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Also via Hot Air - As one of the young evangelicals interviewed for the Times piece today so tactfully put it:

“He reaches outside the normal Republican box.”

It makes me wonder, why Republicans would be supporting an individual who clearly is going after the vote of NON-REPUBLICANS, and actively killing off conservative ideals.
These same idiot Republicans would never consider voting for Bill Clinton, but Suckabee is perfectly fine. Oh I forgot “He is a man of God.” Fucken priceless.

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Found via Gateway Pundit

Former Arkansas Governor Mike Huckabee played the Evangelical card.
The Washington Post reported:

Former Arkansas governor Mike Huckabee touted his candidacy Saturday as a chance for evangelical Christians to lead the Republican Party rather than just support its candidates.

“I don’t presume that you automatically support me because of a common faith,” Huckabee told a group of more than 100 conservative pastors. “I know I have to earn that. But I also recognize that there is a unique kind of opportunity. For a long time, those of us who are people of faith are asked to support candidates who would come and talk to us. But rarely has there been one who comes from us.”

Mark Levin called this tactic “deplorable campaigning.”
Governor Huckabee also admitted to raising taxes while governor on Face the Nation on Sunday:

Also, in case you folks did not know…

Ernie Dumas writes: Mike Huckabee raised more taxes in 10 years in office than Bill Clinton did in his 12 years.
Clinton tax increases- Increased the general sales tax from 3 percent to 4 per- cent (Act 63 of special session of 1983)

- Increased sales tax by half of 1 percent and extended the tax to used vehicles (Act 3 of 1991)

- Increased the corporate income tax from 6 to 6.5 percent for corporations with net incomes greater than $100,000 (Act 1052 of 1991)

- Levied a 16 percent tax on snuff (yes, there are a few people who still dip snuff) (Act 628 of 1987)

- Levied a 25-cent tax on each pack of cigarette papers (yes, there are people who still roll their own) (Act 1045 of 1987)

- Increased the cigarette tax from 17.75 cents a pack to 21 cents a pack (Act 399 of 1983)

- Increased the cigarette tax by a penny a pack (Act 1211 of 1991)

- Levied a 2 percent tax on certain tourism items like admission to theme parks (Act 38 of 1989)

- Increased excise taxes on mixed drinks sold for on-premises consumption (not wine or beer) (Act 844 of 1983 and Act 908 of 1989)

- Increased motor fuel taxes by 1 cent a gallon (1979)

- Increased motor fuel taxes by 4 cents a gallon (Act 456 of 1985) (Clinton vetoed the bill but the legislature overrode his veto.)

- Increased the tax on motor fuels by 5 cents a gallon

- Increased motor vehicle registration fees, 1979 (subsequently repealed)
Huckabee tax increases

- Imposed an income tax surcharge of 3 percent on tax liabilities of individuals and domestic and foreign corporations (Act 38, 1st special session of 2003). (It was temporary until revenues improved. The legislature repealed it in 2005.)

- Increased the sales tax by 1/8 of one percent by initiated act (but it was a personal campaign by Huckabee, who campaigned across the state for it and took a celebrated bass boat trip for 4 days down the Arkansas River holding press conferences in each river city to urge passage of the act) (there’s lots more)

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This is from last nights debate, Hot Air has more, I’m recycling my previous rants on Suckabee, I really don’t like this guy.
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Huckabee is still the dude who released 1033 felons (more than all neighboring states combined) including 15 murderers and serial DUI offenders for political favors.Huckabee is still the dude that released one of the men only to have him killed again?

Huckabee is still the dude who concluded that the U.S. trade embargo against Cuba was bad for businesses then later flip flopped on that little issue.

Huckabee is stil the dude who encouraged Mexico to put a consulate in Little Rock facilitating illegal immigration and even arranging for sweet lease terms.

Huckabee is stil the dude who championed Bush’s Amnesty plan, he of course said that those that opposed “it is driven by sheer racism” and then flipped flopped on this issue(making all those Hispanics mad by the way thank you very much).

Huckabee is still the dude who said Gitmo was better than Arkansas Jails only to later call for it to be shut down after meeting with Terrorist sympathizers? 

Huckabee is still the dude who claimed a well respected former UN Ambassador was advising him.  So what if that was not the first time he told a white lie about foreign policy advisers?

Huckabee is still the dude who did not know what an NIE was, the geography of Pakistan, nor the Martial Law status in that VERY important country.

