15 posts tagged “huckabee”

Paul at Powerline writes about the "double-edged sword" that Giuliani has lived by during the recent events in the Republican primaries:

...Huckabee's rise could signal trouble for Giuliani. That's because of the backlash to Huckabee's rise, and the backlash to that backlash. The rise of Huckabee has produced extremely harsh criticism of the former Arkansas governor on multiple grounds, though not by Giuliani personally. That criticism (along with Huckabee's rather self-pitying response to it) appears to be fueling resentment on the part of some evangelical voters and perhaps other social conservatives. The notion, as articulated by Huckabee, is that evangelicals are expected dutifully to "suck it up" and support the Republican nominee whatever his level of commitment to social conservatism, but as soon as one of "their own" seeks the nomination, he is slapped down by the party "elite." As I've noted, this theme makes little sense, but there it is.

But let us not forget who supports Giuliani, none other than Pat Robertson.  If Robertson has any pull with the social conservatives, you would think that this notion of social conservatives "seeking their own" would be bunk?  You would think that Giuliani would have their support...?

Well, in any event, it looks like Robertson has heard something through his prayers, and it sounds like it might not be good for the Republicans.  But then again, maybe it was wishful thinking on his part that the message was not from god anyway.  ;) 

Watch the video.

Hmmm...  It didn't look good for "HC" either.  President Obama in our future, perhaps? 

So Pat... it goes from god...  to you...  to "my lips are sealed"...  to back to fasting/prayer in hope for another answer?

Ouch...

“I expect that by the time this is finished, I’ll be the one with the nomination. See you in New Hampshire.”

This is just the first battle in a long war...  see you on the other side.

What a guy.

Rollins let the f-bomb fly twice and told his blonde female dining companion a joke about flying the Confederate flag in the South Carolina state capitol.

That will win over America...  Good job.

The *only* thing I like about Huckabee is his unorthodox stance on taxes (promoting the Fair Tax); however, there are a million reasons why I don't like him, including that if nominated he will ensure a Democrat becomes president.

I have been very critical of Huckabee on this blog.  And I think it just criticism.

He represents and personifies what I do not believe in.  I am a tolerant person and I do tend to look past religion when it comes to politicians (all of them do have a religion), but there is something that doesn't seem right to me about Huckabee.  Maybe it is because he is a minister.  Maybe it is his rhetoric. 

And his shady ethics (especially since he is religious) doesn't help his cause.

I read this earlier in an Associated Press article:

"The key issue of real faith is that it never can be forced on someone. And never would I want to use the government institutions to impose mine or anybody else's faith or to restrict," Huckabee said.

Those skeptical of the role of faith in his presidency, he said, should look at his record in Arkansas.

"I didn't ever propose a bill that we would remove the Capitol dome of Arkansas and replace it with a steeple," he said. "You know, we didn't do tent revivals on the grounds of the Capitol."

It sounds great at first, but his example to back up his record means absolutely nothing.  It is just rhetoric -- not substance.

It is like saying I reached out to all you tree huggers by not proposing a bill that would have required you to slash and burn all of your shrubbery.

And then he had this to say in the same article:

In the NBC interview, Huckabee, a longtime opponent of legalized abortion, said he does not believe that women should be punished for undergoing the procedure, but that doctors might need to face sanctions.

"I don't know that you'd put him in prison, but there's something to me untoward about a person who has committed himself to healing people and to making people alive who would take money to take an innocent life and to make that life dead," Huckabee said.

Wait a second.  Doctors don't just spontaneously perform abortions at will.  It takes two to tango, yet it is the physicians who should be punished?  This is called a pro-life politician trying to walk the line.  And failing...  I mean there is a good number of conservative women who are pro-choice and you wouldn't want to make it sound like you would punish women, would you?

All of you believers like Huckabee for his Christian beliefs.  But the irony of Huckabee is going to be this -- if he is nominated because he is the most aligned with the base's religious beliefs  -- he will lose the general election (and by a landslide).  And the Democratic nominee will give you Supreme Court judges that will move the court further to the left on social issues.

Oh, the irony.

Huckabee is the quintessential right-wing social conservative with a left-wing, big government record.  Something that gives me the willies all over.  Especially, when he lives by comments like this:  "I hope we answer the alarm clock and take this nation back for Christ."

