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THE REPUBLICANS

The Pilot vs. The Preacher

McCain and Huckabee are human, at times too cute, and can be self-defeating. That's why this thing is going to be fun.

By Evan Thomas and Holly Bailey | NEWSWEEK
Jan 14, 2008 Issue

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  • Posted By: JLH in Tacoma @ 02/08/2008 4:47:55 AM

    Comment: Dad died last in January. He was 88 years old, one week before becoming 89. He was a democrat his entire life and supported the democratic party. We did not always agree on who we thought should sit in the white house. We had discussed this election coming up. He told me that America is not ready for a female president or an African American for preseident. He said he hated to see it, but, he thought that the Republicans could run a dog catcher for president and win. I do believe my father was right. It appears at this time of the campains that the democrats have truly murdered their chances to get the white house. Most certainly, i will be voting republican. Dad would approve and I know I do.
    John Tacoma, WA

  • Posted By: TRAE @ 01/10/2008 7:46:35 PM

    Comment: MCCAIN HAS BROKE PARTY LINES AND HAS NOT SUPPORTED PEOPLE IN ARIZONA WHO WANT IMMIGRATION REFORM. MCCAIN HAS PROVEN HIMSELF TO BE A THIN SKINNED HOT HEAD AND I WOULDN'T TRUST HIM AROUND ANY LITTLE RED BUTTONS.

  • Posted By: TRAE @ 01/10/2008 7:41:56 PM

    Comment: iF THE MEDIA IS GOING AFTER HUCKABEE PLEASE ENLIGHTEN ME AS TO WHERE THIS IS GOING ON. CONSERVATIVE REPUBLICANS WHO ARE NOT DECIDING ON A CANDIDATE BASED ON RELIGIOUS BELIEFS ARE NOT GOING TO BE HAPPY WITH MIKE HUCKABEE. HE HAS A VERY LIBERAL RECORD AS THE GOVERNOR OF ARKANSAS. SO HE MAY BE GETTING SOME CRITICISM THERE BUT I THINK THAT IS

    FAIR


    FAIR

  • Posted By: TRAE @ 01/10/2008 7:35:45 PM

    Comment: hUCKABEE AND MCCAIN BOTH WENT NEGATIVE ON ROMNEY, FOR MCCAIN TO SAY THAT HUCKABEE RAN A POSITIVE CAMPAIGN IS NOT TRUE, SINCE HE TOO SHOWED THE PRESS THE NEGATIVE AD THAT HE SAID HE DECIDED NOT THE RUN. MCCAIN HAS LET DOWN BOTH THE REPUBLICAN PARTY AND THE PEOPLE OF ARIZONA WHO CENSURED HIM FOR BREAKING PARTY LINES AND HE HAS NOT BEEN TOUGH ON IMMIGRATION

  • Posted By: Rohan01 @ 01/09/2008 1:08:52 PM

    Comment: I find it interesting to find that the parts of Lebanon closest to Israel in '06 were as much a "no-go" area for the Lebanese Army as those parts of Pakistan closest to Afghanistan, but this time the Pakistani army is subject to the "no-go" area.

    This is at the heart of the mischief making media seeking to trip up Mike Huckabee. Well, enough of us know what dirty pool looks like, and the result of those media types is that they wind up in a bigger hole.

    Mike Huckabee is competitive in Michigan, leading in Florida and South Carolina, and frankly bringing in change that will usher out the current old guard who have squandered the trust given to the GOP in '94.

  • Posted By: Rohan01 @ 01/09/2008 1:05:10 PM

    Comment: I find it interesting to see that the parts of Lebanon closest to Israel in the summer of '06 were no go areas for the Lebanese army. The same is true about those parts of Pakistan close to the Afghani border. So, when the marauders do not respect borders, does it matter where the border lies.

    This is at the heart of mischief making media in going after Mike Huckabee.

  • Posted By: chosley @ 01/09/2008 11:31:45 AM

    Comment: McCain has the experience to deal with the mess we are in overseas!

  • Posted By: GiantRobot2 @ 01/09/2008 5:14:32 AM

    Comment: Huckabee will go on to win the Presidential nomination. He is way up in the polls to win Michigan next, along with Nevada after that and he has a gigantic lead in South Carolina and also leading Florida. All this momentum will excell him past Guiliani. Huckabee is even ahead in Texas and California. Along with the fact the Fred Thompson has decided to drop out of the race, will further crank up Huckabee's standing.

    Huckabee has the most experience beating Clinton in Arkansas and will clinch the Presidential nomination. Huckabee is leading in the national polls. While the timing it right, it's time to jump on the Huckabee bus now before it leaves your home state.

