Roger L. Simon: I used to think Iowa was Hicksville ...

And I'm beginning to think so again. How anyone could even consider electing that uneducated clown Mike Huckabee as President is beyond me. Not only is he completely ignorant of foreign affairs in a time of terrorism, he's a sleazy religious huckster. If the Republicans nominate Huckabee, they will deserve the drubbing they get.

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The vast majority of people don't vote in the primaries. Hell, most people don't vote at all. Most polls define a "likely voter" as someone who's voted in that kind of election before. Statistically, if you haven't voted in the primaries, you almost certainly won't vote in this one, either, whatever intentions you might tell your friends, family or pollsters.

So there's no need to blame the weirdos of Iowa, New Hampshire or whatever... we have our weirdos here in Georgia, and you certainly have yours in California. Like it or not, they are the "likely voters" that decide who our candidates will be.

I'm really really against Huckabee, and I resent the so-called "conservatives" who are falling for him, but the real blame goes to the people who haven't been voting in the primaries, the apathetic ones whose common sense could do us some good.

Even more evidence why the Republicans and Christian Conservatives make strange bedfellows.

We need more parties to better represent the spectrum of citizens here in the US... We have crazies on the Right and Left, they should each have a party, we have sane people on the right and left, they also should have their own party.

Then maybe, possibly, the sane Left and Right would actually work together like they are supposed to, rather than screaming and gibbering about the crazies on "The Other Side of The Aisle".

“Sometimes we talk about why we’re importing so many people in our workforce. It might be for the last 35 years, we have aborted more than a million people who would have been in our workforce had we not had the holocaust of liberalized abortion under a flawed Supreme Court ruling in 1973.”

Right, because our workforce imports are due to not enough Americans, rather than a shift to a Service Economy and Corporate concern for the bottom dollar, rather than the welfare of their fellow citizens.

Edwards may be a pertentious twit, Hillary may be a bitch, Ron Paul and Dennis may be idealistic dreamers, but Huckabee seems actively scary to me.

Michael Totten makes a very good point. And I will vote for a pile of dog manure over any front-running Democrat. Not a great comparative position for Gov. Huckabee.

I've never voted for a democrat in my life for president. If Huckabee gets the nomination, I might well have to.

As an Iowan I must regretfully agree with Roger. I am appalled that we Iowans may, just may, propel Mr. Huckabee's candidacy forward.

I must also agree with Michael J. Totten. I am about as rock-ribbed a Republican as they come. I have seldom voted for a Democrat for any office, and never (from the time I started voting in 1972) for a Democratic presidential candidate. If Huckabee gets the nomination, that will change.

I am a Rudy Giuliani man all the way, however I would (reluctantly) vote for McCain and Romney, however if Shmuckabee is the nominee I will sit this one out.

Mike Huckabee is a total embarrassment. Even Barack Obama or Hillary Clinton are better qualified to become our next commander-in-chief. Thankfully, the GOP voters will probably send him back home to Arkansas in the early primaries. I remain committed to Rudy Giuliani.

I couldn't agree with you more, Roger, though I'm not ready to concede he's a religious huckster. Still a Huckabee nomination, or heaven forbid, presidential win would be worse than having to relive Jimmy Carter.

frankly i love iowa because it's total chaos and it's great fun to watch the political 'pros' pretend they know what's happening. i lived next door in wisconsin, and used to cross The River on caucus day just to show up at the bars to watch 'the process' at work...what we're seeing now, imho, is more a picture of 'politics as industry' than a reliable guide to what iowans are gonna do next week. it's show biz, rog, you know that. hell, you could write a screamingly funny movie about it...

I concur with the comments above. Giuliani remains my first choice but I'd vote for Romney, McCain or Thompson over any of the Democratic nominees. If Huckabee is the nominee however I might sit out the election.

C'mon, guys, don't panic. Harkin won the Iowa caucus in '92, and we all know where his candidacy went. No big deal.

December 28, 2007: I used to think Iowa was Hicksville ...

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