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Don?t worry? It?s cool.
2007-12-29 04:38:00 For those of you worried about Mike Huckabee’s lack of foreign policy experience, the guys at RedState have obtained photographic evidence that Huckabee once stayed at a Holiday Inn Express. It’s cool… RedState Story More About: General , Cool , Worry
On God and Politics
2007-12-28 23:02:00 (image: rondicianni.com) Politics has been awash with themes of Christmas this year, undoubtedly those primary candidates vying for the largest base of celebrating Christians in places like Iowa and New Hampshire. We have Mike Huckabee’s “floating cross” ad, though he claims it’s only a bookshelf, and others less worthy of praise like Rudy Giuliani’s “fruitcake ad”, ... More About: Religion , Christianity , History , General
I may boycott Bill Bennett?s morning show
2007-12-28 16:00:00 (image: mikechurch) Enough with the line in the sand politics! Bill Bennett was discussing the primary race this morning when I heard him make a disturbing comment. Next week, in the lead up to the Iowa caucuses, Bennett will host the Republican presidential candidates for a discussion on his morning show. The problem? He isn’t inviting Governor ... More About: Show , Morning , Boycott
The Definition of Experience
2007-12-28 03:40:00 (image: nytimes) The world had problems long before the day Benazir Bhutto was killed. Back in the 2000 presidential race, I remember a common campaign term called “gravitas”. I’m still not quite sure of its definition, but we were all guessing as to whether a young governor from Texas had any or not. I guess ... More About: General , Pakistan , Mike Huckabee , Bush administration , Experience
Christmas Bounce?
2007-12-28 03:01:00 (image: time.com) Just one week away from the Iowa caucuses, Mike Huckabee may have received some promising news from a new Times/Bloomberg poll. According to new numbers, Huckabee has taken a commanding 14 point lead over rival Mitt Romney. While Huckabee’s marginal lead in Iowa has swayed between 3 and 14 points respectively in most major ... More About: Christmas , General , Three Amigos , Bounce
Standstill
2007-12-27 21:40:00 (image: abcnews) Today’s Rasmussen numbers are showing a trend, that national support for Republican candidates is at a standstill. Since before the Christmas holiday, GOP poll rankings haven’t changed much, suggesting that non-Iowa residents may be waiting to see results from the Iowa contest to pick the man who looks like a winner. Huckabee: 20% Giuliani: 18% McCain: 14% Romney: ... More About: Fred Thompson , General , Three Amigos
Fox: Huckabee has strong lead in Oklahoma
2007-12-27 17:23:00 (image: okhouse) A new Fox poll out today has Mike Huckabee commanding a sharp lead in Oklahoma . Huckabee: 29% McCain: 17% Giuliani: 11% Romney: 9% Thompson: 8% An interesting fact about these southern state polls continues to be the lagging interest in Mitt Romney. The rise of Mike Huckabee rules out the myth that southern voters are rejecting the former Massachusetts governor ... More About: Tom Tancredo , General , Strong
North Carolina: Clinton beats Romney, Looses to Huck
2007-12-27 16:39:00 (image: 22ndnorthcarolina) While state polls for the general elections cannot be accurately predicted this early, if today’s Rasmussen poll out of North Carolina is an example of anything, it’s that Mitt Romney plays incredibly weak in the American south. Adding to another recent poll which showed Romney loosing to Hillary Clinton in Texas, yes… Texas, Clinton is ... More About: General , Mike Huckabee , Three Amigos
A little post-Christmas pheasant hunt
2007-12-27 14:10:00 (image: mikehuckabee.com) Leading into the final nine day stretch of the Iowa primary, I was wondering which candidate would open up the news cycle. Surely today’s story couldn’t be about political positions or partisan bickering. Who wants to here that nonsense the day after Christmas ? Interesting line of attack here by Huckabee to head off the post-holiday ... More About: General , Post , Gun rights , Hunt
Dear Rush: Stop The Double Standard!
2007-12-22 04:57:00 (image: imageshack) Driving in my car today was bittersweet. Sweet, because I had the opportunity to listen to my favorite radio host, Rush Limbaugh, for a full two hours while running Christmas errands. A rare treat considering my usual schedule. But bitter, because I had to disagree with him through every moment. Rush Limbaugh took the opportunity today, for the full three hours of his show (so I hear), to bash presidential candidate Mike Huckabee in the fashion of his old beef with Senator McCain. As a Huckabee supporter, it was hard to listen to, damn hard. One of the questions that continues to play over and over again in my mind is this: Why are those on the mainstream right, whom I agree with 99% of the time, but not on the issue of Mike Huckabee’s value as a candidate, setting themselves up for a double standard when pointing out flaws in others? Rush, I love you to death. You brought me, in many ways, to fully understanding conservatism. As a young 22 year old man, I ... More About: Double , Standard , Stop
Clintonesque?
