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February 7, 2008
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HUCKABEE GRASSROOTS TO ROMNEY SUPPORTERS: GIVE MIKE ANOTHER LOOK
HucksArmy troops: Huckabee’s conservative credentials are real
McCain can’t beat Hillary or Obama in the South — Only Huckabee can
WASHINGTON, D.C. — The 17,000 grassroots “troops” of HucksArmy.com are encouraging Gov. Mitt Romney supporters to take another look at Huckabee. They have set up a welcome and question and answer forum at http://forums.hucksarmy.com where Romney and Huckabee supporters can interact.
“Although many have been misinformed, we really believe that Mike Huckabee and Mitt Romney have similar credentials and conservative positions,” said Lucas Roebuck, Public Affairs Officer for HucksArmy.com.
NO TAX INCREASES: Both Huckabee and Romney signed the Americans for Tax Reform Taxpayer Protection Pledge. John McCain has not signed the pledge (atr.org).
ENERGY INDEPENDENCE: Both Huckabee and Romney have said energy independence is vital for American security and would make it a top priority of the administration.
GUBERNATORIAL EXPERIENCE: Both Huckabee and Romney believe that the experience of being governor is most beneficial when preparing for the presidency. Romney was governor for a term in Massachusetts; Huckabee was governor of Arkansas for over a decade.
SECURE THE BORDER NOW: Both Huckabee and Romney opposed amnesty. Both support getting the Mexican/American border fence done in the first months of the next president’s term.
SANCTITY OF LIFE: “We must promote a culture of life,” said Romney. No candidate has done more to promote life than Mike Huckabee, according to the National Right to Life PAC.
Huckabee supporters also believe Huckabee is the most electable GOP candidate at this point.
“Republicans don’t win if they don’t carry the south,” Roebuck said. “McCain may be polling well in national polls, but how will he do against an Obama or Clinton in the critical Southern states? Both Barack and Hillary have a unique appeal to the South that only Huckabee can negate.”
If Obama is the candidate, Huckabee’s oratory excellence will be critical in national Republican debates.
“Huckabee is clearly the best GOP debater,” Roebuck said. “He’s the one who will be able to face down the siren rhetoric of Obama in the general election.”
About HucksArmy.com
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Huckabee supporters are not giving up on this race either – Mike is the one true conservative left standing. Open invite to help Mike get the nomination.
February 7th, 2008 at 3:26 pm
Let me just say…Huckabee…Go to hell
February 7th, 2008 at 3:26 pm
Huckabee just announced that he would take the VP job.
February 7th, 2008 at 3:27 pm
#2, right, whatever – He is not running for VP – that is why he is not dropping out. He is the last conservative.
February 7th, 2008 at 3:27 pm
How does a “true conservative” refer to the “Club for Greed”?
February 7th, 2008 at 3:28 pm
To refer to Huckabee as a “true conservative” simply demonstrates you are uneducated about conservatism.
February 7th, 2008 at 3:28 pm
I’d never support Huck. He is even less conservative than McCain.
February 7th, 2008 at 3:28 pm
Get out of the race Huckabee. You will never win outside your narrow base. The other day I heard you give a speech laced with religious references that were insulting. You would loose the reddest state in the union to Obama because of your insults. You cheapen your religion by using it as a stick and wearing it on your sleeve.
February 7th, 2008 at 3:28 pm
the huckster is a pro-life, big government democrat …. there is nothing for me to give a second look to
February 7th, 2008 at 3:29 pm
I’m Sorry……….
Mike cannot act like he is anywhere the candidate…….
Romney is or was……..
Especially after the unfortunate bigotry the Huckster implicity allowed to go on……………
February 7th, 2008 at 3:29 pm
Check out the Matt Lauer interview.
February 7th, 2008 at 3:30 pm
Metro, I’m totally with you, economic freedom to the end!
February 7th, 2008 at 3:30 pm
I always hate it when campaign’s try to schmooze the supporters of some other candidate that recently dropped out RIGHT after they drop out.
Give them a little time to grieve. Jeez.
February 7th, 2008 at 3:30 pm
Huck has burned too many bridges to try to reconcile with Romney supporters. I used to like Huck a lot before this primary season, but his attitude, tactics, and questionably ethical past has really soured me as of late on supporting him.
February 7th, 2008 at 3:31 pm
This letter to Romney supporters might just be the most insulting and hypocritical campaign stunt I’ve seen in quite a long time. I’d sooner tape McCain bumper stickers on my ass and run down Main Street than vote for Huck. I’m guessing most Romney supporters feel the same way.
February 7th, 2008 at 3:31 pm
Brett, Huckabee has used his religion to stir up hatred against a group of wonderful Americans — the Mormons.
I am not a Mormon, but seeing him do that over and over in outright ways and sneaky ways, causes me to despise this man.
February 7th, 2008 at 3:31 pm
Brett here it is http://newsbusters.org/blogs/mark-finkelstein/2008/02/06/huckabee-nobody-ever-turns-down-vp-job
February 7th, 2008 at 3:33 pm
This is hillarious.
The Huckabee camp thinks that a campaign (having more delegates and resources) that called it quits because the front runner locked up the race would migrate over to a campaign with fewer delegates and resources.
Huckabee really is delusional!
February 7th, 2008 at 3:33 pm
Mike I would never be able to sleep at night if I voted for you. I wanted Mitt, Fred, or Rudy. I do not like John, but I really do not like Mike. Sorry.
February 7th, 2008 at 3:33 pm
“#2, right, whatever – He is not running for VP – that is why he is not dropping out. He is the last conservative.”
So Brett,
Please explain Mike’s kissing of whatever part of McCain’s non-stop…….
Just admit it to yourself, because the rest of the nation already knows it……..
The Huckster is RUNNING to be VP………
Don’t kid yourself…..with this “But, but he’s running for President….I swear”……Hmmmmmm……..Why doesn’t anyone believe me……
February 7th, 2008 at 3:34 pm
#19, if he were running for veep, he would drop out – he is not dropping out, in fact they are prepping the next round of contrast ads against McCain now.
February 7th, 2008 at 3:36 pm
Ha Ha McCain got boooed over illegal immigration.
February 7th, 2008 at 3:37 pm
If #2 gets out of the way for the good of the party and the good of the nation, shouldn’t #3 do the same?
And Huckabee will NEVER get my support in ANY circumstances.
