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RELIGIOUS RIGHT CRUCIFIES WHAT’S LEFT
OF AMERICA


by Alan Stang
November 30, 2007
NewsWithViews.com

Suddenly,
we are told, the man from Hope is blitzing up the Iowa polls. No, not the
Arkansas slime ball and rapist, not Bill Clinton; the other man from Hope, Mike
Huckabee. Hope is a town that, man for man, probably produces more candidates
for President than any other. If all this new support for Huckabee is real,
where is it coming from? It is coming from the Religious Right. Huckabee after
all is a Baptist preacher.

Some
Ron Paul people lament the fact that the Religious Right does not support him.
After all, doesn’t Ron support what they do? Isn’t Dr. No the foremost
candidate for President in either party who advocates the restoration of
constitutional liberty, getting the government out of our lives and off our
backs? In foreign policy, doesn’t he alone advocate minding our own business,
bringing our troops home and staying out of the war? Why has the Religious
Right so obviously snubbed him almost without consideration?

What
not enough Pauliticians understand – and need to – is that the Religious Right
has vigorously rejected Dr. No not for some other reason, but precisely because
of these positions he espouses. The Religious Right rejects Ron Paul precisely
because he stands for Christian liberty and the Religious Right stands for
a perversion of Christianity I called Imperial
Religion in a previous piece.

Yes,
Dr. Paul is a staunch Christian himself. Yes, he opposes baby killing and never
has killed one, despite four thousand chances, the number of babies he has
delivered so far as a ladies’ physician. But Dr. No does not wear his religion
on his sleeve. He doesn’t boast about it. He puts it this way:

“I
have never been one who is comfortable talking about my faith in the political
arena. In fact, the pandering that typically occurs in the election season I
find to be distasteful. But for those who have asked, I freely confess that
Jesus Christ is my personal Savior, and that I seek His guidance in all that I
do.”

But
this is exactly not what the Religious Right wants. It wants someone who is
constantly spouting off about it, making a show, appearing at the church
meeting hall with a Bible as big as the Internal Revenue Code under his arm,
like Clinton. It doesn’t want someone modest, like true Christian Ron Paul.

Indeed,
Dr. No continues: “I’d rather my views and my convictions and my faith be shown
by my actions rather than [by] what I say…. also, the part in the bible about
not showing off…we’re instructed to pray quietly …. [and] not to play big
fanfare. I’m trying to strike something in between there; where I’m not bashful
and ashamed of it, at the same time I don’t want to look like others who . . .
look to get votes because they were willing to say and do something in public.”

Please
read my piece entitled Imperial Religion again. It will dispel any
mystery about why the Religious Right has contemptuously rejected Dr. Paul. The
Religious Right is the product of a satanic perversion of Christianity, satanic
because it attempts to “improve” upon God. Satan’s rebellion is equally an
attempt to “improve” upon God.

God
has given us the Kingdom, but victims in the throes of this perversion believe
it isn’t good enough and they know better. Eaten up by pride, they want big
preachers, big buildings with their names in big letters, big money, big cars,
big planes and big hair. God says He does all – all – all the soul saving for
eternal life, but consumed by themselves they are competing with Him to see who
can save more.

A
preacher once told me he routinely “saved” (arranged eternal life for) 30,000
souls a month. What kind of government would such spiritual megalomania
produce? Certainly not a government of limited powers like the one the Founding
Fathers bequeathed us. On the contrary, a man who can arrange eternal life for
that many people would want a correspondingly big government, an all-powerful,
centralized government to use as a weapon to “improve” the Kingdom.

You
have probably noticed in this rendition a powerful similarity between the
Religious Right and “liberals” like the Clintons and other Far Left poseurs.
You are not mistaken. The similarity is there. The Religious Right and the Far
Left are the two sides of one coin. The Far Left too is trying to “improve.”
The “difference” is that they don’t call their target “the Kingdom” and they
don’t mention God. Other differences are superficial matters of personality and
style.

Could
that be a reason so many people find “Christianity” repulsive? They think it is
Christianity that rightly repels them, but it isn’t. It is a perverted
imitation, Imperial Religion’s overweening hauteur. Remember that from the
beginning government by men has been a curse, brought to us by ancestors of
today’s “liberals,” who were dissatisfied with government by God.

God
governed directly through his judges, but some “liberals” among the children
whined that they wanted a king. God warned them in detail what a king would do,
but they kept whining, while the rest of the children merely watched. So God,
ever gracious, gave them what they wanted.

Ever
since, government has done exactly as God warned. How could He know? How did
God get so smart? Here’s a clue: He created the universe, everything there is,
and didn’t need our help. Today, to justify themselves, the descendants of the
government-worshippers say Romans 13 means exactly the opposite of what it
says. They say it means obedience to government no matter what it does. Really?
Then why does God keep overthrowing, even killing, governments that disobey His
commandments? As I asked in another piece on Romans 13: Is God a Nazi?

That
is why it is so important to recognize what the Religious Right is, to see it
with new eyes. Both the Religious Right and the Far Left share the desire to
use government as a weapon to impose obedience and behavior. That is why the
Religious Right, like the Far Left, rejects Dr. Paul. Where the tires hit the
track, they are the same.

Compare
that to what Dr. Paul says: “We believe that at the root of most of our troubles
today is the misguided and discredited philosophy of an all-powerful
government, ceaselessly striving to subsidize, manipulate, and control
individuals. The essence of freedom is the right of law-abiding individuals to
life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness without undue governmental
intervention.”

Notice
any difference? Indeed, Dr. No, living up to his nickname, says he “supports
deregulation by the federal government of public education, and encourages the
elimination of the federal Department of Education.” Wow, outright elimination!
Wouldn’t that be somewhat “extreme?” Wouldn’t kiddos in the nation’s Communist
government schools wind up even more illiterate than they already are?

Whoa!
Hold on! Did I say Dr. No said all that? No, friends, that’s wrong, sorry, I
made a mistake. What you just read are excerpts from the July, 1980 Republican
Party Platform in Detroit. I was there. But when I mistakenly said Dr. No said
it you believed me. Why? Because he says the same thing! He is smack in the mainstream
of the so-called Reagan Republican Party. That’s the Party the Religious Right
is supposed to adore. The 1980 Convention was the one that nominated Reagan.

Now
let’s look at this year’s Religious Right candidate. Like Clinton, he comes
from Hope. Like Clinton, he plays a musical instrument. Bill, as you know,
plays the sexaphone (sic), Mike the guitar. Like Bill, Mike staunchly believes.
You say you don’t believe Bill believes? Ask him. Hey, could you lift the Bible
he carries to church? Sure, Mike is a preacher, Bill technically is not, but he
sure knows how to use what Teddy Roosevelt called the “bully pulpit.”

Finally,
Mike, like Bill, fervently believes in using the power of all-powerful
government to impose the will of God. Did you know that Mike Huckabee would use
the federal government to ban smoking? To me, that says it all. Does he know he
is running for President, not health commissioner, and as President would be
governed by the Constitution? Where in the Constitution does it even remotely give
the federal government power to ban smoking?

Remember
that preachers in colonial Virginia were paid in tobacco. Tobacco was money. In
a famous case, the preachers went to court and sued. In effect, they wanted
more tobacco. They lost because of the legal machinations of the silver-tongued
counsel who opposed them, a business failure who had been the town bum and
logically became a lawyer, a guy named Patrick Henry.

President
No would not even try to ban smoking. As President, he wouldn’t have the power
and would figure it was none of his business anyway. Remember also that the
only world leader who succeeded in banning smoking in his country was – the
envelope please – Adolf Hitler. Adolf was a staunch believer in big, paternal
government – government that does everything for you and to you – totalitarian
government. Isn’t that what dictatorship means?

Why
would a President Mike ban smoking? Because it’s bad for health. Recently, in
preparation for his presidential campaign, he lost 100 pounds by eating right.
As President, would he ban eating wrong because, that, too, is bad for health?
The question is legitimate. Some groups have demanded exactly that, including
punishment for people who are not acceptably svelte.

