RSDO Part II

I was going to post some more good reasons why Romney should drop out, if anyone should. But The Thomas Report covered them all already. Huckabee...

• Better debater & communicator
• Able to pull in non-typical constituencies, such as the African-American vote
• Greater history of winning tough elections
• Has defeated the Clinton political machine

If you're a first-time visitor here, i know i'm blowing your mind. But spend 5 minutes really thinking about this. The conventional wisdom has been wrong at every turn in this election (except for the prediction that Hillary & Bill would resort to their old tricks). Don't get sucked in to the same old inanities.

Post-Iowa Viewpoints

Some of the better or more interesting commentary i ran across about Huckabee's victory in Iowa.

Joshua Trevino has some very good advice for the Huckabee team.
K Street Mole talks about the Medved and Brooks articles
One Mom - media gets it wrong
The Dunn Report - this site is new to me; has a nice review of Mike's "Seven Hopes"
David Brooks with Two Earthquakes - too good not to link directly
The 7-10 digests the GOP results

And i'll close with the video of Mike's outstanding victory speech.

Right Smart - Excellent Blogger

I really like what J. Ritterbush is doing over at Right Smart. In fact, he's so good, and so prolific, that i despair of what else there is to say. Right Smart is especially good at looking into Mitt Romney's campaign tactics and past record.

He covers everything so well and so quickly. I link a lot of blogs over there on the right, but this may be the only one worth checking out on a daily basis.

Must-Read Blogger

Many of the Huckabee focused blogs, while well intentioned, are little more than echos of the main site, merely cut/pasting stories. Shadow sites, essentially. That's cool. And some are self-admitted cheerleader blogs. That's cool, too. I do that here from time to time.

But i do wish more Huckabee bloggers would craft original pieces. Do some analysis. Tie broad policy positions to their unique life situations. Tell us a story. Something new and different.

One blogger that is doing a great job with that is Joshua Trevino. I would direct everyone to his posts from today (12/12) and yesterday (12/11), defending Governor Huckabee on his 1992 AIDS isolation comments and on his foreign policy experience, respectively. He expertly takes mainstream conservative media (Wall St. Journal and National Review) to task over slipshod reporting on these two topics.

These are must-read entries. And Mr. Trevino goes on the blogroll.

A Big Day

A red-letter day for the Huckabee campaign, primarily from the fantastic poll results from Iowa, released by noted pollsters Rasmussen. Huckabee has surged to 18%, a nip behind the already-fading Thompson (19%), and within guitar-shredding distance of Romney (25%).

To have reached this level of support with almost no money, and no L&O reruns, is a great testament to the campaign and the candidate himself.

The 2nd piece of news today was a column from Dick Morris, who chronicles the field with praise for Huckabee. Morris said he was "amazed" (in a good way) with Huckabee's approach to issues, calling him a "refreshing change" in contrast to Bill Clinton. Here are some of the other adjectives Morris used to describe Mike:

• articulate
• principled
• knowledgeable
• witty
• sincere
• dedicated
• courageous

Finally, i'd like to call attention to a nice post from Justin in Oklahoma. He outlines 4 areas where he expects Huckabee to get more criticism as he ascends in the polls. You can already see the attacks starting.