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Yeah Huck has really come a long way. I just want Arkansas to show that Clinton was NOT our best. I know alot of folks have given Huck a black-eye because they are STILL ticked about the last NOT so great-president from Arkansas.
Yup, he is very strong in Iowa and news out today that he has pulled into the lead in GA.
I'm headed out but will probably add a few more details to the IBOX. Some good stuff out there on Huck.
Most recent CNN national poll shows Giuliani, the former New York City mayor, is backed by 24 percent of Republican voters nationally while Huckabee, the former governor of Arkansas, is at 22 percent. Former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney is at 16 percent in the new poll, followed by Sen. John McCain of Arizona at 12 percent, Former Sen. Fred Thompson of Tennessee at 10 percent, Rep. Ron Paul of Texas at 6 percent, Rep. Duncan Hunter of California at 2 percent and Rep. Tom Tancredo of Colorado at 1 percent.
http://www.cnn.com/2007/POLITICS/12/10/cnn.poll/?iref=mpstoryview
I am hoping so. And as far as building it...Mike is building a lead in Iowa...
NICE!
Build it...and then will come.
thanks...now if we could just get more posters...so they can see all the great info...
Thanks RJ, I have a few thinks I'd like to add.
Thanks for adding some here Ed...I am putting you as an asst. Bring anything you can to the i-box!
Mitt Romney supports Mike Huckabee
’08 Competitor Once Praised Huckabee
Monday, December 10, 2007 11:26 AM CST
By Aaron Sadler
Stephens Washington Bureau • asadler@stephensmedia.com
WASHINGTON — It’s interesting to see what two years and a suddenly heated presidential race can do to one man’s opinion of another.
Republican presidential hopeful Mitt Romney is certainly not as strong a supporter of rival Mike Huckabee as he was in 2005, when the two men were governors of Massachusetts and Arkansas, respectively.
Romney and Huckabee are engaged in a tight battle for the GOP nomination in Iowa. Caucuses there are less than a month away.
The two have battled over Huckabee’s positions on immigration and taxes, as well as Romney’s alleged flip-flopping on social issues.
And with a 2005 assessment of Huckabee in which he said the man would “make a fine president,” it appears Romney opened himself to more flip-flop accusations.
The Arkansas News Bureau reported in August 2005 that Romney said Huckabee would have the support of many Massachusetts Republicans if the Arkansan were to run for president in 2008.
While at the Arkansas Governor’s Mansion for a meeting about health care, Romney demurred when asked whether a presidential race was in his future but had nice things to say about his host.
“Who knows what the future will hold?” Romney said in 2005. “Most likely, we’ll all stay as governors or find other offices, but we need to make sure that we have a strong person who can take the baton from President Bush, and Gov. Huckabee is certainly one of those individuals. He’d make a fine president.”
Last week, though, Romney spokeswoman Gail Gitcho said Huckabee is “out of step with the American people.”
The state’s budget grew from $6 billion to $16 billion on Huckabee’s watch as he implemented a variety of tax hikes, Gitcho said.
“Gov. Romney has always had respect for Gov. Huckabee. However, Gov. Huckabee’s policies are the wrong approach for America right now,” she said.
Both men finished their gubernatorial terms in January and have been on the presidential campaign trail almost nonstop since then.
For much of the year, Romney led polling in Iowa and he won the critical Iowa Straw Poll in August. But in recent weeks, Huckabee emerged as the frontrunner in some polls.
Jason Green of the Stephens Washington Bureau contributed to this report.
http://www.swtimes.com/articles/2007/12/11/week_in_review/news/sunday/news04.txt
Minutemen Founder Backs Huckabee
From NBC/NJ’s Adam Aigner-Treworgy
COUNCIL BLUFFS, Iowa -- Huckabee announced this morning the endorsement of Jim Gilchrist, the founder of the anti-illegal immigration and border security group the Minutemen. More to come.
Huckabee also responded on Romney's ad, outlining differences on immigration. “I'm somewhat flattered as I seem to be the recipient of the first negative attack ad in the Republican Primary," Huckabee said. "That's usually a sign of desperation on the part of an opponent who feels that his only way of winning is to attack and to destroy."
