Huckabee shameful record

Huckabee retreats on birthright citizenship

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ALIPAC Note: Jim Gilchrist is caught lying to America about
Huckabee’s immigration stances. Huckabee lies to the public on CNN
claiming he was not contacted by the Washington times. Two liars
desperate to conceal Mike Huckabee’s pro amnesty advocacy for illegal
aliens! The original article with the false information ran all across
America. ALIPAC activists are asked to circulate this corrected article
to get the truth to American voters.

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Huckabee retreats on birthright citizenship

By Stephen Dinan

The Washington Times
January 9, 2008

Mike Huckabee yesterday contradicted his own top immigration surrogate,
announcing he will not support a constitutional amendment to end
birthright citizenship for children born in the United States to
illegal aliens.

It was a stark reversal after The Washington Times reported that
James Gilchrist, founder of the Minuteman Project, said Mr. Huckabee
promised to pursue an amendment to the Constitution. In an article in
yesterday’s editions, Mr. Huckabee’s spokeswoman did not challenge the
former Arkansas governor’s statements to Mr. Gilchrist and said the two
men shared the same goals on immigration.

But by yesterday afternoon, Mr. Huckabee had backed away from that position.

“I do not support an amendment to the Constitution that would
prevent children born in the U.S. to illegal aliens from automatically
becoming American citizens. I have no intention of supporting a
constitutional amendment to deny birthright citizenship,” Mr. Huckabee
said in a statement posted on his campaign Web site.

The Times reported that Mr. Gilchrist, in a half-hour conversation
while campaigning with Mr. Huckabee last week in Iowa, pinned down the
Republican presidential candidate on various immigration stances,
including how he would address what most legal scholars see as the 14th
Amendment’s guarantee of citizenship to any person born in the United
States, except for diplomatic situations.

Mr. Gilchrist said Mr. Huckabee promised to bring a test case to
the Supreme Court to challenge the matter, and also would press
Congress to pass an amendment to the Constitution.

In an interview with CNN, the candidate said his campaign was not
contacted about the story: “It was disappointing the reporter who filed
the report never bothered to contact our campaign,” he said.

But Mr. Huckabee’s spokeswoman, Kirsten Fedewa, did talk to The
Times for the article. She did not challenge any of Mr. Gilchrist’s
statements at the time, and was quoted as saying Mr. Huckabee and Mr.
Gilchrist were “united by a mutual desire to end illegal immigration
and are political allies toward that end.”

Topics: illegal immigration, Mike Huckabee, campaign, Jim Gilchrist, Minuteman, liars, elections, issues, President, no trust

In a statement to The Times yesterday evening, Mr. Huckabee acknowledged his campaign was asked about the story.

“I was asked to respond to questions by The Washington Times about my
position regarding presidential pardons for imprisoned U.S. Border
Patrol agents Ignacio Ramos and Jose Compean and about personal e-mail
correspondence by one of my supporters,” Mr. Huckabee said. “We
responded to those questions.

“If the Supreme Court chooses to review lower-court decisions
regarding the 14th Amendment, that is their prerogative, but my
priorities for constitutional amendments are to protect human life and
traditional marriage,” he said in the statement.

Mr. Huckabee also said on CNN that he hasn’t given much thought to
the issue of birthright citizenship. But he previously had taken a
position in an interview with The Times on his campaign bus in Iowa in
August.

“I would support changing that. I think there is reason to revisit
that, just because a person, through sheer chance of geography,
happened to be physically here at the point of birth, doesn’t
necessarily constitute citizenship,” he said at the time, according to
the audiotape of the interview. “I think that’s a very reasonable thing
to do, to revisit that.”

Mr. Gilchrist did not respond to repeated phone calls and e-mails
yesterday asking about the discrepancy, but in a 42-minute telephone
call Sunday he told The Times that Mr. Huckabee promised him these
things in their half-hour private conversation.

“I read back my notes to him twice and I told him I did not want to
put words in his mouth,” he said. “The guy looked me right in the eye.”

Mr. Gilchrist issued a press release from the Minuteman Project
laying out Mr. Huckabee’s positions. That release was provided to the
Huckabee campaign.

Yesterday, Mr. Gilchrist’s Web site, www.jimgilchrist.com href=”http://www.jimgilchrist.com,/”>,
still included a photo from his meeting with Mr. Huckabee in Iowa, and
still said Mr. Huckabee promised to pursue a Supreme Court decision and
a constitutional amendment.

Rep. Ron Paul, the libertarian-leaning Republican candidate, has
introduced a constitutional amendment to end birthright citizenship.

Huckabee shameful record

Huckabee & Gilchrist lie to America

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National Deception: Mike Huckabee and Jim Gilchrist Lie To America

January 9, 2007

CONTACT: William Gheen, Americans for Legal Immigration PAC (ALIPAC), press@alipac.us (866) 329-3999

Presidential candidate Mike Huckabee and Minuteman Co-Founder Jim
Gilchrist have been documented lying to America by the Washington Times
today after false headlines ran on Tuesday proclaiming Mike Huckabee
would try to remove birthright citizenship from the Constitution.

The article confirms that Huckabee lied on CNN about his campaign being
contacted about Gilchrist’s false statements and Gilchrist lied in a
release about Huckabee’s immigration stances.

Gilchrist put out a press release on Iowa’s election eve, under the
fake name of “Perry Emerson” that contained several false statements
and embellishments of Huckabee’s immigration stances. The release
claimed Huckabee would try to reverse birthright citizenship laws,
which are widely exploited by illegal aliens.

“We are doing our best to get the truth about these lies, and the
hidden amnesty component of the Huckabee immigration plan to the
public,” says William Gheen of ALIPAC. “So far, the majority of the
national media is not reporting these facts and voters wonder why they
are hearing the news from us instead of CNN and Fox. This is a grand
national deception in motion and it is absolutely blasphemous that
voters are being deceived on a massive scale.”

TOPICS:
IUllegal Immigration, Illegal aliens, amnesty, Touchback, Huckabee,
Huckster, Jim Ghilcrest, CNN, lies, Fox, birthright citizenship
Washington Times, media

ALIPAC launched a campaign to warn voters about Huckabee’s statements
on Fox News on Dec. 9 2007, where Huckabee stated illegal aliens could
leave the US and return within days permanently and legally. This
information was only reported once on Fox and is not included in
Huckabee’s distributed immigration plan. The national media is not
telling voters that over 84 immigration enforcement organizations,
including multiple Minuteman groups, have rebuked Gilchrist’s
endorsement of Huckabee.

“When lies of this scale go unchecked by the media, it is no wonder
that our nation is in such great peril today,” said William Gheen. “The
Huckabee and Gilchrist immigration deception is a national disaster in
motion that will have far reaching negative ramifications for America.
Mike Huckabee and Jim Gilchrist are successfully deceiving American
voters and they must be stopped.”

Copies of Gilchrist’s fake name press release, the Washington Times
Articles, copies of the video of Huckabee’s “illegals back in days”
comments, and the letter signed by the vast majority of groups fighting
illegal immigration are available at www.alipac.us

All members of the media are asked to tell voters the truth before it is to late.

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Huckabee shameful record

More on Huckabee & the Lord’s Ranch Mess

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Research on Lord’s Ranch shows they had 70 students & 9 teachers….a private jet and multi-millions of taxpayer monies????!!!  Skinned alive by crooks, scoundrels, and thieves. Time to lock & load.


ttp://www.arktimes.com/blogs/arkansasblog/2006/06/better_to_give_and_receive.aspx 

Arkansas Blog

 

Better to give AND receive — UPDATE

Lord’s
Ranch is a residential school for
troubled youths in Warm Springs. The website of a preacher
who works there says church attendance and similar religious sessions are
“encouraged.”

Surely church worship is
not required, because the Lord’s Ranch operates on millions in public tax
money — $8.5 million this year alone from the Arkansas Medicaid program.
Courts have ruled that publicly financed programs cannot use public money to
conduct religious exercises.

The man who runs the Lord’s
Ranch, Ted Suhl, has become a major political player, perhaps because the
state looked dimly on his operation at times before the Huckabee administration
came along. Now  “faith-based” organizations are riding high
(and so is Huck, in Suhl’s twin-engine Cessna jet). Suhl gives
contributions freely to politicians in his name, the name of the Lord’s Ranch
and the name of at least four real estate development companies, one based in
Florida.

We’ve totted up at least $100,000 in
donations by Suhl and connections since 2000. That includes $5,000 to Gov.
Huckabee (not counting his free jet rides). It includes $26,000 to the
Republican Party of Arkansas. It includes $6,500 to the amendment to ban gay
marriage.

