Mike Huckabee's positions

DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) - Republican presidential candidate Mike Huckabee, a Southern Baptist preacher who has surged in Iowa with evangelical Christian support, bristled Tuesday when asked if creationism should be taught in public schools.

Huckabee—who raised his hand at a debate last May when asked which candidates disbelieved the theory of evolution—asked this time why there is such a fascination with his beliefs.

"I believe God created the heavens and the Earth," he said at a news conference with Iowa pastors who murmured, "Amen."

"I wasn't there when he did it, so how he did it, I don't know," Huckabee said.

But he expressed frustration that he is asked about it so often, arguing with the questioner that it ultimately doesn't matter what his personal views are.

"That's an irrelevant question to ask me—I'm happy to answer what I believe, but what I believe is not what's going to be taught in 50 different states," Huckabee said. "Education is a state function. The more state it is, and the less federal it is, the better off we are."

And here is Mike's position on taxes -- and he supports the Fair Tax.

I'd like you to join me at the best "Going Out of Business" sale I can imagine - one held by the Internal Revenue Service. Am I running for president to shut down the federal government? Not exactly. But I am running to completely eliminate all federal income and payroll taxes. And do I mean all - personal federal, corporate federal, gift, estate, capital gains, alternative minimum, Social Security, Medicare, self-employment.

More on Mike's positions on different issues here:

I like how Mike capiskys Federalism - i.e. The pushing of power back to the states.

The federal government just keeps on pulling the power of the states, making them weaker and weaker - and they use every little loophole in the constitution to justify it (we're not giving the states federal road money if they don't comply to the speed limits and other ridiculous standards we set at the federal level.)

Mark Levin says the states would NEVER have ratified the constitution if, they thought for one second, they would be nothing more than administrative appendages of the federal government. (Which, it seems to me, they have become.)

Also -- notice that he used to be a fat guy -- so he understands *sniff* our plight. Now if we could just get him to toughen up a bit on illegal immigration -- he's against it but he needs to be a little tougher on it.