Who Does This Guy Think He Is?
New York Times article on Huckabee...
Saturday, January 26, 2008
Monday, January 21, 2008
Mike Huckabee likes the Confederate Flag. (at least when he is in South Carolina)
Mike Huckabee, when asked about the Confederate flag while campaigning in South Carolina said that if anyone ever told them in Arkansas what flag they could fly they would tell them where to shove the pole. More pandering by Mike Huckabee to help reclaim some support that he has been losing since Iowa. Chuck Norris please go home.
The Huckabubble as Burst
Mike Huckabee still likes to continue to give life to the idea that he is the Republican front-runner...well after the Nevada and South Carolina primaries that is just not the case. Lets look at the results
Romney-72 Delegates
McCain-38 Delegates
Huckabee-29 Delegates
Huckabee finished 2nd in South Carolina, 3rd in Michigan, 3rd in New Hampshire, 3rd in Wyoming, and 4th in Nevada. Mike...you are no front runner.
Romney-72 Delegates
McCain-38 Delegates
Huckabee-29 Delegates
Huckabee finished 2nd in South Carolina, 3rd in Michigan, 3rd in New Hampshire, 3rd in Wyoming, and 4th in Nevada. Mike...you are no front runner.
Thursday, January 10, 2008
Mike Huckabee will send the Iranians to "Hell."
Another quote from tonight's debate...
(responding to a question about the recent incident between the US and Iran in the Straits of Hormuz)
Huckabee said if it happened again, the Iranians "should be prepared to see the gates of Hell."
Not only will Mike Huckabee tax the Americans into abject poverty he will continue to submit the war weary Americans to further misery and death in a endless war with Iran in the Mideast. Mike Huckabee has already proven he has a horrible knowledge of foreign matters and policy. When asked he didn't know about a report that had been published weakening the claim of Iran as a nuclear threat and he also didn't know what countries surrounded Pakistan and linked the death of Benazir Bhutto to illegal Pakistani immigrants. Do we want this man dictating our foreign policy for the next four years?
(responding to a question about the recent incident between the US and Iran in the Straits of Hormuz)
Huckabee said if it happened again, the Iranians "should be prepared to see the gates of Hell."
Not only will Mike Huckabee tax the Americans into abject poverty he will continue to submit the war weary Americans to further misery and death in a endless war with Iran in the Mideast. Mike Huckabee has already proven he has a horrible knowledge of foreign matters and policy. When asked he didn't know about a report that had been published weakening the claim of Iran as a nuclear threat and he also didn't know what countries surrounded Pakistan and linked the death of Benazir Bhutto to illegal Pakistani immigrants. Do we want this man dictating our foreign policy for the next four years?
Mike Huckabee is a Liar
Mike Huckabee lying about lowering taxes while governor of Arkansas, from tonight's Republican debate...
"Huckabee seemed unruffled. "The Air Force has a saying that if you're not catching flak you're not over the target. I'm catching the flak. I must be over the target," he said. He added he had cut taxes as governor of Arkansas and was re-elected by his constituents, a sure sign, he added, that they were pleased with his performance."
Remember these statistics...
"Huckabee seemed unruffled. "The Air Force has a saying that if you're not catching flak you're not over the target. I'm catching the flak. I must be over the target," he said. He added he had cut taxes as governor of Arkansas and was re-elected by his constituents, a sure sign, he added, that they were pleased with his performance."
Remember these statistics...
- Immediately upon taking office, Governor Huckabee signed a sales tax hike in 1996 to fund the Games and Fishing Commission and the Department of Parks and Tourism (Cato Policy Analysis No. 315, 09/03/98).
- He supported an internet sales tax in 2001 (Americans for Tax Reform 01/07/07).
- He publicly opposed the repeal of a sales tax on groceries and medicine in 2002 (Arkansas News Bureau 08/30/02).
- He signed bills raising taxes on gasoline (1999), cigarettes (2003) (Americans for Tax Reform 01/07/07), and a $5.25 per day bed-tax on private nursing home patients in 2001 (Arkansas New Bureau 03/01/01).
- He proposed another sales take hike in 2002 to fund education improvements (Arkansas News Bureau 12/05/02).
- He opposed a congressional measure to ban internet taxes in 2003 (Arkansas News Bureau 11/21/03).
- In 2004, he allowed a 17% sales tax increase to become law (The Gurdon Times 03/02/04)
Tuesday, January 8, 2008
Thank You New Hampshire
Thank you to the citizens of New Hampshire for hopefully putting the first nail in the Huckabee coffin...Huckabee will finish 3rd in New Hampshire with only 11% of the vote. Let's continue to erase Huckabee from this race.
