National Review endorsed Romney a few weeks back. On Saturday, their Editor Rich Lowry described Huckabee as “brilliant, absolutely brilliant”:
I only could stay for Huckabee’s 15-minute opening remarks at a packed—I mean packed—event at a gym in a Londonberry middle school this morning, but it was brilliant, absolutely brilliant. It was one of the most stirring and persuasive defenses of self-government and limited government—including the doctrine of subsidiarity—that I have heard in a long time. This guy is very good, and very shrewd—after playing the evangelical card in Iowa, today he was saying how America is all about “live free or die.” If McCain beats Romney here, you have to favor McCain for the nomination, but you can’t totally discount the possibility that Huckabee wins it, if it turns out that McCain still has limited appeal to bedrock Republicans despite a win here (and perhaps Michigan too) and if Huckabee can broaden out from evangelicals.
William Kristol in an op/ed for the New York Times on Sunday said “…Huckabee could credibly and comfortably make the socially conservative case in an electorally advantageous way.”
I was watching the debate at the home of a savvy, moderately conservative New Hampshire Republican. It was at this moment that he turned to me and said: “You know, I’ve been a huge skeptic about Huckabee. I’m still not voting for him Tuesday. But I’ve got to say — I like him. And I wonder — could he be our strongest nominee?”
He could be. After the last two elections, featuring the well-born George Bush and Al Gore and John Kerry, Americans — even Republicans! — are ready for a likable regular guy. Huckabee seems to be that. He came up from modest origins. He served as governor of Arkansas for more than a decade. He fought a successful battle against being overweight. These may not be utterly compelling qualifications for the presidency. I’m certainly not ready to sign up.
Still, as the conservative writer Michelle Malkin put it, “For the work-hard-to-get-ahead strivers who represent the heart and soul of the G.O.P., there are obvious, powerful points of identification.”
Colin,
Yeah there are many conspiracies surrounding Oklahama city, I have heard the Israeli Mossad did it, Arabs and even our government. There are always going to be conspiracies when investigations don’t answer all the questions. This type of thing has happened over and over from JFK to 911.
It blows my mind to listen to so many christians in this country support war. As if Iran and Iraq have any legitimate threat against us. They have no legit Military force, Folks on the left were saying before the invasion of Iraq, there are no weapons, there were none found. Who was right? Don’t tell me about syria because that is unfounded and sounds more like an excuse to justify the administrations use of cherry picked intelligence to dupe the American public into a new Vietnam. Now the NeoCons are doing anything they can to get Iran to make a first strike so they can justify defensive measures against Iran. Note, this is happening after the country is fully aware that Iran is far from developing a Nuke.
I am a christian but this type of stuff makes me sick to know my christian brothers and sister support this injustice, many of whom have never experianced war….
Pixelmaster,
Christian Reconstructionists are not the threat that Rolling Stone, the Village Voice, and the “New” Atheists make them out to be. I cannot think of really any major seminaries that endorse them or take them seriously. Furthermore, the vast majority of all Christians would never support such moves. Books like the “American Theocracy” and others clearly don’t know what they are talking about. They talk about the dangerous people who believe they don’t need to worry about global issues because they will just be “rapture away”, and then in the next breath say they are reconstructionists who want a theocracy. Those are two polar opposites views of eschatology that are completely opposed, but it seems as if the secular left loves to just find every whack view in Christianity and mash them all together and go “look see how dangerous these Christians are”.
Ok, sorry maybe my comments were a little presumptuous, however, I am very troubled by what I see going on in the Christian community. As I study the group called the Council for National Policy, the web seems quite large with folks from Christian media including Salem Comm., Right Wing Politian’s, and Family Values leaders, including Christian Reconstructionist who want to do away with the Constitution and adopt Old Testament law. It seems like an ugly mixture of the World and Religion, Church and State.
Pixelmaster and Iggy,
Are you guys really that humanistic that you believe if we just “live and let live” the world will “be as one”? It might work in John Lennon’s doped out brain but not in reality… By the way the CFR and all those other organizations are LIBERAL. Read “None Dare Call It Conspiracy”, the first book to expose such groups, it thoroughly documented that they are liberal in philosophy. Family Values, 2nd Ammendment Rights, and especially NATIONAL SOVERIEGNTY (America’s ability to act on it’s own) are things that globalists hate. I really don’t understand why anyone Christian or not can be a Democrat anymore… Their platform is ridiculous and flaky, all it does is sound nice… “We care about the poor people, let’s redistribute the weath”, oh what a great idea that worked in the 20th century! Sure there a lot of bad things about the Republican party, but if anyone has any real knowledge on the way the world actually works it makes the most sense.
By the way for you conspiracy theorists… It is a well established fact that many middle eastern people were seen around the Murra building in Oklahoma before it blew up and that there were multiple bombs inside. Former Oklahoma State Rep. Charles Key even published a 500 page book documenting all of this. So the idea that the Iraqi republican gaurd was involved is not that far of a stretch…
Do you honestly think that Sadam had NO WMDs?? Seriously, when we have the testimony of former Generals (George Sada) that they were shipped to Syria before the invasion?
