Posted on 01/08/2008 8:59:38 PM PST by DogByte6RER
The Chuckabee facts
Chase Cooper
IDS
1/8/2008
Chuck Norris doesn’t endorse – he tells America how it’s gonna be.” So says Mike Huckabee , anyway, in a campaign ad featuring his biggest endorser, Chuck Norris. In the ad, Norris and Huckabee, who is known increasingly in conservative circles as the “Huckster,” go back and forth for 60 agonizing seconds telling “facts” about each other, performing a skit patterned after the “Chuck Norris facts” seen in Facebook groups and chain e-mails. Here are a few “Huck Chuck facts” that you may not know about:
Fact: Chuck Norris is so corny that ethanol producers believe him to be a vast, untapped source of alternative energy.
Fact: Mike Huckabee calls himself a Republican, but functionally he’s a pro-life Democrat. He’s a big government, tax-and-spend proponent of the Nanny State, who supports a nationwide smoking ban, government-sponsored wellness programs and more government regulation of private industries, such as minimum wage increases. He also has a grossly liberal record on illegal immigration.
Fact: Chuck Norris is so painful to watch that nine out of 10 Americans would rather take a roundhouse kick to the face from him than sit through an episode of “Walker, Texas Ranger.”
Fact: Mike Huckabee granted over 1,000 pardons and commutations during his 10 years as governor – roughly one clemency every four days. In 17 years, Huckabee’s three predecessors – which included Bill Clinton, by the way – granted only 507 clemencies combined. The Huckster’s clemency recipients included violent criminals who reputedly “got religion” in prison. Should this man have the power of the presidential pardon?
Fact: Chuck Norris is so pathetic that Jack Bauer tracked and killed him in only 21 hours, then took a three-hour nap.
Fact: According to the Arkansas Leader newspaper, Mike Huckabee, while governor of Arkansas, raised more taxes than Bill Clinton did while governor of Arkansas. His tax record is so bad that even the members of the Arkansas Republican Assembly chose to endorse Fred Thompson rather than Huck. When the Club for Growth, a prominent conservative anti-tax organization, sharply criticized his tax record, Huckabee responded by calling them the “Club for Greed.” There’s nothing greedy about the concept that the money you’ve earned belongs to you.
Fact: Chuck Norris is such a bad actor that even Keanu Reeves flips the channel whenever he sees Chuck on TV.
Fact: Mike Huckabee has little to no foreign policy experience. When confronted with this fact in an interview with Don Imus on Dec. 4, the Huckster stated, “I may not be the expert that some people are on foreign policy, but I did stay in a Holiday Inn Express last night.” If he likes Holiday Inn Express so much, I’d much rather he sleep there than at 1600 Pennsylvania Ave.
Fact: A Huckabee nomination would be disastrous to the conservative movement, the Republican Party and the United States of America, and the Democrats would almost certainly take the White House, regardless of who they nominate. If conservatism is to be advanced in the next four years, the Republican Party needs to chuck Huck – soon.
This whole article is chucked full of facts.
MIKE HUCKABEE
- PRO-TAX
Good selective quoting of the Tax Foundation. I'll do some selective quoting of my own from the Tax Foundation.
In 1996, the total state & local tax burden in Arkansas was 10.1%, a ranking of 30th in the nation. By 2007, the climb to 11.1% of the state-local taxes brought Arkansas to 13th highest state and local taxes. This in a state that placed consistently in the 40s for federal tax burden.
The reason that the total taxation (federal-state-local) stayed low is only because federal taxes stayed low. If Huckabee had been President, that would have been trouble. Hmmmmm......
I can’t stand Huckabee.
Sadly I predict that if he becomes the nominee, 80% of FReepers will turn pro-Huckster and all these points will be forgotten.
Anyone who questions his leadership of the party will be called names with the kind of GO TEAM GO cheering that makes me want to throw up in my mouth a little bit.
But he has all of yours already numbered.
“I’ve lost a lot of respect for Chuck.”
Mike Upchucklebee.... Wannabe.
“Chuck Norris can pull the hair out of his own head.
But he has all of yours already numbered.”
The rest of mine are poised to fall out before he can get to them. Ha ha!
That's the thing about Huckabee that bothers me most -- he sees government coercion as the answer to problems that aren't the government's business. That is not Conservative! Huckabee is what C.S. Lewis referred to as an "omnipotent moral busybody" back in 1930, when he wrote:
"Of all tyrannies a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It may be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber baron’s cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated; but those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end for they do so with the approval of their own conscience. They may be more likely to go to Heaven yet at the same time likelier to make a Hell of earth. This very kindness stings with intolerable insult. To be “cured” against one’s will and cured of states which we may not regard as disease is to be put on a level of those who have not yet reached the age of reason or those who never will; to be classed with infants, imbeciles, and domestic animals."
