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
It's true. He never said he did.
There is verification of this in a book written about the era and governor Romney the father.
Some one challenged this a while back, but it stopped when the story about his Dad was verified. Have not heard a word about it since, but Romney did not speak of himself, it was his father.
Half truths and fabrications are circulating about all of them.
So ... like ... are you selling any that stuff you obviously been smokin ?
That wasn’t the only lie.
Your GUT is right.
My GUT, too, tells me the same thing about the Huckabees, both the family as a whole, and Mike the man.
And I am very good at reading people, I have been told.
This is all to similar to the pre-Election euphoria over Jimmy Carter as somehow our national savior.
I do think a lot of Christians are in for a MAJOR disappointment. And I do not say this lightly.
More coffee...
“Ridicule (a.k.a., mockery) is an inferior argument, in any case.”
Lighten up Francis.
There were girls on the Island with Gilligan. In LotF, there were no females, if I recall correctly. So your understanding of life gained from GI was necessarily greater — this because the presence of females makes things much more complicate and worthy of understanding;.
PTL...we must all have our personal “Huey Long” moment during this great and divine election:
O stubborn, selfwilled exile from the loving breast.
Hep me, Hep me, I been HuckaBEED! LOLs/
“I have never met a Mormon that did not impress me..”
FYI: Harry Reid is a Mormon, although that may be like saying Ted Kennedy is a Catholic.
I always thought you were a Conservative. What a shame.
LLS
Trust me on this....I am a moderate, and he’s way to the left of me.
Trust me also...There is nothing worse than a preacher who knows how to use his “godly status” to manipulate people to his way of thinking. I’ve been through it, I recognize it and Huckabee does it!
I have always been for Fred but dog killing is awful!
It ranks right up there with other such great postings and sayings as:
Bill Clinton when he cried out out “M o n i c a” in the movie Street Car Named Desire.
Fred Thompson to Mike Huckabee “Patton” “I don’t just want to kill those Terrorist Bastardo’s, I want to rip out their guts”.
John McCaniac to Limply Grahamnesty and Ted Kennedy 2001 Space Oddity “Dave, my mind is going! I can feel it! I can feel it!”
Dennis Kookspinach when he was asked who think your are “Bond, James Bond”.
Murdering Teddy Boy Kennedy to Mary Jo at Chappaquiddick “Hasta la vista, baby.”
Sam Brownback to his Gang of Fourteen supporters “Toto, I’ve a feeling we’re not in Kansas anymore.”
Duncan Hunter to Michael Chertoff on controlling border security Blazing Saddles (1974) “We don’t need no stinkin’ badges!”
Hillary Clinton to Barracks Husiene Obama The Graduate (1967)”Would you like me to seduce you?”
Fred Thompson to Almanutjob of Iran “I know what you’re thinking. Did he fire six shots or only five? Well, to tell you the truth, in all this excitement, I’ve kinda lost track myself. But being as this is a .44 Magnum, the most powerful handgun in the world, and would blow your head clean off, you’ve got to ask yourself one question: ‘Do I feel lucky?’ Well, do ya punk?”
Duncan Hunter to the Democrats Apocalypse Now (1979)”You smell that? Do you smell that?...Napalm, son. Nothing else in the world smells like that. I love the smell of napalm in the morning.
Ron Paul to Dennis Kookspinach “beam me up Scotty.”
Hairy Reid to Nancy Pelosi “Well, here’s another nice mess you’ve gotten me into!”
Hellen Thomas to Hillary Clinton “I just want to say one word to you - just one word.... ‘plastics.’”
Jim McDougal to Bill Clinton “Remember, you’re fighting for this woman’s honor, which is probably more than she ever did.”
Conservative Base to John McCaniac “I’m as mad as hell, and I’m not going to take this anymore!”
John Kerry Heinze to the Swift Boaters “I stick my neck out for nobody.”
Bill Clinton to Monica “Can I borrow your underpants for ten minutes?”
Bill Clinton to Al Sharpton “They call me Mister Tibbs.”
Hillary Clinton to Norman Hsu “Show me the money!”
John Edwards to President Bush on immediate iraq pull out “Mr. President, I’m not saying we wouldn’t get our hair mussed, but I do say no more than ten to twenty million killed, tops, that is, depending on the breaks.”
Bill Clinton to Hillary Clinton “Get away from her, you bitch!”
Mike Hucklebee to Tim Russert about Bill Clinton “He was from my village. He was the village idiot!”
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