Tag Archive '96'
Bookworm on Jan 29 2008 | Filed under: Barack Obama, Bush Derangement Syndrome, Conservative ideology, Democrats, Hillary Clinton, Identity politics, John Edwards, John McCain, Mike Huckabee, Mitt Romney, Republicans, Rudy Giuliani
I caught a minute of Mike Gallagher today, and he was talking about the fact that Republicans are more critical of Republican candidates than Democrats are critical of Democratic candidates. It occurred to me that, at least in this election cycle, that may be because there are real, substantive differences between the Republican candidates. [...]
Bookworm on Jan 22 2008 | Filed under: Barack Obama, Hillary Clinton, Media matters, Mike Huckabee, Mitt Romney, Religion
Christopher Hitchens is totally right when he notes that Mike Huckabee’s defense of the Confederate flag harmonizes perfectly with racist views. That is, a person could argue that the defense of the flag is all about States’ rights, but the fact is that the Confederate flag is so inextricably intertwined with the KKK and Jim [...]
Bookworm on Jan 08 2008 | Filed under: Mike Huckabee, Mitt Romney
I’m not a fan of populism in politics, since I think it usually boils down to an ugly appeal to people’s baser instincts, with the sole benefit accruing to the demagogue making the statements. Huck is emerging as precisely that kind of populist, as Jay Nordlinger demonstrates by discussing Huck’s new attacks on Mitt. Now [...]
Bookworm on Jan 08 2008 | Filed under: Education, Mike Huckabee
Rational self-interest is a great concept, but it’s amazing how often people deviate from it and behave completely irrationally. A case in point is the “Home schoolers for Huck” trend we’re seeing right now. Huck’s political policies and pronouncements are completely antithetical to home schooling. He wants the federal government to encroach [...]
Bookworm on Dec 21 2007 | Filed under: Mike Huckabee
If you haven’t yet seen this Kimberly Strassel article, make the time to read it. Here’s a taste:
Mr. Huckabee is starting to get a look-see by the press, though whether the nation will have time to absorb the findings before the primaries is just as unknown. The small amount that has been unearthed so [...]
Bookworm on Dec 21 2007 | Filed under: Mike Huckabee
Not only does Peggy Noonan, herself a very religious woman, get what was wrong with Huckabee’s Christmas ad, her description of the scene’s careful staging puts the lie to Mike’s assertion that the whole cross image was just a fortuitous accident (kind of like seeing Christ in a tortilla, I guess):
I didn’t see the famous [...]
Bookworm on Dec 19 2007 | Filed under: Mike Huckabee
Mike was easy to ignore and, given his wit, easy to like when he was at the back of the back. Now that he’s burst into prominence though, he can’t be ignored, and I like him less and less. Kyle-Anne Shiver doesn’t like him either, comparing him to two other Southern governors, Clinton [...]
Bookworm on Dec 18 2007 | Filed under: Barack Obama, John Edwards, Mike Huckabee, Mitt Romney, Mormons, Presidential elections
I don’t like Obama, whom I consider an empty shirt, utterly devoid of experience and elevated to his lofty position only because of his skin color, something that I consider that worst kind of racial identity politics. (I just checked and it turns out that, at this particular minute, Silky Pony, the radical rich [...]
Bookworm on Dec 14 2007 | Filed under: Mike Huckabee, Mitt Romney, Ron Paul
I’ve noted in the past that I really, really like competence and the ability to take responsibility, both in the people who surround me and, especially, in the people who are tasked with guiding me. I’ve also noted that Mitt’s Mormonism isn’t a problem for me, and that it shouldn’t be a problem for [...]
Bookworm on Dec 12 2007 | Filed under: Crime and punishment
I blogged the other day about Dennis Prager’s strongly expressed opinion that those who have runaway compassion for criminals lack compassion for innocent people. Prager made that point in connection with the killing of Sean Taylor, something that took place at the hands of four young men with lengthy rap sheets. I later [...]
Bookworm on Dec 05 2007 | Filed under: Jimmy Carter, Mike Huckabee
As you may recall, I compared Huckabee to Jimmy Carter, foreseeing with the former some of the same problems we saw with the latter (and that despite the fact that Huckabee seems like a much more ebullient and nicer person than Carter). I’m not the only one making those comparisons. After listening to [...]
Bookworm on Nov 30 2007 | Filed under: Mike Huckabee, Mitt Romney, Presidential elections, Religion
I went to law school in the Bible Belt, so many of my fellow students were devout Christians. Thomas, however, out-Christianed everyone. His parents were missionaries, and he’d been raised with a level of faith no one else at the school could equal. He was one of the nicest people you could [...]
Bookworm on Nov 27 2007 | Filed under: Barack Obama, Mike Huckabee
National Review has a Rich Lowry article asking if Obama is this generation’s Jimmy Carter (an article available in its entirety to subscribers only). Here’s how Lowry describes Jimmy Carter, circa 1976:
Carter wasn’t really in the McCarthy-Hart-Bradley mold. He ran a conservative, or at least an ideologically indistinct, race in the 1976 Democratic primaries. [...]
Bookworm on Nov 25 2007 | Filed under: Democrats, Presidential elections, Republicans
Three paragraphs of perfect political analysis from Mark Steyn:
If I could just sneak out in the middle of the night and saw off Rudy Giuliani’s strong right arm and John McCain’s ramrod back and Mitt Romney’s fabulous hair and stitch them all together in Baron von Frankenstein’s laboratory with the help of some neck bolts, [...]