Oh yeah -- and as Governor, Huckabee turned Arkansas from a solid red state (GOP Gov, GOP LtGov, 2 GOP US Senators, 3 GOP Reps) to the only blue state in the South (Dem Gov, Dem LtGov, 2 Dem US Senators, 3 Dem Reps). When a Republican governs like a Democrat, voters will eventually opt for the real thing. Huckabee's "leadership" destroyed the Arkansas GOP.
I wish I knew how many of these hit-pieces in the media originated from the Romney machine.
Virtually all of them, I wager.
Why FReepers are so happy to do the bidding of ol’ Mitt’$ minion$ through his million$, I’ll never know.
That applies to ALL actors, talk show hosts and ditzy entertainers. They should keep their pathetic political views to themselves, they don't live in the real world and haven't a clue what goes on in it.
Ping to read an excellent Chuck Norris/Huckster spoof...
The video tell me nothing...out of context. I will be looking into his rationale for what he did taxwise in Arkansas. However I will keep in mind and so should you that he found the state in the toilet after years of being used as a private cesspool by the clintonoids.
Chuck Norris stepped up from selling junky home gyms to insomniacs, to trying to sell Huckabees to Kristians on prime time TV
Fallacious logic, if I may say so. Mike Huckabee is a strong supporter of the 10th Amendment.
Even Pat Sajak?
DogByte6RER,
Nased on your profile i think I love you, but your source is a wet behind the ears doofus from a student newspaper.
“The video tell me nothing...out of context. I will be looking into his rationale for what he did taxwise in Arkansas. “
In the video, Governor Mike Huckabee addressed the Arkansas General Assembly, pleading with them to pass a tax, any tax. He ticked off a list of various taxes that he would find acceptable, a tax on tobacco, a surcharge on the income tax, a sales tax... “I will very happily sign that,” he proclaimed.
He raised taxes in 2002 to cover the budget deficit that was created because of the new Government program he created - the ArKids welfare program! This is the very definition of what a tax-and-spend liberal is and what a tax-and-spend liberal does. They get elected to grow the Government, and then when the hard times comes, they are “forced” to increase taxes to cover the gap. And of course when prosperity returns they never cut taxes because govt is bigger than ever.
That’s the Huckabee record.
in other states, there were similar budget gaps in 2002. He had another choice - cut spending. Other Governors, such as Mitt Romney (ranked #15) and here in Texas, Rick Perry (ranked #2) cut the spending and did not go for any broad-based tax increase.
“However I will keep in mind and so should you that he found the state in the toilet after years of being used as a private cesspool by the clintonoids.” Huckster Clintonesque baloney. You really think they were *underspending* before Huck came in? Seriously?!?
I got a bridge to sell to ya.
No man has been more unfairly maligned in this race than Mitt Romney. You make a silly accusation with no facts at all.
I can tell you right now that Club for Growth has no particular candidate in the race, but they highlighted the truth about Mike Huckabee’s lousy tax-and-spend record some time ago. Huckabee couldn’t handle the truth so he called that fine organization “Club for Greed” - a slur and an anti-conservative one at that, exposing his non-conservative stripes.
It doesn't matter what Chuckleberry's rationale for raising taxes was. The fact is that lowering taxes increases the income to the treasury. This is accomplished by increasing incentive and economic activity. It has worked every time it's tried.
On the other hand, raising taxes decreases incentive and hurts the economy, and usually as a result decreases the take to the treasury.
True conservatives know this principle. Liberals don't care because they don't understand economics and because they want to raise taxes to reduce economic freedom and control the populace.
Hucklebee's track record as guv is that of a big gubmint Liberal, pure and simple. He just happens to have an R behind his name.
None of Mitt's money has made it my way, and most of the anti-Hucksters I know are Fred Thompson supporters. You might be surprised that many Conservative, Evangelical, Pro-Life Conservatives like me oppose Huckabee's candidacy because of his big-government beliefs. I'm glad he's a believer and I'm sure he's a very good man, but I can't support a candidate for President who believes that government coercion is the solution to everyday problems. I side with Freedom every time.
I am also repulsed by Huckabee's populist embrace of the politics of envy against Romney -- who earned his own money as a very successful businessman. Such tactics appeal to the lowest of human emotions and are unseemly, as is your reference to "ol’ Mitt’$ minion$ through his million$". Democrats are the ones best known for their envy of successful people. Republicans champion hard work and success.
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