Comments on: Mark Krikorian: Huckabee’s Krikorian-derived immigration plan rocks; Update: “INS”? Update: A power that is “not human” is fueling my rise, says Huck

By: Hot Air » Blog Archive » Video: Huckabee defends “bunker mentality” line; Update: Huck hints that he’ll pardon Ramos and Compean

Sat, 22 Dec 2007 22:30:01 +0000

[...] who didn’t know this was coming had only to look at his immigration plan, which, as I noted at the time, went suspiciously out of its way to make “support” for immigration law enforcement a [...]

By: Anwyn’s Notes in the Margin » Link It or It Never Happened: Lee Harris on Huckabee and “Attacking” Christian Fundamentalism

Tue, 18 Dec 2007 23:44:20 +0000

[...] before: If you honestly believe that Huckabee’s policies and beliefs on illegal immigration (flipflop notwithstanding), convicted criminal clemency, and tax-and-spend are the right direction for the country, you are in [...]

By: Michelle Malkin » The Spanish-language panderfest, sprinkled with Ron Paul’s Blame America act (”We create the Chavezes of the world, we create the Castros of the world”)

Mon, 10 Dec 2007 14:44:25 +0000

[...] of “racial profiling” than protecting the public. Huckabee released an expedient, tough-sounding immigration plan last week to deflect from his open-borders record. I’m not buying [...]

By: Mike Huckabee is President Logan | novatownhall blog

Mike Huckabee is President Logan | novatownhall blog — Mon, 10 Dec 2007 08:25:19 +0000

[...] recently, Huckabee unveiled a new illegal immigration policy which on the face of it appeared to be a solid agenda, but which also raised important questions [...]

By: entagor

entagor — Fri, 07 Dec 2007 22:14:30 +0000

Update: Yeah, listen, nothing personal. I’m sure he’s a good guy and has only the best intentions. But this is where I get off AP

Any 180 near Iowa scares me. ‘By their fruits ye will know them’. Iowa is radioactive and pulls lesser men into all sorts of chameleon poses

I am a devout religie. When something special happens to me I see God’s hand behind it. I thank God many times in the day and I believe He heard me every single time. I feel God looking over my shoulder. That is what believing in a literal God does.

It doesn’t scare me to hear bread and fish analogies because I do not believe miracles ended when Christ ascended

If I was in Huck’s shoes and my prospects and donations multiplied I would also thank God for this miracle of the bread and fishes. I do it when I get an unexpected check in the mail and I mean it.

But I have been burned by overtly religious Bush and his crooked ploys on amnesty. The pounding the last year trying to usurp the will of the people was inforgettable. Huck is pure Bush on immigration – until this week.

I don’t buy it. My raw sore stomach cannot take another Bush

By: Hot Air » Blog Archive » Video: Club for Growth lowers the Hucka-boom; Update: Bush had NIE for four years, Huck suggests

Fri, 07 Dec 2007 21:27:16 +0000

[...] this and the “INS” gaffe yesterday, if he doesn’t watch out the narrative’s going to shift from Dumond, [...]

By: jeanie

jeanie — Fri, 07 Dec 2007 14:57:54 +0000

All of us “scorning” Huckabee here may be giving him an opening to tell Iowans that he is now being persecuted in the name of faith like the Biblical martyrs(or some variation thereof). I wouldn’t put it past him. Also, it might resonate with many people who resent the sterotypical image often cast on the Christian right. I don’t know if Huck actually believes all this or he’s just working the crowd, but either way he’s bad news.

By: Moral Immigration

Moral Immigration — Fri, 07 Dec 2007 14:27:54 +0000

Huckabee Has a New Immigration Plan…

First off, I think the 10 year bar is too long for reasons I may go into in subsequent posts. Second, why make the window only 120 days? One of the problems of our current system is that it does not give illegal aliens incentives to comply with immigra…

By: Church and State

Church and State — Fri, 07 Dec 2007 13:20:56 +0000

Huckabee Endorsing Jesus or Jesus Endorsing Huckab…

How bloggers can derive, “Jesus is now endorsing Huckabee,” from this is pretty unreasonable. Furthermore, I think it’s evidence of partisanship within the party because Huck is surging and he is obviously not their choice….

