CNN calls Iowa for Huckabee: The Swamp
 
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Posted January 3, 2008 9:12 PM
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by Frank James

Gov. Mike Huckabee will win the Republican Iowa caucuses, according to CNN which projected a win for the former Arkansas governor before 9 pm eastern time.

Huge blow for Mitt Romney, the former Massachusetts governor, who outspent Huckabee 15 to 1 in Iowa.

Now it's on to New Hampshire, where Huckabee isn't expected to do well because of the relatively small number of Christian evangelicals. But a few months ago, it didn't look like Huckabee would do well in Iowa either.

Still, New Hampshire's Republicans are more secular than western Iowa's. So Huckabee will have the wind at his back coming out of Iowa and head into a big headwind in New Hampshire.

Bill Bennett, the conservative commentator, just said on CNN that the turnout of evangelical Christians was twice what it was in 2000, though we'll need confirmation on that.

Bennett also reminded us that Iowa doesn't necessarily have the best track record on the Republican side. Anyone recall President Pat Robertson? He won in the Iowa caucuses in 1988.

The conventional wisdom is that this really helps Sen. John McCain who has been surging in New Hampshire. No doubt.

Chicago Tribune Jason George adds this:

"I feel good," said Chip Saltsman, Huckabee's campaign manager, who accepted the victory for his candidate who has yet to appear at his victory rally yet.

"It's a big win for the folks of Iowa."

Saltsman attributed the win to Huckabee's message, noting that Gov. Mitt Romney, who finished in second place according to the precients reporting so far, spent millions more in the state.

"Message matters -- you can't win this election in Iowa by spending your way to victory."
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"CNN calls Iowa for Huckabee"

And where is the Tribune!?!?! You guys are supposed to be the big paper of the Midwest and you're asleep! This is the 21st century and once again the Tribsters are stuck in the 18th century.

Shorter Tribune: We're the finest maker of buggy whips in the country you young whippersnappers!


Bu..bu..bu..but Ron Paul raised more money than any of the other Republicans! Google Ron Paul!

Google it, Damn you!!!


The Caludos were out in force in the Hawkeye state. C. Morris was right, Evangies can't get past the Mormon factor. How much money did Willard dump in to Iowa? Better luck in N.H., Mitt (better leave Rove home this time).


Maybe the rightious right will form their own third party and ease their grasp on the republican party.


MIKE HUCKABEE WINS IOWA!!!

It goes to show that the ordinary citizens in America ring the bell of liberty more than the rich and powerful establishments think or want to think they do.

Mike Huckabee is creating a new American spirit. One that leads (everyone) up.

Americans are tired of being pulled to the hard left and to the hard right. Mike Huckabee is pulling us up in the center to higher ground.

Everyone and their brother and now jumping on the Huck-a-bus and taking a ride of a lifetime with Mike Huckabee. He's waving his hand saying "All Aboard"!! The Huck-a-bus is not ready to change gears from Huck-a-boom to Huck-a-bam-boom!!!!!


The Repubs are really scaping the bottom of the barrel for Prez candidates this time around.


Top Ten Moments in Mike Huckabee's Extremism:

10) Huckabee Calls for the Quarantine of AIDS Victims...in freaking 1992!!

9) Huckabee Enables the Politically-Motivated Parole of Repeat Rapist/Murderer

8) Huckabee Offers Faith-Based Pardons

7)Huckabee Undermines the Teaching of Evolution

6) Huckabee Speaks for God

5) Huckabee Speaks to God
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2yj_okz7ZwI

4) Huckabee Claims God Behind His Rise in the Polls

3) Huckabee Proclaims His Theology Degree a Unique Qualification to Fight Terrorism

2) Huckabee Flip-Flops, Calls for Federal Abortion Ban

1) Huckabee Calls for Consumption Tax, Abolition of the IRS


Wow Mike Huckleberry won, that is really disturbing. Iowa repugnantcans are sickos. I guess they like guys who raise dog killers and allow convicted rapists free to kill.


