To the extent it is still a viable political entity, Rush says nominating McCain or Huckabee will be the coup de grace. Sounds about right.
Posts Tagged ‘quisling’
How To Destroy The GOP
Tuesday, January 15th, 2008How About An Obama-Huckabee Ticket?
Friday, January 4th, 2008Hey, it wouldn’t be that crazy, would it? They look good together.
Let the Huckster slide over to the Democratic side now – call it the “quisling ticket,” the “unity ticket” or maybe even the “dream ticket” if you want, since both men propose to fulfill our most audacious imaginings – and leave the Republican slot open for someone grounded in reality. That would balance the choice in November.
A Huckabee – Amway Connection?
Wednesday, January 2nd, 2008This may be the most interesting evidence yet that Mike Huckabee is, in fact, the Whore of Babylon:
They came to hear Republican presidential candidate Mike Huckabee speak, but first the crowd of hundreds had to sit through a soft-sell pitch on the wonders of multi-level marketing.
For half an hour, two businessmen paced the stage where Huckabee would soon stump. They never said the name of the company during their talks, but afterward some members of the crowd shared with others the good news of a company called Quixtar Inc.
Quixtar is a sibling company of multi-level marketing giant Amway – and, according to Huckabee’s public schedule, the host of the event.
“Religious” business people have had a longstanding affinity with multi-level marketing in this country, which if I was not on my lunch break I could go on and on about. Think Andy Willoughby. (And if you told me Andy was a Huckabee supporter, I suppose I would be less than shocked).
So, long story short, another reason to fear the Huckster.
Just Say No
Wednesday, January 2nd, 2008It’s the beginning of the new year, and two established supporters of illegal immigration – Mike Huckabee and John McCain – are near the top of the Republican pecking order as the 2008 presidential primaries are about to begin.
For some indeterminate reason, I am inspired to remind all of my fellow GOP’ers to maintain a critical eye:
Hucka-scam’s Illegal Alien Enforcement Record
Wednesday, December 26th, 2007As we draw closer to the Iowa caucuses, the Golden Globes of modern political polling, here’s what we have on the Huckster:
Mike Huckabee is overselling his record of cracking down on illegal aliens as governor, claiming he ordered his state police to arrest illegal aliens when in fact he never signed the agreement with federal authorities that would have allowed it.
Mr. Huckabee signed a bill that began the process, but he never followed through with signing an agreement with the Department of Homeland Security to secure training for state police officers. Without it, they cannot enforce federal immigration law.
We do not need the quisling holding elected office.
WaPo Nails Another Huckabee Untruth
Wednesday, December 19th, 2007Yes, when you are a front runner “that’s part of the deal,” as the Huckster so aptly put it: People check to see whether your statements are true.
Welcome to the big leagues – that wacky, schizoid realm where you are supposed to tell the truth.
Unfortunately, the Washington Post has fact-checked Mike Huckabee and discovered what so many others have been saying for nearly a month: Huckabee is truth-challenged.
One leading rival, Fred Thompson, has accused Huckabee of having “championed” an effort to permit illegal immigrants to benefit from in-state tuition rates at state universities. Huckabee has denied the charge, claiming that his support was limited to a much more restrictive scholarship program….
During his annual “State of the State address” to the Arkansas state legislature in January 2005, Huckabee proposed making “any student graduating from a high school in Arkansas” eligible for state financial aid. He said it was “terribly unjust” to deny such aid solely on the basis of the student’s immigration status, “a status that he had no decision in and no control over.”
It is hard to fathom how redirecting limited state resources from legal residents to trespassers is “unjust” in any way at all. The operating assumption must be that the legal residents who lost out would never know to complain.
Huckabee Hearts Criminals
Wednesday, December 12th, 2007Investigative reporters are digging into the Huckster’s record, and it’s looking like they’re hitting the mother lode.
The notion that Mike Huckabee is a softie should be the big story of the next couple weeks.
Here is tonight’s excellent work by Philip Klein:
Over the course of his 10 and a half years as governor, Huckabee granted a staggering 1,033 clemencies, according to the Associated Press. That was more than double the combined 507 that were granted during the 17 and a half years of his three predecessors: Bill Clinton, Frank White, and Jim Guy Tucker.
In many cases, Huckabee’s actions set loose savage criminals convicted of grizzly murders over the passionate objections of prosecutors and victims’ families.
That “turn the other cheek” concept is less compelling when it’s a chief executive turning his constituents’ cheeks.
