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It hasn't been apparent to me why Mike Huckabee favored the release from prison of Wayne Dumond, a patently dangerous rapist who, once released, committed murder. By contrast, it's easy to see why Mike Huckabee wanted to help Eugene Fields after he was convicted in 2003 for driving while intoxicated for the fourth time in less than five years. Fields, after all, was a wealthy developer and major donor to the Arkansas Republican Party. Moreover, according to the New York Times, Fields had Richard Bearden, a former executive director of the state's Republican Party with close ties to the Huckabee administration, backing his bid for clemency. Huckabee obliged in early 2004, when he announced his intention to grant clemency to Fields. The announcement meant that the public had the right to comment. Naturally, MADD (Mothers Against Drunk Driving) urged Huckabee not to give Fields, a serial offender, yet another chance. Teresa Belew, MADD's local executive director, made he...

55 February 1967 Article George Romney: Holy and hopeful William Vincent Shannon PDF IMAGES See also: Career as governor of Michigan ; Career As Presidential Hopeful ; Romney, George W. ; 1963-1969 ; N1968 ; The Republican Party . . . than in any comparable period in Michigan's history," Romney asserts. When the Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King marched in Detroit three years ago, Romney marched with him. He is proud that he helped . . . George Romney : Holy and hopeful by William Vincent Shannon 55 William v . . .

http://www.harpers.org/media/pages/1967/02/pdf/HarpersMagazine-1967-02-0 ... "When the Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King marched in Detroit three years ago, Romney marched with him. He is proud that he helped write a state constitution that has the most comprehensive civil-rights guarantees in the nation, including open occupancy in housing." This was written in 1967 . . . this is hardly something that Mitt ROmney made up.  Chris Matthews owes Romney an apology big time.

A very favorable Op-Ed piece at NewsBlaze compared Romney to Reagan.  Don't let the title of the piece worry you; John Lillpop has nothing but good things to say about Romney: "Fact of the matter is that Mitt Romney is the most conservative candidate running for the White House. He is also the most experienced and qualified, a fact attested to by his service as the governor of liberal-infested Massachusetts, and by his enormously successful personal finances." "No other candidate comes close to matching his qualifications for taking over the Oval Office' "Best of all, Romney is intelligent, articulate, and an eternal optimist. He is a contemporary clone of Ronald Reagan, but in sacred underwear." Here's the link: http://newsblaze.com/story/20071223154749lill.nb/newsblaze/OPINIONS/Opinions.html .  

What happened to that cartoon guy...   Can we make a political cartoon similar to this one, with Huckabee, the populist swallowing the republican party?   Bryan as Populist swallowing the Democratic party ; 1896 cartoon from the Republican magazine Judge .

A Closer Look At The Long History Behind Politics and Religion In America Dec. 23, 2007   (CBS)  "In God We Trust" is right there on all our coins and currency. To find the phrase "Wall of Separation," however, you must go not to the Constitution or the Bill of Rights, but to a letter President Thomas Jefferson wrote to Connecticut Baptists in 1802. His words have guided us ever since, but what, in practical terms, do they mean? Our Cover Story is reported now by Martha Teichner : Eleven days and counting before their state nominating caucuses, it's understandable that some Iowa Republicans may be having trouble separating politics and religion. The battle between Mitt Romney , the Mormon, and Mike Huckabee , the Baptist preacher, has defined the race.   But even the possibility that a candidate's brand of faith could become a kind of presidential litmus test worries as many, if not more, Americans than it reassures - among them, Jon...

It might be useful to list out those important conservative stalwarts that have spoken out against Huckabee lately (those that haven't endorsed another candidate at least): Please Rush Limbaugh : Bob Novak : Condileeza Rice Peggy Noonan Charles Kruthammer Michelle Malkin Fred Barnes George Will -- ( these comments too on a TV news show) Laura Ingraham : David Limbaugh Kim Strassell : Pat Buchanan Mitt Romney :) Sean Hannity (kind of) Michael Reagan Glenn Beck   ( semi "reconciliation" ---- but then he's still not too impressed ) Matt Drudge:  . . . it's obvious that he has a bone to pick with Huckabee.  Jim Geraghty Tony Blankley Ann Coulter: Rich Lowry : Dean Barnett : Mark Hemningway Austin Hill Tom Bevan Kathryn Jean Lopez Frank Gaffney Peter Wehner Hugh Hewitt The Editors of National Review   (Oh yeah, this one too )

