A Rush to judgment (Chuck Norris defends Governor Huckabee)

World Net Daily ^ | January 14, 2008 | Chuck Norris

[Kurt Evans]

Our country is definitely in a cultural fight for its life. And what's at stake is the very heart and core of America ...

More than any other election in decades, this presidential one has erected a fighting ring in which conservatism will either maintain its title or be stripped of it by the appointment of leadership that will champion secular progressive change...

Even now our own GOP candidates are wrestling over who is truly conservative.

At the last round of debates, Fred Thompson, degraded by his own dilapidating campaign and threatened by Mike Huckabee's lead in the polls, tried to liberalize Mike ...

Even radio host Rush Limbaugh heckled Huckabee with a similar liberal lashing, accusing him of not being a conservative in the line of Ronald Reagan – an unfortunate "Rush to judgment"...

Any GOP candidate can be dissected to a point that he is railed for having liberal tendencies...

And while former Tennessee Sen. Fred Thompson is also a friend, his record of consistently voting against tort reform, opposing the impeachment of Bill Clinton on perjury, supporting opponents of Reagan (Ford and Baker) in 1976 and 1980, and failing to support federal constitutional amendments that would ban abortion and gay marriage doesn't exactly make him "the only true conservative."

To be fair, even if Reagan himself were running today, he likely couldn't dodge liberal labeling, especially for his signing of the Immigration Control and Reform Act of 1986, which granted amnesty to aliens who resided in the U.S. since before 1982.

As I've already shown in my past WND columns, most liberal accusations against Mike Huckabee's record on immigration, taxes and crime are also biased, out-of-context rushes to judgment.

The complete record and platform [link in post #2] of this former Arkansas governor reveals a tried-and-true conservative.

[Uncle Chip]

Thanks for this information. Huckabee is truly a wolf in sheep’s clothing. It is one thing to be a Liberal and admit it, but something else entirely to be a Liberal but lie about it, pretend otherwise, deny it, and obfuscate the record. That, in Biblical parlance, is called “bearing false witness” aka “lying”, all of which raises the question as to the veracity of his claim that he is an evangelical Christian in the first place.

[Ron H.]

He should stick to endorsing exercise equipment.

Agreed. As an aside, wasn't it Norris that married the woman who showed up at his front door naked as a jay-bird, a supposed stranger to him at the time a few years back? The details are a bit fuzzy regarding this for me. If this is the case I then doubly doubt his rhetoric on his support for the Huckster. But I do agree that he shouldn't have given up his day job.

[streetpreacher]

Chuck Norris wears Fred Thompson pajamas.

[Ron H.]

Thanks for this information. Huckabee is truly a wolf in sheep’s clothing.

You just described the typical Republican RINO. Liberals at heart and in their deeds.

[TornadoAlley3]

placemark

[syriacus]

Guns don't kill people...
Microwaved meals kill people.

[syriacus]

Huckabee is truly a wolf in sheep’s clothing. It is one thing to be a Liberal and admit it, but something else entirely to be a Liberal but lie about it, pretend otherwise, deny it, and obfuscate the record. That, in Biblical parlance, is called “bearing false witness” aka “lying”, all of which raises the question as to the veracity of his claim that he is an evangelical Christian in the first place.

Great summary!

We expect lies from jihadists, not from Christian preachers.

[ding_dong_daddy_from_dumas]

>>Given the many vulnerabilities in his record, what is the likelihood that Huckabee would win in a general election?<<

[GOP_Proud]

Note to David Thompson:

Brevity is your friend.

[montag813]

He should stick to endorsing exercise equipment.

His support of Huckabee makes me wonder whether the workers who build his TotalGym are legal.

[montag813]

failing to support federal constitutional amendments that would ban abortion and gay marriage doesn't exactly make him "the only true conservative."

Norris is not as bright as I thought. Chuck, please Google "Federalism".

[montag813]

opposing the impeachment of Bill Clinton on perjury, supporting opponents of Reagan (Ford and Baker) in 1976 and 1980

Yes, the Ed Rollins talking points. How original!

[Harvey1]

Is Chuck Norris the only conservative in Hollywood?

[rintense]

Wow, his criticisms of Fred are demonstratively weak. Poor Huck.

[Eastbound]

"Bashing Huckabee is certainly not the best way to define himself, . .."

I don't think he's bashing Huck. He's merely telling folks that Huck is mistaken about what a conservative is.

[ejonesie22]

Unfortunately, it seems it does not. Either they are not that smart or agree with Government sponsored Charity.

We Conservatives call the socialism, but hey, it is in the name of the Lord, right?

[Fred]

Huckabee Takes Fees From Embryonic Stem Cell Researcher

Hucklebee Supports Democrats

Hucklebee Grants Clemency

Saint Hucklebee Push/Polling in MI NH AND SC

Huckabee: Immigrants' friend

[Lancey Howard]

“Why does Mike Huckabee have so little respect for crime victims and their families?”

I don’t believe he has any lack of respect for them.

Then why does he continually slap them in the face by freeing those who have committed crimes against them?

[Free Vulcan]

Blah blah blah. Sounds like James Carville’s retort about dragging a $100 bill thru a trailer park.

Same old Clintonite tactics, when presented with opposition, demonize and impugn the character of that opposition with factless assertions and insinuations.

unspun my ass.

[Free Vulcan]

Blah blah blah. Sounds like James Carville’s retort about dragging a $100 bill thru a trailer park.

Same old Clintonite tactics, when presented with opposition, demonize and impugn the character of that opposition with factless assertions and insinuations.

unspun my ass.