Iraqi police SWAT Team parade during a ceremony marking Iraqi police forces 86th anniversary in Baghdad, 09 January 2008. Iraq’s Interior Minister Jawad Bolani who attended the ceremony, praised US-funded anti-Qaeda ‘Awakening’ fronts being set up across Iraq, amid criticism the government is not doing enough to protect the militias. By Ahmad Al-Rubaye/AFP/Getty.
The AP catches him:
The former Massachusetts governor misstated results when he told them he’s received "more delegates than anybody else." An AP analysis of primary results shows he is second in the delegate count, with 19. Mike Huckabee has 31.
Hewitt is propagating the same numbers as Romney. (Update: But so is CNN?)
Fallows worries about the costs of fratricide.
James Poulos weighs the difference in the wake of the Ron Paul campaign.
George Neumayr is onto something:
Won’t Huckabee shatter the conservative coalition? That would be a little more persuasive if those saying this hadn’t shattered it themselves. The relative success of Ron Paul and Huckabee is not a cause of the coalition’s collapse but a reflection of it. An excessively Wilsonian foreign policy has divided defense conservatives; years of big spending has divided economic conservatives; and a tepid, stalling social conservatism has alienated moral ones.
Perhaps Huckabee can’t rebuild this coalition. But he isn’t likely to weaken it any more than have his critics, and he may even bring some long-disenchanted middle Americans into it.
John Cole implies that Obama doesn’t. That’s simply not true. On every major policy area, their plans are very similar and just as detailed. You want to find candidates without many plans? Look at the Republicans. Just because Obama can inspire with rhetoric does not mean he doesn’t have specific proposals on everything from taxes to healthcare to the environment. Mind-numbingly detailed plans.
A reader writes:
While I’m with you on the rejection-of-evolution-is-a-rejection-of-reason, the guy you quoted doesn’t know what he talking about. In any high school science textbook, evolution is indeed a theory, and gravity is indeed a law.
Look up the difference of the scientific definitions of "law" and "theory." Gravity is one, and evolution is the other. That said, if it was thus far possible to prove evolution false, it would not be regarded even as a theory. But it does not have the same status as gravity as a scientific principle.
Clinton can pull it off. She remains the GOP’s greatest hope:
I’m a 31-year-old gay guy living in San Francisco’s Castro neighborhood. I went to grad school at Berkeley. And while I’m not as liberal as some people I know around here — that would take some doing — I remain solidly leftist on most major issues. (Maybe this is beside the point, but my parents are 60-year-old evangelical Christians in eastern Washington state, and they’re predictably thrilled about Huckabee’s candidacy. Meanwhile, my grandparents are pro-labor, FDR-and-JFK-loving Catholic Democrats in their mid-80s, and they’re both nuts about Clinton. So I guess my family is quintissentially American in its plurality and dysfunction.)
Last night, I was trying to figure out why I was so pissed off about the New Hampshire results. Actually, "pissed off" isn’t quite right — I was both angry and depressed. I really admired Clinton at one time, but for the past year or so, I’ve found her politics more and more repugnant. Her campaign strategies for the past month have been downright infuriating. And I find the prospect of any race between Clinton and a Republican to be grim beyond reckoning.
In fact, if it were a race between Clinton and McCain, this longtime Democrat would almost certainly break for McCain. The only way I’d vote for her, in fact, is to prevent someone like Huckabee or Romney from prolonging the disastrous Bush legacy. And that’s why this morning, for the first time in my life, I actually paid money to go see a politician speak. I’ll be at Obama’s rally in San Francisco next Wednesday, and I’ll be cheering like crazy.
What the Obama fans need to know right: Can we beat her? YES WE CAN!
Enjoy:
"I don’t see how [McCain] wins the Republican nomination. I’m second to none in praising him on his surge leadership. But on a whole host of issues — including water boarding, tax cuts, and the freedom of speech — he’s not one of us," – Kathryn Jean Lopez.
It’s pretty staggering to see a Khmer Rouge torture technique now being touted as a core Republican principle. But there’s one silver lining to the elections so far. The candidates who have performed best – Obama, Clinton, Huckabee and McCain – are the four candidates with the clearest opposition to torture. This gives me hope for a return to decency after the Bush-Cheney years. It also shows how opposition to torture is not a vote-loser. America is so much better than the toxins of Cheney-Addington-Rumsfeld.
The Dish 