Cameron,

You started out with what appeared to be an even handed approach in your coverage of the Republicans. Now, your obvious bias towards “Brother Huckabee”, your words, not mine, is really starting to show. You and Britt are the only ones I have really felt I could count on to be detached observers. Please try to look at things logically, as an outside observer with no dog in any fight.

Thanks for the great coverage you have been giving us for all but this tiny slice of time.

Doesn’t sound like Mitt is down or out at all. It’s been reported that Mitt Romney brought in over 5 MILLION DOLLARS TODAY, Jan. 9th, in Boston with fund raisers and supporters rallying behind him. I know I did. Even McCain’s home state of Arizona donated around $146,000.00 to Romney’s campaign. There must be some substance behind all that support—hmmmm, maybe it’s because Mitt has an unbeatable resume and platform that is comprehensive, intelligent and not just 1″ deep like McCain and Huckabee’s.

Do you know why McCain and Huckabee can’t illicit that kind of support? It’s because McCain’s support comes from Democrats/Indi’s who vote against Romney. Voters aren’t impassioned for a candidate that will be a lame duck president (80 years old in his second term!!). Huckabee has Evangelical pastors compelling their congregations to vote with/for their religion, and not with their heads. Scary, very scary…..

If Mitt doesn’t win the Demo/Indie’s vote in Michigan next week—it won’t concern me at all. With the kind of support (and true conservative platform) like he received today….Mitt can outlast Huckabee and McCain to the end..

Go to a TRUE CONSERVATIVE REPUBLICAN WEBSITE – rushlimbaugh.com and see what he says about liberal candidates McCain and Huckabee and the state of the race. It’s just beginning…..

MITT BRINGS IN OVER 5 MILLION DOLLARS TODAY in fund raising and by supporters’ contributions!!

I guess it means with that kind of support, he can go the distance!! No matter how the Huck/Mac joint venture project, or the Dem/Indies “vote for the weakest Republican candidate to knock Mitt out of the race” plan tries to sabotage the Republican campaign — Mitt has the ability and support from true conservative Republicans to go up against the Democratic machine of Hillary Clinton.
Go Mitt

I think it’s frightening, and a sad commentary on the state of our nation, that Huckabee and his evangelical gestapo seem to be demonizing Romney solely because he is a Mormon. It is becoming obvious that their rejection of him has nothing to do with issues and who is more qualified. As a Mormon I feel betrayed, hurt and alienated by my fellow “Christians” who I thought were above such prejudice. This is real “sit on the back of the bus” kind of stuff. Shocking, really.

If Huckabee gets the nomination I would expect a Mormon exodus from the GOP. Many Red Western states are on the brink of becoming Purple states. Huckabee’s whisper crusade has resulted in more division in an already divided GOP. The coalition is breaking apart. Mormons will not vote for bigotry. This spells victory for Dems.

I am very dissapointed and concerned for the future civil rights of my LDS children. Will I have to tell my LDS children that, like the Blacks who were relegated to the back of the bus, they are not permitted to be President because their faith is unacceptable? Is this America or Iran?

Sounds smart. Use the “free media” like Huck and McCain did. Save the hard dollars. Funny this is news but the $5 million Mitt raised today wasn’t. I like the change in strategy (like McCain–adapt).

Oh, and by the way, more people have voted for Romney for president than any other GOP candidate.

Romney lost in new hampster because half that state are massholes who moved from across the border to escape Romney’s taxe… errr, fees. People from away just don’t understand the special relationship between the massholes and the hampsters.

It’ll be different for Mitt in places outside of new hampster and massholechusetts – where he’s also likely to not finish first despite being elected governor there.

Frankly, Mitt needs to get off the attackwagon. He needs to more often highlite where he’s succeeded, i.e., Salt Lake Olympics. Let the good times roll !!

meow.

Seems like every article headlining Romney on Fox News has a negative twist on it. Every positive article features McCain or Huckabee.

Fair and Balanced? Take a look at the headliners and you’ll know I am presenting the truth. Take a look at the political propagandist Carl Cameron’s area… Huckaboom, Hucka….blah, blah, blah…

Maybe it has something to do with Dick Morris, the Fox News political analyst, who was Huckabee’s campaign manager for Huckabee’s run for Arkansas Governor. Yes, the same Dick Morris who masterminded the Clinton campaigns. Interesting that Dick Morris is responsible for the Arkansas Clinton’s and the Arkansas Huckabee. Strange combination… or is it?

“Dick Morris, who had previously worked for Bill Clinton, advised Huckabee on his race in 1993, and again in 1994 when Huckabee ran for re-election. Huckabee commented that Morris was a “personal friend”. A newspaper article reported on Huckabee’s 1993 win: “Morris said the mistake Republicans always make is that they are too much of a country club set. What we wanted to do was run a progressive campaign that would appeal to all Arkansans.’” Morris elaborated, “So we opened the campaign with ads that characterized Mike as more of a moderate whose values were the same as those of other Arkansans.””

Interesting that Dick Morris recreated Huckabee as a “progressive that would appeal” to all Arkansans and as a “moderate whose values were the same as those of other Arkansans.”

And the media casts Romney as “plastic” and “fake”????

Does something sound fishy here ???

Carl, You are doing a great job. Thanks for blogging too.

