Huckabee is the Repug flavor of the moment: Too bad he tastes like dirt

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A Southern Baptist Freeper who would like to jam with Keith Richards... and yes, that's a big problem (read likeability factor).


Prediction: The MSM puff pieces will be coming out of the woodwork like cockroaches this week. (I have already seen a particularly blowjoby one by Anderson Cooper)

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And here is some of the Dirt on the golden boy...:




Huckabee offered 'no-cost' deal for Mexican Consulate
Developer confirms role, legislator raps ex-governor for using taxpayer funds for illegals
Posted: November 13, 2007
1:00 a.m. Eastern


Former Gov. Mike Huckabee
An Arkansas commercial developer confirmed his role in a no-cost "incentive deal" packaged by former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee to attract a Mexican Consulate to Little Rock.

Meanwhile, an Arkansas legislator expressed concern that Huckabee used taxpayer funds inappropriately in a plan ultimately designed to assist illegal immigrants in Arkansas.

Bruce Burrow told WND his commercial real estate company acquired the land and developed the Mexican consulate building in Little Rock at the request of Huckabee, in a deal the then-governor engineered to make sure he snared the Mexican consulate away from other states.

"I agreed to do the project at no cost," Burrow told WND, confirming his involvement in the Huckabee plan... http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=58657

But the more we learn about Gov. Huckabee, the more apparent it becomes the Hillary Clinton camp must be salivating at the prospect of facing him in the general election. Why?

Several stories are swirling around Huckabee which raise serious questions about his judgement and ethics. The first is Huckabee's personal Willy Horton story. Several years ago, for reasons that are still unclear, Huckabee intervened in the case of a convicted rapist named Wayne Dumond. After Dumond made parole, he went on to rape again. The next time, he also murdered his victim:

...the Times new reporting shows the extent to which Huckabee and a key aide were involved in the process to win Dumonds release. It was a process marked by deviation from accepted parole practice and direct personal lobbying by the governor, in an apparently illegal and unrecorded closed-door meeting with the parole board (the informal name by which the Post Prison Transfer Board is known).


Why Huckabee is not only still standing --- but running strong ---- is also unclear. Other questions surrounding his tenure are even more puzzling. One is why, earlier this year as Gov. Huckabee was leaving office, he apparently ordered the destruction of more than 100 computers in the governor's office:

As you'll remember, in early January 2007, as his tenure as governor ran out, Huckabee ordered his staff to electronically wipe and then crush the hard drives of almost 100 laptop and desktop computers in the governor's office (soon after taking office, incoming governor Mike Beebe had to allocate $335,000 from his operating fund to buy new hard drives and computers to replace those crushed by his successor). At the time, Huckabee said that the decision to crush the hard drives was made in order to protect the privacy of those who had personal information on the drives. Critics, however, recalled that early in Huckabee's term as governor, documents, e-mails and memos stored on hard drives just like the ones that were destroyed formed the basis of embarrassing stories about Huckabee, including a 1998 story in the Arkansas Times detailing how Huckabee and his family were using the $60,000-a-year Governor's Mansion fund as their personal piggy bank.
... http://www.huffingtonpost.com/bonnie-erbe/why-is-huckabee-left-stan_b_70261.html?load=1&page=2

Hill v. Huck? Look out.

Even wired, as he sure seemed to be, Bush was absolutely no match for Kerry. We're still defining Kerry was right moments from that debate - North Korea was the most recent, though it also seems that his Iran answer is even better in light of the recent reports.

Even though the Republicans attacked it, his answer on when going to war was appropriate was good. In retrospect (using his Pepperdine speech), he seemed to base the decision both on international law and on secularized version of St Augustine's view of just war. (global test) I suspect that this type of philosophical will come up in 2008. In 2004, it was harder as over half of the country had been for the invasion at some earlier point and that point was recent enough that they still remembered they had.

We CANNOT rely on the skeletons in even the crookedest of Repiglickins ever seeing the light of day.
The Repiggie media does not speak of such things.

Republics without skeletons, live boys or dead hookers in their closet is the short list.

Gotta head off huckabee at the pass. Or somewhere, before the juggernaut becomes unstoppable. I'm sorry - I don't mean to sound alarmist, but huckabee is BIG TROUBLE. Mainly because he's "likeable." He's VERY "likeable." And for some dunces out there with voter registration cards, that's all they need to know.

Let's hear it for oppositional research!

Hillary= nagging mom
Obama= the smart boy you wanted to give a wedgy to every day in grade school
Edwards= the smart 'pretty' boy who also should have gotten the wedgy, but instead he got all the girls (and maybe the boys too)...


Yikes! Huckabee is dangerous with a dumbed-down electorate.

That IS the gist of the "big three." You might even say it's "Snow White and the Seven Dwarves" on our side.

