This week former Republican presidential candidate Mike Huckabee told the Huffington Post that the reason Republicans have lost recent special elections was because of a “new brand of libertarianism, which is social liberalism and economic conservatism, but it's a heartless, callous, soulless type of economic conservatism.”
Libertarian presidential nominee Bob Barr has responded by saying: “I am reminded of then-Governor Ronald Reagan saying ‘I believe the very heart and soul of conservatism is libertarianism’ and that ‘The basis of conservatism is a desire for less government interference or less centralized authority or more individual freedom and this is a pretty general description also of what libertarianism is.’ The problem we face isn’t too much libertarianism, but not enough of it.”
NewsMax reported this week that that a top campaign fundraiser for McCain has said former governor of Arkansas and one time 2008 Republican presidential candidate Mike Huckabee is John McCain's number one choice for Vice President.
The article says that Huckabee "could garner support in the South among social conservatives and at the same time appeal to working-class voters in the crucial states of Pennsylvania, Ohio, Michigan and Wisconsin."
Rep. Ron Paul won 16% of the vote in Tuesday's Republican primary. “Dr. Paul’s grassroots supporters in Pennsylvania and across the country are doing a tremendous job spreading our message, winning votes, and laying a strong foundation for the future," says Paul spokesman Jesse Bentson.
According to the Paul campaign Ron Paul has received nearly 1 million votes in Republican primaries this year and they believe that they will go to the Convention with nearly 50 delegates.
Mike Huckabee, who dropped out of the race when John McCain won enough delegates to take the nomination, got 11% of the vote.
Last night Arizona Sen. John McCain won the Texas, Vermont, Ohio and Rhode Island primaries putting him more than enough delegates to win the Republican presidential nomination.
Despite being far behind McCain in delegates former Arkansas governor Mike Huckabee stayed in the race until it was confirmed who the nominee would be and for that I say: “Thank you Gov. Huckabee!”
Out of the leading candidates for the Republican nomination it was Huckabee who was the best conservative. Despite being urged to end his campaign before McCain reached the number of delegates necessary to win the nomination, Huckabee stayed in the race to give conservatives more than one option.
As the Dallas Morning News said Huckabee is a "top leader in tomorrow's Republican Party."
Mitt Romney was the target of recent attacks by fellow Republican candidates Mike Huckabee and Alan Keyes.
Yesterday Huckabee said that Romney was a "man who didn’t hit political puberty in the Conservative ranks until he was sixty years old." He went onto say: "I just think you can't just have a change of opinion on fundamental issues over and over and wait until you’re running for President to do it. To say that you’ve never thought about the origins of human life until you were nearly 60 years old -- I find that hard to believe even for somebody who hasn’t run for office before, but certainly for somebody who had."
Meanwhile Alan Keyes, who is making an uphill climb for the nomination, says that "Mitt Romney is single-handedly responsible for instituting same-sex marriage in Massachusetts."
Keyes continues, saying that Romney "pushed through same-sex marriage all by himself, in the absence of any authority or requirement to do so, having a complete misunderstanding of his role as governor and of the significance of the court's opinion." "The court never ordered him to act, nor did he have the right to act, since the legislature never changed the law. Romney claimed he had no other choice, but that's completely untrue."
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