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Saturday, December 22, 2007
posted by Jeff Fuller | 7:28 PM | permalink
Some teasers from El Rushbo's show yesterday:

"Who is this campaign to be defining who is or who is not a conservative? I never heard of Huckabee in an important ideological way before this campaign got going, and believe me, I know who the conservatives are out there."
. . .
"the Huckabee campaign is apparently very thin-skinned."
. . .
"Again, when I raise questions about public reports regarding any candidate's record or position, what I am doing is comparing the record and position with our founding conservative principles. I am a conservative first. I am not a Republican first. It matters. When I raise questions about, say, about Governor Huckabee's positions on illegal aliens, tax increases, the release of hundreds of criminals via pardon and his rhetoric about our war effort, sorry, I'm trying to develop an understanding of the guy so I can determine for myself whether he is in fact the kind of conservative you and me want as our president."
. . .
"I mean, individuals who have fought immigration for years are not happy with his open borders positions as governor. They're just not. Anti-tax groups are unhappy with his tax increases when he was governor. Conservatives who helped defeat the Soviet Union under Ronaldus Magnus are troubled by his statements about our war effort and his desire to negotiate with Iran, for instance -- and it raised eyebrows among longtime school-choice advocates when the New Hampshire NEA endorsed Huckabee. They endorsed Hillary on the Democrat side; Huckabee on the right. The NEA is not interested in conservatives getting any kind of power anywhere. So it seems to me that it is Huckabee's record that is well suited for the axis of liberalism that he decries."
. . .
"I'm getting the sense that Mike Huckabee doesn't want to debate the issues, and he's relying on other things as a firewall to keep the issues from coming up. Folks, we have to force a debate on the issues, our issues. That has to happen. Conservatism is what unites a lot of us together, you and me in this audience"
. . .
"You know, McCain's starting to look better to me than this guy -- and that's saying something! More I see what Huckster's -- Huckabee's (laughs) record was in Arkansas, there's a lot of liberalism in there. There certainly isn't a lot of Reaganism in there, and I think that the Huckabee campaign is trying to dumb down conservatism to comport with his record,"
. . .
"What we have going on here is identity politics, I think, in a large swath of support for Governor Huckabee. Identity politics is what the left does. . . . Identity politics is: You vote for the Christian. You vote for the black. You vote for the woman. This is traditionally how the left looks at people. We, as conservatives, don't. . . . That's identity politics, or a little strain of it, and that's what's happening in the Huckabee race. The identity of Huckabee is: "Christian, Southern Baptist minister," and that identity is covering and is being translated by supporters as meaning whatever they want it to mean, as opposed to actually looking at how he's governed. Like the pastor who just called and said Huckabee is a light at the end of the tunnel. Pastor, the light at the end of the tunnel is the oncoming train, and you can't get off the track! That's the light at the end of the tunnel, and I think identity politics was a fundamental feature of the Perot campaign as well. . . .If you look at Huckabee in an identity sense and yet at the same time you really think illegal immigration is destroying this country, then your identity association with Huckabee as a Christian likely will make you overlook the fact that he's opposite your belief on illegal immigration. Jimmy Carter was a Southern Baptist and he ran on that and he tried to capitalize on that. He ran on the religious identity, too."
. . .
"If we can choose a candidate who is pro-life and anti-same-sex marriage and good on national security, illegal immigration, taxes, and spending, why shouldn't we choose that candidate?"


Folks . . . these comments by Rush could be race-changing.

See the "good parts" transcripts, links to other commentaries, and some analysis this post over at Iowans for Romney

Jeff Fuller
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Huck's pretty much blown off both feet with his attacks on Rush and Bush's foreign policy.He has a total tin ear when it comes to conservative principles.Even if he survives Iowa he's meat after that as a broader swath of republican voters take over.



Huck's pretty much blown off both feet with his attacks on Rush and Bush's foreign policy.He has a total tin ear when it comes to conservative principles.Even if he survives Iowa he's meat after that as a broader swath of republican voters take over.




Friday, December 21, 2007
posted by Anonymous | 9:01 PM | permalink



Timotheus: I wanted to say Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays to all of the loyal MyManMitt contributors and readers. It has been a fantastic year. The caucuses are coming soon. Who needs the Rose Bowl when you have all of this election excitement? When you see your friends and family over the holiday, why don't you see if they aren't willing to contribute something for the last push at the beginning of the year. Romney is so close to victory. Every little bit makes a difference. We are almost there. Once again, Merry Christmas!
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Wow,check out this NY Times story about the Huckster. This guy ran his state with a bunker mentality.He froze Republicans out who didn't agree with him and cozied up to the libs who did.
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/12/22/us/politics/22huckabee.html?_r=2&th=&adxnnl=1&oref=slogin&emc=th&adxnnlx=1198318265-FnYerchrrB1nlt5+GAzZnw



Sorry, but I need the Rose bowl.

I will take it any day over election excitement.

Especially when the election coverage won't end for 11 months!




posted by Anonymous | 8:50 PM | permalink
Its rare that I do this, but after Mitt Romney talked about his Dad marching with Martin Luther King Jr. recently, people were questioning whether that was true. Here is the entire text of a Politico article today:

Shirley Basore, 72, says she was sitting in the hairdresser’s chair in wealthy Grosse Pointe, Mich., back in 1963 when a rumpus started and she discovered that Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and her governor, George Romney, were marching for civil rights — right past the window.

With the cape still around her neck, Basore went outside and joined the parade.

“They were hand in hand,” recalled Basore, a former high-school English teacher. “They led the march. We all swung our hands, and they held their hands up above everybody else’s.”

She remembered the late governor as “extremely handsome.”

Until this week, that was just a vivid memory for a sweet retiree who now lives in Pompano Beach, Fla.

But Basore’s memory became important this week when news accounts questioned the recollections of the late Michigan governor’s son, Mitt Romney, the Republican presidential candidate and former Massachusetts governor.

News stories suggested that Romney was exaggerating. It turns out that he may not have attended the Grosse Pointe march, but it certainly happened.

The campaign posted citations quoting one author as writing that “George Romney made a surprise appearance in his shirt sleeves and joined the parade leaders.”

Stephen Hess and David S. Broder also wrote about the march in their 1967 book, “The Republican Establishment: The Present and Future of the G.O.P.”

Basore said she was very angry about how the issue has been covered on cable television.

“This very arrogant guy on TV questioned Mitt Romney, and I marched with them,” Basore said. “I hope that the campaign demands an apology. I want him to publicly apologize to me. That was a personal insult, and an insult to Mitt Romney.”

Basore said she called the campaign, and the campaign supplied her contact information.

Another witness, Ashby Richardson, 64, of Massachusetts gave the campaign a similar account.

“I’m just appalled that the news picks this stuff up and say it didn’t happen,” Richardson, now a data-collection consultant, said by phone. “The press is being disingenuous in terms of reporting what actually happened. I remember it vividly. I was only 15 or 20 feet from where both of them were.”
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I hope they're right, but I have concerns now that Mitt will be labeled a liar because historical facts and other witnesses say otherwise. I think Mitt needs to come forward and fess up to what he "remembers" verses what actually happened. As a voting population, we HATE liars but we embrace those who come forward and deal with the consequences.



The point of the article was to talk about what did in fact happen. The people who assumed it didn't happen and attacked Mitt's credibility should do the mea culpa.



This is unfortunately NOT going to go away. I am a Mitt supporter but am very worried now. Check out this article in The Phoenix:
http://thephoenix.com/TalkingPolitics/PermaLink.aspx?guid=ff666446-0340-417d-9520-5c7b030bed55

I wish the Romney campaign luck with this mess and hope it hasn't cost him the nomination.




posted by Anonymous | 8:46 PM | permalink
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posted by Anne | 1:52 PM | permalink
Mike Huckabee--he dumps the books out of the bookshelves. Peggy Noonan on Huckabee's Christmas ad. He thinks we're dim.
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Well Huck just said the U.S. should cut ties with the Saudis, saying we don't need their oil any more than we need their sand. What planet does this guy live on?




posted by Anne | 1:42 PM | permalink
"Ludicrous". Breitbart:
In a brief foray into politics, Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice on Friday denounced comments by a leading Republican presidential candidate that the Bush administration's foreign policy is arrogant and unilateral.

"The idea that somehow this is a go-it-alone policy is just simply ludicrous," she said at a State Department news conference. "One would only have to be not observing the facts, let me say that, to say that this is now a go-it-alone foreign policy."

Rice went on to lay out our multilateral efforts.

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posted by Jeff Fuller | 8:38 AM | permalink
See it over at Iowans for Romney

Plus, Big Jay has joined us as a blogger at Iowans for Romney. He's got some interesting posts up (here and here and here.

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I'd rather have Tancredo's endorsement than that lawn chair vigilante that endorsed the Huckster.




Thursday, December 20, 2007
posted by Anne | 10:05 PM | permalink
Reid Wilson today, on his RCP Blog, Politics Nation:
Two weeks ago, Mitt Romney strode to a podium in College Station, Texas, and delivered a speech fraught with peril. The Mormon candidate, sick and tired of answering questions about his religion, was going to address faith in the public square and get it off his chest once and for all. Romney's Mormonism has been seen as an albatross around his neck, and with flagging poll numbers, a speech actually addressing the issue head-on was seen as a huge gamble that could make, or would break, his campaign.

Two weeks later, polls show Romney has reversed his slide, and while he isn't at the top of the GOP pack again, he's on his way up.
Read on for poll specifics and analysis.
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I think Mitt Romney doing his best moving toward president 2008. I am look forward to it. I don't really care he is Mormon or whatever the religion it is. His speech in Texas was GREAT !!! I loved his speech. His speech was better than Ronald Regan I used to know. His time was good time,too. I liked him too. Now is the time to change and create some presidency way. Mitt Romney has really Great for every Method. I really think that Mitt Romney could change America in the way. I agree every he is talking I feel his speech as president of the United States. I look forward to see that. America need President like him NOW. He will change America like his governor of his States. Winter Olympic in Utah was great success too. I hope he will do better if he will be president of United States. I want to see he create America wisely. I wish he will win the race by most of the States. I will cheer him up by post comment for him. Thank you for reading my comment. From Mike Miyake




posted by Myclob | 9:15 PM | permalink


Thursday, December 20, 2007

I'd really like to know which "prominent DC-based Huckabee ally" told Mark Ambinder that...

 "Rush [Limbaugh] doesn't think for himself. That's not necessarily a slap because he's not paid to be a thinker—he's an entertainer. I can't remember the last time that he has veered from the talking points from the DC/Manhattan chattering class. If they were praising Huckabee, he would be too... Also, I have to think that he's dying to have Hillary in the White House. Bill Clinton made Rush a megastar. Having another Clinton back in power would make him the Leading Voice of the Opposition once again."

Really? Rush Limbaugh is part of the DC/Manhattan chattering class?

Hey, if Rush Limbaugh isn't "red state enough" to question Huckabee's conservative street cred, who is?

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If I recall correctly.Rush Limbaugh is the #1 source of hard news in the country. His listeners are among the most informed in the country. People want to know what Rush thinks about an issue,not whether he can juggle bowling pins as in an entertainer. The attack line about him being an entertainer is right out of the liberal playbook. John McCain said the same thing a couple years ago.Sure he adds humor and satire to his schitck but it's only done to illustrate absurdity with absurdity. Rush's audience are family members,it goes way beyond casual listeners tuning in for a guffaw or two.How much more junk in the trunk does the Huckster and his kooky cabal have?



BIG MISTAKE! Say goodnight Gracie.



A song by the band Steam comes to mind as I read this.




posted by Myclob | 8:55 PM | permalink
http://www.townhall.com/columnists/GeorgeWill/2007/12/20/retro_campaigning

Retro Campaigning
By George Will
Thursday, December 20, 2007

...

On the Republican side, Mike Huckabee's role in the '70s Show involves blending Jimmy Carter's ostentatious piety with Nixon's knack for oblique nastiness. "Despicable" and "appalling" evidence of a "gutter campaign" -- that is how The Eagle-Tribune of Lawrence, Mass., characterized this from Sunday's New York Times Magazine profile of Huckabee: "'Don't Mormons,' he asked in an innocent voice, 'believe that Jesus and the devil are brothers?'"

Imagine someone asking "in an innocent voice" this: "Don't Jews use the blood of gentile children to make matzoth for Passover?" Such a smarmy injection of the "blood libel," an ancient canard of anti-Semitism, into civic discourse would indelibly brand the injector as a bigot with contempt for the public's ability to decode bigotry.

Huckabee's campaign actually is what Rudy Giuliani's candidacy is misdescribed as being -- a comprehensive apostasy against core Republican beliefs. Giuliani departs from recent Republican stances regarding two issues -- abortion and the recognition by the law of same-sex couples. Huckabee's radical candidacy broadly repudiates core Republican policies such as free trade, low taxes, the essential legitimacy of America's corporate entities and the market system allocating wealth and opportunity. And consider New Hampshire's chapter of the National Education Association, the teachers union that is a crucial component of the Democratic Party's base.

In 2004, New Hampshire's chapter endorsed Howard Dean in the Democratic primary and no one in the Republican primary. Last week it endorsed Hillary Clinton in the Democratic primary -- and Huckabee in the Republican primary. It likes, as public employees generally do, his record of tax increases, and it applauds his opposition to school choice.

