woo hoo who cares ..Mr.Huck needs to move on this is a Joke … bow out gracfully..please

Vote McCain

He may be “appealing” now, but he’s has a track record of being a mean-spirited person at the beginning of the primaries/caucuses. Dallas Morning News, you should have researched this endorsement. I’ve already voted in the primary and Huckabee does not nor will he ever have my vote. Thank you.

Why isn’t THIS on your HEADLINE section??????????????

Why is THIS hidden in the Embed’s section?????

It would not matter anyway…because FOX has been preventing ANY positive comments being posted on the main boards for a week now. Although the negative ones get through. And when it was a McCain heading…I dont think any negative comments could get on either. So Huckabee supporters are either crashing their boards rushing to comment…or FOX is purposley preventing posting…no…they wouldn’t do that would they?

I cannot tell you how disgusted in FOX I have become.

Even when Sean Hannity had Huckabee on the show he had to throw up his buddy ’sniff’ Mitt getting out of the race as a slam.

There is a lot of people who are going to be held accountable when the Dems win.

Why is Fox not showing the response of supporters at his rallys?

Don’t hold your nose Vote Huckabee!

I proudly cast my vote for Mike Huckabee Friday. I am glad that the Morning News has the guts to stand against the news media who has attempted to shut out Mike and his supporters. This is America and Huckabee supporters have a right to have their voices heard through their candidate. Thank you Morning News for respecting the right to vote for which so many brave Americans have shed their blood.

Way to go Mike!

We need this guy as president!

Remember the Alamo!!!!!

The Dallas Morning News’ wisdom speaks the truth! Thank you Dallas Morning News.

This is great news that a paper, at this point in the game, endorsed Huckabee. Although McCain will no doubt get the nomination, Huckabee still being in the race is a breath of fresh air in that competition up to the end will do nothing less than keep the candidates more honest and honed. “Iron sharpens iron and so does one man to another” and keeping a candidate honest, sharpened, on point and focused and working hard will do nothing but make all candiates more transperant and clear on their stance on all issues. I cannot imagine why any Republican on this board, and I am a Republican; I cannot imagine how any Republican would want only one candidate to represent the Party at this early point in time since the Democrats are going all the way to the convention in a race for Superdelegates and it would be nice to see a brokered convention for the Republicans. Its way too early for Huckabee to roll up his tent and go home. Good job Huckabee and I am happy to see that you are in this for the long haul. I think that McCain will make a fine President and I will back him if and when he gets the nomination, but let him work….work and keep on working and take nothing for granted. I am the Master Conservative, do not argue with me.

Funny how the negative comments always get posted first. Go Huckabee. Theres alot more Huckabee supporters then you would think by the Comments on this post. We are keeping track. Only a small portion of pro Huckabee comments get posted. You should straighten up fox.
You are going to lose alot of veiwers. I am proud of Huckabees conservative stance, and will only be voting Huckabee. I will stay home if McCain is the Nominee. Which he is not yet. Want to know more about Huckabee go to mikehuckabee.com

I AGREE THAT FOX ARE PULLING POSTS HERE CAUSE EVERYTIME I POST A WARNING ABOUT WHAT A MAGGOT MASTER CONSERVATIVE IS HERE, THEY PULL IT

Finally a kind word about Huckabee in the mainstream media! I am sickened by the unrelenting drum beat for McCain, representing him as the sole standard bearer of republican values. McCain’s refusal to debate Mike Huckabee on issues shows his true colors, and they are not red, white and blue.

We Love You Mike Huckabee!!!!
Way to go!!!!
I believe the country is starting to wake-up and relize that John McCain’s not the man!

GO MIKE GO!!!!

March 2: Huckabee Still In It
From Chase D. Wilson at Tylerpaper.com

Many people feel that U.S. Sen. John McCain has received the Republican nomination for president. I think the American people, especially Texans, need to realize this is not true. Although McCain does have more delegate votes than Mike Huckabee, neither candidate has the 1,191 needed votes to obtain the party’s nomination. Many have said that even if Huckabee wins the remaining states, including Texas, he will not have enough votes to win the nomination.

But, what the media is not telling us is that McCain won’t have the needed number either. If neither candidate has the needed delegates, then you have what is called a brokered convention. This means neither candidate clearly has the majority of delegate votes.

When this occurs, each delegate at the national convention is allowed to vote for whom they feel is the best conservative candidate. There really is only one true conservative in this race. Please let your voice be heard as we head to the polls on March 4th!

HEY MASTER CONSERVATIVE–LAST WEEK IN YOU’RE OWN WORDS YOU SAID YOU WERN’T A REPUBLICAN BOOT-LICKER. AFTER READING YOU’RE POSTS, YOU’RE PROBABLY THE ONLY ONE THAT FEELS THAT WAY. I THINK ONE OF YOU’RE USER NAMES SHOULD BE

MASTER CONSERVATIVE, BOOT LICKER

Texas is willing to listen! It has to go down to state coverage because the national media coverage has already decided who their choice is. If only the RNP would have not been so quick to try and decide who their candidate was. I am an independent and will only vote for Huckabee on the ballot or as a write in.

TJS:

I agree with you. If you go into state media coverage you get a completely different look and feel than the national media.

Especially about the crowds that Huckabee is drawing and the enthusiasm. Apparantly, Texas isn’t as crazy about crowning McKing as the national media would like us to believe.

What irritates me is primary voters voting for someone they do not like…just because the media tells them the other guy can’t win. What sense does that make? I mean, if you are going to ‘hold your nose’… save it for the general.

Thank-you for explaining…I couldn’t figure out why my comments haven’t been posting on the main board…

I won’t be holding my nose…I don’t vote Democrat. I will be writing in if the primary is between two Dems. McCain can’t win.