More: “The people of Iowa, especially I think, are turned off by negative attack ads, and that campaign can call that [ad] anything it wants, but that's what it is, and it's the first one of the season, and we feel honored to be in the middle of it. My experience is people here kind of want to vote for somebody not just against somebody, and they like to believe that a candidate has enough of a platform that he can stand on it not knock the props out from under the guy next to him.
http://firstread.msnbc.msn.com/archive/2007/12/11/510268.aspx
Was just getting ready to start a board...nice work.
New Republican presidential frontrunner Mike Huckabee is "categorically" denying that while governor of Arkansas he tried to pressure the parole board to release a convicted rapist who later went on to rape and murder a Missouri woman.
Huckabee, who is surging in recent primary polls, has been called on to defend his record, following reports that he played an active role in seeking the release of prisoner Wayne Dumond.
"No. I did not. Let me categorically say that I did not," Huckabee said Tuesday, adding that while governor he denied a request for Dumond's commutation.
Huckabee acknowledged that shortly after becoming governor in 1996 he did visit the parole board — all appointees of his predecessors, Bill Clinton and Jim Guy Tucker — so he could offer his views on crime and parole in general, and the Dumond case came up during that meeting.
Huckabee also reportedly wrote a letter to the convict expressing his wish that he be paroled.
“My desire is that you be released from prison. I feel that parole is the best way for your reintroduction to society to take place," Huckabee wrote in the 1996 letter obtained by National Review Online.
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The Dumond case is long and graphic. In 1984 at age 35, Dumond was charged with the rape of an Arkansas cheerleader who was a distant cousin of Bill Clinton's. While awaiting trial and out on bond the next year, two unidentified men entered Dumond's home, tied him up and castrated him. His testicles were later displayed in a jar of formaldehyde on the local sheriff's desk. No one was ever charged for that crime.
In 1992 Tucker reduced Dumond's sentence of life plus 20 years to make him eligible for parole. Huckabee said Tuesday that Dumond had an "unblemished prison record," and that he met all the qualifications for parole, including having a job lined up and a sponsor with a church.
Dumond was paroled by the board in 1999. But shortly after his release Dumond moved to Missouri where he raped and murdered Carol Sue Shields. He was convicted and sentenced to life in prison in Clay County, Mo., in 2003. He died in prison in 2005.
Shields' mother, Lois Davidson, blames Huckabee for her daughter's murder.
"I can't imagine anybody wanting somebody like that running the country," Davidson told ABC News.
The news agency also reports that a former parole board member claimed Huckabee exerted pressure on the board to free Dumond. Huckabee denies that charge.
"I did not ask them to do anything," he said. "I did indicate it was sitting at my desk, and I was giving thought to it."
Huckabee said the Shields murder was a "horrible situation" and that he would reverse the clock and put Dumond back in prison if he could, but that nobody could have anticipated Dumond's crime.
"For those people to say that I was responsible in getting him out makes a few presumptions," Huckabee said, noting that Tucker had commuted Dumond's sentence years earlier, the seven-member Democratically-appointed panel would all have had to been influenced by a new Republican governor and that two board members who changed their stories did so six years later in an election year, after having not been reappointed to their posts.
"Now if you can follow that line and believe that I am solely responsible then you'll believe that. But you'll believe a lot of other things as well," he said.
The brutal tale seems to be catching fire on the campaign trail just as Huckabee has taken a lead in some polls. A new Rasmussen daily tracking poll released Wednesday showed Huckabee leading the GOP field nationally for the first time, with 20 percent. Rudy Giuliani, the frontrunner in most national polls, clocked in with 17 percent. In an Iowa poll out last week, Huckabee led Mitt Romney 28 to 25.
The Dumond case is not the first time a past judicial decision has haunted a candidate on the trail.
Romney in November found himself having to answer for the actions of a Massachusetts Superior Court judge he nominated while governor who released a convicted killer later held in the murders of a Washington state couple.
Both cases raise the specter of Willie Horton, whose criminal actions tripped up the campaign of former presidential candidate and Democratic Massachusetts Gov. Michael Dukakis, who had maintained a weekend prison furlough program under which Horton, a convicted murderer, was granted a furlough in 1986. In 1987 he raped and beat up a Maryland woman and her fiancé. The issue helped cause insurmountable damage to Dukakis' 1988 general election campaign against GOP nominee George H.W. Bush.
Huckabee said Tuesday that he expected the Dumond case to continue to surface in the presidential campaign.
"There will be people who are victims who will probably be brought forth to make statements, but, you know, I can't fix it," he said. "I can only tell the truth and let the truth be my judge."
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