ALSO as Fred points out on Arkansas taxes:

(source) Huckabee likes to say he was tough on taxes in Arkansas, noting a $100 million tax cut in 1997 that until this year was Arkansas’ largest. When asked about a fuel tax increase he backed in 1999, Huckabee says incorrectly that he joined 80 percent of Arkansas voters in approving it.Huckabee in 1999 supported a $1 billion highway bond program, including costs for interest and lawyers’ fees, but the question on the ballot was only whether the state could take on the debt, not how Arkansas would pay for it. Huckabee had signed the fuel tax increase two months earlier.

Shortly after taking office, Huckabee took a four-day trip by bass boat along the Arkansas River to tout a 1/8th-cent sales tax increase for outdoor programs. (Two nature centers now carry the names of Huckabee and his wife.) Taxes went up $40 million in the months before the $100 million tax cut Huckabee touts.

Other taxes went up as Arkansas changed its property tax system and made improvements to its school system.

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Why give a crap about focus groups, look at these people!!!
 

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Found this on Michelle Malkin, man she was reading my mind. I was watching Lutz last night and rolling my eyes at these people in his focus group. I’m an obsessively skeptical person anyway. Sue me! LOL!

Free Republic posters and several other readers have sent along a video showing an “undecided” member of Frank Luntz’s focus groups who showed up at both the Sept. 5 New Hampshire debate and last night’s NH debate. Anyone recognize the dude? HA’s Bryan and Allah mull over accusations that one campaign or another planted the guy. BP: “He seems more like a Greg Packer figure if anything, a legitimate private citizen who turns up in the press because he sets out to do that on his own.” AP: “Some of the Freepers are wondering if he’s a “professional” focus group member…Obviously that would be a problem.”Yep. I think Frank Luntz, not any of the campaigns, is the one who needs to answer the questions about who Mr. Undecided is–and how he managed to end up in both focus groups. Transparency about how all of the people in the room ended up there would be wise.

This is interesting to me, because I have from time to time been checking out when this dude has his focus groups and asking these “professional” listeners their opinions on what they just heard from the participants of a given debate.

You have to ask yourself, what is the point of a focus group? Why do I give a shit what some old white dude in New Hampshire thinks about how some candidate answered a question and who he thinks is the “better” candidate?

These focus groups are slightly comical and Lutz is simply taking advantage of the one time where what he does is somewhat relevant.

Snoop is just curious. If you know who you are supporting and you have all of the 411 on your candidate and you understand his or her strengths or weaknesses, would listening to someone else interpret what you may or may already know sway your thinking?
If listening to the collective analysis of a focus group can indeed sway your thinking then just how fucken confused are you?

I’m sorry for repeating, but I find it fascinating that with each passing day, people are STILL learning about the candidates.
Thousands of hours of round the clock coverage on several networks, thousands of websites and blogs, almost constant analysis of these people and even people who are interested in the process and genuinely care about their choices still only know basic surface information on these candidates.

With Obama rising in the polls and Hillary dropping or Huckabee rising and Romney dropping in the polls just what have people “learned” about Obama or Huckabee that makes them better candidates today than they were 8 months or even a year ago?
Their political and professional records have not changed; Obama is still no more qualified today, and he is still a flaming liberal.

Since Huckabee is the one Republican that I will not support under any circumstances I’ll focus some recycled venom his way.

Huckabee is still the dude who released 1033 felons (more than all neighboring states combined) including 15 murderers and serial DUI offenders for political favors.

Huckabee is still the dude that released one of the men only to have him killed again?

Huckabee is still the dude who concluded that the U.S. trade embargo against Cuba was bad for businesses then later flip flopped on that little issue.

Huckabee is stil the dude who encouraged Mexico to put a consulate in Little Rock facilitating illegal immigration and even arranging for sweet lease terms.

Huckabee is stil the dude who championed Bush’s Amnesty plan, he of course said that those that opposed “it is driven by sheer racism” and then flipped flopped on this issue(making all those Hispanics mad by the way thank you very much).

Huckabee is still the dude who said Gitmo was better than Arkansas Jails only to later call for it to be shut down after meeting with Terrorist sympathizers? 

Huckabee is still the dude who claimed a well respected former UN Ambassador was advising him.  So what if that was not the first time he told a white lie about foreign policy advisers?

Huckabee is still the dude who did not know what an NIE was, the geography of Pakistan, nor the Martial Law status in that VERY important country.

He is leading in the polls because mindless dolts continue to be charmed by happy talk rhetoric and fake ass Jesus pimping talk. Let me be clear on something, no true man of God gives up his calling to promote the views of the gospel and trade that for the cold calculating, egotistical showbiz grind that is politics.

How much do you wanna bet that Huckabee used a focus group to determine that there were enough clueless moronic people who could be suckered into completely ignoring the true facts about his background and subsequently could be swayed into swallowing the mindless snake charming drivel dude spits out of his mouth on the campaign trail.