Hillary has been planning this for 35 years. Perot jumped into the race to divide and conquer for Bill, and now the media has chosen McCain, a man most of us cannot vote for, to deivide and conquer us again. This will work, if weak-minded conservatives won’t stand up. We will get what we let the media feed us, if we don’t vote our values.

Answers please.

If John McCain is not a true conservative, who is voting for him in the primaries and caucuses?

McCain is supposedly out of touch with the republican party base. Why isn’t the base out there voting for the true conservative?

Does this mean the rank and file republicans are out of touch with the party leadership?

Is Huckabee the true conservative?

What is a true conservative?

McCain is not now nor has he ever been a conservative. McCain is just another war-mongering neocon who is playing the part selected for him by his handlers. Huckabee is no shining example of genuine conservatism either, but I would regard him as vastly superior to the empty-headed “no reverse gear” mindset of Juan McAmnesty. Despite the efforts of the conservative PR firm hired by McCain, he is not going to get any appreciable support from conservatives in November and any assertion or reliance to the contrary is simply foolish. Conservatives have no real place in the modern day GOP structure. It is time that they left and reformed themselves into a party that can challenge the neocon destructo-nomics that are driving us headlong into bankruptcy and collapse. Of course, McNasty is out there in front, leading the charge and pulling the U.S. into a 3rd world status and, if elected, he will succeed. Fortunately, he has no real chance of being elected. The press has held off publishing stories about the “Real McCain”; stories which we will start to hear and read after he has been nominated. This is the year of GOP suicide; a Jonestown-like disaster that will cripple conservatism for generations to come.

Huckabee is a disgrace and an embrassment to the republician party let alone the entire election.

Profitleads, you say that conservatives have no place in the republican party but, what is a conservative?

I would NEVER vote for Huckabee

from judicialwatch.com

6. Governor Mike Huckabee (R-AR): Governor Huckabee enjoyed a meteoric rise in the polls in December 2007, which prompted a more thorough review of his ethics record. According to The Associated Press: “[Huckabee’s] career has also been colored by 14 ethics complaints and a volley of questions about his integrity, ranging from his management of campaign cash to his use of a nonprofit organization to subsidize his income to his destruction of state computer files on his way out of the governor’s office.” And what was Governor Huckabee’s response to these ethics allegations? Rather than cooperating with investigators, Huckabee sued the state ethics commission twice and attempted to shut the ethics process down.

from http://www.politico.com

They did, however, yield five admonitions and $1,000 in fines from Arkansas’ Ethics Commission and, perhaps more significantly, a pattern that strategists for two competing GOP campaigns privately predict could become fodder for attacks playing on the culture-of-corruption theme Democrats used to pound Republicans in the 2006 midterm elections.

In fact, when Huckabee entered the presidential race in January, the Democratic National Committee was quick to highlight a couple of the ethics issues that have dogged him and urged him to “come clean about his … history of ethical lapses.”

Huckabee didn’t get many ethics questions — or many tough questions about anything — as he languished at the bottom of the polls and the fundraising race through the summer.

But his surprising second-place finish in the influential August straw poll in Ames, Iowa, and strong debate performances have turned heads and started bringing more scrutiny.

After Huckabee fielded ethics questions last weekend on “Fox News Sunday,” campaign aides for former Tennessee Sen. Fred Thompson, who’s competing with Huckabee for socially conservative voters, put out a statement accusing Huckabee of “repeatedly dodg[ing] questions about his ethical problems.”

AND MORE

The ethics commission fined Huckabee $1,000 for failing to report that he paid himself $14,000 from his 1992 U.S. Senate campaign and $43,000 from his 1994 lieutenant governor’s campaign.

The latter payment — for the use of his eight-seat, twin-engine plane — was reported in a cryptic way that didn’t identify Huckabee and his wife as the owners of the plane.

Huckabee sued the commission, alleging its investigation into the campaign payments violated state rules and his due process rights.

And he asked the judge to impose a statute of limitations on ethics complaints.

The commission, whose director accused Huckabee of trying “to shut the commission down,” sued Huckabee for trying to quash its subpoenas, though both sides dropped their suits after reaching an out-of-court settlement.

Action America

The commission found Huckabee unintentionally failed to disclose $23,500 he received from a nonprofit organization set up to handle his speaking engagements and supplement his income before he became governor.

The nonprofit, Action America, paid Huckabee a total of $41,500 in 1994 and 1995 but missed IRS filing deadlines for those years.

Huckabee has repeatedly declined to disclose the handful of benefactors who financed the group.

After Huckabee’s “Fox News Sunday” appearance, Thompson’s campaign accused the former governor of using Action America to “funnel his speaking fees through the organization and avoid disclosure requirements.”

Gifts

According to Huckabee’s disclosure reports, he accepted more than 300 gifts worth at least $130,000, ranging from $3,700 cowboy boots to a $600 chainsaw and $250 worth of dental care.

Plenty of politicians accept gifts of all sorts, but Huckabee had problems with Arkansas gift rules that bar public officials from accepting rewards for official action and require them to report the value and source of gifts.

He alleged in a second lawsuit against the commission that the rules were unconstitutionally vague.

Meanwhile, commissioners were investigating a $500 canoe that Coca-Cola gave him and ultimately fined him $250 for accepting it because they said it rewarded him for doing his job.

A judge later overturned the canoe decision but upheld an admonition for Huckabee’s failure to report receiving a $200 stadium blanket the same year.

Governor’s mansion

Allegations by a former governor’s mansion employee in 1998 became part of the basis for a lawsuit against Huckabee over his family’s use of a $60,000-a-year fund. The lawsuit also dealt with Huckabee’s assertion that $70,000 worth of furniture donated to the governor’s mansion was his to keep.

The fund had been used to pay for pizza, a doghouse, a magazine subscription and pantyhose for Huckabee’s wife, Janet, the Arkansas Democrat-Gazette reported.

The suit was settled with Huckabee admitting no wrongdoing but acknowledging a dispute “regarding reimbursements” and making clear the furniture was for the mansion.