Huckabee's role in this year's '70s Show is not merely to attempt to revise a few Republican beliefs. He represents wholesale repudiation of what came after the 1970s -- Reaganism.

George F. Will, a 1976 Pulitzer Prize winner whose columns are syndicated in more than 400 magazines and newspapers worldwide, is the author of Men at Work: The Craft of Baseball.

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posted by Justin Hart | 8:08 PM | permalink

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posted by Justin Hart | 4:49 PM | permalink

This was the video that played last night on the exclusive Mitt supporters webcast. One thing that no other candidate really has done is to tell the journey of their campaign. If you've every been lost wondering where and when things happened this should clear it up. It runs about 12 minutes.

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Excellent! I wasn't able to join in last night, so thank you for posting this video. Great behind the scenes look and reaffirms my vote.



Wow! America would be so blessed with Romney as President. Wake up American citizens, open your eyes and your ears and see what a great opportunity this is to change the downward spiral we are heading into.

American NEEDS Mitt Romney as President.



I got chills when I saw this! What a wonderful leader, visionary, father, grandfather, husband and AMERICAN!

My FULL and UNWAVERING support to Mitt Romney!




posted by Anonymous | 3:43 PM | permalink
The Five Brothers blog has linked to this video of Mitt talking on Meet the Press about his dad, George Romney. Very enjoyable.
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posted by Justin Hart | 3:34 PM | permalink
Mitt Romney.

Thanks Tom!
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Timotheus Writes: I respect Tom quite a bit and previously noted on this website that I had tried to mail him my thoughts on why he should drop out and endorse Romney. Two things stood out to me in the Politico article today about the endorsement. It is clear that part of the reasoning behind Tancredo's endorsement is that Romney stood up for conservative principles in a very democratic state. The other is that, if anyone will solve the problems with immigration, Romney is the most likely to get the job done. Also, check out the video announcement of Tancredo's withdrawal here. Whatever you might think about Tom Tancredo, his decision today clearly stands on his principles and you have to respect people who remember their principles.



Although, Tancredo had a lot of praise for Romney, just look at the Reuters article to further prove the point that this was partially an anti-Up-Chuck-abee endorsement.

http://www.reuters.com/article/politicsNews/idUSN2021273820071220

He said Romney, who he met with before making his announcement, had a solid record on immigration and praised him as "the best hope for our cause."

"He will secure our borders," he said. "He'll require those who are presently here illegally to return home. He also has, by the way, a solid record that matches his rhetoric."

He said staying in the race might benefit candidates who he described as "abysmal" on immigration, pointing to the rise of former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee.



And my last piece of evidence showing that Tancredo wants to make sure that Up-Chuck-abee does not win:

Tancredo's remarks quoted at Radio Iowa blog @ http://learfield.typepad.com/radioiowa/2007/12/tancredo-drops.html

"...There's a candidate who meets several criteria from my point of view....He will secure our borders....he'll require those who are presently here illegally to return home. He also has, by the way, a solid record that matches his rhetoric....He can go the distance. This morning I met with Governor Mitt Romney....I am withdrawing from this race and I am endorsing Governor Romney."

In answer to a reporter's question, Tancredo says of Romney: "He is the best hope for our cause."

In answer to another question -- about whether the rise of Huckabee had something to do with his decision, Tancredo said: "You bet your life it was."



Tancredo's endorsement of Romney solidifies the fact that Romney is a guy who knows how to make a plan and follow through with the plan.

"It's not that people plan to fail; it's that people fail to plan."




posted by Myclob | 2:02 PM | permalink
Frank Gaffney has been cited by Mike Huckabee as one of the two guys he gets foreign policy advice from, the other being The New York Times' Thomas Friedman.  Here's my exchange with Gaffney on yesterday's show ( transcript here):

HH: Since you're one of the unofficial advisors to Mike Huckabee, I want to play for you a little Huckabee quote from, concerning Iran. Cut number five. He made this in a speech earlier this year. 

MH: We haven't had diplomatic relationships with Iran in almost thirty years, most of my entire adult life. And a lot of good it's done. Putting this in human terms, all of us know that when we stop talking to a parent or a sibling, or even a friend, it's impossible to resolve the difference to move that relationship forward. Well, the same is true for countries.   

HH: What do you think, Frank Gaffney? 

FG: Well, for the purposes of setting the record straight, Hugh, I want you and your audience to recall that the other guy he mentioned in this New York Times Sunday Magazine interview as advising him was Tom Friedman of the New York Times. And that sounds a lot more like Tom's advice than my advice. I think that's cockamamie, and in fact, I had an hour and a half, I think, conversation with Governor Huckabee a couple of months ago over breakfast, and this was one of the main points on which I tried to educate him, that this is not a sibling that you just aren't having a good time with. This is a country run by megalomaniacs bent on an apocalyptic outcome, who believe that bringing about a world without America is their god-given obligation. And you know, just talking with them, you know, can't we all get along, Rodney King style, is not a prescription for a serious foreign policy, I'm afraid. 

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The more endorsements Mitt can get from the south the better. Phil Gingrey is also on board I believe.Georgia is sort of an old/new south and obviously one needs to win in the general. He's facing a northeat bias so this can't hurt none winning over southerners.




posted by Anne | 8:37 AM | permalink
Robert Novak's column today in the Chicago Sun Times, "Baptist brethren split on Huckabee". Basically, Huckabee was a liberal within that group, just as he was within Republicans in Arkansas. Novak on one prominent minister:
Pressler is known to be concerned that Huckabee plays to the establishment and would be subservient to the State Department and the New York Times.
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posted by Kyle Hampton | 11:46 PM | permalink
I had so many comments on my Fair Tax post that I wanted to respond to some of the points made:

First, several people made the point that Europe has a Value Added Tax (VAT) that is more than the 10% figure that I quoted. All of the research that I read made a distinction between the VAT and a national retail sales tax like the Fair Tax. This distinction is based on the mechanics of the tax. The value added tax looks at what a firm adds to the value of a product where a national sales tax is an excise tax levied at the point of sale. The end result looks similar because the VAT is passed on to the consumer. However, the VAT requires firms to report the value added at each stage of production. A national retail sales tax does not require any such reporting other than that the national rate has been applied. The figure I used looked just at those countries using a national retail sales tax and did not include those countries using a VAT.

Second, several readers expressed frustration at the current tax system and argued that we are essentially paying the same rate as what the Fair Tax would impose. That may be true, but I don’t understand how that merits scrapping the current system. If the Fair Tax does the exact same thing, why should switch? The tie goes toward stability, does it not? People have planned, not just in the short term, but in the long term for the tax benefits of the current system. Revolutionizing the way we tax would upset the expectations of a millions of Americans and businesses. Thus, doing something that drastic requires not just generalized frustration, but serious injustice. Generally, I think that frustration with the current tax system has made people over-eager to do something else. I don’t deny that the current system has its flaws. Indeed, it should be flatter and simpler. However, taking the extreme position of overhauling what we have and disturbing the expectations of those who are paying taxes seems unwise to me.

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For benefit of your readers, I posted a couple of explanatory comments at your last post. Here I'll layout the essentials. The FairTax is...

• SIMPLE, easy to understand
• EFFICIENT, inexpensive to comply with and doesn't cause less-than-optimal business decisions for tax minimization purposes
• FAIR, FLAT, and FAMILY FRIENDLY, loophole-free, and everyone pays their share
• LOW TAX RATE is achieved by broad base with no exclusions
• PREDICTABLE, doesn't change, so financial planning is possible
• UNINTRUSIVE, doesn't intrude into our personal affairs or limit our liberty
• VISIBLE, not hidden from the public in tax-inflated prices or otherwise
• PRODUCTIVE, rewards - rather than penalizes - work and productivity


A detailed benefits analysis of the plan (from The FairTax Book) explains such strong support:

For INDIVIDUALS:
• No more tax on income - make as much as you wish
• FairTax is paid on retail goods and services when purchased new, not used

• You receive your full paycheck - no more deductions
• Every household receives a monthly amount, or "prebate"
• "Prebate" is "advance tax payback" for monthly consumption to poverty level
• FairTax ensures poverty protection, being less regressive than income tax
• Increased household income preserves real purchasing power against any higher prices

• Reduction of pre-FairTaxed retail prices (due to reduced costs; increased competition)
• 29.9% mark-up yields 23% FairTax portion of new price tags
• FairTax portion of new prices reveal true cost of gov't to consumers

• FairTax is captured on illicit forms of income, when spent
• Parasitic income tax filing industry eliminated
• No double taxation on goods and services
No more IRS or FILING OF INCOME TAX returns
• Savings is bolstered with reduction of interest rates


For BUSINESSES:
• Corporate income and payroll taxes revoked under FairTax
• Business compensated for collecting tax at "cash register"
• No more tax-related lawyers, lobbyists on company payrolls
No more embedded (hidden) income/payroll taxes in prices
• Reduced costs. Competition - not tax policy - drives prices
• Off-shore "tax haven" headquarters can now return to U.S
No more "favors" from politicians at expense of taxpayers
• Resources go to R&D and study of competition - not taxes
• Global "free (and equitable) trade" becomes possible for currently-disadvanted U.S. exports
• U.S. exports increase their share of foreign markets


For the COUNTRY:
• 7% - 13% economic growth projected in the first year of the FairTax
Jobs return to the U.S.
• Foreign corporations "set up shop" in the U.S.
• Tax system trends are corrected to "enlarge the pie"
• Larger economic "pie," means thinner tax rate "slices"
• Initial 23% portion of price is pressured downward as "pie" increases
No more "closed door" tax deals by politicians and business
• FairTax sets new global standard. Other countries will follow


Mr. Romney's weak response to FairTax questioning on “This Week with Geo. Stephanopoulos” elevated his opponent who seems to understand the core problem. Understatedly, Mr. Huckabee quipped that what's wrong with the income tax can't be fixed with "a tap of the hammer, nor a twist of the screwdriver." But make no mistake, he's on to the bigger picture, and he pointedly understands the larger ramifications of how enacting the FairTax can course-correct global trade inequities.

While Mr. Romney clings to the destructive tax code, the IRS, preserving political power of granting tax favors at continued cost to - and misery of - American working families, his opponent speaks to Americans who have a terrible feeling that it is not only difficult to surmount increasing barriers to reach the next rung on the wealth ladder, but should they succeed, they'll need to spend an additional fortune to keep from having their hard-earned success confiscated by a government whose idea of "fairness" derives from Karl Marx's playbook (paraphrased), "From those according to their abundance, to those according to their need."



It seems like a flat tax produces much of the same pros that are mentioned by Ian, with less overhead.

Implementing and regulating the sales tax and it's refund system seems more complicated to me than something like a flat tax.

Now I don't think Romney is pushing for a tax overhaul, but a flat tax seems much more practical than a sales tax.

By the way. I grew up in Alberta Canada. When I was young, there was no sales tax. I liked that you could go up to the register and pay the amount that it was advertised for without having to add taxes in your head.

The conservative government then in 1991 reformed the tax system by replacing a 13.5% hidden Manufacturers' Sales Tax with a 7% visible Goods and Services Tax. Revenue neutral would have been a 9% sales tax.

So they lowered the tax but made it more visible (As a fair tax would do--I assume most people make more purchases than they get paychecks).

The next election they lost all but 2 of their 151 seats in parliament.

So even if Huckabee is able to get this implemented (There's no way in Hades it will be if Bush can't even get Social Security reform through), don't count on republican re-election the following election. In fact I think it is fair to say that if Huckabee were to pass this in his first term, he would not get the Republican nomination for re-election.



Ian, thank you for all that lovley propeganda. Quantity does not make up for lack of content. Just post a link the fairtax.org next time. I have seen your post on other sites. You guys sure do get out in force. This is not the only way to introduce a consumption tax, and Warren Buffetts political views arn't exacly conservative, and don't represent the views of most of the readers of MMM. I emplore you to read these.

http://thoughtfulideas.blogspot.com/2007/12/is-national-retail-sales-tax-good-idea.html

http://www.opinionjournal.com/best/?id=110011009



Stephen, I don't really expect much from bloggers - and comments like yours don't surprise me. It's far easier to engage in Psychologist David Burn's Cognitive Distortion No. 6 - Minimzation / Magnification - than to actually engage on the specifics of points that I've taken great pains to learn about, research, and present to you for thoughtful consideration.



Kyle,
It's truly not just a matter of replacing one system for another. There are almost too many negatives in the current tax code to count. Regardless of personal or even public feelings about the current tax system, even the United States Government itself has come out and said that the current tax system is broken and is costing both the American Worker and it's government, huge amounts of money, lost jobs, etc. The minor tweaks that Mitt and others are proposing, however helpful over the next 4 to 8 years, are not going to fix the tax code enough to avoid financial train wreck we face in the next 20 to 30 years. The Current tax code needs to be eliminated and replaced, and to date the best option presented has been the Fair Tax. PLEASE, use this link and read this Very Well written article:
( http://www.realclearmarkets.com
/articles/2007/12/the_fair_tax_is
_about_economic.html )

Stephen, any time you have some facts or figures you'd like to have an honest conversation or debate about, I'm sure that Ian or I would gladly participate. I'm not above being proven wrong, but with the amount of research done by top economic scholars on the Fair Tax and it's figures, those who have legitimate beefs are very few, and very far between.



