Mike Huckabee

he talks to God on his mobile!!!!!!!!!
need we say more???

Huck, the Constitution and 'God's standards'
Tuesday, January 15, 2008
by Domenico Montanaro

From NBC/NJ's Adam Aigner-Treworgy
WARREN, Mich. -- Huckabee's closing argument to voters here this evening featured a few new stories and two prolonged sections on illegal immigration and Christian values.

These two topics usually feature prominently in Huckabee's stump speech, but last night he got specific, promising to build a border fence within 18 months if elected and elaborating on his belief that the constitution needs to be amended.

"[Some of my opponents] do not want to change the Constitution, but I believe it's a lot easier to change the constitution than it would be to change the word of the living God, and that's what we need to do is to amend the Constitution so it's in God's standards rather than try to change God's standards," Huckabee said, referring to the need for a constitutional human life amendment and an amendment defining marriage as between a man and a woman.

Huckabee often refers to the need to amend the constitution on these grounds, but he has never so specifically called for the Constitution to be brought within "God's standards," which are themselves debated amongst religious scholars. As a closing statement he asked the room of nearly 500 supporters to "pray and then work hard, and in that order," to help him secure a victory in Tuesday's GOP primary.

Tomorrow Huckabee will visit two polling places in the morning before taking off for South Carolina where he will watch Michigan's returns come in.

So thats the dems idea, raise taxes on gas, even though taxes already are a major contributor to the price of gas.

In South Carolina, Pro-Confederate Flag Group Airs Ads Praising Huckabee's Flag Stance -- And Hitting McCain

January 17, 2008

A pro-Confederate Flag third-party group is running new radio ads in South Carolina praising Mike Huckabee's pro-state's-rights stance on the flag issue -- and slamming John McCain over his repeated criticism of the controversial symbol.

"Mike Huckabee's stand is a breath of fresh air," say the ads, which are paid for by the Americans for the Preservation of American Culture. "Gov. Huckabee understands that all the average guy with a Confederate Flag on his pickup truck is saying is: He's proud to be a Southerner."

McCain has been dogged by the flag issue in South Carolina since his 2000 Presidential run; he's repeatedly denounced it, calling it a "racist symbol."

There are two versions of the ad, one attacking McCain, the other attacking Romney, who's also condemned the flag. [..]

Huckabee has not distanced himself from the ads. Huckabee's position on the issue is that the Federal government should stay out of states' disputes over the flag.

Ron Wilson, an official with the group airing the ads, declined to say how big the buy was. But he confirmed that it was running on all South Carolina radio stations that carry Rush Limbaugh, Sean Hannity, and Bill O'Reilly.

LISTEN TO BOTH ADS (the second starts roughly at the one-minute mark)

"We hope to call 546,000 households in Nevada on behalf of Huckabee," said Patrick Davis, the executive director of Common Sense Issues, according to the Las Vegas Review-Journal.

Want to hear one of the calls? Here, via Ambinder, is audio (and video) of one of their calls as captured by a recipient.

Is this a so-called "push poll," an attempt to communicate an negative message under the false guise of a survey? Of course it is. But that's not the way Davis sees it, according to the Washington Post:

[Davis] questioned why McCain is characterizing the phone drive as an attempt to engage in push polling...Davis said the 45-second calls use a special technology that provides a different automated message, depending on how the recipient answers questions. Moreover, Davis said, "A strict push poll is delivering not-truthful information. Everything we say is factual and backed up.

The Review-Journal adds:

Davis said the calls made by his group should not be called push polls because questions are asked of those called. "A human voice is recorded asking the questions," he said. "You respond with your voice. How you respond dictates the next question. We are gathering information.

What a crock. The recipients that receive these calls are told they are participating in a survey, not a promotional message. Davis may have the high tech cover of asking questions, but the clear intent is to communicate negative messages. Check their web site's About Page. The expressed purpose of Common Sense Values is "educating and informing citizens in an in-depth manner about public policy issues." They say nothing about gathering data or measuring public opinion. They dress up their calls as "surveys" to add false credibility. Would the recipients stay on the phone if told they were about to be "educated and informed?" "Common sense" tells you they would not. The guise of a survey is a sham.

If you don't believe me, ask my colleague Nancy Mathiowetz, president of the American Association for Public Opinion Research (AAPOR):

Asking questions does not make it a survey. These calls are clearly a fraud that harm the survey research profession.

HUCKABEE COMPARES AMERICA TO NAZI GERMANY

In a speech to the Florida Renewal Project Monday night, which in an unprecedented move was live streamed on the American Family Association's Web site, Mike Huckabee [..] implored the audience to renew their "commitment to Christ" and "to our nation, to its heritage, as well as to its future," adding "do we expect the seculars [sic] to do it? Do we expect the unbelievers to lead us, and if so, how will they lead us and where?" He then engaged in an extended description of his visit to the Israeli Holocaust Memorial Yad Vashem with his 11- year-old daughter, who asked, "why didn't somebody do something?" Huckabee, who has called abortion a "holocaust," then issued a dire warning:

... I pray that no father ever stands over the shoulder of his own daughter and after her witnessing the decline and the fall of a great nation, writes, and sees her write these words, "why didn't somebody do something?" You see, I believe the reason we're here is because we are the somebodies. And we're to do the something and if we don't, who will? And if we don't act now, when will it happen, and will it be too late? You leave this conference with this haunting question, and pray that no one would ever ask of you or of me, why didn't somebody do something.