Huckabee Plots a Presidential Comeback?

WakeWashington »

Thu Mar 20, 2008 3:44 am Agree: 0   Disagree: 3

More of the usual Folger "brilliance."

Alll we need on the ticket is a corrupt has-been like Huckabee who has based a campaign on bigotry, given a well-receives speech to the nation's largest white supremacy group - the Council of Conservative Citizens - and freed a rapist from jail who went on to commit murder.

Romney’s Pullout Big Opportunity for Huckabee

WakeWashington »

Sun Feb 10, 2008 8:56 pm Agree: 0   Disagree: 4

Huckabee is the most ethics-challenged candidate. If he stays in the race, Democrats are going to show how easy he has had it up to now.

They have been holding their fire, waiting to make the most of an easy kill. This summer when the moment seems just right, they’ll start off with his sellout to the tobacco industry and all of his ethics violations and his misuse of public office for personal greed.

The “wedding” gift registry he used to shake people down after leaving the governor’s office won’t seem like a big deal at first.

But Democrats will expand on the picture of greed, bringing up the Jonesboro school shooting and how Huckabee promised survivors no one would profit from it, only to cut a book deal a few days later and reject pleas to share the proceeds in the form of scholarships.

Use of another Huckabee book will start establishing his dishonesty along with his greed, when Democrats start having fun with what they’ll portray as his pretense that dieting took 110 pounds off him, rather than bariatric surgery or some similar procedure.

At this point some fringe blog will use public doubt about Huckabee’s character to seek traction for a charge that will attract heavy web site traffic when played correctly: the dog torture incident.

Everyone knows there is something seriously wrong in a family when a teen old enough to be a Boy Scout counselor tortures or helps torture a dog: It was hung by a wire, stoned and had its throat slit.

Democrats will say it is especially wrong when the crime is minimized and the father steps between the son and a state police investigation, then fires the guy who would not immediately back off. The guy who says he suffered the injustice loves an audience and liberal mainstream media will be only too happy to provide him one at the perfect time. Juicy!

Then they will take Huckabee to task for granting convicted criminals 1,033 pardons and commutations of sentence – about twice as many acts of amnesty as his three predecessors in the governors office combined.

After Huckabee pressured a parole board to release a sex offender early, the rapist went on to murder a mother in Missouri. And people who don’t have a special loyalty to Huckabee are going to be outraged by this as it gets more and more attention.

He pardoned or commuted the sentences of 669 criminals, including 11 murderers. And this time instead of media playing down the evangelical connection, it is going to be played up.

The way Democrats will portray it, criminals who said they were saved will have used pastors to get special consideration from Huckabee. And you know they’ll ask if the pastors and Huckabee got anything in return, and they’ll ask in a way that implies corruption. (Remember all the ethics violations and gift demands?)

Liberal mainstream media may wait for fringe blogs to raise these subjects, but then they’ll report on what the blogs have been saying with glee. It won’t be pretty.

Huckabee Fights Off Rumor of Quitting Race

WakeWashington »

Sat Feb 02, 2008 12:01 pm Agree: 0   Disagree: 5

If Huckabee has anything to do with a GOP presidential campaign after Super Tuesday, the Democrats are going to make it look like Romney was taking it pretty easy on him.

This summer when the moment seems just right, they’ll start off with his sellout to the tobacco industry and all of his ethics violations and his misuse of public office for personal greed.

The “wedding” gift registry he used to shake people down after leaving the governor’s office won’t seem like a big deal at first.

But Democrats will expand on the picture of greed, bringing up the Jonesboro school shooting and how Huckabee promised survivors no one would profit from it, only to cut a book deal a few days later and reject pleas to share the proceeds in the form of scholarships.

Use of another Huckabee book will start establishing his dishonesty along with his greed, when Democrats start having fun with what they’ll portray as his pretense that dieting took 110 pounds off him, rather than bariatric surgery or some similar procedure.

At this point some fringe blog will use public doubt about Huckabee’s character to seek traction for a charge that will attract heavy web site traffic when played correctly: the dog torture incident.

Everyone knows there is something seriously wrong in a family when a teen old enough to be a Boy Scout counselor tortures or helps torture a dog: It was hung by a wire, stoned and had its throat slit.

Democrats will say it is especially wrong when the crime is minimized and the father steps between the son and a state police investigation, then fires the guy who would not immediately back off. The guy who says he suffered the injustice loves an audience and liberal mainstream media will be only too happy to provide him one at the perfect time. Juicy!

Then they will take Huckabee to task for granting convicted criminals 1,033 pardons and commutations of sentence – about twice as many acts of amnesty as his three predecessors in the governors office combined.

After Huckabee pressured a parole board to release a sex offender early, the rapist went on to murder a mother in Missouri. And people who don’t have a special loyalty to Huckabee are going to be outraged by this as it gets more and more attention.

He pardoned or commuted the sentences of 669 criminals, including 11 murderers. And this time instead of media playing down the evangelical connection, it is going to be played up.

The way Democrats will portray it, criminals who said they were saved will have used pastors to get special consideration from Huckabee. And you know they’ll ask if the pastors and Huckabee got anything in return, and they’ll ask in a way that implies corruption. (Remember all the ethics violations and gift demands?)

Liberal mainstream media may wait for fringe blogs to raise these subjects, but then they’ll report on what the blogs have been saying with glee. It won’t be pretty.

Huckabee Mum on Romney's Mormon Faith

WakeWashington »

Thu Dec 06, 2007 9:42 am Agree: 0   Disagree: 0

The speech may not hurt Huckabiuliani much, but it sure won't help their team efforts in the early states.

It may be overshadowed by news stories on kinfolk of a murder victim blaming Huckabee for the Missouri killing.

Romney Advised Not to Equate Mormons, Christians

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Thu Nov 01, 2007 12:49 am Agree: 1   Disagree: 0

Richard Land is basically back to his indirect campaigning for the underwhelming Fred Thompson in this piece.

When constantly asked as the “candidate who is Mormon” about religious beliefs, Romney has no honest response than to say he considers Jesus his Lord and savior, and Land knows this.

Anything short of that would be justifiably jumped on by mainstream media as abandoning the basic beliefs of Romney's church.

For much of the church’s history, it has sought to distinguish itself from creedal Christianity; it considers this important enough to use an image of Jesus as an icon in media rather than the crosses used by Protestants and Catholics.

You’ll see plenty of pictures of Jesus at a Mormon church, but you won’t see a cross. That may be part of the reason Land wasn’t challenged immediately by Bloomberg journalists on the bizarre suggestion that Romney should back away from his public testimony of Jesus for fear of offending “half the Evangelicals.”

Were Romney crazy enough to downplay his testimony of Christ, Land knows reporters would race to www.lds.org in a New York minute to find the “gotcha” information that Mormons believe in a Biblical Jesus.

Land is telling Evangelicals they should be offended by Romney’s public testimony of Jesus in a transparent effort head off growing Evangelical support for a candidate unequalled in his ability to champion conservative values, who happens to be Mormon.