 But here’s the most
interesting thing, and it may explain why some legislators say they run into a
stone wall every time they try to demand accountability from the Lord’s Ranch.

The Lord’s Ranch is getting $8.5
million in public money from Arkansas this year. This year’s spending was
budgeted at the legislative session of 2005. That meant elections of 2004 were
important to those expecting to have a hand out in 2005.

In that year, Suhl entities gave at
least $37,500, split equally between Ds and Rs, to legislative candidates. More
individual gifts went to Democrats, but Republicans got bigger amounts on
average.

We shall see how tough legislators
are on the ranch at the hearing next Wednesday.

One note: The Republicans, big pals
of Suhl as you can see, have beem talking about how liberal the
Democratic ticket is. If anybody would know a trustworthy conservative, you’d
think Bro. Suhl would. He’s given money this year to Mike Beebe and Dustin
McDaniel (and a heap to loser Tim Wooldridge over the years.)

UPDATE: Go to the jump for a list of
all partisan contributions in 2004 and 2006 (Suhl made a couple of
contributions to Wendell Griffen, a nonpartisan judicial candidate). Most won,
not surprising since most contributions came after the elections. Where
contributions appear in excess of the $1,000 limit it’s because a
candidate got multiple contributions from different Suhl entities and/or they
had primary and runoff elections.

2004

Democrats: Ray Kidd ($500); David Cook ($1,000); Jim Luker ($1,000);
Mary Anne Salmon ($1,000); Janet Johnson ($2,000); Steve Faris, ($1,500);
Barbara Horn ($1,500); Jack Critcher ($2,000); Sue Madison ($1,500); J.R.
Rogers ($1,500); Leroy Dangeau ($500); Sandra Prater ($500); Booker Clemons
($250): Jerry Taylor ($1,000); Arnell Willis ($1,000); Jimmy Jeffress,
($1,000); Irma Hunter Brown ($1,000); Phillip Carter ($1,000); Kevin Goss
($500); Dustin McDaniel ($1,000); Dwayne Dobbins ($500).

Republicans: Beverly Pyle ($500);  Bill Sample ($500); Denny Altes
($1,000); Daryl Pace ($750); Shawn Womack ($1,500); Stephen Bright ($500); Bill
Pritchard ($1,000); Stan Berry ($500); Rodney Harris ($500); Jeremy Hutchinson
($500); Tim Hutchinson ($500); Arkansas Republican Party ($13,000)

2006

Democrats:
Greg Reep ($1,500); Dustin McDaniel
for atty. gen. ($6,000); Tim Wooldridge for lt. gov. ($6,000); Dawn Creekmore
($1,000); Barbara Horn ($1,000); Denny Sumpter ($500); Mike Beebe for
governor ($1,000.

Republicans: Arkansas Republican Party ($5,000).

Posted by Max Brantley on June 16,
2006 03:44 PM | Permalink

 

Ron Paul

Why does the Establishment hate Ron Paul by Baldwin

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Why Does The Establishment Hate Ron Paul?

By Chuck Baldwin

January 8, 2008

 

 

This column is archived at

http://www.chuckbaldwinlive.com/c2008/cbarchive_20080108.html

 

 

What is it about Ron Paul that the Establishment finds so
disturbing?

This is a man who perhaps personifies Christian character
and integrity, American patriotism, and family values more than any other
public figure. Ron Paul is a committed family man whose marriage to Carol has
lasted for more than 50 years. He is a lover of families and children. As an
OB/GYN physician, Dr. Paul has delivered more than 4,000 babies into this
world. His life demonstrates a commitment to life and marriage.

 

Furthermore, Ron Paul’s devotion to Christ is very
personal and deep.

Unlike many politicians (especially in the Republican
Party), Ron Paul does not wear his religion on his sleeve. He doesn’t need to.
Anyone who knows him knows his faith is exhibited on a daily basis. His life
and family are testaments to his Christian faith.

 

Beyond that, Ron Paul’s record in Congress is so
unblemished, so honest, so full of integrity that it is difficult to describe.
This is a man who actually takes his oath to the Constitution (an oath every
congressman, senator, and President also takes–but then ignores) seriously. So
much so that he has never voted to raise taxes, never voted for an unbalanced
budget, never voted for a congressional pay raise, never voted for a federal
restriction on gun ownership, and never voted to increase the power of the
executive branch of the federal government.

 

In addition, Ron Paul has never taken a government-paid
junket. Even though he is a 10-term congressman, he is not accepting a
government pension. He also returns a portion of his office budget every year
to the taxpayers. No wonder Ron Paul was declared to be the “Taxpayer’s
Best Friend.”

 

Now, how in the name of common sense can a man such as
Ron Paul be hated? Maybe it is because he is a man of integrity and honesty.

Remember, our Lord said that men who love darkness hate
the light. And if there is a word that describes the Establishment in America
today, it is DARKNESS.

 

Name it: the establishment Democrat and Republican
Parties, the establishment media, the establishment financial institutions, and
even the establishment churches all seem to be run by people who exude the
power of darkness. It should not surprise us, therefore, when a man arises who
personifies the light of integrity and honesty, that the powers that be should
hate him–and hate Ron Paul they do.

 

Conservative Republican Ron Paul is loathed as much by
members of his own party as he is by liberal Democrats. Even though he is the
epitome of a Christian gentleman, Ron Paul is despised by Christians and
pastors as much as he is by pagans–maybe more. The media despises
him–especially Fox News. The so-called conservative Fox News celebrity Sean
Hannity practically goes ballistic at the mere mention of Dr. Paul’s name.

 

Ron Paul has been categorized with the Ku Klux Klan,
brothel owners, and Skin Heads. He has been called practically every name in
the book.

Conservatives and liberals alike rail against Dr. Paul in
a manner never seen before in modern politics. Again, why does the
Establishment hate him so much? I’ll tell you why.

 

The Establishment hates Ron Paul because his honesty and
integrity expose the rest of them for the moral reprobates they are. Their own
conscience cannot bear the sight of him. His very presence condemns them. Their
personal greed and ambition cringe at the very thought of Ron Paul. If Dr. Paul
became President, the Gig would be up! It would be Wyatt Earp and Doc Holliday
at Tombstone all over again. They know it, and they will fight like mad to keep
their corrupt stranglehold on American politics.

 

Another reason the Establishment hates Ron Paul is
because he is a true American–and there are not very many true Americans left
in Washington, D.C., these days. You see, Ron Paul has read and studied
American history. He understands constitutional government. He knows what real
money is–and is not. As historian and author Thomas DiLorenzo said, Ron Paul
is a modern-day Thomas Jefferson. (See his column at:

http://www.lewrockwell.com/dilorenzo/dilorenzo137.html
)

 

Unfortunately, most of what we have in Washington, D.C.,
these days (in both parties) is a bunch of internationalists who cannot see
past their own selfish interests. They are consumed with greed and power.

They are slaves to Big Business and special interest
groups. They are petty, shallow hirelings who care nothing for constitutional
government, the principles of liberty, or the American people. To them, Ron
Paul represents everything they hate: limited government, freedom,
selflessness, humility, and integrity.

 

Furthermore, Ron Paul is not interested in creating a
world empire.

Neither is he a warmonger. He would squash the burgeoning
New World Order in its tracks–and the globalists ensconced in Washington and
New York City know it.

 

There is only one Presidential candidate who would bring
a modern-day revolution to Washington, D.C., and it is not Barack Obama or Mike
Huckabee. It is Ron Paul. Obama and Huckabee–along with the rest of the
Democrat and Republican contenders–are only more of the same. The same Nanny
State, the same unconstitutional laws and regulations, the same advances toward
global government, the same attacks against individual liberties, the same
arrogance, the same hypocrisy, the same social programs, the same back-breaking
taxes, the same jack-booted federal police tactics, the same IRS, the same
lobbyists, and the same corrupt Washington politics.

 

That the Establishment would hate Ron Paul should not
surprise us. It does not even surprise me that many pastors and Christians
despise Ron Paul. (After all, many of them still worship at the altar of George
W.

Bush.) What is yet to be seen is, How will the American
people receive him? His strong showing in Iowa surprised most of the
“experts.” I believe he will do even better in New Hampshire today.
How Dr. Paul’s campaign fares in future primaries is still to be seen.

 

Should Ron Paul fail in his bid to become the Republican
Party’s Presidential nominee, I believe it is critically important that he
continue his bid as a Third Party candidate. His campaign is more than a
campaign–it is a movement. People by the thousands and money by the millions
is pouring in, and it will continue to pour in all the way to the general
election. It is essential that Ron Paul stays in the race all the way to
November.

