Quote of the day

Oh oh.. Huck post.. I hear footsteps.

redrock on May 20, 2008 at 10:19 PM

Oh oh.. Huck post.. I hear footsteps.
Red….Pill….Is…..Coming……

malan89 on May 20, 2008 at 10:20 PM

You rang?

Red Pill on May 20, 2008 at 11:29 PM

I want to know that if this doesn’t happen, what is going to happen to you? (and I guess your faith)

Spirit of 1776 on May 20, 2008 at 7:14 PM

Walking by faith, that question is moot.

To answer your question would mean that I don’t have faith that it will happen.

Red Pill on May 20, 2008 at 11:39 PM

“He [Obama] told me he didn’t think it was a big deal, that he knew I didn’t mean anything by it and not to worry. He was a class act and gracious. Too bad the people who blew it up on the Internet weren’t as classy or calm as he was.”

A lot of you have already proven Huckabee right, just by your classless comments in this thread alone.

Red Pill on May 20, 2008 at 11:42 PM

EJDolbow on May 21, 2008 at 12:05 AM

Your link also says

Novak relayed a recent conversation he’d had with a “creditable” religious-right type who’d claimed to have first-hand knowledge that Huckabee bought into the idea that Obama as president might be what Americans deserved.

We’ve covered that ground before:

I was very disturbed by a column by Robert Novak that quoted some “anonymous source” in saying that while I strongly supported Senator McCain, I thought that maybe America “deserves Obama,” as if to say that I secretly hoped he won.

Where do people dream up this stuff? Forget the “anonymous” sources—there’s nothing anonymous about my stand and here it is. We don’t “deserve” Obama—we DESERVE a President with the character, convictions, experience, and wisdom to see the problems we face and try to lead us to solve them. We deserve a President who truly loves this country and from whom there is no doubt as to his respect for Faith, Family, and the kind of Freedom that those before us have given their lives to pass on to us. John McCain meets that criteria and that’s why I am campaigning for him and not hoping for Obama. The nonsense that I want Obama to win this year so I can run in 2012 is absurd. I love my country more than my own ambition. So let the record and truth be clear. And let the “anonymous” sources either show the courage to stand up and be accountable for their comments or shut up and leave commentary to people who aren’t afraid of their own shadow.

-Mike Huckabee

Now for the Rollins thing…

Earlier this week I told you about the really outrageous column by Bob Novak and his “anonymous” source. Now another “big one” hits the world of really off base and fabricated farce. If you’ve seen a blog post and subsequent news stories alleging that our campaign chair Ed Rollins “admitted” that our Christmas ad aired in Iowa that got so much attention because I actually said “birth of Jesus” was a contrived scheme and that the infamous “floating cross” was in fact intentional, then let’s set the record straight.

Ed simply didn’t say that. Watch the interview he did with City Talk and see for yourself. It’s about 28 minutes long and it’s wonderful. Too bad the people spreading yet more fabrications have time to make up stories, but don’t have time to actually watch the interview for themselves. It’s of course easier to repeat something that sounds “juicy” than to actually go to the source and see if it’s true. Not only did Ed not say that, but the spot was filmed in late November and Ed didn’t join our team until December. The whole “floating cross” conspiracy has been especially amusing to the production crew at Dempsey Films in Little Rock (who are not political and who set up the shot) and equally as perplexing to the kind Little Rock family who allowed us to use their home that day for filming and who never realized that their family’s Christmas decorations in their den and the bookshelf that has been in their house for years was really a subliminal religious “Bat-signal” to the insiders (like the one used to summon Batman).

I hope you’ll take the time to actually watch Ed’s interview. What a wonderful affirmation of what the campaign was really about as well as great insights from Ed Rollins, who I came to truly love and adore both professionally and personally and count as a trusted and dear friend.

In the meantime, last night was a reminder of what a tough year this will be for Republicans. The loss of the Congressional seat in Mississippi was tough. We had a great candidate, but the Democrat very effectively ran as a pro life, pro 2nd amendment conservative. I’m convinced that for the GOP to have wins this year we have to focus on specific issues and not party building (for us) or party bashing (against them).

I really do love hearing from you guys and hope that we can use the forum here to create some ongoing “community forums,” a kind of electronic town hall in which we’ll raise a topic and ask you to opine and hopefully to make a case for your point of view. I think it will be insightful and fun.

Keep the Faith!

From the road,
-Mike Huckabee

Red Pill on May 21, 2008 at 12:19 AM

The irony of that is they neutralized themselves by supporting Huckabee who was running interference for McCain.

Evangelicals are the reason McCain is the nominee.

EJDolbow on May 21, 2008 at 12:21 AM

We’ve already covered this ground. It was Fred who was running interference for McCain.

As a former FredHead… I now believe that he was Johnny’s stalking horse.

stenwin77 on May 15, 2008 at 3:06 PM

As much as it pains me, I second that.

RobertInAustin on May 15, 2008 at 3:56 PM

Red Pill on May 21, 2008 at 12:26 AM

If evangelicals are powerful why did their candidate lose so badly?

EJDolbow on May 21, 2008 at 12:25 AM

Mormons/LDS and Evangelicals normally vote very similarly. That voting block was split three ways by Huckabee, Romney, and Thompson.

Thompson kept Romney from beating McCain in some states, and kept Huckabee from beating McCain in some other states (like SC, which McCain lost to Bush in 2000). So, it appears that Fred’s late entry and early exit lasted just long enough to “ensure” McCain the nomination.

Red Pill on May 21, 2008 at 12:30 AM