A candidate only the home-schooled could love....
If you hadn't noticed, I really don't like Mike Huckabee.
I mean, seriously, are we going to elect a president who openly denies evolution, and says the world is only 8,000 years old?
(Mike Huckabee smiles as he is set up with a wireless microphone by a tv network technicians as he arrives to speak with voters at an event in Newton, Iowa, December 4, 2007. (REUTERS/Jason Reed))
And, we should probably add Giuliani to the "belief set."
Giuliani's campaign said Tuesday that the findings in the National Intelligence Estimate report do not change his belief that Iran is a threat....
On the stump, Giuliani has been more bellicose. He has called Iran a bigger danger than Iraq. He has made it a "promise," not a "threat," that he would "set them back 8 or 10 years" if the country was on the brink of becoming a nuclear power.
"We will not take the military option off the table," Giuliani said at a campaign stop in Central Florida. "We will not beg to negotiate with them. We're going to make them beg to negotiate to us."
Seriously, is this what Republicanism has become?
posted by mikevotes at
9:06 AM
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The New Hampshire chapter of the National Education Association has endorsed Hillary Rodham Clinton... and Mike Huckabee! This is the first time every they endorsed a Republican candidate.
How pathetic. Of all the Repub candidates, they endorse the anti-science, anti-intellectual one.
I'm embarrassed. The NH NEA did themselves a huge disservice. They gave legitimacy to ignorance and truthiness over education.
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-epm, at 11:09 AM
I would guess it's because they believe that of all the Repubs, he's the one most likely to spend real money on education, but still, I have to agree with you.
I really do have a feeling, though, that Huckabee's a bubble. As people get to know him, I think there will be alot of distaste among those that base their vote on something other than the bible.
The media seems to have already started "reexamining" him.
Of course, the key is the timing. If he rides the bubble just right....
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mikevotes, at 11:41 AM
"Seriously, is this what Republicanism has become?"
Yeah. It's a lot of hate (Muslims, immigrants, gays, etc.) mixed with fear and a victim mentality. This all dovetails nicely into the End Times belief and makes war (any war) seem natural and unavoidable. The Good people will all be raptured away before things get too ugly, and the bad people will get stuck holding the bag. Why try to make things work?
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Todd Dugdale , at 8:36 PM
It's like the "emotional issues" are carrying forward on their own. They used all that stuff to "fire up the base" and now that the party is in dire straits, these vote drivers are now out of control.
(Maybe because of a vacuum of leadership? A disowned Bush and no clear candidate?)
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mikevotes, at 9:15 PM
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