The Club Interviews Mike Huckabee The exclusive video can be seen on our new VP Watch blog. Posted at Andrew Roth at 4:43 PM | TrackBack... lire la suite
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As I wrote yesterday, it seems to me that Governor Mike Huckabee could very well win Iowa. In fact, I’m getting the feeling he will win. A new Iowa poll now shows that the former Governor of Arkansas continues his surge: he’s now leading in the polls. Of the (likely) Republican primary voters in this state, 29% say they plan to vote for Huckabee, against 24% who say they’ll vote for Mitt Romney. And not only that, Huckabee is doing increasingly better in other states as well. He’s currently in second position in Florida according to some polls. He did well during the last YouTube CNN debate in Florida, so I think that he’ll only do better there. Now, look at states like South Carolina, New Hampshire, etc. and you can’t help but notice that Huckabee is becoming a true contender. Huckabee is going to be the surprise these elections, as may Obama. That's right, I have moved Huckabee into second place, ahead of Giuliani. And no, the seeming absurdity of having the two candidates who are currently 4th and 5th in national polls as the top two contenders for the Republican nomination is not lost on me. The way I see it, now that Huckabee is also rising in both New Hampshire and South Carolina, two states where Giuliani is slipping, I think Huckabee will finish ahead of Giuliani in both New Hampshire and South Carolina even if Huckabee doesn't win Iowa. It is starting to look like Romney vs. Huckabee for the Republican nomination. In fact, in another week or two, if his across the board rise continues, I might be projecting Huckabee as the frontrunner. Should he win Iowa, it does not strike me as difficult to believe that he could make up even a 15-20 point deficit in New Hampshire, and then go on to win the nomination easily. There is a ton of potential movement left on the Republican side, and relative unknowns who do well in early states will secure it. The Club for Growth, a politically influential antitax group, has dubbed Mr. Huckabee Tax Hike Mike and poured money into anti-Huckabee advertisements that were broadcast in early nominating states, with more on the way. Mr. Huckabee “spends money like a drunken sailor,” according to the group's news releases, and it has sprinkled YouTube and the airways with videos that mock him and his policies. But the record offers a more complex and nuanced picture. While taxes did rise in the 10 years that Mr. Huckabee was governor, the portrayal of him as a wild-eyed spendthrift is hardly apt. For the most part, Mr. Huckabee's tax initiatives had wide bipartisan support, with the small number of Republicans in the overwhelmingly Democratic state legislature voting for the tax increases and many maintaining that the state was better for them. In addition, when Mr. Huckabee left office last January, he had turned a $200 million budget shortfall into an $844 million surplus. Still, as the attacks on his fiscal policies have stepped up, the Huckabee campaign has also cited examples of some 90 taxes that went down under his tenure.
In June 1998, the Southern Baptist convention amended its official statement of beliefs for the first time in 35 years to declare that “a wife is to submit graciously to the servant leadership of her husband.” And Huckabee, a former Southern Baptist minister then serving as governor of Arkansas, signed a full-page ad in USA Today in support of the statement (along with 129 other evangelical leaders). Technorati Tags: Governor Mike Huckabee, Graciously Submit, Baptist Humor, Religion Satire, Religious Humor, Feminist Satire Home Blog (Political Satire) Blog (General Humor) Blogroll (Political) Latest Humor Car Humor Career Humor Computer Humor Fashion & Shopping Feminist Humor Food & Drink Humor Health Humor Holiday Humor Law Humor Marriage & Family Humor Media Humor Money Humor Music Humor New York Humor Pets & Animals Poetry Political Humor Quizzes & Games Schooling Humor Travel Humor Misc. Humor Raising Kane Humor Books Forum Interviews Liberal Links Links Offbeat News About Me Awards Email MadKane@MadKane.com Newsletter This entry was posted on Saturday, December 15th, 2007 at 5:37 pm and is filed under Politics Satire, Republicans Humor, White House, GOP Humor, Election Satire, Campaign Humor, Social Satire, Feminism Humor, Mike Huckabee, Religious Satire. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.
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Perhaps because I’m a discerning Texan, I agree with the Discerning Texan’s view of Mike Huckabee: The hits just keep on coming from that “man of the cloth”, Mike Huckabee... Funny, though, I always thought that the idea was for preachers to move the people to give money to Churches, not to hit the Churches up for big bucks, just for the “privilege” of having a preacher-turned-politician solicit votes, brandishing his all-too-convenient theology and little else of any value. What a weird turn of events this Huckabee phenomenon has been; let us hope it dies a quick death, a la the Howard Dean “swoon” of 2004.” I have the feeling Huckabee is nearing his Dean Scream moment.
Heh! I couldn't resisit commenting on this. One of the few issues that I thought Mike Huckabee was clear on turns out to be a flip from his position in the past. A comment he made in a meeting with Monitor editors in August 2006 has also drawn scrutiny. As Huckabee has risen from an asterisk to leading the polls in Iowa, the news media - and his opponents - have seized on his suggestion then that he supported state-level civil unions. “I would tend to leave (the question of civil unions) to the state, as long as they wanted to not call it a marriage,” Huckabee said in 2006. “Now if they’d call it a marriage, then I’d have a problem with it.” “I’ve never supported civil unions, and I don’t,” Huckabee said. “I don’t know, honestly, how I said what I said (in 2006) other than, ‘Hey, that’s something New Hampshire has to deal with.’ ” Huckabee said civil unions are a “precursor to same-sex marriage.” In some ways, he said, they’re the same because to dissolve one, a couple would essentially divorce. Huckabee added he’s not familiar with the specifics of New Hampshire’s law, because he’s never “been interested in a civil union myself.” But wait! That isn't the whole story. The funny part is what an ACLU spokesperson had to say about it all. Regardless of which position Mike really believes out of the above, its safe to say he is against special rights for the gay community. This is one issue we don't question him on. However, it is funny how this ACLU representative views "nasty". As Rita Sklar of the ACLU says, “He is hardly ever outright nasty. But he is suggestively nasty.” Either way you cut it, though, Mike Huckabee’s a nasty boy.