More "Values Voters" Help For Huckabee In Iowa

A values voter barnstorm is coming to Iowa. And chances are, one candidate -- Mike Huckabee -- will benefit.

The Iowa Family Policy Center, whose founder, Chuck Hurley, endorsed Huckabee last week, kicks off a seven day bus tour through Iowa today. The barnstormers will stop in three cities per day, and will, according to an e-mail sent to participants, encourage

"Iowans of faith to register and vote their values. We also have a great lineup of speakers to encourage you to use your influence with friends, to make our voices heard at the caucuses, and to elect candidates who will help restore America to her historical Judeo-Christian heritage. The effort will be completely non-partisan and values driven."

The tour starts in Davenport this morning, stops in Dubuque and noon and ends the day in Cedar Rapids. Tomorrow, there are stop sin Cedar Falls/Waterloo, Waverly and Independence.

A separate group, Hear the Cry, is organizing pro-lifer voters as part of the mobilization.

The Values Voter barnstorm will be led by Pastor Rick Scarborough, an early Huckabee endorser. Participants include R. Randolph "Randy" Brinson, an iconoclastic social conservative doctor from Alabama who possesses a huge list of Iowa pastors and Christian conservatives. He's also the head of ReedemTheVote, which was active in 2004 and 2006 as a voter registration vehicle for young evangelicals.

The Barnstormers don't have to reveal their funding sources provided they don't directly provide aid to a candidate. But it's hard to see how any candidate but Mike Huckabee will find comfort from this tour.

Comments

Good for them. Grassroots politics is back!

I oppose all of Huckabee's proposals, but it's better than the top-down command politics of Washington DC. It's time to remove the FEC and McCain-Feingold. All of these "campaign finance reform" policies amount to incumbency protection and the formation of a professional campaign cartel.

Posted by TanGeng | December 10, 2007 12:56 PM

How this guy is in the lead is beyond me. If you are a conservative, there's no way you should be voting for a guy with a record like he has.

http://www.huckabeefacts.org

Posted by HuckNO | December 10, 2007 1:03 PM

If you are a conservative, there's no way you should be voting for a guy with a record like he has.

Yeah, he doesn't have brown people *nearly* enough. Of course, he's kind of changed his stance on that lately.

I'm just waiting for a GOP candidate to realize that we can solve our energy crisis and immigration problems at the same time by burning brown people for fuel. I can see it now :

"Immigrants - America's most sustainable renewable resource"

(Rudy, if you use this, I want credit).

Posted by justinb | December 10, 2007 2:42 PM

How this guy is in the lead is beyond me.

I'll give you a hint. Jesus. Seriously, haven't you been paying attention? The GOP absorbed a whole bunch of religious folks, promising them all kinds of "values stuff", and now it's payback. Fascist theocracy or bust, man. My money's on bust, personally.

Posted by justinb | December 10, 2007 2:52 PM

Mike Huckabee is leading because Mike Huckabee is AUTHENTIC!!!

I DO know his record and to hear the lies and half-truths being told about him is ridiculous!

He was RE-elected until his term limits ran out in Arkansas so do you really believe the people didn't like him???? My grandfather lives in that state and I can assure you, he thought he was an excellent Governor.

Time Magazine also named him one of America's Best 5 Governors in the country.

Dick Morris wrote: Let me clue you in - Mike Huckabee is a TRUE FISCAL CONSERVATIVE.

The people in the polls KNOW THE TRUTH!!!

Posted by Liz | December 10, 2007 5:09 PM

Mike Huckabee is leading because Mike Huckabee is AUTHENTIC!!!

Mike Huckabee is leading because the conservative religious primary voters want a fundamentalist pastor running the country.

Posted by justinb | December 10, 2007 6:40 PM

"Dogma voters" is the more fitting label. "Values voters" is an invented label for people who like to think of themselves as championing good human values. What many of them are pushing actually is dogma."Values" are "the principles that help you to decide what is right and wrong, and how to act in various situations." Cambridge Dictionary of American English. "Dogma" is "a fixed, esp. religious, belief or set of beliefs that people are expected to accept without any doubts." Id. The two, we can only hope, overlap to some extent, but they are hardly the same. Some of what religious fundamentalists hold up as values others find plainly wrongheaded and even immoral.Labels count. Those pushing the "values voters" label hope it will help them pass off their dogma as values. If they want to push their dogma, that's their right. But "dogma voters" they are, and that's what I'll call them.

Posted by Doug Indeap | December 10, 2007 10:31 PM

Mike Huckabee is against abortion and gay marriage, which explains why the left wing media, which loves both, are attacking him so strongly. That might help him, because conservatives know how biased secular journalists are.
Yes, turning him into a figure of hatred for the far left won't help Hillary Clinton in the fall trying to trick evangelicals to vote for her, if the argument against the Republican candidate is "He's a Christian so don't vote for him"! Is that the liberal media's new litmus test? Unless you belong to Scientology or some tiny far-left sect that ridicules what Christians have always believed for 2000 years?

Posted by iowaconservative | December 10, 2007 11:03 PM

Huckabee is refreshing because he's not prirmarily about money as power. In that respect he's more like the Democratic ideal. He will get the votes of some Democrats and Independents who want a Christian approach without the total control of Corporate America. That's me. I'm a Christian who has always been a Democrat. But this time I may go for Huckabee.

Posted by Mariel Strauss | December 11, 2007 5:56 AM

Mike Huckabee is good government. Good government for Republicans, Democrats, and Independents. You can tell by the difference in fundraising between Mike and Rudy and Romney, that Mike is beholden to fewer (probably zero) special interests. He is definitly more conservative than Rudy and Romney based on records.

Rudy is my 2nd choice. Romney is my last choice on the Republican side due to his record being the complete opposite of what he is saying now.

Posted by Donna | December 11, 2007 6:33 AM

Hmm...someone should tag along and see just how "non-partisan" this obvious Huckabee support campaign is. Someone better be careful not to lose their non-profit status and thus have to start paying taxes or disclose their funders.

the so-called left-wing media love huckabee. i don't know what iowaconservative is talking about. Romney and Giuliani are the ones that get ridiculed most often in the media (and deservedly so).

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