Glenn Beck Responds to Huckabee and Bugga Bears

After Huckabee emailed Beck about Beck calling him a "progressive" on air, Huckabee also followed it up with a piece on his site ridiculing Beck and his "bugga bear" conspiracy theories.

After playing Huckabee's comments, Beck detailed how Huckabee (a Christian and someone who he has met, interviewed and knows many people who are friends of Mike Huckabee -- and that his comments are in response to Huckabee's big government politics) isn't a conservative and is someone who raised taxes when he was in office.

Beck said he is glad that they both have shows to get out their points of view and asked Huckabee to tell him which concerns he (Beck) has talked about that fall into Huckabee's definition of "bugga bear."

Then he closed that segment by saying that Huckabee would be as thin-skinned as Obama and that we don't need that.

Ammo from my personal archives on Huckabee:

RUSH: ‘Populism” isn’t “conservatism” and neither is Huckabee.’

The “H” Files: ( More than 35 pages in this section)
http://www.rushlimbaugh.com/home/eibessential/populism_and_mike.member.html

2008: Populism and Mike Huckabee

• Rush Responds to Gov. Huckabee
• November 8: What if Huckabee Wins Iowa?

The beginning of the Drive-By Media love affair with Huckabee.
• Huckabee Denies Mormon Slur
• The Future of Conservatism
• The Hucksters Make Their Case — and Finally Convince the Host?
• Rush Analyzes the GOP Debates
• Again: No Endorsements Here
• Dictionary Time: Populist (n.)
• Populism Is Not Conservatism
• Democrats Want Mike Huckabee
• Analyzing the Huckabee Appeal
• Huckabee Targets South Carolina
• Rush on Fox News Channel Iowa Caucus Coverage
• Dems, Huck Ride Populist Train
• Huckabee Is No Ronald Reagan; There Is No Reagan in the Race
• Democrats Salivate Over Huckabee
• Identity Politics and the Hucksters: Part Two
• Why the Media Helped Huckabee
• Huckabee’s Clintonesque Ad Move
• Governor Huckabee E-mails Rush; Drive-Bys Miss Point of the Story
• Gov. Huckabee Sounds Like Perot
• Huckabee’s Rollins Trashes Rush Instead of Debating Conservatism
• The Heat Turns Up on Gov Huckabee
• Why Gov. Huckabee Distances from Bush
• Huckabee Forces Attack El Rushbo
• Callers React to Huckabee Attacks
• Identity Politics and the Hucksters: Part One
• Why Conservatism Matters Most
Read the Background Material...
• The Politico: Rush Responds to Huck Peace Offering
• The Politico: Huck Offers Olive Branch to Rush, Asks for Him to Get in Touch
• CBS: Ed Rollins: Huckabee Will Win Iowa
• The Atlantic: A Huckabee Ally on El Rushbo
• AP: Huckabee Plays the Woe-Is-Me Card
• The Atlantic: A Huckabee Ally on El Rushbo
• The American Thinker: The Huckabee Hustle

Pete Wehner at NRO took issue with the first two paragraphs of a Huckabee essay in Foreign Affairs magazine, particularly the claim by Huckabee that we’re too mean around the world; we’re trying to dominate the world, and we need to be more like a top high school student, modest about our abilities and achievements, generous, and then we will be loved. If we keep dominating people, we’ll be despised, and “the Bush administration’s arrogant and bunker mentality has been counterproductive at home and abroad.”
National Review Online http://article.nationalreview.com/?q=NjgzMzYzY2Y1ZjAxNTg5YzAzNzY2MjMwOWYxNWM0ZTc=

Mike “God is Green” Huckabee’s agenda to advance his higher taxes on gasoline and home energy use:

Excerpt:
Mark Steyn on Huckabee: “...Where I part company with Huck’s supporters is in believing he’s any kind of solution. He’s friendlier to the teachers’ unions than any other so-called “cultural conservative” which is why in New Hampshire he’s the first Republican to be endorsed by the NEA. His healthcare pitch is Attack Of The Fifty Foot Nanny, beginning with his nationwide smoking ban. This is, as Jonah Goldberg put it, compassionate conservatism on steroids big paternalistic government that can only enervate even further “our culture.” So Iowa chose to reward, on the Democrat side, a proponent of the conventional secular left, and, on the Republican side, a proponent of a new Christian left. If that’s the choice, this is going to be a long election year.”