I’m a fan of your coverage but don’t see how Michigan is a make or break situation just because Romney pulled his ads in later states. Many in the media (including you Carl) said he was done if he didn’t win Iowa, then said he was done if he didn’t win New Hamshire, and now saying he’s done if he doesn’t win Michigan.

From what I can tell, he’s still the front runner with more votes, more delegates, more money raised, more money in his back pocket, and his vow to make it a 50 state race. What am I missing here?

It seems smart to pull ads and money from S. Carolina and Florida since those are “winner-take-all” delegate states and he fights an uphill battle against two separate opponents. It makes perfect sense that his money is better spent elsewhere.

Carl, give me a break! Mitt Romney has more total votes and more delegates then any of the other candidates. It is not do or die, no matter how many times you or others say it is. You have not had one positive thing to say about Gov Romney, and your bias toward Huckabee and McCain is so obvious. It is about time that you are reassigned…

Mitt is going to win Michigan, and then he will have the momentum and expand his delegate lead.

I love the political cartoons done by Michael Ramirez over at IBD.

One of his latest cartoons tells the whole story — check it out here: http://www.ibdeditorials.com/CartoonPopUp.aspx?id=284603213670614.

I missed the memo that said it’s A-OK to make disparaging and often erroneous statements about Mormons.
Apparently, they are fair game.

Sure, these are hypersensitive times, when name-calling or perceived bias against any group will get you the Don Imus treatment, but you get a free shot with Mormons. You can say what you want about them with impunity.

If you denigrate a racial group, you’re racist.

If you denigrate women, you’re sexist.

If you denigrate Mormons, you’re hip.

No one would openly suggest that you shouldn’t vote for Hillary Clinton because a woman can’t lead the country, especially an ornery one.

Nobody would dare say that you shouldn’t vote for Barack Hussein Obama because he’s black, or of Muslim descent, or because he has a name that sounds like a terrorist. One Clinton worker even apologized for alluding to Obama’s use of drugs as a youth, so apparently it’s wrong to disparage former drug users, too.

But nobody is shy about saying you shouldn’t vote for Romney simply because he’s a Mormon. It doesn’t even register on the PC-O-Meter.

Just like that, 6 million Americans have been virtually disqualified from running for president. They’ve been rendered second-class citizens. They’re foreigners living in America. They face a glass ceiling.

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How un-American is that?
It would be one thing if most of those who oppose Romney did so because they disagreed with his politics or character. But Romney is one of the few candidates who has no character issues, a “squeaky clean” man who has a distinguished record of accomplishments, success and service, with no divorces, no affairs, no scandal. The only thing opponents can say about him is that he belongs to a church they don’t understand.

A Harvard law professor called Romney the most qualified of all the candidates and “the perfect candidate for this moment in time.” But there is his Mormonism, he noted.

Even the self-styled PC chief of police, Al Sharpton, once jumped in on the action, saying, “As for the one Mormon running for office, those who really believe in God will defeat him anyways.”

Mormons don’t believe in God?

For his penance, all Sharpton had to do was endure a family home evening in Utah.

It’s open season on Mormons. A few days ago, Miami Herald columnist Dan Le Batard stated on ESPN and in the newspaper that part of the reason fired coach Cam Cameron failed was because he got stuck with a Mormon quarterback — not a rookie quarterback (which he is) but a Mormon quarterback.

“And you’ll have a hard time finding a leader anywhere in sports who was as unlucky this year as Cameron,” Le Batard said, noting that because of injuries, Cameron was forced to play “a United Nations huddle of a Mormon quarterback, Mexican receiver, Samoan fullback and some guy named Lekekekkkkerkker.”

Now Mormons are foreigners?

Ignorance makes no difference. You can say Mormons have four wives or that they aren’t Christian, and no one cares.

Imagine the uproar if Le Batard had written that the Dolphins suffered because they had to play a black quarterback for part of the season? Or a Catholic?

The Salt Lake Tribune has had a field day for more than a week since learning that Mike Leavitt and some of his like-minded cohorts met early in the morning to discuss Mormon theology and governance while he was Utah’s governor. What if it had been a Bible study?

Nobody seems to mind when former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee says his religion “defines me.” Or when Obama says his church guides “my own values and my own beliefs.”

People worry that Romney will take his orders from his church leaders. They don’t worry that Obama will take orders from his church, whose “10-point vision” includes two references to its “non-negotiable commitment to Africa,” with no mention of America. Oh, and the church statement begins by noting on the Trinity United Church of Christ Web site, “We are a congregation which is Unashamedly Black.”

It’s a different set of rules for some out there. You can print newspaper cartoons disparaging Mormons. You can harass their families as they walk to their biannual conference with all sorts of foul language. When someone commits a crime, you can note the criminal’s religion, but only if he’s Mormon. You can make them a one-liner on Leno. Good luck reconciling all this with the paranoid political correctness that’s so in vogue.

Meanwhile, the most politically correct presidential election field ever assembled — a woman, a black, a Mormon, a Baptist, etc. — has gone politically incorrect, but only when it comes to you know who.