February 7th, 2008 at 3:38 pm
Brett…..now they are called “contrast ads” when the Huckster runs them…….
I love the Hypocrisy……….
February 7th, 2008 at 3:38 pm
Romney could have taken on McCain in a 2 man race, Huckabee has NO chance. Huck’s delusional.
February 7th, 2008 at 3:38 pm
#22, McCain can talk his way out of a papersack
He will get killed by Obama
February 7th, 2008 at 3:39 pm
Brett – oh, so Huckabee can run ‘contrast’ ads against McCain and that is part of a ‘positive’ campaign.
Ok – sure.
Mike is a nice guy – I met him last weekend and shook his hand, looked into his eyes and shared a few brief words, but I don’t see what his angle is right now – I just don’t get it at all.
February 7th, 2008 at 3:39 pm
Mike is not running for VP right now. He is a showman and this attention he believes is setting him up for future political ambitions.
February 7th, 2008 at 3:40 pm
ROMNEY GRASSROOTS SUPPORTER TO HUCKABEE: BITE ME
(and yes I realize how small and bitter that is . . . but it’s your own doing Mike)
February 7th, 2008 at 3:40 pm
Brett,
Romney is way better than McCain……
But McCain or Romney are LIGHT YEARS better than Mike…………….
February 7th, 2008 at 3:40 pm
Huckabee, dream on – jerk.
February 7th, 2008 at 3:42 pm
Huckabee needs 85% of the remaining delegates to win the nomination without the convention. This is next to impossible.
Huckabee needs 60% of the remaining delegates to take the nomination all the way to the convention. That’s possible, though it’ll never happen.
Maybe Huckabee got jealous after he saw Rudy getting hot and heavy over McCain two weeks ago. Does he think trying to force his way into the VP slot is the way to get it?
February 7th, 2008 at 3:43 pm
Reminder, Huckabee got 0% of the Utah LDS vote . . . and it’s not because of Mike’s religion (heck . . . Evangelical GW Bush got 95% of the LDS vote against Kerry).
Huck’s scorched earth politics have already burned him too far to EVER make him anything but a southern/Evangelical base wonder.
February 7th, 2008 at 3:43 pm
Brett – The dems have a definate lead to the white house based on their enthusiasm and voter turnout. Someone needs to show me even an inkling of a path for Mike to the delegate count right now. John is our nominee. Mitt saw this and understands if John doesn’t get every republican voice out there we WILL have a democrat in office. I can’t stand John or Mike, but I am smart enough to realize our uphill battle is almost insurmountable and Mike has made so many enemies with his “christian” focus that most moderates and independent will definately go DEM against him.
February 7th, 2008 at 3:44 pm
I am reminded of a previous post about hearsay where I related that some say that Huckabee is an utterly worthless bigoted bastard from the seventh circle of hell who with a little luck returns there posthaste.
I’ll add my two cents to what “some say”. Go to hell you @#!$%^& %^!^&*$.
February 7th, 2008 at 3:45 pm
Brett, now you call them contrast ads? Have you no shame?
February 7th, 2008 at 3:45 pm
Under no circumstances ever would a intelligent Mitt Romney supporter vote for Mike Huckabee. He is antithetical to everything a true Republican believes about government. As someone who lives in Georgia, it is so easy to spot a Huckabee supporter because they are all stupid, religious blue-collar folks who have no experience that would indicate to them that their otherwise overly-religious and hypocritical worldview is WRONG (and un-biblical). The day the evangelicals stop being important politically (which is never, but I can hope) is a great day for America and its founding ideals.
February 7th, 2008 at 3:46 pm
Romney supporters . . . it’s between Huckabee and McCain now. Ask, “who is stronger on . . .
cutting taxes most (can’t cut taxes more than the fairtax would), protecting the 2nd Amendment, protecting life and marriage (McCain does not support defining marriage between one man and one woman), executive experience (10 1/2 years as governor), which will serve Huckabee well as commander and chier . . . .
February 7th, 2008 at 3:46 pm
What amazes me about Huckabee is how he sounds and looks so sincere and honest about conservativism when he is talking and yet we all know he WAS NOT a conservative at all as governor. On the other hand, Mitt governed as a conservative and people don’t think he is sincere when he talks. Go figure.
Huck, you have no chance to be president, EVER. I’d put good money on that. Get out of the race now. Stop cheapening your religion by using it as a political tool. I guarantee that had Romney tried to use his religion as a political tool, Mormons would have abandoned him in droves.
February 7th, 2008 at 3:46 pm
Mcon – Mike is a very entertaining man with a skill to communicate. His policies are horrible.
February 7th, 2008 at 3:46 pm
#34 Your statement is unproductive.
February 7th, 2008 at 3:47 pm
Support the Anti-Mormon fiscal liberal. good luck with that.
February 7th, 2008 at 3:47 pm
For those rooting for a convention, Mike Huckabee is just the sort of tool to do it.
February 7th, 2008 at 3:48 pm
#32 Huckabee got 0% of the LDS vote because Romney was in the race.
February 7th, 2008 at 3:48 pm
“Huckabee supporters are not giving up on this race either – Mike is the one true conservative left standing. Open invite to help Mike get the nomination.”
Goodness no. Mike Huckabee makes John McCain look like Ronald Reagan. The Huckster needs to take a hike. I’ll vote for no ticket that includes Mike Huckabee.
February 7th, 2008 at 3:50 pm
Poor Evangelials. Huckabee conned you and cheapened your religion for his own personal ego trip. I would be bitter to if Romney cheapened my religion the way Huckabee has done to his.
February 7th, 2008 at 3:51 pm
What’s going on here is anti-Christian bashing . . . . Saying that Gov. Huckabee is not a conservative is disingenous. Gov. Huckabee is certainly more conservative than McCain–anyone who has a cursory understanding of politics knows this. If you don’t go to http://www.mikehuckabee.com, and find some liberal positions to back-up your position. Good luck.
February 7th, 2008 at 3:51 pm
You know, the more I think about it, the more I feel like Republicans should be so angry at what has happened to their party when Mike Huckabee won such a significant portion of its base. I’m all for religious ideals, or at least have a your own code of morality, and I find that the left lacks this many times, but Mike Huckabee??? Why aren’t we outraged? I know that there are political realities that have allowed for Mike to remain but is it really something we should be condoning or sitting by idly while he drags this out? It’s absurd, and I know I’m preaching to the choir (ha! most of the choir actually voted for Huck), but this has got to end. It’s absolutely crazy and it deeply, deeply hurts the Republican party.