‘Wedding’ registry

As the Huckabees prepared to leave the governor’s mansion last year for a private home in the Little Rock suburbs, Janet Huckabee’s friends set up registries on two stores’ websites listing $7,000 worth of housewarming gifts, ranging from napkins to a $300 KitchenAid mixer.

Arkansas newspapers quoted state lawmakers criticizing the registries, which were listed as “wedding” registries, even though the Huckabees have been married since 1974.

Huckabee explained the only option other than weddings was baby showers.

And the couple lashed out at Arkansas media for their coverage of the registries, which Janet Huckabee told the Democrat-Gazette did “permanent damage.”

Computer drives

Before leaving office Jan. 9, Huckabee spent $13,000 in state funds to destroy the hard drives of nearly 100 computers in the governor’s office.

He pointed out that he had backed up the data and argued that the hard drive destruction was standard practice to prevent the dissemination of sensitive information related to employees or constituents.

Critics suggested he was hiding something. But the ethics commission dismissed complaints alleging violations of record management rules.

That might not be the end of the story, though.

A lawyer is suing Huckabee, alleging that he misspent state money on the destruction.

from realclearpolitics.com

Some will also argue Mr. Huckabee is no more ethically challenged than Mr. Giuliani, who is getting pounded with questions about Judith Nathan’s security detail and Giuliani Partner clients. The difference is that Hizzoner is a celebrity whose past bones were long ago picked clean by the media crows. Even the Nathan flap is an extension of news that made the rounds five years ago.

The obscure governor from Arkansas is, in contrast, a deep sea for media diving. Most recent have been stories about his pardons and commutations, as well as the news that R.J. Reynolds contributed to Action America. Mr. Huckabee–who now wants a national smoking ban in public places–responded that he never knew he accepted tobacco money, which has inspired a former adviser to claim Mr. Huckabee is being “less than truthful.” What’s next?

The GOP is still reeling from its financial scandals, which helped Democrats tag the party with a “culture of corruption” in last year’s congressional races. A Huckabee nomination would also neutralize one of the biggest weapons against nominee Hillary Clinton–her own ethically tortured past. If the subject came up at all, it would be a race to the Arkansas bottom. A matchup with Barack Obama could be worse, since the “politics of hope” senator has so far avoided scandal and could bludgeon Mr. Huckabee on his past.

from the NYT

When Mike Huckabee became lieutenant governor of Arkansas in 1993, he complained of being burdened by college tuition bills for his son, the expenses of two residences — one in Texarkana and the other in Little Rock — and the cost of commuting between the two.

With an annual salary of $25,452, he said he was falling short in covering the bills. “It was costing me money to be lieutenant governor,” Mr. Huckabee recalled in a 1997 newspaper interview.

To bridge the gap between his income and his expenses, Mr. Huckabee and a few close political advisers came up with a plan. They formed a nonprofit organization that raised money for Mr. Huckabee to travel the country promoting conservative politics to fellow ministers and attacking Hillary Rodham Clinton’s health care plan.

In its three-year life span, the organization, Action America, collected $119,916 from a dozen or so donors. Among them were former Senator Bob Dole’s political action committee, an Arkansas cotton gin owner who had been jailed for stock fraud, and R. J. Reynolds, the tobacco giant that had opposed the Clinton health plan. As for Mr. Huckabee, he ended up with $61,500 for his efforts before becoming governor in July 1996 and shuttering the group.

As information about the secretive group began to leak out in 1997, Democrats in Arkansas pressed for the identity of its donors, which Mr. Huckabee has refused to disclose. In addition, he failed to report his Action America income on his 1994 financial disclosure form, resulting in a “letter of caution” from the Arkansas Ethics Commission in 1997.

THIS GOES ON AND ON. AT LEAST WE KNOW THE CLINTON’S ARE CORRUPT, HUCKABEE PARADES AS A MINISTER AND MANY PEOPLE JUST GOBBLE UP HIS ‘AW SHUCKS” APPROACH”.

Original post by Shelby

http://www.spectator.org/dsp_article.asp?art_id=12205

A Tale of Two Candidates
By Quin Hillyer
Published 10/24/2007 12:08:28 AM

“Ask lots of folks in Arkansas, including Republicans, and a fair number will probably tell you that Huck is for Huck is for Huck. National media folks like David Brooks, dealing in surface appearances only, rave about what a nice guy Huckabee is, and a moral exemplar to boot. If they only did a little homework, they would discover a guy with a thin skin, a nasty vindictive streak, and a long history of imbroglios about questionable ethics.

Once, Gov. Huckabee even had the gall to file suit against the state ethics commission. He lost.

Fourteen times, the ethics commission — a respected body, not a partisan witch-hunt group — investigated claims against Huckabee. Five of those times, it officially reprimanded him. And, as only MSNBC among the big national media has reported at any real length, there were lots of other mini-scandals and embarrassments along the way.

He used public money for family restaurant meals, boat expenses, and other personal uses. He tried to claim as his own some $70,000 of furniture donated to the governor’s mansion. He repeatedly, and obstinately, against the pleadings even from conservative columnists and editorials, refused to divulge the names of donors to a “charitable” organization he set up while lieutenant governor — an outfit whose main charitable purpose seemed to be to pay Huckabee to make speeches. Then, as a kicker, he misreported the income itself from the suspicious “charity.”

Huckabee has been criticized, reasonably so, for misusing the state airplane for personal reasons. And he and his wife, Janet, actually set up a “wedding gift registry” (they had already been married for years) to which people could donate as the Huckabees left the governorship, in order to furnish their new $525,000 home.

According to the Arkansas News Bureau (Feb. 1, 2003), “Huckabee’s personal lawyer, Kevin Crass of Little Rock, has said Huckabee believes there should be no limit on gifts short of a bribe.” After all, said Janet Huckabee, public officials like her husband should be automatically trusted: “Until you absolutely positively know that the man has outright lied to you, it should be enough that the man’s word is that everything was done appropriately, legally, to the best of his knowledge to the letter of the law.”

