Posted on 12/15/2007 9:46:36 AM PST by FocusNexus
THEY'VE found him! The punditocracy believes it has spied a rare species: a moderate Republican who's candid, funny, charming, and doesn't think the earth is flat or Bush has a clue. Eight years ago, it was John McCain. This time, it's Mike Huckabee. Channeling the 2004 hit comedy movie, they heart Huckabee.
We expose Huckabee. In Salon.com, reporter Max Brantley recounted his years covering then-Governor Huckabee for the Arkansas Democrat-Gazette. Reporters considered him petty, thin-skinned, self-righteous, and ethically challenged.
Brantley reports that Huckabee used campaign funds to pay himself as his own media consultant. (Personally, I consider this a hanging offense.)
(Excerpt) Read more at boston.com ...
Being ultra social conservative on one hand, but ultra liberal (pushing nanny government) on the other hand does not average to being a moderate.
In most areas that matter for the presidency, he is on the same page with Hillary -- do Republicans want to nominate someone who wants the government to tell them what to eat, how much to eat, how much to exercise -- for your own good, and get punished if you don't?! How much more intrusive could the government get?
Not to mention that any Dem would demolish Huckabee.
How Clintonesque. Hah! Did he donate his underwear and write it off taxes too?
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THEY’VE found him! The punditocracy believes it has spied a rare species: a moderate Republican who’s candid, funny, charming, and doesn’t think the earth is flat or Bush has a clue.
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What conservative pundits are actually for this guy?
What is it with Arkansas politicians and gov’t furniture?
Really he is not ultra either, though I wouldn’t call him a moderate as the term is used today. He is a middle of the road social conservative with too much “compassion” in him, and he is a little unpredictable on fiscal matters, mainly because of that compassion disease where compassion is defined as robbing one American of his hard earned money and giving it to another you find more worthy or needy. It is practicing your charity before men to be seen by them, yet being unwilling to fund it yourself. Instead you force others to fund it so that you can get the praise.
Countdown to dano1 posting his spam....(No I’m not pinging you FReeper courtesy my foot)
The liberal media loves Huck because they know that he will get steamrolled in the general election. He’s to the Democrats what Hitlary is to us conservatives!
Wasn’t Huck the governor whose temporary governor’s mansion was a quad-wide (two double-wides joined together)?
You can take the boy out of Arkansas ...
“compassion disease where compassion is defined as robbing one American of his hard earned money and giving it to another you find more worthy or needy. It is practicing your charity before men to be seen by them, yet being unwilling to fund it yourself. Instead you force others to fund it so that you can get the praise.”
You are right.
David Limbaugh wrote a recent editorial:
Single-Issue vs. Comprehensive Conservatism
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1939710/posts
Excerpt:
“I think Huckabee is a genuine Christian leader and a decent man whom I’ll support, if he’s nominated. But I think that on many political issues, he sounds a lot more like a liberal theologian and politician than a conservative one.
Liberal ones invariably translate Jesus’s heart for the poor as a mandate for massive wealth redistribution, as if state-coerced transfers of other people’s money are acts of Christian compassion. There is nothing compassionate about sapping the human spirit to the detriment of all. “
Hillary at 35% and Huckabee at 8% leaves 57% unaccounted for. What that suggests is that a solid majority of Arkansans don’t like either of them.
I don’t agree with David there. In fact, I think that editorial stinks.
What a fraud! He claims to believe the Bible. Does he reject Psalm 67.7? "All the ends of the earth shall fear Him." How can the earth have "ends" if it is round?
Read the entire editorial. I was shocked that that came from David Limbaugh. I usually like all of his columns, but this? No.
Huckster is a WIMP...
That’s probably 35% of Democrats for Hillary and 8% of Republicans for Huckabee before his recent climatic surge in the polls. One rationally can assume that the overwhelming majority of Arkansans possess enough familiarity with the two Presidential candidates who hail from their state (former First Lady and Governor no less) to opine about them. This poll is worthless.
I agree wholeheartedly. Perhaps C.S Lewis summed it up best when he wrote:
"Of all tyrannies a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It may be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber baron’s cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated; but those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end for they do so with the approval of their own conscience. They may be more likely to go to Heaven yet at the same time likelier to make a Hell of earth. Their very kindness stings with intolerable insult. To be ‘cured’ against one’s will and cured of states which we may not regard as disease is to be put on a level with those who have not yet reached the age of reason or those who never will; to be classed with infants, imbeciles, and domestic animals."
What I find most troubling about Huckabee is that his exercise of power is not restrained by the unchanging principles which safeguard our liberty from tyrants, but instead by his own personal preferences that may change by whim or experience. The good reverend doesn't smoke, so neither should we. It was good that he lost over 100 pounds, so perhaps it would be good for government to limit our access to fat foods or to punish our overindulgence. If these intrusions seems right to such a moral busybody, what else might offend him in the future? Perhaps the questioning attitude of this conservative Presbyterian who might not drink the same "Jesus juice" as he (whatever that shameless put down means)...
I just think the overall spin of the entire editorial was unfair. He takes that one valid criticism and he smears all of Huckabee's supporters with it. Then he drudges up the old "one issue voter" charge. Come on. George W. Bush has been the big champion of "compassionate conservatism." Yet David never slammed the Christians who supported Bush like that.
I do not detect any “slam” on Huckabee’s supporters — just a well-deserved slam on Huckabee himself. Limbaugh is clearly outlying the dangers of Huckabee’s candidacy to those who might not know the real record. It’s about Huckabee, not the voters.
“A recent Arkansas poll shows Hillary crushing Huckabee 35 percent to 8 percent.”
What? Among Democrats?
Here’s what the Rasmussen poll reported ten days ago in Arkansas:
RASMUSSEN REPORTS
December 5, 2007
Former Arkansas Governor Mike Huckabee leads former Arkansas First Lady Hillary Clinton in the race for that state’s Electoral College votes. A Rasmussen Reports telephone survey found that Huckabee attracts 48% of the vote in Arkansas while Clinton earns 42%.
Huckabee has an even larger lead in Arkansas when matched against Barack Obama. In that match-up, it’s Huckabee 54% Obama 35%.
Clinton...leads Giuliani by 14 points in Arkansas (49% to 35%) and holds a similar lead over Mitt Romney (48% to 34%).
Huckabee is viewed favorably by 66% of Likely Voters in Arkansas and unfavorably by 31%. Clinton is viewed favorably by 50% and unfavorably by 45%.”
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