Posted on 08/29/2010 10:19:55 PM PDT by pissant
“I'm a conservative, but I'm not mad at everybody over it.”
Mike Huckabee
I'm writing this to say just one thing: I like Mike.
That would be Michael Dale Huckabee, former Baptist preacher, former governor of Arkansas, former GOP presidential candidate, current Fox News personality, the guy quoted above being flagrantly reasonable during an interview on “The Daily Show.” I like Mike.
The proximate reason I say that is his recent refusal to support a knuckleheaded idea being touted by many of his conservative brethren: altering the 14th Amendment to curtail illegal immigration.
But I could have said it a few months ago when he sided with Arizona Hispanics who feared that state's new immigration law could be used to profile them. I could have said it two years ago when he dissected the Jeremiah Wright controversy with a sense of nuance and compassion seldom found among conservatives when they speak of race.
“We've got to cut some slack,” he said, “to people who grew up being called names, being told you have to sit in the balcony when you go to the movie, you have to go to the back door to go into the restaurant, you can't sit out there with everyone else. ... And you know what? Sometimes peopledo have a chip on their shoulder and resentment, and you have to just say, ‘I probably would, too. In fact, I may have hadmore of a chip on my shoulder, had it been me.'” I like Mike.
And, yes, I know what some of you are thinking: I like Mike because he agrees with me.
Yes, we have points of concurrence. But on any number of issues — reproductive rights, guns, same-sex marriage,
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SO much for his fake 'hardline' he adopted on illegals during the 2008 primary.
Huckabee is about as “authentic” a leader as Obama.
I like Huck, in a hick way. He’s not an economic or political conservative. He’s somewhat social conservative. A bit.
I don’t think of him as a conservative. He’s a populist.
“Huckabee is about as “authentic” a leader as Obama.”
BAM! Hit that nail smack dab on the head!
I often agree with Huckabee, but he is no leader.
Try the house next door. They might buy this.
The uber-lib Leonard Pitts? No thanks. I’ll pass.
Huckabee should stick to stand up comedy. I’m not convinced that his family turned out okay. Seems to me if a man cannot lead his own family, how can one expect him to lead an entire country.
Huckabee is a goof ball.
Mike H. seems like a nice guy, but an endorsement from a schmuck like Pitts? Sorry Mike, but you are toast.
Hucklebee is far too soft, warm and fuzzy to be President. Our next Pres. will need a strong backbone and then some...as well as those he or she appoints. Hucks likely a nice guy but not one I would at all vote for.
Uh oh.
I seem to remember someone else who had problems in that department.
And a few currently.
I think I just threw up in my mouth a little.
They post his pompous screeds in our local hick news rag.
Can’t -stand- him.
Hucks likely a nice guy but not one I would at all vote for.
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Nor I. He will not try again, IMO.
Huckabee will do anything for attention and admiration. Hence staying in the Pres race way after he was toast. At least Romney knew when to quit, but Huck just kept going along sucking up resources and fanfare.
I hope not...we need our candidates to focus on winning more than competeing with one another per say....hopefully there will not be so many running to muddy the waters as in the last race.
I don’t trust Huckabee. I don’t trust him because he is loyal to himself. He wants it both ways; liberal support as well as the conservative vote. He speaks out of both sides of his mouth.
His platform is: power. He wants to be the President not out of a conviction to implement a true conservative policy, but rather, to hold the most powerful political seat in the world. And that kind of platform and politician is what our Founding Fathers warned us about.
Huck belongs on the comedy central channel.
Maybe an “authentic” nice guy but not an “authentic leader”...
- NOT -
Charismatic goober, yes.
Leader??; no
Another liberal who wants to pick the candidate for the side he will vote against.
Yeah, I'm sure the relatives of the deceased cops that were gunned down in your home state by the killers Huckabee released enjoy his company too.
I think his present niche is just fine.
Agree with your points.
Translation:
We’re desperate for SOMEONE to suck votes away from Sarah Palin, if she decides to run. Here’s an agreeable (beatable) fellow for you gullible conservatives to vote for.
Up Huck!
Huckabee would be perfect to lead a once a week entertainment show on a cable network.
I would never follow him, ergo he is not a leader for me.
