Thread: Mike Huckabee

Well, guess this guy deserves his own thread since his surge in the polls.



A real Foreign policy expert - not!

Huckabee is another Jimmy Carter.

Foreign Affairs - America's Priorities in the War on Terror - Michael D. Huckabee

your desperation is palpable.

i doubt he'll get the nomination. but if he does, he'll be absolutely crushed in the general election....but that's what the republicans get for letting their party be hijacked by religious nuts.

He looks exactly like Gomer Pile.

Pyle.

There's a new term being bandied about -- Huckacide. I think the GOP should keep looking.

Pity they don't have a persona. Even Arnie is better than this guy. Bummer he's not a natural born son.

I like Arnold, but I read in the LA TImes (I think) last night Arnie's in for some tough sledding over the next few months.

10% budget reductions state-wide. Not sure how that's possible, but...

^
And I like Oliver North who doesn't have a snowball's chance either...

From the IHT:

"Just one month ago, Mitt Romney's supporters thought that they had Iowa fairly well in hand. But there was Romney last week, telling several hundred people at a high school cafeteria in Marion that he was the underdog and pleading for their help to keep him from being derailed at the caucuses by the rise of Mike Huckabee.

"You're going to do something which people don't expect," Romney told them, "which is give me a victory."

His campaign is working feverishly to right itself, zeroing in on Huckabee's past moderate record on immigration with critical television advertisements, a mailing and recorded phone calls from a former Arkansas lawmaker who says, "I know Mike Huckabee's a likable guy, but I also know what he did to our state."

As the Democratic candidates crisscrossed Iowa on Sunday, the Republicans pounded one another, with Huckabee's ascendancy rippling across the field. Romney demanded that Huckabee apologize to for comments he made about the administration's foreign policy, with Huckabee firing back, while Fred Thompson flung the ultimate conservative insult, calling him a "liberal." Senator John McCain of Arizona, meanwhile, was gathering endorsements, including one expected Monday from Senator Joseph Lieberman of Connecticut, who was on the Democratic presidential ticket in 2000."

Candidates scrambling to cope with rise of Huckabee - International Herald Tribune

Republican White House contender Mike Huckabee is refusing to apologise after a rival accused him of insulting President George W Bush by describing US foreign policy as "arrogant".

Huckabee attacks Bush over foreign policy - World - smh.com.au

I only read the first page of the rather long CFR article linked in the OP, but I have to say Huckabee sounds smarter than he looks.

Too bad it seems this thread has gone down the toilet. (Only my opinion, sorry.)

Gomer Pyle, not important.

His son and the dog, not important.

Calling GWB policy arrogant, not important. It's a "+" if anything, and it's a politically calculated tactic, of course.

Oliver North is not a politician, never was, and never will be. Remember his bid for the Senate of Virginia against Robb? He got slapped.

Huckabee's record....yes....that's important.

Originally Posted by Milkman

Huckabee's record....yes....that's important.

Spot on there M/M.
Huckabee's record on raising taxes, letting convicted rapists out to rape and kill again - that's the germane issue(s).

Well I would say a hell of a lot better Than Hillarious Clinton!

Originally Posted by Boon Mee

A real Foreign policy expert - not!

He looks weak, probably another closet homo republican,

Originally Posted by raycarey

the goldwater and rockefeller republicans need to reclaim the party and have these religious extremists form their own party.

The religious nuts are destroying their party faster than marxists could do in a liberal party,

Well, it seems ol' Mike has a lot of folks up in arms over his latest campaign ad with a floating cross in the background. Hint at a little Faith and suddenly you're a fascist Bible-thumper!

Originally Posted by Boon Mee

Well, it seems ol' Mike has a lot of folks up in arms over his latest campaign ad with a floating cross in the background. Hint at a little Faith and suddenly you're a fascist Bible-thumper!

"When fascism comes to America, it will be wrapped in the flag and carrying the cross." (Ron Paul's reaction to Huckabee's 'floating cross' ad)

Originally Posted by Boon Mee

Well, it seems ol' Mike has a lot of folks up in arms over his latest campaign ad with a floating cross in the background. Hint at a little Faith and suddenly you're a fascist Bible-thumper!

Huckabee knows who to pander to.

