DEMS HOLD FIRE ON HUCKABEE; SEE 'EASY KILL' IN GENERAL ELECTION
Posted on 12/10/2007 10:57:40 PM PST by Plutarch
Wow. Good work. I’m impressed. The “before” and “after” photos are striking. Usually when people lose weight they look younger; Huckabee appears to have aged 20 years.
The more important issue is WHY Republican primary voters want a nominee with losing weight as a signature issue, AT A TIME OF WAR????
He could simply instruct his doctor to release the xray that was taken at the time of his hernia.
No Stripping Necessary. (Thank God!)
The Drudge headline this morning exclaims that the Dems are holding fire from Huckabee until after the nomination because he is such an easy target. We must vet our candidate NOW so that we have a chance in the general election. If Huckabee has been dishonest about his weight loss, his character is suspect and he has been living a lie. And we would have to presume if he lies about this signature issue then, he will lie about anything. Great job Plutarch!
DEMS HOLD FIRE ON HUCKABEE; SEE 'EASY KILL' IN GENERAL ELECTION
His character already is suspect. He lies like a democrat.
The trouble there is the man is a know lier. Just the other day he said he wasn't for amnesty, then within a matter of hours he was for amnesty, today who knows. Depend of what tyson tells him to say.
I agree.
Not to defend the Huckster, but some years ago I was considered morbidly obese, went on Atkins (no diet drugs, no surgery, nothing but changing eating habits and then, as energy levels picked up, increasing exercise), and lost close to 100 pounds in about 4-5 months. After that, it slowed down considerably, taking another year to lose the next 50 pounds.
If you find the right diet for you and you are way, way overweight, a huge initial loss is not out of the question.
Good grief! Who the heck cares how he lost weight? If I were to consider voting for him, his weight, and how he lost it, would be the least of my concerns. As it turns out, I don’t like him because I don’t trust him on the issues, so he won’t get my vote in the primary. If he’s the last man standing as the nominee when the General election rolls around, then I’ll vote for him.
This is why it matters, per Plutarch’s post:
RAMIFICATIONS OF A HUCKABEE DISCLOSURE:
If Huckabee the nominee is eventually forced to admit that he mischaracterized the details of his weight loss saga, the magnitude of the negative political impact is unknown. Perhaps it wouldn’t much matter, voters would accept and forget. Perhaps otherwise, it doesn’t take too much imagination to think of what hay political opponents could of it. It is just as easy to imagine a revelation would make the general election season a perpetual Christmas for Democrats.
Should they wish to attack Huckabee’s veracity, integrity, credibility, qualifications, issues, health status, suitability for office, or even person, Huckabee’s acknowledgement of deception provides the solid footing to drive home attacks into what would prove to be the Huckabee campaign’s soft underbelly. A thousand articles would begin “Huckabee, who admitted deceit regarding his gastric bypass surgery…” and would follow with further accusations that the campaign would have to defend from back on its heels.
It is easy to see the lines of attack that flow directly from an admission of gastric bypass surgery, and that a Huckabee GOP Nominee could scarcely defend:
1. Huckabee the former preacher even now has a perception of being an Elmer Gantry. Being the perpetrator of a diet scam will complete the template, which will be used endlessly.
2. Democrat attack ad: “Huckabee’s Arkansas health plan was to secretly have gastric bypass surgery, and then blame Arkansans still obese for high health care costs.”
3. The Democrats and media will find victims. Obese Arkansans will be interviewed, who felt humiliated for remaining fat after the Governor falsely claimed that his weight loss proved “anyone can”.
4. Huckabee will have been shown to falsify his Presidential resume with his spurious weight loss achievement. People who falsify resumes are fired, not elevated to the Nation’s highest office.
5. Bariatric surgery is associated with high rates of hospitalization, increased long term mortality, and anemia, osteoporosis, nutritional deficiencies, and neurological complications. The media will helpfully run features emphasizing these risks.
6. Huckabee will have falsified his medical history to voters. Thompson admitted he had Non-Hodgkins Lymphoma, Giuliani prostate cancer and McCain melanoma. Bariatric surgery is of similar medical impact, and Huckabee has no excuse to hide his status from voters.
Or should it be called: "If I did it" diet book...
Charts...graphs...and tons more bandwidth because the man lost weight and gained some health back.
Ridiculous.
Well, I wasn’t going to vote for him in the primary anyway, but if, by some outside chance, he makes it to the General, even HE is more acceptable to me than the Clinton Criminal enterprise.
NOW THIS ONE WORKS...
Huckabee did more than simply get "get his health back" (though the pics don't look that healthy). Huckabee has denied having gastric bypass, and used his diet/exercise saga for PR, politics and policy. If turns out he did have gastric bypass, he would be caught in a big fat lie.
Do you think being branded a lier might be a problem for our nominee, once the Dems and MSM stop holding back and start laying in?
Per Drudge today:
"He'll easily be their McGovern, an easy kill," mocked one senior Democrat operative Tuesday morning from Washington.
"His letting out murderers because they shout 'Jesus', his wanting to put 300,000 AIDS patients and Magic Johnson into isolation, ain't even scratching the surface of what we've got on him."
This might well be one of the things they've got on him. Neither you nor I know how effectively it can be used against him. In either case Huckabee has a duty to the GOP to set the record straight before the primary voting begins. Don't you agree?
A liar will not be believed, even when he speaks the truth. --Aesop
Excellent reporting. This should be circulated wide and far, the MSM will not tell the public the medical facts if they feel it is in their interest to push a favored figure. Remember in 2004 the media was so in the tank for the Democrats that they would not disclose the obvious implication that John and Elizabeth Edwards had had their replacement son, and third daughter, through donor egg therapy. No, it was just a ‘miracle’ that helped them through their grief.
You don’t think pumping her 48-year old and then 51-year old body up with oceans of synthetic hormones might have had something to do with her developing breast cancer? And that that responsibly disclosing that might save untold numbers of women from developing that disease if they knew the risks?
It has to do with character and being honest had he not written a book on the subject who would care!
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