[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JvSgqN1kir8[/youtube]
UPDATE: First Read had this to say….
A change in plans for a Huckabee fundraiser in Dallas today: The site had to be moved twice to accommodate a larger-than-expected attendance. Advisors say there just wasn’t enough room, so the planned gathering went from a private home, to hotel space and then to a bigger meeting room in that hotel.
Sources say the goal for the fundraiser had been $50,000 to $75,000, but those expectations were upped to $150,000, but sources now say the campaign beat that and the number is closer to $250,000. Sources tell NBC News the Huckabee campaign has spent about $750,000 total.
Now hiring: Senior campaign officials say they are “adding staff almost daily.” From a lean team of 45 paid staffers nationwide, Huckabee is adding employees in Iowa, New Hampshire and South Carolina. For example, the Iowa organization has been running with 14 paid workers plus as many as 15 to 20 full-time volunteers and more offering help hours at a time. The Iowa organization is expected to grow from 14 to 19 paid staffers this week. The six-person New Hampshire staff and five or six working South Carolina could see extra help with days as well.
Pardon our dust: Higher poll numbers appear to equate to more square footage. Huckabee’s one and only office, a downtown Des Moines storefront has doubled in size. In Little Rock, sources say walls were “busted out” and overnight, the space tripled in size.
December 10th, 2007 at 5:32 pm
I thought it was well done. I couldnt help but wonder, dont people everwhere know that a white flag being waved is a sign of surrender? Did anyone else catch that?
Go Mike!
Also, from http://politicalwire.com/
Quote:
Political Wire has learned that new Strategic Vision polls to be released later this week show Mike Huckabee increasing his lead in Iowa, jumping into the lead in Georgia and moving into second place behind Rudy Giuliani in Wisconsin.
December 10th, 2007 at 5:34 pm
Holy Crap! Tim LaHaye is definately writing Huckabee’s stuff…
But wait! Here comes the Tribulation Force to fight off Carpathia
December 10th, 2007 at 5:40 pm
Very nice speech, there. So let’s see if I’ve got this straight. We’ve got a cultural war that we can’t afford to lose. We’ve got a “World War III” that we can’t afford to lose. (Both statements I agree with.) So, Huckabee’s solution is to parole anyone who’s been “saved” and to close Gitmo because too many counties think we’re mean. Is that about it?
December 10th, 2007 at 5:42 pm
in number 3, counties = countries
December 10th, 2007 at 5:45 pm
3 – close. Huckabee has proposed closing Gitmo and setting up a TERRORIST CAMP in Kansas. (http://www.ucdailynews.com/politics/12126416.html)
December 10th, 2007 at 5:48 pm
Let the crusades begin anew!
December 10th, 2007 at 5:51 pm
You’ve gotta be kidding me…This guy? The only reason none of the attacks against Huckabee stick is because Christians generally like him. They used to being duped by smooth talking preachers. Christians are used to corny one-liners, the affected voice, the trembling in his voice which they mistake for conviction. Christians love rednecks who “speak the language of Zion.” To the rest of us he’s just a hick who graduated from Baptist Community College and looks and sounds strikingly similar to Gomer Pyle. This guy is not for me. He is NOT presidential material…Don’t get me started on his policies. Yikes!
December 10th, 2007 at 5:51 pm
Haters are plenty on this site~
December 10th, 2007 at 5:52 pm
7 – why don’t you tell us how you really feel?
December 10th, 2007 at 6:02 pm
The HUCK-A-BUST is Coming…..Jan. 3rd!!
Mark my words…..
December 10th, 2007 at 6:03 pm
Rett wasn’t banned for that anti mormon tirade earlier?
December 10th, 2007 at 6:05 pm
huckabee is being discussed on cnn right now
December 10th, 2007 at 6:05 pm
Jared,
Enjoy voting for him against hillary. I am going to take particular enjoyment when I pull the lever for Huck knowing that all the R408 people that are bashing him now will be pulling the same lever!
December 10th, 2007 at 6:06 pm
Play all the dramtic music you want but it doesn’t change the past. Soft on crime soft on illegas zero conservative accomplishments.
December 10th, 2007 at 6:12 pm
I support Ron Paul, but after watching this video I’m actually quite frightened. Frightened of how alarmingly uninformed Mr. Huckabee is of the enemy we face, that is.
The fault in his line of logic during this speech occurs quite early on–it’s very hard to notice–but once you notice where he makes the false inference, his entire premise falls apart.
“The radical Islamic fascists who have declared war on us do so, not from a political perspective, but from a theological perspective…when that is the basis…”
What Huckabee does not understand is that “perspective” is not the same as “basis.” First of all, while it is true that our enemies have declared war on us from a theological perspective, it is absolutely untrue that our enemy has declared war on us “not from a political perspective.” They have declared war on us from both a political AND a theological perspective, but the perspectives are just that–the perspectives, the prism through which they view their struggle–not the basis. The basis of their fight is a worldwide, transnational Islamic insurgency to end American governmental and military attempts at hegemony over the Muslim world.
