Huckabee Surges in South Carolina, I Begin the Application Process For Canadian Citizenship
December 10, 2007
After hanging around near the bottom of the pack, polling around fifth nationally, and polling well behind Romney in Iowa and South Carolina, Mike Huckabee has suddenly taken off.
Huckabee had managed to convince socially conservative voters that he is the only true “conservative” candidate. However, he still polled very lowly because no one thought he had a chance. As soon as his numbers started moving up in Iowa polls, evangelical social conservatives started rallying strongly around him.
Huckabee is now the front-runner in Iowa and South Carolina, the first two states to vote in the primary election. Branding himself as a “true” Christian, Huckabee is using his religion to get votes. As a a result, Mormon Mitt Romney is being forced to defend his faith.
I find Huckabee’s surge deplorable. He promotes a “pro-Christian” America, believes gays are sinners and abortion is murder. He looks very huggable, and his name is very cute, but do not be mistaken. He is another George W. Bush who will shred the secular safety net in favor of faith-baised initiatives. He believes God has “chosen him” to be President, appears to have a narrow, black-and-white world-view, and he does not appear to be tolerant of other faiths.
Most importantly, Huckabee is trying to elected by capitalizing on the other candidates perceived lack of faith rather than discussing the domestic and foreign policy issues pressing us today. He is the last thing America needs at home or abroad.
I agree with you Andy (weird!). Huckabee is the only republican candidate that would guarantee my vote for a democrat (except Kucinich).
If it were Huckabee vs. Kucinich I would have to vote for a third party.
I really see no reason to be concerned with huck. Fo shua. Truly, the man would be absolutly mauled if he were to debate alost any of the democratic crew. As I wrote before on Teresas post, the man is truly unspectacular to any but the radically biblical, and, substantial as they may be they are not even close to enough to shoe in a canidadate. I think the one thing we can be sure of in the next month or so is that, all the information we recieve via polls, interviews, ect, are as good as reading the entrails. I would love to see either Obie or The Clin-ton go up against Huck, I would feel much more secure in my hope for the 25% reduction in absurdity that a democratic president would bring.