Bush is such a tough act to follow. After all, he has said God speaks to him. Has Huckabee ever made such a claim? I mean, if he isn’t on God’s speed dial list of friends, should the Religious-right even be wasting their time with him? They are so under-represented in this country. I feel a good crying jag coming on. Excuse me…

In case you haven’t seen the video…

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If a Huckabee presidency doesn’t scare the bejeebus out of you, then you obviously don’t know of him all that well. And what better way to get to know someone than through the company they keep?

Jay Cole: A Baptist minister based in Fayetteville, Arkansas, with a right-wing radio talk show:

• - when Huckabee was the governor of Arkansas, it was Cole who persuaded him to arrange the release from prison of a convicted rapist, Wayne Dumond, who had become a born-again evangelical in prison.
• - Cole: “To date there’s well over 139 prophecies that have come to pass exactly as the Lord says. Mike believes those things. Anyone with any Bible knowledge would have to say that this looks like the time. We’re so close to the Lord’s return.”
• - Cole compared the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints to the Ku Klux Klan. “As you know from history, their original intent–[Mormon founding fathers Joseph] Smith and Brigham Young–was to take over the United States of America,” he said. “They weren’t just far behind the KKK in their efforts.”
• - Cole: “If you think communism’s bad, just think what the Islamics are doing,” Cole warned. “Those people have no–they’re just not human. They’re just not human.”

John Hagee: Head of a Pentecostal congregation in San Antonio, Texas, with 18,000 members and the executive director of Christians United for Israel, a national lobbying group that organizes against a two’state solution to the Israel-Palestine crisis and in favor of a military strike on Iran.

• - Hagee’s zealous support for Israel is kindled by his belief that Jesus will one day return to “biblical Israel” to usher in a kingdom of Heaven on Earth. “As soon as Jesus sits on his throne he’s gonna rule the world with a rod of iron.”
• - Hagee: “[H]e’s gonna make the ACLU do what he wants them to. That means you’re not gonna have to ask if you can pray in public school…. We will live by the law of God and no other law.”

Tim LaHaye: Co-author of the bestselling Left Behind pulp fiction series, which tells of the coming apocalyptic battle between followers of Jesus and forces of Satan.

Paige Patterson: President of the Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary, an outspoken believer in End Times theology as well. Patterson is one of the chief organizers of the right-wing takeover of the Southern Baptist Convention.

Chuck Norris: A B-level action movie star. (enough said)

Huckabee, too liberal???

It’s true what they say. If (liberal) Jesus stopped in for a visit this afternoon, the Christian-right would have him back up on a cross by morning.

Huckabee Aims for Evangelicals in SC

Propelled in Iowa by evangelicals’ support, Mike Huckabee is trying for a repeat victory in South Carolina, where religion is woven even more tightly into the fabric of life.
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Some evangelicals are wary of Huckabee, believing he is too liberal on issues such as poverty, health care and the environment. Page, while not endorsing anyone, dismissed those criticisms, calling Huckabee a “caring, genuine, humble person.”
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Jessie Davis, a 27-year-old mother of three from Inman, S.C., held her youngest, 8-month old Abbie, in her arms. Davis said the No. 1 thing that attracted her to Huckabee was “Christian values.”

“He’s going to ask God what do before he asks somebody else,” Davis said after the rally. “God designed everything. He knows how it’s supposed to work.”

AP Photo/Paul Sancya

Let me get this straight. Mike Huckabee, up until a few weeks ago, was riding high in the Iowa polls. Mitt Romney answered this by placing a few ‘negative’ ads that featured some of Huckabee’s worst moments as Governor of Arkansas. Seeing his momentum fading, Huckabee then decided to run his own ($30,000 worth) negative ad on Romney… but decided against it at the last minute. Our good-hearted presidential contender had an epiphany… a “sudden aversion to negative politics.” (Iowans HATE negative ads!)

And he calls a news conference to state as much.

By doing this, Huckabee attempts to kill two birds with one stone. Not only does he make himself out as one who takes the high road, he also makes public the contents of his anti-Romney, negative ad. But the whole thing kinda backfired on him.

(I wonder if he got to keep that $30,000?)

“The truth is hunters are the ones who preserve the species, since hunters have an interest in preserving wildlife and their license fees pay for conservation efforts. In many cases extinction comes from not having some level of hunting. It’s the hunters who actually keep the wildlife alive. A lot of people think that when you hunt you’re destroying the wildlife.” -Mike Huckabee

Same republican logic applies to peace. Go out and start a war, kill as many people as you can, and peace will occur…. eventually. See?

From The Associated Press:

“Huckabee, who has a tiny campaign and a shoestring budget, has a network of supporters independent of his campaign who are spreading the word through their churches.”

If Mike Huckabee has such blatant disregard for law, (which appears to be a growing theme), then how can he be allowed to serve as president of the United States? (I know… think Bush!)