Feelin’ Hucky are ya?
http://www.nysun.com/opinion/you-feelin-hucky/69011/

Mark Steyn: “...As for Huckabee, the thinking on the right is that the mainstream media are boosting him up because he’s the Republican who’ll be easiest to beat. It’s undoubtedly true that they see him as the designated pushover, but in that they’re wrong. If Iowa’s choice becomes the nation’s and it’s Huckabee vs Obama this November, I’d bet on Huck. As governor, as preacher and even as discjockey, he’s spent his entire life in professions that depend on connecting with an audience and he’s very good at it. His gag on “The Tonight Show” “People are looking for a presidential candidate who reminds them more of the guy they work with rather than the guy that laid them off” had a kind of brilliance: True, it is, at one level, cornball (imagine John Edwards doing it with all his smarmy sanctimoniousness) but it also devastatingly cuts to the nub of the difference between him and Romney. It’s a disc-jockey line: the morning man on the radio is a guy doing a tricky job he’s a celebrity trying to pass himself off as a regular joe which is pretty much what the presidential candidate has to do, too. Huckabee’s good at that.

I don’t know whether the Jay Leno shtick was written for him by a professional, but, if so, by the time it came out of his mouth it sounded like him. When Huck’s campaign honcho, Ed Rollins, revealed the other day that he wanted to punch Romney in the teeth, Mitt had a good comeback: “I have just one thing to say to Mr. Rollins,” he began. “Please, don’t touch the hair.” Funny line but it sounds like a line, like something written by a professional and then put in his mouth.

This is the Huckabee advantage. On stage, he’s quick-witted and thinks on his feet. He’s not paralyzed by consultants and trimmers and triangulators. Put him in a Presidential debate and he’ll have sharper ripostes and funnier throwaways and more plausible self-deprecating quips than anyone on the other side. He’ll be a great campaigner. The problems begin when he stops campaigning and starts governing.

In The Wall Street Journal, Peggy Noonan observed of Huck that, “his great power, the thing really pushing his supporters, is that they believe that what ails America and threatens its continued existence is not economic collapse or jihad, it is our culture.”

She’s right. It’s not the economy, stupid. The economy’s fine. It’s gangbusters. Indeed, despite John Edwards’ dinner-theatre Dickens routine about coatless girls shivering through the night because daddy’s been laid off at the mill, the sub-text of both Democrat and Republican messages is essentially that this country is so rich it can afford to be stupid it can afford to pork up the federal budget; it can afford to put middle-class families on government health care; it can afford to surrender its borders.

There is a potentially huge segment of the population that thinks homo economicus is missing the point. They’re tired of the artificial and, indeed, creepily coercive secular multiculti pseudo-religion imposed on American grade schools. I’m sympathetic to this pitch myself. Unlike Miss Noonan, I think it’s actually connected to the jihad, in the sense that radical Islamism is an opportunist enemy which has arisen in the wake of the western world’s one-way multiculturalism. In the long run, the relativist mush peddled in our grade schools is a national security threat. But, even in the short term, it’s a form of child abuse that cuts off America’s next generation from the glories of their inheritance.

Where I part company with Huck’s supporters is in believing he’s any kind of solution. He’s friendlier to the teachers’ unions than any other so-called “cultural conservative” which is why in New Hampshire he’s the first Republican to be endorsed by the NEA. His healthcare pitch is Attack Of The Fifty Foot Nanny, beginning with his nationwide smoking ban. This is, as Jonah Goldberg put it, compassionate conservatism on steroids big paternalistic government that can only enervate even further “our culture.” So Iowa chose to reward, on the Democrat side, a proponent of the conventional secular left, and, on the Republican side, a proponent of a new Christian left. If that’s the choice, this is going to be a long election year.

What’s troubling about The Man From Hope 2.0 is what he represents. Huckabee represents compassionate conservatism on steroids. A devout social conservative on issues such as abortion, school prayer, homosexuality and evolution, Huckabee’s a populist on economics, a fad-follower on the environment and an all-around do-gooder who believes that the biblical obligation to do “good works” extends to using government and your tax dollars to bring us closer to the Kingdom of Heaven on Earth.

For example, Huckabee would support a nationwide ban on public smoking. Why? Because he’s on a health kick, thinks smoking is bad and believes the government should do the right thing.

