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from the GOP Univision debate

Univision Television (Hispanic focused) hosted a GOP debate last night in which the questions and answers were translated into English. Univision hosted a similar debate for the Democrats several months back and Sen. John McCain was the only Republican who signed up to take place in the GOP debate originally. The debate was rescheduled and all but Tancredo showed up this time. Here are some of the highlights. You can read the entire transcript online. Continue reading from the GOP Univision debate

Do you believe the Bible?

From last night’s GOP debate:

“Do you believe every word of this book… and I mean specifically, this book that I’m holding in my hand?”

The question was asked by 24 year old Joseph Dearing of Dallas. According to the DMN, he was disappointed in the answers given. He also hoped Ron Paul would have answered it. I’d be curious to know how he answered it as well.

I don’t know if it was part of Dearing’s point or not, but he appeared to hold up the Holy Bible, King James Version. The version itself was not mentioned during the answers or in the DMN story.

But here’s my question – does a person’s belief in Scripture, the Bible affect how you view them as a presidential candidate?
Is it important that they follow it, believe it’s the literal Word of God, read some of it or none of it?

What Would Jesus Do?

You’ll probably here a quote from this answer over and over again from last night’s debate…

Mike Huckabee was asked, “would Jesus support the death penalty?”
The clip you’ll probably hear is, “Jesus was to smart to never run for public office.”

But there’s a whole minute before that you probably won’t see due to time. As Gov. of Arkansas, Mike Huckabee is the only person running on the GOP ticket who’s ever had to give his signature to approve a death penalty and I don’t think he took his decision lightly.

There are those who say… how can you be pro life and believe in a death penalty, because there’s a real difference between the process of adjudication where a person is deemed guilty after a thorough judicial process, and is put to death by all of us as citizens under a law, as opposed to an individual making a decision to terminate a life that has never been deemed guilty because the life never was given the chance to even exist.

Thoughts on the debate

I didn’t get to see the GOP debate but I’ve read and seen some good things about Mike Huckabee.
Chris sent me a text shortly after it was all over and asked if Huckabee was as cool as he seemed.
I assured him (for what it’s worth) I was a huge fan.

Watching the post coverage there were some critics of Huckabee on Anderson Cooper’s wrap-up or thought he was “out there” because he wanted to abolish the IRS. They seemed to think this was just a dumb idea and seemed to think that Huckabee just wants to get rid of the IRS and has no plans to replace it – apparently they missed his comments about the FairTax and their completely ignorant on the topic. Glad these analysts get paid the big bucks instead of me.

ABC’s Nightline gave a pretty good run down from what I could tell. But the only clips of Huckabee focused on his one-liner jokes rather than any of his substantive comments. It will be interesting to see how NPR and others cover the debate.

There’s also some great responses online already.
Continue reading Thoughts on the debate

HUCKABEE PASSES ROMNEY!

The Rasmussen Reports daily Presidential Tracking Poll for Friday shows—for the first time ever–Mike Huckabee moving into the top four among those seeking the Republican Presidential Nomination.

And just think, I doubt he’s received half the money that the leading candidates have spent.

Rudy Giuliani remains precariously atop the pack with support from 20% of Likely Republican Primary Voters nationwide. Fred Thompson is close behind at 19% while John McCain enjoys a second straight day in third place with 14% of the vote. Huckabee continues to gain ground and is just two points behind McCain at 12%. This is the first time all year that Huckabee has surpassed Mitt Romney. The former Massachusetts Governor slipped another point and he is now at just 11% nationally. No other Republican attracts more than 3% support while 18% are undecided.