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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)

 

Huckabee shameful record

Huckabee taking Christian Conservatives for a Ride

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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.

Related
Article:
Huckabee
campaigning for 23% sales tax

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Huckabee not part of the “Confessing Church” by Baldwin

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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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When Christian right disrobes…Huckabee appears

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Topic: Presidential Campaign 2008
When the Christian Right Disrobes … HUCKABEE
Appears!

The Huckster’s sudden rise in the polls is no
accident. It can be traced back to his CFR connection via the Council for
National Policy.

by
Alex Wallenwein
(Libertarian)

As the Christian Right disrobes,
something very un-Christian is beginning to appear beneath the dropping
garments.

Some leaders of that movement have apparently shed every last vestige of
conservative principle in making their choice of which GOP presidential
candidate to shower with their much-desired endorsements.

According to an article in the Washington Times of November 8, 2007, Ralph Z.
Hallow reports that Robert Wildmon endorses Huckabee, Paul Weyrich endorses
Romney – and Pat Robertson endorsed, of all candidates, the socially liberal
and pro-abortion Rudolph Giuliani.

Their only concern appears to be “Who can beat Hillary?” In the
process, we are told, long-standing religious-right principles like a stance
against abortion are thrown into the hamper like dirty underwear.

It’s not only the stance against abortion that is being abandoned. The
religious right once prided itself of being a staunch defender of US
sovereignty. How can that be squared with endorsing McCain, who would allow
illegal aliens a fast-track way to US citizenship, or Huckabee, who has
recently teamed up with Council on Foreign Relations president Richard N. Haass
as foreign policy advisor?

At least pursuant to a celebrated speech Haass delivered in 2003 at the
Brooking Institution, he does not think that national sovereignty should be
allowed to stand in the way of globalist “integration.”

Are you a Christian who opposes plans to “integrate” the United
States with Mexico and Canada? Well, Mike Huckabee should not be your choice.
His close cooperation with the president of the Council n Foreign Relations
should speak for itself.

Last time I checked, religious right members were opposed to the curtailing of
US sovereignty. Sure, Huck toes the line and says he wants to protect US
sovereignty – but his foreign policy advisor certainly doesn’t instill much
confidence in the purity of his intentions. The CFR is an organization whose
members have produced a plethora of books, articles, and other writings
supporting a North American Union (NAU), for example. (Of course,
pseudo-conservative radio talk show host Michael Bed-wet has told us that there
are no plans for such a NAU and that all who say otherwise are just crazy – so
it must be true.)

Here is a list of religious right leaders who have endorsed Huckabee, with
dates: Links to some of the endorsement articles can be viewed here.

* Baptist leader Rick Scarborough (Endorsement Article) Rick is founder and
President of American Vision. A pro-family organization endorsed by men like
Dr. D. James Kennedy.
* Don Wildmon founder/ former President of AFA, the American Family
Association(Endorsement Article) (11-08)
* Randy Alcorn, Christian Author (Endorsement Article) strong pro-life advocate
(11-06)
* Justin Taylor of Between Two Worlds – (Joint Endorsement Article) (10-25)
* Joe Carter of Evangelical Outpost (10-25)
* Matthew Anderson, Mere Orthodoxy (10-25)
* Chuck Norris (Endorsement Article) (11-19)
* Janet Folger of Faith to Action (Endorsement Article) (10-01)
* Jack Graham of Preston Wood Baptist Church, Plano, TX (Video 11/4/07)
* James Robison, Life Outreach International (Endorsement Article) (05-04)
* Keith Butler, Pastor – Word of Faith International Christian Center in
Michigan (11-13)
* Matthew Staver, Founder and chairman of Liberty Counsel (11-27)
* Dr. James T. Draper Jr. ” Colleyville, Tex. (11-27)
* Dr. Jerry Vines ” Woodstock, Ga. (11-09)
* Dr. Daniel L. Akin ” Wake Forest, N.C. (11-28)
* Dr. Jay Strack ” Orlando, Fla. (11-10)
* Dr. Billy McCormack ” Shreveport, La. (11-10)
* Stephen Strang, publisher of Charisma, Christian Life, New Woman, New Man
Magazines (Magazine Endorsement) (12-01)
* Jerry Cox, President of Arkansas Family Council ” Little Rock, Ark.
(11-11)
* Jim Pfaff, President and CEO of Colorado Family Action ” Castle Rock,
Col. (11-12)
* Kelly Shackelford, President of Free Market Foundation ” Plano, Tex.
(12-23)
* Phil Burress, President of Citizens for Community Values ” Ohio (11-12)

