Huckabee comes out against miniskirts; nascent grassroots support collapses
posted at 5:17 pm on June 15, 2007 by Allahpundit
Send to a Friend |
printer-friendly
This one explodes right over the libertarian/social con fault line. The battle is joined, my friends; let all who defendeth the booty shorts call me “brother.”
Q: I read that you’re against miniskirts.
A: If a person dresses provocatively, they’re calling attention — maybe not the most desirable kind — to private parts of their body.Q: What about a burka?
A: No, that hides everything. I think a person’s hair, arms, shoulders, legs are an appropriate display of who they are. I want people to be attracted to me because they find me interesting, not because I’m wearing something…well, I doubt I own anything provocative.
Thus ends the age of Huckabee-mania. Well, actually, no: the other likely VP candidate, assuming he doesn’t win the nomination himself, is Mitt. Huckabee might actually be the more libertarian option on this point.
Might as well give him some free press, then.
You must be logged in to post a comment.
Blowback
Note from Hot Air management: This section is for comments from Hot Air's community of registered readers. Please don't assume that Hot Air management agrees with or otherwise endorses any particular comment just because we let it stand. A reminder: Anyone who fails to comply with our terms of use may lose their posting privilege.
Trackbacks/Pings
Trackback URL
Comments
You just wanted to use the words “grassroots” and “mini-skirts” in the same sentence, didn’t you.
thirteen28 on June 15, 2007 at 5:20 PM
Oh, brother!
That whole interview was demented. The Marie-Claire staff must have plied him with champagne and lefty compliments beforehand.
RushBaby on June 15, 2007 at 5:23 PM
You think the revolt against open borders is “LOUD” just wait and see what happens when they try to ban miniskirts!
Zetterson on June 15, 2007 at 5:24 PM
Oh no he didn’t!?
Now, if he’d come out against the “hip-hugger/idiotic thong sticking out of pants” combo (nothing says “skank” quite as effectively) or the “tramp stamp” butt-crack tattoos…
Then again, if somebody wants to look like a 25 cent hooker, it’s certainly their right.
But MINI-SKIRTS????
I’m outraged, OUTRAGED, I tell you!
Misha I on June 15, 2007 at 5:25 PM
Thankfully he was against miniskirts when he was 300 pounds.
Nearly every day I see a person who should NOT be wearing a miniskirt for this reason.
mattshu on June 15, 2007 at 5:25 PM
Laughed till I cried!……
Now the nutroots will have proof we are not just inhibited but down right frigid!
Hey I like the guy. At my age miniskirts are a health hazard anyway.
Limerick on June 15, 2007 at 5:26 PM
It’s not like he wants to ban them, he just thinks they’re immodest. He is a minister, remember.
CP on June 15, 2007 at 5:27 PM
What we didn’t see was his wife off camera with a 9 iron. That explains a lot. He is in a rock band after all. Wink, wink.
roninacreage on June 15, 2007 at 5:27 PM
I’m on the fence here. I’ve seen enough landwhales wearing miniskirts and short shorts with “Juicy” or some such thing on the back to think there’s some merit to be had in Huck’s criticism. On the flipside there are hot chicks who wear them too. Damn, I’ll have to ponder this…
Bad Candy on June 15, 2007 at 5:29 PM
MORE CLIPS OF JULIE BANDERAS INTERVIEWING NO-SHOT PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATES PLEASE!!!!!!
Ahem.
Enrique on June 15, 2007 at 5:30 PM
JERE
Wade on June 15, 2007 at 5:32 PM
I’m with CP on this. He doesn’t want to ban them or punish those who wear them; he just doesn’t like mini-skirts. Maybe he’s just a guy that would like to leave a bit to the imagination rather than having a girl’s asscheeks hanging out the bottom of her skirt.
Shivv on June 15, 2007 at 5:34 PM
Indeed.
Allahpundit on June 15, 2007 at 5:36 PM
Can we at least agree that fat chicks shouldn’t wear mini skirts?
lorien1973 on June 15, 2007 at 5:36 PM
I’m with ya brother.
infidel4life on June 15, 2007 at 5:38 PM
This will cause a lot of “hemming” and hawing amongst the Huckabee crowd. I think he’d be the perfect VP nominee BTW.
Mojave Mark on June 15, 2007 at 5:43 PM
word
Editor on June 15, 2007 at 5:45 PM
What would he think of cuts offs?
Such as these little items?
(Never thought anybody with a name too close to Huckleberry had much of a chance anyway. Finn and Hound jokes abound, as well as chucklehead,etc.)
profitsbeard on June 15, 2007 at 5:49 PM
Too bad, I was just starting to like the guy.
JayHaw Phrenzie on June 15, 2007 at 5:58 PM
How does that song go….
She had long hair and a short mini skirt..
I asked her her name she said blah blah blah…
she had 9/10 pants and a very big bra..
Oh baby you…you got what I neeeed…
when you say you’re just a friend…when you say you’re just a friend..
Those who know this song will know how sadly it ended. Perhaps Huckleberry is right…
austinnelly on June 15, 2007 at 6:00 PM
Booty shorts and a teddy bear backpack? Sounds like the trunk of Paula Abdul’s Fiat after she goes on a 3 day bender.
austinnelly on June 15, 2007 at 6:04 PM
Damn, he’s threatening the very foundation of my lady friend’s warm-weather wardrobe. Oh, it is on, my friends. ON.
(They outlawed dueling, right?)