I really wonder what this generations would had it been the one alive in WWII, I think America would now be speaking German, or Japanese…
Paul,
Just like Iraq, this administration is cherry picking to justify further war. Your guy Gaffney is the one of the biggest proponents of it. The fact that he and Haass are advising Huckabee puts chills up my spin.
PixelMaster,
Do you know for certain that Paul is part of the CNP, CFR and Heritage foundation? Please don’t speculate……..
Pix
He’s on my ballot, and the last time ‘I’ checked, Jesus was STILL God and all “powers that be” are ordained of God.
I quote the Lord himself, (and nothing more), and you still have a problem. BTW that verse is in the middle of the Word of God. (center of God’s will)
You said; “I don’t know why Mr. Edwards has these nuts on his show…” Perhaps because it is HIS show. (sorry to let you down Skep, sometimes I’m not as gracious as I’ve been charged)
Paul,
I’m with you. Had I been at helm, those speed boats would have been toast with no apology given. A little bit of Reagan anatomy would do all of us some good. One little bomb down Moammar’s chimney stack and he shuts up for 20 years. Thats effectiveness!
We are invoking them to fire on us first so that we can justify going in there an bombing them. Comon Paul, this is the oldest trick in the book. Provoke the enemy, get them mad enough to strike first and claim innocence when you attack them in “defense”. I sometimes wonder how you can sleep at night being a pastor of the gospel of Jesus Christ and spreading this false garbage, along with your cohorts from the CNP, the CFR and Heritage foundation.
All spin, I can’t wait to hear you talk about Obama being a Muslim, I am sure you got that e-mail, when are you going to start spinning that on the radio? maybe your web is saving that for when he ousts Clinton and Edwards. Then the attack dags will be unleashed.
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2008/01/09/world/main3690654.shtml
Iranian gunships harass our military vessels in international waters off Iran and you guys seriously don’t think Iran is a threat to us? I don’t think Gaffney is the one out of touch with reality.
wow, Pixelmaster, Frank Gaffney seems like a nutcase, Paul Edwards, are you aware that this guy wrote this when you had him on your show? I heard him a while back, and he was all over Iran, I certainly hope he has laid off that drumbeat, of course, now Bush is back on the Iranian thing. This stuff is insane. We can’t continue to fight these wars it is going to distroy this country. Of course, for christians that would be great because we deserve judgement for letting all the homosexuals, perverts and leftist to run this country. What a farse……
Don, last I checked, Jesus was not on the ballot, however, many people seem to think that Huckabee is his right hand man. He is also getting advice from Frank Gaffney who has been on Paul’s show several times, Frank was so desparate to go to War with Saddam that he tied Saddam to Oklahoma City, loony. I don’t know why Mr. Edwards has these nuts on his show….
The Article:
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,66505,00.html
BTW this guy really want so to bomb Iran as well, don’t these right wingers care at all about this country?
It is better to trust in the LORD than to put confidence in man
Getting advice from certain people is not the same as taking it at face value. Example: Ed Rollins in Iowa – Rollins wanted to do a hit piece, Huckabee said no.
I would say right now he is probably listening to a variety of people, but in the end he’ll do what all great Presidents do – lead – do the right thing even if it doesn’t seem politically popular.
Just to show you all that I am an equal opportunity critic, I am not just against Huckabee, but now I read this aweful article about Ron Paul.
http://www.tnr.com/politics/story.html?id=e2f15397-a3c7-4720-ac15-4532a7da84ca
I have been a Ron Paul supporter but man this is aweful…
Huckabee is really starting to get some flack for his comments about Richard Haass on the Late Edition with Wolf Blitzer. The more I dig into this it certainly seems like there is more to Huckabee than meets the eye. We Christians were duped with George dubya I hope we aren’t again. Another guy that I heard he was getting advice from was Frank Gaffney who on Paul Edwards show is adament that we need to preemptively attack Iran, I would think that we would have learned from the failures in Iraq that another preemptive war is not the right course. Good thing we have that recent report that stats that Iran is not developing a weapon. There is a lot in the Bible about smooth talkers with tounges of a serpant, Huck? Maybe….
That is an interesting question, because it is not as straightforward as pixelmaster stated but still critically important. The Richard Haass issue is troubling. At the same time, it has only been Huckabee, Paul, and Hunter who have spoken out critically on NAFTA and a need for “Fair Trade” as opposed to “Free Trade”. Likewise, I think Huckabee was one of the first to jump aboard the Law of the Sea Treaty tha the United Nations was pushing. This is not an issue you can walk both sides of the fence on, so it would be interesting to hear more about where Mike really stands on this. In general I feel the Council on Foreign Relations is bad news.
Of course they are, once he spoke to the Council on Foreign Relations and they realized that he is very controllable they publicity for Huckabee shot up.
Paul, Does it concern you that Huckabee is using Richard Haass as one of his Foreign Policy advisors? Richard Haass feels that we need to be giving up some of our sovereignty to the UN. I thought that we christians are opposed to that. I thought that was something that was promoted on the left. What is going on here?
Here is the Richard Haass article that I am referring too.
http://www.taipeitimes.com/News/editorials/archives/2006/02/21/2003294021
Seems like a wolf in sheeps clothing, we christians need to be wise as serpents with regards to politics……
I would appreciate your response on this, I know that you don’t respond to many of your blogs as you let the community discuss. This seems VERY troubling, and has an end times ring to it.