Second of all, “they” (which is a broad term that doesn’t take into account the immense differences in purpose and structure between various groups like al Qaeda, Hamas, Hezbollah, etc.) have not declared as their “sole purpose” the destruction of America, Israel, and anything that resembles us. “They” know as well as any honest intelligent person here in America that Islamic fundamentalists will never be able to topple the governments of America, Israel, and Europe, and institute sharia law–that’s sheer fantasy, and thinking that that is their real goal is dangerously unrealistic. “They” don’t have a “sole purpose”. “They” are myriad groups and peoples, all with different beliefs, different goals, and attracting different followers. “They” do not coordinate their efforts between various groups in any concrete ways. And even these individual groups don’t have a “sole purpose.” Each of these groups has several different purposes. The purposes of Hamas, for instance, have no bearing on the United States–they have never attacked us and have no designs to attack us–their beef is solely with Israel. The purposes of Hezbollah also have no bearing on the United States–they have only attacked us when our military forces were in their homeland of Lebanon, and they’ve had no designs to attack us since we left their turf–their beef is with Israel and the Lebanese government. Al Qaeda is our real concern, and not even one of their several purposes is the “destruction” of America. For anyone who’s done any mildly significant research into al Qaeda, their purposes include expelling American military troops from Muslim lands in the Middle East, fighting American economic and military subsidies to Middle Eastern regimes, and ending American government meddling in the internal affairs of the countries of the Muslim world. No where has bin Ladin, al Zawahiri, or any major al Qaeda spokesman ever stated that al Qaeda’s purpose was to destroy America, Israel, and anything that resembles us–let alone stated that it was their “SOLE purpose”.
As long as the United States continues to see our enemy as a “terrorist organization” trying to annihilate America, and not what it truly is–a worldwide, transnational Islamic insurgency fighting to end American governmental and military attempts at hegemony over the Muslim world–we will continue to fight the enemy as though it were a terrorist organization. We will continue a law enforcement strategy that relies on taking out terrorist leadership one by one, as though we were taking down the Mafia. Such a perspective vastly underestimates the strength, resourcefulness, regional popularity, durability, and lethality of the enemy.
Until we see that what we are facing is a global insurgency lashing back against a severely flawed foreign policy birthed by the Democrat Woodrow Wilson and enshrined by the liberals FDR and Truman, Americans will never be safe, and the fact that only one candidate currently running for the most weighty job in the world actually understands that, in this day and age, is very, very frightening.
December 10th, 2007 at 6:13 pm
“zero conservative accomplishments”
94 tax cuts and left a surplus of nearly $850 million
made Arkansas a covenant marriage state – and passed a constitutional amendment passed in Arkansas in 2002 defining marriage as between one man and one woman.
helped pass Arkansas’ Unborn Child Amendment
~if that is liberal, sign me up
December 10th, 2007 at 6:16 pm
13 – is huckabee still turning that water into Kool-Aid out on the trail?
December 10th, 2007 at 6:17 pm
16 – and huckabee wants to round up all them gays and quaranteen them with the terrorists in kansas… (not my words)
December 10th, 2007 at 6:18 pm
Rett is a tool. When he writes I hear what Charlie Brown does when his Mom is talking. WAA WAA WAA WAA WAA. Tool.
December 10th, 2007 at 6:18 pm
Ummm, why is he still being allowed to post after the nonsense from earlier today? Why? I’d think a ban for a couple of days would maybe send a lesson . . .
December 10th, 2007 at 6:19 pm
Rett will be exposed shortly… stay tuned..
December 10th, 2007 at 6:24 pm
Huckabee renews my trust in conservatives!!! We care about social issues too! GO HUCK!!
December 10th, 2007 at 6:56 pm
“WAA WAA WAA WAA WAA. Tool.”
that’s all I hear from the rombots
December 10th, 2007 at 7:31 pm
“Rett wasn’t banned for that anti mormon tirade earlier?”
I agree that he should be banned. Get a Huckabee supporter with some real arguments and platforms for the blog. It would do the blog and and even Huckabee a big favor.
December 10th, 2007 at 7:59 pm
Jared,
Take it easy, man, wait till Iowa and NH votes are cast before you think that Republicans are being duped.
December 10th, 2007 at 7:59 pm
Jared #7 – your bigotry against Evangelicals is offensive. Believe it or not, not all Evangelicals are redneck, slow talking hicks. I, too, am surprised that Rett was banned for a while after his tremendous bout of BIGOTRY this morning.
December 10th, 2007 at 8:40 pm
What does this have to do with the title? I though raising money didn’t matter? isn’t that right huckabee supporters. what is he ‘buying’ his support.
December 11th, 2007 at 1:19 pm
I think Huckabee is going to blow Mitt out of the water in Iowa. But he won’t be able to catch fire in some of the other early states, especially in NH, where candidates like John McCain have a strong position. He could severely weaken Romney there — but that would give McCain an opening — and if it’s McCain vs. Huckabee, McCain will win by a squeaker.