    • Posted By: chosley @ 01/09/2008 11:28:23

      Comment: Idiots!!

  • Posted By: MarinePatriot @ 01/09/2008 2:41:29 AM

    Comment: I support Mike Huckabee 100%

    Mike is for the people of America, thats what matters most! Not to mention Time magazine named Mike Huckabee in the top 5 U.S. Governors. Mike Huckabee has a proven track record. We Like Mike!

  • Posted By: MarinePatriot @ 01/09/2008 2:41:01 AM

    Comment: I support Mike Huckabee 100%

    Mike is for the people of America, thats what matters most! Not to mention Time magazine named Mike Huckabee in the top 5 U.S. Governors. Mike Huckabee has a proven track record. We Like Mike!

  • Posted By: MarinePatriot @ 01/09/2008 2:39:58 AM

    Comment: I support Mike Huckabee 100%

    Mike is for the people of America, thats what matters most! Not to mention Time magazine named Mike Huckabee in the top 5 U.S. Governors. Mike Huckabee has a proven track record. We Like Mike!

  • Posted By: Tivoli @ 01/09/2008 12:19:08 AM

    Comment: Mike Huckabee is no John McCain.

    Huckabee is against amnesty. He was for Bush's tax cuts. He governed a state for a decade. I appreciate McCain's service in the Navy, but he is out of step with the Republican Party majority.

    Also, Huckabee is the only candidate in either party who can be trusted to be pro-life. With all due respect to the previous post, Thompson is a day late and a dollar short.

  • Posted By: AllanStewart @ 01/08/2008 11:32:51 PM

    Comment: Only Thompson is serious about bringing abortion under control. He knows that the key is to appoint one more strict constructionist to the Supreme Court. The pro-abortionist know it, too. To confirm the right candidate will be the fight of the century. It will take every ounce of a President's political capital to win the fight. A compromise will allow abortion to continue unchecked for another generation.
    Huck has shown repeatedly that he will compromise or shift positions whenever advantageous. The only one that will NOT compromise his principles ??? or fail us - is Fred Thompson. If you really want the ongoing massacre of the unborn to stop - get serious. Look at the facts. Fred Thompson is our ONLY prayer.

  • Posted By: AllanStewart @ 01/08/2008 11:19:33 PM

    Comment: The cross in the ad was not important. Important is the fact that Huckabee lied about it. Just like he lied about having a Theology degree (he dropped out of the seminary after the first year). He ran negative ads against Mitt until he ran out of money and then claimed he was not running them because it was wrong - but leaked the ad to the media so they would play it for free. I went to two of his speeches and heard him make personal attacks on Mitt's characters, clamming that the Romney COMPARATIVE ad was all lies. He never said what was actually false, though, and in the last debate, Mitt finally made him admit the assertion was true. Huckabee is not who he claims to be, does not stand for what he claims to stand for, and can not be trusted any more than his brother in spirit, Bill Clinton.

  • Posted By: Jed@ConservativeRepublicans.com @ 01/08/2008 10:31:21 PM

    Comment: I am also a Veteran, but prefer someone who can fix things, Romney. Romney also better reflects my social and religious views as a Christian/Mormon, without being preachy like Huckabee.

    I'm watching CNN, and Romney has actually crept up three points in the margins since they called it, with just 15,000 extra votes counted. Whether he comes back and wins it after 35,000 more are counted or not, he is now within six percent of McCain and ten percent better off than I thought he would be. Sounds like his message is resonating with a lot of Independents! Mitt is also twelve percent closer to a win than George Bush was in 2000. He is also a massive eighteen percent ahead of Huckabee in the State, who is in third.

  • Posted By: Iowadreams @ 01/08/2008 1:43:17 AM

    Comment: It is completely absurd to base a political decision as important as electing the president of the United States of America on whether or not a bookcase was a subliminal cross. Even it was a cross and was intentional it appeared in a Christmas message. I would think that a cross would be fitting on the observance of the birth of Jesus Christ, who was crucifed on the cross. Whether or not you are a Christian, celebrate Christmas or believe in the resurrection of Christ jesus, America gives every citizen the right to observe thier individual religion and freedom of speech and expression constitutionally protects the right to display religious artifacts, symbols, and paraphernalia. It would be wise to reminder this election season, when you are exercising your constitutional right to vote, just exactly what that sacred document entails. Persecuting Christians because you disagree with thier religon or right to practice it is couterintuitive to the entire election process.

