Huckabee sets up shop in Florida

Mike Huckabee is getting some Florida digs.

The heretofore cash-starved Republican will open a statewide office in downtown Orlando and one in Miami, according to two of his top supporters, Sen. Dan Webster and Rep. David Rivera.

The Orlando office has not been selected but will house a state coordinator and marshal a swelling volunteer force. Rivera said the Miami shop, at 8th Street and 57th Avenue, is "picked out, cleaned out, ready to go."

They dismissed talk that Huckabee cannot harness his sudden popularity because of little organization in key states. "Think of where he's gotten without infrastructure," Webster said. "Some people do top down; he's done bottom up. And it's really the best way to do a campaign --  it's just nobody believed you could do it in a presidential  race. He's going to have the people, he's going to have the staff and he's going to get the money."

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Bring out the glass jaw.

It is a well-known fact that Matt Drudge's boyfriend, Matt Rhoades, is a communication strategist for Mitt Romney...

[Omega83]

Will Rivera bounce all of those AIDS infested rats from the door to the campaign office? Can't have them spreading the plague now can we?

[Mike]

Huckabee - our party's latest popcorn fart.

(See McCain and Thompson for previous examples)

Time for everyone to wake up and realize the only way we win in November is with Rudy. Shape up or ship out already...

Sounds great! Go Huckabee!!

http://www.floridaforhuckabee.com/

[A Voter]

Should it count for the Republican candidates that they are reaching out to Florida voters while every single one of the Democratic candidates shuns the voters even as they come here to collect checks at big buck private parties filled, elbow to elbow, with fat cats who see no harm done in the disenfranchisement of their neighbors?

Obama, caught outside a private party with is pockets stuffed full of checks, said that he was shunning the voters because, "I'm just following the rules." Some leader! And it applies to every one of the Democratic Candidates.

What a great commercial that will make in the general election. If attack ads aimed at reducing turnout, Obama can make the case against himself with his own slimy words. Hillary's explanation that she would shun Florida voters because "Iowa is about ideas" will make a great commercial too.

In a democracy, one gets what one deserves and apparently we deserve a rightwing wing nut like Huckabee. The alternatives spit in our face and expect us to forgive when we vote.

[A Voter]

Should it count for the Republican candidates that they are reaching out to Florida voters while every single one of the Democratic candidates shuns the voters even as they come here to collect checks at big buck private parties filled, elbow to elbow, with fat cats who see no harm done in the disenfranchisement of their neighbors?

Obama, caught outside a private party with is pockets stuffed full of checks, said that he was shunning the voters because, "I'm just following the rules." Some leader! And it applies to every one of the Democratic Candidates.

What a great commercial that will make in the general election. If attack ads aimed at reducing turnout, Obama can make the case against himself with his own slimy words. Hillary's explanation that she would shun Florida voters because "Iowa is about ideas" will make a great commercial too.

In a democracy, one gets what one deserves and apparently we deserve a rightwing wing nut like Huckabee. The alternatives spit in our face and expect us to forgive when we vote.

Huck: be careful with your comments about retaking the US for Christ and saying that Mormons put Jesus and the Devil at the same level. The MSM has a funny way of latching onto comments like that and obsessing over them. Other than that you're a great guy.

Huckabee is a big government liberal populist. Webster and Rubio have completely lost my respect, along with every other rube who supports this clown and calls him and themselves "conservative".

[A Blue Voter]

Mr/Ms "A Voter" please don't put your GOP talking points about disenfrancisement in my mouth. It'll be a cold day when I switch my allegiance to the corporate sell-outs in the GOP over the (yawn) delegate issue.

Huckabee is not only NOT the only Republican running, he is one of the LEAST likely to get anywhere. Look to Rudy, America;s Mayor. look to John McCain, a war hero who endured years of torture in a Communist POW. And some of them have ideas too. Oh, and they don't think the world was created in 6 days.

A Blue Voter: Yeah, you are sooo uninterested in the Delagate issue ("Yawn" was it?) That must be why YOUR Sen. Nelson sued YOUR DNC. That must be why YOUR Democrat elected officials are up in arms, fearing that since your primary on January 29 won't count, you wont turn out to vote for the things they want.

