Huckabee: Doing the Job Pat Buchanan No Longer Will Do. (No Bourbon Democrats!)
By Repair Man Jack Posted in 2008 — Comments (11) / Email this page » / Leave a comment »
For some reason it used to bother me when people would ask me. “Is there any Democrat you would vote for if the GOP ran [Obnoxious Fill-In-The-Blank]?” It bothered me because my honest answer was generally no, not this election. I guess I was brainwashed into thinking I should be somewhat bipartisan, but my common sense told me these Democrats were all morons.
In 1992, Pat Buchanan rode to the rescue, at least until Paul Tsongas lost the nomination fight to Bill Clinton. If I had been asked to choose between Buchanan and Clinton, I might have replied that Canada really wasn’t just for American draft evaders. Seriously, I would have voted for Tsongas and might have gone for Bill, had Pat Buchanan been the GOP nominee.
Since 1992, the GOP hasn’t had anyone in serious contention that would make me willing to support the Democratic alternative until this year. Dole, McCain, Bush, Giuliani, Thompson, Romney and even Prawn Paul seemed vastly preferable to what the Dems had to put up for election.
Mike Huckabee has solved my bipartisanship problem. As long as The Jackass Party doesn’t nominate the execrable John Edwards, I could see myself stifling the gag reflex and voting either Clinton or Oprahbama to keep Mike Huckabee from acquiring more political power. The man makes me vote against him like he was a Democrat, because he reminds me of so many prior Democrats.
He, like Bill Clinton, has never met a lie he felt too ashamed to tell. Like Bill Clinton, he won’t ever own up to his actions. He wants “things need to get investigated.” He believes. “We just can’t have high CEO salaries.” He thinks our foreign trade policy “needs to be fixed.”
Most egregiously, he wrote a letter to the then-incarcerated Wayne Dumond stating.
“Dear Wayne,” Huckabee wrote in a letter to Dumond. “My desire is that you be released from prison. I feel that parole is the best way for your reintroduction to society to take place.” “My desire is that you be released from prison. I feel that parole is the best way for your reintroduction to society to take place.”
Huckabee then leaned on the parole board to cut Dumond loose, while at the same time publicly rejecting his petition for pardon. Had Dumond kept his nose clean, Huckabee would have as well. After all, he rejected the pardon like a good Law-and-Order Republican Governor.
Huckabee, like America’s worst President of the 20th Century, James Earl Carter, uses Christian Theology as an excuse to expand the reach of government into areas it has no business entering. When Club for Growth criticized Governor Huckabee’s record on taxation in Arkansas, Huckabee referred to them as “Club for Greed.” The obvious implication being that a State Governor really does own the paychecks of the workers who live there and those people are just greedy for wanting to limit what the state taxation apparatus would vacuum from their wallets.
Huckabee also uses Christianity to justify his decision to pressure the parole board into cutting Wayne Dumond loose to rape and kill. He said it was part of Christian moral philosophy to be merciful. This blasphemous utterance used religion as an excuse for a political executive not to protect the citizens under his governance.
To use a different Christian analogy, he was a corrupt, disingenuous official washing his hands of a politically charged law enforcement decision. Like Pilate freeing Barabus, Huckabee cut Dumond loose to be politically correct, and then wound up regretting his decision. However, given his criticism of President Bush’s decision to veto the S-CHIP socialist power grab on the grounds of President Bush being cruel to the poor, Huckabee hasn’t learned his lesson on pandering.
So when Huckabee talks about what his faith causing him make decisions, he’s blaming the lord, not praising him. It makes me expect him to channel Jimmy Carter and start announcing, “I asked my daughtta Amma what to do about the Control of Nookaler Ahms…” I don’t even have to go into how Mike Huckabee reminds me of Massachusetts Governor, Michael Dukakis. The man is a Democrat flying a flag of convenience.
If the GOP nominates Mike Huckabee, I can feel vindicated voting for either Obama or Hillary. It’s not like I would have the option of supporting a Conservative Republican instead.
Cross-Posted at: THE MINORITY REPORT
While I share your position, you may have gone little overboard or is it that I am getting a little soft. Besides, This has all been hashed out this morning. Huckabee and his supporters have been badly bashed today. But I understand the need to release your negitive energy.
Huckabee is the most dishonest person in the race other than John Edwards. I find him revolting for many of the same reasons I find Edwards revolting. Elmer Gantry needs to be denounced and ridiculed until even his most faithful adherents are too embarassed to set foot into one of his revival meetings.
"If this ain't a mess, it'll do until one shows up." -Sheriff Bell, No Country For Old Men
ABH candidates could abound this time. John Anderson picked the wrong election.
"If this ain't a mess, it'll do until one shows up." -Sheriff Bell, No Country For Old Men
Obama is engagingly honest...and clueless.
Hillary or Edwards...any truth detector device would short out the day after the inauguration, and its handler would have a nervous breakdown.
That is a real stretch.
And vote for Clinton over Buchanan? You said it.
The two are both dishonest populists.
"If this ain't a mess, it'll do until one shows up." -Sheriff Bell, No Country For Old Men
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"I die the King's good servant, and God's first." Saint Thomas More.
I agree. Huckabee is even more of a big government conservative than Bush is. He's more of a statist than a conservaitve. What I don't understand is how someone like Ron Paul who wants to actually reduce the size of government is hated by so many on the right while Huckabee gets a free ride by many simply because he supports the war in Iraq and is anti-abortion. I wouldn't vote for Paul in the primary, because his views on national security issues like the Patriot Act and wiretaps are simply too anti-government for me, but to me Huckabee is much scarier than Paul. Huckabee is someone who wants to run your life and tell you what you can and can't do.
Bush 43(the GOP's LBJ) with Huckabee(the GOP's Carter). Talk about the end of the GOP as we know it. At least Rudy would be strong on two out of three issues fiscal policy and defense policy. I think Rudy will do social conservatives a favor by rallying them to their cause even if its in opposition to him.
Please don't kill the party and the movement because, you got to vote for a Pro-lifer(any pro-lifer) regardless of his other positions.
Its possible Huckabee might be a little truth-challenged, even for a politican (I'm reserving judgment), but he's not the compulsive liar you paint him to be.
They that are with us are more than they that are against us.
Bloomberg would run, and get a lot of votes.
Probably mine, too. If we're gonna have a nanny-stater, why not one who believes in free trade?