Because
he is a Christian, Dr. No staunchly opposes abortion. He also recognizes that
as President in our system of checks and balances he would lack the power to
ban it. The Constitution says not a word on the subject, maybe because it never
occurred to the Founders that anyone could be crazy enough to try to make it
legal. It is something for the states to decide, not a federal issue. That is
why we have states. But President Huckabee would not let the states make that
decision.

Under
Mike Huckabee, Arkansas saw a 37 percent increase in sales tax, a 16 percent
increase in gas tax and a monster 103 percent increase in cigarette taxes.
According to the Arkansas Department of Finance and Administration, the state
suffered a net tax increase of $505 million under Huckabee. With Mike as governor,
state spending exploded more than 65% between 1996 and 2004, which just
happened to be more than three times the inflation rate. State debt rose by
almost one billion dollars and the number of government workers rose 20%.

So,
Mike would use gobs of your money to tweak and “improve” the Kingdom. He
believes the government should be a caring, strict parent. He endorses more
government money for health care and government housing. He is so hostile to
“conservatives” that as governor he kept many top Clinton agency heads. Mike
Huckabee reveres government.

American
Spectator
reports that Huckabee has also been investigated fourteen times and officially
reprimanded five times by the state Ethics Commission, a respected,
non-partisan body. MSNBC says there were many other scandals. Greg Pierce says
in the “conservative” Washington Times that Mike “used public money for
family restaurant meals, boat expenses, and other personal uses. He tried to
claim as his own some $70,000 of furniture donated to the governor’s mansion. .
. .” Which recalls the departing Clintons cleaning out the White House.

It
gets worse. With regard to the illegal alien invasion, Mike Huckabee makes el
presidente Jorge W. Boosh look like a foaming xenophobe. Mike wants amnesty
and free college scholarships for illegal aliens. He has actually compared
illegal aliens, who break into our country, to black slaves who were brought
here in chains. Mike denounced a bill that would have prevented illegal aliens
– foreigners here illegally – from voting or receiving state benefits.

Huckabee
explained that companies like Toyota would not invest in Arkansas if the state
didn’t allow non-citizens to vote, because it would “send the message that,
essentially, if you don’t look like us, talk like us and speak like us, we
don’t want you.” Wouldn’t the men who run the biggest, most successful auto
company in the world be smart enough to know that people in Little Rock
wouldn’t look, talk and speak like people in Tokyo?

And
don’t we at least have the right to expect a President of the United States,
even a governor of Arkansas, to have some concept of law? Notice that Mike
Huckabee doesn’t seem to have one. Does he know that illegal aliens are
illegal? But guess what? Now that he’s running for President, Mike at least
temporarily is in favor of securing our borders. Indeed, Mike even has a plan.
In a recent radio ad, he explained, “My plan to secure the border? Two words:
Chuck Norris.”

I
should warn you that no one on this planet is a bigger Chuck Norris fan than I
am. I am always there, covering his back, when he terminates a man with extreme
prejudice, or rescues a POW or power kicks an Islamic terrorist. Chuck is
probably a perfect example of a true Christian beguiled into supporting
Huckabee because the Religious Right says Mike is one too. Chuck, she is the
whore of Babylon. Come out of her and be ye separate.

You
may wonder why the Religious Right would support Mike in spite of all this. If
you do, you miss the point. They support him because of it. They could
wind up inserting him as running mate on a Giuliani or Romney ticket. They
would argue that, unlike Mitt, Mike has never promoted sodomy, and unlike Rudy,
it is Mrs. Huckabee alone who wears the ladies’ lingerie in the family.
Remember that Rudy favors wall-to-wall abortion.

By
the way, don’t get the idea that I have something against Arkansas. I love
Arkansas. First, I love Arkansas because its team is called the “hogs.” During
a game, I love to yell, “Let’s hear it for the hogs!” Second, when a dear
friend of mine who knows about such things wants to convey that a man is really
well known, not just a minor celebrity, but really world famous, he says, “Why,
this man is known throughout the United States and parts of Arkansas.”

Finally,
it was in Arkansas that I met the Love Priestess. I was speaking at a youth
camp, when suddenly I became aware of a finger thrusting at my nose and a voice
yelling, “Who do you think you are?” I wasn’t very bright in those days, but I
was smart enough to recognize immediately that this was wife material. But that
is another story for another day. So, I love Arkansas.

Today,
the most important thing I hope to leave with you is that the Religious Right
is not at all what it pretends, that it is a spiritual perversion, that it is
in fact a malevolent, totalitarian force, that it has betrayed America and
Christianity for many years, and that in its choice of Mike Huckabee it is
getting ready to do so again.

Paul
speaks of “false brethren unawares brought in, who came in privily to spy out
our liberty which we have in Christ Jesus, that they might bring us into
bondage.” (Gal. 2:4) Therefore: “Stand fast therefore in the liberty wherewith
Christ hath made us free, and be not entangled again with the yoke of bondage.”
(Gal. 5:1)

Chuck,
come out!

©
2007 – Alan Stang – All Rights Reserved

Alan
Stang was one of Mike Wallace’s original writers at Channel 13 in New York,
where he wrote some of the scripts that sent Mike to CBS. Stang has been a
radio talk show host himself. In Los Angeles, he went head to head nightly with
Larry King, and, according to Arbitron, had almost twice as many listeners. He
has been a foreign correspondent. He has written hundreds of feature magazine
articles in national magazines and some fifteen books, for which he has won
many awards, including a citation from the Pennsylvania House of
Representatives for journalistic excellence. One of Stang’s exposés stopped a
criminal attempt to seize control of New Mexico, where a gang seized a court
house, held a judge hostage and killed a deputy. The scheme was close to
success before Stang intervened. Another Stang exposé inspired major reforms in
federal labor legislation.

His
first book, It’s Very Simple: The True Story of Civil Rights, was an instant
best-seller. His first novel, The Highest Virtue, set in the Russian
Revolution, won smashing reviews and five stars, top rating, from the West
Coast Review of Books, which gave five stars in only one per cent of its
reviews.

Stang
has lectured in every American state and around the world and has guested on
many top shows, including CNN’s Cross Fire. Because he and his wife had the
most kids in Santo Domingo, the Dominican Republic, where they lived at the
time, the entire family was chosen to be actors in “Havana,” directed by Sydney
Pollack and starring Robert Redford, the most expensive movie ever made (at the
time). Alan Stang is the man in the ridiculous Harry Truman shirt with the pasted-down
hair. He says they made him do it.

 

Huckabee shameful record, Presidential Candidates

Christians need to beware of Mike Huckabee

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Did you know
that Huckabee is the hero of the anti-American racist hate group LULAC
who has repeatedly worked with the anti-Christian ACLU to defeat
pro-American & pro-Christian efforts?  What is more evil than a
liar, traitor pretending to be “a man of God”?

                                                                    
Barb Coe – CCIR

 

 

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From:                        “Christopher 
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To:                            <cmarshg@earthlink.net>

Subject:                     Why
Mike Huckabee is Surging

Date
sent:                  Thu,
29 Nov 2007 17:10:48 -0500

 

 

Dear Fellow
Republicans, Conservatives, Constitutionalists, and other Patriotic Americans:

 

Mike Huckabee
has all the sudden become the “Great Right Hope”. Because of his
(supposed) opposition to abortion and homosexuality, a fmr President
of the Arkansas Bapitist Convention, and a southern GOP governor, he is
considered a conservative.

 

Question: When
was the last time a darkhorse, evangelical fmr governor from a small
southern state became president? Answer: Jimmy Carter. Question
#2:  How did Carter, also a darkhorse, get elected? Answer: The
Establishment – particularly the Trilateral Commission and its parent: the
Council on Foreign Relations.

 

In September
Gov. Huckabee spoke before the CFR. What is significant about that speech is
that it is posted on the CFR’s website – which is a special privilege in its
own right. After last night’s CNN Debate, Uber- Establishmentarian David Gergen
(CFR) was oozing praise on Huckabee.

 

Since
September, Huckabee has surged. Not just in Iowa, but nationally as well. This
is no coincidence. The establishment knows that Giuliani and McCain would split
the GOP if they get the nomination (which would induce a ‘populist’ major third
party candidacy). Hence, they tried Romney (who is an empty suit), and Fred Thompson
(CFR) who flopped.