February 7th, 2008 at 3:51 pm
GAG ME!
February 7th, 2008 at 3:52 pm
Truth #44,
You wouldn’t say that if you were more familiar with Utah politics.
Some years ago, a conservative mormon candidate ran his campaign in Utah as the sort of “God’s choice” candidacy that Huckabee used. He was beaten by his liberal non-mormon challenger.
Mormons don’t like politicians who run on religion. Let alone shmucks like Huckabee who make backhanded swipes at LDS theology to score points down south.
February 7th, 2008 at 3:52 pm
If Huckabee (or his supporters) would have repudiated or even stayed silent over McCain’s charge of timetables on Romney, that would have helped me in supporting Huck, but he took McCain’s side. Now they want my support?
February 7th, 2008 at 3:52 pm
No, Huckabee got 0% of the Mormon vote because he insulted Mormons and wore his religion on his sleeve. He knew darn well what he was doing when he made his “Jesus and Satan brothers” comment. He claimed that his religion had more attack than any other. He distorted the truth.
But worst of all, he USED his religion as a TOOL. Mormons are religious people who believe in God, but if any politician, even a Mormon one tries to use his religion in the way Huckabee did, I guarantee they would abandon him quicker than you can imagine. Even in the reddest state in the country, Republican Mormons have lost by making overtures to voters about their religion. That is why Huckabee would loose Utah to Obama. Can you imagine the reddest state in the country voting for Obama over Huck? Well that’s exactly what would happen.
February 7th, 2008 at 3:53 pm
Brett, we’re just waiting for Mike to reach out to us. I’m waiting for him to show up at my church on Sunday and let me know he really understands me. Now, we won’t pay him $25,000 to speak. For that matter, we don’t pay anyone to speak, even the bishop.
No, Brett, I don’t think there is any growling-in-the-belly hunger to jump to Mike. That would be a distinctly terrestrial choice, if you know what I mean.
February 7th, 2008 at 3:53 pm
keep in mind that hucksarmy is a grassroots org and is not the official mouthpiece of mike huckabee’s campaign.
Huckabee will bow out on Sat when he addresses CPAC Sat morning – mark it down.
February 7th, 2008 at 3:53 pm
Brett may be right on post #3, because today Huckabee lost whatever chance he had at the VP spot. While Romney was in, his delegates gave him some leverage (not much, in my opinion, but some). He no longer has that.
He has appeal in the south, but so do lots of other people (Sanford, etc) who come with a lot less baggage.
February 7th, 2008 at 3:53 pm
#45 buy a clue. You’re so far off base. Romney supporters who are bashing Gov. Huckabee look like whiners who didn”t get their way. You’r better than that. Act like it.
February 7th, 2008 at 3:54 pm
There is no reason for Huckabee to get out. The Dems have no front runner and won’t for some time. Huckabee will unite the conservative base now more than ever.
Join us http://www.hucksarmy.com
February 7th, 2008 at 3:54 pm
Huck, you are a bigot. I cannot vote for you.
February 7th, 2008 at 3:54 pm
Truth – Many evangelicals did not avoid Mitt because he was a mormon. Many evangelicals vote for Mike because he is a baptist preacher. Mormons voted for Mitt because his policies are close to their beliefs and he is mormon. Mormons didn’t vote for Mike because he clearly allowed his followers to attack mormons and made statements that fueled that bigotry. He could have stood up and shut it down but chose not to as he recognized it helped seperate him from Mitt.
February 7th, 2008 at 3:54 pm
Granny,
What on earth makes you think I was trying to be productive? I am not. Neither am I trying to convince any here. Although I deeply dislike and distrust McCain, to borrow from Al Jake, I would rather tape Billary bumper stickers on my ass and run down the street naked that even consider voting for the Hick.
February 7th, 2008 at 3:54 pm
As a Romney supporter, I was making GOTV calls to local Republicans. Another local supporter came over to drop off call sheets. We hadn’t met before so no personal information had been shared, and she certainly didn’t know I was LDS (Mormon). In her casual, unsolicited comments, she told me that, “as a Catholic, she would never vote for Huckabee for the things he said about Mormons using chicken blood in their services.” It was at that point I told her I was LDS. Not an awkward moment, but one that revealed just how far the anti-sentiment had reached. It’s not just Mormons that were deeply offended.
So while Huck may have a better chance against McCain now that Romney is out of the race, I don’t imagine him getting much support from Rombots due to the Mormon bridges he’s burned along the way. It’s not worth asking whether Rombots would say no to Huckabee “just because” of what he said, but if there’s an alternate choice to Huck, why not consider that over the bigot?
February 7th, 2008 at 3:55 pm
#57 You sound like a typical liberal..sorry but you do…
February 7th, 2008 at 3:55 pm
#53 go to http://www.mikehuckabee.com and look at what Chip Saltsman has posted. Huckabee is in it to win it.
February 7th, 2008 at 3:57 pm
#60 Please give me a reference to where Huckabee said that. I can’t find anything in the news that references that.
February 7th, 2008 at 3:58 pm
wow, how bitter and small you all are. I love it!
I am having a great week:
1)The Gmen pulled off the greatest win in SB history
2)Duke dismantled the big high school last night
3)and the national nightmare of mitt romney ended today.
How could this get any better?
February 7th, 2008 at 3:58 pm
Romney is just wanting a VP slot now – that is the only reason he is hanging on to those delegates. He really cares about America, blah, blah – didn’t he say it wasn’t about him??? Yeah right.
February 7th, 2008 at 3:59 pm
#59 you are a nimwit. It’s dumb ass comments like yours that prohibited Romney from even sniffing a victory in the south. If you want to go toe to toe on intelligence quotient, let the games begin. I bet you could not carry on a dialogue without resorting to childish comments that do you and your former candidate a great disservice.
February 7th, 2008 at 4:00 pm
chicken blood???? have a link to Huckabee saying that?
February 7th, 2008 at 4:01 pm
He’s hanging on to the delegates so Mike doesn’t outright get them ( I am assuming) because I know the divide between him and Mike is so wide the grand canyon looks tiny.
February 7th, 2008 at 4:03 pm
Wow I didn’t expect so much hate on Huckabee. If Huckabee was running for VP, he wouldn’t be in the race right now, making personal sacrifices, going before audiences asking folk to support him.