Of course, her reasoning refutes itself: If one is precluded from even questioning “the man’s word,” how can one possibly find out in the first place whether the official “has outright lied to you”?

It must be said that a fair-minded journalist ought to tread lightly in scrutinizing a candidate’s spouse; but in Janet Huckabee’s case, she is a politician in her own right, having run unsuccessfully for Arkansas Secretary of State. Voters overwhelmingly rejected her, perhaps because they remembered her propensity for other outrageous statements — such as the time when she defended secrecy about the donors to her husband’s “charity” by saying that a donor’s name “wouldn’t be enough. [Then] you’d want to know who he was married to, and then his wife would be German descent, and you’d have Mike, you’d have him responsible for 600,000 killings of Jews.”

Huh?

Of course, nobody accused Huckabee of genocide. But his skin is so thin that when various underlings in his administration, even for bureaus as small as the state film office, crossed ethical lines (some of them, admittedly, rather minor), the governor consistently and angrily attacked the media for reporting the transgressions rather than demanding that the transgressors make things right.

Finally, Gov. Huckabee had a propensity to be almost as prodigal with pardons as was his famous predecessor by the name of Clinton. Indeed, Hillary Clinton’s campaign team is probably licking their chops at the prospect of Huck as the nominee, because one of his pardons, in particular, was so outlandish as to make Willie Horton’s case in Massachusetts seem almost child’s play by comparison. After Huckabee helped secure the release of already-well-known rapist Wayne Dumond, the released convict sexually assaulted and murdered a woman in Missouri.

All of which leads one to ask two questions: First, how can voters whose primary concerns are moral look beyond so many of a candidate’s problems with ethics? And, second, if Republicans in general have concluded, as most of them have, that repeated scandals among Washington GOPers played a huge role in Republican defeats in 2006, how could they possibly nominate somebody who seems to have such big ethical blind spots?

Give this to Huckabee: The man gives a good speech. But so does Duncan Hunter, with the biggest difference being that Hunter’s speeches appeal more to the intellect than the heartstrings — and that Hunter can boast 25 years of leadership for conservative causes, including on taxing and spending issues where Huckabee is notoriously un-conservative.

For that matter, if the question is public ethics, all the other major Republican candidates have rather solid records. With so little scandalous material to look into, why hasn’t the usually scandal-ravenous national media delved into the record of the one GOP candidate whose ethics have been repeatedly questioned in his home state?

Has even the cynical big media been fooled by a Huckster?”

How is it that Huckabee is a conservative? Is it his ethics violations. (I know most were frivolous, but SOME weren’t.) Is it his increasing government? Maybe it is his tax raising? Maybe it is giving a free ride to illegals? So other than his stance on abortion, what is it that makes him a conservative? Please don’t tell me it is the fair tax, which won’t work if it would pass, and wouldn’t pass so it is moot. His record is anything but conservative. Do you believe what he says over what he does? If that is so, why do you believe him? Is it because when he says he won’t show an ad, he does. Or when he says he has a theology degree and he doesn’t? Maybe it is because when he took money from his previous campaigns and was fined for it, he blamed it on Bill Clinton picking on him. Maybe it is because he says he ran against the Clinton Machine 4 times and he was successful, when he actually lost twice and then only took office after a scandal and then ran as the incumbent?

So why is it that you think Huckabee is the hope for the Republican party?

Ignore the national media…go to the state media coverage…you will find more truth there.

http://www.tylerpaper.com/article/20080302/OPINION04/803020340

Huckabee
Has my vote. Anyone that in 10 years .Can take a public school system from 48th to 8th in the country.
Take the roads in their State from the worst to the most improved.
Backs the fair tax. That will finally put our goods level with those made over seas. Becouse it does not get taxed till it comes off the shelf. At the same rate no matter where it was made.
LETS me keep all my pay ck. And gets rid of loop holes in the tax code. EVEN the drug dealer and pimps pay tax now.
Make it so illegal’s pay more tax then others. Becouse they will not get the Prebate back. So it is less proftable to come here to work Illegal.
ON AND ON.

YES HUCKABEE HAS MY VOTE

Ed Weeny:
I love how Mr. Weeney follows me from blog to blog. I guess he loves to be educated on the most important issues of our day, so I guess I don’t blame him. This again proves that Master Conservative and I are two different people. I know you still love to claim we are the same person since you could not form an intelligent thought and then post it. Master Conservative is a good man and shares most of my ideals that makes a good president.
When I said that I am no Republican boot licker, means I am a conservative American first, not a republican. Yes I am a registered republican, but does not mean I will go along with President Bush and McCains plans for defacto Amnesty. It means that I do not go along with McCains campaign finance reform bill as it suppresses free speech. It means that I did not go along with the President when he tried to sell our ports to Dubai. Just to name a few. President is a great president who has been agressive on the war on terror and tax cutting. He has been far from perfect on the war in Iraq, but no president is perfect and when you hear the democratic alternative, there is a clear choice who is handling it better.
However, the Republican platform is far more closer to my idea of what makes a great country than the Democratic platform. Frankly, I wish there were no party system as we could more easily judge any man or women based upon their records and plans for future policy.
I support the President on the war on terror. I do not support McCain and Huckabee’s plans to completley outlaw waterboarding and close down Gitmo. When we received valuble information from Kalid shiek Mohamed after using this tactic and saving Millions of Americans lives with this information, I say use it on all known terrorist. It is one thing to pour water on someones nose and them still living to see another day, than it is to cut off genitals and stuff them into our soldiers mouths, burn our soldiers alive, and cutt off their heads. I know you will not hear that from fox news, but this is what is happening. Obviously there is a clear difference.
This is why it is a mistake to close down Gitmo as well and bring those scum bags here to the U.S. so they can receive the same type of trials American criminals receive. These scum bags are not U.S. citizens and do not represent a certain country, therefore do not receive Geneva convention rights. Huckabee says he has seen how great they are treating those prisoners in Gitmo as far as their condition of living and therefore wants to close it down and bring them here to the U.S. I can guarantee you our prisons here are not any worse. If he wants to put them somewhere else so they can experience wors treatment, put them in a Mexican prison and let them see how great they treat their prisoneers.
These are just a few reasons why I did not vote for Huckabee or McCain in our caucus. Romney said just the opposite. Huckabee supporters, please don’t bring up the Huckand Mitt battle because it is a tired debate. Soon Huckabee will be out as well, and therefore we need to be raising our voices to our elected or want to be elected officials to restore the conservative principles that have made our country great.
I hope Ed Weeney that you can see why I said I am no republican bootlicker who goes along with whatever they say. By the way I am not saying Master Conservative is either. I do still have hope that there is enough inteligence in that little mind of yours to grasp what I have just said. Then again, that may be wishful thinking.

