How the Establishment is Campaigning Against Mike Huckabee

It seems that the mainstream media and the establishment republicans are doing a collective "uh-oh". Starting at the Iowa Straw Poll, and then at the Value Voters summit, the media began giving Huckabee very favorable attention. They thought he was more of a "human interest story" rather than a serious political candidate. And so they ran articles like "aw, the cute, cuddly, SURPRISING, little Mikey did well at the summit" and "oh, look, little Mikey is climbing up in the polls". Through these type pieces Mike got noticed. Once people noticed, they liked him. They told other people.

Now, all of a sudden, Mike has vaulted into a statistical tie for the lead in the national polls, is leading in Iowa and South Carolina, doing well in Michigan and Nevada (all early voting states), leading in Georgia, and catching up fast in Florida. Now the media and the other candidates are getting scared with the first votes only 23 days away. They're thinking, "Oh my goodness! We've got to reel him in before he actually gets the nomination!"

So as of last Sunday, we're seeing a new, un-kinder, less-gentle (not to mention, WAY-biased) media. Mike appeared on Hannity and Colmes on Sunday. Sean Hannity is a fairly conservative, republican leaning talk show host, so you'd think that his treatment of fiscally conservative republican Mike Huckabee would be at the least neutral, if not even slightly favorable. But that's not quite the way it went down. You can watch for yourself here (pt.1) and here (pt. 2).

Basically, Sean went on the attack pulling up every negative, misconstrued thing he could think of. He tried to shape the conversation by the nature of his questions, and then tried to interrupt Mike so his answers would be unheard. Fortunately, Mike did a great job of answering the questions and you could tell that Hannity was put out by Mike's calm demeanor and seasoned handling of the questions. I guess with the truth on Mike's side, he didn't have too much to worry about.

In another example of the media bias in favor of establishment candidates, Hannity and Colmes had Karl Rove on the show to discuss the candidates chances of winning the nomination. They breezed over Huckabee as basically having no chance and went straight to discussing Romney and Gulianni at length on their road to the nomination. Then they discussed McCain and Thompson very shortly as mostly having no chance. My question is, when someone is polling as strongly as Huckabee, how can you say that he can't win? I think the evidence is overwhelming that not only can he win, I think he's going to win big.

Finally, another shining example of media bias. Fox News reported last night in big headlines that Huckabee "is no Mormon Expert" and that he asked in an upcoming article in the NY Times Magazine "don't mormons believe that Jesus and the devil are brothers?" See the article here. Fox insinuates that Huckabee was asking this question in order to make negative comments about Romney's religion. They did this by quoting a spokesman from the latter day saints, the name of the group most commonly known as mormons, but not including any real relevant comments from Huckabee. Although they used some older quotes of Huckabee's, they didn't include this comment that had direct bearing on the Fox News Article:

"A report released tonight cites an upcoming article in the Sunday edition of The New York Times Magazine which quotes former Arkansas Governor and Presidential Candidate Mike Huckabee asking a question about the content of the Mormon faith. In fact, the full context of the exchange makes it clear that Governor Huckabee was illustrating his unwillingness to answer questions about Mormonism and to avoid addressing theological questions during this campaign."

Hmmmm. Seems like the media wants to portray Mike in a negative light now rather that admit that he is taking the high road in this campaign, unlike rival Mitt Romney who has started running anti-Huckabee ads in Iowa based on the immigration issue. And by the way, Jim Gilchrist, the founder of The Minuteman Project, a group pushing for immediate action on illegal immigration, just endorsed Huckabee for president due to his nine point plan to solve the immigration problem. You can see the plan here. Here's a quote by Gilchrist on Huckabee: Gilchrist added, "Governor Huckabee actually wrote a plan that I can embrace. I found his ‘Secure America’ plan would open the dialogue and help begin the process of solving the illegal immigration problem.”

Remember, don't believe everything you see, hear and read in the media. As you decide to vote for a candidate, keep digging until you find all the FACTS - not just opinions and distortions. If you take a good honest look at Mike Huckabee, you'll find that he truly is the most consistent, authentic, conservative candidate in the race for president, and the right man for the job.