Huckabee Fights Back on Multiple Fronts

I like Huckabee. He needs to be careful not to alienate folks like me who do like him, but like Bush very much as well. I wish he would not have made the “arrogant” comment about Bush.

The media’s trying to create some “holy war” between the “R” candidates and Huckabee should keep emphasizing the traits which make him attractive to independents including the fact that he will not let religion interfere with governing. Jimmy Carter (media darling) was never condemned or grilled to the ends of the earth for being a Southern Baptist- it’s only when it’s a Republican they acuse them of being a “theocrat”.

For a Republican, Huckabee’s comments about President Bush were crap. You can criticize the management of the war, and I wish we’d never gone into Iraq, but a fellow Republican shouldn’t make such demeaning, personal statements about the President. All I saw in the article above is someone who wants to blame someone else for everything that happens to him. In other words, he’s the consumate whiner, plus he’s expert at deflecting questions about his history. Face it Huckabee supporters, he pressured the Arkansas parole board to parole a rapist because his friends convinced him the man had repented. Obviously, they were wrong. In case you didn’t hear it, the parole board thought he was lacking in knowledge of the case. A leader cannot always depend on his friends opinions, no matter how sincere they are. In this case had tragic consequences. I think he made a mistake in judgement, that’s all. I’m sure he is very sorry. I would have liked to see him admit he made a mistake instead of trying to make everyone else (the parole board) the fall guy. They’d already denied parole for the guy. Then after Huckabee met privately with them, they decided to grant a parole. I don’t think Huckabee will ever admit he made a mistake on anything. He’s slick in picking his words, but they ring shallow when you hear enough of them.

Huckabee’s an average talent with a spotty record and a Nixonian mean streak that doesn’t always make for actual results (versus Rudy, or McCain — both of whom have the Anger Thing, but tend to put it to positive use).
His call for a flatter tax system flies in the face of his Arkysaw years (he actually supports a national internet sales tax system, the so-called Streamlined Sales Tax, that would massively burden most web retailers, while creating huge new state bureaucracies), and his Bush bashing is just plain surreal, given Huckabee’s total lack of federal experience and military service (and sending the Hot Springs state Guard to Fort Polk ain’t being CIC, sorry Mike).
On the plus side, he does trust the Lord and not the unions, he does recognize AIDS as a largely containable if politically correct malady not at the top of the social needs list, and he does respond to self-anointed jerks in the press in the required 24 hours news spin cycle.

Huckabee has every right to defend himself and it will be quite convenient knowing that he will have to confront the likes of Romney. Especially because of his ties to the Mormon church. They are a secretive and exclusionary organization that many people simply are ignorant or made to not know about. I have Mormons for neighbors and despite the alleged “diversity” that the church upholds, they seem to operate under their original doctrine of treating minorities with inferior and condemning status. That explicitly racist doctrine was in effect in their church constitution up until the late 1970s, where only political pressures made them change it. Their so-called prophet and leaders today of the church have been explicitly asked if the revoking of that doctrine was a mistake, and they have explicitly answered that it WAS a mistake to revoke the racist doctrine. People say how we should not condemn Romney’s religious background or give him unfair treatment. I’ll leave the Mormon church alone only if they somehow explain their seemingly institutionalized bigotry. I know protestant churches have members who are bigoted, no doubt, but there is a difference between individuals and institutions practicing and condoning this kind of blatant bigotry. If I vote republican, I don’t want all this baggage that Romney contains. The clear and straightforward Huckabee will be my clear choice.

What I wanted to make clear above is that Mormons are caring people who don’t see race when they look at people. I attended some of their services in Georgia back in the 1980′s, and that was the first place I saw an interracial marriage in a church setting. I also saw a family who had adopted a black child, and remember, this is Georgia. No matter what erroneous doctrine, the Mormons had been saddled with since around 1840, blacks were always welcome in the church. Also, when Joseph Smith, the founder of the Mormon Church, thought about running for president of the U.S. in the 1850′s he wanted to eliminate slavery by used Government money to buy their freedom. You’ll also notice the Utah was not a slave state. Granted, there are doctrines in Mormonism that many would find strange or different, that doesn’t mean the people aren’t decent children of God. Ask a Penecostal is Catholics are going to hell if you want to hear something that a lot of people would disagree with. However, I’ve met many nice Penecostals & Catholics & Jews. We should not be knocking religions when we’re getting second hand, bigoted information about what they stand for. Incidentally, Mormons believe everyone will inherit the Kingdom of God, not just Mormons. Leave them alone. There’s enough hatred in the world without bringing it into your home.