 

Who better to
turn to than a “Christian coalition Republican” to dupe conservatives
into backing a CFR globalist. Make no mistake, Huckabee is one (pro-illegal
immigration, pro-interventionism, pro-foreign aid, etc). Plus he is a
tax-and-spend liberal. Below are two columns by Chuck Baldwin that
exposes Huckabee’s liberalism.

 

Christian
conservatives were fooled by Carter. Don’t be fooled again by this huckleberry
Huckabee.

 

Chris

 

   

Christians Need To
Beware Of Mike Huckabee
by Chuck Baldwin
November 2, 2007


With Christian conservatives trying to scramble to find a
Republican presidential candidate they can support, some of them seem to be
coalescing around former Arkansas governor, Mike Huckabee. Janet Folger, especially,
seems to be trumpeting his candidacy. But is Mike Huckabee someone Christian
conservatives should be supporting? Not everyone thinks so.

Randy Minton, chairman of the Arkansas chapter of Phyllis
Schlafly’s national Eagle Forum, said, “We called him a pro-life, pro-gun
liberal, when I was in the state legislature and he was governor.” Phyllis
Schlafly herself was even more direct.

President and Founder of Eagle Forum, Phyllis Schlafly,
said this about Governor Huckabee: “He destroyed the conservative movement
in Arkansas, and left the Republican Party a shambles.” She went on to
say, “Yet some of the same evangelicals who sold us on George W. Bush as a
‘compassionate conservative’ are now trying to sell us on Mike Huckabee.”

Even one of Huckabee’s strongest supporters within the
Religious Right, Pastor Rick Scarborough, head of Vision America, admitted, “Mike
has always sought the validation of elites.” Of course, my
question for Rick Scarborough is, With an indictment such as that, how can you
continue to support Mike Huckabee?

According to an opinion piece written by John Fund in the
Wall Street Journal, “Paul Pressler, a former Texas judge who led the
conservative Southern Baptist revolt, told me, ‘I know of no conservative he
[Huckabee] appointed while he headed the Arkansas Baptist Convention.'”

Fund went on to say that “Mr. Huckabee’s reluctance
to surround himself with conservatives was evident as governor, when he kept
many agency heads appointed by Bill Clinton.”

Fund also said this about Huckabee: “‘He’s just like
Bill Clinton in that he practices management by news cycle,’ a former top
Huckabee aide told me. ‘As with Clinton there was no long-term planning, just
putting out fires on a daily basis. One thing I’ll guarantee is that won’t lead
to competent conservative governance.'”

Mike Huckabee is also terrible on immigration. According
to Jim Boulet, Jr., executive director of English First, “Rudy Giuliani
spent years defending the right of New York City to remain a sanctuary for
illegal aliens. Yet Giuliani was a veritable Lou Dobbs Jr. on illegal
immigration in comparison to Mike Huckabee.”

Regarding Huckabee’s stance on immigration, Mr. Minton
said, “Until of late, he has been an open-borders guy on
immigration–amnesty, the whole works. As governor, he wanted to give free
college scholarships to all illegals.”

Minton’s assertion is backed up by Daniel Larison at The
American Conservative. He said, “Like his fellow presidential candidate
[who recently dropped out of the race], Sen. Sam Brownback, Huckabee regards it
as his Christian duty to help subvert and liberalize U.S. immigration laws.
Together, they embrace the notion that fidelity to the Gospel requires
privileging the interests of non-citizens over those of fellow citizens.”

Ann Coulter agrees: “On illegal immigration,
Huckabee makes George Bush sound like Rep. Tom Tancredo (R-CO). Huckabee has
compared illegal aliens to slaves brought here in chains from Africa, saying,
‘I think, frankly, the Lord is giving us a second chance to do better than we
did before.’

“Toward that end, when an Arkansas legislator
introduced a bill that would prevent illegal aliens from voting and receiving
state benefits, Huckabee denounced the bill, saying it would rile up ‘those who
are racist and bigots.’

“He also made the insane point that companies such
as Toyota would not invest in Arkansas if the state didn’t allow non-citizens
to vote, because it would ‘send the message that, essentially, “If you
don’t look like us, talk like us and speak like us, we don’t want you.”‘

“Like all the (other) Democratic candidates for
President, he supports a federal law to ban smoking–unless you’re an illegal
alien smoking at a Toyota plant.”

A former state lawmaker, Minton also said, that Huckabee
was not a “fiscally conservative Republican.” Rather, Huckabee was
regarded as just another liberal “tax and spender” in fiscal matters.
This is in direct opposition to Huckabee’s boast of “90 tax cuts during
his tenure.” And the facts seem to validate Minton, not Huckabee.

An Arkansas Department of Finance and Administration
report showed a “net tax increase of $505 million, a figure adjusted for
inflation and economic growth” on Huckabee’s watch.

That Huckabee is a liberal “tax and spender” is
also affirmed by Tom Roeser. According to Roeser, “[Huckabee] hiked state
spending 65.3%, from 1996 to 2004. He supported five tax increases, leading the
‘Club for Growth’ to call him a liberal in disguise . . .”

Roeser also points out that “The Cato Institute, a
libertarian think tank with heavy ties to the national GOP, gives him an F
grade for spending and taxes in 2006 and an overall grade of D in his
governorship. During his tenure, the number of state employees increased over
20% and Arkansas’ general obligation debt rose by almost $1 billion.”

Furthermore, according to the Washington Times,
“Until recently, he [Huckabee] had refused to sign the famous no-tax
pledge offered to candidates by Grover Norquist, president of Americans for Tax
Reform.”

In spite of Huckabee’s proven big-government,
big-spending, and pro- amnesty record, however, some Christian conservatives
are falling for his conservative rhetoric. It seems that all a Republican
candidate has to do is start talking “pro-life” and
“pro-marriage” and he or she will gain the support of certain
Christian conservatives.

First it was Bob Jones, III endorsing the liberal former
governor of Massachusetts, Mitt Romney, and now it is Janet Folger endorsing
the liberal former governor of Arkansas, Mike Huckabee. Why any Christian
leader would want to support a man with such a dubious record truly escapes me.

Christians need to beware of Mike Huckabee. He is not a
conservative. Even worse, he is not a constitutionalist. He is an opportunist,
however. This is demonstrated by the fact that many of his supporters are
openly posturing (with Huckabee’s consent, obviously) for an opportunity to run
Huckabee as a potential Vice Presidential candidate with either Giuliani or
Romney at the top of the ticket.

Let me ask the reader something. How could a principled
pro-life, pro- Second Amendment, pro-Constitution conservative be willing to
run on a ticket with a liberal presidential candidate such as Rudy Giuliani or
Mitt Romney? That’s right, he couldn’t.

I say again, beware of Mike Huckabee!

More Reasons To Beware Of Mike Huckabee
by Chuck Baldwin
November 27, 2007

Many Christian conservatives see Mike Huckabee as the
best candidate to deliver the GOP from an impending pro-abortion presidential
nomination of either Rudy Giuliani or Mitt Romney. Huckabee is doing especially
well in Iowa, particularly among evangelicals. Is Mike Huckabee worthy of this
support, however? The facts say no.

I have already attempted to warn my evangelical brethren
as to the dangers of supporting Mike Huckabee. See http://www.chuckbaldwinlive.com/c2007/cbarchive_20071102.html
  However, that first column was just the tip of the
proverbial iceberg. Here are more reasons to beware of Mike Huckabee.

Robert Novak recently wrote a column about Mike Huckabee
entitled, “The False Conservative.” In the column he said,
“Huckabee is campaigning as a conservative, but serious Republicans know
that he is a high-tax, protectionist, big-government advocate of a strong hand
in the Oval Office directing the lives of Americans.”

Novak also said, “There is no doubt about Huckabee’s
record during a decade in Little Rock as governor. . . He increased the
Arkansas tax burden by 47 percent, boosting the levies on gasoline and
cigarettes.”