Romney said "Government is Broken!". Yet ignoring a system that would make a huge economic progression is hipocritical. I want to "fix" the gov't but I don't care about ideas that could easily do so, come on. I agree with everything else Romney says, but ignoring FairTax is ignoring the current economic situation.
Where's Regan? GOD BLESS AMERICA!

By Anonymous Anonymous, at April 3, 2008 at 11:04 AM  



posted by Myclob | 8:48 PM | permalink
From Powerline, Paul Mirengoff says the following:

This was Mike Huckabee's comment on the Today show in response to Rich Lowry's argument that the Republican party should not nominate Huckabee for president:

"There's a sense in which all these years the evangelicals have been treated very kindly by the Republican Party. They wanted us to be a part of it. And then one day one of us actually runs, and they say, Oh, my gosh. Now they're serious. They don't want to just show up and vote. They actually would want to be a part of the discussion, and really talk about issues that include hunger and poverty and things that ought to be really a concern to every American, Democrat or Republican, liberal or conservative."

This self-pitying nonsense is an insult to Republicans, and demonstrates further why Huckabee should not be the party's standard bearer. First, Huckabee overlooks the fact that George W. Bush, though not a preacher, is a born-again Christian. If Republicans like Lowry wanted to keep Christian conservatives at arms-length why did they support Bush so firmly? The notion that evangelicals have somehow been excluded from the Republican discussion is ludicrous.

Second, the quickness with which Huckabee conflates criticism of his record and his policy statements with antipathy towards evangelicals is telling. Although Huckabee exudes charm and humility, I've heard Arkansas Republicans complain of his thin skin and vindictiveness. His statement on the Today program tends to confirm that assessment.

Huckabee seems to believe he deserves a "pass" by virtue of his status as an evangelical and the fact that evangelicals have supported Republicans. That's a dangerous mind set. Other serious Republican candidates have no difficulty understanding that resistance to them flows not from prejudice or elitism but from legitimate policy differences. Thus, Rudy Giuliani understands that his "pro-choice" and related positions, not anti-Catholicism, represent the source of Republican resistance. And John McCain has acknowledged that his position on immigration reform, not prejudice or personal animus (of which there actually is some), was the reason why his campaign faltered so dramatically. Huckabee's small-mindedness stands in sharp contrast, and constitutes another reason to see him as second-tier in stature, if not in present popularity.

Huckabee's statement aspires to seriousness when he attributes criticism from Lowry and others not just to his standing as an evangelical but also to his desire to "talk about hunger and poverty." Perhaps, then, Huckabee will point to the Republican critics who have attacked him for discussing these issues. To my knowledge, the criticism has focused on matters like tax increases (though I defended him on this), scholarships (not food) for illegal immigrants, the release from prison of an obviously dangerous rapist, the desire to negotiate directly with Iran, the desire to trade with Cuba in order to confer profits on Arkansas farmers, and so forth. Huckabee's strange and sometimes false explanations of these matters haven't helped him either.

If Huckabee's argument is that his religious beliefs impel him to wage war on poverty, he should articulate his anti-poverty agenda so that conservatives can examine the extent to which it comports with bedrock conservative principles. Right now, it looks like Huckabee has little use for the poverty issue beyond invoking it to whine about his critics.

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Pure comedy! I only noticed it a couple of weeks ago, but I've been proclaiming it since then. Huckabee regularly uses self-victimization ploys to ward off criticism and to get attention. He usually adds a few ad hominems to the mix too.

How many times have your heard him suggest that he's the candidate who's suffered the most from religious persecution this cycle? How many times has he referred to his critics as liberals or in some other insulting, yet, irrational way? How many times have you seen him call a critic dishonest, only to totally avoid the substance of the criticism?

It's becoming as comical and not-compelling as his rhymes. This dishonest man is falling apart and I can't help but chuckle.




posted by Justin Hart | 6:04 PM | permalink
I've been looking over the 2006 Senate race polls that Rasmussen did right before the election. On average, they were 2-3% points off... but all in all they did a pretty good job calling the state level elections. My gut feeling tells me that Rass. polls are leading indicators and that other polls will start showing the same trends shortly in Iowa and New Hampshire.

Those trends are:

  1. The Huckabust is indeed coming (don't tell Abe)

  2. Romney is holding well in New Hampshire and building strength in Iowa and

  3. McCain is back.

I'll churn out some New Hampshire details tomorrow. But here are the key points from the Iowa crosstabs:

  • Huckabee lost 11% points since last week. Romney gained 4% and McCain 8%

  • Gender breakdown: Oh, the fickle female race. Huck lost 20% points from women (McCain gained 13 of those in turn). Compare that to an 8% point loss from the male column for Huck. (Don't show my wife this post :) )

  • Age bracket: The young upstarts (18-29) are pretty settled on their choices now according to Rasmussen. But the 40-49 crowd are on the move, shedding themselves of Huck by 27% while 21% have hoped over to McCain. Huck lost 21% of the 50-64 crowd which dispersed across the entire crowd of folks.

  • Political leanings: Wow! Did the full throttle hammering from the other candidates really work? Looks like it. Huck lost a whopping 38% of the conservative vote. Mitt actually wins this round by picking up 24% vs. McCain who picked up 14%.

  • Married with kids: These folks abandoned Huck as well. 24% and 26% respetively. There must be something to this because the single / no kids demo didn't move away from Huck hardly at all.

  • $$$. Huck lost double digit % points in almost all the wealth brackets. Once again, McCain and Romney traded gains from these groups.

  • Religion. OK. Drumroll please.... Evangelical Christians matched the Conservative demo and left Huckbee by 35%. Yikes.

  • People are generally fickle as well. 25% of those who said they were certainly going to vote for Huckabee changed their minds. Note this. Mitt now leads the "certain" pack with 32% of people indicating they are staying put. Compare that to Huck with 16% and McCain with 17% certainty.

Bottom line. Remember those religious women having trouble deciding who to vote for and taking a hard look at Huckabee? They changed their mind. McCain is taking about half of the crowd leaving the Huck auditorium. Romney takes about 30% and the rest peter out among Ron Paul and Rudy.

McCain shows some real momentum and Romney has regained his former standing. Here's McCain's problem in Iowa... he needs Huckabee to absolutely bottom out before he can even meet Romney head to head. With Thompson's King endorsement and newfound life this will be a fight.

Are we bored yet? :)

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posted by Scott Allan | 4:22 PM | permalink
During an interview with Glenn Beck, Mitt Romney sees Putin for who he really is, a dangerous, anti-American, ex-KGB thug who is methodically eroding the freedoms from Russian citizens while propping up and protecting our enemies.

Romney ‘disgusted’

by Time choice

DECEMBER 19, 2007

GLENN BECK PROGRAM
BEGIN TRANSCRIPT

GLENN: Give me your thought on Petraeus not being Time magazine's man of the year but instead Vladimir Putin.

GOVERNOR ROMNEY: Oh, you are kidding. Did they put Vladimir Putin on the cover?

GLENN: Yeah, Time magazine.

GOVERNOR ROMNEY: That really, that's disgusting. I'm absolutely -- I mean, are you -- I mean, I haven't seen Time. Are you serious?

GLENN: No, I'm serious. It is Vladimir Putin, Time magazine man of the year. A guy who, you know, with all of the KGB stuff in the past, Time magazine says has transformed the country and congratulations. Time magazine man of the year, Vladimir Putin.

GOVERNOR ROMNEY: Well, you know, he imprisoned his political opponents. There have been a number of highly suspicious murders. He has squelched public dissent and free press. And to suggest that someone like that is the man of the year is really disgusting. I'm just appalled. Clearly General Petraeus is the person or one of a few people who would certainly merit that designation and I know Time magazine makes a distinction. They say, well, people who had an impact, whether it's good or bad, is the man of the year. I think that's a --

GLENN: No, no, hang on.

GOVERNOR ROMNEY: -- a false --

GLENN: Before you go too far down this road -- wait a minute. Before you go down this road, this is the quote why he's the man of the year, "For bringing stability and renewed... what was it, impact? Status. Renewed status to his country. That's why.

GOVERNOR ROMNEY: Isn't that something. So a good dictator -- I guess Raul Castro will get it next. A good dictator that imprisons or murders political and media opponents and therefore brings stability, I mean, there's nothing like the stability that martial law provides or dictatorship provides. I find it a truly appalling designation.

GLENN: And the stability that he's bringing to the Middle East with the transfer of this last few days of nuclear technology to Iran.

GOVERNOR ROMNEY: Yeah. I mean, he's once again supplying nuclear material to the Bushehr power plant and it's another example of Russia trying to destabilize the world, destabilize the Middle East. It does tell you something about Time magazine. I'm really -- I must admit I'm really disappointed. That's a real shock.

GLENN: I was --

GOVERNOR ROMNEY: Our mainstream media I think has just showed its hand.

END TRANSCRIPT

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I have a feeling the real reason they gave it to Putin is because he stood up to Bush on the missle defense in former Soviet bloc countries. Of course they also had to obscure Petreaus because it would have made a great attack ad on Hillary with here basically calling him a liar before his testimony. I'm glad Mitt is picking some current issues to hammer to seperate himself from the rest of the bunker mentality candidates.



This is one issue on which I would have to disagree with Mitt.

I could be wrong, but I don't think that it is wise or even appropriate for Americans to get overly involved in or critical of internal Russian politics. And for consistency-sake, I have made this same complaint against John McCain. I would be furious if Vladimir Putin started delving into the question of: "Who should be the next American President?" It’s not like his endorsement would actually help anybody anyway, but what if Putin started complaining, for instance, about the lack of independence and autonomy given to indigenous American tribes such as the Cherokee?

I have also felt that some of the current hostility between the US and Russia could have been avoided if the current Bush Administration would have been keener on respecting Russian autonomy and trying to empathize better with the feelings of the Russian people.

After the Soviet Union fell, Bush 41 promised Russia that NATO would have no eastern expansion into former Soviet States. Bill Clinton continued this policy. But during the administration of Bush 43, the exact opposite has happened. Yes, we should have united with the rest of the world in outrage if Russia had decided to send in troops to reclaim some of these former Soviet Republics. But it would have been highly unlikely, and if I was a Russian, what the United States has done to expand its sphere of influence into former Soviet Republics would have to be seen with suspicion. If I was Russian, I would probably wonder if Bush was hostile toward Russia or if he wanted to start another Cold War.

To further exacerbate any conflict, the Bush Administration has continued with its SDI programs in eastern Europe, wanting to place forward missile interceptors as far east as former Soviet Republics. This would disturb me if I was the President of the Russian Federation even if I was the most open and democratic President in the world. The United States has said that these missile defense programs are to protect Europe against rogue nations like Iran and Syria, but Putin has called Bush’s bluff. Putin even offered to help the US build and protect missile defense platforms in the Mediterranean Sea or elsewhere. It has also complicated our missile defense program because now Russia has decided to spend its resources in order to develop missiles that can avoid our missile defenses.

Also, I am not sure why it is our business to criticize Russia for its internal issues in Chechnya. Americans and others who argue that Chechnya should be allowed to be autonomous and independent forget that a sizeable minority of Chechens today is ethnically Russian and that Chechnya has been part of Russia longer than Louisiana has been part of the United States. Do we really want all countries to go back to their pre-Louisiana Purchase borders? I sure don't. Just think of what the United States would be today without California and all of the western United States. No Disneyland! No Hollywood! (Ok, maybe that last example wasn’t that good of an argument).

Regardless, post-9/11, instead of attacking Russia for wanting to retain long-held territory, maybe we should be empathizing with the Russians who have had to deal with Chechen Islamist terrorists murdering Russian children. And maybe we should remember that it was American policy that as we used to say: "The United States does not negotiate with terrorists." So, while Chechen terrorists are killing Russian children, we attack Russia for defending itself? I just think that it’s important to think about what it would be like to be in their shoes.

Also, can anyone blame the Russian people for being furious about the corrupt giveaways of Russian national resources after the fall of communism? His purported attempts at reversing these corrupt deals are one of the things that has led to Putin's extreme popularity with the Russian people. I'm not sure how I would have dealt with this problem, but I am an American, so it is not my problem. But for Russians, fighting domestic corruption has been a huge issue.

Now, of course, I am not a complete Putin apologist. I think that his consolidation of power and control of the media is very disturbing. Putting any political opponents in jail is also unacceptable. And there are many, many other areas that I would disagree with him. But the Russian people strongly support Putin, and they are the ones who get to decide what to do with their country - not America and not NATO.




posted by Myclob | 1:49 PM | permalink

Townhall
By Governor Mitt Romney
December 19, 2007


"As Americans prepare for the holidays with their families and loved ones, we have many challenges to face but also many reasons to be thankful. We are thankful we live in a nation that is still a land of freedom, hope and opportunity. And we can be thankful that President Bush has kept us safe. Too often our politicians in Washington and on the campaign trail seem to have forgotten this simple fact.

