Posted on 12/05/2007 10:59:19 AM PST by .cnI redruM
For some reason it used to bother me when people would ask me. “Is there any Democrat you would vote for if the GOP ran [Obnoxious Fill-In-The-Blank]?” It bothered me because my honest answer was generally no, not this election. I guess I was brainwashed into thinking I should be somewhat bipartisan, but my common sense told me these Democrats were all morons.
In 1992, Pat Buchanan rode to the rescue, at least until Paul Tsongas lost the nomination fight to Bill Clinton. If I had been asked to choose between Buchanan and Clinton, I might have replied that Canada really wasn’t just for American draft evaders. Seriously, I would have voted for Tsongas and might have gone for Bill, had Pat Buchanan been the GOP nominee.
Since 1992, the GOP hasn’t had anyone in serious contention that would make me willing to support the Democratic alternative until this year. Dole, McCain, Bush, Giuliani, Thompson, Romney and even Prawn Paul seemed vastly preferable to what the Dems had to put up for election.
Mike Huckabee has solved my bipartisanship problem. As long as The Jackass Party doesn’t nominate the execrable John Edwards, I could see myself stifling the gag reflex and voting either Clinton or Oprahbama to keep Mike Huckabee from acquiring more political power. The man makes me vote against him like he was a Democrat, because he reminds me of so many prior Democrats.
He, like Bill Clinton, has never met a lie he felt too ashamed to tell. Like Bill Clinton, he won’t ever own up to his actions. He wants “things need to get investigated.” He believes. “We just can’t have high CEO salaries.” He thinks our foreign trade policy “needs to be fixed.”
Most egregiously, he wrote a letter to the then-incarcerated Wayne Dumond stating.
“Dear Wayne,” Huckabee wrote in a letter to Dumond. “My desire is that you be released from prison. I feel that parole is the best way for your reintroduction to society to take place.” “My desire is that you be released from prison. I feel that parole is the best way for your reintroduction to society to take place.”
Huckabee then leaned on the parole board to cut Dumond loose, while at the same time publicly rejecting his petition for pardon. Had Dumond kept his nose clean, Huckabee would have as well. After all, he rejected the pardon like a good Law-and-Order Republican Governor.
Huckabee, like America’s worst President of the 20th Century, James Earl Carter, uses Christian Theology as an excuse to expand the reach of government into areas it has no business entering. When Club for Growth criticized Governor Huckabee’s record on taxation in Arkansas, Huckabee referred to them as “Club for Greed.” The obvious implication being that a State Governor really does own the paychecks of the workers who live there and those people are just greedy for wanting to limit what the state taxation apparatus would vacuum from their wallets.
Huckabee also uses Christianity to justify his decision to pressure the parole board into cutting Wayne Dumond loose to rape and kill. He said it was part of Christian moral philosophy to be merciful. This blasphemous utterance used religion as an excuse for a political executive not to protect the citizens under his governance.
To use a different Christian analogy, he was a corrupt, disingenuous official washing his hands of a politically charged law enforcement decision. Like Pilate freeing Barabus, Huckabee cut Dumond loose to be politically correct, and then wound up regretting his decision. However, given his criticism of President Bush’s decision to veto the S-CHIP socialist power grab on the grounds of President Bush being cruel to the poor, Huckabee hasn’t learned his lesson on pandering.
So when Huckabee talks about what his faith causing him make decisions, he’s blaming the lord, not praising him. It makes me expect him to channel Jimmy Carter and start announcing, “I asked my daughtta Amma what to do about the Control of Nookaler Ahms…” I don’t even have to go into how Mike Huckabee reminds me of Massachusetts Governor, Michael Dukakis. The man is a Democrat flying a flag of convenience.
If the GOP nominates Mike Huckabee, I can feel vindicated voting for either Obama or Hillary. It’s not like I would have the option of supporting a Conservative Republican instead.
Cross-Posted at: THE MINORITY REPORT
Here’s hoping that Huckabee flames out, just like Buchanan did.
Ron Paul seems to be closer to the Buchanan banner, I see Huck as another Dole.
Our foreign trade does need to be fixed.
The Two GasBags Pat and Mike
Ping!