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Can y’all tell that I REALLY don’t like nor trust Huckabee?
Mike Huckabee RAISES GAS and other taxes as Governor.

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GOP Debate: Huckabee has to be asked whether he raised taxes 4 times

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Since I know a few folks who are into this home schooling thing, I thought I’d pass this along. Even though Home schooling does not personally apply to me, except the fact one of my grandchildren will be home schooled, the fact that the NEA supports Huckabee should send a HUGE red flag to any true conservative.
The NEA is only the largest liberal Nazi propaganda group in the country. Huckabee has their support? Get a clue Huck fans.

By Joseph Farah of WND

I take a back seat to no one in my admiration of homeschoolers.

I am a homeschooler myself.

As I have written in my book “Taking America Back,” I believe the homeschool movement is the vanguard of what could be a peaceful, social and cultural revolution that will restore morality, justice and freedom in our country.

That’s why I want to issue a warning to homeschoolers today: Don’t sell out to a presidential candidate too fast or too cheaply.

A Washington Post report suggests homeschoolers are throwing their support to Mike Huckabee in big numbers. While I think there is much to like about Huckabee, there are some major concerns as well.

One of those concerns is his education policy – specifically, the role of the federal government.

You may not know it, and many homeschoolers may not know it, but Huckabee has received the endorsement of the National Education Association’s New Hampshire chapter for the Republican nomination. Hillary Rodham Clinton received the group’s endorsement for the Democratic nomination.

Huckabee sought the endorsement of the NEA affiliate. He was the only Republican candidate to court it in an address to the group.

Here’s what he said at that time: “I’m astonished there are not more Republican candidates here. Do they not think education is important? Or are they just afraid of the NEA? I don’t know.”

In other words, Huckabee apparently equates education in America with the NEA. I don’t know about you, but I find this kind of pandering for money and votes deeply disturbing.

Read the rest at WorldNewDaily

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This from Jeremayakovka

On the overnight of Jan. 2-3 I had an arresting dream about the front-runner and now-proven winner of Iowa’s 2008 Republican presidential caucus. The following narration of images and phrases — not horrific, just lucid — sums up my sense of our current political moment:
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Amidst a small sea of campaign staffers, potential caucus-goers, and even Huckabee himself, we found ourselves in nondescript quarters (a pscyho-schematic composite of veterans’ hall, church basement, hotel conference room…). From the speaker’s platform Huck corralled all his people into a rows-deep line-up, as an aerobics instructor would for a workout. Despite our slacks, dress shirts, and leather shoes, Huck actually was gearing up to lead us through a workout. To promote fitness and weight-loss it was — and it was only because television cameras were on hand to can Huck’s unique, can-do message in that department. But I wasn’t there to dance for a dieting Mike Huckabee.

I certainly didn’t want to be part of any dog-and-pony show. Initially curious to be there, I wanted to be elsewhere.Then … as if my wish were answered … Huck and I stood together on an open, empty, grassy slope. Separately we peered up at a winterbright sky. Stark sunlight caught edges of occasional little clouds, wispy and curly-cued, that scripted the overhead blue. Silvery light slivers glinted off them, jabbing our nearly rapt eyes. Indeterminately, dreamy in our admiration Huck and I stared at the authority those otherwise insubstantial clouds enjoyed — so aimless and freefloating, yet captivating … vaguely. Fresh, crisp, winter air gusted against our faces which, slightly flushed, kept taking in a great heartland sky, capping the little, providential patch of green earth we’d been given to occupy.A wordless understanding might have been passing between Huck and me. A communion almost, but then Huck disturbed the calm. For we’d continued to gaze at the little silver against bigger white against biggest blue, until The Voice of Huck pronounced in his soft, folksy tone:

That’s God’s light….

Check out the rest here

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This from Red State

Today’s OpinionJournal piece from Peggy Noonan, “Out With the Old, In With the New,” makes two key observations about Huckabee’s victory last night:1) Noonan focuses on the perception of the Huckabee supporters about the problems in America. Noonan says:

From the mail I have received the past month after criticizing him in this space, I would say 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.

I can’t say as I disagree with this - our culture IS a significant problem, as morality continues to disintegrate around us. However, Noonan’s most important observation is this:

…while the presidency, as an office, can actually make real changes in the areas of economic and foreign policy, the federal government has a limited ability to change the culture of America. That is something conservatives used to know.