Well this Goldwater-Reagan conservative is in no way interested in jumping aboard the Huck-a bus. Actually it might better be described as taking the Huckabee cyanide-laced Kool Aid, a la evangelist Jim Jones.

The Tribune described him as a Baptist "Evangelist." But I was amazed and appaled to learn today on radio that he had been a "Televangelist," complete with TV fund raising appeals.

Just wait till the liberals get old footage of that.

Culturally, he is wildly out-of-sync with real conservatives outside the Bible Belt.

The coalition worked with Ronald Reagan, but now the tail is wagging the dog.

Huckabee's born agains would have eschewed Ronald Reagan because of his divorce and non-churchgoing, had they been organized and politically active at the time.

I support immigration control, limited government, the right to life, the 2nd Amendment, but will not buy into this.


The sound of crickets you don't hear is the Paul revolution. His loss is almost as big as Romney's.
McCain and Rudy actually won by ignoring Iowa.


Amazing,the only anti Boy George Repugnant wins easily!

Maybe the other boobs will figure this out!!!!


I'm sitting here listening to a Huckabee interview and he'd telling MSNBC that he's concerned about Health Care,Gas prices,Enviroment,Middle class people,lack of foreign policy by Boy George and he's the GOP front runner.

Is this guy a Socialist????


What a sad day for republicans. Huckabee is a freak, and a con man.


What a sad day for republicans. Huckabee is a freak, and a con man.

Posted by: GOP lame | January 4, 2008 5:49 AM

GOP lame,at least you have the coconuts to admit it.

Keep in mind,the American people have had to deal with Boy George for 7 years.You sound more level headed than most of the regular wing nut posters.

Are you a true old time Republican?


CNN declares Huckabee the winner in Iowa. Question where did they get their information? FOX NEWS thats where.


What a great day for Democrats! I hope Mr. Huckabee keeps rolling, he is the most easily trouncable GOP candidate by miles. Romney, McCain and Giuliani all have the potential for crossover appeal, but the Earth-is-flat and 6,000 years old Huckabee?

I say bring him on, but sense that the GOP will eventually wake to the McGovernesque landslide they are setting themselves up for.


Mike Huckabee deceived Iowa voters. He claimed to take the high road by not airing a negative ad campaign against Romney. He then proceeded to show the negative ad to media personnel knowing full well that his negative message would get out. A clever, but deceptive tactic. Where's the integrity?


The Republican Party is a sick joke, and the people of this country are fed up with them.
From Nixon to Bush, and from Scooter to Larry "Toilet Stall" Craig, the Republicans have proven themselves to be a bunch of lying, corrupt, evil, perverted, over-spending crooks.
When you look at all the money Bill Clinton left this country, it makes us all cry to know that Bush spent it all.
When the money was gone, Bush went to China for help.
Just think, we owe money to China!
That is the Bush way.
Cheney is no better.
You can't trust either of them.
No one does.
Why are we in Iraq?
The war should be on terror, not in Iraq.
Iraq had nothing to do with 9/11, and yet Bush has spent all that money to fight "his" war.
Yes his, because many Republicans have backed off from the war.
By the way, the war in Iraq has cost the U.S. almost five hundred billion dollars.
Forget Rudy.
Rudy Giuliani is no hero.
While he is often called the hero of 9/11, the truth is that Rudy was a terrible leader during his years as mayor of New York City.
He made bad decisions and took a girlfriend while being married.
In fact, he even wanted his lover to live in the same house with his wife.
Most people would call this perverted.
New Yorkers were so sick of his antics, that they wanted him out of office.
Then came 9/11.
The only reason people call Giuliani a hero today, is because he just happened to be NYC's mayor during that bad time.
Any mayor would be looked at as a hero if they showed their face under those circumstances.
If there was no 9/11, Rudy would have become a joke.
This is not the kind of leader we want in the White House. In closing, the New York Post reported in their paper on April 23, that Giuliani spent more than $48,000 dollars of campaign money on posh hotels while claiming to have spent the least of all the Republican candidates.
Rudy is a good time leader, and does it with other people's money.
Forget Mitt.
His ads look bad.
He can't seem to get his facts right, and will say things to make himself look good.
Red flags go up around him.
I spoke with his son Tagg at the New Hampshire debates back in June (2007), and while he seemed like a nice man, Tagg could not get his facts right either.
The worst Republican as of late, though, is Larry Craig.
He is a lying pervert who wanted gay sex with a strange man on a dirty toilet seat.
He pled guilty, then said he was not guilty.
Say what?
He is another Republican moron.
Did you hear about Washington State Republican Rep. Richard Curtis?
He offered $1,000 to a young man for unprotected sex while dressed in women's lingerie.
This sort of thing just goes on and on with them.
Remember Mark Foley?
Here is a letter I wrote that was in many newspapers and Web sites:

