On the Bus with Huckabee

Nice behind-the-scenes look at a candidate. Fascinating stuff for those of us who will never get to ride that bus. Thanks.

I have been a Republican for long and i understand what Huckabee is saying. My party has forgotten the working people of America. They’ve pursued policies that benefits big businesses and corporation. It’s time to take back our party and our nation from this elies. Huckabee is the man that can do this. He’s one of us and one from us. they hate him and are using all their media talking heads to bash him. Let’s prove them wrong. Let’s make this cause a success. It’s time for America’s greatest hour.

Mike, I love you and I love what you’re doing for this country! I can’t imagine a more wonderful political event than you becoming our next President! Here’s to eight more years of straight talk, wit, humor and passion. Thanks Mike!

Huckabee is simply our best chance of retaining the White House.

“Hope has to be built on something tangible but hope is something that you give; it’s what you inspire and encourage in others.” –Gomer Pyle

Huckabee has good qualities, but the one Republican with the most consistent conservative record is the media ignored Duncan Hunter. Likened to Reagan, Hunter has demonstrated over his 26 years of Congressional service that he adheres to conservative values and is more a man of action than politics. He is overwhelmingly liked by his constituents and has won all of his San Diego elections by landslides. When practicing law, he often did pro bono work in the Barrio Logan area because he cares about people first!

Governor Huckabee is no more getting a free pass than any other republican candidate and as a lifelong republican, I welcome someone who cares about the regular guy, cares about education, and who wants to enhance our daily lives. Conservatism for conservatism sake isn’t good enough any more. The RNC needs to, MUST change.

He HAS answered those Thompson-raved charges – time and time again. I’ve heard his answers so many times, I can quote him to others! If you’re ignoring his answers, it’s not his fault!
One of his ethics violations was for a hand-made quilt that he innocently thought was worth $50, but in fact was worth $200. He wasn’t familiar with the quilt-culture so didn’t know its value; that was one of the frivolous ethics charges the AR Dems wasted taxpayer money on. Yep, what a bad, bad, person Mike was!
What part of 1% and 7% is hard to understand (those are the state tax rates for the different brackets)? The same when he became governor as when he left. However, he was able to change the tax threshold so more people now pay 0% taxes! How liberal of him, huh?
27 states had individual tax burdens higher than the state of Arkansas.
He cut government by 11% (that answer was in the debate – did you hear it)? He did that before he and the AR people even considered tax increases.
The people of Arkansas OVERWHELMINGLY support his candidacy – does that sound like citizens who hated Huckabee’s governance? My husband’s family (residents of AR for their whole lives – yes, even under Clinton who made the schools 49th in the nation) are included in that group of people who support Huckabee.
The woman on the parole board who claims Huckabee pressured her to release Dumond only “remembered” this pressure the first time he ran for re-election after Dumond’s release. Mike has publicly said he regrets writing the letter to Dumond saying he wanted him to be released; the last part of that sentence says, but “I refuse your request for commutation” (which Mike did 4 times to Dumond!).
Instead of renting a huge mansion while the governor’s mansion was being renovated, they had a trailer hauled in (yep, being wise with the state’s money is sure liberal!)
He NEVER supported in-state tuition for illegals! That has been quoted by the Main Stream Media so many times that even Thompson now believes it – how sad he didn’t really check the facts. His merit scholarship push only involved 30 hispanics, some of which had already applied for citizenship or were born in AR. But … that’s a state issue and didn’t pass anyway!
He didn’t insist on US citizenship verification at the voting booths, because it was already required under another law – the one that requires proof of citizenship to get a driver’s license and said license is used at the voting booth! Why duplicate what was already done? That would be MORE government, right? I physically hunted a month or so ago until I found copies of those bills so I could answer that charge coherently.
If the DNC really wanted Huckabee to win, they would have done their illegal busing of illegal voters into the NH primary. They also wouldn’t pepper him with religion questions EVERY time he’s in front of the camera. He has to spend time answering those questions and that takes away time from answering the policy questions – something none of the other candidates has to deal with.
My mother-in-law worked with Mike while he was governor and she was on the state board of nursing. People keep trying to portray him as a nefarious political genius, when in actuality, what you see is what you get. He sometimes sticks his foot in his mouth (wow, a real human!) and gets tired. But, what you see is what you get – he’s the real deal!
Hope this “evangelical dummy” rant didn’t bore you too much – after all, we all just blindly follow someone who says they’re evangelical, and never research anything, huh? I pray I proved THAT charge false!

Anita, What do you mean by the illegals being bussed into NH?

I wonder how the Republican establishment thinks they will win without the conservative Christian base. After they have slimed a good man in Mike Huckabee, they think we will come crawling back and support their nominee. They are sadly mistaken. This conservative Christian will find it his duty is to change his registration to independent and convince others in the Christian community to vote anything but Republican or Democrat.

This is why he has my vote. He’s down to Earth, honest and willing to fight for Michigan. These other candidate are masters at twisting words. McCain is the one who scares me the most with his propaganda of “I’m the only person who supported the surge. I’m the only person with adequate foreign policy experience.” Give it a break Senator McCain. You’re a 71 year old Washington insider who Republicans turned their back on because of ideas that are anything but conservative. He also bad mouthed evangelicals, including Dr. Dobson about two years ago.

Mike Huckabee is the only candidate that relates with average, hardworking Americans. Huckabee has my vote, we need servant of the people in office not another bloated Romney, McCain politician!

I want to thank all of you for your in put, especially Anita, Cliff and Gabe. We have allowed our leaders to get away with a lot because we have been so busy with faith and family. We are given finances to help serve others and not to spend them on ourselves – Mike Huckabee is reminding us all of that fact.
Mike Huckabee speaks with “humble authority”, he defines and stays with the issues that are important to all of us and he sees it in a biblical world view which makes the greatest difference of all.
Faith – Family – Freedom along with Hope.
We Vote Huckabee in Florida and all the way to the White House. We also have put our money and time where our mouth is – hope all of you will do the same.
Ocala, FL

Huckabee’s biggest advantage is that his platform is designed to defend Americans from the left-wing nanny state and right-wing corporate feudalism.
He not only offers something that no Democrat offers, but his policies are clearly superior to those of his Republican opponents as well.
He captures the change vote but he also has more executive experience than most of the Republican front-runners (I have to check on McCain) so he offers both stability and renewal. Again, this is something the others do not even try to talk about.
Factor in his youth (which is a big consideration when you think how quickly presidents age once in office), charm, and eloquence and you have an uber-qualified populist conservative candidate with the power to pain more than a handful of blue states red.

PJ,
The Dems have been known to bus in homeless,etc. to skew the vote. In New Hampshire, you can register to vote in the primary on the day of the primary, thus eliminating the time needed for checking the legality of the voter.
MAD JAYHAWK stated:
“The media listens to the DNC which has declared Huckabee off limits for critical articles. The DNC wants Huckabee to win.”
My response was just to let Mad Jayhawk know that his theory was wrong. If the DNC really wanted Gov. Huckabee to win so they could wipe-the-floor with him in the general election, they could have easily manipulated it in New Hampshire because of the registration deadline (basically a non-existent deadline).
Thanks for the kudos -
Nobody but Mike!