Bingo. And this is why it is silly for evangelicals to flock to a candidate who is strong on social issues yet very weak on others. It’s not that the social issues aren’t important, but if the focus of the GOP electorate is on a candidate who focuses his efforts on things that cannot be changed from the Oval Office, we/they have wasted their time and their votes.

Read the rest

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I’m listening to Rush as usual and my head hurts listening to this one caller who claims that he is undecided as to what GOP candidate to endorse.
Then dude eventually comes clean and says that he supports Suckabee because he is the “most” conservative. He then says later that Giuliani would be a good alternative.

Now I understand that people are willing to go to great lengths to give props to their candidate of choice and even flat out lie about his or her credentials.
However those of you who claim to be Republicans and yet support the obvious liberal tendencies of a candidate like Suckabee or Romney, shit even John McCain is amazing to me.
I have said prior, it’s not like you can’t go to You Tube and listen to what these candidates have said before or read prior articles on legislative action taken by these individuals while they occupied former offices. You can go to countless websites and see specifically the records that many of the GOP candidates try to conceal or misrepresent.

Despite all of that, I hear to way too many callers talk shows, (exceedingly funny when they try to pull this bullshit on Rush), trying to redefine what conservatism really means and moving solid benchmarks that should be required of any good solid GOP candidate.

As Rush and countless other political pundits have pointed out, but Rush in particular, Republican candidates need not pander to the left to win elections.
Kissing the collective asses of liberal Democrats is not what any TRUE Republican candidate for president should be doing.

The fact that I keep reading and hearing supposedly Republican voters pimping for the likes of Suckabee, the lying fraud Romney and a cross dressing Rudy is somewhat disturbing.
Maybe these campaigns have adopted the guerrilla tactics of Ron Paul supporters and have been instructed to manipulate poll numbers, frequently call talk shows, write letters to the editor, spam websites and blogs completely ignoring the essential substance of their candidate of choice.

Here is a portion of a transcript of Rush’s show where he talks about “Identity Politics”
particularly talking about Sucakbee and his followers.
Basically tard Christian types who think that just because Suckabee is this former preacher man that he must be the “God” candidate. I can here the redneck accents as I type this, “I support Huckabee because he is an Evangelical Christian”
(remember to say that in your best hillbilly voice)
Never mind his actual record and the fact that well….Suckabee is a closet liberal tard!
Note to you die hard people pimping the fact that Suckabee was a former preacher and “man of God”, look I have several former classmates who back in the day said point blank that they were going to be preachers because of the money they could make.
Yes all are now pretty successful preachers, one pimping parishioners in one of the oldest and most prominent churches in Alabama.
The only difference between them and yours truly is I much rather play Xbox and chill than eying the collection plates while “entertaining” folks on Sundays.
That is what frankly way too many shyster bible wavers engage in. Suckabee has just chosen to take his carnival road show into politics.
It worked in coning the people of Arkansas; I just hope that the American people won’t get screwed into supporting another man from… Hope?

RUSH: Okay, folks, let me tell you what’s going on now. I sadly, and unfortunately, must make this point reacting to our last caller. What we have going on here is identity politics, I think, in a large swath of support for Governor Huckabee. Identity politics is what the left does. Do you know what I mean when I say “identity politics,” Rachel? Okay.

Identity politics is: You vote for the Christian. You vote for the black. You vote for the woman. This is traditionally how the left looks at people. We, as conservatives, don’t. We don’t see you, for example, in a political sense, and see a woman first. We might see a woman first because you’re beautiful, but we’re men and we can’t help it. In a political sense, we wouldn’t say, “You don’t qualify. You’re not smart because you’re a woman,” and we wouldn’t say you deserve anything special because you’re a woman. We wouldn’t look at a black and say, “Oh! Poor, disadvantaged, slavery heritage, presidential material!” without knowing anything about the guy.

We wouldn’t if there was the first admittedly open gay running, we wouldn’t say, “Oh, terribly discriminated against, really has had no chance! We’re going to vote for the gay guy because it makes us feel better about ourselves.”That’s identity politics, or a little strain of it, and that’s what’s happening in the Huckabee race. The identity of Huckabee is: “Christian, Southern Baptist minister,” and that identity is covering and is being translated by supporters as meaning whatever they want it to mean, as opposed to actually looking at how he’s governed. Like the pastor who just called and said Huckabee is a light at the end of the tunnel. Pastor, the light at the end of the tunnel is the oncoming train, and you can’t get off the track!