"It was disheartening when Senator Hillary Clinton (D-NY) questioned the sworn testimony of General David Petraeus, the troop commander of our forces in Iraq, when he reported on the success of the surge. A disbelieving Senator Clinton said reports of progress require 'the willing suspension of disbelief.' We now know beyond any reasonable doubt that Senator Clinton was wrong and General Petraeus was right, and yet to this day she has refused to apologize for her unwarranted attack on the integrity of one of our finest soldiers. Even in my own party, Governor Mike Huckabee criticized President Bush by accusing him of 'an arrogant bunker mentality' in dealing with other nations around the world. Just like Hillary Clinton, Mike Huckabee has refused to apologize."

...

"In the wake of 9/11, the President took unprecedented steps to keep us safe and defend Americans at home and abroad. We revamped our homeland security apparatus, passed new laws that allowed us to listen in when al-Qaeda was calling, cleared out terrorist training camps in Afghanistan and successfully toppled the regime of Saddam Hussein.

"Far from home, our soldiers, National Guard and Reserves, have overcome early strategic mistakes to make progress in Iraq that is both undeniable and should be welcomed by all. This progress has come as America's heroes and their families have made unequalled sacrifices." 

...

"A half century ago, our mothers and fathers in the Greatest Generation came together to defeat fascism and communism, promote freedom and civil rights, and build a strong and prosperous country that is the envy of the world. They showed that there is no threat that a united America cannot defeat. By remembering their example, we can overcome the challenges that confront us."

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posted by Jeff Fuller | 1:23 PM | permalink
Two days and two polls showing that Iowans are starting to make this a race again. Good positive momentum. I know one was posted here already, but I've got some more in depth analysis in two posts (here and here) over at Iowans for Romney

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posted by Kyle Hampton | 1:18 PM | permalink
I submit two different candidates that have different views about Iran. I think the difference is striking as you listen to the different approaches. Decide for yourself who is serious and who is not:

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Mikie H.: You know the kid, the one who got straight A's did everything right"

Yes, and that kid's name was Mitt Romney, and he not only did everything right, but he's right on foreign policy. Oh yea, he's going to eat your lunch in Iowa and nationally.




posted by Anne | 11:21 AM | permalink
Latest national polls, New Hampshire, Iowa--Romney leads among "highly likely" to caucus. And Huckabee feels the heat. Mitt's latest ad to run in New Hampshire. Via RCP

UPDATE: P.S. Heard Steve Huntley on WLS Chicago (the flagship Rush station) this morning expanding on his Huckabubble column.

--crossposted at BackyardConservative
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That is a very touching commercial. How can people not see this and the other amazing things that Mitt has done and not just fall head over heals for him (politically speaking lol). I hope to high Heaven that Mitt wins the nomination- anyone else would not be near the caliber of person as Mitt.



I'm surprised this is the first place I've seen this ad.



Tell it like it is, baby. Contrast and compare candidates now willya.




posted by Kyle Hampton | 11:05 AM | permalink
Peter Wehner, former deputy assistant to the president, penned an article decrying Huckabee's foreign policy. Below, he defends his criticisms of Huckabee's foreign policy:

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posted by Justin Hart | 10:00 AM | permalink
Jim G., Jonathan Martin, and Soren Dayton are talking up the Mormon factor in the upcoming primaries, particularly in Iowa.

Let me give you the Mormon perspective on all this. The 22,000 number being thrown around is a bit misleading but the impact of the Mormon vote can hardly be ignored.

Let's set the baseline semantics so we get things right here.
  • A Ward is the equivalent of a parish. Mormon congregations are organized strictly by geography. At any Mormon chapel you might pass there are typically 2 to 4 wards that meet there. So, for example, in my Virginia suburb of Ashburn there are 4 wards. We all meet in the same building on Sunday and throughout the week. Each ward is comprised of roughly 400-600 members. A Branch is a smaller congregation that you might find in remote areas or that caters to ethnic groups (for example, a "Spanish Branch").
  • A Stake comprises about 9-12 wards (Think of "tent stake"). This is the local leadership structure that helps with regional activities and needs.
  • Mormons will sometimes refer to "active" and "inactive" members. Wards and Stakes track the "activity rate" (% of the ward that regularly attend Sunday meetings). This can range between 40% and 70%. As I understand it Iowa activity rates are somewhere between 50% and 60%.
  • In Iowa there are 7 stakes; 35 wards; 32 branches with roughly 22,000 members.
  • Potential caucus goers? When you subtract the number of eligible voters (Mormons have a lot of kids), take a chunk away for "inactive" members, and the narrow down that group to registered voters you get about 10,000 potential caucus goers. But Mormons love football as much as the next guy (the Orange Bowl happens to be that night with Kansas playing) and even with "their guy" in the race I wouldn't expect a dramatic 90% turnout from the Mormon base.
  • Also, consider, this isn't a lockstep vote. I know plenty of Mormons who are die hard Ron Paul fans.
Bottom line: I expect no more than 3000 extra votes for Romney from the Mormon base in Iowa. Still, that's roughly 6% of overall caucus voters and could mean the difference the race the way things are shaping up.

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I tend to think of it the other way. Mormons aren't going to swing this one way or another. Romney either has to appeal to Iowans other than the Mormon ones, or he's sunk.

The good news is that Romney should appeal to a broad base of support both in the primary, and in the general election. Hopefully this translates into an Iowa win.

I suspect that the Romney campaign has already thought through strategies for if they come in second in Iowa.

One good thing to come out of the Huckabee surge has been this - the expectations are totally reset in Iowa. A few months back it was like - Romney is dead if he doesn't totally blow away the competition in Iowa. Now that Huckabee has eaten away at Rudy's support elsewhere, people are recognizing that things are in play for Romney even if he doesn't win Iowa, and that's a good thing.




posted by Jeff Fuller | 2:31 AM | permalink
New Iowa Poll shows Race tightening . . . see the numbers and my take in this post at Iowans for Romney

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Mitt is by far the worst candidate ever, the good old USA would be better if another candidate took his place




Tuesday, December 18, 2007
posted by Mike | 11:47 PM | permalink

I am not sure. Nor is Rush. He stated at the end of this sound bite that he was not sure of the accuracy of Huckabee's response to a question from Wolf Blitzer regarding Mitt's call for an apology for the "Bunker mentality... Bush is arrogant!" quote in the Foreign Affairs piece.

I can't quote chapter and verse, but I am sure there are several problems here. Perhaps readers would like to use the comments section to document the number of... Hmmmm... falsehoods here?

I'm the one who actually supported the president's surge. I supported the Bush tax cuts when Mr. Romney didn't. I was with President Bush on gun control and Mitt Romney wasn't. I was with the president on the president's pro-life position when Mitt Romney wasn't. I was with the president on his position on same-sex relationships and marriage when Mitt Romney wasn't. I was with the president on the legacy of the president's dad and Ronald Reagan, when Mitt Romney wasn't. So, you know, I don't have anything to apologize for.
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This is obviously a "desperate" comment from a candidate who feels his "boom" becoming a "bust" according to the newest polls. :) Poor Hukcabee...random rants and denial about people picking up on his liberal foreign policy and immigration stands.



7?



Wow. Somebody needs to double their dose, grab their blankie and go to bed.....before they say something even more desperate and ridiculous....



wow, i would like a fact check on every word he just said there...what a dipstick, and talk about lying. Yeah mitt romney was the right up there with code pink for gay marriage...this guy literally has no class.



You have to love huck saying the cross/bookcase was a coincidence.The biggest problem Huck has is nodody is going to know what to expect if he became president.At least the rest of the pack has some projectibility.Mitt has had the same general election message since he started. This is smart because he won't have to change or modify posistions if he gets the nom. Huck's showing his being a liberal in lots of ways. One thing the libs are famous for it pointing out problems but offering no solutions except spending more money.Mitt's ads are being characterized as "attack" ads but it shows how he's keeping his eye on the ball as far as issues. I'm also tired of people saying that out new foreign policy should be grovelling to Iran and Syria,much like Huck has hinted at.



I heard that Huck did not support the surge in January of '07, whereas Mitt did.

Mitt has been the strongest advocate of "conventional" marriage. Huck didn't have to deal with that issue to the degree that Mitt did in MA.

Huck's a disaster. No wonder he didn't want to tangle with Tim Russert. He would have been knocked out in 6.5 seconds.



Nancy French at EvangelicalsForMitt.org posted a rebuttal titled "HUCKABEE LESS THAN TRUTHFUL... AGAIN" showing Huckabee's statement concerning the Troop Surge in Iraq is deceptive. Huckabee did not support the Surge in a statement he made on 1/24/2007, whereas Gov. Romney had already issued a pro-surge press release on 1/10/2007.

I had the same reaction when I first heard Huckabee's response; that it was likely replete with falsehoods akin to his laughable deception of claiming he cut taxes 94 times. Huckabee's broadly-based tax increases of $883.1 million (sales tax, gasoline, cigarettes, etc., 21 total) dwarfed the 90+ miscellaneous, small tax exemptions, credits and deductions that the Arkansas Legislature and prior administrations authored for the most part and Huckabee signed ($378 million).

With more research, I'm quite confident we will find some more falsehoods in his statement comparing the timeline of his positions versus Gov. Romney.




posted by Nealie Ride | 10:44 PM | permalink
These Canadians are doing it right: great on content and even better on humor and wit.

A blog for America's neighbour to the north that support Mitt Romney and what he stands for. As the U.S.'s closest friend and ally Canada is greatly affected by U.S. policy and politics.





Just like we've been saying for a while here at Canadians Fot Mitt, the Huckabee surge was just a fad, a one-hit-wonder if you will, and would fizzle away. It appears that this is happening earlier than we expected.


This work is the product of these skilled north-of-the-border artists. Look at the images in their stories. They're hilarious, eh?

Go to NY for Mitt to read the entire story. We border these wonderful Canadians and consequently feel a special affinity!
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posted by Justin Hart | 10:36 PM | permalink

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posted by Myclob | 8:53 PM | permalink
RedState has an open post for people to explain why the support Gov. Mitt Romney here.

I have not responded, but here is one reason:

He is the only one to have taken ANY of these classes:

http://www.hbs.edu/mba/academics/required.html
  • Financial Reporting and Control
  • Leadership and Organizational Behavior
  • Technology and Operations Management
  • Business, Government, and the International Economy
  • Strategy
  • The Entrepreneurial Manager
  • Negotiation
  • Finance II
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Post it, myclob - great list!



Oops! I accidentally got banned from RedState. Now, I'll need some way to get back on there. The whole forum actually seemed quite entertaining. They said it was because I posted the same thing more than once. But it was an accident. I accidentally put my post for why "I support Mike Huckabee" under the "Why I support Mitt Romney" tab. So, I had to repost it in the right place too. If for any reason they've erased my post, here it is. Let me know if you think that it was so objectionable:

Mike Huckabee rules!!!!

I support Huckabee for President because he is more fiscally liberal than Obama and Hillary. I wish that he could go all the way and be a complete socialist like Edwards, but he's still got time. I also support Huckabee because I am a dumb, religious bigot, and my brain consists of Jell-O mixed with H2O (Oops saying that was too complex for me. I meant to just say water). I also like Huckabee because he thinks that Iran is our friend and that we should treat them like family. This is a great idea for those of us who agree that the world might last too long if we keep a nuke out of the hands of the ayatollahs. I also want Huckabee to be President because he agrees with me that government should be everything to everybody. That is a great philosophy! Personal responsibility is way overrated. I'm actually working too hard typing this. Maybe with a President Huckabee, he could get somebody to type for me while I dictate this post to that person - all at government expense of course. Better yet, they can actually do the thinking for me too, since that should be government's job also. I support Huckabee because I think that once a person says that they believe in Jesus, they should automatically be released from prison no matter what kind of crime they committed. I especially like to do this because it gives me the possible opportunity to forgive those same people again in the future when they commit the same heinous crimes after I they are released. I also want to vote for Huckabee because I believe in Jesus and since Huckabee seems to believe that he is Jesus with all of his comparisons with himself to Deity, I don't want to vote against him just in case he is right. Don't forget that Huckabee is the "CHRISTIAN LEADER." All those years of me being taught that the CHRISTIAN LEADER was somebody by the name of Jesus of Nazareth couldn't be wrong, and neither could Huckabee, right? So, for all of you who had a tough time figuring out why to vote for Huckabee, shame on you! You must drink from a different Jesus juice than I do, and you must be people who are inclined toward racism and demagoguery.

There, I just gave plenty of reasons to support Huckabee, and I have plenty more where those came from.



omg Zeus, I lol'ed. Great post. I think it's a shame that they took it down on RedState!




posted by Myclob | 7:24 PM | permalink
Fred Lucas (any relation to George?) wrote an article (from a computer
located in his closet) in Cyber News Service (ran out of that same
closet) called; "Romney Calls for Employment Verification System that
Already Exists."

Drudge has linked to it, and anything Drudge links to gets millions of hits...

But the article is plain wrong.

The article is taking Gov. Mitt Romney out of contect, and in the
process of doing so is LYING about what he said.

Romney spoke at length about the problems with the system... He spoke
about how it is illegal for employers to "descriminate" against fishy
documents... and how there is no way to identify if the documents that
are real.

So, no, the "Employment Verification System" that Romney calls for
does NOT exist.

I don't mean to yell, but what do you do when major news outlets say
things that aren't true? The tamper-proof ID badge for workers, that
has biometric information on them, that Romney called for on Meet the
Press DOES NOT EXIST.

