Ok, as we’re getting closer to the Iowa Caucuses, it’s about that time where I start to narrow my…
Popularity: unranked [?]……

Would seem Mr. Huck is a cross between Bill Clinton and Nancy Pelosi. Drinking from the same trough, it is the water.

Really?? I mean,, is this really true?? Why is this coming out now?? Why have we not heard about this sooner??? Even Rush said he was a nice guy and hat he liked him. Ted Nugent and Glen Beck seemed to like the guy! Why all this now just when he seems to be rising even though it is ever so little?? For now I am a little skeptical but I will keep reading. I am also a little shocked at all the rants against the religious right. The truth is, if it was not for the Christians in this country, there would be no country! There would be no freedoms! There would have been no Reagan for that matter! It is the Christians that do more that just whine on blogs! Yes, there are nutcases in churches! Big surprise! There are nutcases and hypocrites in your local supermarket and shopping mall, but you don’t condemn either of them nor do they keep you from shopping there!

That doesn’t really make their strong support for Huckabee any better – it’s like an admission that if a candidate speaks the language of evangelicalism, he can get the support of evangelicals.

Slublog on October 24, 2007 at 3:49 PM

Point is- I doubt his current evangelical supporters know about his more unsavory aspects or they’d re-evaluate their support.

rightwingprof on October 24, 2007 at 2:12 PM

Bwahahahaha!!! The only comment you have in a thread that has a topic is a comment that is off topic. You’re the troll!

Jeeze! You people are simply priceless.

How many of them were familiar with his record? They liked his speech, but few people know that Huck is (apparently) an ethically challenged, big government nanny stater who is weak on immigration.

That doesn’t really make their strong support for Huckabee any better – it’s like an admission that if a candidate speaks the language of evangelicalism, he can get the support of evangelicals.

Folks, let’s not feed the trolls. Thanks.

MadisonConservative on October 24, 2007 at 11:15 AM

Keep blathering on. You would rather attack me than talk about the topic it hand How absolutely transparent of you. Look at this thread. Once you started in on me, you refuse to let it go. You are fixated on me for some strange reason. You take it personally when someone uses the term “groupie”, yet try to convince the group that you aren’t a groupie. You protesteth when there was no reason to protesteth. Before I even respond in a thread, you attack me when you had a perfectly good topic to comment on.

You have a serious dysfunction and you need to keep it to yourself.

Maybe this is why immigration was not mentioned during the latest debate.

In this case Huckabee would be destroyed by the Democrats and the MSM, but only after he becomes the Republican nominee.

Jaibones on October 24, 2007 at 12:06 PM

Thanks for the link.

From the article. Here they go whining again.

The sole hold-up with Huckabee’s ascension to Tier One is money. If he had it, no doubt he’d join the club. CBS, reporting on Gary Bauer’s analysis, wrote:

He said Huckabee, who raised only $1 million in the third quarter of the year, doesn’t have the time or resources to compete with the top GOP candidates.

What a whining bunch of smancy pancies!

“I’m skeptical, I am,” Bauer [former presidential candidate and current president of American Values] said. “I just don’t see how you go from having $600,000 in the bank one year before the election and go on to leap-frog everybody else, beat Giuliani and then go on to beat Hillary Clinton. I just don’t see it happening.”

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And what about this?

……Add to that, Huckabee’s ground team is disorganized, certainly not doing what it takes to see their candidate nominated. In my home state of Illinois, for instance, his people haven’t had the wherewithal to nominate delegates to the state Republican convention.

What a bunch of losers does Huckabee have on his campaign team?

JUST AMAZING….?…. UN-FRIGGING-AMAZING!

Okay. Let’s go Hunter 08!!!

ColtsFan on October 24, 2007 at 11:44 AM

His protectionist obsession aside, I like Hunter… but it’s time for Hunter to do the right thing and go home. Let the candidates who actually have a chance of winning debate without distraction by someone polling around 1%.

Hunter ran a poor campaign and hasn’t connected with voters; he’s had plenty of time and opportunity do turn it around but he hasn’t. Blaming the media or anyone else is a cop-out; he has only himself to blame for such a poor showing.

The ‘values voters’ who attended the FRC’s convention would disagree.

Slublog on October 24, 2007 at 12:16 PM

How many of them were familiar with his record? They liked his speech, but few people know that Huck is (apparently) an ethically challenged, big government nanny stater who is weak on immigration.

No one’s bothered attacking him because of his second tier status, but if he makes gains in IA you can bet that the long knives will come out- even if Huck is a nice, likeable guy.

Why hasn’t Duncan Hunter done better as an alternative?

He’s not Southern.

Huckabee not so hot…….

In his 2005 State of the State address, he complained that a Hispanic student was not able to get financial aid because he was an illegal alien. Huckabee said: “But when he applied for financial aid, he wasn’t eligible for the various scholarships or grants because of his status, a status that he had no decision in or control over

One of Huckabee’s last acts as Governor was to donate money from the state emergency fund to help the Mexican consulate in Little Rock.

From the same Wikpedia link

In a 2007 interview, Huckabee argued against job loss caused by illegal immigration saying, “You know, when people say, ‘they’re taking our jobs’ — I used to hear that as Governor — and I started asking this question, ‘can you name me any person, give me their name, who can’t get a job plucking a chicken or picking a tomato or tarring a roof that would like to do that work?’ ….I never, ever, had a person who could come up with the name of a person who could not get a job because an illegal immigrant had stepped in front of them because it was either a job that person didn’t want to do or didn’t exist

I have met a person whose spouse could not find roofing work in my state, and it is very unlikely an illegal stepped directly in front of this roofer because these jobs are no longer openly marketed but held preferentially for illegals.

These statements attributed to Huckabee in Wikpedia are not Evangelical. If accurate they are Despicable.

Social Cons and the “Religious Right” are regular folks who are more than capable of seeing this clown for who he is and resisting the “supposedly siren call” to support him.

The ‘values voters’ who attended the FRC’s convention would disagree.

The inherent bashing in this quote and many others here is getting tiresome. It does nothing more than illustrate prejudice.

Social Cons and the “Religious Right” are regular folks who are more than capable of seeing this clown for who he is and resisting the “supposedly siren call” to support him.

Slublog on October 24, 2007 at 11:28 AM

Doesn’t have the legs for an atheist “I hate Christians because they’re just like the Islamists” thread. You need that moral relativism tie-in.

Don’t hold your breathe, in waiting for the evangelical Huckabee shills, James Dobson et al, to come in here and try to defend him!

Mcguyver on October 24, 2007 at 11:50 AM

There is an Illinois based pro-life candidate, Jill Stanek, and she and her blog supporters are all good with Dobson’s 3rd party statements and lately are pushing the Huckster.

One issue, that’s all there is…