Comments on: It Could Have Been Huckabee

By: Michigan-Matt

Michigan-Matt — Wed, 17 Sep 2008 17:48:38 +0000

It’s curious to me that the ending line of the BTB article ran a bell, but I just couldn’t place it.

“And anything can be justified when you’re protecting the future of the universe.”

And then it hit me while waiting to fill up the Hummer, that line is exactly why many farRight types found Al Gore’s personal mission to save the Earth from global warmists so repugnant and self-righteous.

Like Huckabee, Al Gore also thought more of himself than the voters did. Like Huckabee, Al Gore pressed his singular vision for a new world order upon all those who would listen –and even forcibly on those who would not.

Like Huckabee, Al Gore was a keen manipulator of the media and tapped into a marginal, fringe segment of the political elites in order to gain traction for his strident agenda.

Like Huckabee, Al Gore played to the honest sentiments of the public while acting in a manner completely different from the message he was preaching –you know, the GulfStream jets with just him on board, the massive energy consuming mansion in Nashville, the limo awaiting and running the a/c and engine while he lectured others inside the hall about “sacrafices for the betterment of Earth” and, who could forget, the scam of buying carbon offset credits like Papal Indulgences for the energy-consumptive challenged?

That’s why that line triggered a deja vu moment.

Only now it’s Mike Huckabee that can “… justif(y anything) when you’re protecting the future of the universe.”

Who’d have thought: Al Gore and Mike Huckabee sharing a dually appropriate moment in time?

By: L. Junius Brutus

L. Junius Brutus — Tue, 16 Sep 2008 23:36:10 +0000

No substantive difference between these two. McCain will pursue the exact same policies that Huckabee would, appoint the same type of judges (those who do not believe in constitutional rights). As a matter of fact, I wish he were the nominee, and that he would campaign for Proposition 8, that would only hurt it because of his unpopularity there, as well as hurt his own campaign, because he would focus on this issue when people are focused on things that actually affect their own lives.

By: Timothy Kincaid

Timothy Kincaid — Tue, 16 Sep 2008 15:54:03 +0000

Michigan Matt,

Please do not use derogative nick-names here. thanks.

By: Swampfox

Swampfox — Tue, 16 Sep 2008 15:01:35 +0000

I am glad to say that I had the honor to vote against Huckabee when he ran for Republican nomination. I guess that we are all going to have to put up the poor man, he is relatively young.

By: Michigan-Matt

Michigan-Matt — Tue, 16 Sep 2008 14:27:03 +0000

tristam, no offense, but Phelps is another studpuppy Michigan Wolverine so you might want to step cautiously in those piles you usually leave behind… ggggr (and a wink).

I’m glad that MikeHuck-a-Boom is headed for the political scrap heap. He was an extension of the values-driven, divisive politics of the ol’ GOP. Good riddance.

McCain is a fresh start for the GOP. Unlike Huck-a-Boom, McCain’s the nominee because of open primaries and the huge influence of non-GOPers and political independents and GOP moderates in the primaries. Groups that Hick-a-Boom could have never courted.

These quotes, tho’ not the worst I’ve seen from Mike Huck-a-Boom, demonstrate why a moderate-to-liberal, maverick GOPer like McCain was the best choice ever. If it had been Huck-a-Boom, we’d be talking about how many gayGOPers and moderateGOPers were heading over to BarryO’Biden (yikes)… instead, all the talk is about the hordes of angry Hillary gals stampeding to the McCain-Palin banner and victory.

By: tristram

tristram — Tue, 16 Sep 2008 02:04:35 +0000

Talk about setting a low bar! McCain goes on one of the top-rated daytime talk shows and sounds ‘almost apologetic’ that he doesn’t think the lesbian host should be able to share in a wide range of rights, responsibilities and benefits of American citizenship because of her sexual preference. That’s like Michael Phelps sounding almost funny on SNL.

The only executive decision McCain has made thus far was his choice of a running mate. And all the gay-baiting rightwing talkshow hosts and Christianist leaders are ecstatic. They know they’re going to get their culture war without having to live with Huckabee’s economic heresies. And there’s a damn good chance they’re going to have one of their own in the Oval Office in the near future.

By: Duncan

Duncan — Mon, 15 Sep 2008 20:28:02 +0000

Had Huckabee won he would had done worse than McGovern. He lost the primaries because he could not expand out of his electoral niche, and that is almost entirely Republican. He’d have been the Democrats’ dream.

By: AJD

AJD — Mon, 15 Sep 2008 19:56:33 +0000

“He told about 1,000 people that marriage was created and defined by God, just as the Mona Lisa was created by Leonardo da Vinci.”

Such a comical adventure in illogic. I actually considered registering as a Republican just to keep Huckabee from winning the primary.

I don’t think it’s hard to imagine at all that he would have supported the prosecution of Da Vinci. He does, after all, have a history of associating with Christian Reconstructionists.