Looks like an impressive list, doesn’t it? The only problem is, they’re all
from the same organization (the “Arlingotn Group”), and even though
the leader, Jim Dobson, hasn’t publicly jumped on the bandwagon yet, this is
not so much the opinion of many individual diverse religious leaders as it is
one single neocon-driven group in concerted action – as evidenced by the close
temporal proximity of the endorsements.

As a Christian, how do you make up your mind about a presidential candidate? By
blindly following the leaders of religious organizations you may belong to or
which you may respect – or by making your own judgments and decisions?

Has your study of Bible doctrine enabled you to make such decisions based on your
understanding of what God wants for you and this world – or are you still a
spiritual infant who has to suckle (potentially poisonous) milk from his
theological Fuehrer’s breast?
Another question to ask yourself is this: Has Mike Huckabee’s tune changed
significantly from statements he made in his earlier campaign speeches and
televised debates? Up until October/November, he had no visible support from
anyone.

Where does this sudden success in the polls come from? If it isn’t substantive
(i.e., because of what he says in the debates) then other forces must be at
work

The whole scenario is terribly reminiscent of the sudden rise from complete
obscurity of other no-name politicians like Jimmy Carter in 1976 and one
William Jefferson Clinton in 1992.

In today’s politics, you don’t just come out of nowhere with no budget worth
mentioning and start making such tremendous headway in polls, getting virtually
all publicists who call themselves “conservative” to pull on the same
string for you.

That just doesn’t happen spontaneously.

It used to be that fund raising success was the determinative factor of
“winnability” – at least when you listened to the press pundits. Now,
since Ron Paul has trumped everyone in the Republican lineup during the fourth
quarter, fund raising success suddenly doesn’t matter anymore. It’s not helping
Ron Paul – and a decided lack of it is not going to keep Huckabee from winning
Iowa.

Hmm …

It is very interesting to note that many of the Huck-endorsing leaders listed
above are members of an influential Christian outfit called the Arlington
Group, which itself is an offshoot of the highly secretive, Bilderberg-like
“Council for National Policy” (CNP). The CNP, in turn, bills itself
as the American patriot’s answer to the Council on Foreign Relations.

Inconveniently, however, a whole slew of the founding members of the CNP were
and still are CFR members themselves. How does that make sense? Are they just
moles inside the CFR? If so, one would expect them to immediately advise the Huckster
to kick Richard’s “Haass” off his advisory committee.

Don’t hold your breath.

Also interesting is that both Dick Cheney and Mitt Romney were invited to the
CNP last secret meeting in Salt Lake City. Guess when? Late September of 2007,
just weeks before the endorsements started rolling in to Huck’s campaign. And,
oh yes, you can only get invited with a 100 percent consensus from all the
members – so you can see with whom that organization plays ball.

Haass may eventually be replaced with someone else, but the vile connection is
now established and solidified – and should evoke powerful concerns in every
God, country, and family-loving Christian’s heart.

If you are a Christian, pray that God gives you the foresight and wisdom to
make the right choice for America in this primary season – and yes, it’s okay
to do some research on your own. Just Google “Council for National
Policy” and start reading. (A point of advice, though, is that you should
sit down when you do your research. You will not like what you find.)

Alex Wallenwein

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Huckabee Exposed as New World Order Puppet

Mike Huckabee recently named Richard
Haas (the President of the CFR) as his advisor on foreign policy. CNN’s WOLF
BLITZER asked “Who are your principal foreign policy advisers,
Governor?” Mike Huckabee responded: “Well, I have a number of people
from whom I get policy. I’m talking to Frank Gaffney, I talk to Richard
Haas”

So what does Richard Haas believe
in? Here’s an article below which was written by Haas for the Tapei
Times. It basically states the Bill of Rights and Constitution should
be given up in favor of a cooperative world body run by elite consensus. Who
needs individual rights in the techno-futuristic world police state? And you
thought liberty was in jeopardy now? Just wait till you see what your children
will have to deal with. Get activated folks, These police state freaks want to
shape your future into a control grid enforced through the fear based
reaction to state sponsored false flag terror.

