Huckabee
HuckPac Defection
By Mark Silk — June 10, 2008
I’m posting this interesting piece of correspondence from Premil Cindy so it doesn’t get missed. A few observations: the FairTax was a fairly close second in poll #1; the questions were framed in terms of “grassroots” issues; and perhaps most importantly, since this is a poll for HuckPac, as opposed to Mike Huckabee for President, […]
Huckapoll
By Mark Silk — June 10, 2008
For what it’s worth, I just took a peek at the results of a couple of readers’ polls on Mike Huckabee’s blog, asking what issues HuckPac should focus on. “Protecting marriage in the states” won the first poll handily. “Sanctity of Life” is winning the second poll overwhelmingly. Surprised?
Left Behind
By Mark Silk — May 13, 2008
Yesterday’s Robert Novak column floats the idea that Mike Huckabee is playing a double game, publicly supporting John McCain’s candidacy while secretly encouraging his hard core evangelical backers to withhold the hem of their garment. The idea is to acquiesce in an Obama presidency as divine punishment on a sinful people–whose sin, presumably, will be […]
Waiting for the End
By Mark Silk — April 11, 2008
Comedy Central weighs in on the Huckaticktock. As for me, I’m expecting The Great Disappointment. Again.
Huckaback?
By rvineis — April 9, 2008
Mike Huckabee is nowhere near leaving the political scene. Instead, he is staying in the public eye and will be delivering a speech on April 15th called “In God We Trust: The Role of Faith in Politics.” Huckabee’s website has the ominous 24 style countdown clock for the event. Will it boom or bust?
The Real Huck
By Mark Silk — March 6, 2008
Jim Wallis looks for Mike Huckabee to step up as the leader of a new, more enlightened engaged evangelicalism. As noted in this place earlier, I’m a bit of a skeptic on that proposition. The question to be answered is whether the real Huck is the pre- or the post-New Hampshire Primary Huck. Pre-, as […]
Huckabee Bows Out
By rvineis — March 4, 2008
Right now, Mike Huckabee is dropping out of the race. Huckabee’s speech has been consistent with what made him so popular in the first place, his appeal to conservative Christians. Along with analogies to the battle of the Alamo, he peppered his announcement with quotations from the good book. Huckabee talked about his humble roots […]
Canvasing in DC
By Mark Silk — February 26, 2008
From Nikita Stewart’s nice profile of Huckabee staffer Brian Summers in today’s WaPo: “I went to churches. I went to Bible study groups. I didn’t go in selling the Republican Party. I came in and sold a candidate,” said Summers, who targeted wards 7 and 8 in Southeast Washington, where he hoped to strike a […]
Miracle Guy
By Mark Silk — February 24, 2008
Seeing the Huckabee clip from yesterday’s SNL put me in mind of the name of the show’s original cast.
The Evangelical Perplex
By Mark Silk — February 24, 2008
So what’s up with white evangelicals? David Brody quotes what the grizzled (well, henna’d) Richard Land offers by way of advice to John McCain, which boils down to: Talk to me and my kind and embrace the old values voter agenda as tightly as you possibly can. Then you’ve got Jim Wallis and company who […]
The Huck Tapes
By Mark Silk — February 22, 2008
Hanna Rosin has a lovely piece up on Slate today on her search for video and audio tapes of Mike Huckabee’s sermons, when he was a Baptist pastor in Pine Bluff and Texarkana in the 1980s. They may not be, as Rosin says (presumably with tongue in cheek) “the 2008 campaign’s version of the Pentagon […]
What Makes Huckabee Run?
By Mark Silk — February 17, 2008
The Inevitability Express may not be hitting on all cylinders, but as the likelihood of halting it fades into oblivion, the question of why Mike Huckabee continues to stay in the race becomes ever more insistent. His decamping from the campaign trail to make a motivational speech on Grand Cayman suggests a certain lack of, […]
Huckabee in Texas
By rvineis — February 13, 2008
Mike Huckabee is no longer lonely in the Lone Star state. The Dallas Morning News reports that Huck has assembled a base of evangelicals to turn out his people on March 4. Additionally, Huck released a statement today stating that he recieved the endorsement of state senator Dan Patrick. Patrick on Huckabee: “As a committed […]
Dobson Endorses Huckabee
By rvineis — February 7, 2008
James Dobson, head of Focus on the Family, will announce that he supports Mike Huckabee for president. AP’s Eric Gorski has the story. Dobson had never been satisfied with the GOP field. He famously blasted Fred Thompson for being too lackadaisical, Giuliani for his pro-choice positions, and most recently for John McCain for myriad positions […]