Video of Huckabee On Iowa Radio Talk Show/Trying to Look Ahead/A Hasty Conservative Criticism

Check out Mike Huckabee on the Jan Mickelson Show on WHO Radio in Des Moines, Iowa, for the second time in two weeks. http://www.whoradio.com/cc-common/political/article.html?feed=187092&article=2578035

Huckabee showed well at the Ames, Iowa Straw Poll after working Iowa for a few months. After that showing, political radio hosts in Iowa who always liked him, are now much more confident about him. Huckabee has four months before the Iowa Caucuses to work and build. Think of how continued progress along the same line could play out: Four months out is a long way to predict and surely a lot could happen. But, I think Mitt Romney needs to have something up his sleeve to hold Huckabee back. Huckabee will continue to grow in profile in South Carolina too, and a big showing at the Iowa Caucus, especially a win, will give SC a major boost. I think his profile will grow in New Hampshire, too. But given the demography there, Romney’s next-door Massachusetts profile, and the effort and money that he and Giuliani will invest, it’s not so easy to speculate about a possible win in NH. Heck, even McCain will work NH hard and I think will be on the map, but I do think Huckabee can beat him, there.

Huckabee says he’s playing to win in NH and he has a team of local politicians in place, there. Maybe he has something up his sleeve. Heck, if he won in Iowa, finished 2^nd in NH, and won SC and competes in Florida, Feb. 5^th’s primary day with over a third of the nation voting, would get pretty hairy. It looks like it could be so close that some other slips or gaffes may likely play a bigger role in the picture months from now, than we can imagine.

And, what about Fred Thompson? Is he in here, in NH? Maybe, though they have portrayed him as a conservative Lancelot to the rescue who would compete with Huckabee for the conservative vote, if the others have already built a following, maybe he would just serve to break the vote into smaller pieces so that the bar is not so high for a victory.

Read this conservative criticism of video of an interview I had seen, but the article offer hadn’t watched closely enough, along with Huckabee’s campaign in general. Following is my comment at the posting:

Why Mike Huckabee Can't Be The Conservative Choice For President ... and http://sayanythingblog.com/entry/why_mike_huckabee_cant_be_the_conservative_choice_for_president/

I find it hard to believe that you are not motivated primarily by your support for Fred Thompson, and are so silly as to wite something different from the very video that you yourself, posted in the article.

Huckabee explicitly said that he wouldn't propose targeting consumers, but would consider it a workplace safety ban. I am one of those conservatives that doesn't like government regulating private business. But, if Huckabee is going to address health care as no one has even after decades of talk and increasing health problems in The United States, it isn't only foregivable, its economically necessarty that we address costs from the front end rather than on the expensive back end.

Mike Huckabee is perfectly cognizant of the 10th Amendment and respectful of its intentions, speaking as someone who has watched his campaign constantly for over six months.

As Brian said, we have the costs of existing health care programs/promises to consider, and the enormous burden of ill health on Gross National Product, not to mention the personal toll of peoples' unhealthy lifestyles. If nothing else, I would just be relieved to give Democrats a reason to shut the heck up about national health care. To be fair, I can understand that you haven't been paying closer attention. Please watch more closely.