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All candidates have some baggage and I feel Rudy's is going to spill out very soon.
What I've heard about Huckabee is good for the most part, and I like what I hear him say. I too have heard several things about him that are unappealing. Problem is, so much BS floats around during election season, and I haven't determined if any of it is true yet.
Even though he may have some serious baggage, I would support him over any of the democrats running.
All candidates have some baggage and I feel Rudy's is going to spill out very soon.
Huckabee knew nothing about intel report on Iran
More than 24 hours after the White House released a major report on Iran's nuclear program, GOP presidential hopeful Mike Huckabee told journalists that he wasn't aware of the intelligence community's new assessment that Tehran suspended its nuclear weapons program in 2003.
A reporter for The Politico had to tell the former Arkansas governor what was in the National Intelligence Estimate. Here's an excerpt from the transcript that the newspaper published on its website:
David Paul Kuhn: I don’t know to what extent you have been briefed or been able to take a look at the NIE report that came out yesterday ...
Huckabee: I’m sorry?
Kuhn: The NIE report, the National Intelligence Estimate on Iran. Have you been briefed or been able to take a look at it —
Huckabee: No.
Kuhn: Have you heard of the finding?
Huckabee: No.
Huckabee then shares his views on the Iranian program. "I’ve heard, the last two weeks, supposed reports that they are accelerating it and it could be having a reactor in a much shorter period of time than originally been thought," he says, according to Politico.
NBC's Carrie Dann reports for National Journal that "Huckabee's ignorance of the news of the day, which not only dominated the Democrats' debate here in town but also prompted a presidential press conference in response, came as Huckabee faced questioning about his foreign policy credentials."
http://blogs.usatoday.com/ondeadline...ee-knew-n.html
There is no way in I would ever vote for this idiot, and anyone who even thinks about voting for this idiot is an even bigger idiot.
Huckabee could be a national weight loss spokesman.
At least he's honest.
"Rudy's is going to spill out very soon."
You haven't been paying attention. RG's baggage was opened long ago and it stinks. He's a lying, corrupt s bag, with New Yorkers in and out of his administration testifying about his sleaze daily, related to and not related to his very public adultery.
One lie he repeats is that 1 hour of Macho Repug Reagan got the hostages realeasd while 18 months of Wimp Dem Carter achieved nothing, when in fact the deal was done 2 months before Reagan won the election, under Carter. A Macho Man (transves e) message fabricated without any facts.
Reasons why i wont vote for Mike Huckabee:
Supports and will continue TORTURE of detainees.
At 8:30, Colmes asked Huckabee if he, as President, would use torture to extract intelligence about an imminent terrorist attack on America. In the process, he made the point that John McCain says that accurate information cannot be extracted by torture. Huckabee countered that point by claiming, "we have received good solid information from individuals from doing things of the nature you're describing"
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,295883,00.html
http://progressivezone.blogspot.com/...knowledge.html
Says we should isolate AIDS patients
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20071208/.../huckabee_aids
Says he is for lower taxes, but INCREASED state spending 65.3 percent (1996-2004) and supported five tax increases. Taxes were raised twenty-one times for an increase of $883 million dollars. Arkansas' general debt shot up by almost $1 billion.
http://www.nwanews.com/adg/national/203850/
http://article.nationalreview.com/?q...VjYTg1NTUzMTk=
Supports the War in Iraq, the troop surge and the continued operation of the Guantanamo Bay detention camp. (this is a automatic NO vote for me)
http://senate.ontheissues.org/Mike_Huckabee.htm
Opposes the medical use of marijuana, and said he would continue to RAID, ARREST, PROSECUTE, and IMPRISON patients who are using marijuana as a medicine.
http://granitestaters.com/candidates/mike_huckabee.html
Vowed to Sign a Nationwide SMOKING BAN in public places.
http://blogs.usatoday.com/onpolitics...ee-says-h.html
Wants to give driver's licenses to illegal aliens.
http://blogs.usatoday.com/onpolitics...ee-says-h.html
Huckabee secured the release of a convicted rapist name Dumond who then raped and killed again. (supposedly his biggest scandal, but it seems like it's a bit overblown, I'll give you that much)
http://www.arktimes.com/Articles/Art...0-b5dab8559419
Ordered the destruction of tapes and hard drives containing embarassing information. Early in Huckabee's term as governor, do ents, e-mails and memos stored on hard drives just like the ones that were destroyed formed the basis of embarrassing stories about Huckabee, including a 1998 story in the Arkansas Times detailing how Huckabee and his family were using the $60,000-a-year Governor's Mansion fund as their personal piggy bank. (Sounds like something Bush would do..do we really need another secretive executive branch in power?)
http://www.arktimes.com/Articles/Art...a-61dbfba5bf42
He opposes Campaign Finance Reform (low on my priority list, but still):
http://www.q-and-a.org/Transcript/?P...yText=Huckabee
Huckabee seems to love loot and has a dismissive at ude toward ethics, campaign finance rules and propriety in general:
In the 1992 contest, Huckabee used campaign funds to pay himself as his own media consultant. Other payments went to the family babysitter.
