We've already got one phony con-man trying to mosey his way into the 2012 race (Romney). Do we need another?
Posted on 09/01/2009 2:37:26 PM PDT by Extremely Extreme Extremist
Nice guys finish last—at least that seems to be the lesson Mike Huckabee has learned from losing the 2008 GOP presidential nomination. The former Arkansas governor made headlines last week when he suggested on his radio show that the Democrats’ health-care bill under debate in Congress wouldn’t have covered Sen. Ted Kennedy in his final days of battling cancer. “Proponents deny that the bill would devalue older people’s lives, or encourage them to accept less care to save money. But it was President Obama himself who suggested that seniors who don’t have as long to live might want to just consider taking a pain pill instead of getting an expensive operation to cure them,” Huckabee said, according to Politico. “Yet when Senator Kennedy was diagnosed with terminal brain cancer at 77, did he give up on life and go home to take pain pills and die? Of course not. He freely did what most of us would do. He chose an expensive operation and painful follow-up treatments.” Over the weekend, Huckabee defended the accuracy of his remarks, but suggested his message was taken out of context by the media. (snip)
But what was interesting about Huckabee is that he often spent more time trashing Republicans at his town halls than he did Democrats. He chided his party for not doing more to help the poor and for not having compassion for the plight of illegal immigrants.
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We've already got one phony con-man trying to mosey his way into the 2012 race (Romney). Do we need another?
Please! NO!
No more RudyMcRombee’s!
No more Huckabee’s!!
I never thought of Huckabee as the “nice guy” who was finishing last.
I thought of him as the candidate who tried to portray being a nice guy, but had a mean vindictive streak to him that popped up enough to make people nervous.
DOn’t jinx it, next thing you know we’ll have somebody resurrecting Giuliani’s national career.
I keep my Huckster files handy, just in case.
If Huckabeeee wants to play guitar at some of Palin’s functions, I’m okay with that, but no more than that.
You’re a TV star now Mike. Act like it!
Seriously. Another pretender that will muddle up the primary.
I did, I always saw him as a Republican Jimmy Carter.
Mega dittos friend!
I don’t think Huckabee understands that whole “give a man a fish” vs. “teach a man to fish” thing.
Absolutely not.
Backatcha, EEE!
Huck can go back to music where no one cares what he does and keep his sorry ass out of politics!
“If Huckabeeee wants to play guitar at some of Palin’s functions, I’m okay with that”
Why let him destroy a good function?
I'd go that far, but no further with this guy. His band is pretty good as I recall.
Not even to get Sarah will I vote for the Huckster.
Where’s the guy with the “Aw, Geez” photo...?
I think we could do far worse than Mike Huckabee.
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