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.
I've never bashed Mitt, and if the court ordered him to do something, and he had exhausted his legal remedies, I'd understand that he has to comply with the court order. That is how our system works.
I've been watching Huckabee a lot longer and more closely than the newly self-proclaimed "experts" here. For the last couple of years, I've been telling the forum that Huckabee would be a strong candidate in Iowa, and nobody believed it. The talking points that you are relying on now for Huck-bashing were tailored to be misleading, but like a lot of other people here, you bought it too - hook, line and sinker.
Personally, I favor Fred Thompson's tax reform plan, but I will set the record straight about Huckabee's record here: He is a conservative Republican who wants drastic tax reform.
I am. How do you think there get to be amendments?
Besides, even before the present Constitution, the United States of America was founded upon our Creator endowed Right to Life.
Courts that do not recognize this are flatly mistaken.
Reply #7 is truly profound!!! I sincerely hope EVERYBODY ON FR scrolls back up and reads it!!! (especially the Cauleeforneeuns)
I know. It's the same question I ask of the Joe Isuzu Romney bots. Neither one has ever answered the question. That's the real test of leadership of a Governor. Both Huckster and Romney were miserable failures on an epic scale. Both states will take years to recover from their "leadership."
While a request was made to shut the school system down, that would NOT have happened. In fact, to me - it seems that such a request would actually be a opposite of what the case was suppose to really be about - providing a quality education to “ALL” the children of Arkansas....
And according to the former judge that I know who was a special master in the case - there was no danger of the schools actually being shut down.
But yes, the request was made.
That's probably a reasonable conjecture, but the courts can be unpredictable. Thanks for your insight into the case.
talking points that you are relying on now for Huck-bashing were tailored to be misleading
Thanks for that. It seems that there is too much being said against Huckabee for no other reason that he wears his Christianity on his sleeve.
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