His recent surge is fueled by the Xtians. And this puerile display of the cross will further cement the Xtians to vote for him in caucuses and elections next month.

Here is a "Merry Christmas" message from Huckabee.

Pretty pathetic. Xmas tree in the background, "wishing you a Merry Xmas."

Originally Posted by Milkman

Here is a "Merry Christmas" message from Huckabee.

Pretty pathetic. Xmas tree in the background, "wishing you a Merry Xmas."

Already posted...#18 this thread.

An article about some of Huckabee's economic views. The "Wall Street Republicans" and Big Business don't like him at all. And the attacks against Huckabee by these groups is definitely increasing in the mainstream media.

Huckabee's Rise Drives Wedge Between Wall Street, Evangelicals

Matthew Benjamin Thu Dec 27


Dec. 27 (Bloomberg) -- Wealthy Republicans have a new political nightmare that may be scarier than Hillary Clinton: Mike Huckabee.


The former Arkansas governor has surged in Republican presidential-preference polls, winning the support of Christian fundamentalists while peppering his campaign rhetoric with jabs at the financial industry. He calls himself the candidate who isn't a ``wholly owned subsidiary'' of investment banks, decries large executive-pay packages and says the party needs to shift its focus from Wall Street to Main Street.
In doing so, he threatens the uneasy if effective coalition Republicans have counted on for three decades: abortion opponents and other social-issue activists supplying foot soldiers, proponents of tax cuts and business-friendly regulatory policies putting up the money and getting the biggest economic benefits.


``Huckabee puts this long-simmering feud between the social-conservative wing and the country-club and business crowd into starker contrast,'' said Stuart Rothenberg, publisher of the nonpartisan Rothenberg Political Report in Washington.


Polls show Huckabee, 52, leading in the first Republican electoral contest, the Jan. 3 Iowa caucuses. In national polls, he is within striking distance of former New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani.


Backlash


The stronger he gets in the polls, the stronger the intra- party backlash against him. ``He's sort of a populist, and that doesn't sell too well on Wall Street,'' said David Hedley, a retired managing director at Donaldson Lufkin & Jenrette who raised at least $100,000 for George W. Bush in the 2000 presidential election.


The Club for Growth, a Washington-based group that advocates tax and spending cuts, has mounted a campaign against Huckabee in Iowa and South Carolina, which holds its Republican primary on Jan. 19. The group said Dec. 14 it is doubling advertising purchases and urged taxpayers to call Huckabee and challenge him on his tax policy.


The group says Huckabee's tax increases while governor from 1996 to 2007 far surpassed reductions, with the average tax burden for state residents increasing 47 percent during his tenure.


``Mike Huckabee is not an economic conservative,'' said Pat Toomey, a former Pennsylvania congressman and the club's president. ``He's the only Republican in the field who really is truly a big-government liberal.''


`Huckacide'


The Wall Street Journal editorial page has repeatedly attacked Huckabee in recent weeks, and the National Review magazine warned Republicans against committing ``Huckacide.''


``These guys don't like Huckabee because he's not one of them,'' said Ed Rollins, the Huckabee campaign chairman. ``They have enjoyed the reins of power a long time, and he's a threat.''


Rollins, who ran Ronald Reagan's re-election campaign in 1984, recalls that some economic conservatives were initially suspicious of him too: ``Ronald Reagan wasn't one of them, and he also had raised taxes to fix problems.''


After Huckabee finished second in an August Iowa straw poll, he said in an interview that his biggest asset going into the contest ``was the negative attack ads that the Club for Greed, excuse me, the Club for Growth was running.''


`Extraordinary Disconnect'


Huckabee said he represents Republican voters who feel estranged from the party. ``There's an extraordinary disconnect between people who have sort of had a traditional leadership role in the Republican Party and the folks on Main Street,'' he said. ``There's a difference between Wall Street Republicans and Main Street Republicans.''
For the moment, the shots at Wall Street are helping

Entire: Huckabee's Rise Drives Wedge Between Wall Street, Evangelicals - Yahoo! News

Huckabee fires shotgun blast over reporters heads ala Dick Cheney? A muzzle control problem or what?

The Swamp: Huckabee's muzzle control problem

I sure hope this guy fades fast...