Sure, there is a federal system, but that's not Romney's point.
Romney's point is the federal system sucks. That no GOOD SYSTEM exists
to have guest workers. Is this something too complicated for Fred
Lucas to understand?

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Un-related: I am beyond annoyed at CHRISTIAN LEADER’s latest salvo trying to protect himself against Mitt’s latest comparison ad by likening Romney to a 3rd Grade tattle tale. I mean, when will Up-Chuck-abee show that he’s even on the same intellectual level with Forrest Gump, Gomer Pyle, and Gumby? I have been opposed to literacy tests for voting, but how about we start IQ tests before running for President? We don’t even have to release the results. We just have to make sure that the candidate is not someone who could qualify as mentally retarded. I’m beginning to think that Up-Chuck-abee is either just at the mental level of a kindergartener or is really just the dumbest person in recent memory to ever run for President. Could you say Barbara Boxer level of intelligence? Regardless, I am tired of the juvenile way in which he has consistently defended himself to any accusations by attacking the messenger. Is it Mitt Romney’s fault that Up-Chuck-abee has a horrible record on fighting crime? Is it the New York Times reporter’s fault that Up-Chuck-abee spewed anti-Mormon bigotry in their interview? Is anything ever his fault? Well, forget Harry Truman because with Mike Up-Chuck-abee, the buck stops everywhere else.



I must admit, the worker verification thing has been confusing for me.

I assume that everyone (immigrants or non) would require one of these cards otherwise illegals would all claim they simply aren't immigrants.

It seems like they could replace the Social Security Cards.

Are there any links, or does anyone care to explain the program.




posted by Kyle Hampton | 2:45 PM | permalink
I want to disclaim at the beginning that I am no tax policy expert. Yet, I think that the concepts argued for and against the “fair tax” as proposed by Mike Huckabee are simple enough that most people should be able to understand them.

Mike Huckabee describes on his campaign web site his version of the Fair Tax:
When the FairTax becomes law, it will be like waving a magic wand releasing us from pain and unfairness.

The FairTax will replace the Internal Revenue Code with a consumption tax, like the taxes on retail sales forty-five states and the District of Columbia have now. All of us will get a monthly rebate that will reimburse us for taxes on purchases up to the poverty line, so that we're not taxed on necessities. That means people below the poverty line won't be taxed at all. We'll be taxed on what we decide to buy, not what we happen to earn. We won't be taxed on what we choose to save or the interest those savings earn. The tax will apply only to new goods, so we can reduce our taxes further by buying a used car or computer.

Our current progressive tax system penalizes us for working harder and becoming more successful. As we climb the ladder, the government lurks on each rung, hungry for a bigger bite out of our earnings. The FairTax is also progressive, but it doesn't punish the American dream of success, or the old-fashioned virtues of hard work and thrift, it rewards and encourages them. The FairTax isn't intended to raise any more or less money for the federal government to spend - it is revenue neutral.
There are a lot of different points to be made. Easily dismissed is the claim that the Fair Tax will release us from pain and unfairness. Such a silly claim gets at the unseriousness of the Huckabee campaign in general. More substantively, only six countries have ever adopted retail sales taxes at rates of 10% or more; none do now. 58 Fla. L. Rev. 1043, 1048; Joel Slemrod, Presentation to the President's Advisory Panel on Federal Tax Reform: The Costs of Tax Complexity (Mar. 3, 2005), available at http://www.taxreformpanel.gov/meetings/ docs/slemrod 03032005.ppt.

Huckabee next says that all will get a monthly rebate for purchases up to the poverty line. This argues against one of the main points that he promotes in arguing for the Fair Tax: administrative ease. Huckabee has argued for abolishing the IRS, but it seems that he would have to replace it with some other agency by which to mail out every American’s monthly rebate check. The type of money being passed through the mail would also invite all sorts of criminal behavior (remember how well the debit cards went after Katrina?).

Huckebee also says that the Fair Tax will create positive incentives for saving. That is probably true. Through a combination of zero tax on savings and the dramatic increase of goods after the Fair Tax is enacted, people are likely to refrain from spending. The Fair Tax creates the incentive to withhold income from being put back into the economy. How this will affect the economy only an economist could predict, but the incentives seem to lead to a slowing of the economy as people withhold their dollars from the marketplace. However, eventually, even savings will be taxed as they are spent. The savings argument is misleading because it really only marks a delay in taxation, not an abolition of the tax on savings.

Huckabee argues that both taxes are progressive. However, the Fair Tax is difficult to make progressive. Since the tax applies to all at the point of sale, regardless of economic status, it would generally appear to be either a flat or regressive tax. The single rate of taxation on purchases hits low-income people harder than high-income people because the purchases are a larger proportion of the low-income person’s wealth. Higher income people are able to save a larger portion of their earnings. Thus, even with the rebates he proposes, for anyone above the poverty line, the tax is regressive. To make it progressive, Congress would have to add in additional complexity Graduated tax rates, differential rates, or higher rates all would lead to increasingly complex taxpayer behavior and legislative and administrative responses. 88 Calif. L. Rev. 2095, 2141.

In sum, and these certainly aren’t all the points to be made about the Fair Tax system, the Fair Tax likely does little to improve the current tax system and likely does harm. It does little to improve the complexity or administrative burden. It only shifts the time of taxation from when it was produced to when it was consumed. Finally, it likely dulls economic growth by creating a disincentive to spend.

Beyond its inherent political impracticability, the Fair Tax should be rejected. The better alternative, and the more realistic one, is the one Mitt Romney has proposed: lower marginal rates, end the death tax, end taxes on savings, and lower corporate taxes. These things combined will do more for the economy and the nation than the enactment of the Fair Tax.

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Can you imagine the chaos visited on the economy if thie were implemented, either immediately, or gradually. Talk about a mess.



I used to be a supporter of the fair tax, but no more. The US economy will TANK with the fair tax. What will happen when everything we buy is increased by 30%?



To say no countries have a sales tax above 10% ignores the fact that the EU charges a 17% - 19% Value added Tax (VAT), which is essentially like a retail sales tax (Plus they have high income taxe!). So I would disagree with that statement, although if you examine the tax structure of Europe, you would clearly not want to adopt what they have.

Just thought I would point that out.



Thanks Kyle,
That certainly isn't a complete list but it isn't hard to see why only a candidate like Huck would adopt such an obviously flawed plan even when faults and shortcomings are so easy to find.
I would like to add that most of us remember from micro-economics 101, what sales taxes do. It keeps people who would otherwise enter the market out, both buyers and sellers. Gains from trade are unrealized. Plus it creates a huge incentive for black markets. These are not ways to stimulate the market, and keep America competitive with a growing Asian economy. I wish I had a whiteboard and 10 short minutes to show him. I guess that divinity school didn't offer advanced classes like that. My personal favorite way to streamline the tax code is a flat tax, but I'll save that for another day.
I hope he doesn't try the awe shucks I'm just a good ol' boy approach when he is pressed about this. Staying in a Holiday Inn Express isn't enough too fool the country.



This tax plan will create all kinds of political fights. What will the poverty level be? Who will determine it? Will there be annual adjustments to it like a cost of living increase? Are the monthly tax rebates to go to families or individuals? Do minors get a rebate on the taxes that they must pay? This will also cause a big dip in all sectors of the economy as people realize that they can save a huge amount by purchasing used items. This will have major ramifications for the auto and building industries. It will just be a matter of months after this tax in enacted before politicians try to get reductions or exemptions for industries that are having problems. This will be a nightmare.



I just thought that I would add this comment from David Frum at the National Post.
"The currently front-running candidate in Iowa, former Arkansas governor Mike Huckabee, has built his campaign on a plan to abolish the Internal Revenue Service and replace the federal income tax with a national sales tax ... Economists and tax experts virtually unanimously agree that the plan is beyond unworkable -- that it is downright absurd."
http://www.nationalpost.com/opinion/story.html?id=169952

Amen!

Another worthy question is “how does the fair tax account for retirement accounts”. It seems like all the tax benefits vanish. Suddenly your 401k and IRA's are the same as any other savings account? That would really upset a huge percentage of the population, who historically are very good voters.



Are you aware we are more than double taxed on our dollar as our system stands right now? Do any of you run a business? If the government comes to you right now and tells you about a new corporate tax you now have to pay, where do you come up with the money to pay it? You get it from your customers. The consumer, who is paying for your service and your taxes from his after taxes dollar. That is double taxation!!!
Pass through all the taxes from a products consection, marketing and distribution and on average 22% of EVERYTHING we buy is taxes. And we pay that with our after taxes dollar. Can't you see that?

Why does the government have a need to know how much a citizen earns? These forms are intrusions into our lives. I want the government to leave me alone. I'll pay taxes, but let me have the final say on where my money goes.



Mike -

The stuff that I've read makes an explicit distinction between the VAT and a national retail sales tax. That's why I didn't include them in this. Otherwise I would agree. Check the citations for more information.



I am extremely skeptical of the promises made by the proponents of a national sales tax. A flat tax would be a much better and fairer system, but to get there without completely disrupting the economy, we would probably have to do it in steps. Step 1) Lower the rates and make them more equal. Then Step 2) Lower spending. Then Step 3) Repeat steps 1 & 2 over and over again. I figure that a President could achieve a flat tax somewhere near the end of his first term or beginning of his second term. Heck, Vladamir Putin did it in Russia and it's helped their economy.

Up-Chuck-abee argues that a national sales tax will somehow magically end America's shadow economy. Yeah right! It could easily make things worse though. In order to undercut the prices offered by America's legitimate businesses, a national sales tax could create a huge black market for "national sales tax-free" goods. Those tax cheat underground businesses could even charge more than businesses do today, because all that they've got to do is charge less than legitimate businesses for them to fulfill a need. Yes, the government could fine those businesses or send their owners to jail, but wouldn't that require even more elaborate enforcement and probably an even larger and more intrusive bureaucracy than we currently have with the IRS? What is going to stop people from ordering merchandise abroad in order to skate the rules or what will stop businesses from just going completely underground in order to avoid the taxes? How about smuggling? I’m sure that Mike Up-Chuck-abee with his great records on illegal immigration and fighting crime will make sure that we don’t have everything from kitchen sinks to contraband toys joining illegal drugs in its quest across our huge border with our southern 3rd world neighbor. A national sales tax might just be another scenario of hurting only the businesses who are willing to follow the rules (kind of like one of the main arguments against some gun laws).



Two issues concerning the Fair Tax. BTW, I actually see its potential since several of the issues you bring up are unproven and only a supposition of what might happen. The reason I say this, is because you ignore basic tenents of consumer behavior.

With that said however, my biggest concerns with the fair tax is the liklihood of the federal government to easily introduce it and than begin building on it so that we eventually resemble a western european nation with extremely high sales taxes as well as a high income tax on a Federal level.

The other concern is the ability to create an arbitrage market based on tax avoidance. Used goods are tax exempt in the Fair Tax system, so how difficult is it to take new goods, sell them for ridiculously low prices to a holding company that resells them for fair market value as tax exempt used goods.

Regarding European Sales Tax that statement about 10% is way off. Having lived the last 15 years in Europe the sales tax rates are much higher. In Sweden "moms" which is sales tax on all goods and services is generally at 25% with a few exceptions such as for books.



I actually like the fair tax and wish Romney would support it too. However there are many, many other reasons to support Romney over Huckabee. People are starting to notice Huckabee's flaws as the polls are indicating.



Kyle:

You are also not a tax expert. I suggest you stick to something you know as there is no merit to any of your comments. For instance, not a single prebate will be sent by check in the mail. Prebates will be distributed by either electronic transfers to a bank account or a special charge or debit card.



Dan Mastromarco did a great job of detailing the problems with a "flat" income tax, and how the FairTax would be superior, in rebutting an older Bruce Bartlett objection (which was resurrected for Bartlett's more recent diatribes - adequately rebuked - at WSJ, OpinionJournal, and The new Republic Online). For easier reading, and emphasis, I've paraphrased his 1999 reply to Bartlett following.

(Paraphrased) Reply by Dan R Mastromarco (LL.M., Taxation, Georgetown, principal in the Argus Group, adjunct professor at the University of Maryland, International Management Program, and research consultant to Americans for Fair Taxation - FairTax.org) to:

"A National Sales Tax Doesn’t Add Up" by Bruce Bartlett, December 29, 1999

Many engaged in true tax reform find Bartlett-type attacks exasperating, if not embarrassing. I'd like to convey perspective of both flat taxers and sales taxers who believe that such attacks are counterproductive, but first provide some political history by which to frame said perspectives.

For years Conservatives have posited that a VAT is bad policy (when liberals were discussing it), fearing it would become additional to an income tax (it was called a "money machine"). Circa 1980, conservative intellectuals touted Hall-Rabushka "subtraction method"[ H-R ] VAT which taxed business value added at the business side and labor value added at the labor side. Unlike European VATs (identical in scope), H-R became favorite of Dick Armey and Steve Forbes. It eliminated steeply progressive tax rates and tax on savings. Because of the prior VAT criticisms, H-R was packaged as the "flat tax" and is sold as an income tax to this day, rather than the VAT that its DNA characterizes it as being.