  • Posted By: Iowadreams @ 01/08/2008 1:42:49 AM

    Comment: It is completely absurd to base a political decision as important as electing the president of the United States of America on whether or not a bookcase was a subliminal cross. Even it was a cross and was intentional it appeared in a Christmas message. I would think that a cross would be fitting on the observance of the birth of Jesus Christ, who was crucifed on the cross. Whether or not you are a Christian, celebrate Christmas or believe in the resurrection of Christ jesus, America gives every citizen the right to observe thier individual religion and freedom of speech and expression constitutionally protects the right to display religious artifacts, symbols, and paraphernalia. It would be wise to remember this election season, when you are exercising your constitutional right to vote, just exactly what that sacred document entails. Persecuting Christians because you disagree with thier religon or right to practice it is couterintuitive to the entire election process.

  • Posted By: cnyscouter @ 01/07/2008 11:24:12 PM

    Comment: This is going to be a historic election. For myself, on a personal level, my son will be voting for the first time. He looks to me for guidance. AIEEE! I'm hoping in a general way that we put a Democrat in the White House. I can't help but wonder if the Dems ain't pointing the gun right at their foot. Let's see... an African American AND a women vying for the nomination. Not assuming either one of them will get it but I do not know if enough American people are ready to elect either one right now (though we should elect the best president regardless of planet of origin). This could create a vote demolishing vaccum that will sink the ship. That said, I think the fact that John McCain, alone of all the folks up there on the stage right now, has the clearest idea of the cost of freedom. He has the clearest idea of the personal, physical and mental sacrifice. I believe he, as president would give ALL our vets fair treatment and he would do well on the world front- not commit us to useless wars. And that counts for alot in this vets book.

  • Posted By: joghaws2008 @ 01/07/2008 7:49:50 PM

    Comment: I have watched ALL debates. Taking a look at all candidates on both sides, I think our country is in trouble.

  • Posted By: kgt49 @ 01/07/2008 7:08:43 PM

    Comment: I could never vote for Mike Huckabee for to me Huckabee's 'defining moment' was when he denied seeing the cross blazing in the background of his 'Christmas card' campaign ad...First of all, anyone who thinks that everything to the tiniest detail of every commercial that is aired by any campaign is not microscopically scurtinized is either not from this planet or at least has not seen a TV since the 1950's. Ed Rawlings and the rest of Huckabees handlers (and you know the candidate himself) with absolute certainty viewed and reviewed that commercial. And just to reiterate, it was a campaign ad regardless of the seqason or the background. The Baptist minister who professes to see God in everything is completely lacking in candor to suggest that the brightly lit 'cross' in the background of that ad only come to his attention when further highlighted by the media. True to form, ole' chuckles Huckabee was actually very funny and disarming when he recalled the story from trivial dicsography that playing a partucular Beatles record backward was reported as some to say, "Paul is dead" to parallel the lack of truth to the intent of the cross in the commercial. But Huckabee is just as didsingenuous as he seems to be disarming when caught in one of his unprepared moments when he said that he did not see the cross in the background of his commercial. Anyone who has ever been around a television production or movie set will readily tell you that it is fundamental to cinematography to scrutinize key elements in every scene, and the idea that the director of the commercial and/or the director of photography if they were different people did not see that brightly lit 'bookcase' and even if it was initially an accident of the work f lighting the scene intentionally leave it in after seeing it is beyong the pale of credibility, and lying about it is certainly defining moment in knowing what the true Huckabee character really is. Not funny, and not honest.

  • Posted By: Tina H. @ 01/07/2008 5:14:13 PM

    Comment: Go Huckabee!!! What a delight to have a real person running for the nomination.

  • Posted By: jamjenmad @ 01/07/2008 12:01:12 PM

    Comment: Sorry for the THREE posts. It's a good thing I'M not running for President. :)

  • Posted By: jamjenmad @ 01/07/2008 11:55:14 AM

    Comment: Huckabee has been way more nasty to Romney than Romney's comparison/record ads. Huckabee can't answer to his record that's why he avoids it and talks 'half-truths' like he accuses Romney of. That publicity stunt of taking the high road-- that 'cancelled' ad was filled with 'half-truth' that wrongly reflected Romney's position. He didn't go through all the details behind the $50 for abortions that was a court mandate opposed by Romney but was the LAW in MA and yet he whined that Romney is vicious for exposing his record. The Huckster isn't fooling anyone that isn't an absolute FOOL. McCain's ads are the same as Romney's. They all talked about how to stop immigrants from coming in, but they all avoided telling us what they would really do about all the illegals that are currently here-- draining our ecomony and social programs. Romney is the only one really serious about irradicating the problem. Romney is making distinctions between candidates-- the Republican's better pull their heads out or we'll have a Democratic, soon to be socialistic America, on our hands.

