FOX News Debate Analysis
Mike Huckabee was incredible during the debate on thursday night. Here is some interesting post analysis provided by FOX News. According to their focus group, Huckabee had one of the best lines of the night:
More detailed commentary on Huckabee's performance:
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Steve G, At
1/12/08 11:26 PM
This piece is an insult to anyones intelligence, how ridiculous can this propaganda get?!? I mean, wow, what a surprise... Faux News tries to discredit a TRUE REPUBLICAN who goes against the Neo-Con establishment.
LOL, nice try.
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Anonymous, At
1/13/08 12:17 AM
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Anonymous, At
1/13/08 12:55 AM
That is not what was said. Luntz, in your video, said that it was "one" of the best lines of the night. Your video cuts off before Luntz gets to what he said was the actual best line of the night, which was by Fred Thompson.
I also find it interesting that you are claiming that Huckabee did a great job, when the focus group and every commentator said that Fred Thompson won and that he did so at the expense of Mike Huckabee.
That Mike Huckabee is the same Mike Huckabee whom I have known for over 15 years, the Mike Huckabee who has almost NO support in Arkansas, the Mike Huckabee who, in response to questions about raising taxes on us by half a billions dollars, said that what he really raised was "hope"... That line is a remarkable imitation of another former Arkansas governor from Hope...
He's the same Mike Huckabee who has, on dozens of occasions, lied about his liberal record and on more occasions been unwilling to describe it accurately.
Examples of this include claiming that we, the people of Arkansas, voted for his 1999 tax on gasoline, which he continues to claim. The truth is that he had already signed it into law months before we had the chance to vote of a bond issue, which allocated how to spend the money from the tax he raised.
Another was when he claimed that the video I released of him begging the Arkansas legislature was in the context of a supreme court mandate, when that court decision wasn't dealt with until nearly a year later.
He has continued to claim that the supreme court required him to raise taxes on us, which is also untrue. The supreme court required education funds to be spent more "equitably". They did not require him to raise taxes. He could have shifted funds within the education budget or within the general budget, but rather than make government tighten its belt, he made Arkansas families, like mine, tighten ours. And rather than tell the truth about it, he chose to claim that the supreme court made him do it.
I could go on and on, but the question this leads me to is whether you have the courage to look through his religious trappings to see a man who is both a liberal and dishonest...
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Henry Rearden, At
1/13/08 5:06 PM
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Andrew, At
1/14/08 12:16 PM
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