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Saturday, December 29, 2007
Robert Novak :: Townhall.com Columnist
Huckabee Slipping
by Robert Novak
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WASHINGTON -- While public polls show Mike Huckabee leading Mitt Romney in Iowa, a new survey of an oversized sample shows Huckabee slipping and no longer ahead of Romney.

A private corporate interest commissioned a phone bank survey of 15,000 Iowans who say they will attend Republican presidential caucuses Jan. 3. It showed Romney with 30 percent and Huckabee at 26 percent. Sen. John McCain was third with 12 percent and Rudy Giuliani fourth at 9 percent. Fred Thompson had only 1 percent, with slightly fewer votes than Rep. Ron Paul (also at 1 percent).

Numbers for both Huckabee and Romney dipped sharply when Iowans were asked their second choice. In contrast, McCain was the leading second-choice candidate for both Huckabee and Romney voters.

DOLE VS. HUCK

Unexpected late intervention by Bob Dole in the Iowa Republican caucuses confirms that Mike Huckabee may have blundered by assailing President George W. Bush's "arrogant bunker mentality" in international affairs.

"Why have you joined the 'Bush bashers'?" Dole asked in a letter to Huckabee that he made public. Dole, until now neutral in the 2008 contest, called Huckabee's critique of Bush policy in Foreign Affairs magazine a "perfect example of 20-20 hindsight."

Dole, who won the 1996 Iowa caucuses en route to the presidential nomination, told Huckabee that Iowans would not approve of his attack on Bush (who still gets 80 percent approval from Republicans). He concluded the letter with typical Dole humor: "P.S. I lost the General [election] in '96, so what do I know?"

OBAMA OVER MCCAIN?

Sen. Barack Obama's rise against Hillary Clinton for the Democratic presidential nomination leads some of the party's strategists to celebrate the prospect for a better match-up against Sen. John McCain as the Republican nominee.

"I'll take a 47-year-old [Obama] against a 72-year-old [McCain] any day," is the private comment of one prominent Democrat who long ago made Sen. Clinton his pick for president. Like many insiders of both parties, he considers McCain -- on the rise for the Republican nomination -- as the GOP candidate most likely to defeat Clinton.

A footnote: The fluid quality of the Iowa Democratic caucuses does not rule out the possibility of a first-place finish there Jan. 3 by John Edwards. That would be more damaging for Obama than it would be for Clinton, even if she finished third in Iowa.

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Reply # 1
Date: Dec 31, 2007 - 7:13 AM EST
I Am Glad You Asked Sarah
Sarah writes: Sunday,
December, 30, 2007 4:43 PM
Spiceman , where is the record of Mitt's
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A Very Spicy Answer:
I am glad you asked: Just follow the link for NRA
http://hughhewitt.townhall.com/blog/g/c5e08fcf-1a33-462b-ad 02-a9e655798bde

"Also, who saw his parents marching with Dr. King?" IT IS MISQUOTED

"These American values, this great moral heritage, is shared and lived in my religion as it is in yours. I was taught in my home to honor God and love my neighbor.

I saw my father march with Martin Luther King.

I saw my parents provide compassionate care to others, in personal ways to people nearby, and in just as consequential ways in leading national volunteer movements. I am moved by the Lord's words: 'For I was an hungered, and ye gave me meat: I was thirsty, and ye gave me drink: I was a stranger, and ye took me in: naked, and ye clothed me...'

At the time Mitt was 16 years of age, and in church June 23, 1963

FACT: In The Summer Of 1963, Governor Romney Participated In Martin Luther King Jr.'s "Freedom Marches" In Grosse Pointe, Michigan.

Governor Romney Marched In July 1963 In An NAACP-Sponsored March Through Grosse Pointe. "The next couple of NAACP marches into the suburbs were more pleasant. Both Grosse Pointe and Royal Oak Township welcomed the interracial marchers. Close to 500 black and white marchers, including many Grosse Pointers, marched in 'the Pointes' that July. Governor George Romney made a surprise appearance in his shirt sleeves and joined the parade leaders." (Joe T. Darden, Detroit, Race And Uneven Development, 1987, p. 132)

http://news.aol.com/political-machine/2007/12/21/gotcha-wha t-romney-saw/
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Reply # 2
Date: Dec 30, 2007 - 10:38 PM EST
@Ron re: Mormons Christians Jews etc
Ron writes: Sunday, December, 30, 2007 11:44 AM
Rothenberg's Mormon Article
Messianic Jews do not change the Judaic concept of the theological nature of God. But Mormons do change the Christian theological concept of God and Jesus Christ.
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You are quite correct, Ron.

But my point was simply that just as Jews *believe* that Messianic Jews are not really Jews but are convenienlty and deceptively calling themselves Jews in order to blur the differences between jews and messianic jews , we evangelicals likewise believe Mormons are not Christians; but are using our name to win converts by blurring the vast differences between Mormonism and Biblical Chtristianity.

Rothenberg was right about that-but as you righlty say, he was *wrong* in that Messianic Jews do not actually change the nature of God the way Mormons change the essential nature of Jesus into being a created being and hence the brother of all God's "other" created beings-including unfortunately satan.

But the first chapter of The Gospel of John makes it clear that Jesus was part of the triune Godhead *before* as well as after his human incarnation:

"In The beginning was the Word, and the Word was WITH God and the Word WAS God...and the Word BECAME flesh and dwelt amongst us full of grace and truth as the only begotten Son of the Father filled with Grace abd Truth"

see the Gosple of St John: 1:1-2,14

If Mormons could accept that truth, it would be a little easier to see them as Christians-although still highly unorthodox (to put it mildly) because of their insistence on equating the outlandish fables of Joseph Smith as "scripture" and thus equal to the Bible"




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