Catholic Online: Let Huckabee Speak!!!

Let Huckabee Speak, Let Huckabee Run… and check his pockets

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Undecided Voter? Mike Huckabee 101

Undecided Voter? Mike Huckabee 101

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• 9 December 2007: Mike Huckabee 101
• 29 December 2007: Undecided Voter? Mike Huckabee 101

Huckabee Criticizes Establishment on Foreign Policy, Gets Heavy Crtiicism in Return

Arkansas Governor Mike Huckabee harshly criticized the current tone and and mentality of our foreign policy in a article he wrote for Foreign Affairs, the journal of the Council on Foreign Relations. His criticism was that the policies of the current administration have been counterproductive at home and abroad because of its harsh tone and bunker mentality.

He clearly explains that the policy has failed because the administration has not properly explained the jihadist threat and highlighted our nation's religious diversity as a strength. It has pit "us against the world instead of the world against the terrorists. He also criticized our alliance with Saudi Arabia.

Huckabee says energy independence will allow us to break away from our dependence on the repressive regime in Saudi Arabia. He also will follow the Powell Doctrine of using overwhelming force if he should have to decide to use military force. As to Iraq, he will not withdraw troops any quicker than the military commanders tell him it is wise to do. He supports allowing Turkey to pursue the PKK in Northern Iraq.

His policy would be to keep the military option on the table with regard to Iran and continue to apply pressure through sanctions. He also would go after al-Qeada in their havens in Pakistan.

This well-thought out explanation of his aims in foreign policy was automatically attacked by the establishment as being 'naive' and 'ludicrous.' Top contender Mitt Romney attacked Huckabee's comment as disaapointing and "lacking depth." He said that Huckabee must apologize to the President and that we should be thanking the President. Criticism also came from Secretary of state Condoleeza Rice who called his assertions ludicrous. Romney Uses these comments to bolster his latest attack on Huckabee which is contained in this press release from the campaign.
FoxNews shouts a headline about Huckabee not remembering if he wrote the line about bunker mentality but buries the story that he took responsibility for it being written. What matters here is that he took responsibility for the line being written and approving it.

Endorsement: Mike Huckabee: A Proven Leader Who can Restore American Greatness

Our country is living through challenging times at home and abroad and we need a man who is proven leader. Mike Huckabee is a proven leader who has been a Governor, Chairman of the National Governor's Association , Chair of the Southern Governor's Association, and is currently Chairman of the Education Commission of the States. As governor of Arkansas he reduced the percentage of uninsured children in the state of Arkansas by creating the ARKids program.

Huckabee understands our need to work together both in the world and at home. He understands the importance of fighting the War on Terrorism and the importance of working with our allies in the world to accomplish our goals. He also understands that we must secure our borders and improve the process of legal immigration by enacting, funding, and implementing his Secure America Plan.

He values the whole life of a person and their quality of life. He supports a Life Amendment to the Constitution. Included in his pro-life stance are a quality education, first-rate health care, a safe neighborhood and quality housing. These are all components to quality of life that are important and go well beyond simply preventing abortion.

Huckabee's belief in a quality education that teaches children both fundamental skills and creativity are important because this is what will allow us to compete in a global economy.I also appreciate his willingness to carefully look at a distinction between federal and state roles in education.

His next point is about health care. I like his focus on health rather than health care. It is important to begin focusing on preventive medicine because that will bring down costs. I like the value he places on the states as laboratories for potential solutions. He supports common-sense solutions like electronic medical records, insurance portability, health savings accounts, and making health insurance tax deductible for individuals. These solutions could work if we were to give them a try.

Gov. Mike Huckabee has real solutions for real problems and has the ability to move our country forward and help us overcome our many challenges. He is also the best man in the race for President of the united States.

Site Represents worst of American Politics: Mike Huckabee Forums

When an individual enters the Mike Huckabee Forums website it has the immediate look of a supporter website and could even be mistaken for having the endorsement of the campaign because the admins use the masthead from the Huckabee website for their banner. However, a closer look at the posts from the introductions to the grassroots area and the news crawl across the top and one discovers that it may be a site that misleads potential supporters. The posters also have the audacity to bash the wonderful people of Iowa, here. I believe that this website represents the worst of politics and is designed to discredit the candidacies of both Ron Paul and Mike Huckabee.

I have noticed that in the section about other candidates most of the posts are about Ron Paul. This is also true of other places in the forum. Obama was mentioned once, Giuliani also once, Romney is also mentioned once with a nasty comment about his faith being false.

The News crawl at the top also trumpets all "negative" news stories with titles that are negative like Huckabee blames rape victim for murder and links to the Huffington Post article Documents Expose Huckabee's Role in Serial Rapist's Release which has been refuted here.

In the introduction section the most offensive post is one called "Ron Paul Must Die..." by someone who allegedly calls himself Jesus is my Homeboy. This poster calls Ron Paul the Devil criticizes our civil liberties while demanding the death of all Muslims and entry into Iran. Another post in the same section sexualizes the "support" of one of the forum members by using Gov. Huckabee's name (or more accurately the Huck part) to swear and make a sexual innuendo about bestiality. The final post from the introduction section that I will mention proposes that Huckabee supporters think he is the Lord and Saviour, which is absolutely preposterous. It basically explains a near religious conversion experience that is not found in politics.