Comment by Storm
March 2nd, 2008 at 10:33 am

Why isn’t THIS on your HEADLINE section??????????????

Why is THIS hidden in the Embed’s section?????

It would not matter anyway…because FOX has been preventing ANY positive comments being posted on the main boards for a week now. Although the negative ones get through. And when it was a McCain heading…I dont think any negative comments could get on either. So Huckabee supporters are either crashing their boards rushing to comment…or FOX is purposley preventing posting…no…they wouldn’t do that would they?
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Hey Storm,

Have you been dipping into granma’s “medicine” jug again?

The DMN story has been up in the top left on the Fox News site for most of the day.

You’re starting to sound like one of the “vast right wing conspiracy” people. The reality is that the primary site comments pages have been screwed up for every story for quite a while. All of us have been cut loose to drift aimlessly in blog land.

Sad. I lost some very snappy comebacks that I failed to copy.

The only reason the DMN endorsement merits any coverage at all is because the Huckster is yesterday’s news and the media is amazed that DMN would even bother.

Poor Storm. Hitched her caboose to a falling star and can’t get up.

AndyLit:

It posted AFTER I posted my comment.

AND…believe me, I have TRIED not to think ‘conspiracy’ and I know they apparantly have been having problems with all the main boards…HOWEVER…and I am not the only Huck supporter that has been seeing this…I do believe we are being screened (at least on the main boards)

There have been articles, where I tried to post (whether it be a McKing headliner or Huckabee headliner) and only pro McKing or anti Huckabee posts get through. Furthermore, anti-Fox posts are being ignored.

It is funny when a anti-Huckabee post, comes up right before…and then right after mine…and mine never makes it..no matter how many times I try, no matter how many times I refresh…so…
Yes…I am starting to believe that Fox news is purposely keeping pro-huckabee posts off the board.

Why do they allow it here you ask? This is hidden. Takes more effort to get to.

And Andy…don’t patronize me.

Mike Huckabee deserves the endorsement.

I voted for Mike Huckabee because I felt that he would be able to bring a lot of good strong discussion to the table either with Clinton or Obama. He came across in the debates better than any of the other candidates. Unfortunately, he doesn’t have the financial and political clout. Plus too many people are afraid of his unashamed faith.

Comment by George Javor
March 2nd, 2008 at 11:19 am

Finally a kind word about Huckabee in the mainstream media! I am sickened by the unrelenting drum beat for McCain, representing him as the sole standard bearer of republican values. McCain’s refusal to debate Mike Huckabee on issues shows his true colors, and they are not red, white and blue.
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Why in the world would McCain bother with debating Huckabee (or any Republican) at this point?

Forget who is who. If the situations were reversed, Huckabee would do the same. ANY sane candidate, Republican or Democrat would do the same.

When you have the nomination sewn up tight, you do not waste your time, money and energy “debating” or competing with a cranky loser who keeps trying to yank on your coat tail. You ignore him.

The reason HillyBilly is still in the fight is because she is only down about by about 7% in the delegate count. She could easily win under some circumstances. McCain only needs about 160 out of the remaining 800+ delegates. For Christ’s sake, Romney’s been out of it for weeks and he STILL has more delegates than Huckabee.

You Huckafans need to crawl back into the sun light. This endless harping on a lost cause simply demonstrates that you don’t have a clue about how politics and elections work in this country. If you truly care about seeing your core values advanced, you will ask your first choice to gracefully concede, and then step up, hold your nose, and fight AGAINST the Democrats.

There will NOT be a brokered convention. God will NOT step down to earth and cause the remaining primary states to swing for Huck. And, because he is demonstrating that he is NOT a team player, Huckster has virtually NO chance of being number 2 on the ticket or even getting a chance at a Cabinet post. At this point, he is little more than a minor nuisance.

Your guy lost. Admit it. Weep. Gird you loins. Step up and get ready to fight AGAINST the liberal Democrats who DESPISE virtually every one of your core beliefs. Fight AGAINST the people who will be moving heaven and earth to BURY every one of your core beliefs.

Huckster’s continued campaign is just sad and pathetic. He does himself no good, he does conservatives no good and he does Republicans no good by playing this stupid little game. He’s like a headless chicken running free in the yard. He’s dead, but he hasn’t figured it out yet.

Comment by Storm
March 2nd, 2008 at 3:02 pm

AndyLit:

It posted AFTER I posted my comment.

AND…believe me, I have TRIED not to think ‘conspiracy’ and I know they apparantly have been having problems with all the main boards…HOWEVER…and I am not the only Huck supporter that has been seeing this…I do believe we are being screened (at least on the main boards)

There have been articles, where I tried to post (whether it be a McKing headliner or Huckabee headliner) and only pro McKing or anti Huckabee posts get through. Furthermore, anti-Fox posts are being ignored.

