I do agree Huckabee won the GOP debates hands down.

Not only that , but he also sounded the less angry and showed some compassion on the illegal immigration issue when he stated that kids of Illegal immigrants should not be punished because of their parents breaking of the law.

I've stated before that he's one republican that i wouldnt mind voting for , specially if Hillary is the democratic nominee.

I'm shocked that Romney directed all his bullets at Guilaii instead of Huckabee....He's making a huge mistake.

I think Guiliani is done...He will not win any early states....Recent polls have shown Huckabee gaining ground in FL , and Huclkabee could guaranty himself a win in S.C if he pulls off an upset in Iowa.

I just dont see where in the world Guiliani will make his big stance....He got killed tonight , but romney has got to be the big loser for spending all his bullets on the wrong guy instead of trying to kill Huckabee's momentum.

Right now , i believe this nomination will be between Huckabee and Romney.

Huckabee will win Iowa , Romney will win NH....Huckabee will then win S.C....With 2 win in his pocket , i believe huckabee will go on and win the nomination just like Bush did in 2000.

The media is going to be saying for the next couple of days how well he did and how he's snowballing into the lead. If there's one thing America loves, it's a funny, likable, underfunded underdog who's taking out those slick politico types in a come from behind victory. The fates couldn't've written the media a better story.

Something that I'm finding is that a lot of Republicans across the country have always been impressed with Huckabee but were never willing to say they actually supported him because they always felt they had to go with one of the Big 3 or Big 4. Now that everyone is treating him as an incredibly viable candidate, all of these closet Huckabee supporters are coming out of the woodwork and he's taking off.

Will he be able to sustain the barrage of negative attacks about to be levied against him in the next three weeks before Christmas? Only time will tell, but it's going to be great to watch.

I wondered how great Obama could be if he had Huckabee's smooth debating rhetorical skills and how great huckabee could be if he could raise the kind of money Obama is raising.

If Obama learns how to use the sound bytes and get right to the point in a forceful manner , it could be unstoppable....Those upcoming debates are Obama's worst nightmare right now.

Screw the post debate polls. Huckabee was already ahead according to Rasmussen..

http://www.rasmussenreports.com/public_c ontent/politics/election_2008__1/2008_pr esidential_election/iowa/republican_iowa _caucus

and look at the desparation of the Virginia GOP...

http://www.spectator.org/dsp_article.asp ?art_id=12366

I'm noticing corporate conservatives trying to throw ice on Huck pretty quickly.

Just saw Joe Scarborough do a kiss-up interview with Mitt and say afterward that Huck can't go anywhere even if he wins Iowa and it's between Rudy and Mitt.

I wish I could remember who I saw yesterday say pretty much the same thing, but it was another establishment conservative.

They don't like Huck's boomlet one bit.

By Doris "Granny D" Haddock
November 8, 2002
http://www.alternet.org/story/14506

If we Americans are split into two meaningful camps, it is not conservative versus liberal. The two camps are the politically awake and the hypnotized.

I want to begin by congratulating you for all the work you do. I know it is often frustrating work. You are blessed to be able to see ahead to a world of cooperation and peace -- a world of justice and sustainable economies and meaningful democracies. You wonder why others cannot or will not see these things or reach out for them, and why they in fact oppose the obvious good -- why they take the part of the oppressor, the blindered war horse.
I would like us to take a few moments to consider why this work is so hard, and what we might do to move toward our common dreams more rapidly and with greater joy.

Some of you may be old enough to remember the Reagan Administration. Mr. Reagan and those around him believed in a very new kind of American hero. This new hero was a business hero -- not the fellow who built up a family furniture store on Main Street and supported the Little League and the Scouts; this new hero was not the woman who worked late hours to create a successful travel agency, nor was this new business hero anything like any of the hard-working Americans who built-up our middle class, advanced our standard of living and gave us the resources and leisure for the proper civic life of a democracy.

No, the Reagan business hero was the corporate takeover artist. Any regulations that might get in the way of these ruthless new capitalists were removed.

"...this may be the first and last time that 1,000 Iowa Republicans and the DailyKos community agree on something."

That, and the fact that majority of them favor withdrawal from Iraq by the end of 2008.

John McCain is not pro-choice!

I cannot understand how this Bible thumping, evolution denying preacher with his dim black eyes could appeal to anyone who is only half-sane. It really is a statement about how deep America has fallen that this sort of person is apparently moving into front-runner status. Disgusting.

It was funny to hear Roberts from CNN after the debate saying how Huckabee could be lucky to be Guiliani's nominee. I was laughing at him, because I think if anything Guiliani will be lucky if it's the other way around.

I was surprised by the debate, because I thought everyone was going to go after Huckabee, but instead Romney and Guiliani spent the whole debate nailing each other.

It looks like everyone is just going to let Huckabee go away with this thing.

"Now don't get me wrong, I actually don't think on the merits that Huckabee is a mainstream candidate, but his powers of persuasion  seemed pretty powerful."

Why do people believe this? What makes Huckabee not mainstream? After Bushian super-corruption why wouldn't people want to have a supposedly solid (in terms of competence), honest, presumably upstanding person in charge?

I have a buddy from Missisippi who has a very rigthwing christian family, they liked Fred but now they absolutely love Huckabeee. He has a great shot at the gop nomination.

He is a rightwing ideolog and I would be humiliating to have him as our President. Haven't we had enough with Bush. I would only vote for him if Obama is the nominee for the Democrats--and that would be the first time I didn't just pull the lever for the Democratic party.

I've been saying for a year that Huckabee is the most talented of the Republican contenders.  I think it's obvious to anyone who's ever seen him speak.  He was straight up awesome on his Daily Show appearance too.

Other candidates misunderestimate him at their peril - Republican or Democratic.

Can anyone imagine the kind of Republicans we saw at their last convention--the ones wearing band-aids mocking John Kerry's Purple Hearts--actually embracing a "nice guy" Republican?  Their ideology dictates that government cannot solve problems.  It can only punish evildoers--Muslims, Mexicans, homosexuals, etc.  When his opponents portray him as "soft" in places like South Carolina--well, it won't be pretty.

What a group of presidential candidates! All support a backward policy against gays in the military, some would end the income tax, most support unregulated gun ownership, most oppose sensible policies on illegal immigration, and one won't condemn waterboarding.

Do they think we need all those guns to protect against the threat of gay marriage?

homer   www.altara.blogspot.com

Huckabee's momentum will come to a screeching halt in New Hampshire.  Voters there won't take too kindly to one of the few governors who increased spending faster than President Bush has in the past 8 years.

There's a reason Huckabee can't raise any money -- his spending record is awful, so the business types stay away, and he's too moderate (for conservatives) on immigration.