The Chuckabee Facts ("Fact: Chuck Norris is so painful to watch that...")

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[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.

[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.

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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.

[fieldmarshaldj]

Please list all the Republicans that Huckster helped elect to office in Arkansas. Start with Governor.

[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?

[doc1019]

Just goes to show, you might be able to kick all the butt in the world … doesn’t make you particularly smart, especially in the political area.

[eleni121]

Thanks for the straight talk on Huckabee...the anti Huckabee rhetoric and lies are getting to be ridiculous even around here.

[WOSG]

“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.”

ROLFLMAO! You call INCREASING THE BURDEN OF GOVT ON THE ECONOMY BY 10% “MODEST”???
The fiscal conservative thing to do is to shrink Government in proportion to the economy, not GROW THE GOVERNMENT BIGGER THAN THE ECONOMY IS GROWING, which is what Huckabee did.

That burden is ON TOP of the increase in Government due to the population, economy, etc. Only a tax-and-spend liberal could increase the size of Government like that!

Every two years, the Cato Institute grades the 50 governors on fiscal stewardship. Here’s last year’s assessment of Tax Hike Mike: they ranked him 45th out of 50, near dead last.

Thanks to a final term grade of F, Huckabee earns an overall grade of D for his entire governorship. Like many Republicans, his grades dropped the longer he stayed in office. In his first few years, he fought hard for a sweeping $70 million tax cut package that was the first broad-based tax cut in the state in more than 20 years. He even signed a bill to cut the state’s 6 percent capital gains tax—a significant pro-growth accomplishment. But nine days after being reelected in 2002, he proposed a sales tax increase to cover a budget deficit caused partly by large spending increases that he proposed and approved, including an expansion in Medicare eligibility that Huckabee made a centerpiece of his 1997 agenda. He agreed to a 3 percent income tax “surcharge” and a 25-cent cigarette tax increase. In response to a court order to increase spending on education, Huckabee proposed another sales tax increase.
http://taxhikemike.org

Huckabee’s record is one of a tax-and-spend liberal. You can either lie about it and pretend its not a tax-and-spend record, or you can pretend it doesn’t matter. Save the koolaid for the Huckster supporters. they are obviously the ones drinking it.

[mnehring]

Kind of makes you want to upChuck?

[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)

[writer33]

Jim. You’re not a Huckabee supporter. I’m shocked.

:-) HA!

[WOSG]

It’s not straight talk, its double talk. Mike Huckabee increased spending and taxes massively while governor. He created new welfare programs, and begged for taxes to be raised:
http://taxhikemike.pjdoland.com/2007/11/huckabees_profound_thanks_for.html

This is a CORE issue of fiscal responsibility, and Mike Huckabee flunked it. No self-respecting conservative can support that tax-and-spend record. He was ranked 45th out of 50, worse even than all but the most tax-and-spend liberal Democrats.

These are the tax hikes Mike Huckabee passed:
http://taxhikemike.org/

Huckabee’s Laundry List of Tax Hikes

* Signed a sales tax hike in 1996 (Cato Policy Analysis No. 315, 09/03/98).
* Supported an internet sales tax in 2001 (Reuters, 02/23/04).
* Publicly opposed the repeal of a sales tax on groceries and medicine in 2002 (Arkansas Democrat-Gazette, 09/11/02).
* Signed a gas tax in 1999 (Arkansas Democrat-Gazette, 06/29/99)
* Signed cigarette tax hike in 2003 (Americans for Tax Reform 01/07/07)
* Signed a bed tax on private nursing home patients in 2001 (Associated Press 06/29/01).
* Proposed a sales take hike in 2002 (Arkansas News Bureau 12/05/02).
* Opposed a congressional measure to ban internet taxes in 2003 (Arkansas News Bureau 11/21/03).
* Allowed a 17% sales tax increase to become law in 2004 (The Gurdon Times 03/02/04).

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MIKE HUCKABEE

- PRO-LIFE
- PRO-1st Amendment
- PRO-2nd Amendment
- PRO-10th Amendment
- ANTI-GLOBALIST
- PRO-ISRAEL (no to land giveaways)
- PRO-MARRIAGE
- SMALL GOVERNMENT Fiscal Conservative
- PRO-AMERICAN BUSINESS
- PRO-OPPORTUNITY
- PRO-WAGE EARNER
- PRO-Individual Healthcare Empowerment
- PRO-Private/Home Education

It would be shameful not to back him up vs. McCain.

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Unfunded mandates

Court order per education taxes

Democrat legislature

Balanced budgets

Left a surplus allowing tax cutting

Arkansas record similar to Reagan’s Calilfornia record

[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.