Huckabee versus Romney

How Far Will Mitt Go To Become President?

Recently, Gov. Romney claimed that he saw his father march with Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Then he claimed that he only saw them walk together "in the figurative sense."

With Mitt Romney, I suppose it all depends on what the definition of "saw" is.

Gov. Romney claims to have donned the mantle of Ronald Reagan. However, with hair-splitting like this, he is beginning to sound like Bill Clinton.

Mitt Romney has already demonstrated his propensity to stretch the truth in order to get elected. Months ago, he said that he was a lifelong hunter---even though he had only been hunting twice in his life: once as a teenager and once this past year.

This time he does it with the issue of race---in the same week, no less, as his misty-eyed interview on Meet the Press where he claimed to have cried when his church finally allowed African-Americans to join after more than 100 years of segregation.

Makes you wonder, doesn't it? If he is capable of using Clinton-speak to describe how he saw his father march with Dr. King, then perhaps he is capable of rewriting his own personal history when it comes to how he cried over the admission of African-Americans into his church denomination.

(BTW, when Ted Kennedy raised the same issues in 1994 during their hotly contested senate race, I don't recall him mentioning any tears.)

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Mike Huckabee for Commander in Chief

Huckabee Leaps Into 1st Place Nationally

Rasmussen Reports has a new national Presidential Tracking Poll that has Governor Huckabee in 1st place for the first time.

Mike Huckabee 20%

Rudy Giuliani 17%

John McCain 13%

Mitt Romney 13%

Fred Thompson 10%

Giuliani, Romney, and Huckabee asked about their belief in the Bible

Today's Republicans might not elect Reagan

By Steven Thomma | McClatchy Newspapers

WASHINGTON — They want to put his face on Mount Rushmore, but Republicans today are demanding such ideological purity that they might not even nominate Ronald Reagan for president if he were to run now.

Abortion? He was for abortion rights before he was against them.

Taxes? He raised them as governor, and raised them several times as president after his big 1981 tax cuts.

Immigration? He signed the law that Republicans now call amnesty for illegals.

Foreign policy? He negotiated with the head of the "Evil Empire."

In fact, they'd find him wrong on almost every hot-button issue of the 2008 campaign.

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Huckabee: 'a different kind of Jesus juice'

The Republican's idiosyncratic agenda in Arkansas -- a health plan, taxes for parks -- was always driven by faith, he says.

By Richard Fausset, Los Angeles Times Staff Writer
December 2, 2007

LITTLE ROCK, ARK. -- In 2005, a Republican state senator named Jim Holt introduced a bill to deny public benefits to Arkansas' soaring population of illegal immigrants. Holt, a Southern Baptist minister, figured it was a rock-solid conservative idea -- a matter, he said, "of right and wrong." Arkansas' governor at the time was also a professed conservative, and also a Southern Baptist minister. But Mike Huckabee had only scorn for his fellow Republican's proposal.

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Vote for Mike Huckabee

Mike Huckabee discusses the momentum of his campaign

NEW YORK TIMES: Huckabee’s Stature Rises, Mobilizing Tax Critics

By LESLIE WAYNE

Published: December 2, 2007

As Mike Huckabee rises in the Republican presidential polls, fiscal conservatives have been raising alarms about a series of tax increases he oversaw while governor of Arkansas — new taxes on gasoline, nursing home beds and even pet groomers.

The Club for Growth, a politically influential antitax group, has dubbed Mr. Huckabee Tax Hike Mike and poured money into anti-Huckabee advertisements that were broadcast in early nominating states, with more on the way. Mr. Huckabee “spends money like a drunken sailor,” according to the group’s news releases, and it has sprinkled YouTube and the airways with videos that mock him and his policies.

But the record offers a more complex and nuanced picture. While taxes did rise in the 10 years that Mr. Huckabee was governor, the portrayal of him as a wild-eyed spendthrift is hardly apt. For the most part, Mr. Huckabee’s tax initiatives had wide bipartisan support, with the small number of Republicans in the overwhelmingly Democratic state legislature voting for the tax increases and many maintaining that the state was better for them.

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Why Chuck Endorsed Mike - Episode 1