Doug Robinson – Deseret News

Dollars to donuts, all these posters are sitting in their warm little office cubicles completely oblivious to the struggle of us blue collar folk down here in the trenches. I believe some are strictly voting along Mormon lines as a Mormon president would finally validate their religion. I don’t even want to get into that. It’s up to every individual to do the research and come to your own conclusions based on biblical text. Please quit acting like you’re being the victim of religious bias. In this nation of ours, you are treated with the same respect all our Hindu, Buddhist, and Muslim brothers are. As for Mitt Romney being the answer for the economic woes we are facing, give me a break. We need reform on a massive scale( Fair Tax) and we need people who are not afraid to criticize the powers that be. Mitt is a decent guy but he’s in Wall Streets back pocket! Why else would he defend the Drug companies and Corporate excesses!!! Vote for a man who thinks outside the box and tells the truth even if it hurts his chances. MIKE HUCKABEE for POTUS.

Come on people. Huckabee? Seriously? Huckabee always folds under any type of real pressure. Look at him at debates. The only thing that he can pul off are one liners that really don’t matter. McCain? The only thing I like about McCain is that he is willingly to stick to his guns regardless of what others say. The problem however, is that McCain is almost ALWAYS wrong on every major issue. Look at every difficult decision he has had to make from McCain Feingold bill, to this past summer with the “we’re not calling it amensity but really what else is it” bill. He is almost always wrong! Thompson is great but I don’t think he will be generating enough support across the board to really do anything and maybe if he would actually try to run a campaign, that would be different. That leaves us with Romney, Giuliani, Hunter, and Paul. Hunter has no chance. Paul…well I have no idea what he has put into his “Ron Paul Orange Juice” that has everyone up in arms about him, but his positions are about as far off from the base as you can get while still be Republican. Romney has PROVEN himself at the olympics, in his own business and as Gov. of Mass. He has worked with the Dem. in bringing change to Mass. Giuliani is pretty much a 911 man so really, the only possible canididate that has any substance at all is Romney!!!! LOOK AT THE ISSUES PEOPLE!!!!!!

This is ridiculous! Your headling is implying the end of Mitt’s campaign, “he’s pulling ads, it must be the end of the road.” Then you just throw in one line about how he happened to raise $5 million yesterday. (Probably more than McCain or Huckabee have put together).

The negative articles about Mitt Romney are becoming a little too obvious. If John McCain or Huckabee had raised $5 million in one day it would be the top story.

I’m not sure where this bias is coming from, but Romney is the guy we need to win the white house. Maybe your hero McCain could be his running mate. And your Huckabee could be either the official White House pastor, or the court jester.

how much of the $5 million did Romney have to contribute himself????

Jenner ,
I understand,since you brought the subject up I’ll refer you to Joseph Fielding Smith P102 of the way to perfection,when refeing to Black people…Before 1978, according to the publication a Black person was considered to be cursed….It states that millions of souls hve come into this world cursed with Black skin.and have been denied the privilege of Priesthood,and the fullness of the blessings of the Gospel…Although it became expedient,for the Mormon Church to open the priesthood to blacks in 1978,the alleged revelation did not change the Mormon doctrine,regarding the penalty for being Black…this revelation also contradicts the established Mormon doctrine…..Having said this,when talking about half truths,and the consistency of your faith,take this into consideration….My Bible says that Jesus is the same yesterday,today and forever..That’s conistant……Too many changes …the rue test of a prophet is whether or not the prophecy comes true…..there is no room for mistakes

OUR NATION DESPERATELY NEEDS ROMNEY’S PROBLEM SOLVING SKILLS, INTELLIGENCE, BUSINESS EXPERTISE, AND STRONG VALUES. HE HAS THE BUSINESS EXPERIENCE TO STRENGTHEN OUR ECONOMY AND THE WISDOM TO LISTEN, EVALUATE , AND LEAD. McCain is too old -too yesterday – too much like last weeks left-overs. Muckabee is slimy, a wolf if sheep’s clothing. Using the fact checker I find Muckabee has misstated (or lied?) the most often. Neither one has earned as many delegates or received as many individual votes so far as Romney. Yet Fox news tries to say they are ahead. All that accomplishes is a loss of respect for Fox news.

OUR NATION NEEDS ROMNEY for the economy and for his problem solving experience. He listens, evaluates, and leads. Romney is the most presidential of all the candidates.

Why is it anytime Romney does anything Carl Cameron reports that he is about to drop out of the race or hanging by a thread? Please, Carl, less of your “analysis” and more reporting the facts.

I’m just curious….Why is that the news commentators talk about what Carl blogs, but not about any of the comments made by those of us who think he’s full of hot air? I always thought “Fair and balanced” was an accurate description of FOX – until now, that is. It’s turned into the “all Huckabee, all the time” channel…or the ‘all anybody but Romney” channel. Could it be that their religious bias is showing? Any sensible person who seriously compares the records of these candidates can see that Romney has the experience, the ideas, the strength of character that far surpasses any of the others. GO MITT! ! !

Carl. You are nothing but a conservative hack….give us some real reporting on the candidates.

Folks we are in dangerous territory when the news media (Fox in this case) is trying to diescourage people from voting for a canidate by putting one negative story out after another and calling Romney Doomed. He is in the lead in delgates and total votes and Fox should be touting him as the front runner instead of trying to sink his canidacy by calling states must wins (one after another). the facts are he has just as many first place finishes as any other canidate and more second place finishes than any other canidate.

