Huckabee sees momentum building; cites Iowa poll

But concedes he is an 'underdog'
Here is an absolutely awesome article about Mike Huckabee in The Boston Globe.

• Former Arkansas governor Mike Huckabee said his second-place finish at the Ames straw poll in Iowa last weekend shows he has developed "real momentum" in the Republican presidential race, especially because his campaign turned out its supporters on a shoestring budget, without TV ads or free bus rides.
• But in an interview with the Globe editorial board yesterday, Huckabee -- who raised only $1.3 million in the first half of the year, compared with straw poll winner Mitt Romney's $44.4 million -- conceded he can catch up only if his rivals falter or fatally wound one another's candidacies.
  "I'm having to bet the farm on certain imponderables taking place, one of which is that somebody's going to goof up and say something that becomes the defining YouTube moment that sends them the way of George Allen," he said, referring to the former Virginia senator and erstwhile presidential hopeful whose infamous racist remark last year wound up as a much-shared Internet video and derailed his political career.

I think someone will have that "YouTube moment." Can anyone say "I was brainwashed by the Pentagon."? George Romney during the '68 Presidential Primary. Mike Huckabee is too much of a gentleman and stand up guy to play those stupid political games to mud sling. The American people are sick of that stupid crap. He has the sense to let his contenders bring down their own campaigns. Although in my humble opinion, I think that Mike Huckabee can win on merit, issues and ideals, as opposed to an us against them view.

• Huckabee said a Republican could not win the presidency if the party's interests aligned more with Wall Street than Main Street, and as someone who came from a working-class family in Hope, Ark., -- also Clinton's hometown -- he said his interests and priorities naturally allied with working people.
  The governor of Arkansas from 1996 to 2007, Huckabee described himself as a "different kind of Republican than people are used to" -- and in Romney's home state, Huckabee couldn't help making a few not-so-subtle digs. He said he did not grow up in a place where "summer is a verb" and that he was running as a true conservative who had "not fished my way through the waters to figure out what would bite."

This is the message that needs to get out there. Being in tune with the working class and a Republican can be done. Mike Huckabee is just the man to do that.

• He acknowledged that fiscal conservatives had criticized him for shepherding a massive transportation bill, financed by a 4-cent gas tax increase, to fix the state's poorly maintained roads.
  Huckabee said he was not happy about the gas tax increase, but the roads had to be improved for the sake of the state's economy.
  "Everybody wants to go to heaven, but nobody wants to die," said Huckabee, 51, a Baptist minister before he entered politics.

I love that quote. Great response! This increase was approved by the voters. Just another example that Mike Huckabee is a people person.

• He also mounted a strong defense of the "fair tax," a proposal to replace the income tax with a national sales tax that would include a tax credit for lower-income families.
  None of the leading presidential candidates has endorsed this radical reordering of the tax system, but Huckabee contended that it would attract global corporations and would be a better deal for the bottom one-third of earners.

This just goes to show how Mike Huckabee GETS IT! These other guys are so stuck in the cigar room of the country club that they don't know what is going on in the real world. Perhaps their brains have been clouded by the smoke?

• As for the Rev. Wiley S. Drake, the California preacher and Huckabee supporter who entreated his followers to pray for the death of those who filed a complaint with the IRS alleging that Drake used church resources to endorse Huckabee, the candidate said he disavowed that approach.
  "The saving of souls rather than the damning of them would tend to be more my hope," he said.

Spoken like a true Christian!

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God Bless from the Upper Peninsula in Michigan!