Novak continued saying, “Quin Hillyer, a former
Arkansas journalist writing in the conservative American Spectator, called
Huckabee ‘a guy with a thin skin, a nasty vindictive streak.’ Huckabee’s retort
was to attack Hillyer’s journalistic procedures, fitting a mean-spirited image
when he responds to conservative criticism.”

Calling Huckabee a proponent of big-government is an
understatement. “If you listen closely, all the things he supports
increase the size, power and cost of government. From subsidies for energy
research to increasing money for health care and government housing, the size,
power, and cost of government will not shrink under a President Mike Huckabee;
they will increase . . . Mr. Huckabee swore an oath to support and defend the
Constitution when he became governor, yet many of his proposals are clearly
unconstitutional.” (Source: David Ulrich, Letter of the Week, World Net
Daily, 10/26/07)

In addition, Dr. Jerome Corsi reports that
“Financial inducements arranged by former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee to
establish a Mexican consular office in Little Rock may have violated state law,
according to an Arkansas attorney.”

Writing for World Net Daily, Dr. Corsi exposed the fact
that Mike Huckabee “worked with some of the state’s most prominent and
politically powerful businesses to establish the [Mexican] consulate as a
magnet for drawing illegal immigrants to the state to accept low-paying
jobs.”

Corsi goes on to report that “Arkansas attorney Chip
Sexton provided WND a written legal brief arguing the state government’s
sublease to Mexico of office space for the consulate was illegal under Arkansas
law. Sexton contended the deal raised questions about the appropriateness of
private citizens and corporations in Arkansas providing financial incentives
for the government of Mexico to locate a consulate office in Little Rock.”

Corsi also writes that “Robert Trevino, commissioner
of Arkansas Rehabilitation Services, told WND he and Huckabee helped arrange
state and private financial support to induce Mexico to establish the consulate
as a business development ‘quid pro quo.’

“Trevino signed on July 7, 2006, a ‘Facilities Use
Agreement’ with Mexican consular officials to rent state government office
space for $1 a year on the second floor of the Arkansas Rehabilitation Services
building at 26 Corporate Hills in Little Rock.”

According to Sexton, not only did subleasing state
government offices to Mexico violate Arkansas state law under Ark. Code Ann.
22-2-114(C)(i) which provides: “After July 1, 1975, no state agency shall
enter into or renew or otherwise negotiate a lease between itself as lessor or
lessee and a nongovernmental or other government lessor or lessee,” but it
was even more offensive in that “there was nothing in the lease or other
agreements that would have prevented the Mexican consulate from providing legal
assistance to illegal aliens.”

In addition, Corsi also exposed the fact that Mike
Huckabee worked with Mexican President Vicente Fox to help provide cheap
Mexican labor for Tyson foods and other large Arkansas corporations. According
to Corsi, “Trevino confirmed he was state director of the League of United
Latin American Citizens, also known as LULAC, an activist group strongly
advocating for the rights of Hispanic immigrants in the U.S., when on Oct. 3,
2003, he accompanied Huckabee in a state airplane to visit [President Vicente]
Fox in Mexico.”

There is more.

The American Spectator reported that “Fourteen
times, the ethics commission–a respected body, not a partisan witch-hunt
group– investigated claims against Huckabee. Five of those times, it
officially reprimanded him. And as only MSNBC among the big national media has
reported at an real length, there were lots of other mini-scandals and
embarrassments along the way.”

Plus, writing for The Washington Times, Greg Pierce
quoted Hillyer as saying, “[Huckabee] used public money for family
restaurant meals, boat expenses, and other personal uses. He tried to claim as
his own some $70,000 of furniture donated to the governor’s mansion. He
repeatedly, and obstinately, against the pleadings even from conservative
columnists and editorials, refused to divulge the names of donors to a
‘charitable’ organization he set up while lieutenant governor–an outfit whose
main charitable purpose seemed to be to pay Huckabee to make speeches. Then, as
a kicker, he misreported the income itself from the suspicious ‘charity.'”

Mike Huckabee’s beliefs and actions even border on the
bizarre. According to David Keene, Chairman of the American Conservative Union,
“GOP presidential wannabe Mike Huckabee suggested that as president he
would, for the good of the people, support a federal anti-smoking law. You see,
as governor, Huckabee supported such laws because, well, he doesn’t like
smoking and doesn’t think folks should indulge in so heath-threatening an
activity. If he could move on up to the presidency, he would continue his
abolitionist crusade at the national level without giving much, if any, thought
to the question of whether the Constitution or anything else would legitimize a
federal ban on smoking.”

I have yet one more word of warning for those
evangelicals supporting Huckabee because he is pro-life: Mike Huckabee will
most definitely support Rudy Giuliani should Giuliani obtain the Republican
nomination. Count on it.

I ask you, how could a committed “pro-life”
conservative support a pro- abortion, pro-gay rights, pro-gun control liberal
such as Rudy Giuliani? He couldn’t.

At the end of the day, however, there is absolutely no
question that Huckabee will support Giuliani (or any other pro-abortion
Republican), because, when all is said and done, Huckabee and his fellow big-
government Republicans have no real commitment to the life issue or to any
other conservative principle.

Let’s say it plainly: Mike Huckabee is just another
big-government, establishment politician who will do nothing to stem the tide
of socialism or fascism (pick your poison) emanating from Washington, D.C.,
these days.

Dear Christian friend, don’t be duped by Mike Huckabee.

© Chuck Baldwin

Huckabee shameful record, Presidential Candidates

Novak outs Huckabee

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http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/11/25/AR2007112501547_pf.html

 

The False
Conservative

By Robert D. Novak
Monday, November 26, 2007; A15

Who would respond to criticism from
the Club for Growth by calling the
conservative, free-market campaign organization the “Club for Greed”?
That sounds like Howard Dean, Dennis
Kucinich or John
Edwards, all Democrats preaching the class struggle. In fact, the rejoinder
comes from Mike
Huckabee, who has broken out of the pack of second-tier Republican
presidential candidates to become a serious contender — definitely in Iowa
and perhaps nationally.

Huckabee is campaigning as a
conservative, but serious Republicans know that he is a high-tax, protectionist
advocate of big government and a strong hand in the Oval
Office directing the lives of Americans. Until now, they did not bother to
expose the former governor of Arkansas
as a false conservative because he seemed an underfunded, unknown nuisance
candidate. Now that he has pulled
even with Mitt
Romney for the Iowa caucuses and might make more progress, the beleaguered
Republican Party has a frightening problem.

The rise of evangelical Christians
as the force that blasted the GOP
out of minority status during the past generation always contained an inherent
danger: What if these new Republican acolytes supported not merely a
conventional conservative but one of their own? That has happened with
Huckabee, a former Baptist minister educated at Ouachita Baptist University and
Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary. The danger is a serious contender
for the nomination who passes the litmus test of social conservatives on
abortion, gay marriage and gun control but is far removed from the
conservative-libertarian model of Barry
Goldwater and Ronald
Reagan.

There is no doubt about Huckabee’s
record during a decade in Little
Rock. He was regarded by fellow Republican governors as a compulsive
tax-and-spender. He increased the Arkansas tax burden 47 percent, boosting the
levies on gasoline and cigarettes. When he lost 100 pounds and decided to press
his new lifestyle on the American people, he was hardly being a
Goldwater-Reagan libertarian.

As a presidential candidate,
Huckabee has sought to counteract his reputation as a taxer by pressing for
replacement of the income tax with a sales tax. More recently he signed the
no-tax-increase pledge of Americans for Tax Reform.
But Huckabee simply does not fit within normal boundaries of economic
conservatism, such as when he criticized President
Bush‘s veto of a Democratic expansion of the State Children’s Health
Insurance Program. Calling global warming a “moral issue” mandating
“a biblical duty” to prevent climate change, he has endorsed a
cap-and-trade system that is anathema to the free market.