By: BacaDog

BacaDog — Fri, 07 Dec 2007 12:52:42 +0000

Rightwingsparkle on December 6, 2007 at 6:33 PM

Great post RWS. You nailed it.

By: PoliGazette » Huckabee and Divine Intervention

PoliGazette » Huckabee and Divine Intervention — Fri, 07 Dec 2007 12:14:52 +0000

[...] Garaghty, Dan Riehl, Ace of Spades, Hot Air, Ron Chusid, Pamela Leavey and Betsy Newmark are chastising Huckabee for saying the above. What [...]

By: MB4

MB4 — Fri, 07 Dec 2007 08:26:35 +0000

There was one significant mistake in the speech. I do not know why Romney did not include nonbelievers in his moving portrait of the great American family. We were founded by believing Christians, but soon enough Jeremiah Johnson, and the old proud agnostic mountain men, and the village atheist, and the Brahmin doubter, were there, and they too are part of us, part of this wonderful thing we have.

Why did Mr. Romney not do the obvious thing and include them? My guess: It would have been reported, and some idiots would have seen it and been offended that this Romney character likes to laud atheists. And he would have lost the idiot vote.
- Peggy Noonan

By: MB4

MB4 — Fri, 07 Dec 2007 08:18:34 +0000

We’ve gone too far [This means you especially, The High Reverend Huckster]. The Founding Fathers wanted to avoid the kinds of religious tests that plagued Europe for years. In writing religious liberty into the Constitution, the prohibition of a religious test was directed at government. Government couldn’t establish a state religion or interfere with the practice of anyone’s religion. But now voters themselves need to be reminded of the prohibition against selecting public officials on the basis of their religion.
- Dennis Byrne

By: MB4

MB4 — Fri, 07 Dec 2007 06:14:31 +0000

Huckabee Plays the Religion Card

Wow!

Does Krauthammer ever nail it, and nail The High Reverend Huckster.

When Mitt Romney’s father ran for the presidency 40 years ago, his Mormonism was not an issue. When Mo Udall was a major challenger for the Democratic nomination in 1976, his religion was so irrelevant that today most people don’t even remember that Udall was a Mormon.

Five members of the Senate are Mormon. Are there any intimations that the Mormonism of Harry Reid, Orrin Hatch, Gordon Smith, Michael Crapo or Robert Bennett corrupts, distorts or in any way diminishes their ability to perform their constitutional duties?

Mormonism should be a total irrelevancy in any political campaign. It is not. Which is why Mitt Romney had to deliver his JFK “religion speech” this week. He didn’t want to. But he figured that he had to. Why? Because he’s being overtaken in Iowa. Why Iowa? Because about 40 percent of the Republican caucus voters in 2000 were self-described “Christian conservatives” — twice the number of those in New Hampshire, for example — and, for many of them, Mormonism is a Christian heresy.

The appealing aspects of Huckabee’s politics and persona account for much of this. But part of his rise in Iowa is attributable to something rather less appealing: playing the religion card. The other major candidates — John McCain, Rudy Giuliani and Fred Thompson — either never figured out how to use it or had the decency to refuse to deploy it.

Huckabee has exploited Romney’s Mormonism with an egregious subtlety.

Huckabee is running a very effective ad in Iowa about religion. “Faith doesn’t just influence me,” he says on camera, “it really defines me.” The ad then hails him as a “Christian leader.”

Forget the implications of the idea that being a “Christian leader” is some special qualification for the presidency of a country whose Constitution (Article VI) explicitly rejects any religious test for office.

Just imagine that Huckabee were running one-on-one in Iowa against Joe Lieberman. (It’s a thought experiment. Stay with me.) If he had run the same ad in those circumstances, it would have raised an outcry. The subtext — who’s the Christian in this race? — would have been too obvious to ignore, the appeal to bigotry too clear.

Well, Huckabee is running against Romney (the other GOP candidates are non-factors in Iowa) and he knows that many Christian conservatives, particularly those who have an affinity with Huckabee’s highly paraded evangelical Christianity, consider Romney’s faith a decidedly non-Christian cult.

