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The only thing consistent about Mitt Romney is his ambition to do or say anything to win a election.

While all the democrats have promised to raise taxes; and all the republicans except Mike Huckabee have promised to cut a tax or two; Mike Huckabee will ABOLISH THE IRS! using the M.I.T. engineered & designed Fair Tax Initiative.
Educate yourself on the Fair Tax Initiative:
http://www.FairTax.org/

Read the Fair Tax Book by Neal Boortz and Congressman John Linder.

Mike Huckabee on Bush Bunker Mentality

The facts are his apparent attack on "W" has been taken out of context (By flip-flopping, waffle-man Mitt "I will bring the assault weapons ban back, but I am a lifetime member of the NRA" Romney) much like his latest ad where Mitt & the liberals are trying to say the book shelf behind him is a Cross that he planned to be some hidden Christian agenda message...

"Bush made mistakes, but made the right choice to confront Islamic fascism in their neighborhoods. More could also be said about misinformation and bad advisers.
" – Mike Huckabee

He was referring to the policy itself, not President Bush. Again a half truth/misquote from Mitt Romney...

Here is a good piece on his sentiments about Speaker Pelosi you should enjoy...

Mike Huckabee Charges Speaker Pelosi with Sending “Lump of Coal to Troops in Iraq”:
http://www.mikehuckabee.com/?FuseAction=Newsroom.PressRelease&ID=447

The Full context of the Bunker mentality speech... Mike Huckabee delivers major foreign policy speech in Washington D.C.:
September 28th, 2007
http://www.mikehuckabee.com/index.cfm?FuseAction=Newsroom.PressRelease&ID=283

Mike Huckabee's Response To Romney On Foreign Policy Attack:
http://www.mikehuckabee.com/?FuseAction=TruthSquad.RomneyOnFP

Mike Huckabee on the issues and policies:
http://www.mikehuckabee.com/

Mike Huckabee is the most Authentic, Consistent, Compassionate and Experienced candidate running in any party.

It is funny that romney raised so much money and spent the most money. But the bulk of it was on negative campaigning.

Does america want a president like him?

Bryan, Firestone, CO… you are obviously not a resident of Massachusetts or you would know what a mess he made of our state. He raised taxes, and put us into major debt. A business owner, and good with money savy (aka, hiding it in private accounts in the Cayman Islands to avoid being taxed), but a politician? The only thing he's done politically is flip-flop on moral issues.

Romney is NOT the one.

Posted By Brandon Slate, Boston MA : December 18, 2007 1:34 am

Mr Slate, I am from the state and he left with a balanced budget with money left over in the "rainy day fund" and your obviously beloved Deval Patrick (a Clinton crony) decided to take $386,000 out of that fund RIGHT WHEN HE TOOK OVER.

Patrick promised the MOON while running for office and Kerry Healey asked MANY times "How is he going to pay for all his programs that he is promising"?

You can only bleed so much from a rock and now the "liberal" chickens are coming home to roost.

A great man once said "we don't have a revenue problem, we have a spending problem" and that man, Mitt Romney, could not have put this states PROBLEM any better.

To John in "Cambridge,

You may want to do a little research on the Big Dig Project. When the woman lost her life is when Romney took over the project and set things right. He wasn't absent, others were in charge.

Romney is known for stepping into messy problems, and cleaning them up. The Big Dig was no different. Romney has the ability to step into a problem and turn things around.

That's the kind of leadership we need in our country!

Bryan, Firestone, CO... you are obviously not a resident of Massachusetts or you would know what a mess he made of our state. He raised taxes, and put us into major debt. A business owner, and good with money savy (aka, hiding it in private accounts in the Cayman Islands to avoid being taxed), but a politician? The only thing he's done politically is flip-flop on moral issues.

Romney is NOT the one.

Mitt
For bigamist, I thought american justice is cracking down on this?
I still have not heard Mitt's views on this, because he would loose the mormon vote!

Ron Paul raises 6 million in one day and knows more about the Constitution and Foreign Policy and all we see in the press is the fight between a Morman and a Baptist Minister.

It is the Economy we are 60 trillion in debt a war that won't end a Country that we invaded for no reason and Osma is still on the lamb. Our Military is in a 135 Countries. We are an Empire and this is the crap mainstream media can bring up.

Where did the real newspaper people. go??

People get a grip you work from Jan 1st until July 8th for the govt and you don't care you desereve these two idiots

"Mitt Romney ins one candidate that will not be getting my vote. I watched how he handled the bib dig project here in Massachusetts and was truly off put by his actions. He let things go to pieces and didn't show face until a woman lost her life in the tunnel collapse. And then he claimed to be the one that he was the one that rescued the project".

John, Cambridge, MA : December 17, 2007 11:24 am

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remind us again why the state is referred to as
TAXACHUSETTS

Posted By phil margate fla : December 17, 2007 11:28 am

John from "the peoples Republic of Cambridge", are you serious, did Mitt poor the concrete that was bought at full price but delivered and inspected as good but ended up being SUBSTANDARD by those fine Democrat voting UNION workers?

