[DeathCab4LU]

Personally I don't care...Huckabee doesn't have my vote, his immigration and fiscal policies suck. RON PAUL IS THE MAN!!!

Couldn't have said it better myself ATrain!

[kel varson]

Well, Huckabee isn't electable. Putting aside his social conservatism stance, the guy is a moderate, at best. Heck -- he's a democrat when it comes to immigration and crime, his tax plan is ridiculous (the so-called fair tax), and he's gone to the "Barack Obama School of Public Speaking" with his "sound energetic, make a couple of good soundbites, and ultimately say nothing worthwhile" addresses.

Maybe you're right, but we shall see. I think he is. I think you are wrong and your statements misrepresent his policies. And Giuliani is not a moderate. Please. I realize Huckabee is not the most conservative candidate but you're supporting Rudy. If you're going to make those arguments at least back Fred Thompson.

As far as Huck not being electable. Let's see. He's going to win primaries in South Carolina and Iowa. Right now he is near the lead (margin of error) in Michigan and Texas. He has spent practically nothing compared to Rudy and Romney and for the last three months he has been the only one rising in the polls. He is likable, the best speaker and debater, and has never waffled on his policies. Is the Fair Tax a joke...yeah, I agree with you on that one, its never going to happen. But you know what, just advocating that position is going to get him votes. As far as him not being a conservative; you're right he's not as conservative as Fred Thompson, but he is just as conserative as Romney and McCain and Rudy.

Bottom line, if Rudy gets the nod its going to anger a lot of conservatives and probably cost Republicans the White House.

[El Scorcho]

Gosh. I can't believe what they're trying to do to this guy!

[Knucklehead]

RD was at my church yesterday getting signatures for Huckabee. Wierd!

[kel varson]

He's a minister. What do they expect him to say. "Take back the nation for the Devil."

[thepostman]

Gosh. I can't believe what they're trying to do to this guy!

hahahaha

way to stir the pot scorcho!!!!

[TallyW]

Since we're quoting Drudge. Lets look at the headlines just below Huckabee's quote.

"Eight shot in two Colorado church incidents...

Murder At New Life...

...Death at Missionary

Israeli minister: 'US ignoring Iran threat like it did Auschwitz'..."


If Christ was more prevelant maybe this guy wouldn't have killed missionaries and church goers before being killed himself.

Maybe Israel would feel more comfortable with our support.

Drudge is disappointing me with this garbage. Everyone wants to "take back the nation" for some ideology. To me Christ wouldn't be a bad place to go.

[El Scorcho]

I think this thread has reached a state of hilarity. This is really laugh out loud funny. Please keep it coming.

[TallyW]

Scorch: Do you really see this as just honest "reporting"?

Drudge Headline: "Take back this nation for Christ"
Drudge Picture: Stern face with a pointing finger

Actual Headline of the Article linked: Huckabee: U.S. gave up on religion

Actual point of the story: If churches did what they should, government wouldn't have to do so much.

"I'm often asked why taxes are so high and government is so big. It's because the faith we have in local churches has become so small. If we'd been doing what we should have -- giving a dime from every dollar to help the widows, the orphans and the poor -- we now wouldn't be giving nearly 50 cents of every dollar to a government that's doing ... what we should have been doing all along."

Drudge obviously used this particular headline and this particular picture to go after Huckabee. I guess a smiling picture of Huckabee with the actual article title wouldn't have played as well.

[El Scorcho]

Scorch: Do you really see this as just honest "reporting"?

I don't see it as anything but Drudge being Drudge. Drudge is not a reporter. I didn't think the headlines below the article were relevant at all. He always places breaking/important news closer to the top, and those stories were important headlines this morning.

As for the Huckabee stuff, it seems to me that it's completely up to the reader how to interpret it. For a great number of people (and Drudge readers) that headline is music to their ears. For another great many, it means Huckabee is the opposite of everything they want in a President. For those who are currently supporting him it apparently means Drudge is out to get him.

My point is that in a crowd of 30 I bet you every third or fourth person would interpret it differently. The interpretation being presented here makes me laugh. I hardly think Drudge is out to get anyone. Again, he's just being Drudge. Sensational? Overblown? Absolutely. But that's what he does. That's how he's grossing hundreds of thousands of dollars a year syndicating news headlines. I think interpreting it as a hit job or even being related to the headlines that were listed below it just smacks of paranoia.

If Huckabee doesn't want his out of context quotes to become headlines like that, he'll need to learn to speak like a politician instead of an SBC preacher.

[LUconn]

Drudge is definatly doing his thing with Huckabee. Look at the current headlines he's showing, with no links either.

[El Scorcho]

Drudge is definatly doing his thing with Huckabee. Look at the current headlines he's showing, with no links either.

He updated it. He sometimes flashes a headline before he has an exclusive report ready. The info is there now. Looks like someone from within the DNC leaked Huckabee strategy info.

[kel varson]

Drudge is definatly doing his thing with Huckabee. Look at the current headlines he's showing, with no links either.

He updated it. He sometimes flashes a headline before he has an exclusive report ready. The info is there now. Looks like someone from within the DNC leaked Huckabee strategy info.