State
Sovereignty Must be Altered in Globalized Era

In the age
of globalization, states should give up some sovereignty to world bodies in
order to protect their own interests

By Richard Haass

Taipei Times – 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.

The world’s 190-plus states now
co-exist with a larger number of powerful non-sovereign and at least partly
(and often largely) independent actors, ranging from corporations to
non-governmental organizations (NGOs), from terrorist groups to drug cartels,
from regional and global institutions to banks and private equity funds. The
sovereign state is influenced by them (for better and for worse) as much as it
is able to influence them. The near monopoly of power once enjoyed by sovereign
entities is being eroded.

As a result, new mechanisms are
needed for regional and global governance that include actors other than
states. This is not to argue that Microsoft, Amnesty International, or Goldman
Sachs be given seats in the UN General Assembly, but it does mean including
representatives of such organizations in regional and global deliberations when
they have the capacity to affect whether and how regional and global challenges
are met.

Less is more

Moreover,
states must be prepared to cede some sovereignty to world bodies if the
international system is to function. This is already taking place in the trade
realm. Governments agree to accept the rulings of the WTO because on balance
they benefit from an international trading order even if a particular decision
requires that they alter a practice that is their sovereign right to carry out.

Some governments are prepared to
give up elements of sovereignty to address the threat of global climate change.
Under one such arrangement, the Kyoto Protocol, which runs through 2012,
signatories agree to cap specific emissions. What is needed now is a successor
arrangement in which a larger number of governments, including the US, China, and
India, accept emissions limits or adopt common standards because they recognize
that they would be worse off if no country did.

All of this suggests that
sovereignty must be redefined if states are to cope with globalization. At its
core, globalization entails the increasing volume, velocity, and importance of
flows — within and across borders — of people, ideas, greenhouse gases,
goods, dollars, drugs, viruses, e-mails, weapons and a good deal else,
challenging one of sovereignty’s fundamental principles: the ability to control
what crosses borders in either direction. Sovereign states increasingly measure
their vulnerability not to one another, but to forces beyond their control.

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, because they cannot insulate themselves from what goes on
elsewhere. Sovereignty is no longer a sanctuary.

This was demonstrated by the
American and world reaction to terrorism. Afghanistan’s Taliban government,
which provided access and support to al-Qaeda, was removed from power.
Similarly, the US’ preventive war against an Iraq that ignored the UN and was
thought to possess weapons of mass destruction showed that sovereignty no
longer provides absolute protection.

Imagine how the world would react if
some government were known to be planning to use or transfer a nuclear device
or had already done so. Many would argue — correctly — that sovereignty
provides no protection for that state.

Necessity may also lead to reducing
or even eliminating sovereignty when a government, whether from a lack of
capacity or conscious policy, is unable to provide for the basic needs of its
citizens. This reflects not simply scruples, but a view that state failure and
genocide can lead to destabilizing refugee flows and create openings for
terrorists to take root.

The NATO intervention in Kosovo was
an example where a number of governments chose to violate the sovereignty of
another government (Serbia) to stop ethnic cleansing and genocide. By contrast,
the mass killing in Rwanda a decade ago and now in Darfur, Sudan, demonstrate
the high price of judging sovereignty to be supreme and thus doing little to
prevent the slaughter of innocents.

Conditions needed

Our notion
of sovereignty must therefore be conditional, even contractual, rather than
absolute. If a state fails to live up to its side of the bargain by sponsoring
terrorism, either transferring or using weapons of mass destruction, or
conducting genocide, then it forfeits the normal benefits of sovereignty and
opens itself up to attack, removal or occupation.

The diplomatic challenge for this
era is to gain widespread support for principles of state conduct and a
procedure for determining remedies when these principles are violated.

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.

The basic idea of sovereignty, which
still provides a useful constraint on violence between states, needs to be
preserved. But the concept needs to be adapted to a world in which the main
challenges to order come from what global forces do to states and what
governments do to their citizens rather than from what states do to one
another.