Huckabee is a snake oil salesman. No thanks.
It is not like sending them to the third level of hell.
Being shipped back to Mexico builds character.
Bratch, you don’t want to mention the name, Sarah Palin, on one of Pissant’s posts. The FReep will go all WWF on you.
He does seem like he would fit in quite well on late night informercials selling cleaning products.
You know who’s opinion I’d like?
I’d like the opinion of the families of the victims of the murderers and rapists Huckabee gave clemency to (over the protestations of the parole board, in many cases). Do you think they like him?
Specifically, I wonder if the families of the four police officers brutally slaughtered by Maurice Clemmons like him? Clemmons was a convicted rapist Huckabee gave clemency to. He mowed down four police officers as they were having coffee one morning.
Or Ashley Stevens, a 17 year old high school student who was brutally raped. She was understandably upset when her rapist was freed by Huckabee. His name was Wayne Dummond. He was set free by Huckabee and went out to rape two more women even though Stevens and other victims publicly identified themselves and pleaded for Huckabee not to campaign for Dummond’s releases. He ignored them.
We could ask those next two victims, but they won’t be answering.
Wayne Dummond didn’t leave any victims that time. He murdered those women. I wonder what their families think of good old Huck?
Frankly, those and the other victims of Huckabee’s clemency festival* are the only opinions I care about.
*Good Old Huck granted 1,033 clemencies during his 10 years in office. That number is more than twice the total of the previous three governors over their 17 years.
The FReep will go all WWF on you...The FReep?
I like Huck, in a hick way. He’s not an economic or political conservative. He’s somewhat social conservative. A bit.I think of him more as a slack jawed hick, like Gomer Pyle.I don’t think of him as a conservative.
That is about all ANYONE ever need to read about “huck” to relegate him to the dustbin of political history. This son of a witch (with a b) has their blood on his hands. Forever. He will answer for it one day...
Seems like a genuinely nice guy. He might be a leader, but then so was Hitler, Stalin, and Castro. The direction the leader is going is more important than the man, himself.
His name is Mike Huckabee.
Your name is “pissant”.
Notice the difference?
Huck grosses me out.
No he’s not. He’s a huckster.
The Huck seems like a nice guy, I wouldn’t mind having him as a sunday school teacher, but I wouldn’t want him running the local solid waste department much less the US government.
Huckabee is the one show on Fox that I immediately turn off. He is smarmy and phony. I wouldn’t trust him to stand up for anything but Huckabee.
I get the same impression. He’s unwatchable.
O’Gasbag and Whorealdo are close seconds.
Dang, thought you died choaking on your own bile, welcome back.
Hackabee a disaster...he would grant amnesty and he would let all the felons out of jail!!!
I used to like him but no longer another waste of time.
He reminds me of Merv Griffin, without the added bonus of Totie Fields.
Wish I had the clip of her talking about women who need to “cook” in every room of the house. My parents made me go upstairs when she went down that trail.
LOL
I agree completely. That's why I'll never understand why Duncan Hunter agreed to be the 'stalking horse' for such an inauthentic candidate as the Huckster.
Wow.... a point of agreement
I also like Mike. He is in addition to those things you cited a southerner. He cannot lie and then slip back into his northeast limousine liberal ways.
I saw the man up close twice at the FRee Republic inaugural balls where he took to the stage with his band Capitol Offense, a group of lawyers and bankers and politicos who were genuinely talented and having a great time performing. They were completely real. They were good. He was the sitting governor of Arkansas and humbled himself on stage in toney Washington DC at a homemade Inaugural Ball by showing himself to be a real person. He performed along with similar high placed friends who were willing to take the gig.
He reminded me of another truly great American, Malcom Forbes, who shed his official veneer and became a down to earth leader of a motor cycle gang, the Capitalist Tools. He wrangled his way into being allowed to have his gang tour both Russia and China. He was a great unoffocial ambassador at large who was recognized as a real down to earth man who could be trusted in spite of the fact he was one of the world’s wealthiest. He was welcome by the world’s leaders because he was a real man
In any case I would not follow the Huickster into a whore house on freebie night.
Isn’t one illegal alien loving “Dope from Hope” enough? I hope Tyson’s Foods paid both of those weevils a lot of money to betray this Country.
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