AMES: Mike Huckabee's Stump Speech

By Marc Ambinder
Untitled.jpg Key lines: "A Republican in Arkansas feels about as out of place as Michael Vick at the Westminister Dog Show. "I can't buy you. I don't have the money. I can't even rent you. But today, the straw poll is a day that change all of that. The straw poll is not about electing a straw man. It's giving the voters of Iowa a chance to prove that they are mature voters.... who understand that they are buying the cereal, not just the box." Biggest applause line: "We need to go to a fair tax that is so simple a seven year old running a lemonade stand could understand it."

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