 

Remember, when Abraham Lincoln won in 1860, there were
four strong Presidential candidates, and Lincoln won with just 39% of the
popular vote. With New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg seriously considering
an independent bid for the White House, and if Ron Paul, likewise, runs as a
Third Party candidate, 2008 could see another race with four strong
Presidential contenders. In such a case, anything is possible–including a Ron
Paul victory.

 

The fact is, Ron Paul does not need the support of the
Establishment to win. With God’s help–and with the help of millions of fed-up
and tireless average Joes–anything is possible. Anything.

 

Here is another thing: the fact that the Establishment
hates Ron Paul so much must mean that there is ample reason for ordinary people
like you and me to love him!

 

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Huckabee shameful record

The Huckster…to those considering Rev. Mike for president

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The Huckster File – An Open
Letter to Those Considering Reverend Mike for President

by John Keller
by John Keller

 

I received an email from a friend
urging me to donate to Mike Huckabee’s campaign for President, so I pulled
together his top 10 scandals and fired them back. I’ve added source citations
in order to demonstrate that his scandals are not being manufactured by some Swift
Boaters with a few websites. They are well documented, many are on camera, and
are cross-referenced by multiple national media outlets. Forward as needed to
the Huckabee boosters in your life. 

In no particular order:

Scandal #1 – Huckabee misrepresents
his stand on illegal aliens – He ran Arkansas as a safe haven state for illegal
aliens, and favored illegal aliens over US citizens for cut-rate in-state
tuition. Now he’s claiming he’s against amnesty when he refused to sign a bill
to start deporting illegals.

(Arkansas Journal) (Washington Times)

Scandal #2 – Huckabee lied about
urging parole of a rapist who raped and murdered again – He pardoned or
commuted sentences on 1,033 criminals while governor. He urged the parole board
to approve parole of many more criminals that were politically difficult to
pardon. One example, Wayne DuMond, went on to kill and rape 2 women after
Huckabee personally pressured the parole board to release him 25 years early
for a rape conviction. The Arkansas parole board forwarded Huckabee a letter
from one of DuMond’s prior rape victims urging the governor not to pardon
DuMond, and predicting that DuMond would rape and kill again. Huckabee pushed
for the pardon anyway. Huckabee later denied receiving the letter, and tried to
cover it up, according to a former aid who provided the letters. 

(Huffington Post) (ABC News)

Scandal #3 – Huckabee’s non-stop
abuse of Christianity as a political gimmick – This
“phone call” will absolutely turn your stomach, as does
his oh-so-subtle floating cross Christmas ad. Give me a break. It
disgusts me as a Christian, and no doubt frightens non-Christians to see this
sort of thing.

Scandal #4 – Huckabee is a pro-war
“Christian” – Here’s a chance to actually put some of Christ’s
sermons (Blessed are the warmongers?) into action. Instead,
he supports continuing the war in Iraq to “save national honor”
rather than admitting it was a mistake (no WMD’s, no al Qaeda) and withdrawing.
How many more have to die before we “leave with honor”? Is that the
11th Commandment? Maybe it’ll be as honorable as Korea, Vietnam, Panama,
Bosnia, Somalia, Sudan or Serbia… He has absolutely no idea how foreign
policy and militarism connects with the dollar crisis, terrorism, and the coming
recession. This makes him identical to all but Ron Paul out of any of the
candidates, but is noteworthy given how bloodthirsty he is for a minister.

Scandal #5 – Huckabee destroyed
state files and equipment as he left the Governor’s Office – He ordered the payment
of $25,000 from a state emergency fund to physically destroy the hard drives of
his office at the end of his term. That data belongs to the Office of the
Governor, not the man, and a public official should have NO expectation of
privacy when carrying out the duties of office on government equipment. To turn
one of the government’s favorite phrases around “if you don’t have
anything to hide…” So much for rule of law over personal privilege. We
could expect little return to Constitutional guarantees of privacy and
transparent government under Huckabee. Allocating the funds from a state
emergency fund earmarked for floods, tornadoes, and natural disasters is
fiscally irresponsible, spendthrift, and perhaps illegal. We should not be
surprised if this scandal takes on wings of its own, given all the possible
angles.

(Arkansas Democrat Gazette)

Scandal #6 – Ethicsgate – Governor
Huckabee was sanctioned 5 times for ethics violations, and had 9 other
complaints, none dismissed as frivolous.  He’s taken practically every
gift or favor ever given to him as Arkansas governor, and actively asked for
gifts: “some former Huckabee staff and appointees acknowledged … that
Huckabee’s chief of staff and a cabinet official solicited contributions from
staff and appointees for Christmas gifts for the governor.” Shouldn’t it
go the other way around? The boss buys a small gift for the staff. What about
that old Christian nugget: it’s better to give than receive. There is also a
very direct correlation between his receipt of gifts and his political
appointments. 

He even went so far as to set up a
wedding registry for him and his wife to receive gifts to decorate their house
after they left office. How completely tacky. Clearly this guy thinks of public
service as serving him, not the other way around. 

(MSNBC)
(Guardian UK)

Scandal #7 – Huckabee wanted to
quarantine AIDS patients in 1992 – He was in favor of rounding up AIDS patients
for quarantine in 1992 – NOT 1985, but 1992, 7 years after it was well
established that AIDS was not transmitted by casual contact. This is either a
not so subtle “homos be damned” pander to the evangelical base, or a
display of ignorance so shocking it borders on unbelievable.

This was a full year after Magic
Johnson “mainstreamed” HIV/AIDS by admitting that he had it.  He
would probably have given Magic a pass to play at the Olympics that year.

(CNN) (USA Today)

Scandal #8 – Huckabee refuses to
admit when he’s mistaken or misinformed about current events – Rather than
get informed or admit his lack of knowledge, he lies about his gaffes. A polite
observer will say he was misunderstood, but watch the video and judge for
yourself. See these comments about Pakistan under marital law and the
Pakistan immigration “threat.” How exactly does a former
governor who didn’t even have Secret Service protection get a CIA briefing? Who
briefed him? Where did those numbers come from? What? Then
there’s this 46-second gem.

Scandal #9 – Huckabee seriously
misrepresents his record on cutting taxes – He is not really a tax cutter, and
in fact, is lined up to be a bigger spender than, well, Bush II. “Right now, we spend about 3.9 percent of our GDP on
defense, compared with about six percent in 1986, under President Ronald
Reagan. We need to return to that six percent level.” (Foreign
Affairs) Does he realize that’s $300 Billion in additional defense spending,
over the $500 Billion in on-budget Defense spending?

That last thing we need is to waste
an additional $300 Billion on planes and battleships to fight guys with
carbines and makeshift bombs. We need to get out of Iraq and Afghanistan, and
follow Ron Paul’s plan of granting Letters of Marque for the capture of bin
Laden. This sort of policy ignorance is consistent with Huckabee’s generally
misinformed worldview.

It gets better though. Here is his
record on taxes from National Review and Arkansas
Democrat-Gazette:

“According to the Arkansas Democrat-Gazette, the average
Arkansas tax burden increased 47% over Huckabee’s tenure. Huckabee supported
(in chronological order) a sales tax hike; gas and diesel fuel tax hikes;
another sales tax hike; a cigarette tax hike; a nursing home bed tax; another
sales tax hike; an income surcharge tax; a tobacco tax hike; taxes on Internet
access; and higher beer taxes. Huckabee also oversaw a 50-percent increase in
spending; happily signed a minimum wage increase and encouraged national
Republicans to do the same; favors a national smoking ban, farm subsidies, and a federally mandated arts and music curriculum; opposes private school
choice; and employs class-warfare and protectionist language on the campaign
trail.”

(Foreign Affairs) (National Review)
(Arkansas Democrat Gazette)

Scandal #10 – Arkansans like Hillary
Clinton better than Huckabee by nearly 4 to 1 – His home state rejects him as a
left-leaning, tax and spend, authoritarian Republican. There’s no way a leftist
Republican will beat a Democrat in the general election. Leftists will vote for
the Democrat offered, and other than some evangelicals and die-hards, Republicans
and Independents will stay home. Huckabee versus any Democrat would
be an electoral beating to rival Reagan versus Mondale, except it will be the
Dems taking the White House. He is a Democrats’ dream candidate to the point
that they are calling him the “Glass Jaw” because they will break him
head to head. (Drudge Report)

Here’s Hillary, one of the most
despised people in politics, absolutely killing
Huckabee in a late 2007 poll (35% to 8%) in Arkansas on the heals of
out-raising him for bucks in their “home” state. The final word on
Huckabee, and more in-depth reading of all his flip-flops, pettiness,
gaudiness, and scandalous behavior I leave to one who knows him best. Max Brantley of the Arkansas Gazette writes for Salon about
the man he’s covered for nearly 19 years.

