Ron Paul is an interesting candidate...Although my preference is for Thompson, Paul is someone that champions the issue of constitutionality over any issue regardless of party...INCLUDING THE 2ND ADMENDMENT... Many good Americans on the left side of ideology feel snake-bitten from Bush Jr. on constitutional grounds...whether they are wrong or right,...I'm not going to debate this right now,...but I think Ron Paul is a candidate that can bridge the people from both sides better than any candidate right now including Thompson, and Hillary...With Ron Paul, I know there will be no further unconstitutional infringement on gun rights, and the political opposition will be assured of any actions abroad or internal being deeply deliberated on constitutional grounds... Perhaps Ron Paul is now #2 on my list...
huckabee and ron paul both had interviews on face the nation. pretty interesting, they're posted online at the cbs site. http://www.cbsnews.com/sections/ftn/main3460.shtml i like both of these guys. while i agree mostly with ron paul, i think i would be comfortable voting for pastor mike. i get the feeling from the two of these candidates that we, the voters, mean more than just a vote. unlike the mold of clinton, romney, giuliani, and our current president; treating us like vending machines, just telling us what we want to hear in order to garner our votes and get elected.
Umm, you would be wrong. He is a True conservative. Actually, he is the only one running right now... RON PAUL 2008!!!
Via TPM... Down goes Rudy! Down goes Rudy! And then there's this (from TPM as well)... Ladies and Gentlemen, I predict your next Republican nominee will be Mike Huckabee, also from Hope, Arkansas... Huck's well positioned... Rudy's cratering even though the big money seems to want him, Romney will not cut it with the values voters, Fred is DOA, McCain has too much ground to make up, the party will never stand for Paul as a nominee, the rest are idiots... which leaves our man Huck.
One week down. I'm all tingly with excitement as the anticipation builds. We should all have the benefit of TJ's by 12/6 at the latest.
serious black predicted this months ago when nobody else would have given Huck a chance. If it turns out to be right he deserves major props.
Well, it looks like the long knives have been drawn and are pointed squarely at Huckabee... this is a vicious piece by the Prince of Darkness... and what's a "real conservative" anyway?
Weird that people like Novak would want to sabotage the campaign of the only true conservative running for the republican nomination. And will the religious right recoil in horror and stay home come Nov 08 if they see the republican leadership endorse that kind of action?
This is truly a strange primary. There are 4 legitimate possibilities with a bit over a month until the first primary, and McCain is sitting there gaining a little ground. Guiliani - leads all the national polls, but trailing badly in Iowa. Romney - leads all the early states. Huckabee - getting real traction and moving up fast. Thompson - 2nd in all of the national polls. Its fascinating to see how this might play out. Guiliani and Romney going after each other has let Huckabee get into this mix. I think Thompson is easily the least likely of the bunch, but who really knows.
The problem with Huckabee (at least according to the article) is that he's a social conversative but not at all a fiscal conservative.
Novak really cherry-picked his evidence for that article. Huckabee's record is really mixed, but he's certainly more of a conservative than Giuliani or Romney. His last year in office he signed some tax increase (I believe it was the sales tax), and Americans for Tax Reform gave him a D- and put him in the bottom 5 governors. Before that, he had run strong surpluses, did a pretty good job cutting fat out of Arkansas's budget, and the same group gave him A's and B's. (It should be noted that Arkansas has been one of the worst states for tax dollars not making it back to the people for some time. Huckabee improved that, but it's still really bad.) Comparatively, Romney has always gotten C's from the same group, and I think if they knew how far over budget his health plan is projecting to be, it would have been worse. Everyone on this board knows how far Rudy G is from fiscal conservativism, I don't have to tell that. Apparently Novak supports Ron Paul, which is good, but his criticism of Huckabee is extreme. Huckabee is more conservative than any of Giuliani, Romney, and Thompson. And he's way more sane than McCain.
There's no way Novak supports Paul. He's the mouthpiece for the big money power that drives the GOP bus. They're coalescing behind Rudy. Still, this sentence from Novak is important... In other words, what happens when the voting bloc they've been manipulating with "values" and rhetoric doesn't go along? Republicans go back to minority status is the obvious answer.