That’s the light at the end of the tunnel, and I think identity politics was a fundamental feature of the Perot campaign as well. People really didn’t even care what his policies were. He didn’t even have to articulate policies. Remember that? (classic Ross Perot impression) “I’ll tell you, Larry, here’s what we’re going to do! We’re going to get rid of all these 737s, going to hire a bunch of Lear 55s. We’re going to have smaller airplanes.” He cares so much! “You own this country! You own it. This is your country. We’re going to give this country back to you.” That’s identity politics, and this is traditionally not what conservatives and even Republicans, right-wingers, do.

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Happy New Year people.
Ole Snoop is desperately trying to get his bearings.
Since Mrs. got me my coveted gift, a new X-Box 360 and a new NCAA 2008 football game, I have been obsessively learning the new game getting use to the new platform.
I have been playing the game damm near non stop while watching all of the bowl games. I am dreaming of receiver routes and defensive schemes.
I will soon be applying for the 49ers offensive coordinator position to replace the pathetic jackasses currently being paid shit loads of money calling plays for the worst offense in the NFL.
Ah but this is a new year, no negativity, right?
Mrs. Snoop has me on a new diet, which includes NO ALCOHOL for the first few weeks among other things, but no biggie, frankly I am liquored out.
She has me eating some new, interesting, but healthy stuff and I could stand to lose a few pounds.
Anything to get me to stay away from fast food can’t be all bad.
We shall see if the new diet will make me and even crankier blogger. Scare thought huh?

I have to get caught up on the news of the day and my regular blog watching.

Here is some 411 from Michelle Malkin and Hot Air on Mike Suckabee. I really glad to see that nobody and I mean NOBODY is letting dude get away with his bullshit.
The fact that blue hairs allowed that moron to seemingly become a “front runner” in Iowa simply shows what a joke and a complete waste of time Iowa is.

You know for me it would be one thing if the candidates were canvassing a state like California with diverse ethnic groups and social and economic classes, not to mention that despite the media playing up Iowa like the fucken Super Bowl this election will hardly be determined by a bunch of rednecks, I so sick of hearing about Iowa I can’t see straight.
Suckabee will win, but does anybody honestly believe that he will be the GOP nominee?
The day after “Iowa” can’t come soon enough. I’m sick of seeing video of candidates speaking to a room of people in overalls!

From Hot Air - Huckabee nobly cancels attack ad on Romney — then plays it for reporters

IowaPoliticsDotCom has posted a 10-minute clip of the Huckabee presser. The audio is low, and the “too hot for Iowa TV” ad comes in at about 4:27 in. The press gets its belly laughs in at about 3:55. If you go by the comments at YouTube, which is always a dubious proposition, the press conference didn’t fool anyone.The “lose your own soul” line comes in at about 7:45, after several glitches get taken care of the ad finally plays.

Other bloggers covering Suckabee

• Huckabee Proves, Yet Again, That He’s Slimy : The American Pundit
• PoliGazette » Huckabee Won’t Go Negative… Well, Won’t He?
• What soul? » Pursuing Holiness
• Michelle Malkin » Anti-war mob occupies Huckabee’s Iowa office
• BobKrumm.com » Read my lips: no negative ads
• Church and State
• Anwyn’s Notes in the Margin » I Have Only One Word for You, Too, Huck
• The Huckster… « After Darkness Light - Providence Community Church
• Huckabee Falling Dimmer- Among Other Political Issues « Rebecca’s Blog
• Michelle Malkin » Huckabee headed for Leno’s couch

National Campaign chairman for Suckabee Ed Rollins (A man that I have met, and really liked and USE to respect, why he would run the campaign for a faux Republican closet liberal is beyond me, desperate for cash maybe?) said. “What I have to do is make sure that my anger with a guy like Romney, whose teeth I want to knock out, doesn’t get in the way of my thought process.”

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Here is Suckabee explaining his weird press conference on GMA this morning.

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From Michelle Malkin - Why is Suckabee going on Jay Leno

On the eve of the Iowa caucuses, Republican presidential hopeful Mike Huckabee will trade jokes with Jay Leno on NBC’s “Tonight Show.”

While his rivals will be making a final appeal to the state’s voters, Huckabee will be flying to Los Angeles to tape the show with Leno, who returns to the air Wednesday without striking writers.

A similar late-night appearance backfired on rival Fred Thompson, who irked voters in New Hampshire by skipping a Republican debate last fall at the University of New Hampshire to announce his candidacy on Leno’s show.

The unconventional move is somewhat fitting for Huckabee who broke with tradition on Monday, eschewing campaigning to go for a run and get a shave and haircut in front of his media entourage. He also held an odd news conference in which he announced he had decided against going negative with a critical TV ad against Republican Mitt Romney — and then played the ad for the media.
Huckabee and Romney are in a close race in Iowa.