(University of Arkansas) (Salon)

 

FOI Results concerning illegal aliens

FOI response Arkansas State Police regarding usage of new $4 million aircraft

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FOI response from Arkansas State Police initiated Nov.
27,2007 regarding usage of the new ASP $4 million King Air aircraft.

As you may note from the FOI request, some of the vital
information was not forwarded. Additionally it is of interest that the Arkansas
Democrat-Gazette, published Dec. 10, 2007 (2 weeks after our FOI request)
printed an incomplete flight log of the aircraft.  

Some of the major areas of concern are:

1.      
The Hobbes meter (a device in the cockpit that
records flight time) showed 105.5 hrs of flying time on the first 30 minute
training flight by the police. For a “new” plane to have logged that many hours
indeed begs to be explored.  I assume
that the ASP got a brand new airplane as they had advertised.

2.      
The Democrat and the ASP both stated the cost
per hour for flying the King Air is $875.00. 
This figure is not accurate.  With
the latest of avionics, horse power, etc. the cost is more likely to be between
$1,000-$1250 per hour.

3.      
The Democrat showed 52 flights beginning 5/15/07
through 12/4/07, with 53 hrs & 18 minutes of flying time.  From the same period of time shown by my
actual flight log copies indicated 51 flights and 63 hrs & 30 minutes
flying time.   This is a discrepancy of
10 hrs & 12 minutes.  The question
then becomes who used the plane for 10 hrs, 12 minutes?

4.      
On May 30th, 2007 ASP Director W.
Phillips, C. Barfield, M. Davidson, T. Knuckles, J. Howard, and G. Grimes were
flown to Huntsville, Arkansas.  Purpose?  â€œState Business” (?)  Total flight time 1.1 hours.  No charge.

5.      
June 26, 2007 Lt. Gov. Bill Halter and one staff
member flew to & from Rogers, Ark. 
Flying time 1.1 hours.  Account
status: paid. Who paid? How much? And to whom?

6.      
Numbers 4 thru 9 were not reported by the
Democrat-Gazette.

7.      
Most of the logs did not indicate the names of
the persons on board and specific purposes of flights.

8.      
Also troubling is the fact that a number of Gov.
Beebe’s flights could have been made in a state vehicle in about the same time
and thousands of dollars cheaper, e.g. Wynne, West Memphis, Arkadelphia, Hot
Springs, Brinkley, etc.

9.      
The FOI did not reveal where Gov. Huckabee has
used the King Air for his personal use. Early in 2007 Beebe stated if he used
the plane for personal use he would pay for the use. The state does not have a
commercial license…(plane for hire)..Therefore; if the Governor uses the plane
as he so stated, he would be in violation of FAR #91.  The question remains, has the Governor used the
plane for personal use?

 

Question: Who legally may fly on the state’s
airplane?

 

 

 

FOI Results concerning illegal aliens

FOI response Arkansas State Police regarding usage of Spanish in advertising

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FOI response from Arkansas State Police regarding usage of
the Spanish language in various advertising forms and associated costs.

August 23, 2007 Arkansas State Police let a contract to
Phillips Brothers Printers, Springfield, IL. for 50,000 copies of a 60 page
color brochure in Spanish which serves as a study guide for Arkansas driver’s
licenses.  Another contract was let the
same day, same contractor, for 25,000 books also dealing with a study guide in
Spanish for driver’s licenses.  By what
authority do the various state agencies have in issuing driver’s licenses to
illegal foreign nationals? In the same vein, why are there 2 page documents
printed in Spanish for voter registration?

The total of these two contracts was $44,200.00. An Illinois
tax of $2, 727.00 brought the grand total to $46,927.00. 

The costs for color photography, the translations, the contents
and the production of these 60 page books were not accounted for in this
response to the FOI.

Three more color brochures in Spanish dealing with car seat
safety, DWI consequences, and Move Over were printed 9/27/07.  The total number of copies for these 3
brochures was 400,000. These brochures were printed by UAMS (?), Box 3920,
Little Rock, AR 72203, with a net cost of $27,672.50.  

These brochures went to five non-governmental agencies and
six governmental agencies. 

A 5 week radio/TV campaign running throughout 2007 dealing
with Spanish spots totaled $37,883.27. 
It is interesting to note that the State Police Labor Day campaign from
8/20/07-9/3/07 cost taxpayers $420,799.15.  Furthermore, fees paid for production,
translation and dubs are inconclusive.  Your tax dollars at work?

This FOIA pronounces in a vivid fashion there is no end to
reckless, unaccountable, out of control spending by government agencies, and
more importantly there is no taxpayer oversight.  To compound this corruption the Arkansas
State Police, along with the Dept. of Parks & Tourism and the Univ. of
Arkansas athletic department  are not
only in violation of U.S. Law, but also in violation of Arkansas statutes.  By the way, Arkansas has a law stating that
English is the official language of our state and our republic.  Why are these laws being scoffed by the very
people we elect and appoint to protect us?

From my vantage point, Arkansas government is involved in
double jeopardy, make that triple jeopardy. 
They are servicing illegal aliens, by doing so they break U.S. and Ark. Law
and steal from Arkansas taxpayers to fund their corrupt practices

Obviously middleclass citizens are being made fools of by
Arkansas’s crime families,….the Tyson’s (John Tyson just received a $7 million
salary increase), the George’s, the Simmons, the Wenderdoth’s and other poultry
barons, plus construction, landscapers, etc. just to name a few, while
middleclass taxpayers bear the burdens of the illegals’ healthcare, education,
welfare, law enforcement, ad infinitum.

Citizens, are you going to continue to be enamored with the
Democrat & Republican Parties who aid and abet our demise?

Huckabee shameful record

Huckabee taking Christian Conservatives for a Ride

902 Comments

 

 

Hi,

Is Iowa short of
computers?   Information like that below was being sent…. but
apparently not enough computers had entree to Iowa computers.  How is the
computer network in New Hampshire?

V.

 

 

 

Hello Friends:

 

                   
The actions of Republican voters in Iowa today in supporting Mike Huckabee
(with the exception of Fred Thompson’s 3rd-place finish and some other votes)
should be regarded as a black day for the nation, the conservative
movement and the Republican Party. 

 

   
                If
you want to know about Mike Huckabee, please read this information that was
posted by radio talk show host Hugh Hewitt.  I have — to the best of
knowledge — only one person on my e-mail list still writing me about what a
great candidate and person Mike Huckabee is for our nation.  Let
me use the words of Phyllis Schlafly, who is one of the truly great
conservative leaders in our nation and who said of Huckabee:  “He destroyed the conservative
movement in Arkansas, and left the Republican Party in shambles.”

 

                          There is a reason why Democrats like
Ted Strickland (governor of Ohio), former DNC Chairman and Clinton supporter
Terry McAuliffe and the New Hampshire chapter of the NEA all really like
Huckabee: He is a great hope for turning the White House over to the Democrats. 
I have nearly reached the point where I will not support Mike Huckabee (even if
he is the GOP nominee) under any circumstances.  As Rush said
today, Huckabee is no conservative. 

 

 

All the best,

 

Steve

 

A TIDBIT FROM THE E-MAIL
BELOW:  Judicial Watch, a nonpartisan group dedicated to
fighting government corruption, listed Huckabee among their Ten Most Wanted
Corrupt Politicians of 2007. Huckabee was one of only three Republican
politicians to make the list.

 

   
               
   

 

 

 

 

Excerpt: 

“He destroyed the conservative movement in
Arkansas, and left the Republican Party in shambles.” – Phyllis Schlafly, president of the national Eagle Forum

“His support for taxes split the Republican
Party, and damaged our name brand.” –
Former Arkansas State Representative Randy Minton (R)

“I think if they knew [his record] it would
totally de-energize them . . . his policies are just wrong.” – Former Arkansas State Senator Jim Holt’s (R) warning for
conservatives around the country who think they have found their candidate in
Mike Huckabee.”

And:

·  In October, a University
of Arkansas poll showed that, among all Presidential candidates in both
parties, only 8% of Arkansans said they were supporting Mike Huckabee.

·  That same week, the Arkansas
Democrat-Gazette reported that only one-third of Republicans in the
Arkansas Legislature said they were supporting their former governor’s
Presidential bid.