Once again, the Republicans have turned my stomach with shocking and repulsive behavior.
Mark Foley, a Republican member (now ex-member) of Congress, has sent many e-mails with perverted sexual content to a sixteen year old boy.
This is the same man who while in Congress, backed a bill that was meant to protect children from child predators.
Foley himself, is a man who preyed on a child with lust.
What is also incomprehensible, is the fact that some Republicans knew of Foley’s behavior, and yet, did not take a hard stand against this until it became public news. If I had a teenage son and/or daughter, I would not want them to go near any Republican leader for fear of either or both becoming a victim of a sick Republican pervert.

George Vreeland Hill

There were more than three hundred such letters in newspapers in 2007 alone.
Many of them in New Hampshire.
There are thousands on the Internet.
No lie.
THOUSANDS!
This does not even include articles, ads, radio, TV and other areas where the public takes notice.
In fact, one Republican in California wanted me stopped once, because I was hurting some Republicans in their elections.
I just want to do my part in helping to get rid of every Republican scumbag.
From phone scams to the Union Leader (NH) covering up for Republicans, the garbage never ends.
But the Republican Party will end.
Did you know that George W. Bush once made fun of the issue of Weapons of Mass Destruction?
He did, and in front of some shocked people during a black-tie event in 2004.
He said.... (While looking under a piece of furniture) "Those weapons of mass destruction have got to be here somewhere."
Then, while pretending to look out of a window, Bush laughed as he said..... "Nope, no weapons over there."
While he was laughing, there were men and women fighting and dying in Iraq because of WMD.
George W. Bush should be removed from office because of that alone.
Face it, Bill Clinton lied about having sex, and was impeached because of it.
George W. Bush however, did far worse, as he laughed at the very people who are fighting for the United States of America!
That about sums it all up!
(By the way, this Bush/WMD was part of an article and letter I wrote as well.)
This leads us to John McCain.
All he seems to do is attack other candidates.
His Woodstock ad against Hillary Clinton was boring and without the facts.
He tells of Hillary wanting to spend a million dollars on a museum while he (McCain) supports spending more on the war in Iraq.
He wants you to believe that the Democrats are the big spenders, while it is McCain's Republican Party that has spent all the money Bill Clinton left us to a point where Bush had to borrow money from China.
Think about that again.
We owe to China.
That is the Republican way.
Also, it must be noted that McCain even laughed at war.
Remember when McCain changed the words of a Beach Boys song to Bomb, Bomb, Bomb, Bomb, Bomb, Iran?
McCain even laughed when he was done.
He thought starting a war with Iran was a laughing matter.
That is the real John McCain.
He just can't be trusted.
He is another George Bush, and you know what we got with him.
The Republican Party is a mess, and getting worse.
People do not trust any of them, and we are all tired of their act.
I am doing my best to make sure that no Republican wins an election.
Thank you for your time.

George Vreeland Hill


GOP lame,at least you have the coconuts to admit it.

Keep in mind,the American people have had to deal with Boy George for 7 years.You sound more level headed than most of the regular wing nut posters.

Are you a true old time Republican?

Posted by: Raving Loon | January 4, 2008 9:38 AM

I like to think so. Conservative enough to know when I'm being sold a bill o goods! Huckster is a RINO!


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