I think most of America has had enough of that mentality with Bush and I would consider Huckabee worse than Bush when it comes to religion.  The line will be crossed and moderates/independents will shift their votes.

Well...

I am a pro-choice, atheist conservative and I will be voting in the primary as such.  And if Huckabee wins the nomination or is asked to be the on the ticket as a VP, I will not be voting for a Republican in the general election. 

(I won't be voting for Clinton either)

It's those, err, CIA numbers... 

Are you kidding me?  Just embarrassing...

Dear Huck:

If we were playing Jeopardy... the correct answer would be:  "What is... never point your firearm at something you do not intend to shoot?"

Jim Tankersley on Huckabee's pheasant hunt:

Republican Mike Huckabee took his presidential campaign for a quick pheasant-hunting expedition in Iowa on Wednesday, and at one point, a reporter asked why he hadn’t invited sporting enthusiast Dick Cheney along. "Because I want to survive all the way through this," Huckabee replied, in a chuckling dig at the vice president’s accidental shooting of a quail-hunting partner last year.

Any good sportsman, though, couldn’t miss a distinctly Cheneyesque moment in the press accounts of the former Arkansas governor’s morning hunt: At one point, Huckabee’s party turned toward a cluster of reporters and cameramen and, when they kicked up a pheasant, fired shotgun blasts over the group’s heads.

This, friends, is dangerously bad hunting form.

Next round...  Double Jeopardy.  Where the stakes are even higher and include a Republican Party nomination for President of the United States. 

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Dear Huck:

If we were playing Jeopardy... the correct answer would be:  "What is... the western border?"

The more I watch this guy, the more I wonder why he leads in polls.  I thought conservative voters were a lot smarter...

Huckabee on the Bhutto assassination:

With about 150 supporters crowded around a podium set up on the tarmac of Orlando Executive airport (and about 20 Ron Paul supporters waving signs outside) Mike Huckabee strode out to the strains of “Right Now” by Van Halen and immediately addressed the Bhutto situation, expressing “our sincere concern and apologies for what has happened in Pakistan.”

Apologies?  What fault or offense is there for the United States in this situation?

Either he misspoke or he didn't.  Either way -- there is concern about how Huckabee would handle foreign policy in my book.  This is a tragic situation and our continued support for a democratic Pakistan cannot diminish in the face of this cowardice and radical terrorism. 

Can anyone speculate what support/role the U.S. may be forced into if the situation deteriorates in Pakistan with the Taliban gaining ground in the northwest provinces (especially if the government loses footing and looks as if it may fall)?  I wonder if the likes of Ron Paul and Mike Huckabee (with this theology degree and all) would step up to the plate if push comes to shove. 

A nuclear Taliban / al Qaeda is not something I think most Americans want to see.

In a country where Michael Vick has seen the long arm of the law because of his animal abuses, then Governor Huckabee used his power to squash an investigation against his son for apparently stringing up a dog and slitting its throat when he was a Boy Scout camp counselor?

According to a story by Newsweek, there are a lot of questions surrounding how Mike Huckabee handled the situation.  Including a later dismissal of John Bailey because he didn't do the governor's bidding?

...John Bailey, then the director of Arkansas's state police, tells NEWSWEEK that Governor Huckabee's chief of staff and personal lawyer both leaned on him to write a letter officially denying the local prosecutor's request. Bailey, a career officer who had been appointed chief by Huckabee's Democratic predecessor, said he viewed the lawyer's intervention as improper and terminated the conversation. Seven months later, he was called into Huckabee's office and fired. "I've lost confidence in your ability to do your job," Bailey says Huckabee told him. One reason Huckabee cited was "I couldn't get you to help me with my son when I had that problem," according to Bailey. "Without question, [Huckabee] was making a conscious attempt to keep the state police from investigating his son," says I. C. Smith, the former FBI chief in Little Rock, who worked closely with Bailey and called him a "courageous" and "very solid" professional.

I guess they don't award merit badges for *supposed* mercy killings of animals.  This act of dog abuse and death is absolutely disgusting in my book and he should have been punished by Arkansas law.

Now, David Huckabee's actions shouldn't disqualify his father from his quest for the Republican nomination.

However, if there was some sort of misuse of executive power in order to prevent a proper investigation?  Just more questions against his already shaky ethics.