How About Huck?

For Huckabee

W HEN National Reviewcalled me about doing this piece-“Make the case for Mike Huckabee”-I admitted I wasn’t 100 percent sure I’d vote for the Other Man from Hope and ex-governor of Arkansas. I’m still not. For I continue to feel warm-and-fuzzy toward that ol’lion John Mc Cain, not to mention reassured by him each time he delivers a speech on Iraq. And I haven’t thrown out Rudy Giuliani, either. One doesn’t simply forget the kind of leadership he delivered on 9/11. America’s mayor even comforted us way down here in Little Rock. Then there’s the unavoidable fact that Mike Huckabee has about as much hands-on foreign-policy experience as I do. (Which puts him right there with Ronald Reagan when he took office. Or Bill Clinton. Or George W. Bush. Or . . .)

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For Huckabee

W HEN National Reviewcalled me about doing this piece-“Make the case for Mike Huckabee”-I admitted I wasn’t 100 percent sure I’d vote for the Other Man from Hope and ex-governor of Arkansas. I’m still not. For I continue to feel warm-and-fuzzy toward that ol’lion John Mc Cain, not to mention reassured by him each time he delivers a speech on Iraq. And I haven’t thrown out Rudy Giuliani, either. One doesn’t simply forget the kind of leadership he delivered on 9/11. America’s mayor even comforted us way down here in Little Rock. Then there’s the unavoidable fact that Mike Huckabee has about as much hands-on foreign-policy experience as I do. (Which puts him right there with Ronald Reagan when he took office. Or Bill Clinton. Or George W. Bush. Or . . .)