I just voted for Huckabee here in Texas! Tancredo was my man, then Hunter, then Romney but you yankees got to vote 'em all out! Go Huckster!

Huckabee will strongly push for a constitutional amendment banning abortion. McCain is against it.

Huckabee is against embryonic stem cell reserch. McCain has voted for it twice and says he still is for it.

Huckabee will strongly push for a constitutional amendment banning homosexual marriage. McCain voted against it in the senate, not just once but twice.

Huckabee is for making all illegal immigrants leave the country within a 120 day window and then get in the back of the line for illegal immigration. McCain is for letting them stay and giving them amnesty.

That, obviously, is why Huckabee needs to stay in the race. If he gets out, his positions on these key social issues will go unheard.

Huckabee: Wants to Amend the Constitution to reflect his belief. That is a VIOLATIONS of the 1st Amendment to the Constitution which was ratified with the first 10 Amendments known as the BILL OF RIGHTS: 'Congress shall make NO LAW respecting an Establishment of Religion...' - That is NOT a suggestion, that is the LAW!

GOP voters might want to take another look at Governor Huckabee.

Given McCain's major problems with the FEC over campaign financing, his inner-circle staff made up of 29 lobbyists, his blind support for Bush's Iraq debacle, and a host of other potential problems, he might not prove to be their strongest candidate.

And of course if *anything* surfaces subsequently to contradict McCain's iron-clad denials yesterday regarding charges of his his inappropriately cozying up to lobbyists, his campaign will collapse overnight....

I consider McCain to be a real American Hero and I'm am certain that he is also a very decent and dedicated man. However, I don't think his presidency would amount to much more than Bush III. I would at least like to see these two reach an accord to put Huckabee on the ticket. He's earned it and the VP spot on both of these party tickets may prove to be very important in the long run. That way you can say you have a united party ticket and that at some level all of the party faithful were heard. Still, I would not discount Huckabee's chances to shake up the convention if necessary.

>>"Iraq is our responsibility, we broke it, we own it." Mike Huckabee, on Iraq during a televised GOP debate...
cba, let me put that in context for you, since you don't seem capable of doing so:
Ever heard the phrase, "You break it, you bought it"? His statement simply means that we are responsible for following through in Iraq. I agree with that.

Angie, don't be ridiculous. The statement about the Constitution has been widely misrepresented- it referred to Huckabee's support of an amendment to outlaw abortion. Regardless of how you feel about that, don't misconstrue it as an intention to impose Christianity on the United States! That's absurd- Mike Huckabee doesn't believe in a theocracy any more than you do.
I am not a right-wing Christian by any means- and am actually pro-choice- but the near-hysterical opposition to the fact that Huckabee was a Baptist preacher OVER TWENTY YEARS AGO is ridiculous and juvenile to me. Support or oppose a candidate because of his/her stand on illegal immigration or plans for tax reform or something relevant- not because of a knee-jerk reaction to a snippet you've seen in the press.

Re: Angie

Your above wrote this:
"Huckabee: Wants to Amend the Constitution to reflect his belief. That is a VIOLATIONS of the 1st Amendment to the Constitution which was ratified with the first 10 Amendments known as the BILL OF RIGHTS: 'Congress shall make NO LAW respecting an Establishment of Religion...' - That is NOT a suggestion, that is the LAW!"

Your are totally incorrect. There is absolutely no "violation" of the constitution. An amendment is not a law (statute). Amendments and laws are two totally different actions and follow different processes. When an amendment is done, it then is a part of the constitution -- so don't make the elementary mistake some make who are unfamiliar with the process and claim that the amendment would b unconstitutional. Nothing that is part of the constitution can be unconstitutional.

If you would like to learn the basics about an amendment, I suggest you read article 5 of the constitution, where the process of amending the constitution is spelled out in detail.

Hey Huck, learn some math!

This guy needs to stop fooling himself and come to terms already...it's over, Huckabee! Go back to making long-winded sermons.

Good grief you Huck supporters are delusional.

1. Huckabee took $35,000 from one of the world's foremost stem cell research companies. What he says and what he does are 2 different things.

2. The federal ban on abortion will never pass. The votes are not there, and won't be there anytime soon. Not to mention, unless the Supreme Court overturns Roe v. Wade, it'll never even make it to a vote.

3. Huckabee wants to give our taxpayer dollars to educate the children of illegals, with scholarships & in-state tuition. This encourages illegal immigration. He has yet to propose an idea for making them leave the country.

4. The Huckster ran the slimiest campaign of any candidate, on either side. Illegal push polls, fliers full of lies...and yes, his campaign knew and condoned them.

Huckabee is a snakeoil salesman. He's not a conservative. He's not running a clean, honest campaign. He's not going to win, either, thank God.

Sure does seem like an old Fred Thompson supporter is filled with bitter resentment towards Huckabee -- probably because Thompson at one time was leading in the polls and then most of the social conservatives left him and went to Huckabee.

And then Huckabee trounced Thompson in Iowa and then trounced him again in all of the other primaries through South Carolina.

And then finally Thompson had to finally drop out, without winning a single primary or caucus and not even ever coming in second, while Huckabee was winning numerous caucuses and primaries, mostly with the supporters that had left Thompson and gone instead to him.