Monday, January 7, 2008
Top 10 Reasons Mike Huckabee Shouldn't Be President
by Terese Puente from the Chicago Sun Times
"Obama has been criticized for his lack of experience, but I'm confident he has the intellect required to become president. However, Huckabee, a Baptist minister and former Arkansas governor, hasn't faced nearly as much criticism for his lack of experience, and he keeps on stumbling."
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"Obama has been criticized for his lack of experience, but I'm confident he has the intellect required to become president. However, Huckabee, a Baptist minister and former Arkansas governor, hasn't faced nearly as much criticism for his lack of experience, and he keeps on stumbling."
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10. He went on Jay Leno.
Duh! What writers' strike? It seems Huckabee was confused. At first, he didn't grasp that the writers' strike is still ongoing. So he crossed picket lines to go on the late-night talk show.
9. He doesn't know how to use the dictionary.
Oops! Huckabee can't define the difference between apology and sympathy. When former Pakistani Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto was assassinated on the campaign trail last month, Huckabee offered his apologies. Later, his campaign released a statement saying he meant to say sympathies.
8. He thinks we need a border fence to keep out Pakistani immigrants.
What? When asked to react to Bhutto, who represented democratic change in Pakistan, Huckabee instead spoke about the alleged growing illegal Pakistani problem. Huckabee claimed that "... we have more Pakistani illegals coming across our border than all other nationalities except those immediately south of the border." Not true. More Asian immigrants come to the United States from the Philippines, Korea, China and Vietnam.
7. He can't read a map.
Come on! Huckabee misstated the location of the border between Afghanistan and Pakistan. Huckabee said, "[Musharraf] has told us he does not have enough control of those eastern borders near Afghanistan to be able to go after the terrorists." Those borders are located on the west, not the east.
6. He doesn't read the front page of the newspaper.
Hello! More than 30 hours after the news was in every major newspaper and on television, Huckabee was clueless when asked about an intelligence report that Iran suspended its nuclear program four years ago.
5. He doesn't understand you can't get AIDS from kissing or touching.
Yikes! In 1992, Huckabee suggested we should quarantine people with AIDS. Huckabee wrote the following in response to a question from the Associated Press. "If the federal government is truly serious about doing something with the AIDS virus, we need to take steps that would isolate the carriers of this plague."
4. He brings new meaning to negative campaigning.
Huh? In Iowa, Huckabee held a press conference to announce he would not air a $30,000 negative ad his campaign made attacking Mitt Romney. He then showed the ad to a room full of reporters. Can Huckabee spell hypocrite?
3. He can go too far in mixing religion and politics.
Oh, sure! Huckabee lightheartedly denied that the white bookshelf in the background of his Christmas ad was meant to project the image of a floating cross, but critics, including Catholic League president Bill Donahue, saw it as a subliminal message. That kind of tactic played well with evangelical voters in Iowa, but we'll see if it works in the rest of the country.
2. He's a self-described "recovering foodaholic."
Wow! Now I give Huckabee credit for shedding more than 120 pounds. It takes willpower to resist all those corn dogs, fried chicken and Southern-fried goodies. But all that weight loss makes me wonder if Huckabee also lost some brain cells.
1. He's no Walker, Texas Ranger.
Help! He enlisted the former star of the above mentioned, corny television show, B-actor Chuck Norris, to be his celebrity campaigner. Sorry Chuck. You can't top Oprah."
Thursday, January 3, 2008
Huckabee in Iowa
Excellent words by Joseph A. Palermo on why Huckabee can't win this election...
"Mike Huckabee did not even know that Afghanistan is on the western border of Pakistan, not the eastern border, and he hadn't even heard about the recent NIE on Iran. Instead of reading books on geography and international relations, Huckabee has been absorbed in Bible-thumping. Public piety is the only criteria for millions of Republican voters who possess as little knowledge of foreign affairs as does Hucka-Bucka. Huckabee is as unqualified to be president as George W. Bush.
A Huckabee administration would be a disaster for the nation since we must mend fences in the coming years with the rest of the world and with the United Nations, and the Old Testament has shown itself to be a poor blueprint for U.S. foreign policy."
"Mike Huckabee did not even know that Afghanistan is on the western border of Pakistan, not the eastern border, and he hadn't even heard about the recent NIE on Iran. Instead of reading books on geography and international relations, Huckabee has been absorbed in Bible-thumping. Public piety is the only criteria for millions of Republican voters who possess as little knowledge of foreign affairs as does Hucka-Bucka. Huckabee is as unqualified to be president as George W. Bush.
A Huckabee administration would be a disaster for the nation since we must mend fences in the coming years with the rest of the world and with the United Nations, and the Old Testament has shown itself to be a poor blueprint for U.S. foreign policy."
