Posted on 01/12/2008 11:58:31 PM PST by County Agent Hank Kimball
I'll admit it: I've been critical of Mike Huckabee. Since learning of his record as Governor and of his statements since, I've harbored the opinion that he is more or less McCain Lite - every Democrat's favorite Republican. I've listened to him talk about banning smoking, about federally subsidized art programs, and about the need for federal action to fight "global warming," and what I've thought I heard was the consumate nanny-stater.
When he accused our president of having an "arrogant bunker mentality," and said we should close down Guantamnamo, I heard words that might well have been spoken by Nancy Pelosi. And when he called opponents of illegal immigration "nativists" and "racists," I heard the type of rhetoric I expected to hear from La Raza - or so I mistakenly believed.
When Huckabee used traditional Democrat class-warfare rhetoric, railing against "corporate greed," I erroneously suspected him of being a not-so-closeted leftist. I'm now ashamed to admit that his record of massive tax increases in Arkansas only served to magnify that suspicion.
Like many others, I was misled by his pardon of over a thousand convicts, many of whom were violent felons. In those pardons I saw a mushy-headed 60's-style liberalism in which an a priori belief in unlimited forgiveness overcame good, reality-based judgment.
How could I be so wrong?
I have Freeper MrArbitrage123 to thank for my conversion. In this tour de force posting he convinced me that I was wrong in my opposition to Huckabee.
What convinced me? His argument that most Americans are just too stupid to understand the benefits of capitalism? No, though that was special.
Was it his astute trashing of such conservative non-entities as Rush Limbaugh, Ann Coulter, Sean Hannity and Laura Ingraham? Not really, though as a conservative it was difficult not to agree that those folks have no real role in the conservative movement, and should be marginalized at all costs.
No, it was something else. While others have been going on about such subjects as immigration, abortion, federalism, taxes, etc., ONLY Mr. Arbitrage had the perspicacity to discern what is TRULY the most important issue facing our imperiled nation: The great Honeybee Holocaust of 2007
I quote Mr. Arbitrage123:
"On top of that (an impending depression) we have out of control oil prices, a policy of burning food as a fuel 'alternative' causing further escalation in food prices, a drought in Georgia of biblical proportions and while most people have no idea, 2/3 of the honey bees have been mysteriously dieing off causing potentially devastating inflation in its own right."
How could I bee so blind? It all ties together - and only Huckabee has had to vision to see it! Global Warming, cigarette smoking, the Georgia drought, federally subsidized clarinet lessons for illegal aliens - and of course, the beleaguered honeybees.
It's all so clear when you look at it through the prism of Huckabism. I wish there was some way I could go back and retract all those terrible things I've said about Huckabee. Alas I cannot, and you cannot begin to imagine my anguish.
I now gaze up at Huckabee's enormous face. Many months it has taken me to learn what kind of smile was hidden beneath those bushy eyebrows. O cruel, needless misunderstanding! O stubborn, selfwilled exile from the loving breast! Two tears are trickling down the sides of my nose. But it's all right, everything is all right, the struggle is finished. I've won the victory over myself.
I love Mike Huckabee.
Hank
Dude, there was enough manure in that piece to fertilize a field the size of Alaska.
Two phony liberal asshats. What isn’t clear about that ?
Romneys inability to empathize with common folk is longstanding... Once, he joked that a church-sponsored social group for older single adults he championed was a club for quitters and losers.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1952029/posts
If a Democrat is elected, the Republicans in the House and Senate will come up with a similar bill to counter the Democrat single payer government run program.
The bill you attack today may well be the one or very similar to what comes out of Congress in 2009.
You posted that Mormons are "morally superior people". Morally superior to who? Those that don't agree with you? Sorry, that is stupid and bigoted.
It's hard for me to fathom why people hate him so much, but then Huckabee has the same sort of cabal that writes essentially exaggerated or factually untrue crap about him her in Arkansas. Huckabee is a ass, but he did not do much of this nonsense written about him or the nonsense was mischaracterized intentionally.
Politics is played with sharp sticks and hard balls. You have to take it all with a grain.
I don't know you, so don't take it personal.
My statement stands.
If you can’t pay for it you shouldn’t get any.
As far as i’m concerned, health insurance and governent involvement in medicine should be illegal.
In the 30s, 40s, and 50s there wsn't any such thing as health insurance and health insurance and it was cheap and much better.
But why does he have to lie occasionally. I find that so upsetting. Like the story about marching with his Dad and Martin Luther King.
He didn’t have to say that; he looks good telling the truth.
There have been other lapses like that, too numerous to list, I would have to go back and research them. But I think you’ve heard them, I know others at this site have heard the lies as well.
I do not want to vote for a candidate who lies.
Absolutely Mary Ann!
It's not even close.
Thet trashed Ingraham? Those bastards!
moar funny pictures
Well said & I agree.
I don't know you, so don't take it personal.
My statement stands.
I don't take it personally although as a non-Mormon I am a member of the "rest of the flock of humanity". However, to make a judgment that a group, religious or otherwise, is morally superior to the rest of humanity is pretentious and bigoted.
My comments stand.
The opposition will only be enough to modify the Dem's intent, not enough to stop government entitlement actions on medical care.
The people are the government, and the majority wants health care for all. The devil is in the details, and Romney's plan was mostly private based. he added no more government to it than exists today with Medicaid and Medicare. He simply mandated that employers all provide insurance and the government helps as they did before with funding for the poor.
In Massachusetts, this was a Republican win.
Great video. Thanks for posting.
I judge that the vast majority of the people of faith that I have met over a lifetime have been very disappointing. Most are heretics, and at best Hypocrites.
All I'm saying is that the Mormons I have met do not have that odor about them. They actually live and practice the tenants of their faith every minute of their lives, or they try to.
It's really unusual and quite nice to see that once and a while. It makes me think that the planet is not all bad.
Did you ever consider that if all the Gitmo prisoners were let go, they might become Republicans?
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