Letters to the Editor
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Huck keeps McCain in the news and Ron Paul out
In Washington State all the news is about McCain with 25% and Huckabee with 23% challenging the count. No mention of 21% for Ron Paul. No mention of 15% still pulling for Romney!
Huck is the perfect punching bag for McCain, to keep McCain in the news along with Hillary and Barack, and to keep McCain from debating Ron Paul.
It is time to restore the Fairness Doctrine to the public's air waves.
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@cdr42
If ever there was a coalition of murderers and thieves, its name is spelled C-L-I-N-T-O-N. Can you spell Vince Foster? Can you spell Rosewater Law Firm? Can you spell Travelgate?
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stefan nonsense
Can you spell "A bunch of crap made up by Republicans"?
Can you spell "Hundreds of Millions wasted by Republicans on a witch hunt that continued long after the Clintons had been officially cleared"?
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Probably seeking the VP slot
I think Huckabee has been running for VP since he lost South Carolina. Huckabee never really attacked McCain, the front runner and liberal Republican Candidate-at least the pro-McCain media didn'treport any attacks. He concentrated on Romney, especially after SC. I think he defintiely has been angling for VP ever since.
He also probably has a religious prejudice against Romney because he is a Mormon. If Huckabee gets the VP nod after the way hs treated Romney and split the conservative vote, it will be interesting to see how Mormons vote in November.
I would not vote for McCain and the crooked talk express, no matter who his running mate is. This might be the second presidential election in a row I won't vote.
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@Jonathan Versen:
Well put. We still have primaries left to go. If I were a republican, I'd be mad as hell if he dropped out. It's supposed to be a contest, not a coronation.
Those of us who want a Democrat in the White House next, should hope and pray that Huck stays in. He bleeds McCain of money, energy, and delays the consolidation of the base. McCain is OLD. He is not well. He is not a natural campaigner. I heard Huckabee say last week, and I paraphrasing, that something might happen to McCain - like a macaca moment. Huckabee actually used the term "macaca." And he's right.
Also, Huckabee wants stuff from McCain and from the RNC to drop out: A human life amendment; a promise to get rid of McCain-Feingold; a promise to support more tax cuts on the rich; and the keynote speaker's spot at the convention are a nice start.
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Masochism
If Huckabee is having fun running for President, he is one of the most successful masochists on record.
Unless, of course, he is telling himself he can actually win the thing (or that it's worth winning). Maybe he's imitating Jesus as a sacrificial lamb given over to the bad Romans/Democrats in 2008. Maybe he thinks his sacrifice will save the soul of the Republican Party (although the GOP and soul is an oxymoron).
Meanwhile, although voting for him is unthinkable, he's a lot of fun. Maybe he can appear as guest host on SNL or get a late-night talk show.
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Huck you!
"If ever there was a coalition of murderers and thieves, its name is spelled C-L-I-N-T-O-N. Can you spell Vince Foster? Can you spell Rosewater Law Firm? Can you spell Travelgate?"
If that's your basis of comparison, I'll take that over starting a war under false pretenses, 3,000 US military dead, hundreds of thousands of foreign dead, a mounting national debt, repeated treason in the White House, the shredding of the Constitution, the year 2000 coup d'etat, the lies, the torture... omg is my response depressing me.
You want murderers and thieves? Why reminisce when you have them in the White house right now.
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Anonymous 12:49 PM
3,000 US military dead, hundreds of thousands of foreign dead
How can you compare any of that to Travelgate? I mean the woman fired employees! Fired! Government Employees! The horror!
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Loony raving nut-case cuckoos
johandav: "Perusing through the letters, I see Huckabee and other Christians described as "nutbars", "nitwits", "raving nutcases", "Christian kooks", "cuckoo fundamentalist political Christians", "loony like Huckabee" and "loud and hateful evangelical nut-cases."
Scratch his smiling surface and you'll see that almost all of those labels are appropriate. When Huckabee or any other christian fundamentalist states in public that they repudiate Fred Phelps, Pat Robertson, Kenneth Copeland, and pretty much all of Leviticus and Deuteronomy, then we can see about having those labels removed. Otherwise, they are all part of the same ideology and its harmful actions.
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Miracle?
At times I wonder whether Huckabee's reference to "miracles" is an euphemism for "praying for McCain's death"...
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@deluxe: Quite right.
And what is it with anal sex and these wingnuts? Huckabee, responding in a decidedly un-Christian manner when asked about the Confederate flag, said something to the effect of:
"In Arkansas, we'd tell them where to put that flagpole."
Wow. Joking about sodomizing someone with a pole? I've read the Bible numerous times. It doesn't say that this is okay.
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My rant to my paper today
Presidential candidate Mike Huckabee recently stated "I didn't major in math. I majored in miracles."
I would just ask everyone to reflect on the nationally envervating upshot of being patronizingly lorded over by an innumerate dilettante for the past 7+ years. While the genial Governor Huckabee appears to not be afflicted with Bush's grandiose, frequently petulant narcissism, I think we have all had quite enough of straining beneath the boots of shallowly charming messianic incompetence. The stakes for humanity have become far too high.
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LOL!
They called to say they were gonna run it, probably this weekend.
Mr. Rewrite-the-Constitution-To-Conform-To-God's-Law, STFU and go back to Arkansas. You will not get the VP nod.
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Jesus and Huck
Jesus has spoken to the Huck to help Obama. Obvious. He's no fool; Jesus that is...
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"Oh, the tolerance..."
One can count on the Salon.com crowd to be scornful of theocratically-minded candidates like Huckabee. There is a point at which religiously-based bigotry becomes incompatible with democracy. It is a distortion of religious pluralism to suggest that all religious ideas are equally respectable or above criticism.
What I find interesting about GOP politics, however, is that so many of the power-mongers are privately just as scornful of the Religious Right -- if not moreso -- as anyone on the Left. There have been a number of books released by evangelicals who became Bush administration officials only to find out that the inner circle unequivocally saw them as ridiculous boobs to be used for political gain.
Maybe Huckabee too smart to get used like that, but I'm not convinced of it. I don't think he is any less cynical than the average politician. I'm sure he is more committed to his stated theocratic ideals than the average right-wing fundie-panderer, but he has done some pretty self-serving, un-Biblical things as Arkansas Governor.
So in this case, no matter who's using whom, I think everyone will get what they deserve when the relationship eventually goes sour.