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Layer upon layer of deception by the Huckster
Powerline ^ | January 4 2008

Posted on 01/04/2008 2:31:46 PM PST by jbwbubba

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To: jbwbubba

This guy belongs in a period piece...brocade jacket, ash cane, and a whole shelf of little bottles of snake oil in front of him. He’s a clown...preacher or not. His flip attitude is a front for a lying, duplicitous, flim-flam man from Arkansas. I though maybe we had learned our lesson about these guys.
There’s still hope (not Hope, AR), though. Fred is getting some serious attention.

Go, Fred!


21 posted on 01/04/2008 2:49:40 PM PST by PubliusMM (RKBA; a matter of fact, not opinion...)
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To: jbwbubba
President Huckabee?

He might be a good guy or not, but just let those words rattle around in your mind - - gag!

22 posted on 01/04/2008 2:49:41 PM PST by Beckwith (Dhimmicrats and the liberal media have chosen sides -- Islamofascism)
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To: The Ghost of FReepers Past

Powerline is only reporting what factcheck.org discovered. Guess they’re just deceptive too.

Just a vast conspiracy.


23 posted on 01/04/2008 2:49:45 PM PST by keepitreal
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To: jbwbubba

HOW DARE YOUR YOU ANTI CHRISTIAN BIGOT POINTING OUT ST. HUCKABEES LIES!


24 posted on 01/04/2008 2:50:59 PM PST by normy (Don't take it personally, just take it seriously.)
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To: BerryDingle

Beware the Media’s Champions!

The media will champion the Republican which is MOST like a Leftist Democrat, or the Republican they believe will be the easiest to defeat.

Remember their romance with McCain?
Observe their twisted dance with Huckabee...

How else can one explain the Godless Marxists of the Media — championing this clown who claims to be a “Theologian” with a B.A. in Biblical Studies.... Hell, anyone who spent their youth in Sunday school are just a entitled to claim being a “Theologian”.....

The Media and the Left know if need be, they can destroy Huckabee in the General Election....


25 posted on 01/04/2008 2:51:19 PM PST by river rat (Semper Fi - You may turn the other cheek, but I prefer to look into my enemy's vacant dead eyes.)
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To: The Ghost of FReepers Past
Powerline had very nice things to say about Huckabee back when they thought he had no chance of winning.

That was when all they knew about him was that he was a Republican candidate with charisma. After they discovered his positions on immigration, foreign policy, etc., they may have started wondering why he wasn't running in the Democratic primary, instead. Romney has the excuse that he had to run to the left in Massachusetts, whose patron saint is JFK. I can't see what excuse Huckabee has for his positions, given that he's running in Arkansas, which isn't exactly known as a blue state.

26 posted on 01/04/2008 2:51:43 PM PST by Zhang Fei
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To: 3AngelaD
The federal government does require K-12 education for all children,

True, but the law requires they be deported as well, so which came the lie are the huckster?

27 posted on 01/04/2008 2:56:57 PM PST by org.whodat (What's the difference between a Democrat and a republican????)
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To: jbwbubba
Romney and Huckabee are both pretty bad choices, but if we aren't careful with our infighting, the only guy left standing is going to be McCain. Are any FReepers really willing to accept that?

Another note is that the left must just be loving all of our infighting. We're (conservatives) doing all the heavy lifting for the democrat attack ads in the general election.

I sure hope Fred gets through.

28 posted on 01/04/2008 2:57:25 PM PST by kerryusama04 (John 19:31)
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To: 3AngelaD
Another duplicitous, slick, corn pone, ying bastard, if you ask me.

thanks for the excellent summary.

29 posted on 01/04/2008 2:58:01 PM PST by sand88
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To: okie01
Yep. Mitt was only my third choice (after Hunter and Thompson) but the glee being expressed by the Hucksters today has everything to do with old fashioned religious bigotry and next to nothing to do with political positions or past performance.

Everyone needs to ask themselves if their theological differences with Mitt, which he won't force on anyone, are so much more important that the economic reality differences with the Huckster (such as the buy-in of global warming and colonization with illegal aliens), which he will force on all of us. Only certified religious bigots will answer "yes".

Thus, religious bigotry is the only good reason to vote for the Huckster considering that:

  1. The social conservative positions by the Huckster are matched or exceeded by Fred Thompson.

  2. The economic conservative positions are exceeded by Fred, who doesn't have a contradictory performance to negate said statements.

  3. Ditto for illegal immigration.

  4. ANY other candidate, with the possible exception of the Moonbat Ron Paul, has more knowledge, experience and competence in foreign affairs even if they were drunk and Huckabee was sober.