Mike Huckabee and Taxes...
- Immediately upon taking office, Governor Huckabee signed a sales tax hike in 1996 to fund the Games and Fishing Commission and the Department of Parks and Tourism (Cato Policy Analysis No. 315, 09/03/98).
- He supported an internet sales tax in 2001 (Americans for Tax Reform 01/07/07).
- He publicly opposed the repeal of a sales tax on groceries and medicine in 2002 (Arkansas News Bureau 08/30/02).
- He signed bills raising taxes on gasoline (1999), cigarettes (2003) (Americans for Tax Reform 01/07/07), and a $5.25 per day bed-tax on private nursing home patients in 2001 (Arkansas New Bureau 03/01/01).
- He proposed another sales take hike in 2002 to fund education improvements (Arkansas News Bureau 12/05/02).
- He opposed a congressional measure to ban internet taxes in 2003 (Arkansas News Bureau 11/21/03).
- In 2004, he allowed a 17% sales tax increase to become law (The Gurdon Times 03/02/04)
Pastor Chuck Baldwin Against Mike Huckabee
Clips from an article written by Baptist Pastor Chuck Baldwin from Pensacola Florida...
"Many Christian conservatives see Mike Huckabee as the best candidate...Is Mike Huckabee worthy of this support, however? The facts say no."
"I have already attempted to warn my evangelical brethren as to the dangers of supporting Mike Huckabee."
"Robert Novak recently wrote a column about Mike Huckabee entitled, "The False Conservative." In the column he said, "Huckabee is campaigning as a conservative, but serious Republicans know that he is a high-tax, protectionist, big-government advocate of a strong hand in the Oval Office directing the lives of Americans."
". . . Mr. Huckabee swore an oath to support and defend the Constitution when he became governor, yet many of his proposals are clearly unconstitutional"
"...Mike Huckabee "worked with some of the state's most prominent and politically powerful businesses to establish the [Mexican] consulate as a magnet for drawing illegal immigrants to the state to accept low-paying jobs."
"...In addition, Corsi also exposed the fact that Mike Huckabee worked with Mexican President Vicente Fox to help provide cheap Mexican labor for Tyson foods and other large Arkansas corporations."
"...The American Spectator reported that "Fourteen times, the ethics commission--a respected body, not a partisan witch-hunt group--investigated claims against Huckabee. Five of those times, it officially reprimanded him."
"[Huckabee] used public money for family restaurant meals, boat expenses, and other personal uses. He tried to claim as his own some $70,000 of furniture donated to the governor's mansion. He repeatedly, and obstinately, against the pleadings even from conservative columnists and editorials, refused to divulge the names of donors to a 'charitable' organization he set up while lieutenant governor--an outfit whose main charitable purpose seemed to be to pay Huckabee to make speeches. Then, as a kicker, he misreported the income itself from the suspicious 'charity.'"
"...he would continue his abolitionist crusade at the national level without giving much, if any, thought to the question of whether the Constitution or anything else would legitimize a federal ban on smoking."
"Dear Christian friend, don't be duped by Mike Huckabee."
The words of one Southern Baptist Minister about a former Southern Baptist Minister.
The Huckabee train needs to stop at Iowa.
"Many Christian conservatives see Mike Huckabee as the best candidate...Is Mike Huckabee worthy of this support, however? The facts say no."
"I have already attempted to warn my evangelical brethren as to the dangers of supporting Mike Huckabee."
"Robert Novak recently wrote a column about Mike Huckabee entitled, "The False Conservative." In the column he said, "Huckabee is campaigning as a conservative, but serious Republicans know that he is a high-tax, protectionist, big-government advocate of a strong hand in the Oval Office directing the lives of Americans."
Novak also said, "There is no doubt about Huckabee's record during a decade in Little Rock as governor. . . He increased the Arkansas tax burden by 47 percent, boosting the levies on gasoline and cigarettes."
"...a former Arkansas journalist writing in the conservative American Spectator, called Huckabee 'a guy with a thin skin, a nasty vindictive streak."". . . Mr. Huckabee swore an oath to support and defend the Constitution when he became governor, yet many of his proposals are clearly unconstitutional"
"...Mike Huckabee "worked with some of the state's most prominent and politically powerful businesses to establish the [Mexican] consulate as a magnet for drawing illegal immigrants to the state to accept low-paying jobs."
"...In addition, Corsi also exposed the fact that Mike Huckabee worked with Mexican President Vicente Fox to help provide cheap Mexican labor for Tyson foods and other large Arkansas corporations."
"...The American Spectator reported that "Fourteen times, the ethics commission--a respected body, not a partisan witch-hunt group--investigated claims against Huckabee. Five of those times, it officially reprimanded him."
