[DogByte6RER]

"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."

That just about sums it up for me...

Mike Huckabee = RINO

[DogByte6RER]

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[ssaftler]

Mike Huckabee = RINO

Calling Huckster-bee a RINO is an insult to real RINOs everywhere. He's a Democrat that can't spell, if you ask me.

[donna]

I don’t know who your candidate is but surely you want the Chuck Norris endorsement for him after Huckabee withdraws.

[unspun]

Irrational Anti-Huckabee Kool-Aid Drinking Game Alert

Excerpt from Medved: According to figures from the non-partisan Tax Foundation (based on data from the Bureau of Economic Analysis, Department of Commerce), Huckabee’s term as governor (1996-2007) led to a modest increase in the overall State-Local tax burden for Arkansas: from 10.1% in the year he became governor to 11.1% the last year he served. In terms of overall tax burden (state-local-federal) Arkansas remained virtually unchanged--- from 30.3% (39th among the 50 states) to 30.5% (32nd place). That is a difference of 1%.*

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*Huckabee left a record $844.5 million surplus in Arkansas. He recommended that it be returned to the taxpayer in rebates or tax cuts. (The next governor and legislature have been working at eliminating the tax on food.) That is not taken into account in the criticizms of Huckabee's financial record. It is not even taken into account in this measurement of an otherwise 1% increase -- during a time when the federal government was dumping unfunded mandates upon the states.

Mike Huckabee, not just a Whig, is a fully-formed Republican (or Abraham Lincoln wasn't) and going back to the tradition of James Madison and Adam Smith.

[ElkGroveDan]

Celebrities like Chuck Norris and Arnold Schwarzenegger owe their fame and wealth to the millions of 12-year-old boys who paid hard earned lawn mowing money to see them on a Saturday afternoon. The rest of us though are not impressed, and quite frankly often bored by their cliche one-liners, predicatable physical feats, and other tedious antics.

I congratulate both guys on their entertainment success, but nothing in that path to fame demonstrates an ability to understand or offer advice on serious public policy matters.

[Jim Robinson]

"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."

I feel the same about Chuck Rudy, Chuck Mitt and Chuckles McCain.

[eleni121]

Chase Cooper exudes lefty wisdom from campus.

This is just a piece of drivel by student Cooper..why bother to post?

[Bronco_Buster_FweetHyagh]

I believe in your right to have opinions regarding any candidate you want, but, insulting Chuck Norris exceeds all bounds of reasonable behavior.

Chuck Norris is badass. If you don’t want to support Huckabee just because Chuck Norris says so, that’s your choice, but it doesn’t change the fact that Chuck Norris could slice you in half with one hair from his head (but for the fact that his hair cannot be pulled out of his head)

[HisKingdomWillAbolishSinDeath]

If Mike is a RINO, what does that make McCain? A galloping DINO (Democrat In Near Orbit)?

[yellowhammer]

I've lost a lot of respect for Chuck.

[writer33]

This whole article is chucked full of facts.

[GovernmentIsTheProblem]

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.

[Always A Marine]

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.

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.

[AnalogReigns]

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.

[Soliton]

DogByte6RER,

Nased on your profile i think I love you, but your source is a wet behind the ears doofus from a student newspaper.

[NewRomeTacitus]

At least we can agree that Huck’s a definite horned mammal. It’s a shame that he is also a very charming and intelligent man...but strength of personality doesn’t hide his record as Governor or his prior stances while in that position.

If that was excusable Romney would be acceptable.

[scott says]

"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.”

Bwahahaha

[SoCalPol]

Great post on the Huckester.

How does this trailer trash from a few yr. bible school
and gov. of a state with the population of my county, San Diego become one of the leaders for Commander in Chief of the Free World.

and from the same burg as Clintoon.

Would be interesting to see who is really funding and supporting him.

[peggybac]

“Fact: Chuck Norris is such a bad actor that even Keanu Reeves flips the channel whenever he sees Chuck on TV.”

I’m glad to know someone else thinks Keanu Reeves is a terrible actor.

[Bronco_Buster_FweetHyagh]

Chuck Norris would have supported Fred Thompson, but legal problems created a rift between them. Chuck had to sue the produced of Law & Order for trademark infringement, as those are the names of his left and right nuts.