Huckabee to Limbaugh: You know who’ll cause problems on the ticket? Mitt Romney

He is not more a liberal, Mormon basher than anyone else on this board.

Well that’s a glowing endorsement of someone’s character if ever I’ve heard one!

“On illegal immigration, Huckabee makes George Bush sound like Rep. Tom Tancredo (R.-Colo.). Huckabee has compared illegal aliens to slaves brought here in chains from Africa, saying, ‘I think, frankly, the Lord is giving us a second chance to do better than we did before.’

“Toward that end, when an Arkansas legislator introduced a bill that would prevent illegal aliens from voting and receiving state benefits, Huckabee denounced the bill, saying it would rile up ‘those who are racist and bigots.’

“He also made the insane point that companies such as Toyota would not invest in Arkansas if the state didn’t allow non-citizens to vote, because it would ‘send the message that, essentially, “If you don’t look like us, talk like us and speak like us, we don’t want you.”‘

“Like all the (other) Democratic candidates for President, he supports a federal law to ban smoking – unless you’re an illegal alien smoking at a Toyota plant.” Source: Ann Coulter, Human Events, 10/15/07, p. 6

“If Huckabee does get some traction, The Boston Globe’s Susan Milligan has details of a little-remembered aspect of his record as governor: when he paroled convicted rapist Wayne Dumond, Milligan writes, ‘Huckabee, whose self-deprecating humor and easy candor have charmed many on the campaign trail, bristles when asked about the case, in which Dumond – now dead – was paroled from an Arkansas prison, with then-governor Huckabee’s endorsement, only to sexually assault and kill a woman in Missouri… . If Huckabee, who is creeping upward in the polls, gains more momentum, the case is certain to become an issue.’” Source: http://abcnews.go.com, 10/15/07

“Dumond’s case is notorious in Arkansas. In 1984, he raped a 17-year-old girl. While awaiting trial at his home, he was castrated by, he said, masked intruders. Later, after Dumond went to prison for life, some people in Arkansas saw the sentence as excessive, especially given his mutilation.

“Huckabee was one, and, after becoming governor in 1996, he announced his desire to commute Dumond’s sentence. Dumond’s rape victim, Ashley Stevens, saw it differently.

“Stevens, now 40 and living in the western United States, said she tried to persuade Huckabee not to shorten the sentence for Dumond.

“‘I told [Huckabee]: If you ever let him out, he’s going to do it again,’ she said in an interview.”

I can do this ALL DAY boys. The man is a never-ending well of telling moments that out just how much of a theocratic populist the dude really is.

TheUnrepentantGeek on August 27, 2008 at 6:38 PM

I still like Huckabee.

keepinitreal on August 27, 2008 at 6:40 PM

Given that he:

1) Doesn’t stand for conservative values when it actually counts

2) Doesn’t see any separation between the roles of an individual Christian and the state

3) Uses his faith as a marketing tool like some cheap televangelist looking to make a buck off a rube

I can’t see why.

TheUnrepentantGeek on August 27, 2008 at 6:44 PM