Letters to the Editor
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"Liberal"?
Not quite getting this. Huckabee is anti-evolution, anti-choice, pro-Iraq war. How exactly does that make him a "liberal"?
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the WSJ. what a rag
How much longer will the WSJ get away with claiming that social programs come "on the taxpayers' dime?" The WSJ oh-so-conveniently forgets to point out the proportion of the Federal budget devoted to military spending.
http://www.warresisters.org/piechart.htm
Not as precise as it could be, but it tells the story pretty well. The WSJ is fine spending money to kill people, and fund their favorite weapons manufacturers. Not at all fine with spending money to help all Americans have better lives.
If Dante's hell really existed, the creatures who inhabit the editorial pages of the WSJ would occupy one of the lower circles.. maybe the lowest. The one for traitors. I think the editorial board of the WSJ buried in ice would be a pretty good start.
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He's a liberal because...
...he supports major government intrusion into our lives.
He wants the government to tell us who we can and cannot marry. He wants the government to force women to bear children they do not want.
And if he's like George W. Bush, he wants the government to keep spying on us. And torturing people. And spending money recklessly with no attempt to repay it.
Minimal government and fiscal responsibility = conservative. Lots and lots and lots of government =
liberal. At least it did when I was taking political science classes in college.
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Huckabee places 4th in Iowa
You'll see ALL CAPS alot in this post, because I'm frustrated that everyone missed the biggest story from the Iowa caucuses.
TWICE AS MANY people attended the Democratic caucuses as the Republican ones. In terms of raw numbers, MIKE HUCKABEE PLACED 4TH IN IOWA, behind all three Democratic headliners. TWICE AS MANY PEOPLE VOTED FOR OBAMA AS VOTED FOR HUCKABEE. This is HUGE.
Frankly, I don't care which Democrat wins. I live in Iowa, I paid attention, I caucused; any one of them will be fine, as long as it's a Democrat. I've been worried that we could still lose this year, but the Democrat-vs-Republican numbers from last night eased my mind -- a little.
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Imagine an Obama/Huckabee Ticket
Just think about that for a second... Huckabee, outcast by his party establishment for his left of center social views, gets called by Barack Obama.
Barack: Huck, sorry to hear about your loss.
Huckabee: Thanks man. You're doing really well!
Barack: Yes, but there are all these rumors about my muslim background that are haunting me. I don't know if I'll be able to shake'em in the national election.
Huckabee: I hear ya. Those Republican stragists are monsters. They'll tear you limb from limb if you don't play ball. If they can find anything, ANYTHING, that might bring you down, they'll go there.
Barack: I know it. That's why I'm calling you today. Look, you and I have a lot in common. We're change candidates, and we aren't the establishment's guys. I notice you drift left on a lot of social issues...
Huckabee: Yeah, I support socialize medicine... social security... amnesty for illegal immigrants... all that stuff the Republican establishment abhores.
Barack: So why call yourself a republican.
Huckabee: Cause I'm a christian. A strong-willed christian.
Barack: ...and that's exactly why I want you on board my campaign. I respect your beliefs, you see, and it's important we stop looking at christianity as a "republicans-only" religion. It's not. Jesus was a socialist, afterall. He helped the poor.
Huckabee: You know, after the beating those guys gave me, I'm tempted to consider your offer.
Barack: The republican party is a dead end for you now. Come, bring your message to the democrats. We can change politics. If change is what you truly want.
Huckabee: Ok... I'm in! How can I refuse!
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A Quotation Springs to Mind....
I forgot who said this, but perhaps somebody here can help me. The Republican apparatchnik reaction to Mike Huckabee seesm to be "This man is dangerous! He believes what he says!"
On another tack, if the Wall Street Journal is so opposed to things being on the governmnet dime, does that mean the paper is printed only on trees that came from privately owned forests, and not from pulp timber taken off of National Forests? And when are the WSJ employes going to start paying the full operating costs of their morning and evening rides on the New York City subway system?
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OOO! OOOH! I know what's next
Forget anything you may have ignored I wrote before! How soon before:
O'Reilly or Rush asserts that some black folks are actually hoping Obama loses, because if he won it would rain on their Victinhood parade.
Mark my words.... this scenerio discussion is soon to follow!
"Does a victory for Obama wreak havoc in the propped up, so-called, 'civil rights' community?
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VIVA OBAMA: HERE WE COME!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
HOMEBOYS UNITE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I LOVE THIS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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Freudian Slip?
"Sanders goes on to say that it would be difficult for Huckabee to enact the social conservative part of his agenda, but that the economically liberal aspects would sail through as the result of 'a Democratic Congress ... more than willing to let him live out his faith on the taxpayers' dime.'"
So... isn't he just admitting that the Democrats will keep control of both houses?
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I don't HEART Huckabee
Mike Huckabee supports government social welfare programs. Yay.
But he remains willfully ignorant and incurious about foreign affairs and has proto-fascist tendencies that would subjugate the nation to the ideology of a narrow, christianist viewpoint. Huckabee's Jesus would support you with one hand and knife you with the other.
Was that too much?
Sorry, but the mean-spiritedness under Huckabee's affable veneer scares the crap out of me.
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Who's a Liberal ???
The Republicans seem to be caught in a time warp. Huckabee is no liberal, he's just playing William Jennings Bryan to Junior's William McKinley. Just a smoother version of Pat Buchanan's pitchfork wielder.
The one big difference is that Bryan was a three-time Democratic nominee, and not a Republican. But then I guess believing in evolution was always more of a Democratic thing. They've moved on, but the Republicans seem fixed on reaching back a century for their candidates.
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Oh, the humanity!
How dare he "live out his faith on the taxpayers' dime." He might be crazy enough to open up an office of faith based initiatives, or something equally insane! Oh, the humanity!