It is funny when a anti-Huckabee post, comes up right before…and then right after mine…and mine never makes it..no matter how many times I try, no matter how many times I refresh…so…
Yes…I am starting to believe that Fox news is purposely keeping pro-huckabee posts off the board.

Why do they allow it here you ask? This is hidden. Takes more effort to get to.

And Andy…don’t patronize me.
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Storm,

I wasn’t patronizing you. I was making fun of you. There’s a difference. I’m not sure what it is, but…there is.

I range across the entire spectrum of the Fox boards. If you poke around, you will see that folks supporting every candidate are mentioning that pro-(insert name) posts are being censored on the main board.

You will also see that over the last week, every single main board story topic has had the same problem. Long blocks of time in which absolutely NOTHING is posted. Look at the time stamps. Regardless of topic, candidate focus or any other variable, the system is slagging and staying down, then coming up and crapping out again.

Now, a some thoughts on this.

1. The main board STILL has the privacy problem of names and emails being grafted into the reply block. I have yet to see that problem happening here. It may be that every time they see it crop up again, they pull the plug.

2. I suspect that fox had very little idea exactly how many man hours would be needed to moderate this site.

3. It is entirely possible that they didn’t set up the system to handle volume spurts that have been coming in. Many, like me, have bookmarked certain discussions and keep returning to them long after the story has dropped off the top 5 or 10 posted at the landing page. There may be an overload problem.

Before I would leap to the conclusion of censorship, I would assume a technical problem.

Dallas Morning News Back Huckabee

Dallas Morning News Link:

http://www.dallasnews.com/sharedcontent/dws/dn/opinion/editorials/stories/DN-huckabee_02edi.ART.State.Edition1.464b62c.html

Dallas Morning News Link:

http://www.dallasnews.com/sharedcontent/dws/dn/opinion/editorials/stories/DN-huckabee_02edi.ART.State.Edition1.464b62c.html

Speaking of posts not coming up, I found one thing happening to me.

If I post 1 link to an off-site source, the post goes through.

If I post 2 or more links in a single message, the post does NOT go through.

I have only tried this in the blog area. I have not tested it on main board stories.

Yes, Andy… I know. I have tried to post on ALL the main boards…with little success.

I am sure they have been having problems because I HAVE watched the time stamps…ugh.

But what I also said about MY posts is true.

I DO think in some way…their main boards get ‘crashed’ especially when a Huckabee or McKing headline comes up however it is true, that somehow at least a few anti-Huckabee posts make it on there before it ‘crashes’.

SideNote: Since you have already voted, will you PLEASE stop insulting Huckabee supporters who have NOT voted yet and do NOT want to rally around the GOP poster boy?

McKing himself said he is a liberal…and don’t you tell me that was a slip of the tongue..that would NEVER slip off of our tongue…because…(and Im going to quote something from the Bible so you might want to close your eyes…lol)

because….out of the heart…the mouth speaks!

Comment by lurker
March 2nd, 2008 at 1:52 pm
Original post by Shelby

http://www.spectator.org/dsp_article.asp?art_id=12205

A Tale of Two Candidates
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Thanks lurker for reposting the article. Me thinks the Dallas Morning News has been fooled by Huckaphony too!!!

Shelby you are exposed!!!

Shelby wrote:

WRITE IN MITT ROMNEY FOR PRESIDENT!!!
Romney is the real deal!
I know because I’ve lived in Massachusetts (where Romney was Governor) for over a decade.
And, I AM NOT A MORMON (though I have no problem with those who are).
Truth is, I am a lesbian, and more often than not, vote Democratic.
I went out a limb, though and voted for Romney, and I didn’t regret it!
He did more (as Governor) to advance issues important to the homosexual community than any Governor we’ve ever had. I even saw him march in the Gay Day Parade in Boston a few years back.
I hope he runs again in 2012.

Shelby you are exposed!!!

Shelby wrote:

WRITE IN MITT ROMNEY FOR PRESIDENT!!!

Romney is the real deal!
I know because I’ve lived in Massachusetts (where Romney was Governor) for over a decade.
And, I AM NOT A MORMON (though I have no problem with those who are).
Truth is, I am a lesbian, and more often than not, vote Democratic.
I went out a limb, though and voted for Romney, and I didn’t regret it!
He did more (as Governor) to advance issues important to the homosexual community than any Governor we’ve ever had. I even saw him march in the Gay Day Parade in Boston a few years back.
I hope he runs again in 2012.

Shelby you are exposed!!

Shelby wrote:

WRITE IN MITT ROMNEY FOR PRESIDENT!!!
Romney is the real deal!
I know because I’ve lived in Massachusetts (where Romney was Governor) for over a decade.
And, I AM NOT A MORMON (though I have no problem with those who are).
Truth is, I am a lesbian, and more often than not, vote Democratic.
I went out a limb, though and voted for Romney, and I didn’t regret it!
He did more (as Governor) to advance issues important to the homosexual community than any Governor we’ve ever had. I even saw him march in the Gay Day Parade in Boston a few years back.
I hope he runs again in 2012.

Comment by Storm
March 2nd, 2008 at 3:48 pm

SNIP

SideNote: Since you have already voted, will you PLEASE stop insulting Huckabee supporters who have NOT voted yet and do NOT want to rally around the GOP poster boy?

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Storm,

I voted for Hillary. We have an open primary and I am doing my very best to see that the Republican gets the White House. I believe Hillary will be easier to beat than Obama, although I have been finding all sorts of goodies (not silly rumors about Korans, etc) that the mainstream has been avoiding.

As for the upcoming primaries, I’ll say this.

The Republican primary is essentially over. McCain wins. The best use of a Republican vote is to cross over (in states where legal) and vote for Hillary. Obama is a very strong candidate. Hillary much less so. Strategy and tactics can be as important as message.

As for my Huckabee comments, no, I will not stop insulting a certain segment of his supporters.

