He wants to lower your taxes and doesn’t want more money for the government to spend.

The most amazing thing about the Huckabee surge are his supporters. For months, we’ve been hearing that if voters only looked at the records of Giuliani, Romney and McCain, they’d lose support.

Now that Huckabee is rising in the polls, we’re asked to look at his ideas and ignore his record as governor.

Much will depend on how that resurgence shakes out on foreign policy but I can see a lot of righties disaffected by a Huckabee nomination tacking towards libertarianism in the aftermath.

Moralizing and high taxes, yuck. Count me as one of those.

Huckabee’s greatness is his ability to communicate conservative principals. There is a whole generation that never knew Reagan and they need to learn.

moughon on December 2, 2007 at 8:51 PM

Hucksterocchio’s greatest talent is lying and taking “gifts”.

He is not a conservative. Period.

And he is damn sure no Reagan. Not unless you spell Reagan C-A-R-T-E-R.

Huckabee’s greatness is his ability to communicate conservative principals. There is a whole generation that never knew Reagan and they need to learn.

Dont worry he will do just fine as president. He bases his decision on great principals and those kinds of decisions dont let you down.

He is the only candidate I have heard say we need to impeach judges who use foreign law to make decisions. He wants to lower your taxes and doesn’t want more money for the government to spend. He is the only candidate who wants to give you ownership of your life again by getting rid of the IRS.

Mitt is toast, hopefully McCain will bow out soon, Thompson has some great proposals but he has to stop his downward trend and has decided to go hyper negative and it doesn’t make him too appealing in the process. Rudi can’t win against a smaller field. His support has peaked.

Republicans would be wise to tab McCain and Huckabee

Let’s shuffle the deck a little better.

(Never liked “Freebird” either… which Huck supposedly can play.)

I hope Iowa wakes up soon. Neither Giuliani nor Huck are conservative. A vote for Huck IS a vote for Giuliani. I don’t think I’ve ever been so upset with my fellow Republicans in my entire life. Open your eyes people!

davenp35 on December 2, 2007 at 3:05 PM

Well this Iowan won’t be voting for either one of them.

States like Iowa and New Hampshire do not care about the immigration issue as much because it doesn’t affect them like the border states and Florida. Which is why Huckabee is doing well.

Any party that even considers Rudy could hardly be called being run by the religious right. Please.

Rightwingsparkle on December 2, 2007 at 5:30 PM

You would be surprised. I think a lot of Iowans just don’t know about Huck’s record on immigration. Also wonder who exactly is being polled. Some parts of Iowa are a lot more conservative than other parts of Iowa, the 5th district in particular.

Any party that even considers Rudy could hardly be called being run by the religious right. Please.

The truth seems to be that Iowans are simply idiots (except the one who read HotAir!). Why do we care again what Iowans think? Oh, yeah–because they can kill off the ones we DO like before we ever get a chance to vote. Sigh.

It won’t be long that those three, and Fred, rush the top and I’ll predict that, if not by Iowa then shortly thereafter, Huck’s gonna be a bloody dripping lump at the bottom of the hill and whining, to boot, about how he got there.

Exit question one: If Huck wins Iowa and McCain, the alternative centrist candidate, takes New Hampshire, where does that leave Rudy?

President of the United States, leader of the free world, and figurative leader of the Republican party until 2016.

Unless, Mitt can win all the early states and get momentum sufficient to overcome Rudy’s 16 point lead in Florida, Rudy goes into Super duper mega ultra Tuesday already with the lead in delegates. He is also way ahead in the polls in the delegate rich states slated to vote on that day. After 2/6, it becomes a coronation. Neither Huck nor McCain have the cash on hand to compete across the country on 2/5. So, they are no real threat. The real question is which one, Huck or McCain, does Rudy pick for VP.

Huckster can win Iowa all he wants, but once his immigration policies come forward it’s all ovah.

SouthernGent on December 2, 2007 at 4:21 PM

God, how I hope that’s true.

Rudy’s campaign admitted to the Telegraph that they’re pulling they’re punches on Huck right now because

Mr. Allah…you have a grammar error in the sentence. Just FYI.

Huckster can win Iowa all he wants, but once his immigration policies come forward it’s all ovah.

You include yourself in that, Allah? Cuz I’ll admit, I’d be tempted to.

Tempted to what? Include yourself or me?

I’m already pretty libertarian so yeah, I’ll be disaffected by this. But I’m not joining any isolationist movement, under any circumstances.

Much will depend on how that resurgence shakes out on foreign policy but I can see a lot of righties disaffected by a Huckabee nomination tacking towards libertarianism in the aftermath.

You include yourself in that, Allah? Cuz I’ll admit, I’d be tempted to.