{"id":313,"date":"2007-12-23T20:18:06","date_gmt":"2007-12-24T00:18:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/godandculture.wordpress.com\/2007\/12\/23\/dallas-morning-news-endorses-huckabee-calls-huck-an-antidote-to-power-mad-partisanship\/"},"modified":"2007-12-23T20:18:06","modified_gmt":"2007-12-24T00:18:06","slug":"dallas-morning-news-endorses-huckabee-calls-huck-an-antidote-to-power-mad-partisanship","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.godandculture.com\/blog\/dallas-morning-news-endorses-huckabee-calls-huck-an-antidote-to-power-mad-partisanship","title":{"rendered":"Dallas Morning News endorses Huckabee; calls Huck "an antidote to power-mad partisanship""},"content":{"rendered":"

On Sunday’s editorial page, the Dallas Morning News endorsed Mike Huckabee for the Republican presidential nomination<\/a>:<\/p>\n

The endorsement describes Governor Huckabee as “a pragmatic, compassionate conservative,” with “a respectable record of fiscal responsibility in Arkansas” and a candidate whose “core foreign policy convictions” make him “a standard conservative.”<\/p>\n

Governor Huckabee is a conservative who understands the working poor:<\/p>\n

A liberal Arkansas professor told The New York Times Magazine <\/i>that Mr. Huckabee was a good governor. ”When he first came to office, people like me were worried about the religious aspect,” she said. “And he is very orthodox on gays, guns and God. But he knows there’s more than just these issues.”<\/p>\n

Indeed. Mr. Huckabee has a stout heart for working families and the poor, which as governor got him crossways with some Republicans. Though his strident criticism of free trade is misguided, the economically moderate Mr. Huckabee seems particularly attuned to the anxieties ordinary Americans face in this era of rapid change.<\/p>\n

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The Dallas Morning News also emphasized Governor Huckabee’s record on race, something that will haunt the Romney campaign:<\/p>\n

And he is one social conservative who’s acutely aware of the call to racial healing. In 1997, when Little Rock Central High commemorated integration’s 40th anniversary, Gov. Huckabee delivered a magnificent speech about race, justice and reconciliation that left many in the audience weeping.<\/p>\n

It was a profound and profoundly moving address, and it revealed an unusual gift for leadership. Plain-spoken and eloquent, Mr. Huckabee strikes us as decent, principled and empathetic to the views and concerns of others \u2013 an antidote to the power-mad partisanship that has led U.S. politics to a dispiriting standstill.<\/p>\n

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