I liked everything I heard about Mike Huckabee, even before he started running in earnest for his Party's Nomination to be our next U.S. President. The more I learned about Mike Huckabee, the better I liked his candidacy. Further, he is a very well-spoken and persuasive guy, with that down-to-Earth Midwestern style I always liked about Ronald Reagan. Further, he opposes Abortion, like I do, which is a very important issue to my urban, ethnic male sensibilities. Plenty of Americana predates pro-Abort foolishness. Anybody who calls Huckabee either a Fundamentalist or a political Spoiler - say, for the likes of Mitt Romney - just does not 'get it' either as regards Huckabee, or Me. I like Mike Huckabee so much, I would like him nominated by either major American political party. Another possible Veep nominee I like a lot, is General Wesley Clark. Just about everything he said about America and our Bush Junior Presidency and our Foreign Policy Follies was spot-on right, when he ran for the Democratic Party Nomination for the Presidency. Wesley Clark would counterbalance the strengths of John McCain heading up the Republican Ticket, over on the opposing side, the Democratic Ticket. Maybe that is why the McCain campaign folks, and McCain himself, are turning up the pressure on Barack Obama to cut Wes Clark loose as a spokesperson for Obama in this campaign season. Mitt Romney was too corporate, too tightly wound, to self aggrandizingly ambitious, and too rich to please me as a Veep candidate. I mean, in order to avoid another "Willie Horton", the guy never pardoned or commuted even one person in Massachusetts prisons, to my knowledge, when he was Governor in that liberal State. If he could not defend mercy as the highest form of justice, then I certainly cannot defend Romney as a candidate for high office in my U.S. Executive offices. I thought Dennis Kucinich made an excellent case for himself, but like Ralph Nader, he just seems a tad too liberal for my own tastes. I respect them both. That former Alaskan Senator, Mike G, was quite persuasive as I saw it, in his analysis of America's political arc from Republic to Empire. I liked the ideologically pure Texas Congressman, until he chose to tread on Immigration and trash immigrants to curry favor with Republican Know Nothing, Radio Talk Show Listening Bigots. As a Third Party or Third Voice, I just heard from Lyndon LaRouche again the other day; Maybe we should include him in an after school special, if not in the debate proper? As to Presidential Debates, I think it is high time Americans resolutely DEMANDED the return of the respected LEAGUE OF WOMEN VOTERS to the RUNNING OF THE DEBATES, not only because they always proved capable of doing such a fine job before, but because ever since our two main American political parties conspired to evict the League of Women Voters from their running of the televised debate formats, the debates have degenerated into a sappy pablum of uninformative and less than helpful TV handler goopiness. The Campaigns and Political Parties are their own worst enemies in this respect. Bring back the League of Women Voters! By the way, at intermission in lieu of advertisements during the presidential televised debates, could we feature some of the more or less popular YouTube videos prophesizing or otherwise predicting our economic, political and cosmic demise? You know, the ones who predict Gold and Commodities will go sky-high along with barrels of oil; the ones who see the Year of Our Lord 2012 as Armageddon; the School of Survivalists; those like Lyndon LaRouche who see the Conspiracy against us Regular Americans thickening in the pot like a Witches' Brew? You know, I could write a column on a regular basis for Slate, and even dial it down a notch or two, in the interest of receiving a regular paycheck. Yours truly, Michael B. Del Camp 174 Brook Street Apt. 4, 3rd FLR Manchester, NH 03104-3715 (603) 647-8580 publisher_man@earthlink.net <link> and <link> and <link>