The Huckster is a Magic Man
Tuesday, December 11th, 2007… and also quite the liar.
To great fanfare he unveiled his Secure America Plan which, on the face of it, seems like a solid statement of an attrition-through-enforcement approach to the illegal alien problem, raising hopes Huckabee had “gotten it.”
For some of us, the plan merely raised eyebrows because it represented a contradiction to much of what the man had said and done while in office.
Sunday morning Chris Wallace called him on it, asking Huckabee to reconcile his Plan with his past statements. Here is the exchange (emphasis added):
WALLACE: … a border fence, for cracking down on employers, for telling illegals to go home.
But last year in an interview, you said something somewhat different. You said this, “I think that the rational approach is to find a way to give people a pathway to citizenship.”
Governor, in your new plan, the only path is to go home and to get on the back of the line, which, of course, would mean years of waiting. Why the change?
HUCKABEE: Well, I don’t think there’s an inconsistency. When I said a pathway, I didn’t say what the pathway was.
I now believe that the only thing the American people are going to accept — and, frankly, the only thing that really makes sense — is a pathway that sends people back to the starting point.
But this idea of the waiting years — no, I don’t agree with that. In fact, look, if we can get a credit card application done within hours, if we can get passports done within days, if we can transact business over the Internet any place in the world within seconds, do a background check instantaneously — it’s our government that has failed and is dysfunctional.
It shouldn’t take years to get a work permit to come here and pick lettuce. So part of the plan that I have is that we seal the borders. You don’t have amnesty and sanctuary cities. You do have a pathway that gets you back home.But that pathway to get back here legally doesn’t take years. It would take days, maybe weeks, and then people could come back in the workforce.
Let me tell you why that’s important. Two reasons. Number one, the American people say, “Do something. Do it now. We don’t want to have this country ignoring the illegal problem.” I get it.
Secondly, I want people who are in this country to hold their heads up high. You know, right now there are a lot of people who really are here because they’re trying to feed their families. I don’t begrudge them that.
If anyone had any doubts about the Huckster’s sincerity on this issue, consider them confirmed.
Either he is selling pie in the sky to illegal aliens, saying we are going to quickly revamp USCIS in such an amazing manner that parting the Red Sea will seem like a party trick in comparison, or else he is selling the citizens of this nation a load of crap. In fact he is doing both – but the “heads up high” phrase is our tip off that the only practical result we could expect from a Huckabee presidency would be exactly what the Senate tried to ram down our throats in June: Instant amnesty. If you’re here “illegally” the only way you’re going to be able to hold your head up high is if you ain’t here illegally anymore.
“Comprehensive immigration reform” should in reality be referred to as “semantic immigration reform” because it’s solution to the problem consists in simply applying a new label to the scofflaws, calling them “legal” rather than “illegal.” This is the ultimate goal of the open borders crowd and would be without a doubt the easiest “solution” to the problem to enact.
That’s why those who support the rule of law in this matter are going to need to be perpetually vigilant: The instant amnesty apple is hanging so close that the open borders folks can practically taste it and it is driving them nuts. They are definitely not going to quit.
If the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse are indeed bearing down on us, scrolls are being opened in the heavens and Huckabee somehow manages to get elected president, there are still going to be millions of people waiting in line to enter this country legally and USCIS still chugging along with the efficiency of a coal-powered lawnmower. When it becomes apparent that Huckabee’s little vignette of illegal aliens traveling home, clearing the immigration process in “days, maybe weeks” and being back here with their heads held high is complete nonsense, you can rest assured the Huckster will put on a full court press to ensure that last part of the fable comes true no matter what.
The Huckabee Logan Presidency Gives Cause For Concern
Monday, December 10th, 2007POSITIVES:
- Sees both sides of an issue
- Publicly religious
- Teachable
- Kind to everyone
NEGATIVES:
- Takes both sides of an issue
- Politically religious
- Untrustworthy
- Kind to criminals
The whole Huckster controversy is enough to make one feel conflicted. Even though he is already being called the “Howard Dean” of 2008, and is getting clobbered in the press for various critical flip flops, I am the last one to want to take anything away from Huckabee after all he has accomplished in his life and the example he has set.
By losing goodness knows how many pounds he showed Americans it is possible to get a fresh start with one’s health simply by changing habits and hitting the jogging path.
