Ghost of a flea

Mr. Huckabee is a set-piece example of why I abandoned Christianity when I was eleven (as a prod; I came back -- across the Tiber -- when I was thirty-two) and why I left the Republican Party when I was around thirty (now a Conservative Libertarian Constitutional Monarchist; "drunkard" for short).

Oh, and as for the abortion thing: as an RC I consider it murder. As an American Citizen who's actually read the Constitution, it's a matter of federalism; that is, it's an issue for the States, not the Federal Government. Overturning Roe v. Wade (and have you ever read that thing? bad logic, bad law, bad writing) would merely restore the status quo ante 1973... that is, the legality of abortion would be up to each State.

now a Conservative Libertarian Constitutional Monarchist; "drunkard" for short

I was drinking whisk(e)y with some of your fellow Conservative Libertarian Constitutional Monarchists recently... it seems to be a consistent part of the platform! I was described as "not a libertarian" but I am four-square with you gents on the whiskey.

Oh, and as for the abortion thing: as an RC I consider it murder. As an American Citizen who's actually read the Constitution, it's a matter of federalism; that is, it's an issue for the States, not the Federal Government.

I believe Fred Thompson is the only candidate in either party advancing this position. I admire Rudy Giuliani but he is a nanny-stater on guns as is Romney on video games, Huckabee on smoking, etc. etc. We have a name for people who do not understand the 10th Amendment: They are called Democrats.

I too much agree with you.

"My major rant on the Republican party has been how the dominant strains of the J's has been expunged by the Reagan Revolution. The identification of the J's with the R's was so strong in the late '60's that Nixon won the '68 election with 301 electoral votes to Humphrey's 191 electoral votes. In 1972, Nixon won with 520 electoral votes to McGovern's 17. Even in the face of the demonization of Nixon, it is my belief that Gerald Ford would have won the 1976 election if it hadn't been for the split among the Jacksonian wing that was so closely aligned with the Right to Life movement. (As an example, "Do you support the pro-life and pro-family principles the Republican Party has represented since 1976?")

"The impulse of the Republican has more consonance with the impulse of the Jacksonian. The question I'm left with is, "at what point will the Jacksonian react to the Lefty impulses of the Democrat party?" And isn't this where the battle lines are now being drawn in the comedy we're watching called the Democrat Presidential Debates? "