Yes, it is easy to understand the animus of some Thompson supporters towards Huckabee. Many people would call it envy and jealousy.

BUT, BIG RED you forgot something important here. You don't get to choose from perfect candidates, you get to choose from the ones we have. I cannot say that you are accurate on your allegations, but before you go doing some character assasignations, I think you should have your story straight with evidence. Anyone can make allegations, but there needs to be proof. In John McCain's case, while there isn't enough evidence to convict him of an affair, there is certainly enough to show that he should not be given our trust.

Dear Poor, Delusional bigred:
1. Huckabee has received money from companies that perform stem cell research- so what? The man is a public speaker, and if he chooses to accept money for a speech, it doesn't mean he has to agree with the philosophies of the group he's addressing.
2. As noted, millions of Huckabee supporters are not focused on his candidacy because of anti-abortion legislation. If it "will never pass", I really don't care. I am voting for him because of his plan for illegal immigration, the FairTax, and several other issues.
3. Distorting a program in which he supported academic scholarships for immigrant children as Governor of Arkansas is not pertinent to this campaign. You are ABSOLUTELY wrong about Huckabee on illegal immigration. Directly from his website:
Prevent Amnesty
Policies that promote or tolerate amnesty will be rejected.
Propose to provide all illegal immigrants a 120-day window to register with the Bureau of Citizenship and Immigration Services and leave the country. Those who register and return to their home country will face no penalty if they later apply to immigrate or visit; those who do not return home will be, when caught, barred from future reentry for a period of 10 years.
This is not a "touchback" provision. Those who leave this country and apply to return from their home country would go to the back of the line.
4. Huckabee has run the cleanest campaign of any presidential candidate this year, probably ever. These allegations are lies.
He is a man of integrity, and your attack is not only unmerited, it's outrageously false.

Just one question: How does Huckabee get anyone to vote for him outside of his base? Better tell Mike make nice with John while he can, because the only way "Tax-hike Mike" who never met a criminal he never liked, makes it to the White House is if Hilliary and Obama drop out and McCain makes him his VP. Hating doesn't make it less true.

Just an aside- to what I hope is friendly debate here: does anyone else feel that our primary system is outdated and unfair? Wouldn't it be better to have a period- say, six months to a year- of campaigning followed by a national primary vote? Maybe over three or four days?
Maybe this is already being discussed on talk radio; I'm not a listener. It just seems to me that the way things are set up now allows way too much media manipulation, and backroom party deal-making. Wouldn't it be a far more democratic process if we just shortened the voting timeframe, so that it's not this guy with momentum this week because of some flukey state, and the next week it's someone else?

Actually, cba, if you take the time to learn about his positions, he isn't what he has been pigeon-holed to be. He is mostly moderate in his ideas, but more than that, rather common-sense.

His record on criminals show simply that he took the time to review each case, think them through and do what seemed best at the time. Wayne Dumond was paroled by the parole board, not pardoned by Huckabee. At least he didn't refuse to even consider any of the cases brought before him like Romney did. He refused to pardon an Iraq veteran who, as a teenager had plinked a friend with a BB gun, but did not break the skin. When he went to apply for a job as a police officer, he was turned down because of this record.

You see you can beat up anyone, but in the end we will call one Mr. or Mdm. President, and I would rather it was one who thinks carefully about what the job requires, and how to most judiciously execute the job given him or her.

Mike Huckabee has the kind of common-sense approach that will work will all kinds of people's beliefs and ideas to accomplish the job that needs to be done.

I don't understand Duncan Hunter supporters who don't like Huckabee. Duncan Hunter has endorsed Mike Huckabee.

Also, if you believe that Mike Huckabee has committed ethics violations, you are listening to his opponents. Mike Huckabee has never, I repeat never been found guilty of ethics violations.

Finally, there's this boring thing about the theory of evolution. What is the theory of evolution this week? It changes more often than Jerry Lewis changes his socks.

Here's irony for you: they berate you for believing in the Bible, then they berate you again for NOT believing in the theory of evolution. Make up your minds.

Go Huck!

DREAMERs and miracle HOPERs:

1) Huckabee dreaming of a brockered
convention,by winning in Texas or
0hio, etc., when the polls indicate
that he will receive there 20%, max
25% of the votes

2) Hillary dreaming of recuperate the
advantage of Obama of 143 pledges
delegates, when the polls indicate
that she most probably will LOOSE
Texas and in best case draw Ohio.
And further that the Superdelegates
will risk their hide by reverting
the will of the voters or that the
DNC and/or the superdelegates in
convention will approve the seating
of Florida and Michigan candidates.

3) a)Paul + b) Nader dreaming that
somebody somebody cares about them,
other then being annoyed by their
nibbling some votes from a) McCain
and b) Democrats.

Shoud somebody not awake them ??

TOM

So Tom, what your saying is that since Mike Huckabee only has a thin chance of winning, I should just baa, baa baaack McCain or one of the other candidates whom I can't stand the thought of voting for? I have always been and independent, because I have never assumed that one party or the other was going to come up with the greatest candidate every time. But left with the choices, I will continue to delude myself that my one vote might make a difference.