For those who state “I’ll vote for Huckabee to show McCain that I want him to be more conservative, that he must listen to ME as well as his moderate and liberal buddies”, I say “go man go”. Superb. McCain needs an occasional reminder.

For those who spout crap about forcing a brokered convention, or relying on blind faith that Huckabee will still win, or Huck being the “only true conservative”, or that they refuse to vote in the general if Huck doesn’t win, I say “pull your head out or you’ll suffocate.”

In general, there is a reason I never got behind Huckabee. It has nothing to do with his faith, or his speeches, or his campaign ads.

I looked at his record as Governor and read many of his statements when he was in office. I could see as plain as day that Huckabee is NOT a core values conservative.

With the exception of the life issue, he is just another moderate slight right mainstream politician. I have my own ideas how and why so many folks have covered their eyes to what I see clearly, but I’m not going to step back into that debate. I made all my points weeks ago.

We are now at that point in the election cycle where we need to carefully look at our values and back either a Republican or a Democrat for the general election. That means we need to accept that NO candidate will be perfect.

Given that we have the chance to put 2 or 3 Supremes on SCOTUS, given that either Dem will raise taxes, promote gay marriage, reduce the military, pander to terrorist sponsors, etc, etc, I feel it is time to step up behind the nominee and support him, even if you hate him, so you can work AGAINST the people who want to destroy virtually all of your core values.

We have what may be a once in a lifetime opportunity. We can rally NOW, while the Dems are still beating each others brain out. If the positions were reversed, I would be supporting Huckabee and telling the spoiler to get out of the race.

I want to WIN the WHITE HOUSE.

FANTASTIC!!!

Go Mike!!!

Andylit you are just going along with the herd…

To the Fake Shelby, grow up! It’s no wonder so many people don’t take Huckaphony or his radical followers seriously–you all behave like 14 year olds! That is why your beloved Huck is going to go down in flames in Texas. Two days–can’t wait! –The Real Shelby

The Dallas Morning News Building must have been built over a chemical dump site.

To endorse Gomer Pyle?

For President?

Of the U.S.?

The owner of the paper has to be a mouth-breathing Radicalal Fundamentalist Christian zombie.

Ok- I’ll give him his due.

But I really want to know how you real Huck supporters feel when you read the full story (and it is posted on the main Fox page) where it says:

The newspaper’s editors wrote in Sunday’s editions that as a result of his social and religious conservatism, the former Arkasnas governor is on “the wrong side of abortion, gay rights and other key issues” but Huckabee still is committed to helping the poor and middle class, is “good on the environment” and not bound by ideological litmus tests.

Since Huck is “God’s candidate”, I would think that he and you all would be deeply offended of getting the endorsement of a paper that says he is WRONG on two of the issues you (and I, for that matter) care deeply about.

Instead, Huck is quoted as saying “Let me just say that I think The Dallas Morning News is probably the greatest newspaper in America and everybody ought to get a lifetime subscription,”.

So last week he sells out and is on the vile SNL and today thinks that a newspaper that says he is wrong on abortion and gay rights is ‘the greatest newspaper in America’.

And you wonder why I call him the biggest hypocrite in the campaign? For all those that say he is a decent, honorable man and a man of God, he looks more like a worldy chicken to me.

Comment by Go Mike!!!
March 2nd, 2008 at 4:28 pm

Andylit you are just going along with the herd…
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That may be the most amusing comment I’ve seen in days.

I disagree with McCain as much or more than any conservative I know. My first core choice was Duncan Hunter. Knowing he couldn’t possibly win (because I am a realist), I got behind Thompson. Unfortunately, Fred was led to water and chose not to drink. If only…if only.

So, being the practical fellow I am, I stepped up behind the guy all polls show to be the ONLY Republican capable of winning the White House.

Focus like a laser beam, there, in the distance…a building. It has a funny shaped little office on the first floor. The President lives in that building.

Do you see it? Would you like to see Barack “Surrender Monkey” Obama living there?

Radicalal? of course that’s a word …It means Radically Radical or something like that. Trust me.

So, let’s cut through all the crap. What are we voting for? Is there ONE thing that trumps it all for everyone?

I say yes, there is.

Terrorism. I wrote this piece 4 years ago. It is as relevant now as it was then. Sadly, for too many Americans appear to have forgotten. You can insert your own candidate and info into the last paragraph.

10/20/04

Voters face one issue today, and only one. Terrorism. All others pale in its shadow. All others become secondary, including the economy. All others become moot with the prospect of additional attacks on this country.

Consider this. For the sum of less than $500,000 the terrorists were able to cripple the US economy for almost a year. That’s all it took to put fanatics on those planes. In return for this meager investment, several airlines sank into bankruptcy. The travel industry was nearly destroyed. In my building, a national business travel agency had 1-1/2 floors filled with travel agents. Within 3 months of 9/11, staffing was reduced by 80%. Within 6 months, the office was closed, vacant.

Over one hundred thousand businesses, large and small, lost income or completely failed. Nearly a million people lost their jobs as a direct result of the economic devastation of 9/11. Tens of millions of people lost billions of dollars overnight as the stock and other financial markets reacted to the disaster. Not just the “Rich”, but working class folks everywhere. Pension funds, retirement accounts, mutual funds, family savings and all the rest took a hit.

The litany is nearly endless. No one has yet put a final tally on the total losses of 9/11, but it is in the hundreds of billions of dollars. All it took was a paltry $500,000 to nearly bring us to our knees.

John Kerry has a 20 year voting record that clearly and plainly demonstrates that he is soft on national security. Some of his most egregious and foolish votes came AFTER 9/11. Tough talk in 3 debates does not change his 20 year record. John Kerry is playing political games with national security issues while we are at war. We simply cannot afford to have John Kerry as President.

Andrew Litkowiak

Comment by frodo
March 2nd, 2008 at 4:41 pm

Radicalal? of course that’s a word …It means Radically Radical or something like that. Trust me.
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Nope. New racing tire by Pirelli.