On a seperate not newspapers who endorse candidates should not publish polls or have them figured into RCP averages. It is too easy to influence a poll by asking lead in issue questions to lead someone to choice your candidate when you finaly ask who they will vote for. For that reason I dont trust polls or pollsters.

Also Fox practice of putting out polls the day of the saying one canidate is in the lead has the effect of getting undecided voters to jump on the winning team. This is not responsible journalism in my opinion let the poeple decide not the news media.

Also hiring experts(Dick Morris) to comment on the presidental race when he is a former campaign manager of Huckabee without giving full disclosure every time he talks does not give the average viewer the opportunity to notice the subtle (and somtimes not so subltle) biased statements he gives. It also gives the impression Fox News is rootign for Huckabee when they may or may not be.

I started out as a solid Rudy supporter, because of the lack of anyone who thrills me on the republican side. However Romney has in my opinion completely blown away the others, seems to be the only one with plans and ideas.

Don’t get me wrong McCain, Huckabee, Thompson, Rudy all have qualities I like. However Romney has the complete package.

Is it just me …or is the media trying very hard to short circuit Romney’s campaign? Isn’t odd how there are hardly any new polls in Michigan, but they sure talk about Florida and South Carlina polls? I sure hope everyone wakes up and make and an honest and smart decision. The media is for sure trying to select out next president.

Let’s try submitting this again. FOX won’t let my words be heard– are they worse than any other’s?

FINALLY– REAL Romney support. I’m from Iowa and still fired up about how The Huckster fooled all his blind followers here who would rather vote for someone because he is a pastor than someone with brains and ability to face all the country’s big problems. Iowa was early, unfortunately some people in following states are voting for him just because he won Iowa but as more people research him, they’ll see him for what he is. Can you really see him meeting with Foreign Leaders and being respectable?? He never answers questions straight up, doesn’t defend his record, just whines about other people ‘being dishonest about it’. HE has been dishonest about his record. He says all the taxes he raised were after “80% of the people voted for them”– NOT TRUE. Do you HUCK supporters stay open enough to scrutinize his record. Does it matter to you that he is being dishonest about his record in order to get elected? Won’t he be dishonest on the job if he is dishonest while he’s pursuing the job?

Read http://www.factcheck.org/elections-2008/huckabees_fiscal_record.html.

Huckabee brags about how his democratic state kept re-electing him as evidence of his doing something right– all it signifies is that he ran the state the way a Democrat would. He is NOT a fiscal conservative!! Conservatives are refreshed by him talking about Christian values outright. Romney does too. Mitt wants God to stay in our schools and on our $, but he doesn’t force it on you like Huckabee does.

Somebody answer me specifically how Romney is NOT a conservative?

Abortion is the one thing people are criticizing Romney for. It is important, but not as immediate an issue as Iraq, terrorism, illegal immigration, health care costs and the imminent recession that everyone is talking about. Also, if you really watch and listen to Romney explain his change it is very reasonable. He has always been opposed to abortion morally, personally. When it was theoretical, he believed government’s role in what people should do was more in line with choice. When he actually had authority as governor, he had to personally face making something into legislation, he had to go with his personal conviction. I think that’s what we expect our leaders to do. He wants Roe vs. Wade overturned, would love there to be no abortion in the country, but is not going to force that view on the whole nation. He would be President over a lot of people with differing views on it. Huckabee’s ad that he put out/didn’t put out MISLEADS people to believe that Romney is responsible for or in support of the MA healthplan allowing $50 toward abortions. Romney opposed it, it was a state court ordered mandate that he had to obey. Like Mike Huckabee touts that he ‘obeyed the law in Arkansas’ by raising taxes for education then makes some sarcastic remark about ‘I don’t know if you have to obey the law in MA…’

Which leads into the fact that Huckabee (and McCain) have both been more negative on this campaign than Romney– despite what the media keeps trying to perpetuate, even with Chris Wallace’s question on the last debate. Ridiculous. Romney has pointed out differences on their records. The ‘meanest’ thing Romney has done to Huckabee was to press him to answer his question about taxes on the debate. Huckabee has attacked Romney’s character by calling his campaign dishonest, his comments are riddled with snide, personal cracks, his early comments about the Mormon faith were very specific ideology differences that riled up evangelicals against Romney. Huckabee jabs, then takes this ‘good guy, I didn’t mean to’ stance, knowing the damage has already been done and he comes out LOOKing like the more moral man. What a bunch of crap he has been pulling. I am floored that Huckabee got anything from NH voters!

Mitt Romney brings the most breadth of knowledge, best solution oriented approach to what is facing America. He brings people from all sides to the table, gets the best information and makes successful, critical decisions. Watch Greta’s conversation with him on the Mitt Mobile to learn more about his Foreign Policy approach. Watch all 3 parts to the video. It’s a GREAT look at him. He shares his stance on terrorism and I think it would have helped a lot of people in NH who voted for McCain just because of his military/foreign policy experience. It’s curious that these clips weren’t more visible on the website during the Iowa and NH voting. Fox?? Romney is a dignified leader who can work with the international community. His experience in the Olympics may even help other world leaders respect him.

http://www.foxnews.com/video2/player06.html?0308/010308_greta_rom1&On_the_Record&Mitt%20Romney&acc&On%20the%20Record&-1&Shows&494&&&new

McCain has some good character, although he seemed to relish a little too much in jabbing Romney on the debates. He can be bull-headed like Bush though. He’ll stand up to people or go against the grain, but that’s only good if he’s fighting for your exact point of view. I don’t think he would be any more effective in working with the international community than Bush has been.