Huckabee has been asked about this view that Mormonism is a cult. He dodges and dances. “If I’m invited to be the president of a theological school, that’ll be a perfectly appropriate question,” he says, “but to be the president of the United States, I don’t know that that’s going to be the most important issue that I’ll be facing when I’m sworn in.”

Hmmm. So it is an issue, Huckabee avers. But not a very important one.

And he’s not going to pronounce upon it. Nice straddle, leaving the question unanswered and still open — the kind of maneuver one comes to expect from slick former governors of Arkansas lusting for the presidency.

By: The Lion Of Judah

The Lion Of Judah — Fri, 07 Dec 2007 05:58:07 +0000

Huck the Hack…

I guess the rise of Mike Hackabee shows how far evangelicalism has slid in America, as he is the evangelical candidate. He’s the Southern Baptist that believes his job as a ruler is mercy (instead……

By: The Lion Of Judah

The Lion Of Judah — Fri, 07 Dec 2007 05:57:03 +0000

Peter Jones: Pagan Spirituality on the Rise…

Peter Jones documents the decline of gospel preaching and doctrine in the church and the subsequent decline of the culture:
…

By: profitsbeard

profitsbeard — Fri, 07 Dec 2007 04:25:54 +0000

Maybe the spirit of a dead multiple rapist?

By: amend2

amend2 — Fri, 07 Dec 2007 02:41:48 +0000

sry ,,, thats just all wrong.

As a life long Evangelical(istic) (theres a difference ya know), missionary and co-writer of a book on evangelism.. thats just not right.

No person has a right to declare themselves as an instrument of Christ.

BUT WAIT AMEND2 you just said…

No I said that I have followed Christ’s teachings to be fishers of men but I would never proclaim that any event in history happened because of my existance… like that man just did…

To assume and campaign that you have some “tap or inside info” on what Christ or the Father is devining is absolutely so far right of right of right of right..

Did he watch the “messanger” too many times? ( i live jean and that movie) but come on!L

hmm very odd.. and .. nm

By: Jaibones

Jaibones — Fri, 07 Dec 2007 02:22:45 +0000

It’s time we decided on who we can agree on. Mitt, McCain, or Thompson. And back that horse.

Rightwingsparkle on December 6, 2007 at 6:17 PM

I’ll buy that. Oh, and wow.

By: Jaibones

Jaibones — Fri, 07 Dec 2007 02:16:37 +0000

The worst part about all this? Ryan Sager is probably laughing his tail off.

Slublog on December 6, 2007 at 3:43 PM

Is that just the worst hair I’ve ever seen, or is it the worst toupé I’ve ever seen?

By: Mark My Words

Mark My Words — Fri, 07 Dec 2007 01:44:45 +0000

It’s a good thing I’m registered as an independent…

Otherwise, I’d be voting against God in the Republican primary. At least, that’s the direct implication of what Mike Huckabee recently stated……

By: Slublog

Slublog — Fri, 07 Dec 2007 01:18:08 +0000

Thanks, RWS. For a minute there I thought you’d gone subscription only or something.

By: Rightwingsparkle

Rightwingsparkle — Fri, 07 Dec 2007 01:14:36 +0000

MB4,

The only thing absurd is your arguments.

Slublog,

Thanks.

Here is the link. God Bless the Candidate.

By: Slublog

Slublog — Fri, 07 Dec 2007 00:31:10 +0000

You guys made me so mad, I wrote a post about my comment here.

The link leads to a sign-in page.

By: MB4

MB4 — Fri, 07 Dec 2007 00:15:07 +0000

Bush will not be seen as a disappoitment when we look back. He kept our economy strong after the worst atttack ever on our soil, after the worst natural disaster, and during war.

So do we get to blame him for the crashing dollar and the mortgae meltdown then?

He stood up to Islamic terrorism and established a Democracy where none thought possible.

Democracy? Where? Please do not say Iraq or I will have to ROFALMAO!

He has brought North Korea in line and is standing up to Iran.

Have they been informed of this?

Sometimes faith makes us far better people or leaders than we ever thought we could be, so spare me your condescension.

Rightwingsparkle on December 6, 2007 at 6:17 PM

George Bush says he speaks to god every day, and Christians love him for it. If George Bush said he spoke to god through his hair dryer, they would think he was mad. I fail to see how the addition of a hair dryer would make it any more absurd.