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Just another reason why Mike Huckabee is the GOP candidate that steals every debate with his folksy way of relating his position on tough issues.  When asked about whether or not we should pull our troops out of Iraq, the former Arkansas governor told a story about how as a child his mother would harp on him to be careful about what he touched while shopping at the local store, “remember if you break it, you bought it,” was what mother Huckabee would tell her son when they were in the vicinity of something costly on a store’s shelf.

Tonight in the GOP presidential debate (yes for the first time I saw something less than a CPC - Competitive Press Conference, and more of a debate) from New Hampshire that’s how Huckabee explained why the USA must stay the course Iraq.  In essence. it’s our mess, and it’s our responsibility to clean it up.  When Texas congressman Ron Paul challenged him by saying that it was a minority that took us into this war and it’s their responsibility not ours, Huckabeee wasted no time in knocking him down by stating that the minority was elected by the majority and thus it is our responsibility to fulfill the commitments they’ve made - that’s what being an American is all about.

Governor Huckabee’s position so closely mirrors how I feel about Iraq that he had me applauding at my TV.  Wow, somebody gets it.  As I said in this post:

Even though I was against the war in Iraq before it started, I’ve been a supporter of our efforts there since for one simple reason, we created this mess and it’s our responsibility to fix it. Democrats are as culpable in this quagmire as are Republicans. Both parties voted to authorize the President to go into Iraq. Nobody held a gun to their heads, they voted and he acted. Unfortunately now, nobody (except for folks like Joe Lieberman, John McCain and the President) has the stones to stick it out. And how are Joe, John and George treated by the general public? Pariahs at best, and criminals at worst. Simply because they believe it is our responsibility to clean up after ourselves.

Add Governor Huckabee to the list of those who realize it’s our responsibility to clean up after ourselves.

Go Mike Go!