Where was Ted Kennedy and John Kerry who championed this hack laden job from day one, that's right, they only came around when it was time to cut a ribbon, but when the project had issues and this innocent woman died, they RAN and said and did NOTHING.

Romney fought for FULL oversight and for the right to sue the contactors, but got rebuffed by your beloved liberal Democrats in this state over and over.

They only gave it to him AFTER as he put this project back on line and back on track as the true leader that he is.

That is factual as the liberals even had to give him credit for the awesome job he did learning the whole design on the fly.

And Phil, it was "taxachusetts" under Mike Dukakis, and certainly not under Romney.

Posted By Robert, AR : December 17, 2007 1:01 pm

Hey, Bob, we don't pay for the kids of poor AMERICAN families to go to college, other than Pell grants, which only go so far. I certainly think they should take priority of the kids of poor parents WHO AREN'T EVEN SUPPOSED TO BE HERE!

No No NO!!! You don't have to raise taxes to pay for schools and infrastructure. You need to balance your budget and realign priorities. You only raise taxes if you're liberal and believe that the solution to everything is more taxes and more government control.

Mitt Romney, on the other hand, employed his considerable business experience when he was Governor of MA. In response to a budget deficit, he didn't raise taxes, he cut spending. He cut waste. He prioritized. Huckabee doesn't understand what a budget is. With taxes, he's shown it. With his response to paying tuition for illegals and their children, he's shown it again.

We don't need another tax and spend liberal in the White House. We need a PROVEN LEADER like Mitt Romney who has the experience to prioritize and balance budgets the right way.

Robert from AR -
"Sometimes you have to raise taxes to help society. Here in Arkansas we needed to pay for the children of illegal immigrants to go to college so that they wouldn't be poor like their parents"

Are you SERIOUS? If we're paying for them to go to college so they won't be poor, do we also help them buy a house too? Because that's the next step? Why discriminate against housing? You see how this process works, right? The foot in the door...the magnet that attracts illegals here in the first place. GET RID OF THE MAGNET!!

And you say we have to raise taxes to help society. That implies that we have a very efficient government that is not wasting or mis-using the taxes that we are currently paying, right? That has to be the assumption. But it's false. We pay too much taxes to a government that is entirely too inefficient, and that's what Romney is going to fix, just like he's done in countless business opportunities, the Olympics, and Massachusetts Get rid of the waste in government so that the taxes we do pay are used for making society better.

And the issue of 'being fair' to illegal immigrants and us paying for their education...that's what is not fair...they pay no taxes, so why should our dollars pay for them?! Let them pay taxes! Then we can talk about what's fair

Issues and candidates are two different things. Many Americans are apparently confused about the distinction. The candidate is, of course, the person who is standing for office and for whom we may vote at some future time.

An issue is an ongoing situation, like "Predatory business practices by many lending institutions have resulted in many Americans owning and living in homes which will soon be repossessed. Also, many of the borrowers who are affected did not use good judgment, becauase the believed that their houses would always appreciate in value and it turns out that they were wrong." Others might say, "That is not an issue. Market forces will solve that problem. The banks will repossess and re-sell those homes. The former owner will find somewhere else to live and his credit score will dip considerably for a while. The rich stay rich and the lesser classes are taught a good lesson. All is right with the world."

I might propose a solution: "Refinance large groups of mortgages so that the lender makes a profit and the buyer can make the payments." Others may object to that solution and propose a better one.

I know all this seems painfully obvious, but when I read these blogs I get the impression that many people think that the "issue" is whether Romney is an angel and Huckabee is a devil or vice versa. All of these candidates are good and bad – not good or bad. They are like all of us: good AND bad. The candidates are not the issue – at least not for us, the voters. WHO gets elected is really more important to those who want government contracts, and it is those people and their lobbyists who are pushing character as the issue.

If we wanted men or women of character, we would elect Jimmy Carter again. He had and has the strongest character. His unbending determination to do what was right was his primary downfall. Men of great character who have been President certainly must include Carter, Truman, both Roosevelts, and Lincoln.

The two panels of pro-pols that we are choosing from this year certainly do not include any like them with the possible exception of Richardson, the NM governor who has, I believe, more depth to him than the others. He has zero chance of winning the 2008 nomination, unfortunately.

So if you are voting based on character, be sure not to vote for the lesbian, the heretic, the rapist-loving former governor, the racist, the former (so he says! ha!) drug addict, the lazy guy, the socialist, the draft dodger, the religious fanatic, the redneck, the cross-dresser, the adulterer, the traitor, the religious fanatic, or the fascist.

Keep slamming him, Mitt! The more you slam him down, the more he Huckabooms up the polls!

When he wins the nomination, I'm sure you'll be the first to fall in line to support him.

Thank heaven. If Huckabee does become president, maybe he'll operate something resembling a balanced budget.

If you read his Foreign Affairs article, you'll see that Huckabee wants to dramatically INCREASE spending on the military.

Bush will leave office with $10 trillion in debt and a war costing billions more every day. Somebody has to clean up Bush’s mess.

