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Rockin' Huckabee
Sunday November 11, 2007
On November 8, Rasmussen released new polling data that contrasted the Gov. head to head against both Hillary and Obama. It was a significant achievment by Huck as many so-called experts had claimed he would never break into the top tier of candidates.
Rasmussen had not previously tracked the Gov. on a consistant basis, but found that he was now polling ahead of both John McCain and Mitt Romney on a national basis. Consequently, Rasmussen is now doing a more regular polling of the Gov. against the Dem front runners.
Hillary has a three point advantage, 46% to 43%, that has slipped a bit from the eight point adavantage she held back in August.
Against Barack Obama, the Gov. fairs worse with an eleven point deficit, 49% to 38%.
According to Rasmussen, the Gov. is still unknown to 26% of the likely voters polled nationwide. I personally find this figure astonishing and wonder how these people can consider themselves informed enough to cast an intelligent vote if they don't even know who is running for president.
Bear in mind, this all comes with little or no support from mainstream conservative outlets. Premier sites such as Hot Air, Michelle Malkin, Free Republic and others routinely ignore or worse, propagate attacks against the Gov.
A roundtable discussion last week that included Fred Barnes and Bill Kristol of The Weekly Standard had both of those guys claiming that a vote for Huck was tantamount to throwing your vote away. Shades of Ralph Nader/third party bashing!
Quinn Hillyer, a respected conservative columnist, wrote a withering piece for the American Spectator that attacked the Gov's ethics, accused him of suborning bribery, and even attempted to make Huck's wife look unhinged. Unbelievable!
Hugh Hewitt of TownHall.com wrote in his blog that a vote for Huckabee was a vote for Rudy as Huck stood no chance of winning the nomination. An unabashed Mitt supporter, Hewitt played every scare card he had, correctly casting Rudy as an anti-Republican, and claiming that votes for Huck would pull needed votes away from the perfect candidate, Romney. Again, more third party scare tactics!
Michelle Malkin's two sites, Hot Air and her eponymous site routinely run every anti-Huckabee story they can find. And also link them in their prefered link area.
As I've said before, everyone in the media is pushing for a Rudy v Hillary race for president. Those of us who are more interested in putting the right person for the job in the White House have our work cut out for us. If you can donate to Huck's campaign, then great. If not, tell your friends about Huck, surf the web and offer support online where you can. Every little bit helps.
Putting a pro-abortion, pro-illegal immigration, anti-gun psuedo Republican in the White House just so we can say we won is wrong. We need the right person at the top. That person is Mike Huckabee. | | Posted by postaldog at 2:38 PM - | |
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First a couple of apologies -- that widget thingy on the Dick Morris post is supposed to be an interactive timeline from Huck's website. Like everything here on Blogstream, it doesn't work properly. I've been able to re-code some things, but I can't fix this. Sorry.
I've also not updated as frequently as I should, things are happening quickly now, and with my job very hectic, and the Gov. considered top tier, all this press is difficult to keep up with. I'll try and get caught up today, but some of the news will be a couple of days old. Again, sorry.
This first post is from WashingtonPost.com and is from an article by Perry Bacon Jr. and Michael D. Shear. The article is about how Huck is putting on the pressure in Iowa.
"Buoyed by polls that show him in second place among Republicans in this state, the former Arkansas governor has turned aggressive on the stump, picking fights last week with his competitors and promising to hit the airwaves with the $1 million he raised online last month, after raising just over $2 million in the first nine months of the year. He has moved almost his entire Little Rock operation to Des Moines and is preparing to hire more staff here soon."
"In response to the attacks, Huckabee flashes the toothy grin that helped him twice win the governorship of a state not all that different from Iowa. While admitting that he raised some taxes, Huckabee says he lowered 94 others and raised the gas tax for roads only after a public referendum showed strong support for the idea. He said Thompson's claims that he was 'one of the highest-taxing governors that we had in this country' are 'on their face just not true.'"
"And he defends an unsuccessful proposal in Arkansas to offer college scholarships to the children of illegal immigrants, saying it is unfair to punish children for things their parents did."
"At a pizza parlor in Waterloo, he said, "I didn't become pro-life after I got into politics," tweaking Romney's recent conversion on abortion rights."
"'There will be a total upheaval of the process' if he wins Iowa, he predicted. 'Momentum is unstoppable in an election process. If people suddenly say, "This guy's got the mo. He's going somewhere," no matter what the polls were the week before, all bets are off once these contests start.'"