Some conservative commentators have called for the repeal of the 16th Amendment and for the adoption of the flat tax, (despite the fact that it is styled as a direct tax and could not be adopted with such repeal). Mr. Bartlett has called the national sales tax [ie, the FairTax] a VAT (which it isn't), castigated VATs as evil, and has said that sales taxes have become VATs in Europe (which they didn't). In the next breath, he "throws his arms around" the flat tax (which is a VAT). He quotes Bill Gale that the [FairTax] would have to be imposed at 60 percent, but glaringly fails to recognize that if the two bases are the same, he would have to impose that rate for the flat tax to be revenue neutral. In truth, all economists know that the two plans differ NOT in economic effect or base, but in administration.

An income tax taxes savings and investment multiple times. Both flat tax and FairTax are neutral as to savings and investment, tax income only once, and are both consumption taxes. Both are single rate taxes, have nearly the same base, and would improve the U.S. standard of living. Neither redistributes wealth.

While some have even suggested that hey are the same plans under different names, the flat tax taxes value added at each stage in the production process, but the FairTax prefers to tax it when it is added up at the end and eliminate the need to make everyone a taxpayer and collector.

Substantive commonalities between the flat tax and FairTax doesn't mean that there are NO key political and policy distinctions that could be exploited in pitting one against the other. If FairTax supporters wanted to retaliate in response to the Bartlett-type critique, they would have much material with which to honestly do so:

• The flat tax will make small firms and farmers pay the tax even if they have no profit
• The flat tax is opposed by many small business groups
• The flat taxers implicitly support big government by disguising even more of the overall tax burden as the current law
• The flat tax has been kicking around for nearly 20 years
• The flat tax makes everyone a taxpayer and collector, while the FairTax exempts 115 million filers [2000 figure] from ever having to deal with the IRS
• The flat tax is regressive, but the FairTax would enable everyone to keep his full paycheck.
• The flat tax has not only stalled, it has lost public and Congressional support.
• The FairTax is instantly understood, while even some proponents of the flat tax don’t understand it
• There are no transition rules developed for the flat tax and they would be very difficult to craft
• The flat tax taxes exports and relieves imports from tax
• The flat tax confuses tax reform with temporary tax reduction and makes both twice as hard
• The flat tax retains the entire income tax apparatus which erodes as quickly as you can say, “tax bill”


FairTaxers could advance these truthful points without resorting to bigotry associated with a cultic religious organization. However, for the most part, FairTax supporters have chosen not to attack the flat tax, but rather accentuate the commonalities between the plans - despite the above-noted differences. The reason is that, in the battle for tax reform, the real enemy is our current system.

Income tax advocates look down upon the articles of Bruce Bartlett with smug chortling, as Bruce is doing their work for them. The IRS and the liberals who want an income tax to ensure (1) taxes can be raised without the American people knowing it, and (2) wealth can be redistributed from the middle class to the poor, do not even need to fight us - we're killing ourselves!

Perhaps Mr. Bartlett believes that the flat tax will help elect Republicans, effect tax reform, and provide tax cuts; however, the real effect of his criticism is to divide conservatives, to delay serious national consideration of tax reform, and to fertilize the roots of the income tax.

( Source - Addit'l at FairTax.org Whitepaper - May republish in whole or part. - Ian)



I hate to sound rude, but it seems no one, with the exception if Ian, has =any idea= what they are talking about.

And, I think it was very irresponsible for major candidates, with the exception of Huckabee, to not familiarize themselves with the FairTax. When Romney is attacking Huckabee and the FairTax, he has no idea what he's talking about. Do you still think Romney -- a guy doing a "half-fast" job -- is not going to do a "half-fast" job if elected? The evidence points that way.

And, by the way, there've been a number of presidents without foreign policy experience, who've done a fine job in that area. Thus, I reject your assertions, otherwise.



Mitt's alright, but since he's run a business he, of all people, should know how much the FairTax will help the country. Most importantly the poor and middle class...oh..or maybe that's the problem. The people that the Fairtax seems most threatening to are the "super wealthy", "Politicians" and "Big Business" who can game the current system for tax breaks. I forgot that Mitt get's alot of support from those groups, so maybe he does really know what effects the Fair Tax would have on the economy...hmmmm.
I most love hearing people sound educated when trying to trash the Fair Tax, but clearly, for those who are educated on the plan, they present themselves as absolutely and utterly ignorant.
There are over 75 WELL renowned economists who support the Fair Tax and millions of dollars of research and running numbers to make sure the calculations are as correct as humanly possible. Here check out the list:
http://www.fairtax.org/PDF/Open_Letter.pdf




posted by Anne | 8:49 AM | permalink
Front and center on the front page. The profile talks about Romney's dad George, who was a liberal Republican. NY Times:
Mitt Romney, though, said there was “no question” that his father would be a Republican today, one very much like his son. They shared the same commitment to faith and family, he said. Both saw inner city schools as “the civil rights problem of our time” and teachers unions as an impediment to solving it. And, he said, his father had also eventually concluded that government was “growing out of control.”

On his 80th birthday, in 1987, George Romney took family members on a tour of Washington, instructing them in the three dangerous “concentrations of power:” “big labor,” “big business” and “big government.”

Mitt Romney said he learned his political values from his father, pointing to the health insurance program he introduced in Massachusetts as something his pragmatic father would have favored. It provided private insurance for the poor by tapping taxpayer money set aside to cover their emergency room visits, winning bipartisan support.

John McIntyre, RCP on why Huckabee might be helping Romney.

For updates, go here.

Related posts: Romney Ad Choice: Judgment, Huckabee Poll Heads South, GOP Race Fluid in Illinois, The Abysmal Huckabee, Romney Wins Big , Romney Interview in Iowa, National Review Endorses Mitt, The Secular Humanist Test, Romney's Common Sense

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posted by Justin Hart | 8:48 AM | permalink
Rep. Kingston is in his 14th year representative Georgia's 1st district and is the raking member of the Appropriations Committee's Agriculture Subcommittee (a pretty powerful group).

Says Kingston:
"After months of consideration, I have decided to support Mitt Romney for President. In a field of worthy candidates, Governor Romney has displayed a deep grasp of the issues, a commitment for change, and the character that we need in the next President of the United States.

"Governor Romney, unlike any candidate in either party, has successfully run a business. He understands markets and the invisible hand of capitalism. As we face growing international competition, especially from China, Governor Romney knows how to keep jobs in America.

"His business background and track record in Massachusetts shows that he knows how to reduce government spending and get Washington on a sound fiscal path.

"As Governor, he took on one of the toughest issues facing our country – healthcare. With the exception of Hillary Clinton's failed attempt to socialize medicine in 1993, healthcare has been ignored by other candidates.

"In a country divided by blue and red politics, Governor Romney has proven that he can work with both parties. Being a Republican leader of Democratic Massachusetts shows bipartisanship, which no other candidate can claim. Can you imagine how some candidates will further divide America?

"I enthusiastically support Mitt Romney for President, and I look forward to working with Senator Jim DeMint, Congressman Gingrey, Congressman Price and Speaker Pro Tempore Mark Burkhalter and the entire Georgia Legislative Team on his candidacy in Georgia and South Carolina," said Congressman Kingston.

Welcoming Congressman Kingston to Romney for President, Governor Romney said, "It is an honor to have Congressman Kingston on our team. For over a decade, he has been fighting for our conservative principles in Washington. With his experience as a strong steward of the taxpayers' money, I know that we can work together to change Washington because change begins with Republicans like Congressman Kingston."

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I know I posted a link to this Iowans for ROmney post earlier today . . . but have since added 2 updates (one that gives my theory behind it and how it may effect the Iowa race, and the other that quotes an NBC article where a reporter who was there thought the endorsement was written for Romney as well . . . also a link to the audio of the press conference)

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posted by Kyle Hampton | 11:28 PM | permalink
From James Taranto at the OpinionJounal's Best of the Web:

Some of our astute readers have noticed that we do not seem terribly enamored with Mike Huckabee, who by some measures is, for the moment at least, the front-runner for the Republican presidential nomination. A few have asked why--a question with a complicated answer. We thought we'd spend the week outlining the reasons for our aversion to Huckabee.

Our initial reason for being put off by him falls under the heading "all politics is local." One day about two years ago, we saw him speak twice in New York--first at a fund-raiser for his nascent presidential campaign, then at the Monday Meeting, a gathering sponsored by our friends James Higgins and Mallory Factor. At the fund-raiser, Huckabee said something that made us nervous (quoting from memory, not verbatim): We don't have a health-care problem in this country. We have a health problem. The Monday Meeting is off the record, but we don't think we're violating any confidences if we say that Huckabee said nothing inconsistent with this there.

What does Huckabee mean by this? Blogger Jason Steffens, describing a Huckabee appearance in July of this year, elaborates:
I told him that I agreed with his statement that we do not have a health care problem in this country, we have a health problem, and asked him what he envisioned the federal government's role to be in improving citizens' health. He initially explained the basis for his belief that there is a health problem in this country, not a health care problem. He said that we have great health care, but we are too focused on intervention rather than prevention.

He noted that much of the problem is chronic disease and that can be attributed to three things: 1) overeating; 2) under-exercising; and 3) smoking. Other politicians do not focus on prevention because it will involve a cultural attitude shift that will not happen in the span of a presidential term. Gov. Huckabee then discussed, in general terms, shifting incentives away from fixing health problems and toward preventive health care and the success he had in Arkansas doing that.

Huckabee practices what he preaches: A few years ago, he famously lost 110 pounds. And inasmuch as he's just offering commonsense health advice, we certainly don't disagree. Whether healthier lifestyles actually would lower health-care costs is a trickier question. After all, in the long run, we're all dead, and most of us are sick first.

However sensible Huckabee's admonitions to live healthy may be, though, it troubles us to hear them coming from a politician, especially one who aspires to the most powerful position in the world. Living in New York, we've had experience with nanny-state zealotry in the executive: Thanks to Mayor Michael Bloomberg, a former chain smoker, there is virtually nowhere in the city we can go to enjoy a cigar. Huckabee has said he would take this policy nationwide.

We're not an absolutist about this. We do not, for instance, favor decriminalizing drugs (sorry, libertarians). We'd be happy with a return to the status quo ante, say, 1985. We admire Rudy Giuliani and Ronald Reagan even though the former gave us a ban on smoking in most New York City restaurants (but not bars) and the latter, the federal drinking age.

Our trouble with Huckabee is that he simply seems too intent on telling people how to live their lives. Hooray for him for losing all that weight. We could stand to lose a few pounds, too--but we'd rather do it without Washington's "help."

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posted by Mike | 11:08 PM | permalink

Peter Wehner, a former Deputy Assistant and Director of Strategic Initiatives for President Bush, provides a most eloquent takedown of Mike Huckabee’s Foreign Affairs article, The Problem with Pastor Mike: Foreign-policy foolishness just won't suffice. His piece is essential reading!

I wrote the following essay a week ago as a comment on those who would use the term “despised” to describe how people in other countries look at the United States. While this is in no way as substantive and eloquent as Wehner's piece, it at least provides supportive evidence of an important point he makes. As I wrote, I thought I was referring only to people on the left, but yesterday I learned I must add the name of Mike Huckabee to the list of those who use such words in reference to the attitudes of people towards our great nation.

Cheers,

Mike B.


Today is Saturday, 8 December 2007 and this has been a fascinating and moving couple of days, fostered in a major way by Mitt’s incredible speech on Thursday, one that soared in its rhetoric regarding the great nation in which we are so very fortunate to live. I am writing this on a plane that just took off from Reagan National Airport in Washington, D.C., after arriving yesterday afternoon to make presentations this afternoon to two groups of individuals from around the world.

The presentations were part of a training program for young people, ranging in age from 21 to 29, who hail from 42 different countries and speak 29 different languages. They are being hosted during the current academic year by over 280 institutions in all 50 states to teach their native language to students all over the US, take classes, and act as cultural ambassadors.

This might well sound a bit silly, but as I began speaking to the first group this afternoon, I looked into their faces and had trouble getting my words out. I just stood there, puzzling at the lump in my throat and the slight mist in my eyes. I had just had lunch with a group from Iran, three young women and two young men, and I had marveled at our interaction. From our conversation around the table I quickly became aware of their excitement to be in the United States and meet the American people up close. The impression was unmistakable that they would wish nothing more than to stay here, do graduate study, and even pursue careers.

Upon reflection, however, there was much more than that on my mind. First, these were talented young people who had worked very hard to make their way to the United States from the four points of the compass. The fact that many of them, if not all, would make new lives here if they could, puts them into the category of incredible people who have come to this country over the years to help make it what it is today. I then also realized that their desire to come here and to remain was clear evidence of just how great this country really is.

It then hit me that these feelings mirrored those I had felt as I listened to Mitt quote Sam Adams, "And so together they prayed, and together they fought, and together, by the grace of God ... they founded this great nation.” The intensity of those feelings only increased as I watched him receive a loud, vigorous, and lengthy, standing ovation.

As Mitt stated, and as his audience confirmed by their enthusiasm, this IS a great nation, a fact totally recognized by all the wonderful young people I just met. And this recognition is in no way diminished by the rhetoric of those on the left who do more to harm our stature in the world than can be imagined. Contrary to what is said by those who seek political gain from the challenges we face, we are not despised in the world, at least not by those who really matter.

Reflecting on Mitt’s words spoken in College Station and based on my acquaintance with him that goes back over forty years, I have absolutely no doubt that he would connect incredibly well with people around the world, if we are lucky enough for him to have that chance.

