Comments on: Huckabee Criticizes Romney For Lack of Executions in Massachusetts

By: Tlaloc

Tlaloc — Wed, 02 Jan 2008 21:33:53 +0000

Surely Republican voters are looking for some basic level of competence and decency in their candidates.

Yeah, people who routinely celebrate the torture of helpless prisoners are high on my list of decent human beings...

By: PoliBlog ™: A Rough Draft of my Thoughts » It’s the Iowa GOP Edition of the Toast-O-Meter

Wed, 02 Jan 2008 19:54:40 +0000

[...] Alex Knapp @ OTB: Huckabee Criticizes Romney For Lack of Executions in Massachusetts [...]

By: Wayne

Wayne — Wed, 02 Jan 2008 19:23:13 +0000

Governors have the final say in an execution. Many have commuted death sentence to life. Yes it would hard for Mitt to carry out a death sentence since Mass didn’t have the death penalty. However for Huckabee to state it, as an example of his toughness on crime is not outlandish even if other candidates didn’t have the opportunity to do so. It simply state that he can make life and death decision.

Rudy use his prosecution of criminals as an example. McCain use his P.O.W status an example of his sacrifice for the country even though it wasn’t done by choice. McCain use his military service and make it sound like he knows everything military. The list goes on and on for all the candidates.

Some love and hate Huck because of his religion. I think his surge is due to his interview skill and likeability. He still makes gaffs but the overreactions to the gaffs helps him more then the gaffs hurt him.

That said, Go Fred!!!

By: Michael

Michael — Wed, 02 Jan 2008 19:22:34 +0000

I can only wonder how much of this the GOP could have avoided if Dick Cheney had resigned.

By: NoZe

NoZe — Wed, 02 Jan 2008 18:43:19 +0000

>...the funniest thing about this line of attack >on Romney is that it shows Mike Huckabee’s >manifest ignorance with the concept of the >separation of powers and the job of governing.

Oh, trust me, Huckabee's smart enough to know this...he's just not one to let a little bit of civic knowledge get in the way of a good pander/1

By: Dantheman

Dantheman — Wed, 02 Jan 2008 18:19:51 +0000

Because Huckabee has a lock on one large segment of the Republican base -- the evangelical religious conservatives, who gave up being on the fence waiting for one of the other candidates to be acceptable to them. No one in the Republican field is capable of being acceptable to the entire base (Romney tried and tripped over his non-conservative record; Thompson was a great hope to do so, and might have succeeded if he actually campaigned). I suspect that if George Allen did not have his "macaca moment" and went on to win his election in 2006, he could have held the Republican coalition together.

By: Michael

Michael — Wed, 02 Jan 2008 18:00:33 +0000

Infact, I can see the slogan now:

20 candidates entered this race, but in the end there can only be one winner....and 300 million losers.

By: Michael

Michael — Wed, 02 Jan 2008 17:57:57 +0000

Between RP and Huckster, and the other spineless wonders in the primary field who'll parrot any opinion that gets press regardless of whether its good or bad, I think we're going to see just how insane candidates can really get in these next few weeks...

And I must say that while I am enjoying this reality show, I keep getting this sinking feeling that one of these people may one day become President of the United States.

By: legion

legion — Wed, 02 Jan 2008 17:35:39 +0000

True on all points, Michael, including RP :-) But I think Huckabee's recent surge is simply because the religious base of the GOP hasn't had anyone they could root for until now, and they're finally shifting off the 'undecided' tag. Between RP and Huckster, and the other spineless wonders in the primary field who'll parrot any opinion that gets press regardless of whether its good or bad, I think we're going to see just how insane candidates can really get in these next few weeks...

By: Michael

Michael — Wed, 02 Jan 2008 16:38:08 +0000

Explain to me why Mike Huckabee is surging in the polls again?

Because he isn't named Romney, Giuliani or McCain? At this point Mickey Mouse may just win the Republican primary as a write-in.

Sorry, but Ron Paul still has no chance.