Your slogan "Let every vote count" apparently applies to everyone except Democrats. They can disenfranchise anyone they want. Look: they have even disenfranchised their own party.

Huckabee will only serve to send Romney down in flames. While the two are debating who is a bigger fan of Jesus, Guiliani will step in and rescure the day.

Romney

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9:31 is an idiot. I mean, there's just no ther way to put it.

Every democrat is rooting for Huckabee to pull this off in the primary because if Huck's the candidate Clinton walks into the White House.

[UF Student]

If you're a hardcore Democrat, are you really going to vote Republican because of this delegate issue? Of course not, and it's stupid to think otherwise. It might swing a few independents and maybe some soft D's, but not many.

I'm not there yet. Huckabee reminds me of what you'd get if Opie Griffith and Hannibal Lecter had a love child. A little too much cornpone layered over some kind of twisted messiah complex.

Also, isn't he a snake fondler?

10:51 is a religious bigot

Time to be honest. I will never vote for a Mormon and I will never vote for a Moron. That elimates Romney and Huckabee.

11:15 might as well say I will never vote for an Evangelical Christian. They must be morons.

I agree. However, I do believe it will: 1) sway enough soft Ds. In a tight race, that could make the difference; and 2) take the wind out of the Ds sails on the "count every vote", "disenfranchised" nonsense after their own party refuses to consider the votes of their own members for their own nominee in Florida because of some "rule". And they're not even getting digs at their convention. Or not in the same town anyway.

[Joe Msith]

To: Posted by: Mike | December 12, 2007 at 07:00 AM

If Rudy is our best hope, i'm voting Democrat... Rudy is a joke. The only reason he's popular is because he did what a trained monkey would have done after 9/11. Anyone in office at that time would have gotten a sympathy vote. His policies were joke, his family values is nonexistent, unless you count whatever mistress he has at the moment. Has more shady folks he's been linked to than a window blind factory.

[Flagophile]

Republicans are done this election cycle. Thankfully, Romney and Huckabee will knock each other out and the only one left is Giuliani.

For those of you supporting Giuliani, please watch last Sunday's Meet the Press where Russert tore him up.

He's got more skeletons than a cemetary. Either Clinton or Obama will slaughter him.

Joe Msith
You think Rudy "did what a trained monkey would have done after 9/11."

Well, I gues that makes Bill CLinton something less than a trained monkey, because on his watch, the terrorists destroyed 2 US embassies and he did nothing. On his watch, the same terrorists forst bombed the WTC. And he did nothing.

Well, nothing unless you count all the empty blathering...

Rdy took charge in his city. He made sure all the services were doing what they were suppossed to be doing, brought in the Federal government immediately and rallied the people of a very frightened New York - and USA.

Flagophile - most of us who also saw Rudy last Sunday on Meet the Press saw a guy who has made thousands of appointments. One went ad. And he acknowledged a mistake and said he would be more watchful in future. When was the last time a politician screwed up AND acknowledged it?
As for "security" for his girfriend? Obviously, HE was the main focus of security. And it is the police who decide how many oficers to assign to a detail like that and where and how to deploy them. In ANY city.

If those are the worst skeletons, get used to saying "President Giuliani".

[tyuyf]

ur all poop bags!! roflmao!!

[Flagophile]

12:12,

Put down the talking points. First, he did not make "thousands" of appointments. That is ridiculous. If you have any proof of the "thousands" please provide it. Second, he did not appoint Kerik once. He appointed him to head up corrections in NY, then the NYPD, then chief of Homeland Security, and he had extensive business ties with him. If you truly believe that he did all this without knowing that Kerik was a crook, you are either willfully blind or have never done business.

Second, his girlfriend had police protection when he was not around AND before their relationship became public. There is absolutely zero proof that the PD made a unilateral decision to provide protection to his secret mistress. It is also unlikely.

Lastly, have you asked yourself why security expenses for his weekend rendezvous were mysteriously hidden in the books of obscure government agencies while all his other security costs were properly accounted for. A bit too convenient for me.