Question for you folks, why would Suckabee go on Jay Leno? Forget about the fact that this is the eve of the meaningless caucuses, but does dude not comprehend the fact that the writers are on strike in La La land. What sort of message will crossing the picket lines send, Hmmmm stay tuned.

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This from Sister Toldjah

Up until a couple of months ago, Mike Huckabee didn’t stand out much for anyone. He wasn’t polling well, and the mediots and his opponents paid very little attention to anything he did. However, since he’s risen in the polls and the spotlight’s brightened considerably on his campaign, what’s shone the most is not an image a potential president should want to emulate.

Before I go any further, a few nice comments about Huckabee are in order: I’ve said before that Huckabee is a likeable guy. But likeable guys don’t always make good presidents. He’s someone you could take to the buffet breakfast at Shoney’s and shoot the breeze with. Somebody you wouldn’t mind being your neighbor. If he were still a minister, he’s someone you wouldn’t mind going to hear preach his Sunday sermon. But presidential material he isn’t.Outside of the far left, you don’t find many people who are eager for a president who flies by the seat of his pants on any given day, not knowing which way to go.

Essentially, that’s what we’ve learned about Huckabee: that he has no idea how to conduct himself as a man running for the honor of getting elected as president of the greatest country in the world, and, frankly, is a person who can be downright bizarro sometimes.

I’ve written before about Huckabee’s record of flip flopping and fiscal liberalism, which I’m not asserting is bizarro. Not good for a Republican candidate, but certainly not insane, either. But here’s where it starts to get a bit wacky: In that post, I noted Huckabee’s ignorance of the Iran NIE report, which had been released for a full 24 hours by the time he was asked about it. I also noted how he admitted he was flip-flopping on his position on the Cuba embargo because he was running for president.

Read the rest here

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It’s the day after Christmas and I just can’t keep myself away from blogging.
I’m certain that someone is going to open a blogging addictions treatment unit somewhere and I likely will be one of the first patients.

I could not help it, I read this piece on Suckabee and all I could do was laugh.
I continue to be amazed at how hard the media is working to try and make Romney and Huckabee the front runners on the GOP side.
I don’t mind that McCain is getting a bit of a bump, I generally don’t have too many issues with him other than his propensity to want to kiss Democrats asses on some key issues.
Suckabee, well if you are not a fan of G Dub, and I am not, then the last person you would want in the White House is Suckabee.

Suckabee leading in the polls will be short lived. As time marches on, his liberal record will become more apparent and his campaign will fade like cheap paint job.

Now I realize that Iowa is a necessary evil. The idea that a bunch of hayseeds can continue to have that much say so on the direction of either of the campaigns is ridiculous.
The fact that Suckabee can come out of nowhere and win the hearts of a bunch of farmers that quickly just shows you how meaningless the Iowa caucuses are.

Anywho, the article, Suckabee, illegal love.

Mike Huckabee is overselling his record of cracking down on illegal aliens as governor, claiming he ordered his state police to arrest illegal aliens when in fact he never signed the agreement with federal authorities that would have allowed it.Mr. Huckabee signed a bill that began the process, but he never followed through with signing an agreement with the Department of Homeland Security to secure training for state police officers. Without it, they cannot enforce federal immigration law.

“This is a policy difference, but the facts are the facts — under Governor Huckabee’s administration, there was never even any effort to begin negotiating with Homeland Security,” said former state Rep. Jeremy Hutchinson, the Republican who sponsored the 2005 law.

Mr. Huckabee’s campaign acknowledged he didn’t follow through, but said it was lack of time, not lack of interest.

“The clock ran out. We’re glad to hear Governor Beebe picked up the ball and is running with it,” said Charmaine Yoest, a senior adviser to Mr. Huckabee.

Mr. Huckabee signed the law in March 2005, more than 20 months before he left office. In less than a year in office, his successor, Gov. Mike Beebe, a Democrat, has already begun negotiations with DHS.

Immigration-control groups say they fear Mr. Huckabee could repeat President Bush’s track record on immigration, which they say amounted to tough talk but a failure to follow through.

“The devil is in the details, and Bush has shown a pattern of deception on immigration enforcement again and again and again, and the Huckster is right in line with that technique,” said William Gheen, president of Americans for Legal Immigration PAC, who said Mr. Huckabee is trying to fool the Republican primary electorate.

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From The Politico

Rush Limbaugh — responding to Mike Huckabee’s peace offering — said today that he doesn’t need to talk with the former Arkansas governor.

(I would tell Suckabee to kiss my ass!!!!)

“I saw his comments and accept them as honest, sincere and genuine,” Limbaugh wrote in an e-mail.    