This is the point I was trying to make. Conservatives are being tougher on Huckabee because the Dem's want him to get the nomination before they lower the boom.

Hannity drilled Huckabee last night, and I think he was doing the right thing. If Hucakbee is going to win these are the questions he will be asked in the general election. (Why did you commute the sentences of hundreds of criminals--probably as Drudge put it, this will be his "glass jaw.")

In hindsight, if conservatives are not trying to KO Huckabee, they are just preparing him for the fight of his life.

[El Scorcho]

Yes, but I disagree with you that a) Drudge is a conservative and b) that he is purposefully being "tough" on Huckabee. Drudge goes for viewers. Huckabee is a hot topic right now because of Iowa. Therefore, he's paying attention to both Huckabee and both the GOP and Democratic response to the Huckabee surge in that state.

If you've ever listened to Drudge on the radio or if you've followed him for any length of time, he's all over the map on political issues. I'm not sure any of it actually reflects his own opinions so much as it reflects his desire to affect the news industry.

And, fyi, the glass jaw comment was not from Drudge. It was a quote from a source.

[kel varson]

Yes, but I disagree with you that a) Drudge is a conservative and b) that he is purposefully being "tough" on Huckabee. Drudge goes for viewers. Huckabee is a hot topic right now because of Iowa. Therefore, he's paying attention to both Huckabee and both the GOP and Democratic response to the Huckabee surge in that state.

If you've ever listened to Drudge on the radio or if you've followed him for any length of time, he's all over the map on political issues. I'm not sure any of it actually reflects his own opinions so much as it reflects his desire to affect the news industry.

And, fyi, the glass jaw comment was not from Drudge. It was a quote from a source.

Yes I know what your saying about the glass jaw I was just basically quoting drudge the website and not drudge the person and I misspoke in haste. Yes I also agree that drudge is not necessarily a conservative, but many other conservatives have been tough on Huckabee. Like I said, Hannity was really tough on Huckabee last night, but he was doing it because he knows this is what Huckabee is going to face from Dems.

This probably contradicts what I initially wrote and maybe I'm changing my mind but I think the conspiracy was more with the left than the right. While conservatives were being tough on Huckabee, it was magnified because the attacks from the left have been unusually quiet.

[El Scorcho]

Like I said, Hannity was really tough on Huckabee last night, but he was doing it because he knows this is what Huckabee is going to face from Dems.

Nah. Hannity was doing it because he wants to have little NY babies with Giuliani.

[Cider Jim]

Fellow Catholics Rudy and Shawn have to stick together.

[kel varson]

For the record, I wasn't the only one who thought Huckabee was being unfairly attacked. Rush and Hannity said today on their shows that they have been inundated with calls and emails from Huckabee supports saying he has been treated unfairly by conservatives.

I stand by my last statement though, that any criticism Huckabee is taking right now is good for the Huckabee campaign and ultimately the Republican party. If his campaign can't take the heat and his poll numbers fall, its better it happens now than in the general election.

[TallyW]

http://www.observer.com/2007/matt-drudg ... e-huckabee

Matt Drudge's Crusade Against Mike Huckabee
by Steve Kornacki | December 11, 2007

Something to keep in mind as Matt Drudge continues his effort to take down Mike Huckabee: Huckabee poses the most immediate and serious threat to Mitt Romney.

As John Harris of the Washington Post first reported in October 2006, Drudge has an unusually close relationship with a senior Romney strategist, Matt Rhodes:

Last year, a delegation of RNC officials flew to Miami Beach, where Drudge lives, for a dinner at the Forge steakhouse to introduce the Internet maven to Matt Rhodes, the party's new opposition research director.

During his time at the RNC, Harris suggests, Rhodes was the G.O.P.'s main conduit for funneling potentially damaging research on Democrats to Drudge.

A year ago, Rhodes signed on to Romney's campaign. Since then, Drudge-watchers have noted Drudge's consistent refusal to hype--and in many cases to even mention--negative stories about Romney. But now Huckabee threatens to blow Romney's nomination strategy. Since last week, Drudge has unleashed a torrent of screaming, anti-Huckabee headlines, culminating in today's "exclusive" (which cites one unnamed Democrat) about the Democrats' supposed hope that Huckabee will emerge as the G.O.P. nominee.

[El Scorcho]

The Romney link certainly does make this a much different conversation. Very interesting.

[kel varson]

The Romney link certainly does make this a much different conversation. Very interesting.

I'd say it does.

[LUconn]

While I do think that Drudge is doing it on purpose, citing a dinner experience with a Romney strategist is kind of weak. Imagine the sources/contacts a guy like Matt Drudge has to keep up with to get his exclusives.

[LUconn]

This was linked on Drudge today. I'm just posting it here because it mentions Liberty in it

http://www.motherjones.com/washington_d ... rmons.html

[ATrain]

Here's some positive news on Huckabee. Chuck Norris has endorsed him:
http://www.humanevents.com/article.php?id=23980

[thepostman]

he endorsed him a while ago...they played the chuck norris/mike huckabee ad during convo when huckabee was here