Put yourself in his shoes: would you lose sleep, and spend your energy to become the VP? I know I wouldn’t like to go before people knowing full well in my mind that I didn’t want the top job.
Huckabee doesn’t want to be VP. He is running to become the President.
Please think rationally here. You all have so much stored up hate for a man you guys haven’t even done enough research on.
February 7th, 2008 at 4:03 pm
Brett, weren’t you listening to Mitt’s speech??? He is suspending his campaign efforts in order to allow the party to coallesce around the front runner. The front runner is not Mike. Mike is in LAST PLACE.
We like Mitt’s leadership. He is leading towards us getting behind the front runner. If we are going to do anything, it will be to get behind the front runner, not the last place guy. We believe there is a VERY good reason why Mike is the last place guy. We completely agree with the millions of people who have voted for Mike to be the last place guy. We’re very comfortable with Mike being the last place guy.
As for Mike being VP material, he won’t be able to do that until after he finishes doing McCain’s visual colo-rectal exams.
February 7th, 2008 at 4:04 pm
Brett, here’s the problem with your plan. If it works, and we stop McCain, we get Mike Huckabee as the candidate. Now, surely you can see the problem with this, right?
February 7th, 2008 at 4:05 pm
Some of the Romney supporters on this post are looking like infantile poor sports. Thankfully, most Romney supporters are not as short-sighted.
February 7th, 2008 at 4:06 pm
65. . . The reason candidates hang onto delegates is for influence and leverage at the convention. Romney will hang onto his delegates because his delegates supported him and his cause, and he won those delegates just as other candidates won their delegates. He can now use that support to do just what he said he would do: ensure that the party stays true to it’s conservative roots by influencing the party platform at the convention, by demanding a prime speaking timeslot (keynote?) and by having some say over the direction of the party. That’s how conventions work.
February 7th, 2008 at 4:06 pm
TM – You can ask my wife how much time I have spent researching all these candidates and she will tell you otherwise. We all have our opinions and political views. We all have our education background and what we believe will work and what won’t. Mike’s record is horrible from my research and his manner of how he has flat out used the evangelical base to get where he is today rubs me very wrong. Mitt had a change at his church to campaign for votes, but didn’t mix the two. Mike crossed that road a long time ago and even though I am a man of faith I DO NOT want my president making decisions for the country with religion so involved.
February 7th, 2008 at 4:07 pm
The chicken blood comment came from one of his sermons as a baptist preacher. It was not part of the this election cycle.
February 7th, 2008 at 4:08 pm
#72
Huckabee supporters calling Romney suppported short-sighted??????
That’s funny.
February 7th, 2008 at 4:08 pm
The chicken blood comment came when the baptisits went to Utah to take the nation back for Christ.
February 7th, 2008 at 4:08 pm
*supporters
February 7th, 2008 at 4:09 pm
Case,
“You can ask my wife how much time I have spent researching all these candidates and she will tell you otherwise.” –did you really mean this? Hopefully, you researched/reviewed your candidate selection more carefully than you post.
February 7th, 2008 at 4:09 pm
I will never support Mike because of explicit and overt attacks on my religion. I won’t even ask him to apologize. He’s burned his bridges and now he swims alone.
February 7th, 2008 at 4:10 pm
Regardless of what the Romney supporters are saying on this blog, over at HucksArmy.com we had more than 50 guests online just a few minutes ago. This is unusual except during debates, and I can only suspect that some softer Romney supporters are trying to decide.
Romney supporters are going to have to make a choice soon. We do acknowledge how difficult it must be to have your candidate leave the race. We salute you for caring about this country, and for your loyalty to your candidate.
#60 – I’ve been watching Mike Huckabee’s campaign almost round-the-clock since last August. I’ve seen nearly every interview, and read nearly every article. This is the first mention I’ve ever heard of “chicken blood.” I believe if you’re going to drop poison like that, you should at least fisk it. Otherwise, you just look like a bitter rumor-monger.
February 7th, 2008 at 4:10 pm
72. . . You’re missing the point being made by the Romney supporters: Why would we switch our support from the guy in second place who we agreed with, to the guy in third place who told us throughout this campaign to buzz off? Huck has given us absolutely no reason at all to ever consider voting for him. That won’t change now that the guy we supported has called for uniting around McCain for the good of the party and the nation.
February 7th, 2008 at 4:10 pm
Go Huck! We’re still in this race!
February 7th, 2008 at 4:11 pm
#83 – oh look.. FCOH is back.. welcome back…..
February 7th, 2008 at 4:11 pm
The only man I’d be less likely to support than McCain in the primaries is Huckabee.
February 7th, 2008 at 4:13 pm
coming from a Protestant Romney supporter … ‘Pastor’ Mike’s despicable bigotry towards Gov. Romney eliminates any chance I’ll ever donate to or support him – period.
February 7th, 2008 at 4:14 pm
from a Colorado supporter:
FLASH:
I just received a call from my precinct leader (a Romney supporter), who called to tell me that she’s coming over to Huckabee!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! She thinks that most social conservatives who backed Romney will feel like she does, and WILL NOT go for McCain!
February 7th, 2008 at 4:16 pm
#81 I’ve spent time on Mike’s blogs, and the insults to Mormons is all too common. Has Mike ever spoken out against them? Please point me toward any statements, but I haven’t noticed any. Since he himself has engaged in it, why would he expect me to give him my support now?
February 7th, 2008 at 4:16 pm
Brett: Hopefully Huckabee will railroaded out of the party and take the radical evangelicals with him.
February 7th, 2008 at 4:16 pm
I just wish I had given Mike a nice swift upper cut when I shook his dirty hand and pierced into his eyes recently. He’s disgusting and in this thing for himself, and himself only.
I will give it to the guy though, he finally had the courage to put his wife in front of the camera at his speech on Tuesday night. I wonder how long the Huckabee-camp deliberated over putting her there instead of Chuck’s wife. Time to go back to writing books and taking tithe payers money for speaking at their churches. Huckabee and his supporters have been the most class-less, rude, disgusting, and bigoted campaigners in this race.
February 7th, 2008 at 4:17 pm
Brett, dream on, and tell your guy to get out of the race. A few Romney people may go to Huck, but it’s a loosing cause, and I’d put good money on it. Huck is a silvertongue candidate who sucks on policy.