My new friends helped me better understand that there are many already here and many more who would be very grateful to be in this great nation, the inspiring history of which Mitt so ably evoked.

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We will be very blessed, indeed, to have Mitt Romney as our next President.




posted by Justin Hart | 11:07 PM | permalink
Once more we take you inside the crosstabs of Rasmusen's latest poll. This time for the GOP South Carolina primary.

Rasmussen GOP South Carolina Primary

  • Mike Huckabee 23% (25%)
  • Mitt Romney 23% (18%)
  • John McCain 12% (9%)
  • Fred Thompson 12% (18%)
  • Rudy Giuliani 11% (12%)
  • Ron Paul 5% (4%)
  • Some other candidate 2% (2%)

Survey of 724 Likely Republican Primary Voters was conducted December 16. The margin of error is +/- 4 percentage points. Results from the poll conducted December 3-4 are in parentheses.

Big news items: Romney has matched Huckabee in a conservative Christian stronghold where pundits always said he would lose. The secondary story is the continued collapse of Rudy along with the Thompson freefall.

Topline numbers: Rudy loses a point since the beginning of September (this is his second lowest number in any SC) poll. The other news: Thompson losing six. Huckabee loses two and Romney gains five. McCain gets a three point bounce. (Note, I calculate a standard deviation of 6.6% for SC Rasmussen polls this year so the most significant number is the Thompson decline).
  • Romney made huge gains in the 18-29 crowd with a whopping 19% increase in the young age bracket. (Again, I should point out that this number, like the Iowa internals, are way out of bounds but they're interesting nonetheless). Where did they come from? The 35% unsure mark at the beginning of December went down to 15%. The upstarts are finally making up their mind.

  • Thompson dropped like a rock among voters age 30-39 losing 30% points over two weeks according to this Rass. poll. (Again, this is an outlier but I have to note it as something that stands out). Meanwhile Huckabee gained 14% of these folks to his camp. Conversely though, Huck lost 14% of the 50-64 crowd (from 32% down to 18%).

  • Romney and Huckabee each took home 24% of the "Conservative" leaning GOPers while Thompson lost 7% of this demo, down to 12% from 19% two weeks ago.

  • If you're wondering, no dramatic loses for Rudy... rather, just a steady decline by small percentage points across the board. His only gains were among "Liberal" leaning GOP primary goers and the 40-49 demo (9% increases in each demo).

  • Speaking of political leanings. Thompson lost 22% from liberal leaning GOPers. (Note, this is probably a small sample of the overall group of people polled so no biggie). Interestingly enough, Rudy garners 75% of the "don't know" crowd when it comes to political leanings.

  • Family stat notables. Romney is catching up with Huckabee among married voters but Huckabee leads in the "voters with kids" demo.

  • Income brackets. Thompson tanks in almost each wealth demo across the board (losing an average 10% in each bracket). Romney catches Huck for the lower income bracket (23% each).

  • Huckabee has a solid lock on the Evangelical vote with Thompson coming in second. (Huckabee: 42%; Thompson 14%; Romney 12%; Undecided 11%). But Romney now leads among SC Protestants and dominates among Catholics (34% to Rudy's 13%). Romney also leads the "Other" category of religion.

  • As far as vote change probability goes... Romney and Huckabee actually lead the pack with 60% and 51% of those polled indicating that their vote might change. I think this readily reflects the tenuous nature of the voting pack altogether. Looking at the other state polls we find the same thing with Rudy or whoever the top two folks are. People are still really uncertain about where this is going and who they support.

  • Finally, on the issues. Romney wins the on "Economy" and "Immigration" while Huck takes "National Security" and ties on the "War in Iraq". Huck lost serious ground on both the Economy and Immigration demo. Huck actually lost 16% points on the "War in Iraq" and is now in a 5 way tie. I also should note the McCain is picking up some slow steam across the board but most notably on issues of "National Security"
To sum up it...

> Romney's hard hitting challenges on Huckabee's conservative record may be capping Huck's sudden burst on the scene.
> Rudy keeps sliding but Thompson is an a relative freefall.
> Huckabee still dominates the middle-aged evangelical base but Mitt is cleaning up the younger crowd and the other religious demos.
> People are still wary of the top choices across the board.

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Great analysis, Justin!

I read this over at race42008.

And great news for Romney in SC.

I think that as people learn more and more about the real Huckabee, the more they will look elsewhere.

He dropped out of seminary after one year to work for a televangelist, and from his new disgustingly pandering commercial on Christmas, it looked like he learned from his mentor well - he's as slimey as a rock sitting deep in a creek.

He is hoping he can "hypnotize" the voters into voting for him and not look at his horrible record.

Go Mitt!!



Columbia, South Carolina, December 18, 2007 (IMNS & Politisite.com) -- A new Rasmussen Poll has Governor Huckabee and Governor Romney in a statistical dead heat with both candidates at 23% from the last poll taken December 3rd.


The Romney campaign has been advertising heavily throughout South Carolina with negative ads directed towards Huckabee's record. Another organization, ClubforGrowth.net has spent 200,000 dollars in South Carolina running ads entitled “United,” the ad asks people to call Mike Huckabee and challenge him on his tax policy as Governor. When you go to the site and view the taxes he increased, you will find mostly "sin" type taxes like cigarettes and beer. The ads appear to be effecting his numbers as Huckabee is down 2 percentage points while Romney has gained 5.



The Huckabee campaign is also advertising heavily focusing on the positive side of the equation. Today a non political ad wishing everyone a Merry Christmas and to enjoy time with family during the holiday season. The other campaigns are not advertising as often as the Huckabee and Romney Camp here,

Fred Thompson has lost 6 points to 12% and McCain gains 3% to 12%. Mayor Giuliani loses 1 point to 11%. Ron Paul, who raised six million dollars in one day is at 5% up one percentage point from the last poll. In an Iron Mill News & Politisite Poll, Ron Paul wins the yard sign Poll by a huge margin.




posted by Anonymous | 9:16 PM | permalink
Now, I try not to do too much attacking but when it comes to law enforcement, I believe that the President, as well as Governors and elected officials everywhere, really should be held to a high standard. If you can't trust law enforcement and their leaders to do the right thing, who do you have in society?

Huckabee is taking heat again today related to his favorite subject, being soft on crime. Only, this time, it was his son. There is a lot to be said about the issue of animal cruelty. I'm not saying that the actions here were as vicious as the ones that landed Michael Vick a 23 month prison sentence. The problem here is with Huckabee's reaction to a possible criminal investigation of his son. A reaction that seems to have been a familiar one as Governor.

Huckabee's Modus Operandi: Use Your Office to Improperly Influence Others

"John Bailey, then the director of Arkansas's state police, tells NEWSWEEK that Governor Huckabee's chief of staff and personal lawyer both leaned on him to write a letter officially denying the local prosecutor's request. Bailey, a career officer who had been appointed chief by Huckabee's Democratic predecessor, said he viewed the lawyer's intervention as improper and terminated the conversation."

"Seven months later, he was called into Huckabee's office and fired. 'I've lost confidence in your ability to do your job,' Bailey says Huckabee told him. One reason Huckabee cited was 'I couldn't get you to help me with my son when I had that problem,' according to Bailey."

"'Without question, [Huckabee] was making a conscious attempt to keep the state police from investigating his son,' says I. C. Smith, the former FBI chief in Little Rock, who worked closely with Bailey and called him a "courageous" and 'very solid' professional."

Another Example (and, of course, deny, deny, deny)...
This is a narrative that is earily familiar to the much discussed case of Wayne Dumond, the rapist Huckabee worked to get paroled.

According to parole board members, "Huckabee raised the issue of DuMond's release, asking to discuss the matter with them in a closed session. They said his religious beliefs, and the influence of the evangelical community from which he came, drove him.'We felt pressured by him,' said board member Ermer Pondexter. 'I felt compelled to do it. . . . It was a favor for the governor.'"

Now Look at Some Denials...

According to CNN back on December 5th, "Huckabee denied he asked the board to approve DuMond's parole. 'No, I did not,' Huckabee said Sunday. 'Let me categorically say I did not.' Huckabee said Wednesday his discussion with the parole board in 1996 was a general discussion about clemency, not about the DuMond case [emphasis added]."

Now, today from the L.A. Times: "Though [Huckabee] acknowledged discussing the case with the state parole board, Huckabee said that conversation was 'simply part of a broader discussion' initiated at the request of the board chairman. 'I did not ask them to do anything,' he said."

Hmmm... If the reports are to be believed, Huckabee initially denied talking about the Dumond case with the parole board. Now, Huckabee acknowledges talking about it, but not specifically asking them to do anything.

What to believe, two inconsistent denials, or multiple board members accounts of what happened?

What we begin to see is a pattern emerging. Huckabee used his office to improperly influence others. At some point, the repeated narratives will become too difficult to deny. Behind the soft Christmas image is a Michael Corleone fan. A guy who puts personal favors above the public safety and a guy who will make you pay if you don't do what he wants.

Huckabee is praying that Iowa voters and beyond don't wake up to his record. He is hoping his one liners can get him through the month of december and into the driver's seat of our Republican Party. I am glad to see Romney is not going to let him do so without a fight because this is a fight that needs to be won. Letting criminals go has consequences. Romney understands that and is thankfully, reluctant to subsitute his judgment for that of a jury, a judge and the legislature. Just one more reason Romney should be the Republican nominee for President.
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posted by Myclob | 6:20 PM | permalink
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Notice Huckabee brags about his theology degree -- again -- in this speech.

Today www.nyformitt.com posted a comment that I made about the distinction between a BA and a Masters in Divinity.

Huckabee has a BA in speech or communications, not sure which, but only went to seminary for a year and then dropped out to work for a televangelist.

If a man will lie about his credentials, what else will he lie about?



Huckabee's campaign is like when a really smart kid move into the neighborhood of a third-grader who burns down his neighbor's house while the smart kid dies of carbon monoxide poisoning.

Is anyone else really sick of his stupid comparisions? He acts as though he is teaching grade school.



i like how no one laughed at his OJ crack...kinda made me giggle a little bit.




posted by Anne | 4:17 PM | permalink
Huckabee loses lead in South Carolina, according to Rasmussen, his presumed next stop after Iowa, skipping New Hampshire where he doesn't have a chance.

If his support is softening, as voters get to know him better, that can only be a good thing for the GOP.
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Wow,this is great news. I hope he attacks Bush some more to drive those numbers off a cliff. It'll be interesting to see if the MSM reports him slipping. I doubt it.I've said all along Huck's rise has been media driven. No one else suspected him cominmg up so they wern't prepared with oppo.It's catching up to the Huckster now. A slide in the polls would spell his doom and help Mitt.Now we have liberal rags the DMR and Boston Globe supporting Mccain to knock Romney off in NH.




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You all know by now I work in law enforcement, so I hope this one gets played over and over because voters should be worried about a guy like Huckabee, who has a soft spot for criminals, conducting the war on terror.
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posted by Jeff Fuller | 3:14 PM | permalink
Man that was a weird endorsement. I think he really wanted to go for Romney but something was stopping him. See my take at Iowans for Romney.

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They should post this and then mention that Mitt is 9 years older than Huckabee. He is someone who has the energy to keep up with America and is a good example of health to us all.




posted by Kyle Hampton | 2:28 PM | permalink

Here's the whole appearance on Meet the Press in five parts. Sorry about the website banner at the bottom of the video.









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posted by Anne | 11:09 AM | permalink
The abysmal Huckabee. On religion, foreign policy, education and the Clintons, with whom he has more in common than just inhabiting the Arkansas governor's mansion. Sunday's NY Times interview elicits these Huckabysms (sorry, I couldn't resist):
***I asked Huckabee, who describes himself as the only Republican candidate with a degree in theology, if he considered Mormonism a cult or a religion. ‘‘I think it’s a religion,’’ he said. ‘‘I really don’t know much about it.’’ I was about to jot down this piece of boilerplate when Huckabee surprised me with a question of his own: ‘‘Don’t Mormons,’’ he asked in an innocent voice, ‘‘believe that Jesus and the devil are brothers?’’

***At lunch, when I asked him who influences his thinking on foreign affairs, he mentioned Thomas Friedman, the New York Times columnist, and Frank Gaffney, a neoconservative and the founder of a research group called the Center for Security Policy. This is like taking travel advice from Little Red Riding Hood and the Wolf, but the governor seemed unaware of the incongruity.

***Huckabee was eager to separate himself from George W. Bush, who, he complained, often visited Arkansas without bothering to notify the governor’s office. ‘‘Clinton was much better at letting us know his plans and including us in his activities. He was always gracious and respectful.’’ In September, Clinton told George Stephanopoulos of ABC that Huckabee was the only Republican ‘‘dark horse that’s got any kind of chance.’’

Clinton’s goodwill stems, Huckabee believes, from Huckabee’s own restraint during the Monica Lewinsky scandal. ‘‘Obviously I was asked to comment. If I had been willing to criticize President Clinton, I could have made a cottage industry out of it. But I didn’t do that, I didn’t discuss it at all. And I think he was grateful for that.’’

