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Posted in Candidacy, Candidates, Mike Huckabee, Post Mortem on January 5, 2009 | Leave a Comment »

Who is my favorite bass guitar-playing conservative, you ask?  That’s easy.  It’s J. Tobias Reuel.
My second favorite might be Mike Huckabee, although one never knows what sort of musical instruments Ron Paul has tucked in a case under the bed.  But let’s for sake of argument say that it Mr. Huckabee, since the former Arkansas [...]

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If Only…

Posted in Candidates, Ideology/Principles, Mike Huckabee on December 18, 2008 | 3 Comments »

Mike Huckabee explains why he should have gotten the party nod in ‘08 instead of being tossed aside by his own kind “because they did not believe he could win the general election”:
“Christians should never involve themselves in politics based on the process,” he said. “It ought to be the principles, and what this [...]

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GOP 2012 Readiness Test, Part 1

Posted in Bobby Jindal, Candidacy, Candidates, Context, Eric Cantor, Featured Posts, Mike Huckabee, Mitch Daniels, Mitt Romney, Newt Gingrich, Ron Paul, Steve Poizner on December 14, 2008 | Leave a Comment »

Many post-mortems in the past month have espoused upon the GOP’s failures in embracing technology and message dissemination. I took a look at the 2012 candidates’ website to see if they have learned anything from these lessons. I rated these websites on a scale of 1 to 5 in three areas: Issues pages, Web 2.0 [...]

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Laundry List of GOP Shortcomings

Posted in Candidates, Issues, Mike Huckabee, Post Mortem, Uncategorized on December 6, 2008 | Leave a Comment »

Mike Huckabee said that the reason the GOP has lost its way is that it hasn’t delivered on conservatism. There’s more to it than that. Truth be told, we’ve fallen short in a multitude of areas that have nothing to do with tax cuts and the overturning of Roe v. Wade: new technology, charisma (Palin [...]

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GOP Bait and Switch?

Posted in Candidates, Mike Huckabee, Post Mortem on December 3, 2008 | 1 Comment »

Mike Huckabee on how Republicans lost the White House:
Huckabee told The Enquirer that eight years of a Republican in the White House – with Republicans in charge of Congress for six of those eight years – produced nothing but record deficits and bigger government.
“Republicans didn’t lose because they were social conservatives,” said Huckabee, a [...]

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The List That’s Not “The” List

Posted in Bob McDonnell, Bobby Jindal, Candidacy, Candidates, Context, Eric Cantor, Haley Barbour, John Thune, Jon Huntsman, Jr., Mark Sanford, Mike Huckabee, Mitch Daniels, Mitt Romney, Sarah Palin, Steve Poizner on November 21, 2008 | Leave a Comment »

Chris Cillizza has a new entry in the Washington Post blog in which he reveals a GOP top 10 list that he insists is not a presidential candidates list. This is a list of Republicans, he writes, to “to keep an eye on over the coming months and years.” Uh… okay. You decide if the [...]

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