  • Posted By: jamjenmad @ 01/07/2008 11:54:56 AM

    Comment: Huckabee has been way more nasty to Romney than Romney's comparison/record ads. Huckabee can't answer to his record that's why he avoids it and talks 'half-truths' like he accuses Romney of. That publicity stunt of taking the high road-- that 'cancelled' ad was filled with 'half-truth' that wrongly reflected Romney's position. He didn't go through all the details behind the $50 for abortions that was a court mandate opposed by Romney but was the LAW in MA and yet he whined that Romney is vicious for exposing his record. The Huckster isn't fooling anyone that isn't an absolute FOOL. McCain's ads are the same as Romney's. They all talked about how to stop immigrants from coming in, but they all avoided telling us what they would really do about all the illegals that are currently here-- draining our ecomony and social programs. Romney is the only one really serious about irradicating the problem. Romney is making distinctions between candidates-- the Republican's better pull their heads out or we'll have a Democratic, soon to be socialistic America, on our hands.

  • Posted By: jamjenmad @ 01/07/2008 11:53:55 AM

    Comment: Huckabee has been way more nasty to Romney than Romney's comparison/record ads. Huckabee can't answer to his record that's why he avoids it and talks 'half-truths' like he accuses Romney of. That publicity stunt of taking the high road-- that 'cancelled' ad was filled with 'half-truth' that wrongly reflected Romney's position. He didn't go through all the details behind the $50 for abortions that was a court mandate opposed by Romney but was the LAW in MA and yet he whined that Romney is vicious for exposing his record. The Huckster isn't fooling anyone that isn't an absolute FOOL. McCain's ads are the same as Romney's. They all talked about how to stop immigrants from coming in, but they all avoided telling us what they would really do about all the illegals that are currently here-- draining our ecomony and social programs. Romney is the only one really serious about irradicating the problem. Romney is making distinctions between candidates-- the Republican's better pull their heads out or we'll have a Democratic, soon to be socialistic America, on our hands.

  • Posted By: AshleyKeen @ 01/07/2008 10:44:39 AM

    Comment: Why not both? I think a Huckabee/McCain presidency would be quite fabulous... although it probably wouldn't make for very aestetically pleasing bumpter stickers

  • Posted By: hananiel @ 01/07/2008 10:18:50 AM

    Comment: Boo hoo! Why even try to be good. Why not be the worst we can, since this is our natural tendency. All things good and decent are fake. Aren't we after all monkeys with suits on!. Watch Huckabee show what authenticity and progress is ...

  • Posted By: GinaTem @ 01/06/2008 2:19:33 PM

    Comment: If Huckabee and McCain end up the frontrunners, my prediction is that they will both continue praising each other while underhandedly causing harm to the campaigns.

    All campaigners have their dark secrets revealed. Everyone has dark secrets - it just so happens that they're not publically broadcast to the entire nation, if not hte entire world. People make mistakes and lose their tempers. It happens.

    I agree more with Republicans on where they stand with their views, but the democratic party knows what 'progress' means. Though the vast majority of America is religious, I do believe with the democratic candidates acknowledging their religious views that they may earn a seat in the White House, but it'll be close. There seem to be no strong, hardball Republicans, yet we criticize Hillary for being too tough and stubborn.

    Hypocrites? Maybe. But perhaps we should instead take into consideration one's overall character, not the facade they put on, not just the nasty things that come out of their backgrounds. Who would you want running the country? One with morals. One with a grounded mind. One who isn't afraid to stand up for their country in times of need.

    A leader serves. Who would be the best servant? Let's think instead about that and not the past, not what's happened back then.

  • Posted By: uuforyou @ 01/05/2008 6:22:46 PM

    Comment: Huckabee and the Republican party are a lose lose situation.
    Either Huckabee loses or the Republican party loses.
    If Huckabee wins, the Republicans lose because they will forever be branded a party
    of fanatical Religious zelots. With no consideration for anything like a "Broad Reagan style coalition".
    If Huckabee loses, the Republican party wins because it keeps its "Big tent" togather.
    Any party, Republican or Democrat, needs a broad coalition to win.
    Also, I do not think the "Value voters" are going to rebel against
    the Republican party, they are not going to vote Democrat in large numbers. They can sit out
    elections, but with, that they give up any piece of the political pie.
    Huckabee as a nominee or VP would be a disaster for an already
    fragmented Republican party.
    Same can be said for McCain, add that he's status quo and out of date.

 
 
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