ReubenJCogburn on June 15, 2007 at 6:05 PM
I’m sure our well versed HotAir readers already know this, but just in case. Many people think:
Libertarian = Liberal
But that is WRONG in American politics. A libertarian is someone who is actually for liberty. As screwed up as they are sometimes, Republicans are the real “libertarians.” Lower taxes, smaller government etc… (forgive my soapbox)
Maxx on June 15, 2007 at 6:08 PM
A skirt should be like a good story. Long enough to cover the subject but short enough to keep it interesting.
jdpaz on June 15, 2007 at 6:12 PM
In some cases. Not in others. Libertarians are left on social issues; right on economic issues.
lorien1973 on June 15, 2007 at 6:17 PM
Hmmm. Nothing cures a man of his pro-mini skirt, thong and tiny bikini stance better than the experience of having a daughter.
Guardian on June 15, 2007 at 6:36 PM
Also a man who doesn’t lose the right to his personal tastes just because he’s running for president. Maybe some of these people would prefer someone like Bill Clinton again, who didn’t have a problem chasing “ass-cheeks” around the West Wing.
If we’re not careful, we’ll get the President we deserve.
manwithblackhat on June 15, 2007 at 6:39 PM
Which would be relevant if the President had any power whatsoever to ban the sale of mini-skirts.
Personally I agree. We gripe about how our teenage daughters and the people influencing them are running around in provocative clothing but we *gasp* at the thought that mini-skirts might be bad?
Benaiah on June 15, 2007 at 6:42 PM
I would have a much easier time supporting the GOP if so many Republicans weren’t such irredeemable douchebags.
Centerfire on June 15, 2007 at 6:52 PM
What’s he got against transvestites, anyway? Bigot!
Attila (Pillage Idiot) on June 15, 2007 at 7:09 PM
Uncovered meat!
Kid from Brooklyn on June 15, 2007 at 7:16 PM
Ban those gangsta pants that hang below the ass crack.
Now, that’s offensive!
CliffHanger on June 15, 2007 at 7:20 PM
Whatever.
A man expresses his personal opinion, one that would NEVER have ANYTHING to do with policy or leadership, an opinion about modesty, and he’s toast?
A statement about personal standards that are more conservative than the average MTV-junkie is a bad thing? I think not. No harm, no foul.
Freelancer on June 15, 2007 at 7:38 PM
I wasn’t going to vote for Huckabee anyway, but that cinches it. A man who can’t appreciate a beautiful woman in a miniskirt isn’t fit to be president.
packsoldier on June 15, 2007 at 7:44 PM
He’s just jealous because mini-skirts make his chicken legs stand out.
Tune in next week when the photos of Huckabee wearing women’s g-string underwear and fishnet stockings beneath a sun dress surface.
SilverStar830 on June 15, 2007 at 8:15 PM
Libertarian’s for Daisy Dukes!
Kini on June 15, 2007 at 8:15 PM
um… yeehawwww!
SilverStar830 on June 15, 2007 at 8:22 PM
Ewwwww.
msipes on June 15, 2007 at 8:23 PM
I don’t see anything wrong with what Huck said. As the mother of a 12 year old girl I would love for that style to be out by the time she is 18. I won’t buy her any provactive clothes. Plus I think he is cute (but not as cute as my husband of course ;)
CCRWM on June 15, 2007 at 8:42 PM
freelancer,
wow we agree on something.
not speaking for you, i will add, it seems to be the MO of the care takers of the web site, from Michelle on down, if we disagree with something you said, your done. no grey area. from the smallest things like this to bigger issues.
so all of you with 15 year old daughters go out and buy them a mini skirt and let them shake, shake, shake that A$#$#.
kara26 on June 15, 2007 at 8:51 PM
I like mini-skirts… but I would also like to see this country get less “sex-obsessed” as well. I think a lot of it has gone way over the top and degrades many people. (not all. Sex is, after all, and in my humble but correct opinion, healthy if handled with a certain amount of respect for those involved)
I like the Huckster. He can’t win the nomination, but I’m starting to think I’d like to see him on a ticket as VP
rahjr2k on June 15, 2007 at 10:04 PM
I like Huckabee!
sMack on June 15, 2007 at 11:01 PM
CP
“It’s not like he wants to ban them, he just thinks they’re immodest. He is a minister, remember.”
Are you suggesting that there is actually some way to forget that fact? Because if there is, I’d like to know, and if there isn’t, he’ll be seeing the White House the same way the rest of do.
JM Hanes on June 15, 2007 at 11:06 PM
Two words:
Lip gloss.
Connie on June 16, 2007 at 2:46 AM
(to be read in best Scottish accent) “It’s not a skirt, it’s a KILT!!”
mrfixit on June 16, 2007 at 8:12 AM
I work in a mall and all I can say is, that if your butt is a shelf (and a continental one at that), wear em longer.
- The Cat
MirCat on June 16, 2007 at 9:44 AM
brother
Wade on June 16, 2007 at 10:17 AM
Thou shalt not blaspheme miniskirts. I have spoken.
dostrick on June 16, 2007 at 12:51 PM
WHY CAN’T THE CREAM CHEESE WHITE GUYS JUST SHUT THEIR PIE HOLES?
Ol’ Huckabee wasn’t “against” mini skirts in the 60’s when the good MRS. HUCKABEE wasn’t a wrinkled up old BAG, now WAS HE?
PIG.
seejanemom on June 16, 2007 at 7:28 PM
Well…I should have said…
HE VERY WELL may have been AGAINST MINI SKIRTS IN THE 60’s. Just with a different part of his body. (teehee)
I repeat,
PIG.
seejanemom on June 16, 2007 at 7:32 PM
Wow, that fox news lady was HOT!
And she seemed charmed by Mike!
I could go Mike! or Fred! at this point.
He left one part out of his thing on miniskirts. If you wear one, prepare for attention to that part of your body.
We don’t arrest people for stopping at a stop sign. Would you arrest them for looking at a look sign?
unamused on June 17, 2007 at 5:04 PM