You Romney people are unfair. Sometimes you have to raise taxes to help society. Here in Arkansas we needed to pay for the children of illegal immigrants to go to college so that they wouldn't be poor like their parents. It was the good Christian thing to do and I'll be glad when President Huckabee does it on the national level.

Go HUCK 2008!

Truth hurts, don't it Huckabee? And the truth will set you free!

This is what I don't like. You got a guy like Romney who can't seem to rely on on his own merits about his qualifications to be President, instead he has to bash the other guy. Did anyone see Mitt Romney's interview on Meet the Press? It says it all:

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/3032608/

remind us again why the state is referred to as
TAXACHUSETTS

Mitt Romney ins one candidate that will not be getting my vote. I watched how he handled the bib dig project here in Massachusetts and was truly off put by his actions. He let things go to pieces and didn't show face until a woman lost her life in the tunnel collapse. And then he claimed to be the one that he was the one that rescued the project. I feel that he is taunting his "business world" experience but we have all dealt with the sleazy side of the business world at some stage of our lives and I feel that that is the part of the "business world" that Romney hails from.

Who cares? And where is the headline: Ron Paul sets new 24 hour fundraising record with the help of ordinary Americans who are sick and tired of the status quo?

Mitt Romney is looking worse and worse as each day passes. He should only be in the White House as a tourist.

Ive been listening to all the arguments on illegal immigration, I dont think Mitt Romney understands the full picture...We cant get rid of mexico no matter how much we want too, i know thats dissapoint for most people to hear other then they would lose a cheap close vacation spot...The sad reality is its really costly to nuke them, and we might hit ourselves...There not going to stop coming here, there dirt poor and drug cartells are killing any journalist who writes a bad story about them, while we send the drug dealers billions of dollar strange how this war on drugs works....So whats cheaper then mexicans, robots...Any job that can be done by robot should be done by a robot...They dont get sick, they dont ask for more money, they dont take vactions, they dont put harmful chemicals into products when they get angrey...Its the only way to solve this problem....Why these politicans dont get the big picture is beyhond me there out of touch folks!

Mitt nailed this one! Huck's tax record (and his spending record) are astonishing.

As one who practices in the financial world, Huckabee's tax policies scare me. Everything about his flat tax plan is a bad idea.

Huck-dee-dumpty sat on a wall, Huck-dee-dumpty had a great fall...

He's not "blasting" his tax and spend record, he is "exposing" it in truthful side by side comparisons.

In the MSM's zeal to make Huckabee the Republican nominee they are not doing those "gotcha" stories like they have done with Romney.

Just like Obama was FORCED to expose Hillary showing the contrasts in what he believes and what she REALLY believes.

If one is lying about the others record, then it would be an attack, but simply doing the job that the MSM won't do via actual FACTS, is perfectly legit.

Glad to hear it!!! Hopefully we can get past our infatuation with Huckabee because of his Southern accent, witty one liners and where he goes to church.

Let's talk records and accomplishments. Once we do, I am convinced it becomes clear that Mitt Romney is the most accomplished of all the candidates–in business, as Governor, and with the Olympics he is a PROVEN LEADER.

And Huckabee is still not a major candidate. As Napoleon Dynamite would say, "chicks dig guys with skills". And Huckabee doesn't have any skills. Compared to Romney, the Huckman is a rookie. What experience does Huckabee have that gives any of us Americans the assurance that he'll be able to manage the economy? None. What experience does he have that shows the kind of leadership that we need in a president? Compared to Romney, none. Look at Romney's Bain experience, the Olympics and a heavly-democratic state of Massachusetts. Romney's the guy we need

So by raising taxes he improved the schools and education for Arkansas childen, improved the highway infastructure, increased police and law enforcement..givin the choice of a pathetic status quo or spending money for quality of life improvements, why is that so wrong? Corporate America does it on a daily basis, why should government "hold the line" for a political party to use it as an election tactic....spend the money to fix the darn problems!

Huckabee's tax record NEEDS to be blasted. Huckabee is into big government, nanny-state and he is a populist. Most people favoring him right now are looking at his social conservative stands, not his tax policies, not his crime polices, not his immigration policies. He is to the left of Clinton in all these areas. A vote for him is a vote that ensure the Clintons the White House again.

that is nothing new the intelligent people know who started this illegal immigration ronald reagan giveing them amnesty reward those who break our nation's laws just a republican thing

That's right. South Carolina needs to get educated about the real issues, such as taxation AND the allowance of taxpayer's money going to the children of illegal immigration. Think about it South Carolina. Do you want YOUR money providing a free ride to children who had parents that pay nothing into the coffers for Clemson and Univ. of South Carolina? Apparantly some of you do.

So is Mitt Romney going for the Hillary Clinton of the republican party? He seemed like he'd be a good candidate, but he's just so incredibly unlikable and untrustworthy that I can't imagine ever voting for him.

While we are talking tax records Mr. Romney, how about we talk about the shell companies you set up in Bermuda and the Cayman Islands for your company Bain Capital. If you and other business owners wouldn't take advantage of loopholes to avoid paying your fair share of taxes, indiviual tax payers would not be under the burden they are today.