Posted on 05/08/2015 11:19:13 AM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
Despite his socially-conservative bona fides, former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee has officially lost the support of Iowa’s influential talk radio host Steve Deace — a dramatic shift from their supportive relationship in the 2008 Republican Party primaries.
Deace has been described as a “hitmaker” and “one of the most powerful Republicans you’ve never heard of” because his stumping for Huckabee was seen as a substantial contributor to the former governor’s 2008 Iowa caucus victory.
But, in 2016, Deace is not thrilled with Huckabee’s support for entitlement programs. As MMfA first reported, during the May 6 edition of the Steve Deace Show, the radio host tore into the former Fox News host’s pro-entitlement views, calling it “the basis for a permanent welfare state.”
The bigger blow came when Deace compared Huckabee’s announcement speech — rife with references to social safety nets — to Hillary Clinton, saying the two political opposites now seem interchangeable. If Clinton delivered the speech, Deace said, it would have “gotten the same amount of applause.”
He also said the Huckabee speech sounded a lot like “the last man who ran for president from Hope, Arkansas,” i.e., Bill Clinton.
And so Deace’s candidate of choice for 2016? Ted Cruz.
Click below to listen to the audio, as clipped by MMfA:
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Wha radio station is Deace on these days ?
Deace is on top of things. Huckabee was a reasonable choice when the alternatives were McCain, Romney and Giiuliani, etc. Right now, he offers weak tea with no coherent underlying philosophy, and the fact that he was a governor, and therefore has poliical executive experience.
Funny how they are on the same page when it comes to Cruz.
After my speech I'll be doin' a little banjo pickin'.
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"The last president we had from Hope, Arkansas left a really bad taste in my mouth.
Huckabee is a joke.
Monica Lewinsky is walking down the beach.
She sees something in the sand.
She picks it up. It is a lamp.
She rubs the lamp. It starts to glow and out pops a genie.
The genie says: “Monica, you have been naughty in the past so you only get one wish!”
Monica thinks about this. She has packed on a few pounds so she looks at the genie and says: “I want to get rid of my love handles!”
The genie says: “Your wish is my command!”
And POOF!!! Her ears disappear!
Mike Huckabee’s views have “evolved”. He is no longer the country-boy populist he was pictured as in 2008, when his message resonated at a visceral level with so many of the evangelicals and vaguely anti-establishment libertarians. Never much of a conservative, Huckabee is more of a “get-along, go-along” sort of compromiser that could not be counted upon to repeal ineffective legislation, but would work to help “fix” the existing rather rickety framework.
Go for the real thing, Jeb Bush.
But wait, there is more! The Huckster can quote scripture! Just pay for shipping and handling.
Ouch! / That's funny.
(Schadenfreude. [Slightly vulgar warning.])
I do hope Huckabee meets his Waterloo in Iowa (pun intended) if not before.
“Huckabee is a joke.”
A bad joke, indeed. He’s in it to spoil it and pave the was for a RINO.
Wonder what he was promised? Fox news gig for life?
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