My submission went vertical!

I've been teasing you socks about the literary masterpiece I submitted to the Huckabee campaign for over a week now.

Well, I'm pleased to report that it made the final cut, and appeared on the governor's blog on Vertical Day!

You can read it for yourself by clicking this link:

http://www.mikehuckabee.com/index.cfm?FuseAction=Blogs.View&Blog_id=462

I must admit that I was in good company. Others who made the final cut were:

Newt Gingrich, former Speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives
David Beasley, former Governor of South Carolina
Dr. Laurence White
Bob Vander Plaats, Iowa State Chair of the Huckabee Campaign
Larry Perault - http://larryperrault.blogspot.com/
Amy Tucker - http://tastelikecrazy.com/
John Witt - http://founders.townhall.com/
Nuke Gingrich - http://conservablogs.com/nuke
One Mom - http://onemom.wordpress.com/

Pretty cool, huh?!

Go, Mike, go!!

Let's revive the Lincoln-Douglas debates!

I just learned of a great idea being tossed around by Mike Huckabee and Fred Thompson.

Actually, credit is due to Newt Gingrich for putting the idea forward in the first place.

But, Huckabee and Thompson are the first two presidential candidates to seriously entertain the notion of a good old-fashioned debate.

Enough with the crowded stages and media-friendly soundbites.

Let's have two candidates actually engage each other on the issues facing our country.

Let's have a serious DISCUSSION for once.

If you agree with me and would like to see a series of Lincoln-Douglas style debates between these two great public speakers, I encourage you to co-sign the letter found at this link:

http://www.mikehuckabee.com/index.cfm?FuseAction=Blogs.View&Blog_id=344&CommentPage=1#Comments

Authenticity, Sincerity, and Candor

Those are the three words former House Speaker Newt Gingrich used while speaking to the National Press Club in Washington today to describe Mike Huckabee's campaign to become our next president.

Newt gets it.

The national media does not. At least, not yet.

Witness Bill Sammon on FoxNews tonight, who framed the contest underway in Iowa in terms of Romney v Giuliani and implied that Huckabee is simply angling for a VP nod. Tripe!

What Huckabee IS doing is what people like Gingrich and millions of others across this country have been wanting to see for a long time: He's growing as a candidate with each passing day. He's speaking in terms of patriotism over partisanship. And, hopefully, he will (as Newt predicted) emerge as the most interesting dark horse candidate in American history.

Cynical reporters like Sammon assume that Huckabee steers away from attacks on the other candidates, because he is shooting for #2.

Clearly, Sammon doesn't know much about Mike Huckabee.

And, if last Sunday's debate in Des Moines is any barometer of true feelings in Iowa, Sammon won't be the only pundit with a surprised look on his face after the Ames straw poll.

Huckabee is better at communicating and connecting with an audience than any candidate out there--in either party. Those strengths should take him to the top of the GOP slate and on to the White House.