My View, from Fox 13's John Wilson

The first votes for president are just a few weeks away and talk of religion and faith are now driving debate and discussion.

The former governor of Arkansas and former Baptist preacher, Mike Hucakabee, is looking more and more like a real Republican contender and he may even win Iowa.  He's leading the polls right now after last week's debate.

Mitt Romney focused on his own Mormon faith this week. It is risky for 'em to talk about faith and Huckabee outright refused to do it when asked what he thought of Romney's faith.  He said no president should question another's faith.  Huckabee scored some points with that.

Critics pointed out in 1961 that John Kennedy was a Catholic and the United States never had a Catholic president before -- which really was a silly argument then that's even more silly today.  Kennedy went on to beat Richard Nixon by a narrow margin, became the first Catholic president of the United States, and that was the end of that subject.
 
We have to cut through the fog of campaign warfare because candidates will say things just to get attention and to get elected, which somehow excuses them from saying things they later regret or things they really didn't mean and later just forgot.

Rudolph Giuliani is carrying some baggage, but does have the most experience of any of them dealing directly with terrorism.  But Giuliani has to explain his relationship with a former business partner who was indicted, his own recordkeeping when he was mayor, and security expenses for visiting a girlfriend who became his third wife.

And Hillary Clinton will have some explaining to do, too, because the National Archives is dragging its feet to release papers containing notes between her and Pres. Clinton, which could very well explain the role she may have played in major policy decisions.

So, here are two leading contenders for president both facing controversies about secrecy and disclosures -- the very thing that Pres. Bush has been criticized for.

A president should say what he means and mean what he says, which some believe is the worst failure of the presidency of George Bush.

And now here is that very same issue of honesty facing Hillary Clinton and Rudolph Giuliani in particular, and it could boost the campaign of the former Baptist preacher from Arkansas, Mike Huckabee, who as of this moment, has no controversies hanging over him except perhaps for the release, of a convicted rapist who killed someone, when he was governor. 

But this dash to the white house has a long way to go.  Polls don't mean much at this point.  Republicans have to decide not only who would make the best president, but which one would be the best candidate to take on Hillary Clinton because she is leading in all national polls.