I confess that I was fooled into supporting Pat Buchanan for a few months, against Bob Dole, who behaved like a hapless loser. His true depths weren’t revealed until some time later, IMHO.
After his flirtation with the Libertarian party, it became fully evident what kind of guy he was.
Warns against the party system.
“It serves to distract the Public Councils, and enfeeble the Public Administration....
agitates the Community with ill-founded jealousies and false alarms; kindles the animosity of one....
against another....
it opens the door to foreign influence and corruption...
thus the policy and the will of one country are subjected to the policy and will of another.”
Stresses the importance of religion and morality.
“Where is the security for property, for reputation, for life, if the sense of religious obligation desert the oaths,
which are the instruments of investigation in Courts of Justice?”
On stable public credit.
“...cherish public credit.
One method of preserving it is to use it as sparingly as possible...
avoiding likewise the accumulation of debt....
it is essential that you...bear in mind, that towards the payments of debts there must be Revenue,
that to have Revenue there must be taxes;
that no taxes can be devised, which are not...inconvenient and unpleasant...”
Warns against permanent foreign alliances.
“It is our true policy to steer clear of permanent alliances with any portion of the foreign world...”
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The people say you must vote for the one with a D or An
R by their name or you will get one with the other letter.
They must be much smarter and put more on the line than the Father of our Country....
/s it opens the door to foreign influence and corruption...
China, Mexico and others....
So sorry. Stopped reading there. Hope the rest of the piece was good.
This guy seeks to be credible, then says he won’t support Huckabee on principle, but could Hillary.
This was one for the round file.
Forthose attracted to Huckabee over the Fair Tax, consider this surprising answer from ...
“Would implementing Mike Huckabee’s “fair tax” idea be better than our current system?
Before I would jettison our current system, which of course needs fundamental reform, I would want to have a thorough and complete vetting of new tax proposals, and that should be done by professionals and not by politicians. But I noted that the Wall Street Journal concluded that the fair tax would cause an increase in the tax burden that the middle class would pay. That’s not a good idea. They may be wrong, but we surely need to determine where the tax burden would fall before we put in place a new plan. And by the way, the fair tax has a lot going for it. It gets rid of embedded taxes, the unfair tax treatment we get in foreign competition. It gets rid of the IRS. There are some great features about a consumption tax, but let’s also recognize that the supporters of the fair tax want a constitutional amendment banning any other tax, and those things take a long time, so let’s move with something immediate if we can.”
My takeaway: Huckabee has got a Fair Tax gimmick, but Romney wants to get into a *real* tax reform mode. He’s pointing out directly the impact of our tax system on trade, and wants a lower corporate and income tax rate. Bully for him.
And I don’t expect Huckabee to be saying this ...
“The economy has been booming almost uninterrupted for a quarter century. How do we keep it going for another 25 years?
Keep our taxes down and our spending down. ... Deregulate, deregulate, deregulate. Invest in technology, and sharply improve the standards in our schools.”
The guy seems like an equal opportunity insulter huh.
Sure, but if he isn't going to offer solutions how can we evaluate if his fixes will be better or worse than what we have now, or if he even really plans to fix anything.
It's easy to take a topic that people are upset about and say that it needs fixed, but far harder to offer up productive solutions on how it could be fixed.
What’s he’s saying is voting for Huckabee would be worse for the Republican party in the long term than voting for Hillary.
I happen to agree with him.
If Huckabee gets the nod we might as well stay home election day.
Oh, don’t get me wrong, Huckabee stinks to high heaven, and I do not have a clue about what he would do via trade, and I don’t care, because I wont vote for him for many other reasons.
But this is not a point to hammer him on. He has dozens of others that should sink him.
I won’t be voting for Mike because he’s a RINO. So we’re closer to agreement than you think. Still, I would never cast a vote for the likes of either Clinton and about 99.99% of the rest of the democrats.
I wouldn’t vote for Hillary and Bill for the same reason I wouldn’t vote for Mike. They would each move the nation further left.
With all due respect, I can’t take a person seriously who could vote for Bill or Hillary.
Great essay.
You arent that conservative if you can stomach Guiliani, Romney, McCain, but not Huckabee (if anything they have more RINO records than he ever will).
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