In debates McCain avoids talking about what he plans to do about all the illegals already here. He focuses on a fence and securing the border only. That’s because he wants us to forget that his immigration bill really does offer a type of amnesty that won’t deter more illegals from coming. It doesn’t punish people who have broken OUR federal laws. This is just one summary of his bill:

http://www.heritage.org/Research/GovernmentReform/em975.cfm

It’s scary to see American’s voting for pastors, candidates they admire because of war experience, or because they ‘like his smile’ and ‘think he would be a comforting president’ (Obama). Do you realize that we need a strong leader?! This next President is CRUCIAL to our future. I agree that a vote for any other Republican OTHER THAN Romney is helping the Democrats. A Democrat will get America on it’s way to socialism. Europe is seeing the effects of socialism and they are starting to turn away from it and voting in conservatives.

I especially appreciate the comments on here from Canadians. They have a different society and yet are close enough to be knowledgable spectators of our country. LISTEN to them! Don’t listen to the media or their biased commentators (know who these people work for before you listen to their stance!). Listen to individual, respectable sources. How does Romney having some democratic supporters make him not a conservative.

I can see people being leary of Romney that he has had his eyes on the White House for some time. So what? Realize that every one running or who has ever run for presidnet has had his/her eyes on the White House. It is usually because they want to be in a position to make things better. Does being rich and white really mean he will not be an excellent President? I’d rather have my brilliant employer run the country than my hick co-worker who steals condiments from the break-room. (Yes, Huckabee really did steal furniture from the Governor’s mansion). Romney is wealthy, but don’t forget that he didn’t take pay for his governorship or the Olympics and he tithes 10% of his income! Does income really have any bearing on the characteristics we need as a leader– yes, he has been successful in his endeaveors…

I can see Romney has a tendency to exaggerate, but it’s out of enthusiasm more than it is calculated deception. When he is called on it, he admits fault. What more can you ask for? On the other hand, Huckabee has said “oh, I don’t know anything about the Mormon faith?”, when he was a main speaker at a Baptist seminar in SLC which was designed to refute Mormon doctrine and convert Mormons. Don’t you think you need to know their doctrine if you are going to try to discuss it and refute it with them? Isn’t that kind of false statement a little more alarming and telling than Romney’s slip about seeing ‘more change in the next ten years than we’ve seen in the past century’ or whatever?

The other arguments about Romney being too perfect etc. are just absurd. I like what another writer wrote about the fact that Romney’s got all 5 sons strongly supporting him and they are a close-knit family. Watch them. That says alot about the way he has lived his life.

http://www.mittromney.com

KEEP UP the support. Polls show that people BELIEVE Romney will get the nomination, but it won’t happen in a vacuum. You have to get out there and VOTE for him!! I can’t do any more from Iowa (yet!)

Carl….doing a great job. I thought you have been fair with all of the candidates.

In the beginning I was leaning toward Huckabee, but I finally saw the light!! Romney will receive my vote. He is exactly what this country needs!! I only hope that FOX can also take an objective view and report less on opinion and personal bias, and more on fact – “fair and balanced.

Norma,
The proof is in the puddin,when it comes to Romneys ,problem solving skills….He claims to have cut spending in Mass.and I guess He did,sort of….He didn’t allow any raises for the state workers,and also withheld pay,until after He left office,so it wouldn’t be recorded during his tenure….now thats an upliting thought,and really,expresses a lot of honesty,and integrity…by golly
I don’t think I want Him representing me,especially from Washington…..this is another case of the half truths that come out of his mouth….no thanks

Jenner,
You don’t think,that evangelicals,woud leave the party if Romney ere elected….I guess the Dems win either way

RJ,
Oh yeah,they believe in God in fact,if you were to read Joseph Smith’s teachings of the prophet..PP 348-49,you’ll find out that it says, The universe is governed by a head God and his council…”The head God called together the Gods and sat in grand council,to bring forth the world…In the beginning the head of the Gods called a council of the Gods,and they came together and concocted a plan to create the world and people in it…How many Gods does your Bible make mention of…I thinki f it reads like most,it will refer to Just one God….would be glad to share more,but Im trying to stick to the point that you raised in your comment…not the same God and not the same Jesus…The Jesus in my Bible is not related to Satan….this revelation came from the living prophet

Are you kidding me? You guys are complaining that Mitt is being mistreated by FOX? Give me a break! You’re telling me Sean Hannity and a number of other “analysts” here at FOX aren’t biased toward the Romney camp? Grow up!

And quite frankly if Romney doesn’t win Michigan, he’s finished for good. Better hope those $5 million can buy some votes up there, or all that money will be about as good as Ron Paul’s $6 million.

Finally romney gets some positive reconigntion!

THANKS CARL!!!!!!!!!!!