""If you're rich, it's great," Huckabee said of the economy. But, he said, "there's a growing divide. . . . when you see the middle class shrinking, it's a terrible sign. People who have college degrees are not gaining ground economically.'"
"In interviews, he often cites his endorsement from action-movie hero Chuck Norris as a key moment in his campaign. 'I think people are afraid now not to support me,' Huckabee jokes. 'We're going to send him to their house, and he'll knock on their door.'"
Read the entire article here:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/11/10/AR2007111001593.html
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Wednesday November 7, 2007
Dick Morris has a little blurb at RealClearPolitics.com about how the Gov. could surprise folks at the Iowa Caucus.
"...Mitt Romney is in the lead at 27 percent, according to the latest American Research survey, with Huckabee nipping at his heels at 19 percent...So Huckabee is within striking distance."
"...Mike Huckabee [is] the only pure pro-life candidate, a social conservative who has never moved to the left."
"Yet, despite a total absence of advertising, he has risen steadily in Iowa from single digits to double digits to second place. Indeed, his lack of funding may be creating a reverse chic, attracting voters who are turned off by the massive hard sell of the other campaigns."
"Right now Iowa looks like a Romney rout. But Huckabee could surprise everybody before the votes are counted."
Read the entire article here:
http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2007/11/huckabee_can_win_in_iowa.html
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Monday November 5, 2007
On FOX News this morning, Fred? responded to comments by the Gov. that chastised the candidate for not supporting the Republican platform item of the marriage and life amendments while on Meet the Press Sunday.
Fred? claimed that the Gov. was only a conservative on this one particular issue spewing the usual blather about the Cato Institute grade and raising taxes, etc.
Problem is, Fred? is dead wrong here. The Gov. lowered taxes 94 times while in office. He pushed through the first broad-based tax cut in Arkansas history. His fiscal responsibility left the state with an $800 million budget surplus at the end of his tenure.
Huck has consistantly stood firm for every basic conservative tenet, unlike Fred? who has taken whatever side he was paid to endorse as a lawyer.
Naturally, the usual full of themselves blogs like Hot Air and others are claiming that Fred? chewed up the Gov. with that one minute, so-called spontaneous rebuttal.
If you support the Gov., start dropping by various blogs and make a supporting post. I've got one already at Say Anything and I'll keep looking for other places to drop in.
Don't let this opportunity pass. Go get some for the Gov! | | Posted by postaldog at 9:18 PM - | |
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Sunday November 4, 2007
Excellent piece in today's WashingtonPost.com by Charles Mahtesian on a possible trajectory through the primaries. He's basically saying what all we supporters are thinking, but it's nice to see it in print:
"Huckabee is for real -- a man poised to go further on the national stage than any other candidate produced by the Christian conservative movement."
"Huckabee doesn't have to win Iowa, though his standing in the polls suggests that it's not out of the question. All he has to do is place or show."
"...if Huckabee survives Iowa, chances are that one of the current top-tier candidates won't. If Romney is bloodied or bowed there, social conservatives will need another vehicle to block Giuliani, who supports abortion-rights. And Huckabee will again be campaigning in a state he doesn't need to win outright. He simply needs a solid showing in New Hampshire, one that establishes his viability going forward, when the campaign heads South."
"Huckabee's mere survival through Iowa and New Hampshire would suddenly become a huge political story. Coasting on media attention, Michigan's Jan. 15 GOP primary would become less important to Huckabee as the Republicans' attention turns to South Carolina's Jan. 19 primary: the preacher's chance to shine."
"In South Carolina, the nerve center of the Christian right, Huckabee will have broad appeal, and all without the off-putting Bible-thumping baggage that could hurt him in the state's coastal Low Country. This will be where Huckabee sticks the dagger into Fred Thompson (assuming the slow-moving former senator is still around) and establishes himself as the conservative's conservative."
"Naturally, the Huckabee scenario depends on his ability to attract Republicans who have never cast their lot with an evangelical. But these voters haven't met a candidate quite like Huckabee. From the beginning of his political career at age 36, when he left his successful ministry at Texarkana's Beech Street First Baptist Church to embark on a long-shot 1992 Senate run, he has worked the margins of faith and politics to craft his own brand of 'compassionate conservatism.'"
"Huckabee, the last 1990s-era Republican governor standing in the 2008 race. As his rise shows, religion never goes out of style in American politics. Huckabee's rivals may yet learn that the hard way."
Read the entire article here:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/11/02/AR2007110201646.html
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