Saturday, December 22, 2007 Larry Kudlow On Mike Huckabee Posted by: Hugh Hewitt  at 9:52 AM I closed my interview with CNBC's Larry Kudlow yesterday ( transcript here ) with a question about Mike Huckabee's economic populism.  Larry's response: [W]hen I had Governor Huckabee on, what was it, last week or the week before, I had a bout with him. I went at it. He wants to, if need be, have government regulate salaries. I think he's crazy. I don't think he understands the free market business system. He's not good on taxing, he's not good on spending, he's not good on free trade. In other words, all the prosperity factors seem to be Mr. Huckabee's weakness. I don't think he understands it. He's just out of tune with all measures of free market, supply side economics. You know, it isn't his religion, and I admire his religion. I personally am a man of faith. I regard myself as an Evangelical, the fact is. But it's not his religion,...

I don't believe in conspiracy theories, but it is working out well...   Maybe too well?   http://fwcon.wordpress.com/ Mitt Romney: Simply Brilliant Imagine Mitt Romney sitting with a bunch of reporters. He says, "You know, I have always been for civil rights, even back in the 60's. I saw my father march with Martin Luther King, Jr." What would happen? Do you think the old media would trumpet this across the front pages? Of course not. If the old media ran with that story, not only would it help Mitt, but it would help the Republican Party by demonstrating that in the 60's, only the republicans were united behind the civil rights movement. The democrats were split. So since it would help republicans, the story was tanked, if it was ever started. So what does Mitt do? He gives a speech on national TV, a speech that was supposed to be about his religion. (Note how every time Mitt came out and said it wasn't about his religion that the media drumme...

From John King on a bus in Iowa.  Sure he cut some taxes (raised far more), but how does he get away with claiming that he cut spending? $6.7 Billion to $16 AR state budget over his tenure . . . OVER THREE TIMES THE RATE OF INFLATION.  So me the "cut spending" record Huck! Just another Huckabee lie (I can't see any other explanation, can you?) Jeff PS  Bonus material:  Huck said that he's not sure if he actually wrote the words "arrogant bunker mentality", but he "owns them now." - - - a wimpy attempt to blame a speech writer for that gaffe.  However he also said nearly those same words over two months ago.  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wQitn77AXvo&eurl=http://www.mymanmitt.com/mitt-romney/ Also, Huck complained on that bus that he's pretty sure that Rice didn't read his whole essay, because if she did, she wouldn't be criticizing it (the same thing he said about Romney's critiques). I love...

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http://caucuscooler.blogspot.com/2007/12/cooler-exclusive-governor-graft.html   COOLER EXCLUSIVE- "Governor Graft" The Cooler has obtained documents that show Mike Huckabee received $378,000 in consulting fees during 2006, while he was still governor of Arkansas.   Most noteworthy, $17,500 came from Novo Nordisk, one of the world's largest embryonic stem cell researchers. It seems that when money is at stake Huckabee may be able to look past his supposedly fervent opposition to this procedure He also received speaking fees and honoraria from churches while Governor. It is certainly calls into question whether or not it is appropriate for a Governor to be taking a consulting fee from interest groups, as Huckabee did, when issues surrounding that interest group could come across his desk. The consulting money was funneled through an organization called 12 stops, a group created in 2004 to handle Gov. Huckabee's book deals. With all the attention Senator ...

ASSOCIATED PRESS http://www.star-telegram.com/464/story/373403.html WASHINGTON -- In a brief foray into politics, Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice on Friday denounced comments by a leading Republican presidential candidate that the Bush administration's foreign policy is arrogant and unilateral.   "The idea that somehow this is a go-it-alone policy is just simply ludicrous," she said at a State Department news conference. "One would only have to be not observing the facts, let me say that, to say that this is now a go-it-alone foreign policy."   Her remarks came in response to a question about criticism from former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee, who has surged in the polls to become a front-runner in the upcoming Iowa caucuses for the GOP presidential nomination. Huckabee recently said the administration's foreign policy was characterized by a "bunker mentality."   Rice did not mention Huckabee by name in her response and at...

American Pastoral Mike Huckabee preaches to the choir, but not everyone's singing along. Friday, December 21, 2007 12:01 a.m. EST I didn't see the famous floating cross. What I saw when I watched Mike Huckabee's Christmas commercial was a nice man in a sweater sitting next to a brightly lit tree. He had easy warmth and big brown puppy-dog eyes, and he talked about taking a break from politics to remember the peace and joy of the season. Sounds good to me. Only on second look did I see the white lines of the warmly lit bookcase, which formed a glowing cross. Someone had bothered to remove the books from that bookcase, or bothered not to put them in. Maybe they would have dulled the lines. Is there a word for "This is nice" and "This is creepy"? For that is what I felt. This is so sweet-appalling. I love the cross. The sight of it, the fact of it, saves me, literally and figuratively. But there is a kind of democratic politesse in America, ...

