Wesley Pruden, Editor in Chief of the Washington Times, attended Mike Huckabee's speech at the recent Southern Republican Leadership Conference. Here's what he had to say in his column afterwards:
"Mr. Huckabee gave the rousingest speech of the occasion, bringing the delegates to their feet with preacherly evocations of Stonewall Jackson's admonition to his troops to "never take counsel with your fears." Cried the governor: "Knock off the hand-wringing and cut out the talk of the ultimate and imminent decline of the Grand Old Party. If we think we are in trouble, then we are in trouble."
Mike Huckabee is the darkest of dark horses, but he, like Bill Clinton before him, can "still believe in a place called Hope," because their remarkable hometown in Hempstead County clearly has something in the water to make a politician think he can become president even if he hails from what was once the most obscure of all the states of the South. Mr. Huckabee's chief claim to fame is that he dropped 106 pounds on a diet prescribed for him by the state medical school, making him the only prospective candidate who can take being called "lightweight" as a compliment. But, as a Baptist pastor before he abandoned the ministry for politics, he can still preach."
We've told readers of this blog before that Mike Huckabee is a tremendously gifted communicator. Just wait until you see for yourselves. All we have to do is get Huckabee into the eventual presidential debates and he will mop the floor with his opponents.
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