Posted by Phillip Rawls for the Associated Press this afternoon:
The chairman of the Montgomery-based Redeem the Vote [Randy Brinson] said Friday he believes his organization’s campaign in Iowa to encourage voter participation by faith-based citizens helped Mike Huckabee and Barack Obama win in party caucuses.
And about the comment from Doug Gross, Mitt Romney’s Iowa campaign chairman, that “if Republican turnout today is 80,000 or more, Mr. Romney’s campaign could be in trouble,” well… “With 93 percent of GOP precincts reporting, 112,349 Republicans had participated in their caucus.”
Turnout was at an all-time high, over 346,000 Iowans caucused.
This is going to be an interesting ride.
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I was in Iowa this week helping Mitt Romney’s campaign and I can tell you one thing about Huckabee supporters in Iowa (and elsewhere for that matter): all they know about him is that he’s a Baptist minister. One supporter actually told me he was qualified to be President because “he lost a lot of weight and that proves he has perseverance.” Is that what people are looking for in a President – the ability to shed pounds? Even though I’m a Southern Baptist, I believe Mitt Romney is the best hope for Republicans when it comes to November and he has the qualities and ideas that American needs right now.
Anyone who calls himself a Conservative and supports or votes for Huckabee is either:
A) A fraud
B) An ignoramus
C) Both of the above.
Romney is an empty suit telling people what they want to hear. My feeling is that a huge part of the electorate wants a big change in both parties. Obama and Huckabee reflects this direction.
Here is the video in which Mike Huckabee tells the world that Richard Haas, the president of the Council on Foreign Relations (CFR), is one of his foreign policy advisors. (At about 4:20-4:30 minutes into the video.)
http://youtube.com/watch?v=YEEDs35vEYw
One can only hope that Huckabee doesn’t approve of the goals of the CFR to create the North American Union and then ultimately a “One World” government to enslave the world population for the benefit of the elitists of the CFR. If he doesn’t, he should make it clear to all Americans that he subscribes to neither goal, and loudly and clearly denounce both of them.
As should Fred Thompson, who is actually a member of the CFR.
Man, nothing like a good butt-whipping to bring out the Romney folks. By the way, I also heard that Huckabee secretly attended an Islamic madrassa while he was growing up in Arkansas.
Boy, is this going to be fun to watch.
I will enjoy the Republican party eat its own. What’s the problem Scorpius? It’s fine for evangelicals to turn out in support of the republicans so long as that Republican’s not actually evangelical. I’m not voting Republican no matter what, but I will admit Huckabee has a sincerity that’s lacking in all the other Republican candidates. He actually acts like a human being, unlke Rombot.