Huckabee clearly departs from the
mainstream of the conservative movement in his confusion of “growth”
with “greed.” Such ad hominem attacks are part of his intuitive
response to criticism from the Club
for Growth and the libertarian Cato Institute
about his record as governor. On “Fox
News Sunday” on Nov. 18, he called the
“tactics” of the Club for Growth “some of the most despicable in
politics today. It’s why I love to call them the Club for Greed, because they
won’t tell you who gave their money.” In fact, all contributors to the organization’s
political action committee (which produces campaign ads) are publicly revealed,
as are most donors financing issue ads.

Quin Hillyer, a former Arkansas
journalist writing in the conservative American Spectator, called Huckabee
“a guy with a thin skin, a nasty vindictive streak.” Huckabee’s
retort was to attack Hillyer’s journalistic procedures, fitting a mean-spirited
image when he responds to conservative criticism.

Nevertheless, he is getting
remarkably warm reviews in the news media as the most humorous, entertaining
and interesting GOP presidential hopeful. Contrary to descriptions by old
associates, he is now called “jovial” or “good-natured.”
Any Republican who does not sound much like a Republican is bound to get friendly
press, as Sen. John
McCain did in 2000 (but not today, with his return to acting more like a
conventional Republican).

An uncompromising foe of abortion
can never enjoy full media backing. But Mike
Huckabee is getting enough favorable buzz that, when combined with his
evangelical base, it makes real conservatives shudder.

 

Huckabee illegal Consulate, Huckabee shameful record, Presidential Candidates

Pastor Baldwin exposes Huckabee

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http://www.newswithviews.com/baldwin/baldwin414.htm

 

MORE REASONS TO BEWARE
OF MIKE HUCKABEE

 

 

By Pastor Chuck Baldwin

November 27, 2007

NewsWithViews.com

Many Christian
conservatives see Mike Huckabee as the best candidate to deliver the GOP from
an impending pro-abortion presidential nomination of either Rudy Giuliani or
Mitt Romney. Huckabee is doing especially well in Iowa, particularly among
evangelicals. Is Mike Huckabee worthy of this support, however? The facts say
no.

I have already
attempted to warn my evangelical brethren as to the dangers of supporting Mike
Huckabee. See
here. However, that first column was just the tip of the proverbial
iceberg. Here are more reasons to beware of Mike Huckabee.

Robert Novak
recently wrote a column about Mike Huckabee entitled, “The
False Conservative.” In the column he said, “Huckabee is
campaigning as a conservative, but serious Republicans know that he is a
high-tax, protectionist, big-government advocate of a strong hand in the Oval
Office directing the lives of Americans.”

Novak also
said, “There is no doubt about Huckabee’s record during a decade in Little
Rock as governor. . . He increased the Arkansas tax burden by 47 percent,
boosting the levies on gasoline and cigarettes.”

Novak continued
saying, “Quin Hillyer, a former Arkansas journalist writing in the
conservative American Spectator, called Huckabee ‘a guy with a thin skin, a
nasty vindictive streak.’ Huckabee’s retort was to attack Hillyer’s
journalistic procedures, fitting a mean-spirited image when he responds to
conservative criticism.”

Calling
Huckabee a proponent of big-government is an understatement. “If you
listen closely, all the things he supports increase the size, power and cost of
government. From subsidies for energy research to increasing money for health
care and government housing, the size, power, and cost of government will not
shrink under a President Mike Huckabee; they will increase . . . Mr. Huckabee
swore an oath to support and defend the Constitution when he became governor, yet
many of his proposals are clearly unconstitutional.” (Source: David
Ulrich, Letter of the Week, World Net Daily, 10/26/07)

In addition,
Dr. Jerome Corsi reports that “Financial inducements arranged by former
Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee to establish a Mexican consular office in Little
Rock may have violated state law, according to an Arkansas attorney.”

Writing for
World Net Daily, Dr. Corsi exposed the fact that Mike Huckabee “worked
with some of the state’s most prominent and politically powerful businesses to
establish the [Mexican] consulate as a magnet for drawing illegal immigrants to
the state to accept low-paying jobs.”

Corsi goes on
to report that “Arkansas attorney Chip Sexton provided WND a written legal
brief arguing the state government’s sublease to Mexico of office space for the
consulate was illegal under Arkansas law. Sexton contended the deal raised
questions about the appropriateness of private citizens and corporations in
Arkansas providing financial incentives for the government of Mexico to locate
a consulate office in Little Rock.”

Corsi also
writes that “Robert Trevino, commissioner of Arkansas Rehabilitation
Services, told WND he and Huckabee helped arrange state and private financial
support to induce Mexico to establish the consulate as a business development
‘quid pro quo.’

“Trevino
signed on July 7, 2006, a ‘Facilities Use Agreement’ with Mexican consular
officials to rent state government office space for $1 a year on the second
floor of the Arkansas Rehabilitation Services building at 26 Corporate Hills in
Little Rock.”

According to
Sexton, not only did subleasing state government offices to Mexico violate
Arkansas state law under Ark. Code Ann. 22-2-114(C)(i) which provides:
“After July 1, 1975, no state agency shall enter into or renew or
otherwise negotiate a lease between itself as lessor or lessee and a
nongovernmental or other government lessor or lessee,” but it was even
more offensive in that “there was nothing in the lease or other agreements
that would have prevented the Mexican consulate from providing legal assistance
to illegal aliens.”

In addition,
Corsi also exposed the fact that Mike Huckabee worked with Mexican President
Vicente Fox to help provide cheap Mexican labor for Tyson foods and other large
Arkansas corporations. According to Corsi, “Trevino confirmed he was state
director of the League of United Latin American Citizens, also known as LULAC,
an activist group strongly advocating for the rights of Hispanic immigrants in
the U.S., when on Oct. 3, 2003, he accompanied Huckabee in a state airplane to
visit [President Vicente] Fox in Mexico.”

There is more.

The American
Spectator reported that “Fourteen times, the ethics commission–a
respected body, not a partisan witch-hunt group–investigated claims against
Huckabee. Five of those times, it officially reprimanded him. And as only MSNBC
among the big national media has reported at an real length, there were lots of
other mini-scandals and embarrassments along the way.”

Plus, writing
for The Washington Times, Greg Pierce quoted Hillyer as saying,
“[Huckabee] used public money for family restaurant meals, boat expenses,
and other personal uses. He tried to claim as his own some $70,000 of furniture
donated to the governor’s mansion. He repeatedly, and obstinately, against the
pleadings even from conservative columnists and editorials, refused to divulge
the names of donors to a ‘charitable’ organization he set up while lieutenant
governor–an outfit whose main charitable purpose seemed to be to pay Huckabee
to make speeches. Then, as a kicker, he misreported the income itself from the
suspicious ‘charity.'”

Mike Huckabee’s
beliefs and actions even border on the bizarre. According to David Keene,
Chairman of the American Conservative Union, “GOP presidential wannabe
Mike Huckabee suggested that as president he would, for the good of the people,
support a federal anti-smoking law. You see, as governor, Huckabee supported
such laws because, well, he doesn’t like smoking and doesn’t think folks should
indulge in so heath-threatening an activity. If he could move on up to the
presidency, he would continue his abolitionist crusade at the national level
without giving much, if any, thought to the question of whether the
Constitution or anything else would legitimize a federal ban on smoking.”

I have yet one
more word of warning for those evangelicals supporting Huckabee because he is
pro-life: Mike Huckabee will most definitely support Rudy Giuliani should
Giuliani obtain the Republican nomination. Count on it.

I ask you, how
could a committed “pro-life” conservative support a pro-abortion,
pro-gay rights, pro-gun control liberal such as Rudy Giuliani? He couldn’t.

At the end of
the day, however, there is absolutely no question that Huckabee will support
Giuliani (or any other pro-abortion Republican), because, when all is said and
done, Huckabee and his fellow big-government Republicans have no real
commitment to the life issue or to any other conservative principle.

Let’s say it
plainly: Mike Huckabee is just another big-government, establishment politician
who will do nothing to stem the tide of socialism or fascism (pick your poison)
emanating from Washington, D.C., these days.

Dear Christian
friend, don’t be duped by Mike Huckabee.

 

Huckabee shameful record, Presidential Candidates

Huckabee & Copeland, a marriage made in heaven?

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Excerpts from news story  11/18/07……..followed by observations.