February 7th, 2008 at 4:17 pm
-drastically cut taxes and promised not to raise taxes
-increasing spending on the military
-give great authority to military leaders in the war against radical Islam
-protect individuals right to bear arms
-give states greater autonomy on issues like education
-protect life and marriage
-nominate strict constructionist judges
-secure our borders and give no amnesty to illegal immigrants
February 7th, 2008 at 4:17 pm
#62, can you confirm whether Chip is carrying on an inappropriate relationship with another woman? (And remember, we know the truth.)
February 7th, 2008 at 4:18 pm
Truth – I began studying candidates back in 2006. I remember looking at each candidates websites and watched the debates when there were what seems like more debaters than audience members. I didn’t have a front runner until Rudy and Fred dropped out. After spending hours each day (according to my wife) reading, studying, following, I came to the decision around October that I liked Mitt, Rudy, and Fred the most. I thought Sam and Jim were horrible. I knew I couldn’t support Ron because of his desire to pull from the war. I didn’t like John adn Mikes record as they were both too liberal for me. I thought Tom and Duncan were good on their one policy focus, but not what I wanted in a president. Obviously I cannot sum up in one paragraph the whole process, but the one thing you can’t accuse me of is not having researched everyone. The difference in both of us is our understandings of we we both think are important. There is nothing wrong with that. Here I am having to decide between two candidates I hoped would not make it. Here I am seeing that John is so much in the driver seat, it will take an evangelical miracle to get enough delegates to put Mike in the lead. I don’t like the hand I was dealt, but I regress….
February 7th, 2008 at 4:19 pm
#90 fortunately your idiotic posts discredit any point you might be trying to make. You do the work for us–cheers!
February 7th, 2008 at 4:20 pm
#93 This is great. You Rombots who have drank too muck koolaide are showing your true colors.
February 7th, 2008 at 4:20 pm
I don’t have a link for the chicken blood comment I heard from a Catholic Romney supporter this week. When I heard her say that, I was interested in where she heard it, but as I’d just barely met her, I didn’t feel it appropriate to barrage her for the exact source of her comment. At the time, I only stated that I hadn’t heard that comment before, but felt equally disgusted that he brought up the Satan and Jesus as brothers comment as a way to incite evangelicals. I’ve googled around for a link reltaed to chicken blood comments, and the only one I can find is here:
http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20080205175032AAPWInS
scroll down a ways.
I know some people would claim it came from a Baptist convention in Salt Lake City that Huckabee attended and was a speaker. But like much of everything else that is said at those conventions, there is no link or transcript to the proceedings (AFAIK).
February 7th, 2008 at 4:21 pm
Mitt’s delegates give him a right to address the convention in MN. It gives him a right to continue to work at building the coalition for another 6 months. And it decreases the likelihood that some southern dingo will scamper in and steal what isn’t his.
February 7th, 2008 at 4:21 pm
The comment in #82 is dead on right. How any Huckabee supporter could be blind to that fact is beyond me. I feel bad for your grasp of reality and the world around you if you think a Romney supporter would jump from the #2 guy you agree with to the #3 guy that you don’t especially when the #2 guy has basically said we all need to rally around the #1 guy for the good of the country.
February 7th, 2008 at 4:26 pm
I am a Romney supporter who would NEVER consider voting for Huckabee because he lies–he lied
about his record, Romney’s record and he viciously attacked him. Huckabee destroyed hard drives before
leaving office, pardon murders and 1000 criminals, etc. I have the reservations Mark Levin and
Hannity have expressed. As 1 of 4 million who voted for Romney would never consider Huckabee!
February 7th, 2008 at 4:26 pm
Truth,
Please don’t talk about intelligence…just as it is pointless for Huckabee to even ask for our support it is pointless for you to try to compete.
I have been following this race like a junky for almost two years now and what I said about the Billary bumper stickers was literally true. Huckabee is wrong on everything but guns and abortion and where he is wrong he is usually terrible. I am an economic conservative first and foremost and he is a complete disaster on economic issues in general. His fair tax garbage can’t work, his class warfare is appalling, his nanny state tendencies turn me off, and his tax record is a joke that I am not laughing at.
February 7th, 2008 at 4:27 pm
#87, Then she’d be wrong. But just to be sure, go over and stand by the computer and watch all of the contributions not come in.
February 7th, 2008 at 4:27 pm
Romney supporters are moving over to Gov. Huckabee! Go to http://www.mikehuckabee.com and check out the posts.
February 7th, 2008 at 4:28 pm
Wow – This is a Mccain love fest on here almost. Can someone point me to a conservative blog?
February 7th, 2008 at 4:29 pm
McCain better not even think about picking Huckabee as his VP. There
woukld be an all out revolt and Hillary or Obama would win for sure.
February 7th, 2008 at 4:30 pm
#104 Isn’t amazing how quickly some of the Rombots are becoming McCainites? Talk about having no convictions!
February 7th, 2008 at 4:30 pm
Brett,
After looking at the comments on this post, I have to ask the question “Why are you still trying on this site?”
February 7th, 2008 at 4:31 pm
#96 I told you, we know the truth. We just don’t like this hypocrisy stuff. This isn’t just throwing stuff out there. Go ask!!!
February 7th, 2008 at 4:33 pm
104. . . It’s not a McCain lovefest. Romney supporters are not in love with McCain by any means. But as Romney said in his speech today, we have much bigger obstacles ahead of us should Obama or Clinton become president, and for the good of the party and the country we need to unite around one guy, and that guy is McCain. It’s just reality for us Romney folk. Had Huck done anything at all in the past few months to show Romney supporters that we could find an ally in him, things might have been different. But Huck spent the entire campaign pushing us away, with his religious intolerance, his disasterous economic record, and his hypocracy on conservatism. To expect us to suddenly run to his campaign with open arms is just plain foolish.
February 7th, 2008 at 4:34 pm
103 – I expect a lot of the evangelical base that voted for Mitt will naturally move towards Mike. That is to be expected. I am sure that a lot of evangelicals had Mike as their second choice.
Mcon – wow, we agree on something. The fairtax will be an economic disaster.
February 7th, 2008 at 4:34 pm
Bottom line is that Governor Romney has spent over 10 times more than Governor Huckabee and has had almost universal support from the conservative media. Yet Mike Huckabee held his own in the election. Imagine how this race would have turned out if the above was reversed. Romney wouldn’t even have had a look in.