BOY!!!! talk about a bias debate, Romney was asked hardly any questions compared to the others, and there goes that idiot colmes, implying ROMNEY is out, just because he is pulling out of SO. CAROLINA, who can blame him, the evangelicals are for huckabee and the military is for mccain, why waste the money, that does not mean he is out, he is still raising more money then huckabee and like RUSH and others have said HUGH HEWITT another one and SEAN he should not get out, wait till we get to the more GOP states where the dems cannot vote in the GOP parimary like SO. CAROLINA can, you know darn well that is what they are doing in so. carolina, I really believe ROMNEY is the one or THOMPSON who can debate hillary!! I am so mad at FOX right now for showing this bias and I watch FOX 24/7. Carl you are so bias against ROMNEY and you try to deny it and I heard you the other day commenting that you had been getting emails about your bias to huckabee, well I am not the only one who notices it, you always write him off, and say he HAS TO WIN NH. and now you say he has to win any state you can name off, quit showing your bias and I remember this back when BUSH ran you were the same way, you always seemed so against BUSH, but since we all know you are from NH, I figure that is the reason, more liberal tendicies. Well no matter your bias back then, BUSH WON!!!! And again I will tell you , ROMNEY’S ads are NOT ATTACK ADS!!!!! They showed their records, he never attacked personally!! come on CARL GET OFF THE BIAS!!

THIS IS TO MANLIMOSS!!! I AM DEVOTE CATHOLIC, BUT I agree with all these people who are MORMONS and see the BIAS that carl and others are displaying. And I am quite sure you are a CHRISTIAN and I am quite sure this is not the way GOD would react to what is going on and your comments to me are uncalled for, we should not even get into religion but since so many people seemed to be going against ROMNEY because of this then I have to speak up again, I think he and Thompson are the only true GOP, wait till ROMNEY gets into the states where only GOP will be able to vote. I think it is terrible that people are whispering about ROMNEY because of his religion, and huckabee is a hypocrite for what he has done and said about ROMNEY, his innuendos about his religion, when he did this is when I turned off of HUCKABEE. LAY OFF ROMNEY CARL. and again I have to tell you quit showing your bias.

I can’t understand at all why Romney is not the clear-cut favorite! He is head and shoulders above the field with his poise, presentation, substance, record, ideals….. Does he need better advisors?

ROMNEY got screwed by FOX last night -no doubt about it.
Get real.. who are these questioners -all activist liberal journalists after the ilk of Dan Rather.
Conservatives don’t get the softball questions that the libs ask the Dems (nor would I approve).
ROMNEY gets asked the fewest questions and RON PAUL gets asked the most questions; want to know why? Here’s why. These FOX fair and balanced activists liberal journalists want REPUBLICANS in general to look like kooks; let’s see if we can make them dance and twrill batons over their heads. Sorry, FOX; since you hit the airwaves I have been devoted to your fair and balanced, BUT, there you have been infiltrated by the likes of JUAN WILLIAMS and the former lieutenants of Dan Rather. Britt Hume should be ashamed of what he has become. Whataboutit?

I am so tired of Carl’s blatant negativity towards Mitt Romney. He has a dislike for Romney that is so transparent, it makes me wonder if FOX is endorsing his not-so-subtle ANTI-MITT ROMNEY campaign There is no Romney win that Carl recognizes as meaningful – whether it is the New Hampshire debate or the win in Wyoming (which Carl calls insignificant). FOX didn’t spend any time covering Wyoming, and continues to ignore Wyoming’s contribution. Momentum is media generated. Carl knows what he is doing. So do we.

NO! the mormon religion does not (in general) get the same respect as other religions. Look what happened to iowa. Despite huckabee statements about mormons and his anti mormon sermons, still the MAJORITY of the evangelicals in that state voted for him. Who wants a president who does not tolerate other religions? It is very hypocritical! I live in Ga, i have talked to many people about huck, all that vote for him is because is a one time preacher, (not the issue) This is religious bigotry! They say romney is perfectly able to be president, i can not get passed the cult issue. Well knock on wood a cult is any religious organization. SO we are all cults. This is so childish.! But if this is what americans want, they will get it. These people are huckabee koolaid drinkers. VOTE FOR THE ISSUE! Sure is is funny and has alot of charm, but preaching about the bible and passing the offering plate will not solve the major issues we face. He will screw up for republican party even more!

The same for mitt. LDS people should vote for him only for the issue. The reason so many people like him is because, he has the best work ethic hands down. He is honest. All the peeps that call him dishonest where is the beef?

thanks. vote for the issue.
thank you New hampshire for being fair!

Jen,
I think there’s some confusion in your statement,of Huckabees record,being not true,and that we should research that record.I did a lot of researching,and to make two points to refute what you suggest,I’d say this: In regards to blind followers, I think you are confused…In his publication”Pearl of great price 2:19″Joseph Smith states..except for the LDS Church,all churches are false….He also said that their creeds were an abomination in Gods sight…in DOCTRINE AND COVENANTS…He said this church is the only true and living church on the face of the whole earth…Buce R McConkie,in” Mormon doctrine P.670″states that there is no salvation outside of the LDS…would you like to explain to Sandra,and Me,just who are the blind followers…Look at what it says in Ephesians 1:22,23..4:11-16…1 cor.1:2, 2:12,and Matthew 16:18 Now you’ll have to convince me that He would not impose religion if He were in the White House,but don’t try to refer me to the book of Mormon,I know little bit more about that than you realize
In regard to the 80% tax topic….Huckabee inherited those taxes,when He took over as Governor,and then proceeded to cut taxes 99 times….stop the half truths,and tell Mr Romney to tell the truth about the fees,he imposed,that He said only affeted a few(they affected every driver in the State) His spending cuts involved not paying state workers.They didn’t get their money until he left office ….so much for nice and Honest But it sure looks good on the record

Hi Carl,
I know alot of the polling in MI is kind of old. Thought you might like to see a POLL by MICHIGAN LIVE (http://blog.mlive.com/grpress/2008/01/poll_your_vote_in_republican_p.html#post) KIND OF IMPRESSIVE for Romney!