Richard Haass is president of the
Council on Foreign Relations and the author of The
Opportunity: America’s Moment to Alter History’s Course.

 

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Liar Huckster wants a national smoking ban, but he won’t use the gov’t to impose his will! And ladies, get back into your bustles.

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Huckabee stands by ‘Christ’ comment

By LIZ SIDOTI, Associated Press WriterSun Dec 30, 5:19 PM ET

Mike Huckabee, a Republican relying on support from
religious conservatives in Thursday’s hard-fought presidential caucuses, on
Sunday stood by a decade-old comment in which he said, “I hope we answer
the alarm clock and take this nation back for Christ.”

In a television interview, the ordained Southern Baptist
minister and former Arkansas governor made no apologies for the 1998 comment
made at a Southern Baptist Convention meeting in Salt Lake City.

“It was a speech made to a Christian gathering, and,
and certainly that would be appropriate to be said to a gathering of Southern
Baptists,” Huckabee said on NBC’s “Meet the Press.”

He gave the speech the same year he endorsed the Baptist
convention’s statement of beliefs on marriage that “a wife is to submit graciously
to the servant leadership of her husband even as the church willingly submits
to the headship of Christ.” Huckabee and his wife, Janet, signed a
full-page ad in USA Today in support of the statement with 129 other
evangelical leaders.

The former governor, who rallied Christian evangelicals to
make him a surprise force in Iowa, has put his faith front and center in his
campaign. His stump speech sounds like a pastor’s pitch from a pulpit. Campaign
ads emphasize faith and call him a Christian leader. He frequently quotes Bible
verses.

As his fortunes have improved, Huckabee has faced a drumbeat
of questions and criticism about his gubernatorial record and the role of faith
in his administration. He also has made some missteps while trying to fend off
a challenge — and critical TV ads — from Mitt Romney, a former Massachusetts
governor and Mormon whose faith unsettles some religious conservatives.

Four days before the caucuses Thursday, a new poll found
Huckabee’s surge may have stalled; his once double-digit lead over Romney has
evaporated. Private polling shows the two in a dead heat.

The television interview was Huckabee’s only campaign
appearance Sunday.

With the media throng following him having grown immensely,
Huckabee scrapped a public event at a church in favor of attending a private
service closed to reporters. Instead of courting voters, he hunkered down to
film new TV ads, perhaps spots responding to Romney’s barrage of critical
commercials.

As recently as Friday, Huckabee insisted he wanted to run a
positive campaign. He also reserved the right to respond aggressively.

“Hopefully we’ll just be talking about issues,”
Romney told reporters Sunday. In contrast to Huckabee, Romney had a full slate
of events on a bus tour of eastern Iowa.

In the NBC interview, Huckabee, a longtime opponent of
legalized abortion, said he does not believe that women should be punished for
undergoing the procedure, but that doctors might need to face sanctions.

“I don’t know that you’d put him in prison, but there’s
something to me untoward about a person who has committed himself to healing
people and to making people alive who would take money to take an innocent life
and to make that life dead,” Huckabee said.

He also argued that his emphasis on his Christian beliefs
does not mean he’s alienating atheists. He said, if elected, he would have no
problem appointing atheists to government posts.

“The key issue of real faith is that it never can be
forced on someone. And never would I want to use the government institutions to
impose mine or anybody else’s faith or to restrict,” Huckabee said.

Those skeptical of the role of faith in his presidency, he
said, should look at his record in Arkansas.

“I didn’t ever propose a bill that we would remove the
Capitol dome of Arkansas and replace it with a steeple,” he said.
“You know, we didn’t do tent revivals on the grounds of the Capitol.”

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Media’s Masters Adore Huckabee by Piper

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Media’s Masters Adore Huckabee

By Michael Collins Piper AFP

December 26, 2007

http://www.americanfr…

The media elite is having a honeymoon with Mike Huckabee. As an ordained
Southern Baptist minister, Huckabee is the darling of evangelical
Christians, but why would the major media, dominated by atheists and
agnostics who are traditionally hostile to evangelicals, suddenly
undergo this conversion?