*** In late November, Huckabee began running a short television ad called ‘‘Believe.’’ It starts with the candidate declaring, ‘‘Faith doesn’t just influence me, it really defines me.’’ As he speaks, the words ‘‘Christian Leader’’ flash across the screen. This ad was, of course, directed at the evangelical voters of Iowa. But it has also caught the attention of big-time figures in evangelical Christianity, many of whom have refrained from supporting Huckabee’s candidacy. This failure has puzzled and angered the governor. At the Olive Garden he spoke with bitterness about Richard Land, the president of the Ethics and Religious Liberty Commission of the Southern Baptist Convention. ‘‘Richard Land swoons for Fred Thompson,’’ he said. ‘‘I don’t know what that’s about. For reasons I don’t fully understand, some of these Washington-based people forget why they are there. They make ‘electability’ their criterion. But I am a true soldier for the cause. If my own abandon me on the battlefield, it will have a chilling effect.’’

***From this power base, he ran for the Senate against the incumbent Dale Bumpers in 1992 and lost resoundingly. During that campaign, he advocated separating people with H.I.V./AIDS from the general population, telling the Associated Press that ‘‘we need to take steps that would isolate the carriers of this plague.’’ Questioned about this statement recently on ‘‘Fox News Sunday,’’ Huckabee said: ‘‘I don't run from it. I don't recant.’’

***Huckabee’s answer to his opponents on the fiscal right has been his Fair Tax proposal. The idea calls for abolishing the I.R.S. and all current federal taxes, including Social Security, Medicare and corporate and personal income taxes, and replacing them with an across-the-board 23 percent consumption tax.

Governor Huckabee promises that this plan would be ‘‘like waving a magic wand, releasing us from pain and unfairness.’’ Some reputable economists think the scheme is practicable. Many others regard it as fanciful. (For starters, it would require repealing the 16th Amendment to the Constitution.) In any case, the Fair Tax proposal is based on extremely complex projections.

Huckabee does not have an impressive grasp of its details. When I suggested, for example, that consumers might evade the tax simply by acquiring goods and services for cash on the black market, he seemed genuinely surprised.

***[Not a quote, but a partial list of gifts: (Quite impressive for someone who calls the Club for Growth the Club for Greed.]In 1999, the first year as governor that he was required by law to record their value, he listed 73 presents, including a pair of season football tickets from the University of Arkansas, a guitar from the band Lynyrd Skynyrd, fishing and hunting trips, a carved sculpture of Christ, a leather purse for his wife from Jennifer’s Dress Shop, a case of beef, department-store gift certificates and the use of a Chevrolet. He was also given honorary membership to Chenal Valley Country Club, the Little Rock Club, Pleasant Valley Country Club, the Country Club of Little Rock, Maumelle Bass Club and the Old Fishing Club. Huckabee received ‘‘legal services’’ from a Fayetteville attorney, Tom Mars, whom he later appointed director of the Arkansas State Police. Mars defended Huckabee in a suit charging that he had improperly claimed $70,000 worth of furniture, intended for the governor’s mansion, as a personal gift. (Huckabee eventually conceded the point, but the charge was later dropped.)

As lieutenant governor, Huckabee established a corporation, Action America, to which people donated more than $60,000. He used that money to pay himself for delivering inspirational speeches. Asked by the Arkansas news media to disclose the names of donors, Huckabee declined.
Here's some info on other donors and their role in his administration.

In a recent poll, Arkansans went first for Hillary for president, they see him as a "pale imitation of Bill Clinton".

And this is how he starts out his foreign policy essay:
The United States, as the world's only superpower, is less vulnerable to military defeat. But it is more vulnerable to the animosity of other countries. Much like a top high school student, if it is modest about its abilities and achievements, if it is generous in helping others, it is loved. But if it attempts to dominate others, it is despised. American foreign policy needs to change its tone and attitude, open up, and reach out.
Sophomoronic. Sounds like an old phone commercial. This is just another variation of the liberal multiculti-surrender-monkey mantra--"why do they hate us?" On Iraq, Huckabee sets great stock in the NY Times' version of an interview with disgruntled generals. On Iran:
The main difference between these two enemies is that al Qaeda is a movement that must be destroyed, whereas Iran is a nation that just has to be contained.
Well, Iran was the first Terror State, and has been for nearly 30 years. From storming our embassy and taking our diplomats hostage under the Carter administration, Iran has gone from strength to strength on the terror front--funding terrorists, attacking our troops, and steadily working to develop nuclear weapons, NIE or no. Now one of their student leaders in the embassy attack is the leader of their country--Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, Mr. Death to America himself. Yet Huckabee thinks sweet reason will prevail. HotAir features this quote from the essay:
Sun-tzu's ancient wisdom is relevant today: "Keep your friends close and your enemies closer." [more on that quote here]Yet we have not had diplomatic relations with Iran in almost 30 years; the U.S. government usually communicates with the Iranian government through the Swiss embassy in Tehran. When one stops talking to a parent or a friend, differences cannot be resolved and relationships cannot move forward. The same is true for countries.
As simple as that. Who knew? Toss the Swiss and forge on. VDH on the conventionally ignorant:
“We need to talk to Iran.”

We always have had some sort of dialogue ongoing in a backchannel capacity with Iran. But mostly these negotiations over the last thirty years have centered on problems caused by Iranians: they take hostages — and want to discuss the price of their release; they send out terrorists — and want to discuss the price to call them off; they cheat on international accords — and want to discuss the price to comply.
On Russia Huckabee pretty much gives Putin a pass, describing him as a "staunch nationalist"-- this about a man who has deliberately taken his country back to dictatorship, jailing, institutionalizing (for forced psychiatric "treatments") and probably murdering opponents.

Huckabee takes potshots at the supposed "bunker mentality" of the Bush administration, which, in spite of a few missteps has kept us safe, I might add. And Huckabee ignores our efforts to work with the UN and enforce sanctions on Iraq ( a thankless task), our improved relations with India, our efforts at Mideast peace, multilateral success with North Korea, for the last couple of years letting the EU take the lead in talking Iran out of nukes (fruitless), and the advent of friendlier governments in Old Europe, which evidences at least a grudging respect by that electorate of the Bush foreign policy. He offers nothing new, except an emphasis on giving diplomacy a chance without the experience or probably the guts to back it up.

Our enemies would only be emboldened by this weak Huckabee horse, who is probably to the left of Hillary on foreign policy, right there with Travels with Barry Obama--they're the heirs to Jimmy Carter, Mr. Disaster.

He wants to get tough with Musharaf and bomb in Pakistan, but kowtow to Ahmadinejad. And he's much tougher on our ally Pakistan than he is on our near enemy Putin's Russia or our avowed enemy Iran--the classic liberal foreign policy error which leads to appeasement and encourages rogue behavior. Then there was the flip on Cuba. NRO calls him the Holiday Inn Express president on foreign policy.

Huckabee is a domestic disaster as well. Until recently, he was a total liberal on immigration, for giving in-state tuition to illegal immigrants, now he's swerved into overreaction with a Minuteman endorsement. He likes big government. He has a record of raising taxes repeatedly as governor of Arkansas. He is soft on crime, giving more than double the pardons issued by his last 3 predecessors combined, and two of them were Democrats! And he sought and received the endorsement of the liberal National Education Association in New Hampshire. Yes, it's true.

Laura Ingraham asks the Huckster about his NEA endorsement, and Mark Steyn on Huckabee's love of big government and the disastrous implications for religion, which should give his supporters pause. He has also claimed divine intervention on his behalf--I exaggerate only slightly--which gives the rest of us pause.

Latest--Huckabee caught lying about his degree. Another liar from Arkansas.

Finally there's this. Long-suffering, speaking for all of us. Bryan, HotAir:

Since 1992 I’ve wished that what happens in Arkansas would just stay in Arkansas. And that includes the state’s politicians as well as what they do, how they do it and who they do it for.
Another troubling Huckabee clemency. Will we see a Huckabee Checkers speech? Do we really want to watch this all play out? Do we really want a President Huckabee?

On pretty much every issue that matters in this campaign, Huckabee veers from the Republican and conservative position--into liberalism. And his divisive and manipulative use of religion is pure poison to the democratic process in America. He's grasping and deceptive. He's an abysmal candidate who will wreck the party. (the abyss gapes)

UPDATE: More from VDH on Huckabee's foreign policy.

UPDATE: Polls in Illinois, more on Huckabee. Some compare him to Reagan!! Shoot that down here.

--crossposted at BackyardConservative

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Anyone who wants to know about Huckabee just needs to know that here in Arkansas he kept the Clinton/Tucker administration in tact and the new Dem. Governor didn't have to change a thing. The man is pro-life, pro-gun liberal.



Increasingly, Mike Huckabee is what leadership looks like. He's an adroit public speaker, and he communicates his message in life-like, cogent terms, with compelling examples like the story he told (at the Ames Straw Poll) of what his then-11-yo daughter entered into the "Comments" section of a Visitors Book after visiting the Yad Vashem holocaust museum: “Why didn't somebody do something?” Very effective.

Huckabee is all about calling his listeners to "do something," to awaken them to their own empowerment, and summon them to action in order that "Main Street," and not "Wall Street," will prevail in guarding the values and beliefs upon which the Republic was founded.

Huckabee puts his listeners at ease, and reassures them, articulating clear concepts in a natural, easy style (no doubt something well-cultivated as a pastor). He’s not as “mechanically-scripted” as Romney, nor angry or demanding, like a Ron Paul, and his large brown eyes, peering through a humble demeanor, draw a striking contrast to a unconvincing, tired-looking Thompson. One can easily imagine sitting comfortably with Mike over a cup of coffee at the Main Street Cafe.

Most importantly, perhaps, Huckabee is ONE with the FairTax grassroots movement. While many - like Romney, and others, who are invested in the current income tax system - seek to demagog the well-researched FairTax plan, its acceptance in the professional / academic community continues to grow. Renown economist Laurence Kotlikoff believes that failure to enact the FairTax - choosing instead to try to "flatten" what he deems to be a non-flattenable income tax system - will eventuate into an irrevocable economic meltdown because of the hidden aspects of the current system that make political accountability impossible.

Romney's recent WEAK response to FairTax questioning on “This Week with Geo. Stephanopoulos” drew a sharper contrast between Huckabee and all other presidential front-runners who will not embrace it. Huckabee understands that what's wrong with the income tax can't be fixed with "a tap of the hammer, nor a twist of the screwdriver." That his opponents cling to the destructive Tax Code, the IRS, preserving political power of granting tax favors at continued cost to - and misery of - American families, invigorates his campaign's raison d'etre.

Of the FairTax, Huckabee asserts that it's...

• SIMPLE, easy to understand
• EFFICIENT, inexpensive to comply with and doesn't cause less-than-optimal business decisions for tax minimization purposes
• FAIR, FLAT, and FAMILY FRIENDLY, loophole-free, and everyone pays their share
• LOW TAX RATE is achieved by broad base with no exclusions
• PREDICTABLE, doesn't change, so financial planning is possible
• UNINTRUSIVE, doesn't intrude into our personal affairs or limit our liberty
• VISIBLE, not hidden from the public in tax-inflated prices or otherwise
• PRODUCTIVE, rewards - rather than penalizes - work and productivity


A detailed benefits analysis of the plan (from The FairTax Book) explains Huckabee's ardent advocacy:

For INDIVIDUALS:
• No more tax on income - make as much as you wish
• FairTax is paid on retail goods and services when purchased new, not used

• You receive your full paycheck - no more deductions
• Every household receives a monthly amount, or "prebate"
• "Prebate" is "advance tax payback" for monthly consumption to poverty level
• FairTax ensures poverty protection, being less regressive than income tax
• Increased household income preserves real purchasing power against any higher prices

• Reduction of pre-FairTaxed retail prices (due to reduced costs; increased competition)
• 29.9% mark-up yields 23% FairTax portion of new price tags
• FairTax portion of new prices reveal true cost of gov't to consumers

• FairTax is captured on illicit forms of income, when spent
• Parasitic income tax filing industry eliminated
• No double taxation on goods and services
No more IRS or FILING OF INCOME TAX returns
• Savings is bolstered with reduction of interest rates


For BUSINESSES:
• Corporate income and payroll taxes revoked under FairTax
• Business compensated for collecting tax at "cash register"
• No more tax-related lawyers, lobbyists on company payrolls
No more embedded (hidden) income/payroll taxes in prices
• Reduced costs. Competition - not tax policy - drives prices
• Off-shore "tax haven" headquarters can now return to U.S
No more "favors" from politicians at expense of taxpayers
• Resources go to R&D and study of competition - not taxes
• Global "free (and equitable) trade" becomes possible for currently-disadvanted U.S. exports
• U.S. exports increase their share of foreign markets


For the COUNTRY:
• 7% - 13% economic growth projected in the first year of the FairTax
Jobs return to the U.S.
• Foreign corporations "set up shop" in the U.S.
• Tax system trends are corrected to "enlarge the pie"
• Larger economic "pie," means thinner tax rate "slices"
• Initial 23% portion of price is pressured downward as "pie" increases
No more "closed door" tax deals by politicians and business
• FairTax sets new global standard. Other countries will follow


Passionately supporting FairTax, Huckabee understands that, if elected President, Congress will have to present the bill for his signature. His call to action goes beyond his candidacy: Main Street will have to demand that their legislators deliver the bill.

(Permission is granted to reproduce, in whole or part. - Ian)




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