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Posted at 10:23am on Jan. 3, 2008 Huckabee's Flip-Flop On The Human Life Amendment
By Spunky
Mike Huckabee is now out stumping for votes using various versions of the question, "If you can't be honest before the election, can we trust you to be honest after the election?"
It's a good question and standard, so let's apply it to Huckabee.
From Mike Huckabee's official website we read,
"I support and have always supported passage of a constitutional amendment to protect the right to life. My convictions regarding the sanctity of life have always been clear and consistent, without equivocation or wavering." (emphasis added)
Sounds strong and convincing. But there's one problem, it's not true. Huckabee has not always supported a constitutional amendment to protect the right to life. In the spirit of "federalism" Huckabee once lobbied to bridge the divide between pro-choice and pro-life Republicans by revising the party platform on abortion.
Read on . . .
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Posted at 9:21pm on Dec. 22, 2007 Iowa homeschoolers are you open to another opinion?
By Spunky
Here's a VERY informed opinion on Mike Huckabee by Ned Ryun that supports exactly what many here have been saying -- Mike Huckabee is bad news for conservative homeschoolers. Ned Ryun says, I’m not an Elitist and I don’t Like Huckabee. (Note: Please read his bio after you read this quote.)
"I just find it somewhat humorous and frightening all at once that the homeschoolers are supporting him; he’s playing them. When I saw his “floating cross” ad, and other materials coming out of the Huckabeee campaign, I thought, “He’s playing the evangelical bumpkin card.” He assumes, and sadly enough, rightfully so, that if you say Jesus, Christ, God, show the cross, and on every occasion use terms of faith, then you can win the evangelical vote. But go back to where he actually stands, not what he’s saying. If evangelicals insist on ignoring the other issues, like the fact that he’s a foreign policy light weight, he welcomes and appreciates increasing taxes and government, etc., and want to focus on the social issues, then ask does he still think the same way about Lawrence v. Texas and why does the NH NEA feel so strongly about him? So far, the Huckster’s manipulation of the evengelicals in Iowa is working. As Ann Coulter rather bitingly said, Huckabee’s followers are easily led.
Who is Ned Ryun and why should we care what he has to say? Here's his bio....
A former presidential writer for George W. Bush and son of sitting U.S. Congressman Jim Ryun, Ned Ryun is the Director of the Generation Joshua program, a division of Home School Legal Defense Association. Ned also directs the HSLDA Federal Political Action Committee. After earning degrees in English and History from the University of Kansas, Ned coauthored Heroes Among Us with his father and his twin brother, Drew. Ned and his wife Becca reside in Northern Virginia with their son Nathaniel.
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Posted at 8:02pm on Dec. 18, 2007 Huckabee, Homeschoolers, and Education Reform
By Spunky
My previous post addressed the revision to homeschool law restricting the rights of homeschool parents in Arkansas signed by Governor Huckabee. Recently, Huckabee told one homeschool supporter, that the catalyst for the revision to the homeschooling law was legislation he strongly supported in 1998, Smart Start.
With the implementation and success of the Smart Start program some legislators wanted to reverse what we had done for homeschoolers in 1997 and put in place
very severe restrictions.
Huckabee’s answer perplexed me. Why would a program designed to improve public education in 1998 cause a legislator to seek a reversal in homeschool laws just one year later? Is it possible that homeschoolers pose a problem to the complete implementation of the desired education reforms and restricting them, at least a little more, would move them closer to complete inclusion in the education reforms sweeping the country? Let's find out.
Mike Huckabee is very proud of Smart Start and other major reforms in education while he was Governor.
"In 1998 I announced an initiative we called Smart Start, the first of several major reform efforts in Arkansas that were to focus on not only increasing funding but, more important, improved results. Later the K-4 Smart Start Initiative would be joined by Smart Step for grades 5-8. Ultimately we launched Next Step, which was the full implementation of a reform strategy that included grades 9-12.
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Posted at 10:53pm on Dec. 17, 2007 Huckabee And Homeschoolers (The Real Story)
By Spunky
With Mike Huckabee surging in the polls many are asking the obvious question, "What caused his rapid rise?"
ABC News examined the reasons and came up with at least one obvious reason, homeschoolers.
Home-schoolers Help Propel Huckabee
"'They stand for the same things, and they trust each other,' said Christine Hurley, a Pleasant Hill Republican active in the state's home-school network."
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Posted at 6:22pm on Oct. 20, 2007 This homeschooler has not embraced Huckabee...yet
By Spunky
On the heels of a straw poll tie in Washington DC, many Huckabee supporters are claiming Mike Huckabee is the "go to" guy for conservative voters.
But I say, not so fast.
Huckabee is a social conservative, but as a conservative evangelical myself, I don't see Huckabee as a "fiscal" conservative and that troubles me.
Candidate Huckabee supposedly rejects encroaching federalism, but Governor Huckabee praised NCLB which is a nothing but encroaching federalism of the worst kind.