Huckabee links with
evangelist for 6 TV spots

Copeland finances under review

BY FRANK LOCKWOOD ARKANSAS
DEMOCRAT-GAZETTE Copyright � 2007, Arkansas Democrat-Gazette, Inc.

Republican presidential candidate
Mike Huckabee will appear on national television this month with a Texas
televangelist whose teachings have been branded “heretical” and whose lavish
spending has sparked a congressional inquiry.

Huckabee, a minister and former head
of the Arkansas Baptist State Convention, will sit down with Fort Worth
preacher Kenneth Copeland “for six days of frank discussion on the biblical
perspective of character, and the vital relevance true character has to the
Church today,” a full-page advertisement in the December issue of Charisma
magazine proclaims………………

Copeland, 70, worked as a copilot for faith healer Oral Roberts and
took classes at Oral Roberts University in the 1960s, before dropping
out to enter full-time ministry.

Today, he oversees a worldwide religious empire with offices in the
United States, South Africa, Australia, Canada, the United Kingdom and
Ukraine.

The Texan teaches that Jesus was a wealthy man, and that all of
Christ’s faithful followers are entitled to physical health and
financial prosperity. But to receive, you must give first, because
“giving is the key that opens the door” to blessings, the preacher
states on his Web site. The evangelist also teaches that anyone can be
healed of any infirmity – provided they have sufficient faith.

Copeland is a mentor for other prosperity gospel preachers and
according to his magazine, he has helped provide 26 airplanes to fellow
ministries.

Copeland and his wife have also given $4,600 to the Huckabee
campaign, the evangelist told the Democrat-Gazette earlier this month…………………


In his book, Christianity in Crisis, Christian Research Institute
President Hank Hanegraaff writes that Kenneth Copeland Ministries
“bears all the marks of a cult.”

Copeland’s nonprofit agency
rakes in untold millions of dollars. Because it is classified as a
church, it does not have to release key financial data like other
nonprofits do. MinistryWatch, an organization that monitors Christian
ministries, gives Kenneth Copeland Ministries an “F” grade for
transparency, saying it has not released a detailed budget.

An investigator with a Dallas-based televangelist watchdog group,
says Copeland preys on desperate people. “It’s extremely sad and
heartbreaking that these people are giving their last dollars and
expecting to get either a financial or a physical healing,” said Pete
Evans of the Trinity Foundation. “He’s certainly a snake-oil salesman.
He’s promising healings that he can’t deliver.”




Huckabee & Copeland, a marriage made in heaven?   Wow, the Huckster attracts from Chuck Norris
to Kenneth Copeland. Kenneth Copeland claims direct contact with God while
siphoning off millions and Huck is working on his next shtick…political office
or religious icon?   Showbiz and one-liners
reign supreme.  Hallelujah.

 

Makes for one REALLY big show.  Make way for the ultimate shell
game/Kabuki/smoke & mirrors performance.

 

Come one, come all to the final demise of the U.S. and
the Enlightenment/Founders…given up by the so-called citizens of said country
who have no idea (by design) what they are doing or why….heck, they don’t even
understand the original intent, thanks to the Huckster and untold others.

 

Huckabee, Copeland, Keyes, et al ride in on their “values”
horse with their altruistic (your life belongs to others not yourself) messages
meant to obfuscate and disarm.  Lucky for
us the Founders never heard of it, nor would they have fallen for it, because “altruism”
was not invented until the late 1700’s by Auguste Comte, a philosopher
dedicated to the destruction of reason and individualism.

 

It is astounding that in 2007 so many people still listen
to sanctimonious words and don’t bother to check facts, fail to understand or
value our Founding Principles, and hand over their independent thinking to
con-men and criminals because it is easier than doing the work necessary to
wade through all the lies and subterfuge. The path of least resistance is also
the fastest path to destruction.

 


Huckabee shameful record, Presidential Candidates

Why does Chuck Norris continue to beat the drums for Huckabee?

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Chuck Norris
continues to beat the drums for Mike Huckabee’s presidential campaign.  He cites the information on Huckabee’s website
as proof of his character, beliefs, and record in spite of the fact that
numbers of people have sent him factual information to the contrary…..WHY?

Could it be
that he is not the totally honest character he portrays?  Why should a man of his fame risk his
reputation on the Huckster?  Because he
doesn’t think it is a risk and/or has an even stronger motive?

Upon a bit
of investigation, Norris had or has an extremely lucrative, EXCLUSIVE deal with
Wal-Mart for the sales of his exercise machine and other items.  Huckabee was governor of Arkansas for 10
years , home office of Wal-Mart.  While
Huckabee was governor, this corporation, along with Tyson’s and many others
went virtually untouched concerning their use, exploitation, and employment of
illegal aliens, and their profits grew (but the prices didn’t go down).  Others were banks (e.g. Arvest, owned by
Wal-Mart), mortgage companies, government taxpayer paid programs….welfare,
healthcare (prenatal included), education, ad infinitum…mostly for illegal
aliens.  Huckabee created Arkids 1st
which gives healthcare to illegal kids which he vehemently declared was not
welfare since recipients had to pay tiny co-pay.   Not to
be forgotten is the funding of billions for churches who offer sanctuary
services.

Then there
is the matter of Huckabee’s illegal Mexican Consulate in Little Rock.  In defiance of Article 1, Section 10 of the
U.S. Constitution which forbids states making deals with foreign entities, he
traveled to Mexico to broker a deal for a Consulate which acts as a clearing
house for illegal Mexicans. Then he used taxpayer money to subsidize it. In
just 6 months, they already can’t keep up with numbers of illegals seeking
Matricula Consular I.D. cards, which aren’t even accepted on their own by the
Mexican government…but accepted by all sorts of U.S. predator businesses/agencies
greedy for every buck they can squeeze, regardless of the consequences to the
country or our citizens.

 All are magnets to attract an endless supply
of cheap/slave labor;  help force growth of
government agencies/programs; new customers for financial institutions and
businesses, resulting in billions sent out of our economy, home to foreign
countries…why else the wide array of open-border advocates?

Bingo?  Money and power are the keys to success…ethics
out, bottom-line in.  And the protection
racket employed by government entities/corporations/churches works very well
with an uniformed, apathetic citizenry.

Another interesting connection to Wal-Mart is the fact that
many ex-employees of the state now work for Wal-Mart.  A notable example is one Joe Quinn who was
employed by the Dept. of Human Svcs. before being hired as Policy Director for
Huckabee’s office, at which time the state announced it would no longer keep
records of the number of Wal-Mart employees on any kind of welfare.  Subsequently he went to work for Wal-Mart as
Director of State Healthcare Policy.  (Check
the flight log of the Arkansas State Police airplane for Gov. Huckabee’s trips,
along with Joe Quinn on arkansasfreedom.net
along with expanded details of the above)

Chuck Norris
appears to be just another shill for Big Biz/Big Government/Big Church…the
enemies of individual rights including property, life, liberty & the
pursuit of happiness, i.e. our Founding Constitution which makes slaves of no
one, but makes everyone responsible for themselves…which tells us why it is so
feared and vilified.

Citizens
must no longer just listen to words; they must check the factual records
wherever possible, especially in such vital events as elections!

Restore our
Constitution.  Ron Paul for President,
check his record.  Our very last chance.

Huckabee shameful record, Presidential Candidates

Chucking the Huckster

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http://worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=58629


WND Exclusive Commentary


Chucking the Huckster

Posted: November 12, 2007
1:00 a.m. Eastern





U.S. Rep. Ron Paul

Far be it from me to defy the force that is Chuck Norris. After
all, it is a recognized fact that we are not living in a democracy, but
rather a Chucktatorship. It is less well-known, however, that Chuck
Norris does not actually write his columns here at WND, they simply
assemble themselves out of fear.

While it is good to see that the living legend has not fallen
for the Hillary-lite candidates offered by the Republican Party elite,
I fear that in rejecting the Tennessee Toad as well as the
media-approved triumvirate of Romney, Giuliani and McCain, he has
bought into the charade of a second-rate Arkansas charlatan.

