Posted on 12/30/2007 1:57:03 PM PST by MrArbitrage123
Hey gang,
Let's watch this video so we can have some more fun maliciously and ignorantly assassinate another good man's character.
Let's propigate some more half truths because we are so credulous as to eat the spoon fed pap of Fred Barnes, Mort Kondrackie, Krauthammer, Matt Drudge and Mitt Romney.
Crucify him! Crucify him! Give us Barabas!
This is SENATOR TIM Hutchison. His brother, ASA Hutchison was an AR Congressman (Member of the team that prosecuted Clinton in the House) and did serve as director of the DEA.
I thought you were that mudslinging bring-down guy.
Keep after those social conservatives! -- even when they are more fiscally conservative too, than the Democrats in the face of whom you would weaken the Republican.
Nice job.
I am a social conservative. I just don’t think that Huckabee is the man for the job. He likes to fib on the campaign trail. He seems to have some ethics issues in Arkansas. And, I have posted articles that I think show that Huckabee is not a person ready to be President of the United States.
I am concerned about the future of my country.
If you don’t like the articles I post. Don’t read them if they bring you down.
And FYI, I’m not a guy.
” Do you think it is appropriate to use the crucifixion of our Lord in such a manner just to prop up a political candidate. It is really unseemly. “
The reason I posted that is because although Senator is a revered, genuinely good man who under normal circumstances would be treated with the dignity and respect he deserves, I was of the opinion that the crowd is going to vilify this good man as they did Huckabee.
Some here have confirmed my curiosity.
It makes me reflect upon how in the Bible, Jesus drew multitudes of people who by all accounts except for the Pharisees loved him.
He entered Jerusalem on Palm Sunday triumphantly. However, all of the sudden, a few days later when Jesus was held up before the multitudes, mocked and falsely accused of wanting to overthrow the earthly government, this crowd who had loved him are suddenly screaming for His crucification Everyone knows the elite Pharisees were trying to trap Jesus so they could falsely accuse him because he was a threat to their power and prestige - but - I always wondered - WHERE did this crowd come from who suddenly turned against Him? Of course this was all part of God’s plan and the REASON why Christ came - but it’s not as though the people calling for Christ’s execution knew they were part of God’s divine plan. I think it shows how easily people are manipulated by those in power who want to use them for their own objectives.
I originally had this thought during Christmas after the world, led by Fox News of all people - attacked him maliciously and scandalously for allegedly having the audacity to have a CROSS in his commercial!
The irony seemed to be lost on the fact that Christmas is the celebration of how the Son of God was born into this world for a destiny of being falsely accused, mocked and crucified by elite people who felt their power was threatened by Him. And it WASN’T the government who felt threatened - but rather the supposed good guys. That is how I feel about my Republican Party when I see the clear agenda, the character assassination by people whom I respected. As I type this I am listening to Britt Hume, Bill Crystal, Juan Williams and the arrogantly smirking Chris Wallace distort Huckabee’s qualifications and record.
I am so turned off by the actions of these people that I feel the damage to my perception of them is irreparable. There is ONE person whom I heard be kind to Mike Huckabee on the entire Fox News Network in the past month and that was Michael Reagan. I haven’t seen him on Fox since that day.
I can hear the hostile mob villifying me for daring to make a comparison of what they are doing to what was done to Jesus Christ. I am not comparing Mike Huckabee for the purpose of saying he’s a type of Messiah. My purpose is to point to the fact that Jesus and his Apostles promised that if we stood up for Him and obeyed His command that we WOULD be persecuted. That is what we are seeing occur. I hope Governor Huckabee keeps his head up and fights the good fight all the way knowing that the treatment they are giving him is an indicator that he is being a true servant.
If these people were giving him adulation, than that to me would mean that he is just another luke warm politician who wants to tickle our ears and appease as many as it takes so to earn their favor. We have enough of those already and yet everyone complains that NOTHING gets done - even when we had a Republican majority!
I wonder why?