Huckabee’s a personable fellow, a compelling, self-effacing public speaker, not afraid to wear his religiosity on his sleeve, and by all accounts a decent man. He’s an accomplished bass guitar player – certainly a cool skill to list on any prospective president’s resume.
As the Arkansas Times recently pointed out, he is “the immigrants’ friend” who makes John McCain “look like a nativist.” (Read all of that article, by the way).
This issue is where the problem arises with regard to Huckabee. The leader of a national advocacy organization said last week in an e-mail that, on the illegal immigration issue, Huckabee is “a carbon copy of President Bush.” Prominent opponents of illegal immigration call Huckabee a “disaster”:
“Every time there was any enforcement in his state, he took the side of the illegal aliens.”
To his detractors Huckabee has said, simply, “I drink a different kind of Jesus juice.”
Fair enough, I say: It’s a free country for Jesus juice drinkers of all persuasions. I take mine the way I like it – neat – and the Huckster should have the same options.
This forthrightness has earned him serious hits from GOP primary opponents and also from political leaders in his own state.
UPDATE: Much more, here.
More, below the fold. (more…)
Let’s Keep An Eye On The Huckster
Monday, November 26th, 2007The excellent Jeremy Lott opined many months ago that “Mike” Huckabee is actually running for vice president. It was, as usual, a well-written and -argued article but small comfort.
Someone I respect who followed the man’s record in office had informed me that the Huckster’s record on addressing illegal immigration while Governor of Arkansas was less than impressive, and his unsolicited moniker of “Quisling of the Year” had the ring of truth to it:
The Arkansas News Bureau records his treason as follows: “In a impassioned speech before hundreds of influential Hispanic civil rights leaders from across the nation, Gov. Mike Huckabee told a captive audience Wednesday that America is great because it has always opened it doors up to people seeking a better way of life.”
Huckabee then made the most stunning admission of complete capitulation to the Illegals that have replaced American workers throughout Arkansas, “Pretty soon, Southern white guys like me may be in the minority,’ Huckabee said jokingly as the crowd roared in laughter.”
It would seem that a lot of Southern white guys in Arkansas who lost their jobs to illegals are not going to be laughing, at all.
So now the news is the Huckster is actually nailing down Iowa. If he beats Mitt Romney there, according to Huck’s staff, “the whole universe just changed.”
Notwithstanding the fact a butterfly in Africa might change the universe, we need to be somewhat cautious in estimating the significance of this admittedly fast-rising campaign. He does appear to be running for president, all right. But he also appears to be running for the 2004 – or possibly 2000 – Republican nomination.
Huckabee is an excellent public speaker, possibly the best of the GOP stable. And he is, possibly, also the most authentic conservative personality of the lot.
One has to wonder, though, if being positioned as the best-spoken, most proven social conservative in the race will matter a hill of beans in November 2008.
George W. Bush won two presidential elections in part by winning the social conservative vote and in part on national security issues (and in part because of the dregs he was fortunate to be opposing). He won his second election in large part by capitalizing on the last viable instance of the “Republican” brand.
One of the key factors which has destroyed that brand since 2004 is the GOP leadership’s role in pushing for an open borders agenda. Authentic conservative or not, passionate preacher or not, Mike Huckabee represents nothing but trouble for American citizens. His way of thinking has helped sink the popular perception of the Republican party.
We don’t need another Republican administration poised to declare war on the American people. This is what George W. Bush has done. This is what the top-tier Democratic candidates for president have voted to do.
We need a Republican nominee who will help rehabilitate the brand. Even as VP, the Huckster is not the man for that job.
UPDATE – Via Arkansas Journal – the man in his own words:
Much more, including numerous other sources, here:
Huckabee was insinuating that not giving taxpayer funded benefits to illegal aliens was akin to stopping the Little Rock Nine from attending Central High. Therefore, we’re all racists if we don’t think that we should have to give illegal aliens college scholarships, saying nothing of the U.S. citizens who would lose out on that same opportunity.
Huckabee calling those of us in Arkansas who opposed illegal immigration racists was par for the course. He went so far as to suggest that a Republican legislator wasn’t a good Christian for proposing a bill to prohibit spending taxpayer money to give illegal aliens benefits, saying that he drank a different kind of “Jesus juice”.
Huckabee ran Arkansas as a sanctuary state. “Do we want to change the future for these kids? Then let’s give them the opportunity. Let’s not say that our doors are open but our opportunities are closed,” Huckabee said in his address.