I've noticed something curious, though.

CNN has recently hired a young man to coanchor in middays who seems to be a physical tip-of-the-hat to Obama. He's young, with a broad, bright smile, large ears that kinda stick out, very close-cropped hair, skinny, and fairly light-skinned for an African-American. Pleasant looking. Not matinee-idol handsome, just nice looking. I just noticed him for the first time this morning and didn't catch his name. I think there's something subliminal going on here. I noticed it during the Clinton era also. John King was the White House Correspondent. If you looked at him closely, you noticed the height - he's a tall man, large head, big bulbous nose, and similar haircut and hair coloring, and similar face shape to Bill Clinton. Presently, I'd give it to correspondent Jeanne Meserve, who at first glance looks like she could be laura bush's sister.

It may be nothing, but it just really stuck out, to me. Not sure what's going on, or even if it's a conscious decision among the CNN brass. Maybe I'm just reading into things. But it seemed awfully curious and a little too coincidental to me.

Any potential storm in a port.

Dream on, y'all. Huckabee is so lame and papery he makes Dennis Kucinich look like an Alpha Male. He couldn't win a
debate in high school, let alone a Presidential debate against any of the Democratic front runners.

:(

and that's a problem for us...



'We' know what he really is, but does the American voter? I remember the idiots who voted for Gov. Bush in 2000. Anyone who lived in TX knew what a disaster he would be... The media turned him into Opie Taylor instead of the Barney Fife he was :(

As for anyone who lives in Texas, my Texas GOP relatives are all voting for Ron Paul (write in or not) no matter
who the GOP nominee is. My Democratic Texas kin are voting for the Democrat. All my other southern relatives are
Democrats (some moved to that side of the board during the long Bush nightmare).

This isn't 2000 (even then, they had to cheat to push the bully boy in). I realize there are some who want us to
think this is going to be a closer race than it's going to be but, if it's Huckageewhiz as the GOPher, it's going to be an easy
ride for the Democrat.

Not by a longshot. People don't learn anymore. Critical thinking seems to be a thing of the past. Maybe it takes too much time or it's "hard werk." Short Attention-Span Theater is the order of the day. The last seven years are hardly even a memory when it comes to judging character. They fell for "nice" and "aw shucks" the last two times from the folksy, drawling, appealing, "common-touch" fun guy you could go have a beer with. And it looks like they're doing it AGAIN.

Hillary is now asking "since when does being able to run for president qualify you to be president?" A companion question to that ought to be "since when does your being considered 'nice' enough to go have a beer with qualify you to be president?" I know LOTS of people I'd enjoy going to have a drink with, but I'd hardly consider them presidential material!!!

Unfortunately with the comparison between huckabee and Kucinich, I would LOVE-LOVE-LOVE to see Kucinich's numbers for interest and likeability and competitiveness up where huckabee's are. Nobody speaks of Kucinich as a contender or a comer or a surprise leader. The numbers ARE there, unfortunately, for huckabee.

I agree with you that huckabee is lame and papery. But you and I and others here (who are NOT taken in by his schtick) are trying to pay attention, as opposed to the hoards of simplistic thinkers who don't bother to research or look beneath the surface and just go with their gut. Those people simply do not. Sadly, they have "other priorities." And depending on what kind of audience is judging that high school debate, huckabee with his folksy humor and his well-tested aw shucks schtick WOULD INDEED win that debate. Truly, that's all some people need to see. We've already witnessed that in the last two presidential elections. It sucks, but it's true. And while thompson hasn't caught on (I'm very pleased and relieved about that), huckabee has. thompson isn't going anywhere. huckabee is. He IS dangerous. He IS a big problem. I'm not overdoing it or overstating it. We need to find his weaknesses and exploit them loudly and aggressively for all they're worth.

DO NOT underestimate this guy. If you do, then get ready for every presidential press conference, gathering, speech, and appearance turn into a frickin' revival meeting, and see America turn time back - all the way to those "good ol' days" in the 12th Century.

The enemy is always tossing out these boogeymen to terrify liberals because they know we're more easily discouraged (mainly because we think for ourselves). It's a constant methodology of psych ops. They're only as big and scary as we let them be.

In reality, they're not big and scary at all unless we want to see them that way for our own reasons.

http://www.salon.com/opinion/feature/2007/11/13/huckabee/print.html
The dark side of Huckabee ~ Max Brantley


Besides DuMond, he's let out hundreds of criminals from prison, including at least 12 murderers.
He's a low-class flim-flammer who wants to live off the public largesse forever. And his wife is an A#1 _itch!

he is one smart smooth politician.
Guliani should buy him a big box of candy for putting the knife in Romney so effortlessly.

The dark side of Arkansas would be interesting to hear about in a Hillary/Huckabee showdown.

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NGU.