The forum feedback section talks about how many people are online at the Ron Paul Forums. Then the next post asks that a member with the handle ILOVERONPAUL be banned. A post entitled "Rev. Mike's first day at work" paints him as a crusader, which has a negative connotation, especially for any other religious faith than Catholicism because of The Crusades.

In the Mike Huckabee Grassroots Central forum, the title of which is taken from that of the forum same title over at Huck's Army, a genuine unofficial grassroots message board with 1,037 actual members, has posts that allege that Gov. Huckabee received the endorsement of Fred Phelps, which is untrue, because appearantly Rev. Phelps has yet to endorse anyone. In another post entitled "Get Ready for the Huckalution" by a "member" who calls herself TrickitMarine trashes what she calls Ron Paul bots and cheapens the campaign of Gov Huckabee with sloganeering. The Revolution thisng works for Ron Paul where as Huckalution just sounds dumb. Many of the ideas mentioned in this forum are copies from Ron Paul's campaign. Another example in the Huckabeelloon, which is a balloon that looks like Gov. Huckabee om a red suit with a big cross around his neck. This seems to be a cheap copy of the Ron Paul blimp idea that paints Mr. Huckabee negatively. One member even posted spelling Mr. Huckabee's name incorrectly as "Huchabee."

In forum with points about how to win support for Huckabee there is a post about the Dumond incident which has a response that attacks the victim of the rape Dumond committed after being released. Another post shouts "Newsflash: Hookerbee has no support." However, Ron Paul does have the support of the prostitutes. A final noteworthy post is one by a "member" with the handle JewBoy4Huck which makes the following outrageous claim: "Huckabee stole money and gave it to Illegals?!?!?! Say it's not so!" The claim is based on o WorldNetDaily article by Jerome R. Corsi entitled Huckabee offered 'no cost' deal for Consulate which talks about an 'incentive deal' packaged by Gov. Huckabee to attract a Mexican Consulate to Little Rock. In this article even the chief critic of then-Gov. Huckabee's deal on the consulate admitted that it was a good deal economically for the state. The article did not even allege that funds were stolen just that they were used inappropriately. In a final noteworthy post for this forum a member with the handle HuckodtheArk paints Gov. Huckabee as willing to raise taxes to fight islamofascism and the responses chortle about his record of raising taxes in Arkansas.

The Mike Huckabee on the Issues forum is filled with misrepresentations of his positions as well. For example we will take the a post which asks the question "What is his stance on illegal immigration?" The responses answer by making comments such as the following:

• "He's against illegal immigration unless it benefits the local economy."
• "kinda soft on them immigrants but for the most part he plans to be harder on them as president"
• "He said he would import mexican men to give them work and then seal them in to keep all the evil muslims out. This man needs to be president!"

However, these interpretations of his policy are completely incorrect. Here are the facts. He has recently received the endorsement of Jim Gilchrist, founder of the Minutemen and released his immigration plan.

Most of the other posts in the On the Issues section of this site are irrelevant. Here is the On the Issues Section of an authentic grassroots operation.

Finally, in the Mike Huckabee News forum there is a combination of misleading news and negative attacks on supporters of other candidates. It also misrepresents legitimate news. One example of misleading news is a post from December 13, 2007 entitled "Huckabee to Quit and Support Giuliani?" This is a misreading and over reaction to a blog post from the campaign about a 2PM Announcement from the campaign. Another "member" asks "Is our Huck Losing the Faith?" This is over disappointment that Huckabee said in a debate "I can't part the Red Sea, but I can part the red tape." The quote was reported inaccurately. MSNBC reported the comment to have been the following: "I cannot part the Red Sea. But I believe I can part the red tape."

In closing, while I do believe that Mike Huckabee Forums is a misleading site I do not think that it is the work of any campaign other than possibly the front-runners. Even though Ron Paul supporters discuss Huckabee in their forums I do not believe that they would do this because their candidate is also attacked in many of the posts. This is extremely dirty politics and all the campaigns need to disclaim it and the Huckabee and Paul campaigns need, in particular, need to respond so that their campaigns do not get blamed for this. Neither candidate would support this behavior on their behalf and who ever the people on the Mike Huckabee Forum are need to take the official Huckabee banner down so that no one assumes they are affiliated with the campaign.

Huck in Iowa - All Hands Lining a Rocky Road

Gov. Huckabee has been slowly creeping up on the leaders in the polls and took the attendees at the value voters summit by storm.

The Newstatesman reports on the Huckabee factor:

Step forward 52-year-old Mike Huckabee, a former Arkansas governor and Baptist minister who was born in Hope, Arkansas (sound familiar?). A fiscal conservative in the Reaganesque tradition, he likes to call himself (with some justification) "the conservative who is not mad at anybody". He says he is "not interested in being the candidate of Wall Street but of Main Street" and that it is simply "wrong" that CEOs "get paid 500 times what the average worker does". In a field of flawed oddballs, above all, Huckabee emerges as a decent and likeable man. He is now quietly creeping ahead in the polls as the 2008 campaign's stealth candidate, and has probably already done enough to earn himself at least a shot at the vice-presidential nomination.

Gov. Huckabee will be concentrating his resources on Iowa for the next 65 days in an all-out effort to win or place in the all-important first-in-the-nation Iowa Caucus.

The Politico asks weather Iowa is being reduced to a Romney-Huckabee race because Huckabee has moved into second place in Iowa and the Boston Globe reports that Gov. Huckabee is polling at 15% in that poll.