USA Today Poll has Huckabee in 1st Place Nationally!
Posted by mattshultz on January 8, 2008
On the Republican side, Gallup says Iowa caucuses winner Mike Huckabee has jumped into a national lead for the first time. The rundown: Huckabee, 25%; Rudy Giuliani, 20%; Sen. John McCain, 19%; Fred Thompson, 12%; Mitt Romney, 9%; and Rep. Ron Paul, 4%.
Huckabee’s support rose 9 percentage points from mid-December. McCain’s rose 5 points. Giuliani’s fell 7 points. Thompson’s fell 2 points. Romney’s fell 5 points.
The surveys of 423 “Republicans or Republican leaners” and 499 “Democrats or Democratic leaners” each have margins of error on all results of +/- 5 percentage points. The polls were conducted Friday-Sunday.
As we noted earlier, Rasmussen Reports said today that its daily tracking poll showed Clinton’s lead over Obama nearly gone and that Huckabee had edged ahead among Republicans.
Read more about the poll by clicking the link below:
http://blogs.usatoday.com/onpolitics/2008/01/gallup-clinton.html?loc=interstitialskip
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Marco Funk said
Entering into Dialogue with a Fellow Christ-Follower
I would like to respond to two quotes from Huckabee’s “Issues” section on the “war on terror”:
He wrote:
“I believe in the Powell Doctrine of using overwhelming force to accomplish a mission.”
Haven’t you ever preached, as a pastor, on John 3:16 and the overwhelming love that was able to defeat evil at the cross?
“I will expand the army and increase the defense budget.”
Do the prophets not speak about a time in which we will beat swords into ploughshares? Does Jesus Christ not speak about turning the cheek and loving our enemies? Does this quote not undermine the words and work of Jesus Christ THE Commander and Chief of all that is?
It saddens me to read of how willing Huckabee is to sacrifice the fathers and sons of our enemies even as he passionately plead for the life of the unborn child. Does God not love both enemy and unborn child? Is the gospel not meant for the killed fetus and also the disemboweled extremist?
mattshultz said
The bible also says to “render under Caesar……” which in my view means that Jesus understood that we as Christians would have to operate in the confines of this imperfect world. The fight against fascism is no different today than it was when the greatest generation had to beat back the Nazi’s in WWII. I applaud Mike for having the courage to keep this country free. We may be a shining city in a hill but that does not mean people are not trying to get to the top to destroy us.
MonoApe said
“The bible also says to “render under Caesar……” which in my view means that Jesus understood that we as Christians would have to operate in the confines of this imperfect world.”
It’s simply amazing how the deluded religious twist their ‘good book’ to justify murdering innocent children, women and men. That ‘collateral damage’ is acceptable
“The fight against fascism is no different today than … the Nazi’s in WWII”
When fascism comes to America it will be wearing the flag and carrying a bible.
“We may be a shining city in a hill …”
WTF? The USA is *despised* by both enemies and ‘friends’ around the planet. Your ‘war on terror’, ‘war on drugs’ and war on anything that doesn’t suit your interest is apparent to all apart from a cabal of religiously-inspired neocons and their credulous followers. If you opened your eyes to something other than the Christian Fairytale, this fact would be apparent.
Fortunately Hickabee won’t be getting anywhere near The Whitehouse. Maybe his next career move will be as pastor, standing on the stage of some mid-west mega-church, extracting $ from the legions of the gullible? Is Ted Haggart’s post still open?
mattshultz said
As a veteran I reject your assertion that we are:
“It’s simply amazing how the deluded religious twist their ‘good book’ to justify murdering innocent children, women and men. That ‘collateral damage’ is acceptable”
The men and women who are fighting this War on Terror are keeping this country safe even for people like you think Freedom comes without a price.
The Bible played a key role in the founding of this Republic along with the Declaration of Independence and the US Constitution. Real leadership means never compromising your core beliefs for personal gain or political expediency. The Republican party will once again be the party of Reagan and I will continue to fight to make sure that this country never sells out to the apologists that are killing this nation.
MonoApe said
I’m not sure what you’re rejecting. That thousands of completely innocent children, women and men have died in Iraq? That would be absurd.
It’s ironic that you referenced the Nazis earlier. It’s people with exactly your mindset and malleability that Hitler used to build his regime. Hitler drew people together behind a fabricated fear of ‘the terror that is waiting to get us’. Hitler used Jews and Bolshevism, Bushco has used Al Qaeda and the vague ‘terrorists who hate our freedom’.
The US military (and Blackwater) are not making anyone on the planet safer – quite the contrary. Every man, woman and child killed out there is potentially creating a dozen men and men willing to fly planes in to buildings or strap bombs to themselves. The world is more dangerous and unstable as a result of the USA’s illegal war-mongering … but at least Bushco got their oil. You think the USA is in Iraq to protect freedom? Watch:
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=3405669348838274375
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=881321004838285177
The bible played *no* part in The Constitution. There is no reference to it. There is no reference to gods. None. If the founding fathers had intended the USA to be a Christian nation, don’t you think they’d have mentioned it somewhere in the constitution? Instead there is *no* reference to gods, or any superstitious nonsense. Instead, it explicitly states that the government shall play no part in determining what we believe or how we practice it. If you want to live in a theocracy, try Iran.
