For me it is Huckabee!

By George, I have it! I have been listening and reading about the candidates on the right side of the aisle looking for one that excites me and I think has the ability to lead and win. I think that just might be Mike Huckabee (Gov. AK). I had been hearing about him on talk radio from a couple of callers. I checked out his website. (I honestly thought I was going to have to wait until Thompson made up his mind. Even then, I think he will have issues getting elected.)

I liked everything but the one issue I stand apart from the Republican party on and I am never going to fully agree with them on it. Best of all, Gov. Huckabee is a fair tax supporter.

I encourage you to check out his website and positions. Hey, also.... as the Governor that took over after the Clintons.. I bet he has great dirt on the Junior Senator from NY. One thing to also consider.... There are very few cases of Senators that have been elected President without being VP first. It is typically a Governor that gets the final nod.

Finally, this is not a bash about the other candidates. I think they are all good men that want to do something good for the country. None of them simply said .... gosh that is a fresh approach! Check him out: www.mikehuckabee.com





Marc Ambinder, The Atlantic:
"My gut instinct: Mike Huckabee and Rudy Giuliani won. John McCain did very well, too."
Debates are about moments, and this debate belonged to an impassioned exchange between Ron Paul and Huckabee about the Iraq War. Fox News smartly let the two men have their say. Refreshing: an actual substantive debate about core principles.

What do we owe to the Iraqi people? Ron Paul says nothing -- "we" as in Americans didn't make the mistake, the neocon cabal did. Mike Huckabee believes that the war was a mistake. But -- America's honor is at stake. Honor -- a word that Huckabee associated with John McCain. A word that resonates with the Republican electorate. "We have to be one nation. That means, if we make a mistake, we make it as a single country. Even if we lose elections, we should not lose our honor." Huckabee said the country owes to the Iraqi people our best effort to prevent genocide and stabilize the country. "We have to continue the surge. What we did in Iraq is we essentially broke it. It's our responsibility to try and fix it." Huckabee earned the biggest applause of the night. It may have been -- dare we say -- his break-out moment in New Hampshire, where support for the war isn't all that strong. (If this exchange had occurred in South Carolina, it definitely would have been a vote-earning exchange.) Huckabee was also asked tough questions about his immigration stance; he should wear them as a badge of honor. It means that his rise is being taken seriously by the press and by the Republican electorate.