Huckabee Nows Leads in Iowa
Written by Sam on November 28th, 2007The latest Rasmussen Reports telephone survey of the Iowa caucus finds former Arkansas Governor Mike Huckabee with 28% of the vote, former Massachusetts Governor Mitt Romney with 25% support, and everyone else far behind. National frontrunner Rudy Giuliani gets just 12% of the vote in Iowa at this time while former Tennessee Senator Fred Thompson is the only other candidate in double digits at 11%
Oh God, help us. I never thought I would hear myself say this, but the social conservatives are ruining our party. There needs to be a balance between social conservatism and limited government fiscal conservatism and for the past six years it’s been extremely lopsided in one direction. What’s more frightening is not that Huck could be our candidate, but according to recent polls, could actually end up being our President.
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There could be worse things than that–just not much. (I am thinking of any of the Democrats or Ron Paul as more frightening).
On the other hand, I certainly do not anticipate him being able to keep it up.
It does, though, show the weakness of Romney which is what I find most interesting.
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Indeed, Huck knocking off Romney in IA would most likely spell the end for Romney.
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Here’s hoping someone runs a Willie Horton ad against Huckabee.
And why are social conservatives supporting a man who’s lied so many times about the reason he raised taxes as governor of Arkansas? Don’t social conservatives believe it’s important to have a president of good moral character?
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The social conservatives are becoming the real Rhinos in the Republican Party. They are not fiscal conservatives and probably not hawks deep down either. To use Mr. Romney’s language, they only believe in one leg of the stool.
If Romney loses Iowa, he is done as it will probably lead to a Giuliani landslide in New Hampshire and Giuliani winning the nomination easily on February 5.
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I don’t think there is any chance of Romney losing New Hampshire, but if he does bad in Iowa it could hurt him in Michigan, the southern primaries, and Super Tuesday.
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So, instead of a social conservative that is weak on tax issues, you prefer a social liberal that “found” conservatism once he started running for president?
Man, you are not going to get the perfect conservative–so go with huckbee and try to build his cabinet that knows how to govern without raising taxes.
By the way– any of you heard about the comment made by Karl Rove about the Dems and Iraq?
Priceless–This may become a more interesting election than I thought!!
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What’s disturbing is that Rep. Young (Rino-AK) endorses Huckabee…one who self describes himself as a proud porker.
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Jason… Huck is a pork president in the wings. He will make Bush look like a model of fiscal restraint.
From a practical perspective, Giuliani’s social liberalism would be less of a problem politically because the president controls social policy far less than fiscal policy. Huck can do far more damage with his compassionate conservative nonsense. I would use a stronger word for it, but I am trying to remain civil here.
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Instead of throwing out accusations about Huckabee’s fiscal responsibility, can someone please back up the claims with evidence? He is a strong candidate, and someone who likely could beat any one of the dems.
I would just like to know what exactly his crimes are - because right now he has my vote.
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Google Huckabee.
Even his website goes through pains to explain his “economic sins”–Raising Taxes.
These guys are trying to calculate if Guiliani or Romney would not hurt their cause.
What happens if they put in a liberally minded cabinet that endorses liberal policies.
Then losing congress is going to be more painful than it should.
Man–the GOP side is in pain. Thompson is not campaigning, Romney has some campaign-related weakness and is a little to “perfect” somewhat a liberal
Romney was a liberal until he took off that dress(Oh come on–that could be a good joke between candidates!)
But, the more social conservatives, ok, economically different, nominees and you run for the hills.
Get the true SC’s and try to shape their cabinet and advisors. That would cover everything.
That is better than playing with liberals playing to the far right, if you want a conservative presidency.