I hope reasonable Romney supporters recognise that Mike Huckabee is most closely aligned to their candidate and will support him once they have had time to grieve.
February 7th, 2008 at 4:35 pm
I give you all couple of days to recouperate. There is an enormous double-standard going on here and any fair minded person can see that.
I hope Gov. Huckabee can make his case to the even-minded american people who don’t hold such hatred against Huckabee. You all are acting like a bunch of liberals, I’ve seen the democrats make comments about bush and they aren’t this bad.
February 7th, 2008 at 4:36 pm
107, because i have to be here. If it weren’t for my candidate, we would have no conservative left in the race.
February 7th, 2008 at 4:37 pm
Colin. . . Romney’s so-called universal support from conservative media only arose in the past week. In fact, one complaint by Romney supporters was that the conservative commentators’ public comments in support of Romney was much too little, much too late.
February 7th, 2008 at 4:38 pm
TM. . . hahaha So now those of us who disagree with Huck are a bunch of liberals? That’s funny.
February 7th, 2008 at 4:41 pm
I hope John McCain remembers which candidate endorsed him first.
February 7th, 2008 at 4:42 pm
Colin – Mitt didn’t have any media support until a week before Super Tuesday. Mike is the baptist preacher of the south and that was it. It is proof Mike has riden the existing wave as he has vrey, very little support outside of the south. A lot of Mitt’s supporters have economic reasons as their lead. Mike is the worst at that so I disagree in saying they are most aligned.
TM – I do not hate Mike. I disagree a ton on his record and policies. Big difference. I do not hate John. I disagree a ton with his record and Policies. Who is the front runner (John)? Who is favored to win the white house (the democrats)? At this point I have to agree with Mitt that we will need 8 months to unite our party because after the convention there is no way we get the necessary enthusiasm to get enough votes in such a short time.
February 7th, 2008 at 4:42 pm
I don’t believe this letter. Someone’s playing a cruel joke on Huckabee, pretending to write silly press releases on his behalf. Surely this can’t be real.
I think someone needs to start a thread about what Romney supporters would rather do than vote for Huckabee. The bumper stickers and streaking were a good start. I’m game.
February 7th, 2008 at 4:44 pm
Huckabee gets Kansas Right to Life endorsement just a moment ago:
http://primebuzz.kcstar.com/?q=node/9949
February 7th, 2008 at 4:45 pm
Jake… Fair point – at least from the standpoint of their formally endorsing Romney. But since the so called ‘Huckaboom’ last year the conservative media has been serially (and unfairly) attacking Huckabee and making it quite clear that Romney or Guiliani was their choice.
February 7th, 2008 at 4:48 pm
Our only three legged stool candidate is gone. John McCain is weak, but Huckabee is weakest!
Huckabee is terrible on fiscal issues, totally unqualified on the war and dishonest. In my book a dishonest Preacher is to be trusted no further than you can throw him (before he lost weight!). I say no way to Huckabee.
February 7th, 2008 at 4:48 pm
Colin. . . I’d agree that Huck was never the media’s choice, but neither was Romney. In fact, most agree that McCain was the darling of the media throughout the campaign. Romney won few newspaper endorsements, and in fact even received anti-endorsements from a few, a rare thing in journalism.
February 7th, 2008 at 4:49 pm
Colin – The conservative media wasn’t a friend to Mitt after the Huckaboom. That appeared a week ago. The conservative media attacked Mike’s record which was more moderate than conservation as governor. There is no reason to try and prove his record at this point of the primary as we have all gone back and forth over it. The point is that Mike is a social conservative and that is it. One leg of the stool was not enough to get their support.
February 7th, 2008 at 4:54 pm
Case,
I respect your opinion. I wasn’t talking about you. You have been fair and you haven’t used derogatory terms to describe Huck. We just have a difference in opinion.
It’s all a matter of trust right now. I don’t think Huckabee will slide to the left as McCain would. That’s just my opinion.
February 7th, 2008 at 4:55 pm
My neighbor just pulled his Romney sign out of his yard
February 7th, 2008 at 4:55 pm
ok…took another look….uh oh…turning to stone
February 7th, 2008 at 4:56 pm
Huckabee reaches out to Romney supporters:
http://www.mikehuckabee.com/index.cfm?FuseAction=Blogs.View&Blog_id=1397
February 7th, 2008 at 4:58 pm
Poll on Huckabee vs. McCain on the Elect Romney Blog has supporters choosing McCain 4-1.
Huckabee is actually loosing to Hillary/Obama as well.
http://blog.electromneyin2008.com/2008/02/07/aftermath-polls/
February 7th, 2008 at 4:59 pm
TM – Thank you. We’re both in the same boat of having to make a decision and both make this democratic process possible. If we didn’t have a choice we don’t have this great nation. I am off to work.
February 7th, 2008 at 5:01 pm
AH HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!! This is one of the funniest things I’ve seen in a LONG time. Romney would have won this if it wasn’t for Huck, and Huck has been one of Romney’s most negative, personal, bitter attackers. I can’t tell you how many times Huckabee has had that nasty little smirk on his face when using some biblical quip to attack Romney on a very personal level. NO WAY IN HELL HUCKABEE. McCain’s more conservative too, even if he’s not more republican. Anyone remember Trust Huckabee? Or how about Jesus and the Devil being brothers? Huckabee is a idealogue who honestly would maybe be worse for this party than McCain. If Huckabee is not willing to take McCain on, he deserves to lose. By constantly and unrelentingly attacking Romney no matter what, Huck has dug his own grave and I can’t wait for him to lie in it. Freakin hilarious.
February 7th, 2008 at 5:02 pm
Huckabee is a smug Punk… I will never vote for him. It is true that Mike Huckabee and Satan are brothers…
February 7th, 2008 at 5:03 pm
Would never vote for Huckabee in a million years.
