Huckabee seeks evangelicals in Iowa

Very smart ad...as Huckabee, who has reached out to moderates, independents and some democrats with his message, targets the still waiting Christian conservatives, who are unhappy with their choices: Rudy (liberal on social issues), Romney (non-Christian cult religion, flip-flopped on social issues), Fred (lobbied for abortion rights group, doesn't attend church) & McCain (too told, shot himself in the foot on immigration).

This type of ad should put Huckabee over the top in Iowa. I'd look for a James Dobson endorsement soon.

The Huckster Is Pulling A Con Job On Some Christians

On 2/12/95 an article Ralph Z. Harlow from the Washington Times wrote under the caption "Conservatives Hold Fire On Abortion" the Huckster said this:
"In the spirit of federalism, the proposed GOP revision also would replace the abortion amendment with a statement saying the issue should be left up to the individual state legislatures to deal with as each sees fit. 'That's exactly what we have looked for, and if it's left up to the states, more of them are going to put some restrictions on abortion,' Arkansas Lt. Gov. Mike Huckabee said in an interview after appearing on a conference panel yesterday."

On 4/ 2006 in an interview with John Hawkins on RightWing News the Huckster was talking the same talk: http://www.rightwingnews.com/interviews/huckabee.php

"It would please me because I think Roe v. Wade is based on a real stretch of Constitutional application — that somehow there is a greater privacy issue in the abortion concern — than there is a human life issue — and that the federal government should be making that decision as opposed to states making that decision. So, I’ve never felt that it was a legitimate manner in which to address this and, first of all, it should be left to the states, the 10th Amendment, but secondly, to somehow believe that the taking of an innocent, unborn human life is about privacy and not about that unborn life is ludicrous."

BUT then on 11/19/07;
Huckabee Rejects Letting States Decide Whether to Allow Abortions
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,312107,00.html

"If morality is the point here, and if it’s right or wrong, not just a political question, then you can’t have 50 different versions of what’s right and what’s wrong."

"For those of us for whom this is a moral question, you can’t simply have 50 different versions of what’s right,"he said in an interview on Fox News Sunday."

I couldn't agree with you more Dave. Nice post.

This is a great ad. It differentiates Huckabee from the phonies like Romney and Thompson.

Anyone interested in what Huckabee is really like face to face should try this funny (but it actually happened) column:
http://goupstate.us/index.php/lanefiller/2007/11/02/title_14

Increasingly, Mike Huckabee is what leadership looks like ( http://snipurl.com/leaderlook ). Huckabee's ardent support for the FairTax ( http://snipurl.com/fthuckabeeonirs) sets him apart from all other viable presidential candidates. The FairTax Act of 2007 (HR 25 / S 1025) ( http://snipurl.com/irsgone ) represents a prospective power shift of massive proportions in America. It lays out a practical ideal of voluntary tax payment, based on a substantial level of taxpayer choice that the plan affords. Since FairTax untaxes basic necessities (up to socially-accepted levels of poverty-level spending), what is taxed is marginal, and/or desired or preferred, on a broader base of retail products and services. This is to say that the taxpayer may, under the FairTax, choose to purchase used products and avoid paying the tax. And, to the extent desired, the taxpayer may choose to self-perform certain services rather than pay for them. This will stimulate do-it-yourself education, improve citizens' self-reliance; indeed the FairTax represents the possibility of ushering in a new "can-do citizen psychology" that would accrue to greater demands for government accountability - truly, a socio-cultural "sea change," or - better - a restoration of a "freeholder" mindset on account that politicians could no longer directly grab dollars from paychecks, nor could they grap operating capital from businesses.