Still, the conservative talk show host indicated his continued displeasure at the anonymous remarks  Thursday from a Huckabee backer suggesting he takes his cues from the ”D.C./Manhattan chattering class” that sparked this conflagration.

“What was somewhat stunning about all this is that NO ONE in the GOP field, including advisers and staff, could possibly misread my 19-plus-year career the way Gov. Huckabee’s D.C. supporter did,” Limbaugh said.  “Whoever said those things was essentially repeating the Democrat mantra of all these years: that I am just an entertainer, not an independent thinker, part of the Wall Street/D.C. axis. If it was someone on Gov. Huckabee’s staff or support team, it was just silly, uninformed and thus curious.”

Limbaugh, the most listened-to talk show host in America and an influential voice in the conservative constellation, devoted part of his show Friday to defending himself against the charges.

“I’m part of the Cape Girardeau-Middle America axis,” Limbaugh said on the program, alluding to his Missouri hometown.

He also struck back, calling the attacks “Clintonian” and accused Huckabee’s campaign of “trying to dumb down conservatism in order to get it to conform with his record.” 

In his e-mail, Limbaugh kept it up.  

“Gov. Huckabee’s campaign is engaged in identity politics at this moment, so I understand his adviser’s/supporter’s intent to put the focus on me rather than the substance of my commentary,” he tweaked.

And as for Huckabee’s plea for Limbaugh to get in touch, the man behind the golden EIB microphone said this: [T]here are people on his Arkansas staff who know full well how to reach me and they have not.  But that is not necessary to me. We’re not playing in a kindergarten sandbox here. We are all presumably adults.”

Limbaugh did, though, offer a timely coda: ”I wish Gov. Huckabee a Merry Christmas.”

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From The Atlantic

A conservative counter-revolution is breaking out in the talk radio universe and on prominent conservative blogs.The same forces that joined to force the White House to withdraw Harriett Miers’ Supreme Court nomination, a tender by the president that was as explicitly grounded in Miers’ identity as a born again evangelical as Huckabee’s presidential campaign surge is based on his choice of career and religious affiliation.

Rush Limbaugh, still the most listened-to talk radio host on the planet, has taken to calling Huckabee the “Huckster.” Not even Mitt Romney, in his most profane of moments, goes there.

Limbaugh theorizes that the media is rooting for Huckabee because they know he’s the kiss of death in the general election. And he has compared Huckabee unfavorably to Jimmy Carter — as a snake oil salesman in Southern Baptist garb who later sold his soul to liberals.

On the major conservative blog sites, Huckabee has almost no proud partisans; even the Club for Growth, perhaps Huckabee’s biggest critic, has quietly receded into the background, allowing others to take up the attacks. Some conservative bloggers are suggesting that the only thing Huckabee’s good for — or bad for — is a brokered convention.

Other conservative intellectuals have taken to arguing that he can never unite economic conservatives and national security conservatives, and that, in some ways, Hillary Clinton’s instincts on defense policy might be better than the other man from Hope’s

So far, these bad feelings haven’t filtered down the chain of tissue to Iowa Republicans, but is there a cause, in recent memory, that the conservative echosphere hasn’t influenced?

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Ok, y’all know I’m not a Huck supporter, but this is pretty good, I’ll always gives props to a clip that makes me laugh.

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DES MOINES, Iowa–Stepping out for a press conference here Monday, Mike Huckabee fielded the ultimate question. Just how conservative are you?”I’m as conservative as anyone could hope to be, or want to be, or needs to be,” replied the smiling former Arkansas governor, never missing a beat, and following up with a boilerplate summary of his belief in “lower taxes,” the “sanctity of human life” and a “strong military”–before moving ever so swiftly on to the next question.

It was trademark Huckabee: Sounds great, explains little. It’s a strategy that has so far served him well, rocketing his campaign in recent weeks to the top ranks of the Republican presidential field. The question is whether he can continue to pull off that trick, now that he’s receiving belated media scrutiny. A few days following the candidate on the Iowa campaign trail suggests it could prove tough. If Mr. Huckabee does turn out to be everything Republicans “want” or “need” in a conservative, it will only be because the definition of a conservative has morphed to include tax hiking, protectionism, corporate scolding and an unserious approach to foreign policy.

What aren’t in doubt are Mr. Huckabee’s social-values credentials. He has an undisputed record on questions of abortion and gay marriage, and he’s spent no small portion of his limited advertising money making sure Iowa voters know it. Christian conservatives make up an estimated 40% of the state’s GOP vote, and by all accounts he’s slowly locking up that vote. That alone accounts for a fair share of his recent rise in the polls.