February 7th, 2008 at 5:07 pm
Frankly both remaining candidates have just been plain mean to Mitt. Fred at least attacked Mitt on issues and was generally a nice guy about it. Mike and John tag teamed Romney and were frankly brutal. It was straight out of the Clinton guide to New York politics Chapter 1. I’m very disappointed in my party, but I think Mitt went out with such grace that he will wind up coming back into the race in 2012 or 2016 and be the new Ronald Reagan- picking up the broken pieces of the republican party. Or maybe we’ll finally get a third party in this country. My ideal would be to have Conservative, Republican, Democrat, and Liberal parties- this would be the most representative and give us the most choices. It’s clear McCain types would be republicans, while I would be a conservative. It’s not sour grapes, it’s just the truth- McCain appeals to a certain constituency, where folks like me aren’t comfortable. It’s simple. I suggest McCain choose Colin Powell as VP- that would make me more inclined to vote for the ticket. I’ll say it once if I’ve said it a thousand times, NO to McCain/Huckabee. I would never, EVER vote for such a creature.
February 7th, 2008 at 5:09 pm
So with Mitt now ‘suspending’ his campaign, can he essentially run his own quasi 527 DEM attack machine with primary and his own funds?
February 7th, 2008 at 5:09 pm
I guess this is how Metro felt when his man-crush Giuliani dropped. It’s a bit of a burden lifted off my shoulders to simply be able to attack. I don’t think I will much longer though- frankly, if Romney showed his supporters anything at CPAC it was how to bide your time with grace. He’s such a good person…
February 7th, 2008 at 5:11 pm
Brian – no doubt – Mitt’s exit of the race couldn’t have been more respectful and appropriate.
I do take pleasure in the stark contrast of Mitt’s speech with McCains; as well as how petty it makes Huckabee’s continuance of his race appear.
Nice work Mitt.
February 7th, 2008 at 5:12 pm
I despise Huckabee, and always will. There is 0 chance of voting for a ticket that has Huckabee on it. I think ofr me it will take Mitt on the ticket as VP to get my vote. I won’t vote of Hillary or Obama though.
February 7th, 2008 at 5:25 pm
Mitt promotes a culture of life! So does Mike! Vote Mike!
Sorry, that is pretty funny, especially after Huckabee spent the last year bashing Romney for not being a true pro-life supporter.
McCain will probably not put Huckabee on the ticket. He has too much baggage. Huckabee would depress the vote in the West. He’s got Gov. Crist, Gov. Barbour, and Gov. Sanford all to pick from – conservative, popular, experienced Southern governors.
February 7th, 2008 at 5:26 pm
134 Jeffrey. . . that’s a good question. I know there are a lot of rules as to what can be done with leftover primary funds, but then again those rules were written by the very politicians who receive those primary funds. I think he’s allowed to give remaining funds to the party’s campaign funds but not to sa specific candidate. Of course, he did loan his campaign a large chunk of change, so I’m guessing that the loan gets paid back at least partially. He could also leave it in an account for future campaigns if he so chooses.
February 7th, 2008 at 5:27 pm
Reality check for Huck supporters . . .
Ron Paul (1.5) is higher on InTrade than Mike Huckabee (1.4)
HA!!!
February 7th, 2008 at 5:29 pm
138. . . I think Sanford is looking pretty good today. Barbour has a lot of baggage – lobbyist background and past questionable racial comments are the biggies. Crist I thought wasn’t as well-liked among conservatives as he’d like to be.
February 7th, 2008 at 5:34 pm
can’t wait to see Paul drive McCain up the wall at debates…a warm up for whats coming against Obama…..go wayne allen root!!
February 7th, 2008 at 5:37 pm
For some reason I just get the feeling that Huck would pardon everyone of the terrorists at Gitmo if they found god. Hey it worked in Arkansas right?
Then again, McCain wants to get rid of Gitmo…hmm…this is a conundrum.
As Romney said, this is a time of war and Huck has no credibility in that regard. He’ll need to study up for afew years reading National Review.
Huckabee had a chance to come to Romney’s aid as a man of religous character, but he knew he could not because it goes against his constituency and his strategy of mobilizing preachers. Nothing gets the preacher network fired up more than a little Anti-Mormon rhetoric.
“Hey..here are some flyers to pass around to every church…oh..but of course don’t give the flyer to the Mormon churches.”
Romney didn’t have robo calls saying he’s anti-God. Let’s hope McCain doesn’t choose Huck as VP, because that will make this decision really tough!
February 7th, 2008 at 5:38 pm
only when hell freezes over will i EVER EVER EVER EVER consider to vote Huckabee.
February 7th, 2008 at 5:40 pm
Huckabee’s problem, either as a VP or Presidential nominee, as I’ve argued before, is that he willfully played identity politics to his advantage in Iowa and elsewhere, turning off many Republican voters. It’s not just the covert and overt anti-Mormon jibes that have led to great mistrust for him among Mormon voters, especially in the West. How a “conservative,” openly religious, Republican candidate can get 0% of the Mormon vote in Utah is beyond me . . . but Huck managed it. There’s no way McCain can put him on the ticket if he puts Colorado, Nevada, Utah, Idaho, Wyoming, and other solidly Republican states or swing states at risk.
Huckabee’s problem is that he’s alienated a much wider swath of voters who have not liked the constant religious drumbeat that makes them feel excluded, if they are Catholic, Methodist, Jewish, Hindu, Muslim, atheist, agnostic, Adventist, Quaker, or other faith or no faith backgrounds, as well as Mormon.
The argument here is not that evangelical Christian voters are prejudiced, as tens of thousands of them have openly and willingly voted for Giuliani, Romney, McCain, and Thompson – a Catholic, a Mormon, a (insert whatever McCain decides this week), and a Church of Christ adherent. The argument is that Huckabee played an identity politics card that has been perceived as potentially prejudicial, and the backlash will stay with him. It will hurt him nationwide.
February 7th, 2008 at 5:41 pm
Huckabee got where he is today by being a BIGOTED CHRISTIAN and I really question the christian. I will burn in hell before I would ever consider voing for Huckabee, the Huckaban is no different from the religious radical TALABAN. If he thinks McCain will put him as VP he has got to be kidding. More people would exit the Rep party than vote. By Romeny leaving McCain no longer needs Mike to win as Mike is done and will not win anymore states….McCain will not owe him the VP slot. I guess God told the people in the south that they voted for the wrong canidate as they were hit by a tornado hours later. hmmmmmm.
February 7th, 2008 at 5:43 pm
No way, no how! Hucksters have always talked about Romney supposedly “burning bridges” by ‘going negative’ in Iowa and NH. Well, It’s time Huckabee learned something about burned bridges.
I wouldn’t support such a blindly ambitious man as Huckabee if I were you.
February 7th, 2008 at 5:47 pm
Brett i think you better take your invitaion somewhere else. As can be seen on this post. Romney people will not support Huckabee for obvious reasons.