Thursday, December 20, 2007 I'd really like to know which "prominent DC-based Huckabee ally" told Mark Ambinder that...  "Rush [Limbaugh] doesn't think for himself. That's not necessarily a slap because he's not paid to be a thinker—he's an entertainer. I can't remember the last time that he has veered from the talking points from the DC/Manhattan chattering class. If they were praising Huckabee, he would be too... Also, I have to think that he's dying to have Hillary in the White House. Bill Clinton made Rush a megastar. Having another Clinton back in power would make him the Leading Voice of the Opposition once again." Really? Rush Limbaugh is part of the DC/Manhattan chattering class? Hey, if Rush Limbaugh isn't "red state enough" to question Huckabee's conservative street cred, who is? 12/20 02:49 PM

http://www.townhall.com/columnists/GeorgeWill/2007/12/20/retro_campaigning Retro Campaigning By George Will Thursday, December 20, 2007 ... On the Republican side, Mike Huckabee's role in the '70s Show involves blending Jimmy Carter's ostentatious piety with Nixon's knack for oblique nastiness. "Despicable" and "appalling" evidence of a "gutter campaign" -- that is how The Eagle-Tribune of Lawrence, Mass., characterized this from Sunday's New York Times Magazine profile of Huckabee: "'Don't Mormons,' he asked in an innocent voice, 'believe that Jesus and the devil are brothers?'" Imagine someone asking "in an innocent voice" this: "Don't Jews use the blood of gentile children to make matzoth for Passover?" Such a smarmy injection of the "blood libel," an ancient canard of anti-Semitism, into civic discourse would indelibly brand the in...

Frank Gaffney has been cited by Mike Huckabee as one of the two guys he gets foreign policy advice from, the other being The New York Times' Thomas Friedman.  Here's my exchange with Gaffney on yesterday's show ( transcript here ): HH: Since you're one of the unofficial advisors to Mike Huckabee, I want to play for you a little Huckabee quote from, concerning Iran. Cut number five. He made this in a speech earlier this year.  MH: We haven't had diplomatic relationships with Iran in almost thirty years, most of my entire adult life. And a lot of good it's done. Putting this in human terms, all of us know that when we stop talking to a parent or a sibling, or even a friend, it's impossible to resolve the difference to move that relationship forward. Well, the same is true for countries.    HH: What do you think, Frank Gaffney?  FG: Well, for the purposes of setting the record straight, Hugh, I want you and your audience to recall that the othe...

"ARKANSAS' PRIMARY DRUG OF CONCERN" As Meth Became A Crisis In Arkansas, Gov. Huckabee Reduced Sentences For Makers Of The Drug   "It's not our goal to just lock people up. ... It is our goal to unlock their hearts, minds and souls so while they're here they can learn the skills that most of us take for granted." – Gov. Mike Huckabee (Traci Shurley, "Work Starts On Site For Parole Violators," Arkansas Democrat-Gazette , 8/9/03) AP: "Huckabee Criticized For Meth Bill": The Associated Press: "Republican presidential candidate Mike Huckabee can find plenty of parallels between his native Arkansas and Iowa when it comes to methamphetamine: Both are small states battling increased use of the drug through stricter laws. But Republican presidential rivals Mitt Romney and Fred Thompson are tagging Huckabee as soft on crime because of a 2005 Arkansas law he signed as governor that gave some meth offenders more credit for g...

Oh! What do we need in a president? With so many options some think the task tough To figure out which in the crowd measure up It's not mine to say which of those we see here Will stand straight and tall or fall on their ear But one thing I think is quite obviously clear The leader we want works in honorable ways who clearly can see by the night or by day And chart a fixed course and never will stray From doing each tiniest thing they did say His or her character never will be Put up for bids on the highest paid fee But will endeavor with all honesty To act in all ways to keep our land free Who do I think it should be? I admit it is easy to think I'd be stuck With the slinging of mud and the rottenest muck To know which to keep and which we could chuck But I think with much prayer and a little good luck The people will know the saint from the schmuck And at least they will say " let's chuck Huck!"