Media?s Masters Adore Huckabee

By Michael Collins Piper AFP

Many good conservatives are said to be captivated with the former
governor of Arkansas ?Mike Huckabee, not that other former Arkansas
governor, William Jefferson Clinton.

It seemed as if just at the moment Texas populist Ron Paul was beginning
to make waves, with even The Washington Post reporting Paul’s
grass-roots campaign threatened, in the Post’s words, to “upend”
the
Republican presidential primary campaign,the mass media began focusing
on Huckabee, whom they had previously ignored.

For his own part, Huckabee has said he can support any of his Republican
competitors with the notable exception of Paul. As governor, and until
running for president, Huckabee strongly supported amnesty for illegal
aliens and called for extending health and welfare benefits to them. He
also raised taxes many times as governor.

There is good reason to believe powerful backstage forces are behind the
Huckabee “surge,” and some observers suspect Huckabee is being
promoted
by the media’s owners precisely to redirect attention away from Paul’s
burgeoning grass-roots campaign.

That Huckabee was governor of Arkansas may point toward “special”
backing. Arkansas has long been a fiefdom, an outpost, of the New
York-based Rockefeller family whose satellites in Arkansas, such as the
Stevens banking empire, which backed Bill Clinton, now supporting Huckabee.

One of the Rockefeller brothers, Winthrop, was elected governor of
Arkansas as a Republican in the 1960s with the backing of a young Bill
Clinton, a liberal “Democrat for Rockefeller.” Then, although many
Huckabee fans and foes alike seem to have forgotten it, while Huckabee
was governor, Rockefeller’s son, Winthrop Jr., was Huckabee’s lieutenant
governor, only to die prematurely of a blood disorder.

Should there be any doubt Huckabee is oriented toward cold, hard power
politics, he recently told The New York Times Magazine that he takes his
foreign policy leads from such seemingly diverse forces as liberal New
York Times columnist Thomas Friedman and “neo-conservative” power
broker
Frank Gaffney.

Although these Huckabee gurus are ostensibly “different,” they have
one
thing in common: all are hard-line supporters of Israel, with Gaffney
having been one of the key propagandists promoting U.S. involvement in
Iraq and now touting the need for a U.S. attack on Iran.

Washington insiders have not failed to note that Huckabee has received a
boost from big names in the Establishment media, ranging from
influential liberal columnists such as longtime Democratic operative
Donna Brazile to David Broder, undisputed dean of the “elite”
columnists.

These media figures (and others) tout Huckabee as a likeable fellow, a
hard-driving “winner” who could add a lot to the GOP ticket, if not
as
its presidential nominee, certainly in the second slot.

While evangelical Christians are delighted that Huckabee, a former
Baptist minister, advertises himself as a “Christian leader,” the
fact
Huckabee seems to be getting an unusually favorable welcome from the
major media is intriguing. The media has never promoted Christian
“leaders” unless those “leaders” had the implicit backing
of the elite
behind-the-scenes owners of the media.

All told, there’s clearly more to the Huckabee phenomenon than meets the
eye.

 

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Flim-Flam Huckabee by Cutler

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FLIM-FLAM HUCKABEE

 

by Michael Cutler
December 30, 2007
NewsWithViews.com

An
excellent article appeared in Wednesday’s edition of the Washington
Times and merits your consideration, not only in terms of evaluating
Presidential Candidate Huckabee, but to also understand the concerns
I have about most politicians and the way that all too many of them
have become skilled at the craft of creating illusions. Of course
my focus is generally limited to immigration and border security but
I believe that you can find so many other areas where politicians
will attempt to create the impression that they are effectively addressing
an issue while maintaining the status quo.

It
may be that Mike Huckabee really wants to address the immigration
crisis confronting our nation, but I am baffled as to why he did not
follow through with the program in his state of Arkansas to enable
local law enforcement to receive the critical training under the provisions
of Section 287(g) of the Immigration and Nationality Act that would
have effectively deputized a number of state law enforcement officers
to enable them to work cooperatively with law enforcement personnel
at ICE (Immigration and Customs Enforcement).

Consider
this quote from the article about then Governor Huckabee’s failure
to complete the process that would have empowered Arkansas state police
officers to enforce provisions of the Immigration and Nationality
Act:

Mr.
Huckabee’s campaign acknowledged he didn’t follow through, but said
it was lack of time, not lack of interest.