Mr. Huckabee is the charisma candidate. Like another man from Hope, Ark., the onetime pastor is an extraordinary speaker. He’s self-deprecating and funny, has perfect timing, and never struggles for an answer. He has that rare ability to pull out just the right story in response to any situation, and to deliver it in a folksy, Southern way.

Read the rest of this article here, but let me first just say this; Folks I’m angry, as angry as someone can be on Lexapro, and drinking Irish Cream on the rocks at 9:00a.m.
As this piece points out we are allowing people to redefine conservatism, this article focuses on Huck but the same can be said for 3 faux Republicans and what is worse far too many of you are allowing it.

As of today, December 18, 2007 I still have the utmost confidence that Fred Thompson will be the Republican Party’s nominee for President of the United States.
One reason why I believe that is because the major networks are completely ignoring him. Snoop WTF? I’ll explain.
Virtually every pundit on Fox goes out of their way to dismiss him and call him irrelevant. Republican pundits on interviews won’t even mention him.
I have even heard a couple of Democratic strategist say if he does not win South Carolina he will be out of the race.
Ask yourself this, if Fred Thompson’s campaign is in its final days, they why go out of your way to mention that?
Basically the media and the pundits are working awfully hard to discredit “an irrelevant” candidate.

Lets get real here; the Democrats do not want to run against Thompson, because he is not a closet liberal, because he has never advocated for big government, opening our boarders to illegal immigrants, reducing our military, backing away from the war against Islamic terrorist pimps, granting clemency to murderers and the list goes on.
He is not flashy, not a smooth talker, he looks like a worn out grandpa on most days, has this annoying clearing of the throat thingy he does, and dude needs to STILL get some good designer to have his suites tailored to fit him better.
But most of all I respect and admire an individual who is one of the Thompson’s campaigns most important individuals. I have said this before and I will say again, he has said to me that Thompson is a good man and a sincere man and could make a great president. He believes in him. From this individual, that is enough for me.

Every Republican pundit pulling for one of the three frauds dismisses him, because they want to avoid the conservative comparisons.
My anger comes from the people who claim to be Republican and some TV and blog pundits who proclaim themselves to be on the “conservative” bandwagon touting the faux conservative credentials of candidates like Mike Huckabee, Mitt Romney, and Rudy Giuliani? What the fuck are you people drinking in the morning?

We need to stop trying to redefine conservatism, maybe some of you need to go back and understand what that actually means.
If you people who have given your support to these frauds don’t wake up this party will be on the outside looking in the next 8 plus years, because you allowed fictitious poll numbers, Sunday morning Baptist preaching rhetoric, New York shyster slick talking points, and a lying ass LDS fraud to redefine conservatism.

Unlike a great number of bloggers and pundits who pimp for these campaigns, I’m not in Thompson’s pocket, I’m not paid to put a bunch of banner bullshit on my site, I don’t work for his campaign, not a family member, a friend from back in the day, has never been invited to interview or spend time with a candidate, I don’t have exclusive access to a campaign, never been invited to a campaign rally or party, not a pimp for the Republican Party.
Not paid to post my opinions on my blog or any other blog, do not receive one dime of money from blogging.
I do it because I love blogging, I have fun doing it, and I love to share my opinions. What you read and see is what I am.

If Fred does not get the nomination, the world will not end, I will be greatly disappointed, and I will be forced to support one of these frauds.
The only thing I can hope for is a Republican majority in one or both of the chambers.
Hopefully some Republican discipline will be administered.
Bottom line I’m just a brotha tryin’ to make sense of this campaign bullshit and seriously is not liking what he is seeing.

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Huckabee took thousands in gifts, records show·

Presents belie humble image of former governor

· Businessman was donor to presidential frontrunner

A $1,000 pair of cufflinks from a supporter, tens of thousands of dollars of clothing from a wealthy Little Rock businessman and thousands in gift certificates and cash from staff and appointees were among the lavish gifts given to Republican presidential candidate and unexpected frontrunner Mike Huckabee while he was governor of Arkansas.
The gifts fell within Arkansas’s ethics rules but have raised questions among the governor’s political opponents and ethics analysts at a time when scrutiny of the candidate is intensifying, and are at odds with the humble persona Huckabee has adopted on the campaign trail.

A review of state records by the Guardian indicates that during his more than 10 years as governor, Huckabee received thousands of dollars in presents almost every year: gift certificates to sporting goods stores, clothing boutiques and Wal-Mart, a $3,695 pair of cowboy boots, a $500 belt and more.

In addition, some former Huckabee staff and appointees acknowledged to the Guardian that Huckabee’s chief of staff and a cabinet official solicited con