MCCAIN DOMESTIC RECORD IS A DISASTER:
MCCAIN-FEINGOLD: The most brazen frontal assault on political speech since Buckley v. Valeo. This isn’t Republican, to limit free speech. This is the INCUMBENT PROTECTION ACT.
MCCAIN-KENNEDY: The most far-reaching amnesty program in American history.
MCCAIN-LIEBERMAN: The most onerous and intrusive attack on American industry — through reporting, regulating, and taxing authority of greenhouse gases — in American history.
MCCAIN-KENNEDY-EDWARDS: The biggest boon to the trial bar since the tobacco settlement, under the rubric of a patients’ bill of rights.
MCCAIN-REIMPORTANTION OF DRUGS: A significant blow to pharmaceutical research and development, not to mention consumer safety.”
MCCAIN CONSISTENTLY HOSTILE TO AMERICAN ENTERPRISE: From media and pharmaceutical companies to technology and energy companies.” How many of us can forget the Gang of 14 debacle? The Gang of 14 “prevented the Republican leadership in the Senate from mounting a rule change that would have ended the systematic use (actual and threatened) of the filibuster to prevent majority approval of judicial nominees.”
ONLY ONE POLICY STRENGTH: McCain’s early support for a surge and counterinsurgency. It has now evolved into McCain taking credit for forcing the president to adopt General David Petraeus’s strategy,” but THERE IS NO EVEIDENCE to support HIS CLAIM.
MCCAIN-ACLU: The unprecedented granting of due-process rights to unlawful enemy combatants (terrorists). McCain has repeatedly called for the immediate closing of [Club Gitmo] and the introduction of Al-Qaeda terrorists into our own prisons — despite the legal rights they would immediately gain and the burdens of managing such a dangerous population.”
Source: Mark Levin American Standard 1/10/08

If it scares you to see American voters voting for Pastors,why then doesn’t it bother you,if we should vote for a Bishop….Like Bishop Romney…..Thats Baloney….Bishop Romney has too big a closet of baggage for my liking

Hey Willis,

You need to get your facts straight. By the way, mormons have never been racist. Blacks have always been welcome in LDS congregations and from the beginning of the church LDS leaders were AGAINST SLAVERY!!!!!
Yeah, the same time blacks in the south were whipped and beaten. Do your own research. Your comments have no merit.

come on fox news, get off the McCain&Huckabee band wagon, all McCain has to his credit is supporting the surage{which I do}, Huckabeee is just a plain begot liberal from Ark. Ronneay is the only one who is right on all the issues

Good piece R.J.
You said it all very well! We are ALL Americans ! The right to practice our religion without
predjudice is what we are all about!
I am a resident of Massachusetts and I can tell you Mitt Romney has done a good job here and
I think he is the best man for the Oval Office! Go Mitt!!!!

Butch,
You refuted two of the things I mentioned so I will clarify them for you:
1.) That Huckabee is not truthful about his tax record. You mis-read what I wrote. I wasn’t talking about him inheriting some 80% of taxes or deficit or whatever you said, what I said was, he has claimed that he raised taxes (for roads) AFTER 80% of the people voted for it. Since you didn’t actually go to the link at factcheck.org I will put most of what they say here: I will be gracious too and give you some of the positive things about Huckabee. Politicians can all exaggerate and get figures mixed up, but Huckabee has been DISHONEST about his record and as he parades around pronouncing himself as above all of that and calling Romney dishonest, I think people should know who they are really voting for. Here’s factcheck:

[ The former Arkansas governor is fond of saying – in debates, on his Web site and in that Nov. 18 Fox News interview – that he cut taxes "almost 94 times in my state." (On his site, he rounds up to "nearly 100 times," adding that he saved "the people of Arkansas almost $380 million.")

That turns out to be far from the whole story. The Arkansas Department of Finance and Administration found that 90 tax cuts were enacted in legislative sessions from 1997 through 2005, while Huckabee was governor, and those cuts reduced tax revenues by $378 million. But Huckabee fails to mention the 21 tax increases that occurred under his watch and that raised revenues by substantially more. The total net tax increase under Huckabee's tenure was an estimated $505.1 million, says the Department of Finance and Administration's Whitney McLaughlin, adding that the figure has been adjusted for inflation.

But it’s Huckabee who’s out of step with the facts.
Huckabee has claimed in campaign appearances and on Fox News that these increases were part of a statewide referendum that passed with 80 percent voter approvalWhen we put that out there for the people to decide whether they wanted to affirm it, they did by an 80 percent vote, I would call that leadership.

We would call that not true. Huckabee is right that about 80 percent of Arkansas voters approved a referendum to increase funding for highway repair. But the referendum happened after the gas tax hike had already become law. But Huckabee actually campaigned against sending the gas tax proposal to the voters. Eventually he supported a plan under which the gas and diesel tax increases would take effect regardless of whether the bond passed.