Mr.
Huckabee really needs to explain what this statement means. How could
he claim that he lacked the time to make certain that the program
that apparently so many of his constituents wanted prevented him from
completing the process he began? Perhaps I am mistaken about Mr. Huckabee,
but frankly my concern is clear. He began an important program in
his state that could have helped with the enforcement of the immigration
laws and then abandoned this effort. We the People have the right
to know why! We the People have the right to know what he and all
of his opponents really plan to do where the issue of border security
and the effective enforcement and administration of the immigration
laws are concerned.

It
is my contention that there is no issue that has greater significance
for the future of our nation that the immigration issue because it
impacts so many other aspects of our nation. As I have often pointed
out, immigration impacts everything from the economy, the environment,
education and healthcare to criminal justice and national security.
Yet the politicians on both sides of the political aisle have been
fighting hard to prevent the borders from being secured and to prevent
the creation of an immigration bureaucracy that has even a modicum
of integrity, even after the horrific attacks of September 11, 2001
and the findings of the 911 Commission in terms of the role that immigration
benefit fraud played in the embedding process utilized by the terrorists
who killed so many innocent people.

I
have heard Mr. Huckabee state that he favored providing in-state tuition
for the children of illegal aliens claiming he did not want to penalize
the children of illegal aliens. In point of fact, the children of
illegal aliens are, themselves, illegal aliens. Additionally, they
may well be the children of illegal aliens although with the rampant
issue of immigration benefit fraud that has been amply documented
in one GAO report after another and one OIG report after another,
I also fear that if our nation was stupid enough to create such a
lucrative benefit for such “children” that the fraud rates would be
astronomical!


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Finally
while these illegal aliens are the children of illegal aliens they
are not minors! We are talking about adult illegal aliens who would
be provided with the opportunity to remain in the United States and
file applications for their family members while being provided with
a level of financial assistance our nation does not provide to United
States citizen college students! This is the equivalent of my providing
a steak dinner with all the trimmings to my neighbors kids each night
for many years while feeding my own kids tuna fish and macaroni! If
I did this as a parent you would question my sanity and you would
be correct- yet Mr. Huckabee and other politicians who favor this
seemingly well-intentioned measure would be stabbing our own kids
in the back while opening yet another Pandora’s Box that would invite
massive fraud!

Mr.
Huckabee and his opponents need to explain their positions and their
justification for the positions that they take. They also need to
provide concrete proposals for securing our borders and creating a
secure immigration system. The Border Fence Bill was passed by the
Congress and signed into law by the President. I was called to appear
on many television programs to discuss the fence. I made it clear
that I doubted that the fence would ever be built. Then I was asked
about the “Virtual Fence.” My ‘sound bite’ was that “The Virtual Fence
would stop virtually no one!” The Virtual Fence will cost loads of
money, but in the end, to arrest illegal aliens your need Border Patrol
agents, jail space, vehicles, detention officers, attorneys, immigration
judges, etc.

To
prevent the entry of illegal aliens you need physical fences. Creating
a high-tech “Virtual Fence” that sounds alarms when illegal aliens
run the border is next to worthless unless there are enough agents
and all of the other components in place to stop and apprehend the
intruders. We also need to have enough special agents at ICE along
with other resources to back-stop the Border Patrol and the beleaguered
Customs and Border Protection inspectors at ports of entry so that
when aliens run our borders or are admitted through ports of entry
only to overstay their authorized period of admission or otherwise
violate their terms of admission they are likely to be found and apprehended.
Today there is a shortage of Border Patrol agents and an absolutely
outrageous shortage of special agents at ICE.


