Mike Huckabee is my man for the presidency.He out shines all comers. The pundits say he hasn't a chance because of his bankroll. But if he keeps going the way he is the money with be flowing in.
It would be a shame if the best man for the job lost it because of lack of funds. I urge you to support Mike Huckabee with both words and funds.

He is a different take on Mike Huckabee:

Disc jockey for president
Tuesday, Nov 27, 2007

By John Brummett

One of the national writers putting together a profile of Mike Huckabee asked how it might be that this preacher showed such an affinity for popular culture.

The Chuck Norris alliance, the tailgate party in South Carolina with the wrestler, the pardon for Keith Richards, the playing of bass guitar in a rock cover band offering Lynyrd Skynyrd - isn't all that out of character for a man from the Southern Baptist pulpit?

Actually, Huckabee was a radio man before he was a preacher and he has remained more decidedly a media man than a pulpit man.

His superficially likable nature, which provides the essence of his oddly succeeding presidential campaign, comes via a disc jockey's shtick rather than a pastor's. I refer to the rich intonations of his professional voice, the music, the hip topicality, the impersonations, the jokes, the Mr. Glib.

It can't be those radical policies. Outlawing abortion altogether, not merely leaving it to the states, is extreme. A national sales tax to replace the income tax is a gimmick, either scandalously regressive or entirely too difficult to design so that it wouldn't be. He barely scratches the surface on foreign policy with what got described over the weekend as "cheerful know-nothingness." He denies the better points of his record in Arkansas, since they're entirely too moderate for modern Republican primary voters.

His is wholly a candidate of personality, and, as such, is more Don Imus than Billy Graham.

Yes, Imus. Huckabee can be mean and inappropriate. It usually doesn't get revealed until the second impression. He's still making his first out there on the trail.

As a midteen, Huckabee found work, including some on-air, on a Hope radio station. Then he had one of those seminal religious moments. So he figured he'd apply his talents and interests to serve Jesus through Christian broadcasting.

That led him to the seminary, after which, almost by accident, he got preaching work in Pine Bluff, then Texarkana. In both towns, he supplemented the preaching with work for which he was better-suited and that he more enjoyed. That would be a local cable television show.

He attained the presidency of the Arkansas Baptist Convention not so much by conventional preaching as by the clever politics of making himself palatable both to fundamentalists and moderates. It was from there that he moved to secular politics.

When Huckabee was lieutenant governor, needing something to do in that pointless job, he accepted an invitation to substitute for a vacationing radio talk show host. He invited me to be his guest, mainly so he and his callers could berate me. He was fully at home and adept in the radio booth.

One day as he prepared to ascend to the governorship, Huckabee had a news conference. I was struck by his intimacy with the TV cameramen. He joshed with them authoritatively about their equipment, specifically about the comparative modernity of one station's gear versus another's.

Then the producer of his cable show in Texarkana, Gary Underwood, joined the governor's staff. Huckabee and Underwood transformed the governor's conference room into an audiovisual studio. They produced a slick, self-promotional cable television program that they distributed for use by ever-pliable local access channels.

As Huckabee prepared to become governor, he said one of his dreams was to do radio play-by-play for a Razorback football game. Naturally, as the new governor, he was obliged. He described a few downs, smoothly and ably, of course.

From time to time I've written an unoriginal but incisive line, which is that Huckabee is really running for his own show on Fox or MSNBC. I'm sticking with that.

But I'll admit there are moments lately when I wonder if he'll have to go through the motions of being the Republican presidential or vice presidential nominee first.

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John Brummett is a columnist for the Arkansas News Bureau in Little Rock. His e-mail address is jbrummett@arkansasnews.com; his telephone number is (501) 374-0699.

Part of me was actually hoping Huckabee would stay out of the GOP lead so Obama could reach across the isle and grab him as a VP...

But I'd be extatic of Huckabee were the GOP candidate, not because I think he's beatable (I think Giuliani and Romney would be eminently more beatable), but because I want the best candidate from BOTH parties running in the General Election.

Although liberal myself, I do respect Huckabee for at least being a rational, respectable human being (something I have a hard time seeing in Rudy and Hillary). I don't think he'll be rushing to wars or governing for power at the expense of the weakest among us.

Obama vs. Huckabee would be the best general election. Both respectable men of dignity who are not owned by their history and moneyed connections.

LOL!

John Brummett, along with Max Brantley of the Arkansas Times, have been battling Huckabee with the very same things for years and are now getting a chance to do it nationally.

It didn't work in Arkansas, it ain't gonna work nationally.

Huckabee...Reagan Minus the Astrologer!

Huckabee/McCain '08...it's in the Stars!

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

Huckabee is a liberal on all issues but life.

I remember when John Brummett was running the Arkansas Gazette into the ground. After the rival paper bought them out he and his friends destroyed all of their computers and other office equipment. I see by his message that he hasn't changed.

I am 30 years old and grew up in a very politically mined family. Dinner table conversation often revolved around the issues of the day. The presidential election was my families super bowl.

I think I have a pretty good understanding of the flow of the political machine. This is why Mike Huckabee scares the crap out of me. His recent rise reminds me of Bill Clinton's breakout. I knew he would be the next president the week he was on the cover of Newsweek (I think) in a gray turtle neck. There was something about that cover that said this is the guy. The way the media has begun to talk about Huckabee in the last 2 weeks reminds me of that. Huckabee seems to be gaining the status quo (establishment Washington) vote. He has become the vanilla ice cream candidate; mostly the same but the sprinkles are different. Doesn't this scare anyone else? Like I said it scares the crap out of me.

It seems to me the status quo doesn't work that well. America is experiencing entropy; things are falling apart it's just really slow so we don't notice as much. The government doesn't have any money; interest rates down again; housing bubble coming apart. Look at the dollar and how many homeowners won't be soon.

I have read a lot about Huckabee in the last month and watched a lot of his videos. He is a great speaker and seems to be a nice person. I don't think this or the Chuck Norris endorsement qualifies him to be president. We have to stop voting for people based on the 'having a beer with' criteria. Mike Huckabee wants to keep steering this ship that is our state in the same direction with maybe a 10% course correction here or there; we need to go hard to port or starboard that is where the debate is or should be.

Mike Huckabee does not hold a strong philosophical position on government, that is reserved for his religion. This means we are in for more wishy-washy government which just leads to pork and stupidity. If you think the federal government should spend its time with FCC indecency regulation of Cable TV, nation wide smoking bans, The Ten Commandments in schools, and probably more steroid hearings then I guess Huckabee is your guy. On a more serious note Huckabee believes he can strike Iran preemptively (as opposed to defensively which is fine) without Congressional approval --- scary, well unless you like $200 oil.

By the way the correct answer to 'would Jesus support capital punishment' is NO.