A majority of the issues I mentioned, all but one, have been positions he's taken as of October/November/December. As for the tax issue, he's on video welcoming the tax increases. I'll leave it up to him to try and explain that.
President Bush governed under a democratic controlled Legislature, and I didn't see him raising taxes, supporting them, or welcoming them. Speaker Bullock was hardly a conservative.
Obviously, it is not bringing me down.
But the kind of thing you (and a bunch of others here -- not picking on you) have been doing is liable to bring down Republicans vs. the Democrats.
My advise is for you to find a Democrat state, become Governor, and see what you can do, to balance budgets.
Also, when you run for office, make sure you have a good time with exacting language and defending all attacks aimed at trying to discredit you, for any ambiguity, or any change of mind -- even when it is in the right direction.
Your preemptive whining won’t fix Huckabee’s record.
How about making a rational, factual case for your guy instead of merely screaming bile at the other side?
Such irony , that you would use the words “crucify” and be talking about Huckabee in the same thought. Huckabee isn’t Christ. And if Huckabee can not stand the politics of the campaign, then let him quit.
“But the kind of thing you (and a bunch of others here — not picking on you) have been doing is liable to bring down Republicans vs. the Democrats.”
The primary season is when we debate OUR candidates. It is the time to see who is fit for the job. I am not going to sit silent on a conservative website and not point out issues I have with a candidate just in case Howard Dean happens by to steal a few talking points. I guarantee you if I can see what I perceive as weaknesses in a person, the democrats have already figured it out.
“My advise is for you to find a Democrat state, become Governor, and see what you can do, to balance budgets.”
Well, that’s what the future President, if he happens to be a Republican, will be facing. Has Huckabee shown himself to be strong enough to meet that challenge, when he can’t even do it in Arkansas?
And, I’m not all that concerned about a balanced budget in a time of war. I am concerned about a man who can stand up to the ninnies in Congress day after day as they pull their shenanigans about the war. Does Huckabee have the backbone to do that? All I’ve seen of his backbone so far is his whining over silly attack ads in Iowa.
Clearly, this is a school of politics in Hope, Arkansas. Because Bill Clinton employs a very similar sort of defense.
Huckabee is a pro-life liberal Democrat. He belongs in the Republican primary even less than Ron Paul.
BTTT
Reagam closed the neighborhood distribution centers/mailouts for welfare checks and they at least had to spend their time and effort to get their checks.
They howled and complained that it wasn't convenient for them.
Your problem is that you cannot make an argument you need to throw around half truths and out right fabrications. Most people oppose the huckster because he is a liberal on 98% of the issues.
If you look into it, you will find there is much Huckabee did in Arkansas, to stem the liberal Democrat tide.
Backbones are important. It also takes backbone to move from a faulty point of view to a better one. it’s impportant when backbones are lead by able heads and hearts.
It also takes backbone to show what is good about a candidate, instead of just taking shots at others.
You don’t have to hate Huckabee not to vote for him. And it’s a squandering of genuine enmity to demonize Huckabee when all you have to do is vote for one of his opponents.
Reagan was also “pro-choice” and Huckabee also effectively opposed liberal spending programs in Arkansas.
Huckabee had to pay for road rebuilding (see Interstate 35E bridge in MN) and public schools in Arkansas and deal with the kind of burgeoning budget that has been common to the states in the last twenty years.
The biggest problem with those that would demonize Huckabee is the documented fact that he was enormously popular with conservatives and especially with freepers when he was actually IN office. Thus, their modern revisionize about his "liberal record" has much crediblity as the RATs who whine about how Bush "lied" about WMDs when they were all for taking out Saddem's "WMDs" long before Bush even brought up the subject.
You'd think after all this time they'd realize that constantly referring to Huckabee as a "socialist" is not helping their idol Fred Thompson out of his 5th place showing in the polls. Oh well.
If only the RATs were as shallow as Huckabee's detractors, we could win this election easily.
No, that was his brother, Asa Hutchison, who also helped impeach Bill Clinton.
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