Huckabee's Muzzle Control Problem

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Huckabee's muzzle control problem (http://weblogs.chicagotribune.com/news/politics/blog/2007/12/huckabees_muzzle_control_probl.html)

by Jim Tankersley
Republican Mike Huckabee took his presidential campaign for a quick pheasant-hunting expedition (http://www.swamppolitics.com/news/politics/blog/2007/12/hunting_with_huckabee.html) in Iowa on Wednesday, and at one point, a reporter asked why he hadn’t invited sporting enthusiast Dick Cheney along. "Because I want to survive all the way through this," Huckabee replied (http://ap.google.com/article/ALeqM5itJz77-aMRfNy8wmDFWYbjYl8wDQD8TPH0SG0), in a chuckling dig at the vice president’s accidental shooting of a quail-hunting partner last year.

Any good sportsman, though, couldn’t miss a distinctly Cheneyesque moment in the press accounts of the former Arkansas governor’s morning hunt: At one point, Huckabee’s party turned toward a cluster of reporters and cameramen and, when they kicked up a pheasant, fired shotgun blasts over the group’s heads.

This, friends, is dangerously bad hunting form.


Cheap shots .... both of them. And in poor taste too. Shame on Huck, http://www.freeconservatives.com/vb/images/icons/icon8.gif.

[PrezLeefun]

I think he was joking with his comment but the whole busniess of shooting toward folks is terribly tacky, and dangerous.

[DesertFox]

No real hunter ever duzzat.

[Lazarus]

I have to be honest here... I was never so threatened or concerned over the possibility of a Giuliani presidency as I am over a Huckabee presidency... When look at Huckabee I see the face of evil...

I see an extension of the kind of congame smiling and lying hiding of personal anti-conservative agendas that GW Bush conned us with...

I see at least 4 more years of Bush "globalist big brother policies first" at the expense of American sovereignty, and under-the-radar "deals" with the Left in the dark of night while Conservatives are asleep in the beds...

I was never so convinced that a single Republican candidate be STOPPED as I am today with reference to Mike Huckabee... If he wins this election it will be a national disaster - And a killing blow to the conservative movement that was the legacy or Mr Reagan to America...

[DesertFox]

Bush never conned us with anything. He told us from the start what he was all about.

[Lazarus]

Well being craftier than me you were obviously on to his schemes from the start - I was conned - I believed he was a conservative...

The point still applies to Huckabee...

[ColonialMarine0431]

Tool...

[DesertFox]

:roar: Well being craftier than me you were obviously on to his schemes from the start - I was conned :rotflmbo:

[ColonialMarine0431]

I think the Huckster had ALOT of people fooled. Fortunately we have the internet now, where political shenanigans can no longer be so easily hidden.

It's embarassing, but I have alot of family in Arkansas, and we have a farm there as well. If you meet the good people of Arkansas, usually you'll find down to Earth people. How the Clintons and Huckabee got elected is beyond me. :ooo:

This is my family's farm in N.E. Arkansas. As you can see, the only noisy neighbors are the cows that graze behind us. :thumb:

[PrezLeefun]

Thats beautiful..........

[ThomasMore]

Colonial Marine, let me add my welcome. We are glad to have you with us, and you fit right in.

It was only a couple of months ago that Huckabee's early debate performances and his experience* as governor sold me that he was the guy.

How little I really knew about him...

(This is why it is good to see not just what politicians say they stand for, but to see what they have really done in the past.)

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Fox is right: George W. Bush always told us what he stood for. Most of us voted for him, either not being aware of the big-government side of his character, or not being concerned about it, or figuring that he was far superior to Al Gore -- making it an easy voting decision regardless of him not being the "perfect candidate."

W has governed as he promised: His judicial nominations and appointments have been very, very solid -- better, even than Ronald Reagan's (the apparent exception was Meirs, but she never got into office). He has been consistently and solidly pro-life. His handling of the GWOT has been better than we had a right to expect. But he has been a big-government Republican, which few of us like.

Illegal immigration and border control wasn't as central an issue before 9/11 as it later became. Most of us weren't as concerned about it when we first elected Bush as we later became. So even there, he never misrepresented himself to us.

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Huckabee's attacks on the Bush administration are opportunistic, easy pot-shots. And trashing another Republican administration, especially on its greatest strengths, speaks to both Huckabee's character and his positions.

No thanks.

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* It was only later that I learned of Huck's actual performance in the office, not what he claimed his performance was.

[Lazarus]

I think the Huckster had ALOT of people fooled. Fortunately we have the internet now, where political shenanigans can no longer be so easily hidden.

It's embarassing, but I have alot of family in Arkansas, and we have a farm there as well. If you meet the good people of Arkansas, usually you'll find down to Earth people. How the Clintons and Huckabee got elected is beyond me. :ooo:

This is my family's farm in N.E. Arkansas. As you can see, the only noisy neighbors are the cows that graze behind us. :thumb:Those cows can be such pests in a neighborhood... Always throwing wild parties and only God knows what's going on behind barn doors... :biggrin:

Welcome aboard Marine...

[Lubbock]

I'll be one of the first with my hand up, telling the world that I was conned by Huckabee.

I'm with Laz. I'm more scared of Huckabee than I am of Rudy.

[jayson]

Just listen to this nut:

"You like to speak in metaphors, governor," one reporter asked. "What's the metaphor for this?"


"Don't get in my way," Huckabee said. "This is what happens." He looked down at the three lifeless birds, now laid out in the snow. Someone asked which bird was named Romney. "Each of these three birds made a sacrifice for the campaign," Huckabee said.


http://www.swamppolitics.com/news/politics/blog/2007/12/hunting_with_huckabee.html

[mateusrosé]

Between Huckabee's penchant for taxation and his crying horseball tears when defending his position on providing in-state tuition for the children of illegal aliens (ie, aliens, themselves), this guy's no conservative. Among other things, while governor of Arkansas, he raised taxes on food and found a plethora of other items/services to tax anew--like nursing home care of all things, for g_d's sake. :confused:

[Lazarus]

I'll be one of the first with my hand up, telling the world that I was conned by Huckabee.

I'm with Laz. I'm more scared of Huckabee than I am of Rudy.He sounded moderately solid when I watched the first debate that Fred attended, and I thought he was one of a wide field of good conservative choices, although even then he did not impress me like Tancredo, Hunter, and Thompson did...

But the more I listened, the more I read, and the more I learned about this man, his policies past and current, the more I realize that he is probably the most dangerous man on the Republican ticket... And that's saying a lot considering the competition...

Looking back on that debate performance, I realize now just how much this man is capable and prepared to cover his liberal policies and assume the false mask of conservatism in order to win this election...

[DesertFox]

Never vote for a man whose name begins H-U-C-K.

[Maggie_T]

I don't like the Huckster. I mean, I really don't like him. Did I ever mention that I don't like the Huckster? Because I honestly hate the bastard. :flame:

[jayson]

But the more I listened, the more I read, and the more I learned about this man, his policies past and current, the more I realize that he is probably the most dangerous man on the Republican ticket... And that's saying a lot considering the competition..

But... but... he seems to real and genuine. And those big brown googly puppy eyes, and... and... did I mention he seems so genuine? :roar: