Candidate overheard on Des Moines streets saying that — weather allowing — he will garner an eye-catching nod in New Hampshire on Friday that will boster his national security cred and will lead to more support.

You have got to be f*****g kidding me. The man doesn’t know about a new NIE, believes it existed for four years and knew nothing about U.S.-Cuban relations that go back decades.

amerpundit on December 12, 2007 at 8:22 PM

I’d have to agree with the belief it’s Powell, though he’s pro-choice and I hope I’m wrong.

amerpundit on December 12, 2007 at 8:25 PM

see-dubya on December 12, 2007 at 8:34 PM

Mark Steyn? I don’t know.

I’m a bit concerned about Huckabee when you look at his record down in Arkansas. I wasn’t impressed by him the only time I encountered him live, which was admittedly at the beginning of the year, and no doubt he’s brought himself up to speed a bit since then. You know, I have very grave concerns about the mix with a lot of these candidates. Some of them are good on other things, some of them are bad on other things. But very few of them seem to wrap the whole thing up into the perfect package. And my concern is that Huckabee doesn’t have any great credibility on the foreign affairs thing. He sort of has a kind of perfunctory attitude to that, which I find a little distressing. And then on some of these, some of the fiscal and governmental issues, he’s way too much into the, he has big government aspects to him that I’m not comfortable with…

And I think the media are talking up Huckabee in a way, because he would be their preferred opponent. I can’t imagine a Huckabee-Hillary race in which Hillary doesn’t really make mince meat of him.

amerpundit on December 12, 2007 at 8:45 PM

As for Colin Powell, he’s donated $2,300 to John McCain’s 2008 candidacy. Not a dime to Obama.

amerpundit on December 12, 2007 at 8:51 PM

And then it’ll happen and be somebody like…Warren Rudman.

see-dubya on December 12, 2007 at 8:51 PM

Isn’t he

for McCain

http://newsmeat.com/fec/bystate_detail.php?st=DC&last=Rudman&first=Warren? Or is that a different Rudman?

amerpundit on December 12, 2007 at 8:57 PM

highhopes on December 12, 2007 at 9:03 PM

Shall we go through and find how many threads, over the many past months, there have been going after Mitt and Rudy’s records? I’m betting Huck has quite a few less, considering he’s quickly gained the lead just a few weeks before the primary.

I fully expect to find a thread discussing the “time out” little Huck got in third grade but hasn’t discussed during the campaign.

Right, because that’s the same as going after the fact he was ignorant on AIDS and U.S.-Cuba relations, didn’t know about the NIE, pardoned more people as governor than Billy Jeff, has an immigration plan assigning responsibilities to the INS…

amerpundit on December 12, 2007 at 9:07 PM