(As I have often noted, New York City has been consistently found
to be the safest big city in the United States- a fact largely attributable
to the fact that the NYPD has approximately 38,000 police officers
who are well trained and have incredible resources. ICE has about
6,000 special agents and they are responsible for enforcing customs
laws as well as immigration laws. Meanwhile
New York City has approximately 8 million residents and covers about
400 square miles while there are probably over 20 million illegal
aliens in the United States who are scattered across one-third of
the North American continent!) It is likely that fewer than 4,000
ICE special agents are engaged in the critical mission of enforcing
the immigration laws for the entire United States of America! Additionally,
most of the leaders at ICE came from Legacy Customs and not from Legacy
Immigration. Their orientation and background leaves much to be desired
where the effective enforcement of the immigration laws are concerned.
As one of my former colleagues at ICE told me during a recent conversation,
those bosses are more concerned with busting a gang that produces
counterfeit Gucci briefcases than counterfeit passports!

We
the People need to hear specific proposals from the candidates for
the Presidency. That is our right! We should think of the debates
and campaigns as a sort of job interview. The occupant of the Oval
Office, I would remind you, is our employee. The candidates understand
that they need to garner the votes in order to win the election. We
the People need to end our passivity about the campaign for the Presidency
and need to have our voices heard. Similarly we need to take a far
more active role in writing to our other politicians who seek to be
elected or re-elected to positions as members of Congress as well
as those seeking elections on the state and local levels. That is
how democracy is supposed to work. When we sit down in a diner to
order a meal we tend to be very specific about what we want to eat
and how we want it prepared. We must be at least as specific about
who we will hire to lead our nation especially in this perilous era.
This is not only our right, it is our obligation!

© 2007 – Michael Cutler
– All Rights Reserved

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Michael W. Cutler
graduated from Brooklyn College of the City University of New York in
1971 with a B.A. in Communications Arts and Sciences. Mr. Cutler began
working for the Immigration and Naturalization Service (INS) in October
1971 when he entered on duty as an Immigration Inspector assigned to John
F. Kennedy International Airport. In August 1975 he became a Criminal
Investigator (Special Agent) for the INS at NYC.

He rotated through
virtually every squad in the Investigations Branch. From 1988 until 1991
he was assigned as the INS representative to the Unified Intelligence
Division (UID) of the DEA in New York. In 1991 he was promoted to the
position of Senior Special Agent and was assigned to the Organized Crime,
Drug Enforcement Task Force (OCDETF) which required that he work with
members of other law enforcement agencies including the FBI, DEA, ATF,
U.S. Customs and local and state police as well as law enforcement organizations
of other countries including Israel, Canada, Great Britain and Japan,
to conduct investigations of aliens involved in major drug trafficking
organizations. He retired from the INS in February 2002, after a career
that spanned some 30 years.

Finally, Michael
Cutler has appeared on numerous television and radio programs including
Lou Dobbs, Fox News, MSNBC and many other television and radio news-oriented
programs to discuss the enforcement of immigration laws.

E-Mail: mcutler007@aol.com

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Liberals sing Huckelujah by Coulter

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Liberals
Sing ‘Huckelujah’

by Ann Coulter
(more by this
author)

Posted 12/26/2007 ET
Updated 12/26/2007 ET

 

All I want for Christmas is for Christians to listen to what Mike
Huckabee says, rather than what the media say about him. The mainstream media
keep flogging Huckabee for being a Christian, apparently unaware that this
“God” fellow is testing through the roof in focus groups.

Huckabee is a “compassionate conservative” only in the sense that
calling him a conservative is being compassionate.

He responded to my column last week — pointing out that he is on record
supporting the Supreme Court’s sodomy-is-a-constitutional-right decision — by
saying that he was relying on the word of a caller to his radio show and didn’t
know the details of the case. Ironically, that’s how most people feel about
sodomy: They support it until they hear the details.

First, I’d pay a lot of money to hear how a court opinion finding that sodomy
is a constitutional right could be made to sound reasonable. But the caller had
the right response when Huckabee asked him, “What’s your favorite radio
station?” So he seemed like a reliable source.

Second, Huckabee’s statement that he agreed with the court’s sodomy ruling was
made one week after the decision. According to Nexis, in that one week, the
sodomy decision had been the cover story on every newspaper in the country,
including The New York Times. It was the talk of all the Sunday news programs.
It had been denounced by every conservative and Christian group in America —
as well as other random groups of sane individuals having no conservative
inclinations whatsoever.

The highest court in the land had found sodomy was a constitutional right! That
sort of thing tends to make news. (I was going to say the sodomy ruling got
publicity up the wazoo, but this is, after all, Christmas week.)