·  After this story, the
Huckabee campaign published a list of supporters in his home state. The
Arkansas News Bureau then reported that as some of the names on Huckabee’s
Arkansas endorsement list were used without permission and had to be removed.



Wednesday, January 02, 2008

An Open
Letter From An Arkansas Evangelical

Posted by: Hugh Hewitt
 at 5:41
PM

In the in-box:

A Plea from Arkansas: Christian Conservatives
Need to Take a Closer Look at Mike Huckabee’s Record as Governor

by David Thompson

 

As a conservative, evangelical,
politically-active father of four in Arkansas I believe it is imperative
for like-minded voters to become more familiar with the Mike Huckabee that just
completed 10 years as our governor. I realize it’s sometimes hard to know
what to believe during a campaign, so I’ve tried to include links to published
stories, with most coming from years past when the events
noted were taking place.

 

For those who don’t know much about me, I
attend a very conservative evangelical church in Central Arkansas that includes
some other politically active members (past/present elected officials,
lobbyists, candidates, etc), and our family currently homeschools our young
children. Since 1996, I have been heavily involved in numerous Republican
campaigns in Arkansas at all levels (even managing a few). I have
also served as vice chairman of the Republican committee in Arkansas’
largest county. Yet I don’t know of a single person in these circles who is
supporting Huckabee for President – although I do know many that are definitely
not supporting him. Of course, this is anecdotal evidence, but consider
that Huckabee just finished serving 10 years as our governor (and I am sure
there are many Republicans in Arkansas who are supporting him – I just
don’t know them). The truth is, most conservatives in Arkansas had written him
off long before his Presidential bid.

 

That said, here are 7 key reasons I cannot in
good conscience support Mike Huckabee as the Republican nominee for President.
This is based on his record here and is not a personal attack – I
cannot speak for his or anybody’s motives. This list is
not the result of intense research – it’s based on what I know and
have experienced first-hand as a politically-active conservative Arkansan. It’s
a list I could have given you 6 months or even 2 years ago. And I am not
attempting to echo or give validity to any criticism he is now receiving
nationally (and I don’t think ALL of it is fair). This is the Mike Huckabee
we know.

 

1) Governor Huckabee did lasting damage to the
Republican Party and conservative movement in Arkansas.

It’s hard to go after Democrats with a
conservative message when your Republican Governor is out front releasing
violent criminals, providing state benefits to illegals, pushing tax increases,
expanding government spending and programs, and constantly walking an
ethical tight-rope (more on each of these items to follow). This tied our
party’s hands – many conservatives got frustrated, apathy set in, and some quit
the fight. In addition:

  • Huckabee
    insisted on having “his people” controlling the
    Republican Party campaign organizations that are set up
    in Arkansas each election cycle. He also insisted that his guy remain
    as state party chairman when party leaders planned to make a change. The
    mismanagement and ineptness that followed was so great that the Republican
    Party plunged into debt and the Federal Election Commission levied the     the largest fine ever
    against a state political party         following
    an investigation of the 2000 and 2002 election cycles. Obviously, this set
    back the Republican Party of Arkansas for years.
  • When
    Huckabee started his first full term in 1998, Arkansas had just
    elected a Republican Governor, Lt. Governor, U.S. Senator, and 2
    Republican Congressmen. Upon his leaving office in 2007, Republicans now
    hold no statewide offices, have no Republicans in the U.S.Senate, and only
    one Republican Congressman remains.
  • It was
    often said during Huckabee’s term that Arkansas had 3 parties: Republican
    Party, Democrat Party, and the Huckabee Party.

“He destroyed the conservative movement in
Arkansas, and left the Republican Party in shambles.” – Phyllis Schlafly, president of the national Eagle Forum

“His support for taxes split the Republican
Party, and damaged our name brand.” –
Former Arkansas State Representative Randy Minton (R)

“I think if they knew [his record] it would
totally de-energize them . . . his policies are just wrong.” – Former Arkansas State Senator Jim Holt’s (R) warning for
conservatives around the country who think they have found their candidate in
Mike Huckabee.

2) Governor Huckabee’s non-stop
clemencies continually hindered the work of criminal prosecutors and
miffed Republicans. The numbers are
staggering – over 1,000 clemencies and commutations of criminals as
governor. Most people now are familiar with his push to parole convicted rapist
Wayne Dumond, who went on to rape and murder a Missouri woman less than a year
after his release. But there are many more troubling facts regarding Huckabee’s
pattern of releasing violent criminals. While I cannot speak for Huckabee’s
motives, it seems clear that he used poor judgment and was reckless with
this executive power.

  • Huckabee released more criminals
    than the combined total of every border state         to
    Arkansas (made up of Texas, Oklahoma, Missouri, Tennessee, Mississippi,
    and Louisiana) – even though the combined population of these states is 16
    times higher than Arkansas’. He also issued more than double the
    clemencies of his three predecessors combined.
  • In many
    cases, Huckabee’s actions set loose savage criminals convicted of grisly
    murders over the passionate objections of prosecutors and victims’
    families.     This American Spectator story
    details some of these violent cases and explains the resulting
    difficulties they presented prosecutors working with other
    victims and their families.
  • Huckabee
    and his appointees     ignored the laws on the
    books    , including the requirement to
    notify victims’ families and explain the reasons for those clemencies. He
    said to fully explain his reasoning would     cost millions of dollars
    and “take money away from education and Medicaid and other
    things.”
  • A 2004
    investigative article by the Arkansas Democrat-Gazette found that
    prisoners had a better chance of being granted clemency by Huckabee if
    they had a mutual acquaintance, labored at the governor’s mansion under a
    prisoner work program, or a minister intervened on their behalf.
    Prosecutors say Huckabee was     more inclined to release or
    reduce     the sentences of prisoners if
    he had direct contact with them or was lobbied by those close to him.
  • He often
    refused to learn the facts of the cases (sometimes not even reading the
    murderer’s own confession), made no attempt to get the police/prosecutor’s
    case files, or even get input from the victims’ families before making his
    decision.
  • The
    clemency granted to one multiple DUI offender     was likely tied to
    large political contributions     from
    the offender’s family, including a soft money political organization
    run by Huckabee’s people.
  • Good summary article

“Last January, after Mississippi Gov.
Ronnie Musgrove, a Democrat, lost his re-election bid, he issued 16 clemencies,
and there was a huge outcry. That’s how many Huckabee averages per month.” – Arkansas Leader, (August 11, 2004)

“He seems to believe that granting clemency
to murderers, rapists, drunk drivers and other convicted criminals is a part of
the everyday affairs of the governor’s office rather than something that he
should approach cautiously and selectively.” – Robert Herzfeld, Saline County Prosecuting Attorney during
Huckabee’s tenure

“I know some of the people that Huckabee
let loose have reoffended. Some of them we’ve caught and some of them we
haven’t caught……I used to be able to tell the families of victims, in all
good faith and candor, that it was a rare event when a governor commuted a
sentence and let a murderer back out, or a rapist back out or a child molester
back out. But I can’t do that anymore.” –
Larry Jegley, longtime Pulaski County Prosecuting Attorney

“I felt like Huckabee had more compassion
for the murderers than he ever did for the victims.” – Elaine Colclasure, co-leader of the Central Arkansas chapter of
Parents of Murdered Children.

3) Governor Huckabee’s pattern was
to ignore immigration laws, often in the name of Christianity.

Huckabee opposed immigration enforcement as
governor on a number of fronts. Immigration enforcement groups call Huckabee’s record on
immigration “a disaster”
and reference him as they guy who “scares the heck” out of them.

  • In 2001,
    Huckabee’s human services liaison Robert Trevino pushed for legislation to
    provide driver’s licenses for illegals. It was understood by legislators
    that he acted with Huckabee’s blessing.
  • In 2001,
    Huckabee opposed a measure to require proof of citizenship to vote.
  • In 2005,
    Huckabee     supported a bill that
    offered illegal immigrants in-state tuition rates and made them
    eligible for the same merit-based scholarships to Arkansas state colleges
    and universities as legal citizens. The bill     would have violated federal
    law         and
    was not enacted by the legislature.
  • In 2005,
    he opposed a bill that denied some state benefits to illegals and required
    proof of citizenship to vote (patterned after Arizona’s Prop 200 that has
    been successful in curtailing illegal immigration in that state).     In this story,
    Huckabee called the measure “un-American….inflammatory….race-baiting
    and demagoguery.” He added that the bill “inflames those who are
    racist and bigots and makes them think there’s a real problem. But there’s
    not.” He then singled out State Senator Jim Holt, also an openly
    professing Christian, saying, “I drink a different kind of Jesus
    juice.”
  • In 2005,
    Huckabee criticized federal agents for a recent crackdown on
    illegals, saying that it wasn’t fair to the innocent family members of
    those targeted in the operation. (No word on whether he also opposes raids
    on other law-breakers who might also have innocent family
    members affected by the fruits of their illegal activity.)
  • In 2005,
    Huckabee promoted an “open door” policy on immigration as     he addressed the League of
    United Latin American Citizens     (LULAC)
    national convention in Little Rock. LULAC is a left-leaning group that
    opposes virtually all measures of immigration enforcement.