In his successful 1994 run for lieutenant governor, he set up a nonprofit curtain known as Action America so he could give speeches for money without having to disclose the names of his benefactors. He failed to report that campaign travel payments were for the use of his own personal plane.
After he became governor in 1996, he raked in tens of thousands of dollars in gifts, including gifts from people he later appointed to prestigious state commissions.
He converted a governor's mansion operating account into a personal expense account, claiming public money for a doghouse, dry-cleaning bills, panty hose and meals at Taco Bell. He tried to claim $70,000 in furnishings provided by a wealthy cotton grower for the private part of the residence as his own, until he learned ethics rules prevented it. When a disgruntled former employee disclosed memos revealing all this, the Huckabee camp shut her up by repeatedly suggesting she might be vulnerable to prosecution for theft because she'd shared do ents generated by the state's highest official.
Inauguration funds were used to buy clothing for his wife. He once took control of the state Republican Party's campaign account -- then swore the account had been somebody else's responsibility when it ran afoul of federal election laws.
He sped final action on a bill to allow video poker at the state's racetracks, an act followed not long afterward by a $10,000 campaign contribution from the owner of the state's biggest race track,.
http://www.salon.com/opinion/feature...1/13/huckabee/
He also said tonight at the Univision debate that would be in favor or universal health care, but said "now is not the time"...he even talked about SICKO...are you kidding me??
Damn, Huckabee and Rudy are shady characters for sure.
Which politician isn't.
He still looks like a buddhist monk compared to Billary.
Which politician isn't....I googled for hours and this is the closest I could find....
...of course, he has a snowballs chance in of getting the Demo nomination....
That's true.
I can only think of one...Which politician isn't.
I've been paying attention but I feel there is still more to come out. And for Hillary too.
Meanwhile Huckabee gets the confederate-flag waiving, election-turning (for the other side), minuteman endorsement...
Huckabee Gets Minuteman Head's Backing
By MIKE GLOVER, AP
COUNCIL BLUFFS, Iowa —
LinkyThe founder of the Minuteman Project, the anti-illegal immigrant group, endorsed Republican Mike Huckabee on Tuesday, while Huckabee dismissed a presidential rival's immigration criticism as the work of "the tattletale in the third grade."
At a news conference hastily arranged to cope with a crippling ice storm, Huckabee brought out Minuteman head Jim Gilchrist, whose private group patrols the Mexican border on its own to keep out illegal immigrants.
"For months now, I've been searching for a candidate to support for president of the United States," said Gilchrist. He said he settled on Huckabee as the candidate whose plans were most likely to halt "this illegal immigrant invasion problem."
Huckabee has soared in the polls recently, jumping into the lead in Iowa where caucuses in less than a month launch the presidential nominating season. Rival Romney, who has spent millions in the state and for months was the leader, began running a TV ad Tuesday assailing Huckabee on immigration.
"It's the first one of the season and we're honored to be in the middle of it," said Huckabee. "I think the people of Iowa, who have been through this so many times, will vote for somebody who has a plan for the future of America, not just somebody who is looking around and saying, like the tattletale in third grade, 'let me tell you what this guy is doing.'"<snip>
Iowa....shouldn't that be Idaho?
Hey dan, Huck has a glass jaw, the dimms have already said it.
Believe it.......
If any women ventured into this non-self-absorbing forum, they would be outraged....
Alternet"In August of 1998, Huckabee was one of 131 signatories to a full page USA Today Ad which declared: "I affirm the statement on the family issued by the 1998 Southern Baptist Convention." What was in the family statement from the SBC? "A wife is to submit herself graciously to the servant leadership of her husband even as the church willingly submits to the headship of Christ."
The ad wasn't just a blanket, "we support the SBC statement," but rather highlighted details. The ad Huckabee signed specifically said of the SBC family statement: "You are right because you called wives to graciously submit to their husband's sacrificial leadership."
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I guess people just won't fall in line with someone who wants to isolate AIDS patients, thinks abortion is on par with the Holocaust, is unaware of blockbuster intel, and believes in faith-based parole of convicted rapists.
I was beginning to believe that too Joe, until he blind-sided Mitt and pretended he didn't intend to do so.
I don't believe I'd vote for him, but to his credit, Obama seems to be running the cleanest campaign. Maybe Thompson too.
Anyone up for a Thompson/Paul ticket?
As the right-wingers say about the head slurping up Americans' private communications, what does hick Huck have to hide in his sermons?
iow, if he has nothing to hide in his public sermons, then why is he hiding them? Wouldn't the "Christian" supremacists and radical fundamentalists to whom he is pandering to just suck up his sermons in total rapture?
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Leftwing magazine charges Huckabee refuses to open his archive of sermons
Source: David Corn and Jonathan Stein at the website of Mother Jones magazine (12-10-07)
Is Mike Huckabee the presidential candidate shunning Mike Huckabee the preacher? Before entering politics, he was a pastor at two Baptist churches. Now his campaign tells Mother Jones it won't make his sermons available to the media and the public.
Now that he has his moment in the political spotlight, former Arkansas governor Mike Huckabee does not want his days at the pulpit to be scrutinized.
As Huckabee has surged to the front of the Republican pack in Iowa, his religious views have drawn media and voter attention. After all, Huckabee, a former Baptist pastor, has been campaigning as a "Christian leader." But he has vacillated on how far to interject faith into politics. At an early debate, he indicated he does not believe in evolution, but at a more recent debate, when he was asked by Wolf Blitzer if the creation of the Earth occurred six thousand years ago and only took six days, as stated in the Old Testament, Huckabee said, "I don't know. I wasn't there."
(and Huck can't read, either? Read the Bible, Huck, every word is scientifically accurate )
During a question-and-answer session with students at fundamentalist Liberty University last month, he asserted that his rise in the polls has an explanation that is "beyond human" and is due to the power of his supporters' prayers. Afterward, he backtracked slightly, adding, "I'm saying that when people pray, things happen.... I'm not saying that God wants me to be elected." (At a victory rally held after Huckabee won a 1993 special election for lieutenant governor, Huckabee told his supporters that he had only won because God had intervened, according to the Texarkana Gazette.)
Posted on Thursday, December 13, 2007
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God told me, Oh My God!, that He doesn't like people throwing His Name around willy-nilly. He even has sin for it, "Thou shalt not take the name of the Lord thy God in vain", not that God's laws apply the Pharisaical "Christians" anymore the the Cons ution applies to dubya and head.
the last thing we need is another governor of a small southern state which holds itself when it manages to best mississippi or louisiana for a 49th in the nation ranking in hygiene or whatever.
Has anybody noticed that Huckabee kind of makes George W. Bush look like Plato or Cicero?
Seriously, people? Isn't Mike Huckabee basically a cross between Gomer Pyle and Steve Carill's character on The Office?
Looks like the Huckster has good-hair disease.... Huckabee took thousands in gifts
GuardianA $1,000 pair of cufflinks from a supporter, tens of thousands of dollars of clothing from a wealthy Little Rock businessman and thousands in gift certificates and cash from staff and appointees were among the lavish gifts given to Republican presidential candidate and unexpected frontrunner Mike Huckabee while he was governor of Arkansas.
The gifts fell within Arkansas's ethics rules but have raised questions among the governor's political opponents and ethics analysts at a time when scrutiny of the candidate is intensifying, and are at odds with the humble persona Huckabee has adopted on the campaign trail.
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Huckabee's chief source of largesse was Jennings Osborne, a Little Rock businessman who made his money in the medical testing business. In 1996, Huckabee's first year as governor, Osborne bought furniture for the governor's office and a fountain pen for the governor's use, and regularly sent flower arrangements. In subsequent years Osborne bought Huckabee gift certificates to department stores and clothing boutiques, 200 copies of a book Huckabee wrote, ties, flowers and air travel.
(snip)
A former top Huckabee staffer said the governor saw nothing wrong with Osborne's gifts. "It was because of his background as a preacher," said the staffer, who asked to remain anonymous. "They typically get gifts. In his own mind he was righteous, so the appearance didn't matter." Huckabee is an ordained Southern Baptist minister.
Meanwhile, the wing-nut establishment has spoken...it seems like Huckster is the 'chosen' Republican candidate since 9iu11iani has come up unelectable because of 'indiscretions'.....
LinkWASHINGTON (CNN) — A veteran Republican strategist considered by many the architect of Ronald Reagan's 1984 landslide election victory is set to take the helm of Mike Huckabee's surging presidential bid, CNN has learned.
Ed Rollins — the longtime GOP strategist who worked in the Reagan White House, ran former Sen. Jack Kemp's 1988 White House run, and played a key role in Ross Perot's 1992 presidential bid — will be formally named Huckabee's national campaign chairman later Friday at an event in New Hampshire.
Rollins told CNN's John King that over the last several months he has become "more and more impressed by the day" with Huckabee.
"I had given up the profession and felt this was probably my last campaign and I wanted to help," Rollins said. "Mike is someone with great communications skills and a very approachable message and that is why you see his support growing not just in Iowa but across the country."
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"The struggle now is to take it beyond Iowa and go nationally, and what you have is a growing candidacy, and I think I can help."
Rollins also said his job will include building a broader campaign structure and recruiting more seasoned advisors with experience in running a national presidential campaign.
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