitt 08 — Fri, 04 Jan 2008 07:14:52 +0000

Frankly, Everyone should quit complaining about Romney spending money, Iowans most of all. They should all be praising him for personally pumping millions into the local economy. Instead they praise Huckabee who didn’t spend a dime there. They should give Romney his ad money back if they dislike it so much. If an organization came into my city and spent like that the mayor would give them a key to the city! Talk about crazy.

By: Evangelical4Mitt!

Evangelical4Mitt! — Fri, 04 Jan 2008 06:27:40 +0000

As an evangelical, I can tell you I am disgusted by Mike Huckabee’s dirty tactics to pull over my people to his side. By using fear and political tricks, boosted by the media, he was able to con a whole voting bloc. Sorry Mike, but issues matter, not folksy charm, not witty jokes, not unabashed fairy tales of how you’ll get rid of the IRS. And on the issues, you fail, tuition for illegals, women submitting to their husbands, tax hikes, entitlements for the “defenseless” poor, support of amnesty, quarantine of AIDs patients, etc, etc. Thompson, Hunter or Romney, but we CANNOT have Huckabee.

By: Edwardian

Edwardian — Fri, 04 Jan 2008 06:25:37 +0000

BE ASHAMED, BE VERY ASHAMED IOWANS! Iowa’s caucus-goers and Republicans there in particular have just made their sordid little state politically irrelevant from this day forward, with respect to all future presidential election cycles. By means of merely playing on your ignorance, lack of education and knowledge base, credulity, prejudices, backwardness, and sectarianism, which are become demonstrative by your actions this evening, the biased, complicit media and their Democrat friends have been handed that which they have worked hard to con you to do, together with a known sleazy, unctuous, nobody from Arkansas and his backwoods antics. Actually, you weren’t thought of much political interest prior to that equally unsuccessful and similarly vacuous governor from another exceedingly third-rate state, Jimmy the Carter. But now, you return to the again darkened closet of politics from where you unfortunately emerged because of your idiotic, lemming-like support for the Hick-he-be, an unintelligent laughingstock, which has no chance of winning any subsequent primary, let alone a national election. All of you, each and every one, should be ashamed and embarrassed for having cast a vote for the Hick-he-be, who is a total fraud and dangerously inexperienced, mendacious and incompetent! You have come very close to condemning thoughtful Republicans and educated, secular Conservatives, who will never commit intellectual suicide and vote for the clownish Hick-he-be, (or “even”) to suffer a Democrat in the White House, come 2008, entirely due to your identification with a cretinous buffoon, although apparently one very much like yourselves: bigoted, simpleminded fundamentalists of the first order, excessively well-versed in and proud of their utter immutable ignorance. And what point have you made to this nation as an already affirmed but peculiar sect other than you are now also a proven bunch of incredible fools? There is, however, some hope that New Hampshire, a true primary state and bellwether that is instead possessed of far better educated and informed true Republican voters with functional brains, can yet repair the serious damage you have done and will select Romney, from where he can go on to win other primaries, and eventually win the Republican nomination.

By: ILikeMike

ILikeMike — Fri, 04 Jan 2008 06:19:06 +0000

Mike was a Governor for more than twice the amount of time that Romney was a Governor. How interesting is it then that the above article mentioned his past as a Minister, but left off the 10 years in his last job as a Governor. The article does mention that Romney was a Governor.

Fair and Ballanced? I think not.

Huckabee beat Romney by at least 9% of the vote and was outspent by closer to 20 to 1 than the 15 to 1 as mentioned in this clearly slanted article.

Come on Carl Cameron and Fox news.. get with it.

By: CARLOS IGNACIO

CARLOS IGNACIO — Fri, 04 Jan 2008 05:46:02 +0000

FOR ME WHAT I LOOK FOR A REPUBLICAN PRESIDENTIAL ARE CHARACTER, COMPASSIONATE,CONSISTENT, AND CONSERVATIVE. MIKE HUCKABEE SCORE HIGH IN MY BOOK.

By: ashley

ashley — Fri, 04 Jan 2008 05:31:11 +0000

“In a poll conducted for The Associated Press of voters entering Iowa’s caucuses, values and authenticity outranked electability in importance to Huckabee voters. 6 in 10 of Huckabee’s voters said the most important quality in picking a candidate was someone who shared their values. A third of his supporters said he says what he believes, while fewer than 1 in 20 said they thought he had the best chance of wining in November.

Faith was a determining factor for many Republican caucus participants.

More than 8 in 10 Huckabee supporters said they are born again or evangelical Christians, compared to less than half of Romney’s. Nearly two-thirds of Huckabee backers also said it was very important that their candidate share their religious beliefs, compared to about one in five of Romney’s.”
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The data shows that Huckabee won purely on religion, which is a sad day for America. Considering that factor…… it is AMAZING Huckabee only beat Romney by 9 points. Romney finished a solid second and that “aint” bad under those circumstances. I just really had put more faith in Iowa to pick the candidate of substance instead of the candidate with bible verse. Iowa has done a disservice to the GOP and shown why one state should not have SO MUCH ATTENTION.

Iowa will not get me down….I just have to keep believing the rest of America will not base their vote on religion. Otherwise, God help us all. We will have a nominee that can tell us what Moses said but can not react to a foreign attack, a stock market crash, recession, illegal immigration or any other American problem that doesn’t involve holy water.

However, I will say again I have voted Republican all my life. My 18 aunts and uncles, my parents, and their 72 children 15 voting age grandchildren have always voted Republican BUT none of us will vote for Huckabee or McCain. We will vote Democrat if either is the GOP candidate. I imagine that there are many other families that feel the same.
I wonder how those Iowa Evangelicals are going to like four years of Obama?

By: Robert

Robert — Fri, 04 Jan 2008 05:26:25 +0000

The fact that Huckabee chose not to retaliate with a negative campaign shows his better moral character.

By: t-Bird

t-Bird — Fri, 04 Jan 2008 04:51:15 +0000

“By December, he had surged ahead of Romney, whose Mormon faith made many evangelicals uncomfortable.”

Uncomfortable? It made them crazy! Pursecution of the Mormons is alive and well.

By: Parker

Parker — Fri, 04 Jan 2008 04:50:52 +0000

A Vote for Huckabee is a vote for Obama/Clinton. Huckabee cannot win the Presidency. You Evangelicals keep voting for him but please no crying when Hilary is in the Oval Office. He even allienates his fellow Republicans (Mormons). Maybe one day they’ll wisen up and join the Dems. Then again … Iowa GOP … you voted Democrat tonight. Congrats.