Video: Huckabee’s new, and probably last, campaign ad

I thought that The High Reverend Huckster was trying to run as a populist. Maybe that was last week. The “Fair tax”/sales tax is not exactly the first thing that comes to mind when thinking populist.

MB4 on January 26, 2008 at 4:25 PM

The vast majority of arguments I see against him [Reverend Huckabee Osama Bin Laden]here daily are not real reasons at all just insults on his weight beard or about where he’s from and the vast majority is just vile anti-Christian Islamic bigotry and hatred,which is insulting to all Christians Muslims!!

You know where all that anti-Christian Islamic hatred comes from right….IT’S DEMONIC!!!

anti-Christ Mohammad spirit.

Shame on you for being just as bad as the evil bigoted democrats Robert Spencer in your obssessive anti Christian Islamic hatred!

Imam HaraldHardrada on January 26, 2008 at 4:17 PM

MB4 on January 26, 2008 at 4:36 PM

How dare you compare Christianity with islam!!

Imam HaraldHardrada on January 26, 2008 at 4:39 PM

You silly Imam. It is not Christianity that I am comparing to Islam.

Do not ask for whom the bell tolls, it tolls for The High Reverend Huckster and thee.

MB4 on January 26, 2008 at 4:47 PM

That’s idiotic!

Imam HaraldHardrada on January 26, 2008 at 4:37 PM

Just because you can not grasp something does not mean it is idiotic.

MB4 on January 26, 2008 at 4:52 PM

And here’s to you, Reverend Huckabee
Jesus loves you more than you will know
(Wo wo wo)
God bless you, please Reverend Huckabee
Heaven holds a place for those who pray
(Hey hey hey – hey hey hey)

Where have you gone, Barry Goldwater?
Conservatives turn their longing eyes to you
(Woo woo woo)
What’s that you say, Reverend Huckabee
‘Mr Conservative’ you have driven far away?
(Hey hey hey – hey hey hey)

MB4 on January 26, 2008 at 4:58 PM

Corrupt Huck

In Arkansas, Mr. Huckabee was investigated by the state ethics committee at least 14 times. Most of the complaints centered on what appears to be a serial disregard for government rules about gifts and outside financial compensation. He reported $112,000 worth of gifts in one year alone, nearly double his $67,000 salary.

Five of the 14 investigations resulted in admonishments: Two for failing to report gifts (one was later overturned), the other three for some $80,000 that Mr. Huckabee and his wife received but failed to initially report. One of these admonishments involved a $23,500 payment to Mr. Huckabee from an opaque organization called Action America that he helped found in 1994 while lieutenant governor, and that was designed to coordinate his speeches and supplement his income.

Mr. Huckabee caused an uproar when he used a $60,000 account intended to maintain the governor’s mansion for personal expenses, including restaurant meals, dry cleaning and boat supplies. He also faced a lawsuit over his assertion that $70,000 worth of furniture donated to the mansion was his to keep. Sprinkled among all this are complaints about the
misuse of state planes and campaign funds, mistakes on financial disclosure forms, and fights over documents related to ethics investigations.

Any one of these episodes individually may appear penny ante, but they add up to a disturbing pattern. People I’ve spoken with who worked with Mr. Huckabee in Arkansas dispute the idea that he is “corrupt.” They instead ascribe his ethical mishaps to a “blind spot” rooted in his beginnings as a Baptist minister and a Southern culture of gift-giving;
they suggest he never made the mental transition to public office.

Some will also argue Mr. Huckabee is no more ethically challenged than Mr. Giuliani, who is getting pounded with questions about Judith Nathan’s security detail and Giuliani Partner clients. The difference is that Hizzoner is a celebrity whose past bones were long ago picked clean by the media crows. Even the Nathan flap is an extension of news that made the rounds five years ago.

The obscure governor from Arkansas is, in contrast, a deep sea for media diving. Most recent have been stories about his pardons and commutations, as well as the news that R.J. Reynolds contributed to Action America. Mr. Huckabee–who now wants a national smoking ban in public places–responded that he never knew he accepted tobacco money, which has inspired a former adviser to claim Mr. Huckabee is being “less than truthful.”
What’s next?
- Kimberley A. Strassel

MB4 on January 26, 2008 at 5:07 PM

Huckabee’s claim to be the most pious and selfless of men rings hollow when you consider the following: Arkansas set up a trust fund to do something about health care. Just by coincidence, $60,000.00 dollars managed to do directly to Mike Huckabee for “speaking fees”. Not a dime went for any public purpose. Arkansas had an ethics law against giving gifts to public figures. There was an exception for wedding gifts. So what do the Huckabees do? They have a phony reaffirmation of marriage ceremony and then claim that the ethics rule does not apply to them Even more crass, they list on the internet the gifts that they want people (i.e lobbyists) to give to them. When asked, Huckabee says “tut tut, we only got stuff from Targets). He conveniently forgot about the nice baubles he got from Dillards as well. Then it turns out that his son got caught in a Mike Vick type of crime. So what happens? The kid somehow escapes prosecution and the State Police Commander is removed from office by one MIke Huckabee. All coincidence?
- Larraby

MB4 on January 26, 2008 at 5:09 PM