Jonah Goldberg November 21, 2007 12:00 A.M. http://www.nationalreview.com/articles/222895/dont-be-scared/jonah-goldberg

Huck Looks for Black Helicopters [Mark R. Levin] 02/02/08 03:07 PM

This is incredible. Mike Huckabee accuses Sean Hannity, who has announced he will vote for Mitt Romney on Tuesday, of being influenced by Bain Capital, which Huckabee says owns Sean’s network Clear Channel.
First, the facts. Bain is trying to buy Clear Channel, or parts of it. Clear Channel does own many radio stations. Sean appears on many of their stations, as do many of us. But Sean’s syndication partner is ABC Radio Networks, which was recently acquired by Citadel Broadcasting.
So, not only does Huckabee get his facts wrong, like most conspiracy kooks, he makes a scurrilous charge in his usual matter-of-fact way and then admits he really doesn’t know. Here’s the video.
Not enough attention is given this tendency we’ve seen from Huckabee. In South Carolina, where the Confederate flag issue was largely settled, he brought up during campaign stops to agitate for support. It was utterly irresponsible act. And then there was his devil-worship line about the Mormon faith, which was intended to raise questions about Romney’s religion.
This is disgraceful stuff. http://corner.nationalreview.com/

It was a nefarious year for nettlesome nosy-bodies employed by the Nanny State. Here are the top power-grabbers of 2010 who just can’t leave us alone:

“....Nanny State Republican Mike Huckabee, who used his bully pulpit position as Arkansas governor to campaign for Big Government-endorsed “healthier living” in public schools and private life, naturally sided with Mrs. Obama — and took a swipe at Sarah Palin last week for criticizing the White House usurpation of parental responsibility and rights. Huckabee scoffed at the idea that the feds are “trying to force the government’s desires on people.” But school bake sales are already under siege, and Mrs. Obama’s childhood obesity task force has already called for new and dramatic controls on the marketing of unhealthy foods. Did Huckabee miss (or does he agree with) Mrs. Obama’s officious rallying cry on child nutrition: “We can’t just leave it up to parents”? God save us from more busybody bipartisanship in 2011.

Big Nannies Of The Year by Michelle Malkin Posted 12/29/2010 ET http://www.humanevents.com/article.php?id=40861

December 17, 2007 The Huckabee Hustle By Selwyn Duke
http://www.americanthinker.com/2007/12/the_huckabee_hustle.html

Mike Huckabee claimed God wants us to give amnesty to millions of illegal aliens. As Governor of Arkansas he advocated letting illegal aliens vote. While Huckabee is now lying and saying he is dedicated to fighting illegal immigration, his record is clear. As Governor of Arkansas Mike Huckabee passed a law that added major restrictions to the Arakansas Homeschool Rights Act passed by Bill Clinton, making Arkansas one of the most hostile state to homeschoolers outside of the Northeast. Homeschoolers in Arkansas had more rights when Clinton left office than when Huckabee left office.

Mike Huckabee was the keynote speaker at the 2007 NEA national convention!

The Socialist From Arkansas
http://cofcc.org/2007/10/conservative-huckabee/

John Fund
Another Man From Hope
Who is Mike Huckabee?
Friday, October 26, 2007 12:01 a.m. EDT
http://opinionjournal.com/diary/?id=110010782

“....Mr. Huckabee’s praises have been sung by liberal columnists such as Gail Collins of the New York Times and Jonathan Alter of Newsweek. ....Mr. Huckabee attributes his support to the fact he is a “hardworking, consistent conservative with some authenticity about those convictions.” He is certainly qualified for national office, having served nearly 11 years as a chief executive. I have known and liked him for years; on the stump he often tells the story of how we first met outside his boarded-up office in the state Capitol, which had been sealed by Arkansas Democrats who refused to accept he had won an upset election for lieutenant governor in 1993. But I also know he is not the “consistent conservative” he now claims to be. ...”

Huckabee has a record of raising taxes and increasing spending
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB120243266768552299.html?mod=googlenews_wsj
By PAT TOOMEY February 8, 2008

“This is going to be an issue which evangelicals are going to look at when they cast their ballots,” Cizik said. ..” But only Republican former Gov. Mike Huckabee of Arkansas otherwise considered among the more conservative candidates in the race has explicitly aligned himself with the creation care movement. ..” [The Reverend Richard Cizik ] Much more: “God is Green” 11/06/2007 http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/21656644/

NY Times Friday 11 March 2005: “.. Mr. Cizik said he had a “conversion” on climate change so profound in Oxford that he likened it to an “altar call,” when nonbelievers accept Jesus as their savior. Mr. Cizik recently bought a Toyota Prius, a hybrid vehicle. “ http://www.truthout.org/cgi-bin/artman/exec/view.cgi/37/9554

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