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Atman Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jul-10-07 08:08 AM
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Huckabee: We're fighting fanatics who want to combine religion and government.
Just now on MSNBC...

I thought he was running as a Republican???

:shrug:

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bryant69 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jul-10-07 08:10 AM
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1. No-hope republican
And then again, I'd be curious about the context; Limbaugh for example portrays both liberalism and environmentalism as religions.

Bryant
Check it out --> http://politicalcomment.blogspot.com
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Atman Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jul-10-07 08:12 AM
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4. Actually, the context was more Iraq bull-babble
The usual talking points about Al Qaeda and evil doers, but he expanded to explain how the people we are fighting are "fanatics who want to combine religion and government." I can't remember the rest of his remarks verbatim, but it sounded like he was describing the Republican party! The American Taliban.

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Ganja Ninja Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jul-10-07 08:35 AM
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11. For a minute there I thought he was bragging.
:crazy:
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Cooley Hurd Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jul-10-07 08:11 AM
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2. Huckabee's part of the brain that detects irony is clearly on the fritz...
:crazy:
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Canuckistanian Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jul-10-07 08:12 AM
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Welcome to the club
Edited on Tue Jul-10-07 08:12 AM by Canuckistanian
We feel your pain.
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papau Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jul-10-07 08:12 AM
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3. He is a GOP nut and wants to exclude from taxation 90% of the income of the rich called
"investment income" - claiming a consumption tax - as in a income tax that is only on wages or a sales tax - is so much better for the economy - and that people want "new ideas".
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AllegroRondo Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jul-10-07 08:15 AM
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5. just drop the word "fighting", and hes 100% correct
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rurallib Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jul-10-07 08:22 AM
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6. Huckabee's some kind of minister himself
He would be the perfect meld of church and state.
Oh, he meant someplace else. I see.
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Clark2008 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jul-10-07 08:25 AM
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7. Ummm... .isn't this the same nutcase who took a cell phone call
from God while speaking at the Republican Governor's Convention?

http://www.metafilter.com/31424/Gods-on-line-3-Satans-on-hold
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TechBear_Seattle Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jul-10-07 08:27 AM
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8. That massive expoding sound...
Was irony meters around the world blowing up at the exact same moment. :eyes:
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ComerPerro Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jul-10-07 08:31 AM
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9. was he talking about muslims?
Because, honestly, some of their biggest campaign issues (more religion in the public sector) are some of their biggest complaints about muslims.

Bill OhReally used to bitch all the time, for example, about how the problem with the middle east is that too many countries let the religion run their government. And then in the very next breath he will bitch about secular progressives and how they ruin our country by trying to take religion out of government
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BlooInBloo Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jul-10-07 08:32 AM
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10. When you're right, you're right.
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sinkingfeeling Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jul-10-07 08:38 AM
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12. Did he add, "like me"?
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melody Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jul-10-07 09:21 AM
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13. The irony is no doubt lost on him n/t
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JerseygirlCT Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jul-10-07 09:24 AM
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14. Huckabee is actually one savvy politician
While definitely a right-winger, and a very conservative Christian, he gets what lots of them don't: their rhetoric and anger are turning their people off, and definitely turning off people they'd like to recruit.

So he's changed his language.

Not that I think he's really changed his thinking, mind you. But he knows better than many how to sell it. He comes across as mild-mannered, soft-spoken, totally reasonable...

That's why he actually scares me more than the rest of that motley crew.
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bdamomma Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jul-10-07 09:28 AM
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15. is he talking about our regime here in the US?
sounds like it.
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spanone Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jul-10-07 09:31 AM
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16. So Huckabee is for impeachment too????????
i'm sure he's talking about bu$hco
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JNelson6563 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jul-10-07 09:34 AM
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17. You mean like "covenants" and such?
this is puke-worthy from Huckabee.
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