There is no doubting that Mike Huckabee talks a promising game,
but that is a job requirement for a preacher or a self-help guru, not a
president. Unfortunately, Huckabee’s gubernatorial record, as chronicled in no little detail last week by Ilana Mercer,
is more than spotty, it is downright rife with the very sort of warning
signs that many conservatives now wish that they had heeded when George
W. Bush was first running for president.

Moreover, like most of the other candidates, Huckabee is
unelectable because he basically mimics Hillary’s position on the two
primary issues of the election cycle. He is pro-occupation,
pro-imperial and pro-delusional, being very hawkish on dealing with the
imaginary threat posed by Iran, while at the same time being dovish on
the matter of the actual invasion of the country by tens of millions of
foreign nationals. One has to wonder if Huckabee would change his mind
were Iranians physically to invade the country armed only with infants
instead of pursuing a weapons technology in the obvious interest of
avoiding a third American-sponsored overthrow of their government in
the last 50 years.

Now, Mr. Norris did a nice job last week
of demonstrating that Huckabee is less egregiously anti-American than
most of his fellow Republican candidates on the issue of the ongoing
Mexican migration. However, in doing so, he missed two key points. The
first is the way in which history shows very clearly that the effects
of a migration of this size, legal or illegal, will permanently alter
the target culture. One need only analyze Mexican history to realize
that the politics of Spanish-speaking immigrants are, quite literally,
entirely foreign to the American political spectrum and they are more
likely to change the American spectrum than they are to be shaped by
it.

(Column continues below)

Second, and more importantly, Norris and Huckabee are both
confusing government policies with private religious responsibilities.
One cannot be “charitable” via the mechanism of government nor can one
impose “Christian” measures through the passage of laws and
regulations; this is the same socially liberal thinking which
left-wingers use to justify anti-poverty programs. To use the example
of children coming to Jesus Christ as an argument for anchor babies and
against the deportation of underage illegal immigrants borders on the
blasphemous, as the analogy equates American citizenship with
Christianity and the federal government with Jesus Christ.

Huckabee is in many ways the philosophical successor to George
W. Bush, and as such, it should be no surprise that he appeals to the
same sort of Christian conservative who bought into the vision of
“compassionate conservativism.” But the vision is a false one, a
deceptive one, and just as many Christian conservatives now regret
their 2000 and 2004 votes for the current president, those who support
Huckabee would likely come to regret that support in the unlikely event
that the man should gain traction over the course of the early
primaries and go on to upset Mitt Romney and the other frontrunners.

The reality that Christians must keep in mind is this: Any
Republican candidate who does not abide strictly by the U.S.
Constitution is an oathbreaker and a proven liar. His words are
meaningless, his promises are null and void, because he has already
demonstrated that he will not hesitate to break his word in the
interest of exercising political power.

Mike Huckabee may be a good man, but like most of his rivals,
he has openly stated that he has no intention of abiding by the
Constitution. Therefore, he should be rejected as a potential president
by every Christian, every conservative and every constitutionalist,
especially in light of the fact that there is another candidate whose
personal integrity and respect for the Constitution are unquestioned,
even by his enemies. I suggest, therefore, that it is Ron Paul, and not
Mike Huckabee, who is far worthier of the martial arts master’s regard.




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is a Christian libertarian opinion columnist. He is a member of the
SFWA, Mensa and IGDA, and has been down with Madden since 1992. Visit
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Huckabee: Wishy-Washy Republican

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MIKE
HUCKABEE: WISHY-WASHY REPUBLICAN

By
Richard A. Viguerie

Some voters pining for a principled conservative Republican
presidential candidate are pinning their hopes on former governor of Arkansas
Mike Huckabee.  But while Gov. Huckabee stands strong on some issues like
abortion that are important to social conservatives, a careful examination of
his record as governor reveals that he is just another wishy-washy Republican
who enthusiastically promotes big government. 

> 
>The Baptist preacher entered politics in an unlikely way for a
Republican—as the result of a meeting with Joycelyn Elders, reports The New
Republic.  As director of the Arkansas department of health under
Gov. Bill Clinton, Dr. Elders opined that preachers should “stop moralizing
from the pulpit”.  Spinning into damage-control mode, Gov. Clinton asked
Mike Huckabee, head of the Arkansas Baptist State Convention, to meet with Dr.
Elders.  Rev. Huckabee came away from that meeting uncomfortably impressed
with the “lady who genuinely believes what she’s saying and is deep in her
convictions”.  He reasoned, “[I]f people like her are creating the public
policies that will determine how our kids are going to be educated, and the
atmosphere, then maybe we need to get out of the stands and get out on the
field and get our jerseys dirty.”

> 
>But while Mike Huckabee praises Dr. Elders for her dedication to her own
beliefs, he has disparaged principled conservatives as “blind
purists”.   And his record as governor certainly suggests that Mike
Huckabee is not as firm in his devotion to conservative ideals as the former
U.S. Surgeon General remains to liberal notions. 

> 
> â€œA fiscal conservative is a person who truly understands that it’s
not a problem in the federal government that our taxes are too low,” the former
governor told the crowd at CPAC in 2007.  “It’s a problem that our
spending is too high and out of control.” 

> 
>But by Gov. Huckabee’s own definition, there’s serious reason to doubt
that he’s a truly fiscal conservative himself. 

> 
>Much of conservatives’ concern about Gov. Huckabee centers on his record
of raising taxes.  He signed Americans for Tax Reform’s no-tax pledge, but
only after dismissing such covenants as dangerous.  He blasts the fiscally
conservative Club for Growth as the “Club for Greed”.  He publicly opposed
repealing a tax on groceries and medicine, though he claims that he’s “always
philosophically supported” axing the tax.  According to ATR, after his 10
years in office, Gov. Huckabee had raised the state’s sales tax by 37 percent,
motor fuel taxes by 16 percent, and cigarette taxes by 103 percent. 

> 
>Not surprisingly, all these tax increases allowed for greater
spending.  According to Americans for Tax Reform, state spending under Gov.
Huckabee rose by 65.3 percent during 1996 to 2004.  The number of workers
on the state’s payroll increased by 20 percent during his tenure, and its
general debt obligation rose by nearly $1 billion.  The spending increase
is due largely to the creation of new government programs and the expansion of
existing ones. 

> 
>Though he told The Washington Times that he supports “empowering
people to make their own decisions”, Gov. Huckabee has consistently initiated
and supported government meddling in the market economy.  Not only did he
increase Arkansas’s minimum wage from $5.15 to $6.25 per hour, but he even
encouraged the U.S. Congress to do the same thing nationally.  He ordered
Arkansas regulatory agencies to investigate “price-gouging” in the nursing-home
industry and threatened to launch a government investigation of “gouging” on
gas prices after September 11, 2001.  He signed a bill forbidding private
companies from increasing prices on services like roof repair and tree removal
by 10 percent in advance of a natural disaster. 

> 
>He is on record in support of big government programs that elbow out
private-sector solutions.  For instance, Gov. Huckabee drove ARKids first,
a multimillion-dollar government program to provide health insurance for 70,000
children.  He supported President George W. Bush’s 2003 massive expansion
of Medicare by adding a prescription-drug benefit.  He called the No Child
Left Behind Act, which increased federal education spending by 48 percent and
expanded big-government control of local schools, “the greatest education
reform effort of the federal government in my lifetime”.  Although
Huckabee advocates a fence along the entire U.S.-Mexico border, as governor he
proposed granting in-state tuition rates to illegal aliens. 

> 
>Mike Huckabee’s wishy-washiness is perhaps best exemplified in the story
of Wayne Dumond, the most bizarre and tragic episode of the governor’s entire
tenure.  A few weeks after taking office, Gov. Huckabee announced his
intention to free Mr. Dumond, who had served seven years of a life+20 sentence
for the kidnapping and rape of a 17-year-old girl.  The following month,
the governor met with the parole board; soon afterwards, the board voted to
free Mr. Dumond on the condition that he move to another state. 

> 
>Although he told National Review that he “executed more people
than any governor in the history of” Arkansas, Gov. Huckabee insists that the
“concept of Christian forgiveness requires that we keep open the process of
parole” even for violent felons. 

