Not 100% certain but couldn't that be correct if they got rid of the hyphen (ie making it an editing error rather than a journalistic one)?? Meaning a poll that was taken lately in December.
Disagree. The mainstream of the BigSoccer Politics Board is NOT the mainstream of the American populace.
That would be valid and plausible if this had come from a senate race in, say, 1984. But 1992? There's aLOT to see here.
From Fox News Internview: Hmmm....let's see what he said then: Oh. I see. "Isolate" and "lock up" two different concepts for Mike.
Huckabee should join with Joe Lieberman and run on the "Two charming guys wrong on every issue" ticket.
I agree -- he should have just come clean quickly. He made a mistake in judgment. And looking at it objectively, one could see why he would have thought Dumond should have been paroled. Apparently, lots of people thought Dumond should have. In the end, they were wrong of course. But by claiming he had no influence on the parole board? That just looks and sounds silly. Maybe if we ended the "drug war" there would be plenty of prison space for guys like Dumond.
No, I think it would be just the opposite. Give the religious right what they want, since this election is lost anyway. They would get killed in the general election and then the party would have to do some soul-searching and the power of the religious fundamentalists would decrease. Then hopefully they will learn their lesson, and we will see a stronger GOP that will forget about trying to legislate morality and will stand for values like less government interference in our lives. And, who knows? Maybe then they will even remember that they are supposed to be the party that supports the rights and the needs of small business owners like myself.
asf, I don't think you've fully considered what the electoral map would look like if the GOP lost, let's say, 1/4 of its current share of the evangelical vote. Goodbye upper South, you're blue now. Goodbye Ohio. Goodbye southern mountain west. Oh, goody, the solid Democratic states add up to 370 EVs now!!
The Democratic strategy of not criticizing Huckabee is simply misguided. Any decent citizen should want the best possible choice of candidates. Moreoever, the idea that Huckabee can't win is ridiculous!
Not many. Read Ryan Sager's book "The Elephant in the Room" sometime. His thesis is that the GOP has gone about as far as it can go in attracting evangelicals. He believes that the GOP needs to re-adopt a more federalist policy and he points specifically to the mountain west. If you look at the states the GOP does well in, there is two groups -- one with large numbers of evangelicals (plus Utah) and another with few evangelicals. He believes that the GOP is in danger of losing the more libertarian types in the Rocky Mountains and that "cultural federalism" as he describes it can keep the evangelicals in the GOP while reestablishing strength in the Rockies and elsewhere.
Exactly! It is like the alcoholics that need to reach absolute bottom before turning their lives around. A Huckabee nomination would result in such an out-of-balance result in the general election, the GOP would've wished they ran George McGovern in 2008. Take back the GOP!
To be honest, I am not so sure. Huckabee is a likeable guy who would be a pale imitation of a European Christian Democrat -- lots of government spending on domestic things and social conservatism. If he de-emphasizes the evangelicalism, he could end up surprising a lot of folks. I was willing to give Huckabee a look early on, mostly because of a podacst where he kept talking about federalism. However, he comes across as a nanny stater and I don't want him to be the standard bearer. People like money spent on their pet causes, and people also like government authority on their pet causes. So if enough people want federal dollars to address obesity "FOR THE CHILDREN!!!" he might be a winner. The GOP that I support at that point would be dead.
I can't believe people are so skeptical of Huckabee's chances if he wins the Republican nomination. I think he could definitely defeat Hillary. You're making it sound as if America is a nation of atheists, agnostics and skeptics who shudder every time religion is mentioned. Most Americans may not share Huckabee's particular faith and values, but very few will be alienated by them. And I have a feeling that most of the ones alienated wouldn't have voted Republican anyway. I think Huckabee would appeal to moderate voters more than Hillary does, and the hard-line conservatives/liberatrians would turn out to vote against Hillary (as opposed to "for Huckabee"). Didn't a poll just come out showing Huckabee in the lead in Michigan? Hardly a Bible-belt state.
No, it's just that we want you to leave your nonsense at home and not lead with it. To wit, evolution is a scientific explanation with plenty of measurable facts to support the body of knowledge. Ah, but the bible, written by a bunch of guys running around the desert 2000 years ago, were chosen by god to write down things as they will be for all time, til the end of time. So if Hucks thinks the world was created 6000 years ago, he also thinks it is going to end soon. Can you see why sane and rational people don't want some member of a doomsday cult, running the US government and having their finger on the bomb? And we've been given plenty of examples where Huckabee's religiousity has clouded his policy decisions.
http://www.rasmussenreports.com/pub...ction/election_2008_huckabee_vs_clinton_obama And you have to remember that Huckabee is still not that well-known to the general public.
I find this type of paranoia amusing. Huckabee has done a very good job at both articulating his beliefs regarding evolution and highlighting the irrelevance of those beliefs to how he would perform as president of the United States. He never stated that he believes in the literal interpretation of the Old Testament creation story. Huckabee isn't trying to shove religion down anyone's throat. The reason he has talked about his faith so often is that this is what reporters always ask him about. He's even expressed some disappointment about this, saying that he would rather talk about his policy proposals. And I'm much more comfortable with Huckabee having his "finger on the bomb" than a secular, "rational", trigger-happy freethinker like Giuliani.