E-mails illustrate Huckabee strategy (on Smoker Ban)

Arkansas Democrat Gazette ^ | May 7, 2006 | SETH BLOMELEY

[NaughtiusMaximus]

The Libertarian Party looks better and better.

[OB1kNOb]

He’s a republican version of Clinton, IMO.

And IMO opinion as a life long Arkansan, you are correct. Or as another FReeper stated, "He's just another Slick Willie with a theology degree."

[Madame Dufarge]

Historians have noted that in spite of Hitler's having laid out his entire game plan in Mein Kampf, most of the world chose to turn a blind eye and deaf ear until it was hit upside the head by the inevitable.

Huckabee, a Republican, is exploring a possible 2008 run for president based largely on his health advocacy.

Here we have the messianic Huckabee announcing his preposterous philosophy for a Presidency of the United States, his strategy revealed in this article for all to see.

That this guy would have any supporters at all illustrates how far the infantilization of the country has spread.

[CSM]

“There’s no way to rule innocent men. The only power any government has is the power to crack down on criminals. Well, when there aren’t enough criminals, one makes them. One declares so many things to be a crime that it becomes impossible for men to live without breaking laws. Who wants a nation of law-abiding citizens? What’s there in that for anyone? But just pass the kind of laws that can neither be observed nor enforced nor objectively interpreted and you create a nation of law-breakers.”

Ayn Rand, “Atlas Shrugged”

[CSM]

“snivelin’ is un-manly.”

Ah, but crying to the government for control of another man’s property is OK? Ah, I see......

[Eric Blair 2084]

As Mears said “He doesn’t want smokers, he won’t get them”. Payback is a bitch. Public serpents need to learn that they can’t kick 25% of their voters out into the cold and still win.

[Madame Dufarge]

But Al Gore says smoking is a cause of Global Warming.

No need to fight a two-front war against freedom when virtually every human activity can be criminalized by the utopians.

Life was so messy when it was in technicolor, I can't wait for the comforting grayness to settle over everything so that I'll never have to make choices again.

I mean, what if I took the wrong fork in the road and didn't live forever?

Mommy, I'm scared.

[Madame Dufarge]

California is not the first state to pass this type of law. Maine banned smoking in prisons in 2000. The result: assaults quadrupled. In addition to Maine, some prisons in California had already banned smoking before the new policy took effect. According to the Los Angeles Times, the ban on tobacco at Folsom State Prison has sent tobacco prices skyrocketing; a tin that went for $11 in May is now worth $200. The same article reports that there is already a network of tobacco brokers, middlemen and enforcers assigned to collect debts from smokers. One prisoner was quoted saying that tobacco was going to cost more than illegal drugs.

Prison smokescreen

[RockinRight]

Huck’s not a conservative despite what some duped Freepers suggest.

[Mears]

I always find it astonishing that politicians can kick sand in the face of the roughly 40 million smokers in the US.

Can you imagine Huckabee in the same room as Winston Churchill or FDR or Teddy Roosevelt? They would have laughed themselves sick(or tossed him out of the room).

I wouldn’t vote for an Arkansan anyway———I rememember Bill

[Madame Dufarge]

Can you imagine Huckabee in the same room as Winston Churchill or FDR

No, they both smoked....:-)

[ari-freedom]

Can you imagine Huckabee in the same room as Winston Churchill or FDR or Teddy Roosevelt?
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no, because they are dead.

[VeniVidiVici]

no, because they are dead.

And both smoked.

Hmmm. Smoking causes death!

[VermiciousKnid]

the country pays more for medicaid because of this.

That's what the $250 BILLION Master Settlement Agreement extortion of the tobacco companies was supposed to pay for. Instead, it paid for roads, sewers, rescuing kitties from up in trees...ANYTHING except "Medicaid for the poor smokers." Talk to your local politicians. They're the ones who squandered the money swiped from the smokers.

BTW, there's NO WAY I'd vote for a pro-illegal nannystatist like Huckabee.

Regards,

[ari-freedom]

that’s what happens when other people are paying for other people

[The Ghost of Rudy McRomney]

Yep. I never want to see another prez from Arkansas -ever.

[VermiciousKnid]

Oh, I hear that! I’d be happy as a clam if we did away with Medicaid entirely.

Regards,

PS: I suppose there MIGHT be a case made to provide for the TRULY disabled...the mentally retarded, etc. But everyday medical care for regular folks? Socialist nonsense.

[Diana in Wisconsin]

He's a total Food Gnatzie, too. Some Conservative!

[Zevonismymuse]

All of the Mormons I know, and I know a lot of them, are ideal citizens.

I took the local Bishop's wife to see my son in a play in Los Angeles last week. It was a Charlie's Angels spoof starring 3 Mexican transvestites as 'Chico's Angels'. A very funny play in the basement of a gay bar.

The Bishop's wife thought the play was funny, although she was a little shook-up by all the attention my son, playing the token straight hottie/ murder suspect, received from the gay guys in the audience. She wondered if it bothered me. It doesn't bother me a bit. Live and let live. I am only bothered by the gays who want to deny me my freedom of speech. I don't care what people do, as long as they don't care what I do.

[swarthyguy]

Dunno if its true, but I’ve heard many death row inmates are barred from smoking.