Comments on: My Opinon on The Current Policial Climate, SuperFat Tuesday 2008 http://www.ivorydome.us/2008/02/my-opinon-on-the-current-policial-climate-super-tuesday-2008/ Conservatism Digitalised Sat, 28 Jan 2012 00:02:25 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: Curious Texan http://www.ivorydome.us/2008/02/my-opinon-on-the-current-policial-climate-super-tuesday-2008/comment-page-1/#comment-366 Curious Texan Thu, 07 Feb 2008 03:25:05 +0000 http://www.ivorydome.us/2008/02/05/my-opinon-on-the-current-policial-climate-super-tuesday-2008/#comment-366 Here's a great opinion piece from newsmax.com entitled "Huckabee Rises" by presidential historian Doug Wead. He gets it: http://www.newsmax.com/politics/huckabee_rises/2008/02/06/70525.html Here’s a great opinion piece from newsmax.com entitled “Huckabee Rises” by presidential historian Doug Wead. He gets it:

http://www.newsmax.com/politics/huckabee_rises/2008/02/06/70525.html

]]> By: Curious Texan http://www.ivorydome.us/2008/02/my-opinon-on-the-current-policial-climate-super-tuesday-2008/comment-page-1/#comment-365 Curious Texan Thu, 07 Feb 2008 00:29:24 +0000 http://www.ivorydome.us/2008/02/05/my-opinon-on-the-current-policial-climate-super-tuesday-2008/#comment-365 My philosophy has always been to vote my conscience in the primary and the lesser of two evils in the general election. It's no secret that I've been a Huckabeeliever since last July; I was actually attracted to his campaign even earlier than that, when I saw him on the Imus Show over a year ago. I'm particularly supportive of his positions on abortion, the Second Amendment, the Fair Tax, education and health care. His "tax and spend" reputation as Governor of Arkansas is greatly exaggerated IMHO, and even though foreign policy isn't his strongest suit, his intuition in this area is impressive. Back last September in his speech to the CSIS, long before the Bhutto assassination, he stressed the centrality of Pakistan in the War on Terror. The results of Super Duper Tuesday encouraged me greatly that I'll still be able to vote my conscience on March 4. That being said, I'm enough of a realist to admit that the chances of Huckabee getting the nomination are pretty slim. However, the better he does between now and the convention, the better his chances of being McCain's running mate. Huckabee got his start as the Lieutenant Governor of Arkansas and ascended to the governorship when Jim Guy Tucker was forced to resign. He grew into the job, just as I believe that as VP, he could grow into the presidency. At 52 (turning 53 this summer), he'd be only 57 at the end of McCain's first (and final?) term (McCain would be 76). Huckabee has a sharp mind and is a quick study. Whatever his perceived shortcomings in foreign policy may be now, after serving on the National Security Council, he'd have much better credentials by 2012 (or 2016). I recently watched the movie "Bobby," about the assassination of Robert Kennedy in 1968. On that night in June of 1968, the junior senator from New York was the presumtive Democratic presidential nominee. And whereas I wouldn't wish his fate on any candidate (Democrat or Republican), we live in a dangerous and unpredictable world where violence or even disease can change the political landscape in an instant. I often wonder if Rudy Giuliani hadn't been diagnosed with prostate cancer in 2000 if Hillary Clinton would have been elected to the Senate. McCain and Huckabee represent two of the three branches of the old Reagan conservative coalition - national defense and social conservatism. It would be nice if there were a world class fiscal conservative on the ticket, but the Constitution doesn't allow for a second vice president. Huckabee has shown that he can deliver the Southern States, and that will be critical for a GOP win come November. Not only did he win Georgia, Alabama, Tennessee, West Virginia, and his native Arkansas, but he narrowly lost South Carolina, and even more narrowly Missouri and Oklahoma. McCain-Huckabee? It's not exactly Reagan-Bush, but given the alternative (Clinton-Obama or Obama-Clinton), I can live with it. My philosophy has always been to vote my conscience in the primary and the lesser of two evils in the general election.

It’s no secret that I’ve been a Huckabeeliever since last July; I was actually attracted to his campaign even earlier than that, when I saw him on the Imus Show over a year ago. I’m particularly supportive of his positions on abortion, the Second Amendment, the Fair Tax, education and health care. His “tax and spend” reputation as Governor of Arkansas is greatly exaggerated IMHO, and even though foreign policy isn’t his strongest suit, his intuition in this area is impressive. Back last September in his speech to the CSIS, long before the Bhutto assassination, he stressed the centrality of Pakistan in the War on Terror.

The results of Super Duper Tuesday encouraged me greatly that I’ll still be able to vote my conscience on March 4.

That being said, I’m enough of a realist to admit that the chances of Huckabee getting the nomination are pretty slim. However, the better he does between now and the convention, the better his chances of being McCain’s running mate. Huckabee got his start as the Lieutenant Governor of Arkansas and ascended to the governorship when Jim Guy Tucker was forced to resign. He grew into the job, just as I believe that as VP, he could grow into the presidency. At 52 (turning 53 this summer), he’d be only 57 at the end of McCain’s first (and final?) term (McCain would be 76). Huckabee has a sharp mind and is a quick study. Whatever his perceived shortcomings in foreign policy may be now, after serving on the National Security Council, he’d have much better credentials by 2012 (or 2016).

I recently watched the movie “Bobby,” about the assassination of Robert Kennedy in 1968. On that night in June of 1968, the junior senator from New York was the presumtive Democratic presidential nominee. And whereas I wouldn’t wish his fate on any candidate (Democrat or Republican), we live in a dangerous and unpredictable world where violence or even disease can change the political landscape in an instant. I often wonder if Rudy Giuliani hadn’t been diagnosed with prostate cancer in 2000 if Hillary Clinton would have been elected to the Senate.

McCain and Huckabee represent two of the three branches of the old Reagan conservative coalition – national defense and social conservatism. It would be nice if there were a world class fiscal conservative on the ticket, but the Constitution doesn’t allow for a second vice president. Huckabee has shown that he can deliver the Southern States, and that will be critical for a GOP win come November. Not only did he win Georgia, Alabama, Tennessee, West Virginia, and his native Arkansas, but he narrowly lost South Carolina, and even more narrowly Missouri and Oklahoma.

McCain-Huckabee? It’s not exactly Reagan-Bush, but given the alternative (Clinton-Obama or Obama-Clinton), I can live with it.

]]> By: celtictexan http://www.ivorydome.us/2008/02/my-opinon-on-the-current-policial-climate-super-tuesday-2008/comment-page-1/#comment-367 celtictexan Wed, 06 Feb 2008 15:21:55 +0000 http://www.ivorydome.us/2008/02/05/my-opinon-on-the-current-policial-climate-super-tuesday-2008/#comment-367 I respect McCain for what he did and went through in Nam, but I mistrust him. He is just not predictable enough for me. My one great hope is that he will prosecute the war as it should be. I respect McCain for what he did and went through in Nam, but I mistrust him. He is just not predictable enough for me. My one great hope is that he will prosecute the war as it should be.

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