2007-12-22 03:53:00 This isn’t the first time Mitt Romney’s found trouble for embellishing the facts. Add the fact that he, nor his father, have ever marched with Martin Luther King (as he’s claimed on numerous occasions now) to his being a lifelong hunter, having the endorsement of the NRA as Massachusetts governor, and his being pro-life. Pandering is one thing, bordering on the brink of challenging Al Gore in the 2000 race for embellishments is quite another. But at least the explanation could be honest. More About: Linton
The Lesson of Bret Schundler
2007-12-21 22:49:00 (image: nytimes) I remember the first year my wife and I moved to the state of New Jersey. It was 2001, just in time for a gubernatorial race between Bret Schundler and Jim McGreevey. As history tells us, McGreevey won the race. But what outsiders of the state may not know is that McGreevey had won ... More About: General , Lesson , Chun
?08 Strategy: Dissecting the campaigns in one paragraph or less
2007-12-21 18:58:00 (image: silentthundermodels) Take these with a grain of salt (I’m admittedly biased against particular candidates), but I thought it’d be a fun little exercise to examine each candidate’s strategy in one paragraph or less. Here’s what I came up with: Mitt Romney, “The Transform and Pray Strategy ”: Step 1: Transform. Suppose you’re a liberal to moderate Republican ... More About: Campaigns
Whole New Race?
2007-12-21 16:22:00 (image:abcnews) Conventional wisdom has suggested a few inevitabilities about the coming election. Until recently, we believed that Rudy Giuliani, “America’s Mayor”, and his band of moderate groupies, would simply sweep the larger states through name recognition alone post-Florida. Likewise, that if any potential challenger had the slimmest of chances, he’d need to run a long shot ... More About: Fred Thompson , Tom Tancredo , General , Mike Huckabee , Race
The Slow Pace of the Thompson Surge
2007-12-20 17:45:00 (image: nytimes) So apparently there’s a new Fred Thompson momentum tour going on in Iowa right now. But if Politico’s review is any indicator of its potential success, it could be the same old Thompson camp. But what happened to the ?tour of downtown Waverly? that was on his schedule? Canceled. Not going to happen. He was ... More About: General , Surge , Pace , Slow
When good ideas go wrong?
2007-12-20 15:56:00 Has anyone seen Rudy Giuliani’s dreadful monstrosity of a Christmas commercial yet? Dovetailing off the now famous Huckabee ad, Rudy tries to emulate the same feeling of warmth and fuzziness (red sweater and all). Just for fun, I’ve resubmitted the Huckabee ad first. Watch them back to back in order to get a true comparison. ... More About: Ideas , General , Three Amigos , Good , Wrong
Are Republicans Shunning Evangelicals?
2007-12-19 18:24:00 (image: oxfordstudent) While not a major part of the discussion, Governor Huckabee raised an interesting point on the Today Show this morning (the interview is below). For all these years, evangelical Christians have played a major role in electing Republicans into office. Since Ronald Reagan, no Republican candidate for president can say he was nominated without ... More About: Christianity , General , Evangelicals
R?s vs D?s: Huck beats Rudy in Missouri, Ohio
2007-12-18 18:22:00 (image: washingtonpost) New Rasmussen numbers out today for two states which haven’t been polled yet, Missouri and Ohio . In both states, Mike Huckabee is beating Hillary Clinton by wider margins than Rudy Giuliani. Missouri: Huckabee - 45% Clinton - 43% Clinton - 45% Giuliani- 39% Ohio: Huckabee - 44% Clinton - 40% Giuliani - 44% Clinton - 42% Missouri Numbers Ohio Numbers More About: General , Three Amigos
Huckabee: What Really Matters (The Christmas Ad)
2007-12-18 01:42:00 This is by far, the most tactically brilliant campaign ad of the ‘07 season. The 30 second spot, known as “What Really Matters ” from the Huckabee campaign, is more a best wishes for the Christmas season than anything else. But the positives are plenty. For one, Huckabee being the first to release an ad of this ... More About: General
Fred Chicken
2007-12-18 01:00:00 (image: politopics) Around the time of Fred Thompson ’s official candidacy announcement in the early fall, he skipped an important New Hampshire presidential debate in favor of announcing his plans to run on the Tonight Show with Jay Leno. Siting the reasons, Thompson explained that he “didn’t like the format” and had “wished for debates more similar ... More About: General , Chicken
