gabriel sutherland on January 29, 2008 at 3:20 PM

I agree with you, he was right on the rebates, but then…

After he proposed using our tax money (or cash borrowed from the Chinese) to pave the eastern seaboard, they lauded his “stimulus” idea as conservative.

Maybe I’m in the minority, but I thought Huckabee’s start was good, but the close was not.

He was right. A tax rebate is essentially $600 in your hands to continue consuming. Break it down. US banks need funds from China, Japan, Singapore, and Dubai. They receive about 150 billion in various influx capital. The US Government turns around and decides it is time, RIGHT NOW, for a $600 individual tax rebate that comes out to, hey, 150 billion dollars.

This is a prime example of how finance is conducted today. China, Japan, Singapore, and Dubai aren’t giving away money. They must get equal consumption in return.

I don’t know why they want to be in the Republican Party.

Because the Democrats laugh at people with a sincere belief in G-d.

God, what a weasel. Ugh, just picturing that bucktooth grin….. barf.

Heheh. He’ll get right on that after he manages to somehow stop the push polling.

He’s far too busy holding press conferences on the subject of not running negative campaign ads, then deciding to show them to the press and eventually run them anyways. Far too busy.

zzz

Wake me up when you stop publishing boring posts about your favorite Evangelical punching bag.

corona on January 29, 2008 at 12:25 PM

Even Huck’s supporters are drowning in Identity Politics. He’s not our favorite Evangelical punching bag. He’s our favorite slimier-than-weasel-shit punching bag. The fact that he’s Evangelical is completely incidental, but breathtakingly ironic. And irony makes for great headlines.

but if the laws were broken, I would hope Huckabee takes responsibility for it and takes steps to keep the error from happening again.

Heheh. He’ll get right on that after he manages to somehow stop the push polling.

Serious inquiry: How are average, private citizens supposed to know what is acceptable under campaign finance laws? For example, SCOTUS’ decision in McConnel v. FEC was all of 298 pages.

Personally, I don’t think the responsibility is with the volunteers. It’s with the campaigns and the independent groups. What happened here seems more a result of Huckabee’s seat-of-the-pants campaign organization than any sort of intent to violate the law, but if the laws were broken, I would hope Huckabee takes responsibility for it and takes steps to keep the error from happening again.

Pastor Huck won’t dirty his hands with negative phone calls against Romney — but Trust Huckabee, an “independent” org, happily will.

Norris doesn’t seem to have any problem with getting his hands dirty either. I’ve been trying to find links again tis townhall column from earlier and must have lost it. Also watching him on H & C last night just aggravated me too. Was funny when Hannity compared Walker to Sherrif Joe though about the amnesty count.
He’s surrounded by people who don’t mind getting a little down and dirty, which is fine, if that’s what you choose. Just don’t play who me?

No rose petals, one hopes.

Wake me up when you stop publishing boring posts about your favorite Evangelical punching bag.

Blah blah blah. Boring to you, perhaps, but very insightful to me. The double standards of the What Would Jesus Do candidate are worth reporting on.

Wake me up when you stop publishing boring posts about your favorite Evangelical punching bag.

The point here is not that Huckabee is an evangelical, it’s that his supporters may be playing fast and loose with existing campaign law.

Touchy, touchy.

Wake me up when you stop publishing boring posts about your favorite Evangelical punching bag.

And so we get the best of both worlds: Innocent actors potentially stumbling into legal pitfalls and malefactors gaming the system.

Unavoidable it seems.

Without crippling more freedoms, it’s next to impossible to regulate something away. Prohibition didn’t get rid of alcohol and CFR couldn’t take $ out of politics while giving rise to gangsters and trampling the 1st amendment respectively. In the movie, John McCain will play the part of John McCain, and Mike Huckabee will play the part of Carrie Nation.

Putz.