I don’t get your answer that you think Huckabee is taking a lot of votes from Paul. You mention they like Huckabee because he is pro-war. Ron Paul is obviously not pro-war, all the other candidates are. You also mentioned Huckabee supports Consitutional amendments that will never pass. While both Paul and Huckabee likely would support constiutional amendments that will not pass, they likely are not the same ones.

Huckabee may be pulling a few people from Paul just because of his aw-shucks likeability and on-screen presence. If they were a potential Paul supporter and are looking at Huckabee, they probably haven’t looked at his stance on the issues yet, however. If they look at his stance on the issues and still want to vote for Huckabee, then they likely would have never voted for Paul in the first place.

To be quite frank I briefly considered Huckabee as a potential option if Paul flamed out a while back. He does come across as much nicer, except for Paul (though in reality he may not be) and a better communicator than all the other candidates. But just one look at his financial record and I knew he wasn’t an option.

You are right, however, about the way to take him down is to go after his spending record and one you missed being his record on illegal immigration. But this is exactly what the other candidates will be doing. At this time Ron Paul probably doesn’t need to waste his time or money going after Huckabee in particular if the other candidates will likely be doing it for him. Heck he doesn’t need to single out Huckabee as he could call all of the other candidates fiscal liberals as they all seem to have a habit of spending other peoples money like drunken sailors. Heck Romney even spends his own money like a drunken sailor.

If you look on WorldNetDaily.com, you’ll see why. People there like Huckabee because he is pro-war, and because he supports Constitutional amendments that will never pass anyway.

The way to take him down is to publicize his spending record in Arkansas — it’s worse than George W. Bush’s. You might also mention that the marriage and anti-abortion amendments he favors will never get the 2/3 vote needed in Congress.

I think ultimately what Huckabee will do is bring Romney back to the pack in the early states and lessen Giuliani as well basically bringing all five (not counting Tancredo and Hunter) of the other candidates into the 10-20% range. This would leave Paul with around 15-20%, more in some states and less in others. If on the higher end it may even allow him to win or get second in a few early states which may help in building his momentum to get even more votes in February and later.

It is said he used public money for himself. He argued for parole of a Wayne Dumond, a rapist who later was released from prison and raped and killed a woman.
http://www.arktimes.com/Articles/ArticleViewer.aspx?ArticleID=154e1aad-fd18-4efd-8d80-b5dab8559419

Fortunately or unfortunately, it’s the sort of thing that is more or less off-limits in politics today, so I doubt anyone will make the attack, unless it’s a shadowy Swift Boat type group.

I’m amazed that the previous comment took harping on Intelligent Design as a serious proposal for fighting Huckabee, especially since I’ve never come across a critic of ID who could accurately describe it.

You don’t stop Mike Huckabee. And you shouldn’t want to.

Picking on the religion thing could backfire

It’s hard to come up with a plan to stop someone who repeats platitudes and doesn’t actually stand for something.

I think I’ve got a campaign slogan for the Huckster, though:

Huckabee in `08: He’s Bill Clinton but not as fat.

Apparently Ron Paul’s weakness is Chocolate Chip cookies… I think that’s how is wife keeps bribing him to stay in politics… :)

Every campaign stop provides special brownies. Now he’s corpulent, plus we get a lot more crazy moments to publicize.

Oh wait. Bush has been acting like he’s completely insane for several years now, and many people still like him. Maybe the voters like crazy people? OK fine, let’s give RP the brownies.

s.s.