The reason Huck hasnt quit yet is simply because he hasnt been given a an invitation to be VP and won’t be given one.
Sorry Brett you have been used as a tool. Now that you useless you will be discarded.
February 7th, 2008 at 5:48 pm
Never, never in a million years will I support Huckabee – as bad as McCain is I can support him even though it pains me to do so as the alternative is worse. But Huckabee? I say again – NEVER.
February 7th, 2008 at 5:48 pm
Mike Huckabee is a good person, but he won votes by religion, he has nothing else to stand on or brag about. All of you Huckabee fans here are doing a poor job in converting Romney fans to your side by defending things that you do not understand about your candidate, since you voted for him in the first place. Huckabee’s plan was to take Romney out of the race and for him to lose, it is proven time and time again by not attacking McCain and attacking Romney relentlessly. Huckabee remained silent about McCain’s social liberal positions and instead complimented him on all of his good points and slammed Romney in the process. Huckabee helped Romney lose the nomination in a last ditch kamakazie attempt post South Carolina and Florida.
Unfortunately for many of you, I know why Huckabee succeeded. All of you need to understand that Huckabee is finished and move on with life and realize that Huckabee is a social conservative that is clueless on foriegn policy and liberal fiscally. Sorry, but it’s the truth.
February 7th, 2008 at 5:52 pm
CT,
That was below the belt about the tornados. It actually bothers me.
February 7th, 2008 at 6:13 pm
Huck is the one that put God into this campaign and has preached hate and religious bigotry. Not me …it was just an innocent observation….
February 7th, 2008 at 6:31 pm
Brett, you are an ass of the biggest variety.
February 7th, 2008 at 6:38 pm
Huckabee can eat shit and go to hell.
February 7th, 2008 at 6:45 pm
#31 Huckabee needs 60% of the remaining delegates to take the nomination all the way to the convention. That’s possible, though it’ll never happen.
John McCain’s age could catch up with him yet. What if he develops alzheimers, dimensia, stroke, heart attack, or falls in the tub before November?
If Huck gets out now then we’re stuck with Ron Paul.
February 7th, 2008 at 6:48 pm
I (personally) emailed Mike Huckabee’s campaign several times to request that they remove anti-Mormon comments from their website (which I thought were tasteless), and they never did.
I also uncovered that Janet Folger, co-chair of Mike Huckabee’s Fiath and Values Coalition, who brags that she arranged the value voters debate to slingshot Huckabee’s campaign started a 527 to attack McCain and Romney (roegone.org). She’s also the one who was running around telling people “Mormons†believe Jesus is Satan’s brother.
I’m not sure if I can support McCain against Hillary, but I know I would support even Barack over Huckabee. Sorry guys, I know there are some really good people who support Huckabee, but I could never vote for Huckabee, and I think a lot of people feel the same way.
February 7th, 2008 at 6:49 pm
CT, comments like that disgust me (i.e. saying God punished the south with tornadoes for voting for Huckabee).
February 7th, 2008 at 7:07 pm
I am a staunch Romney supporter and I will not vote for Huck or any ticket that has his name on it. Yes, we need the votes of all those disgusting, crooked-teeth, backwoods, squirel eating, sam’s club shopping, bigotted voters but I sure as hell don’t one one running it. Let’s see the choice between a war hero, tough as nails a$$hole or the former baptist preacher with a degree from baptist community college. Not much of a choice.
February 7th, 2008 at 7:17 pm
Yes, we need the votes of all those disgusting, crooked-teeth, backwoods, squirel eating, sam’s club shopping, bigotted voters but I sure as hell don’t one one running it.
It’s comments like this that energize Huck’s base, they know how you social liberal republicans really feel about them, and how you use them to fleece them to the polls. They’ve become weary and tired and that’s why your guy got slapped.
February 7th, 2008 at 7:33 pm
I’m not a social liberal and do agree with Huckabee’s social views. Many Romney supporters do. But you cannot overlook his terrible record on economic issues and you cannot overlook his very very weak standing on foreign policy. You want to condemn Romney for his switch on being Prochoice and yet your candidate (and yes McCain too) morphed their views on illegal immigration.
The GWOT is too important to leave in the hands of someone as incapable as Huckster. Mitt fought hard alongside of many Evangelicals for the marriage amendment and I highly recommend you look at what he said when testifying before Congress for it. Mitt had the economic credentials, he was committed to the social views and has fought for them, has led an exemplary life, and totally understands the GWOT. He gave a great speech on religion and the importance of it in the creation of this great nation.
So Brett…I hope to give you and the Huckabee voters an invitation to get to know Mitt better.
February 7th, 2008 at 7:54 pm
I went on Hucklebee’s site and the comment sections is full of invitations for Romney’s supporters to join them. I am amazed at their blindness.
It is one thing to disagree over policy or style, but the flagrant attacks on Romney’s faith and Huckabee’s use of the “Christian” card to derail Romney’s campaign and the country’s opportunity to have a fine and extremely effective man as president, has shut the door on Huckabee’s campaign for nearly all thoughtful Romney supporters.
February 7th, 2008 at 11:58 pm
It is very possible that some people on this site, such as CT are not Romney supporters, but merely trying to stir things up. I can’t imagine anyone who has seen Mitt’s good example would spew such hateful comments.
February 8th, 2008 at 12:01 am
Is this a joke? Huckabee’s a conservative?
Don’t fool yourself, Huckster will get out soon because his mission has been accomplished.
February 8th, 2008 at 12:37 am
I will never vote for that ethically challenged bigot, and I will do my best to make sure that my family, extended family, friends, etc. don’t either…vote for huck cause he can win the south??? yeah, the only place he could win…this isn’t 1861 anymore, the south is still part of the Union, and Huckleberry doesn’t have a shot in H, E, double hockeysticks of getting the nomination, he is just trying to get the VP slot.
February 8th, 2008 at 4:17 pm
NO,NO NO!
February 9th, 2008 at 12:59 am
What does the LDS official Web site say about Satan and Jesus?
http://www.lds.org/ldsorg/v/index.jsp?vgnextoid=2354fccf2b7db010VgnVCM1000004d82620aRCRD&locale=0&sourceId=4a10ef960417b010VgnVCM1000004d82620a____&hideNav=1
Check out the second question.
In case you wanted to set the record straight.