Anti-War Protesters Arrested At Huckabee's Iowa Office
https://www.commondreams.org/archive/2008/01/02/6121/
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End of the short road
The American Spectator
by Jennifer Rubin
01/21/08
Iowa showed the potential for Mike Huckabee and South Carolina demonstrated his limits. The pundits waxed lyrical after Huckabee’s win in Iowa. He had transformed GOP politics or redefined the Reagan coalition or signaled the revenge of social conservatives or ushered in a new ‘change’ storyline for the primary season. Well, perhaps it was something simpler and more limited. Huckabee beat Mitt Romney in perhaps the only setting he could win. In the highly personalized retail politics of Iowa, in caucuses in which neighbors bring neighbors (and church congregants bring their fellow congregants) out to vote, Huckabee’s engaging personality and brand of identity politics could flourish. … This in a nutshell was a vote for who Huckabee was — a congenial small state governor, populist, and Baptist minister — not for what policies he espoused...
https://www.spectator.org/dsp_article.asp?art_id=12605
Informant: Thomas L. Knapp
https://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Huckabee
https://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Iowa
https://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=GOP
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End of the short road
The American Spectator
by Jennifer Rubin
01/21/08
Iowa showed the potential for Mike Huckabee and South Carolina demonstrated his limits. The pundits waxed lyrical after Huckabee’s win in Iowa. He had transformed GOP politics or redefined the Reagan coalition or signaled the revenge of social conservatives or ushered in a new ‘change’ storyline for the primary season. Well, perhaps it was something simpler and more limited. Huckabee beat Mitt Romney in perhaps the only setting he could win. In the highly personalized retail politics of Iowa, in caucuses in which neighbors bring neighbors (and church congregants bring their fellow congregants) out to vote, Huckabee’s engaging personality and brand of identity politics could flourish. … This in a nutshell was a vote for who Huckabee was — a congenial small state governor, populist, and Baptist minister — not for what policies he espoused...
https://www.spectator.org/dsp_article.asp?art_id=12605
Informant: Thomas L. Knapp
https://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Huckabee
https://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Iowa
https://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=GOP
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