Is your opinion of Mike Huckabee's fiscal record shaped by reports from the Club for Growth? Maybe it's time for a little perspective:

If the Club for Growth had been around in 1980, Reagan might not have become President. The influential fiscal conservative group would surely have done everything in their power to prevent the Gipper from gaining the nomination. They would have attempted to derail Reagan's campaign just as they are now doing to Gov. Huckabee.

For several months the Club for Growth has been attacking Huckabee's bona fides as a fiscal conservative. In the process, they've slandered the Governor's record, deceived numerous trusting conservatives, and cast doubts on the organization's honesty and trustworthiness.

Read  Fiscally Flawed? — A Rebuttal to the Club for Growth for the rest of the story.

G.I. Joe's face came from a true American hero, Sgt. Mitchell Paige. Paige won the Medal of Honor for his actions on Guadalcanal, 65 years ago this week.

When Hasbro asked to use his likeness, his only condition was that G.I. Joe must always remain a United States Marine. Hollywood wants to make a live-action movie based on G.I. Joe, but they don't think it will sell well overseas, so they're going to call him "Action Man."

Making him a metrosexual isn't enough; apparently red-blooded American fighting men frighten overseas moviegoers, too…

"G.I. Joe is now a Brussels-based outfit that stands for Global Integrated Joint Operating Entity, an international co-ed force of operatives who use hi-tech equipment to battle Cobra, an evil organization headed by a double-crossing Scottish arms dealer."

Well, thank goodness the villain — no need to offend anyone by making our villains Arabs, Muslims, or foreign dictators of any stripe these days, though apparently Presbyterians who talk like Scottie on "Star Trek" are still OK — is a double-crossing arms dealer. Otherwise one might be tempted to conclude the geniuses at Paramount believe arms dealing itself is evil.

Read the whole story, by Vin Suprynowicz, at the Las Vegas Review Journal.

$1.00 for Mike Huckabee goes further than $7 for Romney.

Read  the last couple of paragraphs at Mullings: Finding a Needle in a Straw Poll and find out why.

I like John Fund's political analysis, but apparently he doesn't like Mike Huckabee. Lucas Roebuck does a good job of correcting the errors in Fund's Another Man from Hope.

Read The Roebuck Report: John Fund's assassination of Huckabee misleading.

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My wife and I have been discussing Mike Huckabee's run for President for several days. He was her pastor when she was a teenager, and has always liked him and supported him. She isn't a political junkie like me, so most of her endorsement consists of "I think God truly called him into politics back in the 90s, and is helping him now. He's a good man, and I think he's going to win."

My endorsement is much more considered, and I was going to put it into essay form when I read this:

When it comes to politics, we three are pragmatic idealists. We are dedicated to the pursuit of noble principles and goals while never forgetting that politics is the "art of the possible." Because we are idealists we are choosing to endorse a candidate who most aligns with our principles and values and is most worthy of our sacred trust. Because we are pragmatists we are choosing to endorse the one candidate who we believe is most capable of defeating Sen. Hillary Clinton.

Because we are pragmatic idealists we are endorsing Gov. Mike Huckabee.

The article is An Endorsement of Mike Huckabee - pretty much my thoughts, and they've saved me a couple of hours of writing and re-writing. (Thanks, guys!)

Also, I agree with my wife's opinion.

WuzzaDem rocks! Guess their retirement announcement was "nuanced."

A recent Ovaltine commercial has two moms making Ovaltine for the neighborhood kids.

The ladies are attractive — until the very end when they actually offer the rich, chocolate drink to the kids. Their wide-eyed enthusiasm looks borderline psychotic. Makes me want to stick to Nestle's Quick.

Lolterizts from reader DamnCat on IMAO.

N.O.W. - National Organization for Women - just in case you don't know who they are, and why this is irony.

Did I miss anything?