“He was an absolute disaster on immigration
as governor. Every time there was any enforcement in his state, he took the
side of the illegal aliens.” – Roy Beck,
president of NumbersUSA, a group that played a major role in rallying the phone
calls that helped defeat this year’s Senate immigration bill.

“I would hope he could be trusted to secure
the borders, but given his track record in Arkansas, I don’t see the
conservative he has portrayed himself to be in Iowa.” – Jake Files, a former Arkansas state representative and current
chairman of the Sebastian County Republican Party

 

4) Governor Huckabee was no friend to fiscal
conservatives in Arkansas.

Huckabee’s record on taxes, government spending,
and growing government programs was miserable. Basically, when the economy got
tough, Huckabee expected families like mine to tighten our budgets in
order to help state government meet its spending whims.

  • In 2003,
    Huckabee called a special session of the legislature to push
    for a tax increase to make up for spending shortfalls. This led to
    his signing HB1039, an across the board income tax and tobacco tax
    increase. Huckabee even refused to consider a Republican proposal to cut
    spending and use general improvement funds (i.e., legislative pork)
    to make up for the budget shortfall. Ironically, the same
    day Huckabee was practically begging the Arkansas legislature to
    raise taxes     (here’s the video), President
    Bush was also     in Little Rock to push for
    his tax cut plan    . (Note: When asked about
    this video recently, Huckabee     gave a misleading
    response     to Fox News, blaming his tax
    increase plea on a court order. This prompted State Representative Johnny
    Key, the current Republican Leader in the Arkansas House, to send out a
    letter correcting the accuracy of Huckabee’s statement.)
  • If that
    weren’t enough, Huckabee called a 2nd special legislative
    session in 2003 to pass a nearly one-cent state sales tax increase. The
    measure also expanded the sales tax to include previously exempted
    services (for more information and context, see reason #6 below).
  • During
    Huckabee’s term, Arkansas     showed a net tax increase
    of $505 million    , and the average Arkansan’s
    tax burden grew from $1,969 to $2,902. Governor Huckabee     raised more taxes
    in 10 years in office than Bill Clinton did in his 12 years.
  • During
    Huckabee’s 10 years as governor, state spending more than doubled (from
    $6.6 billion to $16.1 billion), higher education and public schools got
    big increases, as did social services. Meanwhile, the state added about
    8,000 full-time workers to its payroll during that period, a 19% increase
    (according to the Bureau of Legislative Research).
  • The conservative
    Cato Institute gave Huckabee an “F” for his final term as
    governor on its     Fiscal Policy Report Card,
    saying, “Huckabee’s leadership has left taxpayers in Arkansas much
    worse off.” His grade was lower than 15 of the 21 Democrat Governors.
    His overall grade as governor was a D.

“The main reason for the drop was his
insistence on raising taxes at almost every turn throughout his final
term.” – Cato Institute explaining why Huckabee had dropped from a “D” to
an “F” on their Fiscal Policy
Report Card.

“[Huckabee] says he’s pro-family. If you’re
raising taxes on the families of Arkansas, causing wives to go out and get jobs
to make ends meet, that’s not pro-family.” – Former Arkansas State Representative Randy Minton (R)

“In the past, he blamed Democrats for
raising taxes…We voted for them, but he proposed them.” – Arkansas State Senator John Paul Capps, a Democrat

5) Huckabee left a long trail of ethics
questions while Governor of Arkansas

This is an area where I think Huckabee does
receive some unfair criticism. Some of the ethics charges against him were
frivolous and politically motivated. However, it has been concerning for some
time just how much the governor accepted in gifts and how he was seemingly
always pushing ethical limits.

  • During his
    tenure, Huckabee accepted 314 gifts valued overall at more than $150,000,
    according to documents filed with the Arkansas’ Secretary of State office.
  • The
    Huckabees     set up wedding registries
    at local department stores     as Mike was leaving
    office – even though they had been married for 30 years. State ethics laws
    prohibited Huckabee from receiving gifts of more than $100……but there was
    an exception for wedding gifts.
  • Judicial
    Watch, a non-partisan group dedicated to fighting government
    corruption, listed Huckabee among their     Ten Most Wanted Corrupt
    Politicians     of 2007. Huckabee was one
    of only three Republican politicians to make the list.

6) Huckabee’s education record shows
him to be an advocate of the “status quo”

The New Hampshire chapter of the National
Education Association (NEA) has endorsed Hillary Clinton and Mike Huckabee for
the upcoming Primary elections. This is the first time in memory that they have
recommended a Republican (in 2004 they endorsed Howard Dean). They likely
chose Huckabee because:

  • Huckabee
    has consistently opposed virtually all proposals for education reform,
    including school choice vouchers.
  • The former
    president of Eagle Forum of Arkansas said Huckabee “continued the
    Hillary Clinton education plan” as our governor.
  • When the
    Arkansas Supreme Court ruled that Arkansas’ public school funding was
    “inequitable,” Huckabee took the ruling as a mandate to
    raise taxes in order to once again increase school
    funding…which he did. (To his credit, however, he also used the
    opportunity to consolidate some of the school districts in the state –
    although rural legislators severely watered down the proposal.)

7) Huckabee has very little support for his
Presidential bid here in Arkansas

For the most part those in his party who know
him best are not supporting him.

  • In
    October, a University of Arkansas poll showed that, among all Presidential
    candidates in both parties, only 8% of Arkansans said they were supporting
    Mike Huckabee.
  • That same
    week, the Arkansas Democrat-Gazette reported that only
    one-third of Republicans in the Arkansas Legislature said they were
    supporting their former governor’s Presidential bid.
  • After this
    story, the Huckabee campaign published a list of supporters in his home
    state. The Arkansas News Bureau then reported that as some of the names on
    Huckabee’s Arkansas endorsement list were     used without permission and
    had to be removed.
  • This is
    purely anecdotal, but despite my involvement in Republican politics, I am
    unaware of any of my Republican friends who are supporting
    Huckabee. I have seen maybe 3 Huckabee for President bumper stickers
    – and I live in Republican west Little Rock and work 2 miles from the
    state capitol where Huckabee just completed over 10 years as Governor (my
    wife says she saw her first sticker today…..guess he’s picking up
    steam here!).

“…if Huckabee didn’t have things sewn up
with Republicans back home, what kind of message did that send?….The truth is
that Huckabee hasn’t had that much support from former and current Republican
legislators.” – David Sanders,
conservative columnist for Arkansas News Bureau (November 11, 2007)

Conclusion:

I realize the Republican Presidential field
does not leave true conservatives with much to get excited about. However, it
is unlikely I will support Huckabee over any of the
Republican frontrunners because of his liberal record, his questionable
judgment, and his reckless use of power while Governor. Now is not the
time for Republicans to compromise on core conservative values. More
importantly, we need a leader with a history of using strong judgment as our
nation continues to lead the world in the War on Terror.

 

Two final questions:

1) Given the many vulnerabilities in his
record, what is the likelihood that Huckabee would win in a general election?
Democrat National Committee officials have already been quoted
as saying that they see Huckabee as
“easy kill” and refer to him as
“the glass jaw — and they’re just waiting to break it.” The DNC has issued over 200 attack press releases on Republican
candidates – only 4 on Huckabee, the last one coming 10 months ago.

2) Does his record as governor
represent someone who should be given greater power and responsibility? Is
he Commander and Chief material? Leader of the free world? National
Review recently expressed concern, and Huckabee raised eyebrows with recent comments critical of U.S.
Foreign policy and our role in the
world – he was essentially repeating the Democrat talking points!

 

Feel free to pass this letter on or contact
me if you have any questions about anything stated here. I have tried very
carefully to be fair, accurate, and to stick to facts from Huckabee’s
record. But it’s certainly possible I made a mistake somewhere
or worded something poorly. I would be more than happy to further dialogue on
any of these issues.

