Thursday, June 30, 2005
Online Publication Ranks Huckabee Top Presidential Candidate
The is from the Morning News of Northwest Arkansas.
Tim Saler, a Philadelphia freelance writer who wrote the article for redstate.org listing the top five potential Republican presidential candidates said "there is very little unattractive about Huckabee's candidacy."
Since I have covered Bill Clinton and Mike Huckabee from Little Rock, here are a few observations.
The election is in 2008, for cryin' out loud! Mike Huckabee has some credentials and it is never a bad thing to have connections with the Christian right. Some of us liked him better fat, but most of the national audience never knew the "old" Mike, so it matters none.
His public record includes a softness on immigrants and a certain reasonableness about running state government. He even backed raising taxes for such suspect purposes as improving the sorriest public schools in the country.
Then, there is Wayne Dumond. Huckabee granted clemency to the convicted rapist despite protests from the victim and prosecutor. Dumond went onto kill somebody in Missouri. Can you say Willie Horton? He has released a number of bad men.
Have I mentioned our First Lady, Janet? let's save that for another day.
Governor Huckabee may someday reside at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue Bill Clinton did it.
Tim Saler, a Philadelphia freelance writer who wrote the article for redstate.org listing the top five potential Republican presidential candidates said "there is very little unattractive about Huckabee's candidacy."
Since I have covered Bill Clinton and Mike Huckabee from Little Rock, here are a few observations.
The election is in 2008, for cryin' out loud! Mike Huckabee has some credentials and it is never a bad thing to have connections with the Christian right. Some of us liked him better fat, but most of the national audience never knew the "old" Mike, so it matters none.
His public record includes a softness on immigrants and a certain reasonableness about running state government. He even backed raising taxes for such suspect purposes as improving the sorriest public schools in the country.
Then, there is Wayne Dumond. Huckabee granted clemency to the convicted rapist despite protests from the victim and prosecutor. Dumond went onto kill somebody in Missouri. Can you say Willie Horton? He has released a number of bad men.
Have I mentioned our First Lady, Janet? let's save that for another day.
Governor Huckabee may someday reside at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue Bill Clinton did it.
