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Strike Two

12.31.07 @ 12:01AM

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Friday, TAS had three articles that had messages for Governor Huckabee; two were directly about The Smilin' Preacher from Hope -- "Huck and the Dapper"; "Huckabee Attacking Reaganomics" -- and one holds a lesson for him: "Evergreen Grudge Match."

Yes, Governor Huckabee is a likeable person and has a certain charm about him, but even his greatest nemeses will concede the same about another former governor from Arkansas. Sadly, the similarities don't end there. Just as the Boy President left behind a stink of hints, allegations, and things left unsaid, so it is with The Impossibly Possible Preacher President. Add a love of taxes and the picture becomes even clearer: A Huckabee presidency would look an awful (emphasis on awful) lot like the Clinton presidency, minus the cigars and sexual liaisons.

Boy Clinton had a real, not RINO, congress to hold his feet to the fire on many issues. The congress was often able to stymie the Clinton tax increases, or at least lessen their impact on the economy. A Huckabee administration will likely have a Democratic dominated congress (though the Dems seem eager to shoot themselves in the foot on a regular basis). With a spendthrift congress eager to "redistribute wealth," Huckabee and company would not only continue the economic wrongheaded largess of the current administration, they would create a tax burden that would hobble the American and world economies for years to come.

Do I like Mike? Sure, he would be a charming dinner guest, but I don't want to put him in charge of my budgets. America will be better off with a president who is neither from Hope or named Clinton.
-- Ira M. Kessel
Rochester, New York

PRAYERS FOR HUCKABEE
Re: Lawrence Henry's Huck and the Dapper:

Right again! Mr. Henry's article happens to hit the nail smack on. There is the people factor that all the liberal press, the pundits, and others who make Kings, forget. The people have now risen above polls and purposes and controls, and they like who they like. Movers and shapers aside, it cannot be explained.

And as for Huckabee, Mr. Henry's right, Baptist Preachers have to make it with their congregation and become a voice for that group, or they hit the road. I can speak to this from 50+ years of being a Baptist.

Now, to a couple points not made. I know folks in the press are caterwauling over his illegal aliens policies, etc. Heck, til the people rose up and SPOKE loudly this summer, (I know, as I was one who called and said to Congress repeatedly, as they were tone deaf, this isn't what my son fights for), all politicians did the same as Huckabee. They caved in and let illegals in. Why won't anyone say this? It was a commonality of all. Now that the people has made it pretty darned clear we won't do this, repeatedly, I might add, anyone who represents us will have to realize they better be on track over this.

I won't get into Huckabee's prisoner issues. I don't know much about it. I am just sitting back here on the Tangle-T watching and praying the right man comes into office. My son, nearly 29, a new father, has aged 10 years, but is still headed back [to Iraq], because he comes from ancestors that know you stay with the job til it is done, and this may be a long while before we get it done, yet, he does NOT give up. If you put someone in the Oval Office who doesn't get terrorism, does not respect the military, not only will you see a mass fleeing from the military (they will not serve a fool, nor give their lives for idiots), and the terrorists will win because we capitulated, and we will be ruled by anarchists, or worse, Islamists.

There is a reckoning coming, my dear old Daddy whispered to me recently. At 88 he nears his Heavenly Father, but his sight is still clear and clean enough here on earth to know that as a country, as a whole, we have acted in some pretty ungodly ways that we will answer for.

So, I am just praying for an honorable man, a man of God's choosing, someone who has that great sight to look further ahead, not be deterred by rattling voices of shame and stupidity of those who don't get it, and one who loves God.

I just pray. The election isn't here and the sorting hasn't commenced. The people haven't spoken yet.
-- Bev Gunn
East Texas Rancher

I agree with Mr. Henry. Huckabee does come across as "genuinely nice, charming and engaging." Reminds me a bit of Gomer Pyle...
-- Jack Hughes
Chicago, Illinois

I am a Baptist and I can only pray Huckabee will NOT be elected just because he is a preacher. Look at his record, he has not seen a tax he does not like, or an illegal immigrant. This man could become the Republicans' Jimmy Carter. He may be the nicest person you will ever meet, but that is not what we need in a President.
-- Elaine Kyle

REMEMBER THE BOTTOM LINE
Re: Eric Earling's Evergreen Grudge Match:

Letter to the Editor

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