{"id":4364,"date":"2008-01-10T23:43:00","date_gmt":"2008-01-10T23:43:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/reformedchicksblabbing\/2008\/01\/wow-even-romney-apologist-thin.html"},"modified":"2008-01-10T23:43:00","modified_gmt":"2008-01-10T23:43:00","slug":"wow-even-romney-apologist-thin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/reformedchicksblabbing\/2008\/01\/wow-even-romney-apologist-thin.html","title":{"rendered":"Wow! Even Romney apologist thinks Fred won the debate"},"content":{"rendered":"

Hewitt stating the obvious<\/a>:<\/p>\n

Fred had a great night, Mitt a good one and Rudy did fine as well.
\n[…]
\nThe huge loser tonight was Mike Huckabee, thanks largely to Fred and Chris Wallace who peeled the bark off of Huck’s ideology. Huck bristled at Wallace at one point, and when pushed on why he raised taxes and spending, barked back, “I raised expectations.” That might work with Democrats –though it probably doesn’t in this day and age– but it sure doesn’t work with Republican voters. Huck’s whining about the religion question was also off-putting coming from a candidate who has so often injected religion into this campaign.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Actually I think Huckabee said that he raised hope (shades of Obama).
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