Sarah Palin

Sarah Palin is an intruging choice for the VP ticket of the Republican party. A John McCain/Sarah Palin ticket, in my opinion, is a mirror of the Obama/Biden ticket. Obama chose a man who had a lot of experience and who could lend a sense of realism to a campaign that has been something like [...]

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Live Blog of FL GOP Debate

Check out Main Street America, a blog a contribute to, for a live blog of this evenings debate.

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Huckabee to Meet with Anti-Torture Group

Mike Huckabee is scheduled to meet with a group of retired members of the military to discuss the issue of torture. He is the only Republican to accept the invitation so far.
“We would like to reach as many candidates as we can,” said retired Lt. Gen. Harry Soyster, who served as the head of the [...]

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InsiderAdvantage Poll Declares Huckabee Winner of Debate By Landslide!

Southern Political Report has post the results of a poll conducted immediately after the CNN/YouTube debate this evening. The results are astonishing. (link)
Here is the article:
Due to transmission issues our live coverage of the debate aftermath was interrupted. However, our cameras captured the moment when Matt Towery and Tom Baxter informed Governor Huckabee, who [...]

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“The New Republic” Says Huckabee, McCain Win Debate

“The New Republic” has a good overview of the debate in a short, succinct article. (link)
Here are some excerpts:
Mike Huckabee and John McCain were both pretty impressive in tonight’s CNN/YouTube debate, but it was fairly clear who the loser was: Mitt Romney….from his self-contradictory claim that he would sign a federal anti-abortion statute…to his strained [...]

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CNN/YouTube Debates Thoughts

The debate is over and my fingers survived the live blogging, although I think I may have carpal tunnel.
Here are my initial thoughts:
1. Mike Huckabee, once again, got very little air time. I am anxious to see a break down of the time each candidate had on the air.  I hope that I’m wrong and [...]

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Live CNN/YouTube Debate Commentary (focused on Huckabee)

Welcome to everyone who stops by this evening to check out my live commentary of the debate.
Please note, I will not be doing any editing for the initial posts, so please excuse typos and grammatical errors until I have time to edit it after the debate.
Thanks!
Commentary follows-
Huckabee’s Introduction: Huckabee introduced, received a good round of [...]

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Huckabee Takes the Lead in Iowa

The latest Rasmussen Daily Tracking Poll puts Huckabee at first place with 28%, passing Romney’s 25%, Rudy’s 12%, and Thompson’s 11%. This is great news for the Huckabee camp as he goes into what is perhaps the most important debate in this campaign.
Here is an excerpt:
Compared to our prior survey, the trend is unmistakable—Huckabee has [...]

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Electability and Hypocrisy

Check out this CNN story about the endorsements by conservative leaders that Giuliani and McCain have recently picked up (link).
I must confess some level of perturbation with the recent of endorsements of Pat Robertson of Rudy Giuliani and Sam Brownback of John McCain. The reason has nothing to do with politics. There is something wrong [...]

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