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  • #1

    Tell me about Huckabee

    Educate me about Huckabee.

    Don't know too much about him. He came out of nowhere to lead Iowa by a good amount. Of course, the "vetting" of him is on in full force in the press. How did he come to lead Iowa? Was he generally considered competent and well liked during his time in office in Arkansas?

    I'm provisionally for Guiliani, but haven't made a final decision. I've got an open mind about it all.
    Last edited by DanS; December 10, 2007, 13:20.
    I came upon a barroom full of bad Salon pictures in which men with hats on the backs of their heads were wolfing food from a counter. It was the institution of the "free lunch" I had struck. You paid for a drink and got as much as you wanted to eat. For something less than a rupee a day a man can feed himself sumptuously in San Francisco, even though he be a bankrupt. Remember this if ever you are stranded in these parts. ~ Rudyard Kipling, 1891
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    I see him as a more appealing version of Bush '00. A folksy social conservative who ignores foreign policy (no one briefed him on the Iran NIE just declassified, for instance) and seems pretty non-threatening to me about, say, ending the 20th century welfare state. He seems better than the rest of the field on issues like the environment and immigration.

    What worries me, though, is that he really is a religious fanatic. He recently said he was for quarantining AIDS patients (he originally said it in a '92 Senate run, and in a recent interview stood by the stance), for instance. And when he said that teh Jesus was responsible for his rise in the polls, that kinda weirds me out. He seems that he could get pretty dangerous when the messianic fervor hits him, not unlike the current occupant of the WH.

    I don't really see how he'd be more appealing to you than guys like Giuliani or Romney, other than that he might have a better chance of keeping the Republican coalition intact.

    'Course, I'm a pinko and a partisan Democrat, so I do have strong biases here...
    "Beware of the man who works hard to learn something, learns it, and finds himself no wiser than before. He is full of murderous resentment of people who are ignorant without having come by their ignorance the hard way. "
    -Bokonon

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    • #3
      He lost a lot of weight and wrote a book about it
      "

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      • #4
        Are you a fan of the religious conservative wing of the party, Dan? If not, then you likely won't like Huckabee because that's the source of his support with the Christian Right begining to coalesce around him.
        I make no bones about my moral support for [terrorist] organizations. - chegitz guevara
        For those who aspire to live in a high cost, high tax, big government place, our nation and the world offers plenty of options. Vermont, Canada and Venezuela all offer you the opportunity to live in the socialist, big government paradise you long for. –Senator Rubio

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        • #5
          Guiliani is the evil republican candidate and Huckabee is the religious one.

          JM
          Jon Miller-
          I AM.CANADIAN
          GENERATION 35: The first time you see this, copy it into your sig on any forum and add 1 to the generation. Social experiment.

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          • #6
            The religious conservatives are to be tolerated as part of the coalition -- and I hold some of those same positions. A matter of emphasis mostly.

            A problem that I see is that some of these religious conservatives are socialists at heart.
            I came upon a barroom full of bad Salon pictures in which men with hats on the backs of their heads were wolfing food from a counter. It was the institution of the "free lunch" I had struck. You paid for a drink and got as much as you wanted to eat. For something less than a rupee a day a man can feed himself sumptuously in San Francisco, even though he be a bankrupt. Remember this if ever you are stranded in these parts. ~ Rudyard Kipling, 1891

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            • #7
              Originally posted by Jon Miller
              Guiliani is the evil republican candidate and Huckabee is the religious one.

              JM
              I like evil. Bush and the rest of the GOP have been too compassionate to others with my money.
              Last edited by DanS; December 10, 2007, 13:43.
              I came upon a barroom full of bad Salon pictures in which men with hats on the backs of their heads were wolfing food from a counter. It was the institution of the "free lunch" I had struck. You paid for a drink and got as much as you wanted to eat. For something less than a rupee a day a man can feed himself sumptuously in San Francisco, even though he be a bankrupt. Remember this if ever you are stranded in these parts. ~ Rudyard Kipling, 1891

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              • #8
                Originally posted by EPW
                He lost a lot of weight and wrote a book about it
                How much weight?
                I came upon a barroom full of bad Salon pictures in which men with hats on the backs of their heads were wolfing food from a counter. It was the institution of the "free lunch" I had struck. You paid for a drink and got as much as you wanted to eat. For something less than a rupee a day a man can feed himself sumptuously in San Francisco, even though he be a bankrupt. Remember this if ever you are stranded in these parts. ~ Rudyard Kipling, 1891

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                • #9
                  110 pounds
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                  • #10
                    That's pretty impressive.

                    Not sure it warrants a book, though.
                    I came upon a barroom full of bad Salon pictures in which men with hats on the backs of their heads were wolfing food from a counter. It was the institution of the "free lunch" I had struck. You paid for a drink and got as much as you wanted to eat. For something less than a rupee a day a man can feed himself sumptuously in San Francisco, even though he be a bankrupt. Remember this if ever you are stranded in these parts. ~ Rudyard Kipling, 1891

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                    • #11
                      Mike Hukabee is ten feet tall and shoots lightning bolts out of his arse!

                      He parted the red sea like moses!



                      He also died for your sins.

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                      • #12
                        Originally posted by DanS


                        I like evil. Bush and the rest of the GOP have been too compassionate to others with my money.
                        Ron Paul is the small government one.

                        JM
                        Jon Miller-
                        I AM.CANADIAN
                        GENERATION 35: The first time you see this, copy it into your sig on any forum and add 1 to the generation. Social experiment.

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                        • #13
                          I like to have several alternatives.
                          I came upon a barroom full of bad Salon pictures in which men with hats on the backs of their heads were wolfing food from a counter. It was the institution of the "free lunch" I had struck. You paid for a drink and got as much as you wanted to eat. For something less than a rupee a day a man can feed himself sumptuously in San Francisco, even though he be a bankrupt. Remember this if ever you are stranded in these parts. ~ Rudyard Kipling, 1891

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                          • #14
                            Huckabee is ####ing crazy. His religious stances are either lies, or make him utterly unfit to decide the fate of our country.

                            His views on AIDs victims shows he is a nuts or a pandering lying hate monger.

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                            • #15
                              He's gotten as far as he has because he is by far the best campaigner out of the GOP field (and probably the Dem field as well). The problem, at least in the general, is that his issue positions make him unelectable. For instance, he's for abolishing the income tax and replacing it with the 'Fair Tax." That more than makes up for his moderate stance on immigration.
                              "Remember, there's good stuff in American culture, too. It's just that by "good stuff" we mean "attacking the French," and Germany's been doing that for ages now, so, well, where does that leave us?" - Elok

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