> 
>The parole board’s action made Mr. Dumond’s pardon application
unnecessary, so Gov. Huckabee denied the pardon but sent him a letter
affirming, “My desire is that you be released from prison.  I feel that
parole is the best way for your reintroduction to society to take place.”

> 
>Mr. Dumond’s release was delayed because no other state would take the
convicted rapist.  After two and one-half more years, the parole board set
him free in Arkansas.  The following year, he moved to Missouri, where he
sexually assaulted and murdered a 39-year-old woman. 

> 
>As the predictable political fireworks burst all around him, Gov.
Huckabee tried to hide behind the claim that he had denied Mr. Dumond’s pardon
application.  “My only official action was to deny his clemency,” Gov.
Huckabee insists, defensively glossing over his oft-stated earlier preference
for Mr. Dumond to go free. 

> 
>Gov. Huckabee’s poor judgment in the Dumond case is serious, but his
failure to acknowledge responsibility publicly is truly disgraceful in a man
who would be president. 

> 
>But it fits the pattern of his inability to hold a principled stance with
courage and conviction.  Gov. Huckabee called no-tax pledges
“irresponsible” but then signed one.  He wants to fence illegal immigrants
out, but to give them cheap tuition while they’re here.  He calls
conservatives “blind purists” but poses as one of us. 

> 
>One who has cut through the fog of Gov. Huckabee’s wishy-washiness and
found something she likes is the woman who’s indirectly responsible for his political
career.  Joycelyn Elders says she’s “truly impressed.  I feel he
really did things that I appreciated.”  

Huckabee shameful record, Presidential Candidates

Huck’s for Huck–Paul’s for America

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Huck’s for Huck – Paul’s for America

Posted: November 9, 2007
1:00 a.m. Eastern





Phyllis Schlafly, conservatism’s “first lady,” had this to say about
presidential candidate and former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee: “He
destroyed the conservative movement in Arkansas and left the Republican
Party a shambles, yet some of the same evangelicals who sold us on
George W. Bush as a ‘compassionate conservative’ are now trying to sell
us on Huckabee.”

“He has zero intellectual underpinnings in the conservative
movement,” another of Huckabee’s countless conservative detractors told
the Wall Street Journal’s John Fund. “He’s hostile to free trade, hiked
sales and grocery taxes, backed sales taxes on Internet purchases, and
presided over state spending going up more than twice the inflation
rate.”

“[Huckabee] was pro-life and pro-gun, but otherwise a liberal,”
reveals Betsy Hagan. The Arkansas director of the conservative Eagle
Forum was a key backer of Huckabee’s early runs for office, and was
once “his No. 1 fan,” explains Fund. Hagan now cautions that, “Just
like Bill Clinton [Huckabee] will charm you, but don’t be surprised if
he takes a completely different turn in office.”

So too has Quin Hillyer of the American Spectator been
out-and-about chatting to folks in Arkansas. A fair number of them
describe Huckabee disdainfully as “a guy with a thin skin, a nasty
vindictive streak and a long history of imbroglios about questionable
ethics.” For instance, Huckabee used public money to fund his family’s
Falstaffian appetites, and “tried to claim as his own some $70,000 of
furniture donated to the governor’s mansion.” He was also in the habit
of scolding “the media for reporting [his] transgressions rather than
demanding that the transgressors make things right.” Consequently,
Huckabee had been investigated 14 times and reprimanded five times by
the ethics commission.

(Column continues below)

Like Michael Dukakis, Huckabee waded into the moral miasma of
penal abolition. Dukakis, the Democratic presidential nominee in 1988,
fought to secure a prison furlough for convicted murderer Willie
Horton. Horton went on to assault a Massachusetts man and rape his
fiancée during his recreational weekend off. Wayne Dumond, the
recipient of Huckabee’s helping hand, raped and murdered a Missouri
woman. When asked about his difficult-to-defend role “in an apparently illegal and unrecorded closed-door meeting with the parole board lobbying on behalf of a rapist,” Huckabee has offered a thesaurus of excuses.

On economics, Huckabee is also a habitual offender. The Club for
Growth, which is dedicated to promoting a “low-tax and
limited-government agenda,” has few good things to say about him.
Apparently, there is nothing invisible about Huckabee’s heavy
regulatory hand. His consistent contempt for the taxpayer has earned
him “a lifetime grade of D from the free-market Cato Institute.” “By
the end of his 10-year tenure,” writes the Club’s Andrew Roth, “Gov.
Huckabee was responsible for a 37 percent higher sales tax in Arkansas,
16 percent higher motor fuel taxes, and 103 percent higher cigarette
taxes.” State spending under Huckabee increased a whopping 65.3 percent
from 1996 to 2004, three times the rate of inflation.

GDP growth declines as the government’s share of the GDP rises.
Huckabee, that economic wrecking ball, inaugurated new programs and
expanded existing ones so that “the number of state government workers
rose 20 percent during his tenure, and the state’s general obligation
debt shot up by almost $1 billion.”

Needless to say, Huckabee hopped for joy when George Bush, his
evil ideological twin, passed a prescription-drug benefit that would
add trillions to the Medicare shortfall. But not even Bush stooped as
low as to support raising the minimum wage. As someone possessing “zero
intellectual underpinnings in the conservative movement,” Huckabee
obliged. Understandably, he was incapable of grasping that fixing the
price of labor above market rate or the employee’s productivity
increases unemployment among the poor and the unskilled.

Huckabee’s philosophically limp conservatism led him to slip
between the sheets with the Democrats in his support for expanding the
SCHIP health-care program, and favoring the “cap-and-trade system to
limit global-warming emissions.” The last is a scam that’ll cause
massive job and income loss.

“F” for immigration: That’s how Roy Beck, president of “Numbers
USA,” has graded Huckabee on that front. It’s only fair to point out
that by sheer fluke Huckabee reversed his left-liberal stand on illegal
immigration when he decided to run for president.

The CAFTA and NAFTA so-called trade agreements are not free trade, but managed
trade. This is why Rep. Ron Paul, Mr. Liberty himself, has rejected
these usurpations. The Hegelian Huckabee, however, has sided with the
statists who’d sooner subordinate America’s sovereignty and allow
powerful, unaccountable bureaucracies to dictate the terms of trade.

Indeed, Ron Paul is the gold standard for personal and
political principles. “When it comes to limited government, there are
few champions as steadfast and principled as Rep. Ron Paul,” vouches
the Club for Growth. “On taxes, regulation and political free speech
his record is outstanding.”

Who other than Dr. Paul has “voted nine out of nine times against raising his own pay”? Who other than Dr. Paul has refused to partake in the obscene congressional pension scheme, a veritable shakedown of the indentured taxpayer?

Nicknamed “Dr. No” for voting against all legislation that isn’t expressly authorized by the Constitution, Ron Paul has never voted for an unbalanced budget; never voted for a federal restriction on gun ownership; never voted to increase the power of the executive branch; and never taken a government-paid junket.

And he voted no on the Iraq war.

Huckabee, on the other hand, is as wasteful about lives and
limbs as he is about material assets not his own. During a recent
presidential debate, he recommended goose-stepping Americans into
supporting the Iraq war: “We can’t be divided. We have to be one nation
under God. That means if we make a mistake, we make it as a single
country: the United States of America, not the divided states of
America.” How convenient; Huckabee wishes to collectivize the
responsibility for the wrongs he went along with.

To this fascistic folderol, Dr. Paul replied: “No, when we make
a mistake, it is the obligation of the people, through their
representatives, to correct the mistake, not to continue the mistake.”

And it is the obligation of evangelicals to heed Mrs. Schlafly
and refrain from “selling” Americans on another confidence trickster
worthy of a P.T. Barnum circus, not of higher office.

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Ilana Mercer is the author of “Broad Sides: One Woman’s Clash With A Corrupt Culture.” She is a fellow at the Jerusalem Institute for Market Studies, an independent, nonprofit, economic policy think tank. To learn more about her work, visit IlanaMercer.com. If you would like to comment on this column, go to Ilana’s blog.