Huckabee Counts on Pastors for Iowa Help

DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — Republican Mike Huckabee, the former Baptist preacher, is depending on more than a leap of faith to win the Iowa caucuses.

Leading in polls, Huckabee is determined to make up for his skimpy organization in the state by enlisting national evangelical Christian supporters to rev up Iowa pastors and coax voters to the Jan. 3 caucuses.

Word of mouth in churches and among Christian groups can be a powerful force in Iowa politics. Christian believers make up the core of Huckabee’s support in the state, said Rick Scarborough, a well-known Texas preacher who has endorsed the former Arkansas governor, though he adds that “it’s not his only constituency.”

Scarborough heads Vision America, one of several groups trying to help Huckabee. The groups - some overtly religious, some not - are using a variety of tactics, all independent of Huckabee’s campaign:

- Automated phone calls to recruit volunteers.
- Voter registration drives.
- Informal e-mails and chats in church foyers and pews.

Dan Gilgoff, of USA Today, states… unfortunately:

“David Barton, an evangelical activist who was hired by the Republican National Committee to reach thousands of pastors in the 2004 campaign, says he hasn’t heard of a single church losing its tax-exempt status in his nearly 20 years of political activism. If he hasn’t, who has?”

Well isn’t that just great.

This is really turning out to be one hell of an election cycle, folks! Not one presidential contender, republican or democrat, worth holding the position, if you ask me. (Sorry if that offends)

Was just reading an article on the MSNBC site, “Romney attacks Huckabee on immigration“, and am still feeling a bit nauseous from being subjected to all the s-curve, flip-flopping, gut-wrenching hypocrisy permeating nearly every paragraph.

For example, Mitt is about to fire up a new television ad in Iowa in an attempt to deflate Huckabee’s recent gains in the polls:

Excuse me? Mitt can say this in light of his past stand on the abortion issue?

This one speaks for itself:

And, of course, dead-head Fred has to rise to the occasion:

Kind of ironic, isn’t it? Down and dirty mud’slinging hypocrisy, for a job that should require someone of the highest morals and ethics. Someone above reproach.

WASHINGTON - GOP presidential hopeful Mike Huckabee said Sunday he won’t run from his statement 15 years ago that AIDS patients should have been isolated.

Huckabee acknowledged the prevailing scientific view then, and since, that the virus that causes AIDS is not spread through casual contact, but said that was not certain. He cited revelations in 1991 that a dentist had infected a patient in an extraordinary case that highlighted the risk of infection through contact with blood or bodily fluids.

“I still believe this today,” he said in a broadcast interview, that “we were acting more out of political correctness” in responding to the AIDS crisis. “I don’t run from it, I don’t recant it,” he said of his position in 1992. Yet he said he would state his view differently in retrospect. (emphasis mine)

The article also states:

Huckabee stated his 1992 positions in an AP questionnaire in which he also called homosexuality “an aberrant, unnatural, and sinful lifestyle.”

Strong words, coming from an aberrant, unnatural, and sinful person! I mean, Mike is aberrant in that his Christian faith is on the decline, (departing from the usual course), unnatural in that he pushes for ID over Darwin, and sinful in that his own religion states “judge not lest ye be judged“. And poor ol’ Mike has done a lot of judging in his time!

Mike Huckabee opens his mouth and Christian love pours forth:

True Christian love knows no bounds. Whoops! Well maybe they know a couple after all.

I would say: “Father forgive them, for they know not what they do“… but they know damn well what they do.

Huckabee Wanted to Isolate AIDS Patients

LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (AP) — Mike Huckabee once advocated isolating AIDS patients from the general public, opposed increased federal funding in the search for a cure and said homosexuality could “pose a dangerous public health risk.”
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“If the federal government is truly serious about doing something with the AIDS virus, we need to take steps that would isolate the carriers of this plague,” Huckabee wrote.
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“In light of the extraordinary funds already being given for AIDS research, it does not seem that additional federal spending can be justified,” Huckabee wrote. “An alternative would be to request that multimillionaire celebrities, such as Elizabeth Taylor (,) Madonna and others who are pushing for more AIDS funding be encouraged to give out of their own personal treasuries increased amounts for AIDS research.”

And then there’s this gem:

Mike, I agree. I feel the same way when your f-ing religious crowd, while ignoring separation of church and state, tries to legislate your f-ing beliefs over the rest of us. Mind getting it the hell out of the public square? And while you’re at it, you can take Bush’s f-ing faith-based initiatives with ya. I think it would be a tad bit HYPOCRITICAL of you to expect gays to support it.

Huckabee is right. We do have a dysfunctional government. Mostly that way because of crappy republican pro-corporate / pro-wealthy policies, coupled with a severe religious stranglehold over the party.

So, Huckabee is for more of the same. Hey, that’s the ticket!