[tyuyf]

shutup poop bags!!

hahahaha...

I'm watching the GOP debate in Iowa. Huckabee is such a joke. I didn't think I could think of less of Huck and his rube supporters until today's performance. The guy is simply not a serious candidate.

[GeneG]

Put Rudy in there with Hilary and it won't matter who wins -- we will all lose.

Ron Paul is the man. Why do you suppose that he is low in the polls? Perhaps it is because he isn't even one of the choices when the phone rings and we are asked for whom we would vote if the election were today. He is a person who will be considered. See www.ronpaul2008.com. Huckabee may take some votes from him and he will surely get many votes that Huckabee would otherwise get. In the end, Rudy may get the nod.

Yes and the "conservative" leadership in FL have endorsed this candidate

Brilliant...just brilliant
NOT!

On Drudge yesterday:

DEMS HOLD FIRE ON HUCKABEE; SEE 'EASY KILL' IN GENERAL ELECTION
Tue Dec 11 2007

**Exclusive**

Democrat party officials are avoiding any and all criticism of Republican presidential contender Mike Huckabee, insiders reveal.

The Democratic National Committee has told staffers to hold all fire, until he secures the party's nomination.

The directive has come down from the highest levels within the party, according to a top source.

Within the DNC, Huckabee is known as the "glass jaw -- and they're just waiting to break it."

In the last three weeks since Huckabee's surge kicked in, the DNC hasn't released a single press release criticizing his rising candidacy.

The last DNC press release critical of Huckabee appeared back on March 2nd.

[DNC Press Release Attack Summary:

Governor Mitt Romney (R-MA) – 37% (99 press releases)
Mayor Rudy Giuliani (R-NY) – 28% (74)
Senator John McCain (R-AZ) – 24% (64)
Senator Fred Thompson (R-TN) – 8% (20)
Governor Mike Huckabee – 2% (4)]

In fact, as the story broke over the weekend that Huckabee said he wanted to isolate AIDS patients back in 1992, the DNC ignored the opportunity to slam the candidate from the left.

"He'll easily be their McGovern, an easy kill," mocked one senior Democrat operative Tuesday morning from Washington.

"His letting out murderers because they shout 'Jesus', his wanting to put 300,000 AIDS patients and Magic Johnson into isolation, ain't even scratching the surface of what we've got on him."

The discipline the Democrats have shown in not engaging Huckabee has earned the praise of one former Republican Party official:

"The Democrats are doing a much better job restraining themselves than the GOP did in 2003 when Howard Dean looked like he was on the brink of winning the nomination."

Going down 9:36? You are mistaken!!

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By the Editors

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If Guilini would not have had a mistress then this would not be an issue at all. You said till death do us part, but I guess he had already lied to his 2nd cousin so what did the second wife matter?

Flagophile, you need medication and a course in how government works. A little common sense wouldn't hurt either.
The Mayor of a large City, let alone, New York makes thousands of appoitments over time. Just because the raltionship is not "public" kmowledge, doesn't mean select people don't know who may pose a threat to the public figure involved.

But I do hope you expend copious energy on this nonsense. It means Rudy will walk into the White House.

I guess if you are a "hardcore" anything, you'll ignore everything to stay a "hardcore" whatever it is--mindless following.

If you believe so strongly in a political "team" that you'd ignore IT taking YOUR vote away under ITS rules then the vote apparently isn't as important as somebody on the team winning.

I suggest that anybody so disposed has some sick puppy values.

The political system should be about the people controlling the personnel and policy of government. If party leaders can cancel votes then the political process is about winning and holding power not about registering the will of the people. The former without the latter is worthless in the long run.

If you despair the state of the political system, look in the mirror and see the root of the problem.

[Me]

Comments are supposed to be relative to the candidates, in particular Mike Huckabee. If you're looking for a "perfect" candidate, look no further, he isn't alive in the flesh on earth any more. So back to who can best run the country, back to whomever has strong moral standards that reflect our country's beginnings. So far that seems to be Mike Huckabee. He has flaws, they all do, but as for being nearer our forefathers he's probably it.