"[Huckabee] used public money for family restaurant meals, boat expenses, and other personal uses. He tried to claim as his own some $70,000 of furniture donated to the governor's mansion. He repeatedly, and obstinately, against the pleadings even from conservative columnists and editorials, refused to divulge the names of donors to a 'charitable' organization he set up while lieutenant governor--an outfit whose main charitable purpose seemed to be to pay Huckabee to make speeches. Then, as a kicker, he misreported the income itself from the suspicious 'charity.'"
"...he would continue his abolitionist crusade at the national level without giving much, if any, thought to the question of whether the Constitution or anything else would legitimize a federal ban on smoking."
"Dear Christian friend, don't be duped by Mike Huckabee."
The words of one Southern Baptist Minister about a former Southern Baptist Minister.
The Huckabee train needs to stop at Iowa.
Mike Huckabee's Willie Horton...Wayne Dumond
Wayne DuMond was arrested and jailed for a rape in Arkansas...Mike Huckabee (contrary to what he says publicly) fought for the release of Wayne DuMond after which he raped and killed again...he also was linked to several other murders during the period after his release.
Lois Davidson Speaks...the Mother of DuMond's victim...
In January of 2006 Mike Huckabee was on Meet the Press where Tim Russert asked him about the Wayne DuMond case and his response was "Huckabee went on to insist that he did not intervene in Dumond’s case with the parole board, and neither he nor his staff tried to convince the board to grant Dumond parole"
But a member of the Parole and Pardon board was quoting as say this on Huckabee's involvement in the case...
"I signed the [parole] papers because the governor wanted Dumond paroled. I was thinking the governor was working for the best interests of the state.”
DuMond had many brushes with the law throughout his life; he was convicted of molested an underage girl in Tacoma Washington, then he was convicted of a rape of a 17 year old girl in Arkansas in 1984. The girl was a distant relative of the Clinton family and after Clinton was elected a right-wing campaign was launched to free DuMond by Arkansas Republicans who believed that the Clinton family railroaded DuMond.
When Huckabee became Arkansas governor in 1996 he was determined to release DuMond from prison, even writing DuMond a letter saying “my desire is that you be released from prison.” Huckabee used his clout to get DuMond released from prison in 1999. On June 21 2001 DuMond was arrested and charged for the September 20 2000 rape and murder of Carol Sue Shields. DuMond was found dead in his cell on September 1 2005. Charges were being prepared against him for the for the June 21 2001 rape and murder of pregnant Sara Andrasek.
Mother of Carol Sue Shields on Mike Huckabee...
"If not for Mike Huckabee, Wayne DuMond would've been in prison, and Carol Sue would've been with us this year for Christmas."
Some links that examine the Wayne DuMond case further...
Virginia Bloggers Against Mike Huckabee
Arkansas Times: A Reminder of Huckabee's Role in DuMonds Freedom
Lois Davidson Speaks...the Mother of DuMond's victim...
In January of 2006 Mike Huckabee was on Meet the Press where Tim Russert asked him about the Wayne DuMond case and his response was "Huckabee went on to insist that he did not intervene in Dumond’s case with the parole board, and neither he nor his staff tried to convince the board to grant Dumond parole"
But a member of the Parole and Pardon board was quoting as say this on Huckabee's involvement in the case...
"I signed the [parole] papers because the governor wanted Dumond paroled. I was thinking the governor was working for the best interests of the state.”
DuMond had many brushes with the law throughout his life; he was convicted of molested an underage girl in Tacoma Washington, then he was convicted of a rape of a 17 year old girl in Arkansas in 1984. The girl was a distant relative of the Clinton family and after Clinton was elected a right-wing campaign was launched to free DuMond by Arkansas Republicans who believed that the Clinton family railroaded DuMond.
When Huckabee became Arkansas governor in 1996 he was determined to release DuMond from prison, even writing DuMond a letter saying “my desire is that you be released from prison.” Huckabee used his clout to get DuMond released from prison in 1999. On June 21 2001 DuMond was arrested and charged for the September 20 2000 rape and murder of Carol Sue Shields. DuMond was found dead in his cell on September 1 2005. Charges were being prepared against him for the for the June 21 2001 rape and murder of pregnant Sara Andrasek.
Mother of Carol Sue Shields on Mike Huckabee...
"If not for Mike Huckabee, Wayne DuMond would've been in prison, and Carol Sue would've been with us this year for Christmas."
Some links that examine the Wayne DuMond case further...
Virginia Bloggers Against Mike Huckabee
Arkansas Times: A Reminder of Huckabee's Role in DuMonds Freedom
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