He Obeys the Law, Too

In that Fox News Sunday interview, Huckabee said that he balanced the state budget “every single year of my 10.5 years as governor,” a boast that he has repeated on the campaign trail. What Huckabee forgot to mention is that the Arkansas Constitution has a balanced budget requirement. The state can run a deficit only if a majority of voters approve such a move in a statewide election. To his credit, Huckabee does sometimes acknowledge the balanced budget requirement. But to our ears, trying to claim credit for obeying your state’s constitution is a bit like bragging that you obey the law of gravity.

Hey Big Spender

The Arkansas Democrat-Gazette combed through a list of those 90 tax cuts, finding that a number of them pertained to very specific taxes and relatively small amounts. (We asked the Huckabee campaign for its tax tally, but we didn't get a response.) The newspaper does give Huckabee credit for spearheading "one of the largest tax cuts in Arkansas history," an income-tax cut that amounted to $90.6 million in one year alone.

Huckabee's critics, however, have done some exaggerating of their own. That press release from former Tennessee Sen. Thompson accuses Huckabee of more than doubling state spending, from $6.6 billion to $16.1 billion at the end of 2006. But those numbers aren't correct. When we talked to Mike Stormes, the administrator of the Office of Budget for the state of Arkansas, we discovered a different story. In fact, after adjusting for inflation, we found that spending in fiscal year 1998 (the first budget for which Huckabee was responsible) was actually $10.4 billion, while spending at the end of 2006 was $15.6 billion. That’s a big increase, but it’s a far cry from doubling state spending.

It’s worth noting, too, that Huckabee, despite facing a $200 million shortfall in 2002, ended his term with a surplus of $844.5 million. A billion dollar turnaround is, we think, a noteworthy accomplishment. ]

2.) As to my BLIND follower comment and your response. All of your scripture quoting only points to the fact that Mormons believe their doctrine to be the MOST correct of any on the earth. Do you know what? Baptists believe THEIR doctrine to be the MOST correct of any other religion’s, so do Catholics. One distinction should be made though– Mormons don’t denegrate Baptists and say that they are a cult just because they have a different view of the Godhead etc.

My point about the followers being BLIND is the fact that during all of the campaigning in Iowa, I heard NOTHING about Huckabee’s record as governor, his plans on immigration, economy–nothing. The ONLY thing he ran on was that he was a former Baptist minister and was The Christian candidate. The media didn’t cover anything really helping voters determine his credentials until after the caucuses and into NH. So, all those evangelicals who voted for him in Iowa weren’t basing it on much other than his religion. When Romney tried to show Huckabee’s record everyone was up in arms about how ‘negative’ they were. They were contrast ads for crying out loud and none of them attacked his character or made snide remarks– all of which Huckabee has done towards Romney.

I would be just as disappointed in LDS voters supporting Romney, just because he is Mormon. I do favor the LDS approach to strictly avoiding using church association for endorsing political candidates. They are encouraged to use their own judgement, as well as be prayerful.

If you think that Romney will push religion on you as President, are you getting that from how he is NOT pushing religion on anyone during his campaigning or while he was a business owner or Governor? What evidence do you have that that would happen or is that comment coming purely out of fear? Here is a whole website dedicated to famous Mormons, you would be amazed at how many there are and how few instances you have EVER seen of any of them doing ANY such thing.

http://www.famousmormons.net

Honestly how can the President of the United States push some specific religious doctrine on the people of AMERICA?

My point is that voters are not being objective about who is the most well-rounded, has the most breadth of knowledge and proven track record of successes. Who has the best policies on illegal immigration, Iraq and terrorism, on the economy? If he/she isn’t even open enough to honestly look at all of the candidates and evaluate them he/she is a bigot. If someone thinks that person in Romney– and yet he/she doesn’t vote for him because he is a Mormon– he or she is further evidence of the religious bigotry that is alive and well in this country.

People talk like Romney still not being able to win Iowa– even though he spent that much $ is somehow evidence that the Iowans clearly saw that Huckabee is the better candidate. That is CRAP. It wouldn’t have mattered how much more $ Romney would have spent in Iowa to get people to look at Huckabee’s record. NO ONE was being objective and suspending judgement long enough to really analyze the two. The media did not help. That’s why I referred to them (the Iowa evangelicals) as BLIND followers…

H Sessions,
The facts about Mormons/Blacks,that I commented on came,right from,Joseph Fielding Smith’s publication “the way to perfection”P.102….which states that ..The Black race is a cursed people .
Oh you’re right Black people were allowed to attend the Church,and to give of their money,but it was not until 1978,when it became expedient for the Mormon Church to open the priesthood to blacks,through a revelation,that they were allowed to be anythig else….You, do some research,this info comes right out of Mormon literature….However like all fase doctrine,this contradicts other doctrine witin the Church,this contradicted,what is referred to as, the established Mormon doctrine….If you’re not aware of these things then you owe it to yourself to see what you’re involved in,or at least check it out and justify it…..I’m looking at this as I’m relaying it to you, so are you telling me that Joseph Fielding Smith is or was a liar….these are facts Mr Sessions,and not just my opinion…..and there’s a lot more,and when it applies to the subject I’ll comment on it