  5. Finally, Mitt blows him away in demonstrated fiscal conservativism and management competence.

  6. The Huckster lacks the intellectual necessities to be president. He'll most likely end up as VP with McCain or Guliani unless Fred or Mitt (preferably an alliance of the two) can stop the Iowa momentum.

And I think that's possible, because New Hampshire tends to follow their own path. The crossovers for McLame might be fewer now that the Democrat race no longer looks like a cakewalk for Hillary.
30 posted on 01/04/2008 2:58:46 PM PST by Vigilanteman (Are there any men left in Washington? Or are there only cowards? Ahmad Shah Massoud)
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To: The Ghost of FReepers Past

Keep the Evangelicals on the plantation.

Tax cuts for Wall Street.
Jobs for New York and Washington Think Tanks.
Phone Banks and Voting for the Evangelicals.


31 posted on 01/04/2008 2:59:45 PM PST by Philly Nomad
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To: rightazrain
I don’t like Huckabee. He’s snake oil.

He sure sold a lot of it in Iowa. Seems Hope Ark. is a breading ground for these types!

32 posted on 01/04/2008 3:03:56 PM PST by Red_Devil 232 (VietVet - USMC All Ready On The Right? All Ready On The Left? All Ready On The Firing Line!)
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To: PubliusMM
Sleazy is as sleazy does.

Mike Gumpabee

33 posted on 01/04/2008 3:04:13 PM PST by CaptainK (...please make it stop. Shake a can of pennies at it.)
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To: jbwbubba
Rather, the health care legislation Romney signed provided that an independent agency would implement the law and would “develop criteria for plans eligible for premium assistance payments.”

How is this not a reckless and outrageious abdication of Romney's governmental responsibility, leading to taxpayer funded abortions?

34 posted on 01/04/2008 3:05:31 PM PST by unspun (God save us from egos -- especially our own.)
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To: The Ghost of FReepers Past
Powerline had very nice things to say about Huckabee back when they thought he had no chance of winning. So what is their deception?

Deception? Good grief. Intelligent people, upon acquiring new information, factor that new information into their decisions and opinions.

35 posted on 01/04/2008 3:10:51 PM PST by Eroteme
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To: jbwbubba

Thanks for posting this and thanks to all for the comments. I’m trying to convert a wonderful Southern Baptist woman who loves huck because he’s former minister and ministers don’t lie.


36 posted on 01/04/2008 3:10:53 PM PST by chae (Never waste a really good threat)
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To: keepitreal
Didn't one of Huckabee's campaigners (Mr Carter?) say that the "conservative media" is out in force to sink Huckabee's candidacy? He had nothing but nice things to say about the liberal media - how 'fair' they were, how much attention they lavished, and how much genuine interest they showed in the candidacy and its 'fair' coverage.

It isn't even the general, and Huckabee is already referring to the 'Club for Growth' as the 'Club for Greed', already said that "anti-immigration Republicans are guilty of demagoguery and racism", already stated he wants to close gitmo to soothe world opinion, is already saying nice stuff about Obama and other Dems and how he has in heart many of their goals...

If he wins the nomination, I shudder to think about the full-blown class-warfare that will be unleashed to match that of the Dems (but we will be protected from the homos, so it is worth it).

37 posted on 01/04/2008 3:11:17 PM PST by M203M4 (True Universal Suffrage: Pets of dead illegal-immigrant felons voting Democrat (twice))
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To: jbwbubba

From the Washington Times:

Mitt Romney, who looked as if he was succumbing to a John McCain come-from-behind onslaught in New Hampshire, has retaken the lead in the latest Suffolk University-Boston 7 News poll.

“Romney knows where his strengths are and is addressing his weaknesses,” said poll director David Paleologos. “He has all but erased McCain’s advantage with older voters and focusing on that constituency is smart politics — they turn out in these elections.”

Among those likely to vote in the GOP primary, Mr. Romney posted 29 percent, four percentage points ahead of Mr. McCain’s 24 percent.

Mike Huckabee, the overwhelming Iowa winner, gained a single percentage point over the previous day, now showing 13 percent support among poll respondents.


Only a one point bump for Huck out of Iowa.


38 posted on 01/04/2008 3:11:56 PM PST by SaxxonWoods (Fred Thompson's Federalism is right on.)
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To: CaptainK

I think he’s beyond sleezy and all the way to smarmy.


39 posted on 01/04/2008 3:13:20 PM PST by IM2MAD
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To: Vigilanteman

The way I see it - the only thing Huckabee looks to be promising is religious atmospherics. He’s weak on foreign policy and a big spender domestically. I think the place for religious atmospherics is in church, not at the White House. (I don’t mind it in the White House, but it has to be accompanied by substantive economic and foreign policy positions that are conservative).


40 posted on 01/04/2008 3:20:26 PM PST by Zhang Fei
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