So this little stretch-marked cornpone is either lying, has a closed head
injury, is a complete ignoramus — or all of the above.

Huckabee opposes school choice, earning him the coveted endorsement of the
National Education Association of New Hampshire, which is like the sheriff
being endorsed by the local whorehouse.

He is, however, in favor of school choice for kids in Mexico: They have the
choice of going to school there or here. Huckabee promoted giving in-state
tuition in Arkansas to illegal immigrants from Mexico — but not to U.S.
citizens from Ohio. “I don’t believe you punish the children,” he
said, “for the crime and sins of the parents.”

Since when is not offering someone lavish taxpayer-funded benefits a form of
punishment? That’s almost as crazy as a governor pardoning a known sex offender
so he can go out and rape and kill.

Huckabee claims he’s against punishing children for the crimes of their fathers
in the case of illegal immigrants. But in the case of slavery, he believes the
children of the children’s children should be routinely punished for the crimes
of their fathers. Huckabee has said illegal immigration gives Americans a
chance to make up for slavery. (I thought letting O.J. walk for murdering two
people was payback for slavery.)

Just two years ago, Huckabee cheerfully announced to a meeting of the Hispanic
advocacy group League of United Latin American Citizens that “Pretty soon,
Southern white guys like me may be in the minority.” Who’s writing this
guy’s speeches — Al Sharpton? (Actually, take out “Southern” and
“white,” and I agree with Huckabee’s sentiment).

He said the transition from Arkansas’ Southern traditions would “require
extraordinary efforts on both sides of the border.” But, curiously, most
of the efforts Huckabee described would come entirely from this side of the
border. Arkansas, he pledged, would celebrate diversity “in culture, in
language and in population.” He said America would have to
“accommodate” those who come here.

All that he expected from those south of the border was that they have a desire
to provide better opportunities for their families. Basically, we have to keep
accommodating everyone but U.S. citizens.

For those of you keeping score at home, this puts Huckabee just a little to the
left of Dennis Kucinich on illegal immigration and border control. The only
difference is that Kucinich supports amnesty for aliens from south of the
border and north of Saturn.

In a widely quoted remark, Huckabee denounced a Republican bill that would
merely require proof of citizenship to vote and receive government benefits as
“un-Christian, un-American, irresponsible and anti-life,” according
to the Arkansas News Bureau. Now, where have I heard this sort of thing before?
Hmmm … wait, now I remember: It was during the Democratic debates!

In his current attempt to pretend to be against illegal immigration, Huckabee
makes a meaningless joke about how the federal government should track illegals
the way Federal Express tracks packages. (Can a Mexican fit in one of those
little envelopes?)

In other words, Huckabee is going to address the problem of illegal immigration
by making jokes. It’s called leadership, folks.

Huckabee confirms for liberal TV hosts their image of conservatives as dorks by
bragging about how cool he is because he “likes music.” What’s he
doing — running for president or filling out his Facebook profile? Arkansas
former fatty loves to make jokes and play the bass guitar. Remember what
happened to the last former fatboy from Arkansas trying to be “cool”
by liking music? I’ll take “Stained Dresses” for $400, Alex.

According to Huckabee, most people think conservatives don’t like music. Who on
earth says conservatives don’t like music — other than liberals and Mike
Huckabee? This desperate need to be liked by liberals has never led to anything
but calamity.

Huckabee wants to get kids involved in music at an early age because he
believes it leads to a more balanced and developed brain. You know, as we saw
with the Jackson family. Maybe someone should tell him the Osmonds are voting
for Romney.

He supports a nationwide smoking ban anyplace where people work, constitutional
protection for sodomy, big government, higher taxes and government benefits for
illegal aliens. According to my calculations, that puts him about three
earmarks away from being Nancy Pelosi.

Liberals take a perverse pleasure in touting Huckabee because they know he will
give them everything they want — big government and a Christian they can roll.





Ann
Coulter is Legal Affairs Correspondent for HUMAN EVENTS and author of
“High
Crimes and Misdemeanors,” “Slander,”
““How
to Talk to a Liberal (If You Must),” “Godless,”
and most recently, “If
Democrats Had Any Brains, They’d Be Republicans.”