The Rollins Factor
2007-12-17 06:45:00 Watch this quick interview conducted earlier today on Fox News’ Weekend Live. Governor Huckabee is beginning to talk tough on foreign policy again. You can hear the spirit of Ed Rollins already. Quote of the day? “I’m certainly not standing with Ron Paul and his walk away and loose philosophy”. More About: General , Factor
Rudy thinks he?s running in ?04
2007-12-17 06:15:00 (image: nytimes) A “new speech” by Rudy Giuliani is being pegged as a “bold new approach”, reminding the nation of the mayor’s vision for the country. But it’s getting mixed reviews as suggesting the same old song and dance. But the 30-plus minute speech hit on similar themes: a little Hillary Rodham Clinton bashing, some reflections on ... More About: Running
I?m All For McCain Winning? New Hampshire
2007-12-17 05:46:00 (image: usnews) If you’ve been watching the television media lately you’d think John McCain was making a comeback. They talk about his rise in the polls, some key endorsements, and then the rest is meaningless speculation. Stories like tomorrow where John McCain is due to receive the coveted endorsement of Joe Lieberman. Well first, congrats to Joe ... More About: General , New Hampshire , Three Amigos , Hampshire , Winning
The Context of the Quote
2007-12-16 20:27:00 (image: emich) I have long held the belief that in so many ways, the coming election of 08′ will look more 2000, than 2004. That is, that many issues such as Iraq and 9/11 which dominated Bush vs Kerry, will give way to a renewed discussion about domestic issues and a timeout from war. We are winning ... More About: General , Mike Huckabee , Context , Quote , The Con
Meet the new National Campaign Chairman for Mike Huckabee
2007-12-14 21:59:00 Ed Rollins was revealed today as the new National Campaign Chairman for the Mike Huckabee campaign at a 2pm press conference. Rollins is best known for his work as the National Campaign Director to Ronald Reagan in the 1984 election in which Reagan won 49 states. More About: General , Meet
Rasmussen: Huck Leads Florida
2007-12-14 19:07:00 (image: visitflorida) A new Rasmussen state poll today finds Mike Huckabee leading Florida at 27%. The Arkansas governor tops a second place Mitt Romney (23%) by 4 points. The shocking news of the poll is that once frontrunner of the sunshine state, Rudy Giuliani, has plummeted to third place at 19%. Giuliani lead the Rasmussen Florida poll ... More About: General , Leads , Three Amigos
Governor Huckabee: Frontrunner in Texas, Delaware
2007-12-14 05:44:00 (image: texasstudio1) March 4th isn’t that far away. A new IVR poll finds Mike Huckabee leading his fellow Republican nominees in the all-important big state of Texas , well above the margin of error at 29%. Huckabee enjoys a 13 point lead over former frontrunner Rudy Giuliani, whose numbers dived from 23% to 16% since the last ... More About: General , Governor , Three Amigos
And? North Carolina
2007-12-14 05:05:00 (image: ncnga) Public Policy Polling out of North Carolina finds Mike Huckabee has surged to first place. Mike Huckabee: 33% Rudy Giuliani: 17% Fred Thompson: 16% Mitt Romney: 9% John McCain: 8% More About: General
Rasmussen: Huck Still National Frontrunner, Leads Rudy by 4
2007-12-13 20:25:00 (image: wikimedia) Just eight days ago, we first reported the national numbers had changed dramatically in the Republican presidential field, featuring a surging Mike Huckabee to have surpassed Rudy Giuliani for the status of frontrunner. Those numbers have held throughout the week, where Huckabee still enjoys a four point lead at 23%, compared with Giuliani at ... More About: National , Fred Thompson , General , Leads
On Visionary Leadership
More articles from this author:2007-12-13 06:13:00 (image: harrisonburg) “Let us have faith that right makes might, and in that faith, let us, to the end, dare to do our duty as we understand it.” Abraham Lincoln, Cooper Institute Address, February 27, 1860. After Lincoln’s Gettysburg Address of 1863, dark days loomed over the fractured union. We tend to forget that conflict had lasted a ... More About: Religion , Christianity , General , Leadership , Mike Huckabee 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7 |
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