It was a bumpy week for the GOP frontrunners. Mitt Romney struggled to make voters comfortable with his Mormon values while uttering the M-word only once in a 20-minute speech. Rudy Giuliani was forced to come clean that he had provided taxpayer-funded chauffeur service to his then-mistress earlier than previously admitted. And Mike Huckabee was put on the hot seat by HuffPost's coverage of his role in the release of a serial rapist who went on to rape and kill at least one other woman. And yet Huckabee has surged ahead in Iowa. So, does this mean that voters are more troubled by a different Jesus and sex-on-the city than by an attempt to fudge the ugly facts of a terrible decision?
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I hope this is a rhetorical question on your part, because for the folks who support the huckster, a lie is not a lie if it can be placed in the context of religion. Facts mean little, its all about the person, he is an elmer gantry at his worst. Religious extremists, either christian or muslim are are a pox on any society. The huckster really is an extremist, a shallow one at that, but an extremist never-the-less!
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Will Mike Huckabee's religious followers be able to get behind Ghouliani or Romney? I doubt it. I see a low GOP turnout in 08. The GOP will have to count on suppressing Democratic turnout and election fraud like 04 and 00... but more of it.
Of course they are! This country was founded by - and still resonates with - thirteen colonies, each of which was aligned with a particular sect of Christianity. The incredible power (and diversity) retained by the States is the legacy of this fact. Eighty percent of Americans call themselves Christians, while only fifteen percent claim no religious affiliation. I think that we users (and bloggers) of Huffpost forget that we do not represent the dominant mindset of America. Rather, we are the liberal, even (gasp!) radical minority.
Worth seeing - direct and without obfuscations - criminals in the White House (and Congress and Rupert Murdoch media)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zlF2YcnWUio
There is a WONDERFUL piece by Eric Alterman in the new issue of "The Nation" that describes the way the MSM has been handling Republicans with kid gloves and sticking it to Democrats by telling falsehoods and half-truths.
He gives several quite dismaying examples. The most depressing one is a comment by somebody at the Washington Post that rationalizes that rag's publishing crapola about Obama being a Muslim (with no effort to be factual) by saying that so what if the piece is one-sided, that is GOOD because it gives OBAMA the opportunity to set people straight when he responds to the crapola. (how really swell of them to give Obama this "opportunity!"). Only they didn't call their stuff "crapola." SHEESH, that is the kind of stuff that Democrats are up against.
No wonder--given that kind of basic structure of these corporate-driven garbage-pushers-- that the startling revelations about Huckabee and the murderer were given little space or attention in the MSM.
WITH NO MONEY?
He has no campaign workers and is broke.
Someone please answer this.
WTF?
Ron Paul raised 5 million in one day and is up to 11 million in 2 months, yet they ignore this...
All the other contenders ask him after the debates, whats his secret.
They can see what the MSM cant?
WTF?
I know the campaign wants this obvious ignoring to continue,
This has ALWAYS been Rons tactic..
He drops the bomb right before elections.
He uses their biased views against them as a campaign tactic.
Lemons into lemonade if you will.
He has done it several times.
But I still get annoyed at the coverage of losers who have not campaigned or made money.
They do not deserve attention.
Ron is the only candidate to put his donations to his campaign up on the web in "real-time."
You can click and see what his campaign is worth.
http://www.ronpaul2008.com/
Let there be NO doubt left in the industry, that in addition to having become one of the greatest FREE SPEECH havens of OUR time, HuffingtonPost HAS made it a 'mission' to restore some integrity to both the words of prevaricating politicians and THEIR journalist sychophants, that would hide TRUE facts and make up their own.
If ever again I imply I might have had enough, Arianna, please - please take it with a grain of salt, and KNOW it's just not so.
Thank you ALL at HuffingtonPost.
As for the poll showing Huckabee in second nationally....that is a result of Republicans dissatisfaction with Romney and Guilliani. It is a protest vote and won't last.