I could see why you would be partial to Duncan Hunter. You alluded to it in your comments. He’s a loser.

You’re a loser too.

Loser’s find comfort with their own.

It’s a thing.

Lest I (or Fox) are accused of making things up or misquotes, please just look for yourselves:

http://www.dallasnews.com/sharedcontent/dws/dn/opinion/editorials/stories/DN-huckabee_02edi.ART.State.Edition1.464b62c.html

Comment by to Andylit
March 2nd, 2008 at 4:49 pm

I could see why you would be partial to Duncan Hunter. You alluded to it in your comments. He’s a loser.

You’re a loser too.

Loser’s find comfort with their own.

It’s a thing.
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Well, at least I know someone is reading my stuff.

I feel much better now, really.

SHELBY YOUR ACTIONS ARE BIGOTED AND RADICAL.

I’M TIRED OF YOUR BIAS AND HATRED. SOMEONE NEEDS TO STAND UP AND SAY THIS.

Editorial: We recommend Mike Huckabee

A vote for Huckabee is a vote for GOP’s future

11:06 AM CST on Sunday, March 2, 2008

Whatever Texas Republican primary voters do Tuesday, John McCain is all but guaranteed to be the party’s presidential nominee. It is mathematically impossible for Mike Huckabee, the last remaining major GOP contender, to capture the nomination. The former Arkansas governor even turned up on Saturday Night Live recently to poke fun at himself for not going away.

Let’s be clear: Mr. Huckabee, the former Arkansas governor, remains our choice for the GOP nomination. But Mr. McCain has racked up by far the most delegates and leads among Texas Republicans by a wide margin in recent opinion polls. Though he can’t clinch the nomination Tuesday, victory is undeniably close.

Aside from his long experience and personal courage, he has a solid record of fiscal responsibility and has been on the right side of campaign finance reform and environmental issues. And he was correct and principled to lead the fight for comprehensive immigration reform last summer. Still, his age – 71 – and his choleric temperament gave us pause, particularly when contrasted to Mr. Huckabee’s sunny-side-up brand of conservatism.

Also Online
Voter Guide: Comparing Republican presidential candidates
Win or lose in November, the GOP is destined to spend the next few years redefining itself. For many reasons, Reaganism, which made the GOP the dominant political party of the last generation, no longer resonates as it once did with the American public. The world has changed since Ronald Reagan’s election nearly 30 years ago, and the great man’s political heirs will have to adjust the GOP’s strategy and tactics to new realities.

To that end, Mr. Huckabee, 52, should be a top leader in tomorrow’s Republican Party. His good-natured approach to politics – “I’m a conservative; I’m just not mad about it,” as he likes to say – is quite appealing after years of scorched-earth tactics from both parties. He’s a pragmatist more concerned with effective government than with bowing to ideological litmus tests. For example, he has proven himself willing to violate anti-tax dogma to undertake investment in infrastructure for the sake of long-term prosperity.

Mr. Huckabee also is good on the environment, contending that the future of the conservative movement depends on embracing conservation and stewardship of the natural world. And he’s a compassionate conservative especially in tune with middle-class anxieties in a globalizing economy.

Though his social and religious conservatism puts him on the wrong side of abortion, gay rights and other key issues, that same deep-faith commitment inspires his dedication to helping the poor and to racial healing. He truly is representative of the next wave of evangelical chieftains and, if nothing else, will emerge from this primary season the leader of one of the most influential factions in the GOP coalition.

We look forward to having him around to help shape and lead the Republican Party beyond November. That’s why we encourage Texas Republicans to mark their ballots for Mr. Huckabee in the GOP primary: to demonstrate to the party’s elite that Mr. Huckabee and his vision have a solid constituency.

True, a Huckabee vote today won’t do much to determine the 2008 GOP presidential candidate. But it’s a good investment in the Republican Party’s future.

Then this will make you feel even better.

The Conservatives you like are only interested in what’s good for them. They would use anyone and do anything if it profitted them

Consevative = Sociopath.

I doubt you really are one. I think you’re just looking for attention. Just want someone to “read your stuff.”

Just a loser not a Conservative.

Be happy being a loser is a hell of a lot better than being a Conservative/Sociopath.

Andylit you sound like you arejust another bigoted angry activist. You don’t fool anyone.

Editorial: We recommend Mike Huckabee

A vote for Huckabee is a vote for GOP’s future

11:06 AM CST on Sunday, March 2, 2008

Whatever Texas Republican primary voters do Tuesday, John McCain is all but guaranteed to be the party’s presidential nominee. It is mathematically impossible for Mike Huckabee, the last remaining major GOP contender, to capture the nomination. The former Arkansas governor even turned up on Saturday Night Live recently to poke fun at himself for not going away.

Let’s be clear: Mr. Huckabee, the former Arkansas governor, remains our choice for the GOP nomination. But Mr. McCain has racked up by far the most delegates and leads among Texas Republicans by a wide margin in recent opinion polls. Though he can’t clinch the nomination Tuesday, victory is undeniably close.

Aside from his long experience and personal courage, he has a solid record of fiscal responsibility and has been on the right side of campaign finance reform and environmental issues. And he was correct and principled to lead the fight for comprehensive immigration reform last summer. Still, his age – 71 – and his choleric temperament gave us pause, particularly when contrasted to Mr. Huckabee’s sunny-side-up brand of conservatism.

Also Online
Voter Guide: Comparing Republican presidential candidates
Win or lose in November, the GOP is destined to spend the next few years redefining itself. For many reasons, Reaganism, which made the GOP the dominant political party of the last generation, no longer resonates as it once did with the American public. The world has changed since Ronald Reagan’s election nearly 30 years ago, and the great man’s political heirs will have to adjust the GOP’s strategy and tactics to new realities.

To that end, Mr. Huckabee, 52, should be a top leader in tomorrow’s Republican Party. His