I don’t much care for the federal government telling people what they can and can’t do in the classroom.

I agree!

There should be no such thing as public education.

I’m not convinced there is. But whatever the hell is going on in so-called public schools, it sure as hell shouldn’t be federally funded!

[Centurion, why do they titter so?]

I don’t much care for the federal government telling people what they can and can’t do in the bedroom (nor do I believe that our illustrious government is qualified to determine what is and is not a religion, e.g., Scientology). To quote Reagan: “Government is not the answer.”
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thejackal on December 21, 2007 at 7:23 AM

I don’t much care for the federal government telling people what they can and can’t do in the classroom. There should be no such thing as public education. Huck is a big government tool. Ann knows that Reagan quote backwards and forewards, but Huck certainly doesn’t.

There really isn’t a comparison, here. This whole thread is specious.

Let’s let the chips fall where they may. Let’s start the primaries/caucuses, and see what happens. I may not agree with who ends up getting the nomination, but I certainly respect the process.

I’m too young to remember when the primaries did NOT decide who got the nomination. This seems fairer.

These Huck’s Army folks are homeschoolers from Oregon whose father is a huge home schooling champion. I love home schooling, but you need to support vouchers so that your tax dollars aren’t spent on public schools that your children do not attend.

Where are the Huckabee supporters on this? They are dead silent.

Huckabee’s strategy to win the GOP nomination is to attack the GOP. Even CBN is giving Huckabee a pass.

Her shtick is to agree with him that evangelicals deserve their own political champion and to pronounce him grossly unequal to the task.

I don’t see her as saying that at all.

It looks to me as though she’s saying, “you claim to be the political champion of evangelicals, but really, you’re not.”

I really wonder if Ann’s just pissed off too many people to be taken seriously. Would her statements read different if they came from someone else the way you suggest we read Huck’s?

She’s [Coulter] the greater embarrassment.

Alan on December 20, 2007 at 7:18 PM

I like Ann, but know that, were we to chat politely over cocktails, the politeness would quickly wane. I don’t much care for Huckabee (anybody who cuddles up to Chuck Norris is, in my opinion, rather slimy and not suitable for the Oval Office).

She is a leading voice on the conservative side of politics, but as Alan says, she can really embarrass the right wing with her…ahem…extremism. With all due respect to the HA readership, I’m not terribly comfortable with the whole Adam & Eve vs. Monkeyboy debate, and I don’t much care for the federal government telling people what they can and can’t do in the bedroom (nor do I believe that our illustrious government is qualified to determine what is and is not a religion, e.g., Scientology). To quote Reagan: “Government is not the answer.”

Huck strikes me as a pale (no pun intended) version of Barak Obama: seems a nice enough guy, but no way is he prez material. The sooner he’s out of the way, the sooner we can get on with business.

So there’s been almost this sort of, it’s okay if you guys get a seat on the bus, but don’t ever think about telling us where the bus is going to go.

He’s talking about the intellectuals at Weekly Standard/National Review/Wall Street Journal/Heritage/AEI, is who he’s talking about — and he’s exactly right about them. They’re city boys with elite academic backgrounds, and they have almost complete disdain for the average grassroots Republican in, say, Oklahoma. You really saw that with the “shamnesty” scam — the think-tank geniuses really believed Joe GOP in Tulsa was too stupid to understand what “amnesty” means.

Seriously, what part of conservative is Huckabee?

Rode Werk on December 20, 2007 at 7:19 PM

First syllable part.

American conservatism is not really hard to understand: The federal government is too big, too powerful and too expensive. It wastes resources and threatens liberty by doing things for which it has no constitutional authority — from Social Security to ag subsidies to No Child Left Behind — while failing to do those things (e.g., defend the borders) for which it was specifically created.

Ergo, government is not the solution; government is the problem. That is conservatism — and Huckabee doesn’t understand it. Case closed. Court adjourned.

Do you really mean this? I wonder when people say AC for Pres or MM for Pres – is this flattery because they said something that resonated with you or do you really think that’s a good idea?

Spirit of 1776 on December 20, 2007 at 7:35 PM

I absolutely mean it. I laugh just thinking of the left having a meltdown and the media spinning like a top. AC pulls no punches, she’s intelligent and she says what she thinks. Not what she thinks someone wants to hear. We need a lot more of that in this country.

On the other hand, Ann is a lawyer, and has written several best-selling books which have been extraordinarily well-researched, and almost not at all refuted, by anyone. And she’s funny, which I have never heard Huck be.

If some gutless POS doesn’t like her style, maybe he shouldn’t link to her videos online to up his traffic.

Geezus H. Huckabee Allahpundit! Get over it. ! .

http://www.googlefight.com/index.php?lang=en_GB&word1=Mike+Huckabee&word2=Ann+Coulter

lol

They were more than happy for us to come to the rallies and stand in lines for hours to cheer on the candidates, appreciated us putting up the yard signs, going out and putting out the cards on peoples doors and making phone calls to the phone banks and – really appreciated all of our votes. But when they got elected, behind closed doors, they would laugh at us and speak with scorn and derision that we were, as one article I think once said “the easily led.”

It doesn’t sound to me like he knows that Coulter was the source of that comment. He is characterizing the quote as coming from an elected politician and, earlier in the quote, as someone not evangelical.

He is making a good point here about conservative candidates disparaging evangelicals after they no longer need their votes. But the problem is, he is not the right candidate to change that, which is what Ann Coulter is pointing out.

I frankly don’t see the Scylla and Charybdis here. It looks to me like Coulter is simply right and he is wrong. As I mentioned in the earlier thread, I don’t think she is trying to say that he isn’t evangelical enough to be a candidate, just that he isn’t the right evangelical candidate. Her point isn’t that presidential candidates can’t believe in evolution, but that if you say you don’t, you should act accordingly. Same thing with gay marriage. It isn’t a litmus test. Candidates just shouldn’t bring up the issues to score points with Christians.

The Huckahoaxer is a moonbat with a bible

That sums up my opinion of him very nicely.

But when they got elected, behind closed doors, they would laugh at us and speak with scorn and derision that we were, as one article I think once said “the easily led.” So there’s been almost this sort of, it’s okay if you guys get a seat on the bus, but don’t ever think about telling us where the bus is going to go.

I’ve never been their favorite. I wasn’t their pick. I wasn’t the one they early on said “Well he has the money, and he has the name and the ancestry.” What we have in this country is this growing sense of tension where there are people would just as soon, guys like me, just continue to support candidates and make sure they get elected. But we don’t really want to have to hear from guys like me

The Huckahoaxer is a moonbat with a bible, here he is playing the victim card at least as well as Joe Biden ever did.
Whats next, Mike Matters website?

Heck, even when she’s wrong she’s right.

Ann is the voice of reason, here. Huckabee is getting creepier by the day.

Based on the clip, Ann’s voice of reason asks to have science compromised in the classroom but government regulations in the bedroom? Does she believe that hetero sodomy is also something that the government should be free to police?