 

Sincerely,

David Thompson

Little Rock, Arkansas 

Huckabee shameful record

The Church of Huck: Growing Gov’t in the name of religion by Dukie

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THE CHURCH OF HUCK: GROWING GOV’T.
IN THE NAME OF RELIGION

 

 

 

by
Selwyn Duke
December 25, 2007
NewsWithViews.com

There
is a candidate in the presidential race who has a serious religion
problem. No, it’s not Mormon Mitt or recently-religious Rudy. It is
Mike Huckabee.

Just
for the record, I share Huck’s faith in Jesus Christ. Not only have
I no problem with religion in public life, I also understand that
one can’t really separate a person’s world view from his politics.
The political is merely a reflection of the spiritual; our politics
doesn’t emerge in a vacuum.

So
what is my problem with Huck? Do I accuse him of false religiosity?

No,
what scares me is that his beliefs are all too real.

To
that enormous secular conservative voting block out there, I will
say, be not afraid. It’s not that Huck would impose religion through
government. No, his actions would truly offend you.

He
would impose statism in the name of religion through government.

While
Huck will say what you want to hear to win office, he will not hear
what you want to say once there. He will make tone-deaf Bush seem
like a maestro. How do I know this?

He
believes.

Belief
can be a great thing, of course. Our Founding Fathers’ unprecedented
respect for liberty was born of their Christian belief that rights
were bestowed by the divine king and not worldly ones. Mother Teresa’s
Christian beliefs inspired her to toil tirelessly to aid the destitute
and dying in India. But whereas the founders kept charity out of government
and Teresa kept government out of charity, Huck conflates the two
in a disastrous mix of bad theology and bad political science. Perverting
Christianity’s message and violating 2000 years of its tradition,
he believes it is his Christian mandate to do good works through government.

With,
of course, your money.

Huck
invokes faith to justify ambitions ranging from the insidious to the
idiotic. For the former, look no further than immigration, where Huck
espoused the Christian principle, “Do unto others as you would have
others do unto you,” while advocating an apparent open-door
policy. This, despite the fact that if any good Christian were
to find himself in a country illegally, he would expect its citizens
to demand he return home.

This
illegal-enabling attitude was also apparent in a deal to establish
a partially taxpayer-financed Mexican consulate office in Little Rock,
a scheme involving the lease of building space to the Mexican government
for $1 a year. Then there was Huck’s support of drivers’ licenses,
government benefits and in-state tuition rates for illegals and his
opposition to a bill requiring proof of citizenship to vote.

What
was the motivation for these outrages? While some
critics assert that he created a “magnet” for illegals at the
behest of business interests, for certain is that Huck invoked his
Christian faith while attacking supporters of the proof-of-citizenship
bill. He labeled the measure irresponsible, un-American, anti-life
and un-Christian. This prompted one of the assailed legislators,
Jim Holt, to
say that “Christian charity does not include turning a blind eye
to lawbreaking.”

The
problem, according to many, is that Huck doesn’t agree. For instance,
Daniel Larison at the American Conservative wrote,

“.
. . Huckabee regards it as his Christian duty to help subvert and
liberalize U.S. immigration laws. Together [with Sam Brownback], they
embrace the notion that fidelity to the Gospel requires privileging
the interests of non-citizens over those of fellow citizens.”

(Note:
This is why immigration crusader Tom Tancredo just exited the presidential
race and endorsed Romney; he knows Mexicali Mike must be stopped.)

Huck
explicitly
cited the same “Christian duty” when explaining a lenient attitude
toward felons that would allow for twice as many pardons under his
Arkansas administration as those of his last three predecessors combined.
Among those pardoned was the notorious Wayne Dumond, a thug serving
25 years for raping a teenage high school cheerleader. But Dumond
had no feeling of Christian duty. He then raped and murdered a woman
named Carol Sue Shields.

As
for that ol’ Huck sense of Christian duty, “Thou shalt not bear false
witness” seems no more a part of it than does the imperative to protect
the innocent. He denied playing a role in Dumond’s pardon, but this
is contradicted
by the very man who had to sign the criminal’s parole papers, one
Ermer Pondexter. Said he,

“I
signed the [parole] papers because the governor wanted Dumond paroled.”

This
Clintonesque relationship with truth also evidenced itself in the
YouTube debate when Huck was asked about his plan for college tuition
benefits for illegals. Writing about this, columnist Jerome
Corsi has “identified five specific, easily documented misrepresentations
of historical facts” in Huck’s answer to the question.

Yet
there is another fact: In his quest to fill the schools, Huck hasn’t
forgotten citizens. No, not at all. Huck signed
a bill in Arkansas making it more difficult to homeschool your
children, perhaps at the behest of the left-wing National Education
Association (whose New Hampshire endorsement he captured). The homeschooling
families supporting him should take note.

But
what will concern all families is Huck’s philosophy on one of the
biggest issues of our time, terrorism. He has
some very definite ideas about thwarting it, and they’re probably
a bit different from yours. Said Huck,

We
must first destroy existing terrorist groups and then attack the
underlying conditions that breed them: the lack of basic sanitation,
health care, education, jobs, a free press, fair courts – which
all translates into a lack of opportunity and hope. The United States’
strategic interests as the world’s most powerful country coincide
with its moral obligations as the richest.

Ah,
true innovation: Giving social programs international scope. And,
I wonder, does Huck know that Osama bin Laden is worth about $300
million? I’ll also note that there is no moral obligation to use other
people’s money for your government-run charities.

Then
there are Huck’s silly health-police measures. He says he would favor
a national smoking
ban (not the role of the federal government – unconstitutional).
Then, many of us have heard about how Huck shed more than 100 pounds
after developing diabetes, a commendable achievement. But, not content
with personal victory in the battle of the bulge, Huck took his crusade
public, creating a program to test the body-fat index of every
student in Arkansas’ school system.

Is
this Huck’s conception of small government and proper use of tax money?
Does a 10-year-old child oft-teased as a double-wide need that assessment
affirmed through a taxpayer-funded program? Yes, Christy, just so
you know, you’re now officially, legally fat – signed and stamped
by the state.

Huck’s
puerile passions are understandable, but not excusable. He lost all
that weight, and he said his wife’s 1975 battle with cancer left him
“scared to death” of the disease. Thus, like gun-control nut Carolyn
McCarthy – elected to Congress after her husband and son were shot
in the L.I.R.R.
massacre – he is a statist who feels compelled to impose his passions
through government. But, I’m sorry, I don’t find the nanny state more
attractive because she’s dressed up like the church lady.

Protect
our borders, Huck; I can protect my own lungs and arteries, thank
you.

Perhaps
what’s most offensive about the Huck, though, is his clear message
that those opposed to his statist measures aren’t good Christians.
Yet I will cede that he’s half right, in that we should pursue charity
in ways that correspond with our gifts.

And
I hear that the Ghatal Missionary Baptist Fellowship in India is looking
for candidates.

As
for candidates, Huck is the only one who would bring not just missionary
zeal to the White House, but missionary intentions. This makes
him especially dangerous because, to use a variation on a famous Blaise
Pascal line, men never grow government so completely and cheerfully
as when they do it with religious conviction.

This
is why those who support Huck because he has religious conviction
ought to wonder what those convictions actually are. Is it enough
that he professes some version of Christianity? I will remind you
that Jesus himself said,

“You
will know them by their fruits. . . . Not everyone that says to me,
Lord, Lord, shall enter into the kingdom of heaven. . . .

Nor
do simple pronouncements qualify one to enter the White House. Sure,
Huck now speaks in a tongue palatable to his audience; he’s Tom Tancredo
on immigration, Torquemada on punishment and the ancient Chinese on
border barriers. But you can believe the rhetoric or the reality.
He hasn’t changed his ways and in office would fulfill his statist
promise, not his promises. How do I know

Because
he believes.

As
a man of faith, I understand that when you believe your principles
reflect God’s will, you won’t bend.

Ever.

This
is the greatest asset; that is, when you have the right principles.

As
to this, it’s just too bad the Church of Huck has nothing to say about
lying to get elected.

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We Desperately Need The “Confessing Church”

by Chuck Baldwin

January 4, 2008

If the reader has not already done so, I again urge you to read the
book, Hitler’s Cross, which was written by Erwin Lutzer and published
by Moody Press. This book should be “required reading” for every
pastor and Christian layman in America. In his book, Lutzer focuses on
the attitudes and actions of Germany’s pastors and churches during the
rise and reign of the Third Reich. It is a masterpiece.

For those of us living in a country and time far removed from Hitler’s
Germany, it is hard to comprehend how that nation’s Christians–and
especially its ministers–could have been so thoroughly taken in by
old Adolf. We assume such an event could never happen
again–especially to us. However, to any honest observer of history,
the conditions of the Church in America today are eerily similar to
those of the Church in Nazi Germany.

