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Huckabee goes on air next week

Posted: Wednesday, November 14, 2007 4:27 PM by Domenico Montanaro
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From NBC's Chuck Todd and Domenico Montanaro

Huckabee will be going up on cable in Iowa next week with the first TV ad of his campaign, according to Republican sources. The buy is estimated at about $60,000 so far. This comes on the heels of new polling which shows the former Arkansas governor in second place in the Hawkeye State behind Romney.

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A vote for Huckabee is a vote for Rudy!!!! No one with the Club for Growth on his heels can win the nomination. All you're doing is splitting the vote and making a path for Rudy, a man whose plan to win is to take the states where no one campaigns and no candidate's views are scrutinized. If you want this race to be about issues, then stand up in Iowa and give Mitt the vote. Otherwise, Huck will go to NH and get creamed by the no tax people. Whine all you want, but Mike doesn't have the means for a national fight against Rudy. Only Mitt can fund that uphill fight. The system sucks but it is what it is. Republican moderates lose in the general - Rudy won't beat the Clintons. Please, Iowa, don't make this mistake.
Chuck & Domenenico,
  I can't wait!  I enjoy this man's authenticity.  Gov. Huckabee has this former Democrat leaning towards
Arkansas, again.
Huckabee will continue to be powerfully well-served if he continues his message that he is ONE with the FairTax grassroots movement ( http://snipr.com/fthuckabeeonirs ). Romney, and others, are invested in the current income tax system and continue to demagog ( http://snipurl.com/taxpanelrebutted ) the well-researched FairTax plan, despite that its acceptance in the professional / academic community ( http://snipurl.com/econsopenletter ) continues to grow. And Huck's opponents are oblivious to renown economist Laurence Kotlikoff who believes that failure to enact the FairTax - choosing instead to try to "flatten" what he deems to be a non-flattenable income tax system - will eventuate into an irrevocable economic meltdown ( http://snipurl.com/meltdowninprogress ) because of the hidden aspects of the current system that make political accountability impossible.
Go Mike Go!
It's interesting that Mike Huckabee's polling numbers have reached 21% in Iowa with $0 spent on television advertising to date - while Romney has spent a massive $10 million in Iowa, New Hampshire, and South Carolina!

With Huckabee's current momentum, press coverage, and upcoming TV advertising, it's now just a question of when he will surge past Romney. It's encouraging to see that the presidency is not up for sale.
Mike in Austin, TX - It's so easy to say "a vote for Huckabee is a vote for Rudy."  Doesn't look like it, though.  In Iowa, it looks like a vote for Huckabee is a vote for Huckabee :)
Even the CfG doesn't have enough money to buy off a state, or a nation, full of honest, hard-working, people.  Like our candidate, Gov. Huckabee, we can't be bought (which is what worries them so much).


Giuliani-Huckabee is a perfect ticket for me.  People forget that Giuliani was very conservative and got things done in New York City.  He was a leader when our entire nation needed one, and he will make a great president.  As long as he promises to keep his hands off of our guns, I'm perfectly happy.
Mike Huckabee can win! His victory in Iowa would be a great start. He can afford to lose NH. The Club for Growth is wrong this time.


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