Janet Huckabee explains what a great relationship she has with her husband. Good for them. Doesn’t this look patronizing? Is this smart politics when 51% of marriages end in divorce? (BTW, that percentage is the same for evangelicals) Can’t you buy lists of divorced people? Send them mail saying that Read more…
Wow. Save the GOP doesn’t much like Bush or Huckabee do they? "As for Huckabee, he just reminds me of another George W Bush and he supports higher government spending and a welfare state. Sorry, but one President from Arkansas was enough. Do we really want to repeat that??"
The Club for Growth continued its evaluation of 2008 candidates with Sam Brownback, with a mostly positive result. This is important for Brownback because it differentiates him from Mike Huckabee, who the Club has savaged. I think that this confirms that Brownback is in the 2nd-tier, not the 3rd. He Read more…
Update: Hugh Hewitt responds to the Giuliani bit with an explanation that reminds me of Jonah Goldberg’s thesis. The Hill interviewed Richard Land, the Chairman of the Southern Baptist Convention’s Ethics and Religious Liberty Convention. He had some interesting comments to make about the leading candidates for President. First, Rudy Read more…
Mike Huckabee announced that Carroll Campbell’s wife and one of his son’s are leading his South Carolina team. Interestingly, a while ago, McCain had picked up Carroll Campbell III. Apparently both McCain and Mitt Romney had pursued the rest of the family.
Several things have come together for Mike Huckabee recently. National Journal is giving him a bump. He picks up some good staff in New Hampshire. He gets called one of the two options for Evangelicals (although McCain is getting some attention). For Huckabee, there are two or three issues. First, Read more…
I’ve been a little surprised by Jeanne Cumming’s WSJ article about Mitt Romney’s fundraising. The article says: Mr. Romney’s financial network is in a long tradition of candidates working around post-Watergate campaign-finance rules. No. He is working within. The purpose of the federal laws are to prevent the appearance of Read more…
In 2000, the Iowa Caucus results were: Candidate % Bush 41 Forbes 30 Keyes 14 Bauer 9 McCain 5 Only 2 of the top 5 candidates were even serious contenders in later states. Fifty-four percent of the vote went to people who were clearly dead in the water. (and 5% Read more…
Earlier, I commented on the spin surrounding Mike Huckabee’s $500k fundraiser. As always happens with fundraising claims, the truth does come out: About 27 people or entities accounted for roughly $450,000 of the total, At most 100 more people (and several couples were represented in that number) contributed the rest at $500 Read more…
There has been a lot of attention recently placed on Mike Huckabee:
In other words, Huckabee has been attracting a lot of significant attention. There still is no credible candidate of the religious right. Sam Brownback is not setting anyone afire. Frankly, he’s a boring speaker, but he does quite well in small groups. In the context of the Iowa caucus, there’s always room for a breakout candidate who fires up the religious voters. Mike Huckabee could be that guy. Read on.
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