For one thing, as did the Church in Nazi Germany, the Church in
America has become infatuated with Big Government. Historically,
patriotism in the United States meant love for God, love for family,
and love for freedom and independence. Today, however, Christians of
all persuasions have come to accept and even embrace the Nanny State,
complete with its intrinsic obsession with an omnipotent federal
bureaucracy that exercises perpetual surveillance and absolute control
over every area of our lives.

For example, according to today’s Republican Presidential candidates
(with the exception of Ron Paul), patriotism demands that we click our
heels to the Department of Homeland Security and that we
enthusiastically support aggressive, preemptive war. This is exactly
the kind of redefinition of patriotism used so brilliantly by Hitler
and his fellow propagandists. Yes, Martha, it appears that history
really does repeat itself.

When Ron Paul was asked about Mike Huckabee’s overt usage of a cross
for a campaign advertisement, he quoted Sinclair Lewis as saying,
“When fascism comes to America, it will be wrapped in a flag and
carrying a cross.” Many Christians railed against Dr. Paul for making
this comment. However, the truth is, Ron Paul (himself a committed
Christian) is one hundred percent right! (To see how Hitler used this
same tactic, I invite readers to note the photograph of the German
Fuhrer in Lutzer’s book, on page 75, which shows Hitler coming out of
church with a large emblem of the Cross directly over his head. This
photo was used extensively by Hitler during his political campaigns.)

More than any other Republican Presidential candidate, Mike Huckabee
carries his Big Government machinations on a cross. I strongly
recommend that readers take a look at Selwyn Duke’s excellent exposé
on Mike Huckabee at
http://www.newswithviews.com/Duke/selwyn79.htm

In his book, Lutzer notes that the tool Adolf Hitler used to ascend to
power in Germany was his ability to wrap the Nazi flag around the
Cross of Christ. In fact, Hitler often required that the Cross be
emblazoned directly in the middle of the Nazi flag. These flags were
not only prominently displayed in parades, but also in church
auditoriums.

As a result of Hitler’s brilliant deception, Christians throughout
Germany were convinced that he was “God’s man.” They saw him as more
than a political leader: he was a spiritual leader as well. They saw
him as their country’s President and as their Christian brother. If
Hitler said the German people needed to surrender their firearms, they
saw it as their Christian duty to comply; if Hitler said they needed
to enact a total surveillance society, they freely gave up their
privacy; if Hitler said Germany needed to invade other nations for its
security, Christians were among the first to volunteer; and if Hitler
said they could only be good Christians if they supported the Nazi
Party, they enthusiastically supported the Nazi Party.

In short, Germany’s Christians and pastors surrendered their hearts
and minds to Adolf Hitler, because they believed him to be one of
them. What they never would have surrendered to a professing agnostic,
they gladly surrendered to a professing Christian. Truly, fascism came
to Germany “wrapped in a flag and carrying a cross.”

Of course, there were a few in Germany who saw through Hitler’s
deception. Dietrich Bonhoeffer was a Christian minister who actively
opposed Hitler by organizing what he called the “Confessing Church.”
These were believers who would not surrender Christ’s sphere of
authority to Hitler. They saw through “Hitler’s Cross.” Unfortunately,
of the more than 14,000 pastors in Germany, only 800 joined with
Bonhoeffer.

To the vast majority of Germany’s pastors, Bonhoeffer was an
“extremist,” or a “kook,” or a “nut.” They relegated Bonhoeffer to the
fringe of Christendom. They believed Hitler and repudiated Bonhoeffer;
they chose Hitler’s “German Church” over the Confessing Church. In
retrospect, however, who would they follow today, if they had the
chance?

Likewise, many Christians and ministers today have succumbed to the
purveyors of internationalism. Issues such as trade, climate control,
health and education–and even war–are the tools globalists use to
contruct their One World Order.

For example, Mike Huckabee’s success in Iowa is largely due to the
pastors and Christians of that State buying into his “Christian”
campaign. In a manner very similar to the 2000 campaign of George W.
Bush, Huckabee has carried his political campaign on the Cross. At the
same time, however, Mike Huckabee (as does George W. Bush) embraces
and promotes globalism. And, unfortunately, many Christians and
pastors do not seem to notice or care.

In a previous column (See it here:
http://www.chuckbaldwinlive.com/c2007/cbarchive_20071207.html ), I
wrote this:

“Have you wondered why Mike Huckabee is suddenly getting so much
favorable attention from the mainstream media (who themselves are
controlled by this gaggle of global elite)? To find the answer as to
why a professing pro-life, conservative Christian would suddenly
become the darling of the media, look no further than the fact that
just a couple of months ago, Mr. Huckabee appeared before the
globalist-minded Council on Foreign Relations. (Read his speech here:
http://www.cfr.org/publication/14335/ ) And when he did, it became
abundantly clear that Huckabee was a man globalists could trust.

“By the way, as you read Huckabee’s speech, you will find that he is
George W. Bush on steroids! This is a man who intends to meddle in the
affairs of nations around the world like you can’t believe. Talk about
entangling alliances: Huckabee intends for our State, Energy, Housing,
Education, Justice, Treasury, and Transportation departments to spend
untold billions of tax dollars on just about anything and everything,
including schools, medical facilities, roads, sewage treatment, water
filtration, electricity, and legal and banking systems in countries
all over the globe. And that is exactly the kind of man the Council on
Foreign Relations (CFR) wants in Washington.”

After reporting the connection between Mike Huckabee and the CFR,
numerous Christians quickly consigned my soul to the regions of the
damned and accused me of being a “nut.” Some emphatically declared
that I had no right to criticize “a Christian brother.” Now, who does
that sound like?

More importantly, however, is the question, Were my remarks accurate?
And the answer is, Yes, they were.

We now learn that Mike Huckabee has named Richard Haass as his advisor
on foreign policy. And just who is Richard Haass? He is the President
of the CFR. And what does Haass believe? He believes that the United
States (and every other country) must surrender its sovereignty to
international or global entities. On February 21, 2006, Haass wrote a
column for the Taipei Times entitled, “State Sovereignty Must be
Altered in Globalized Era.” This treatise is nothing more than an
explicit solicitation for global government. (Read it here:
http://www.taipeitimes.com/News/editorials/archives/2006/02/21/2003294021 )

In his treatise, Haass writes, “For 350 years, sovereignty–the notion
that states are the central actors on the world stage and that
governments are essentially free to do what they want within their own
territory but not within the territory of other states–has provided
the organizing principle of international relations. The time has come
to rethink this notion.”

He also wrote, “Moreover, states must be prepared to cede some
sovereignty to world bodies if the international system is to
function.”

He went on to say, “[S]overeignty must be redefined if states are to
cope with globalization.”

He further said, “Globalization thus implies that sovereignty is not
only becoming weaker in reality, but that it needs to become weaker.
States would be wise to weaken sovereignty in order to protect
themselves . . . Sovereignty is no longer a sanctuary.”

Haass also wrote, “Our notion of sovereignty must therefore be
conditional, even contractual, rather than absolute.”

Haass then summarized his desire for global government by saying, “The
goal should be to redefine sovereignty for the era of globalization,
to find a balance between a world of fully sovereign states and an
international system of either world government or anarchy.”

These are the sentiments of the man that the “Christian conservative”
Mike Huckabee has chosen to be his foreign policy advisor. Can you not
see how, once again, a global government elitist wraps his Big
Government ambitions around the Cross of Jesus Christ?

We desperately need Bonhoeffer’s “Confessing Church” in America. If
pastors do not quickly wake up to the way most of our
politicians–even those who profess to be Christians–are selling out
America’s sovereignty and independence, our wonderful country will not
long survive.

I have attempted to resurrect the “Confessing Church” in the form of a
21st Century “Black Regiment.” Students of U.S. history recognize the
“Black Regiment” as those Colonial Patriot-Pastors who led their
churches to assist the efforts of America’s fight for independence.
Currently, we have over 100 pastors, evangelists, and missionaries
listed on our Black Regiment directory.

See the Black Regiment directory here:
http://www.chuckbaldwinlive.com/blackregiment.php

I, once again, encourage readers to buy Lutzer’s book, Hitler’s Cross.
I’m praying that this time there will arise an army of Dietrich
Bonhoeffers to lead a modern-day revival of true patriotism: love for
God, love for family, and a strong love and commitment to freedom and
independence. Call it the “Confessing Church,” or the “Black
Regiment.” Call it what you will: we need it desperately, and we need
it now.

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