Jefferson references ‘Creator’ in The Declaration of Independence. That’s it. He then immediately states that men should not be governed by religion! Also, bear in mind that in the 18th century no one understood the origin of life – the only explanation available was some vague ‘god did it’. The Theory* of Evolution would not arrive for another hundred years.
Thomas Jefferson:
“The legitimate powers of government extend to such acts only as are injurious to others. But it does me no injury for my neighbor to say there are twenty gods or no God.”
“…an amendment was proposed by inserting the words, ‘Jesus Christ…the holy author of our religion,’ which was rejected ‘By a great majority in proof that they meant to comprehend, within the mantle of its protection, the Jew and the Gentile, the Christian and the Mohammedan, the Hindoo and the Infidel of every denomination.’”
I’ve no idea what your last sentence means – it appears to be fevered, fear-mongering with no attachment to reality. The only thing ‘killing this nation’ is the war-mongering which is bankrupting the USA. Also, the plague of Christianity is creating a generation ignorant and suspicious of science – welcome back to the Dark Ages.
* You understand the definition of ’scientific theory’ as opposed to everyday ‘theory’? If not, Google. Evolution is recognised as fact by everyone on the planet, except those blinded by religious dogma.
mattshultz said
Evolution can be no more proved than Creation can be disproved…….You will never understand that as a Christian I build my belief system on Faith not the scientific ramblings of man…….You are wrong about this country not being founded on Christian Principles…….Have a read:
The first amendment was written to protect religion from government not government from religion.
Thomas Jefferson:
“ The doctrines of Jesus are simple, and tend to all the happiness of man.”
“Of all the systems of morality, ancient or modern which have come under my observation, none appears to me so pure as that of Jesus.”
“I am a real Christian, that is to say, a disciple of the doctrines of Jesus.”
“God who gave us life gave us liberty. And can the liberties of a nation be thought secure when we have removed their only firm basis, a conviction in the minds of the people that these liberties are a gift from God? That they are not to be violated but with His wrath? Indeed I tremble for my country when I reflect that God is just, and that His justice cannot sleep forever.” (excerpts are inscribed on the walls of the Jefferson Memorial in the nations capital) [Source: Merrill . D. Peterson, ed., Jefferson Writings, (New York: Literary Classics of the United States, Inc., 1984), Vol. IV, p. 289. From Jefferson’s Notes on the State of Virginia, Query XVIII, 1781.]
John Adams and John Hancock:
We Recognize No Sovereign but God, and no King but Jesus! [April 18, 1775]
John Adams:
“ The general principles upon which the Fathers achieved independence were the general principals of Christianity… I will avow that I believed and now believe that those general principles of Christianity are as eternal and immutable as the existence and attributes of God.”
• “[July 4th] ought to be commemorated as the day of deliverance by solemn acts of devotion to God Almighty.”
–John Adams in a letter written to Abigail on the day the Declaration was approved by Congress
“We have no government armed with power capable of contending with human passions unbridled by morality and religion. Avarice, ambition, revenge, or gallantry, would break the strongest cords of our Constitution as a whale goes through a net. Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other.” –October 11, 1798
“I have examined all religions, as well as my narrow sphere, my straightened means, and my busy life, would allow; and the result is that the Bible is the best Book in the world. It contains more philosophy than all the libraries I have seen.” December 25, 1813 letter to Thomas Jefferson
“Without Religion this World would be Something not fit to be mentioned in polite Company, I mean Hell.” [John Adams to Thomas Jefferson, April 19, 1817]
MonoApe said
“I build my belief system on Faith not the scientific ramblings of man …”
Faith. The acceptance of a ‘reality’ without evidence. Science is not ‘ramblings’. It is an accumulation of empirical, indisputable evidence. The only people on the planet who deny this are blinded by religious dogma and delusion. And outside of the medieval Middle East, the only people who subscribe to this myopia are bible belt Americans. You are floating on a raft of ignorance that the rest of the world laughs at.
Well, we could sit around all day quoting others. Copying and pasting does not win an argument. It is, after all, the refuge of the weak mind … but I’ll join in:
E.g. Thomas Jefferson:
“I do not find in orthodox Christianity one redeeming feature.”
“Religions are all alike – founded upon fables and mythologies.”
“History, I believe, furnishes no example of a priest-ridden people maintaining a free civil government. This marks the lowest grade of ignorance of which their civil as well as religious leaders will always avail themselves for their own purposes”
“The authors of the gospels were unlettered and ignorant men and the teachings of Jesus have come to us mutilated, misstated and unintelligible.”
“Christianity is the most perverted system that ever shone on man.”
However, it’s all a simple fallacious argument – argument from authority. Just because Jefferson penned The Constitution, or Einstein produced The Theory of Relativity, or Hitler invented freeways, says nothing about the truth of other arguments. Just because the *private* views of some of The Framers tended towards superstitious belief, it says nothing about the content of The Constitution.
All of your pulled quotes are side dressing. They say nothing about the content of The Constitution (basis for government) or The Declaration (a simple letter to the King of England). Your desire to rewrite The Constitution is irrelevant.
I note that you ignore every argument that I put forward in my previous post. That is an all-too-common tactic of the religious.
Fortuntely, the unfolding election shows that the majority are sick and tired of the skewed view of the religious and ‘morally superior’ religious right.