YouTube Debate

Just finished watching the debate. Once again, our man did extremely well. Every answer was clear and thoughtful. He allowed the others to beat each other up while he took the high road.

I thought his best answer concerned capital punishment. The question asked how Christian politicians felt about the death penalty and "What would Jesus do?" regarding this. Governor gave a thoughtful response, including his heavy responsibility as governor regarding this issue. When pressed about the WWJD part of the question, he joked, "Jesus was too smart to run for political office."

Each candidate was invited to submit a 30 second video to be shown during the show. Mike used the ad now playing in Iowa. Fred Thompson, surprising everyone, used an attack video. His submission showed Mitt Romney speaking out in favor of abortion and Mike Huckabee talking about raising taxes. It was the only attack video shown and illustrated the desperate state of the Thompson campaign. And the ad backfired. The two targets were given a chance to respond to the video, and each of them gave a very strong rebuttal. I don't believe the Fred08 campaign got what they wanted. It made Fred look small.

Mike connected with the hanging curve ball regarding the Bible and then drove home the winning run with his defense of the Fair Tax.

Once again, CNN seemed determined to show Republicans as gun-happy, homophobic, torture-using, immigrant-hating, religious zealots. There were 5000 videos submitted. In all of that, was there not one good question regarding education, health care, energy, or the environment?

After debate polls are showing Mike the clear winner.

Go Mike!

chuck norris video

I am trying to include the link for the ad from youtube. You can find it at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MDUQW8LUMs8. Hope this works.

meetup schedule

I have decided to change the meetup date to the second Tuesday in December, the 11th.

MOMENTUM IS BUILDING

I haven't written anything in quite a while, but the South Carolina primary is fast approaching. December will be the month Mike Huckabee takes the lead in South Carolina. He will be at the Clemson-South Carolina game this weekend and speaking in several areas that day and on Sunday. I may go to Spartanburg to meet him again. I have started a North Augusta For Huckabee Meetup group. We will meet the third Tuesday in December at my office in North Augusta. Anyone interested please let me know through meetup.com. I have had it set up for two months but have done nothing with it. I'm ready to get started.

Mike's poll numbers continue to rise and many media people are now giving him a shot. Some say he hasn't a chance because of lack of funds, but the money is coming in and he has certainly surprised everyone with his movement so far. His first TV ad did what he said it would, generate talk. If you haven't seen it, you should go to mikehuckabee.com or youtube.com. The ad is very funny and is the only humorous campaign ad I've seen in a presidential campaign. The campaign says the more substantiive ads will start this week.