Answer me this if Huck is so great.

How is it that Huckabee is a conservative? Is it his ethics violations. (I know most were frivolous, but SOME weren’t.) Is it his increasing government? Maybe it is his tax raising? Maybe it is giving a free ride to illegals? So other than his stance on abortion, what is it that makes him a conservative? Please don’t tell me it is the fair tax, which won’t work if it would pass, and wouldn’t pass so it is moot. His record is anything but conservative. Do you believe what he says over what he does? If that is so, why do you believe him? Is it because when he says he won’t show an ad, he does. Or when he says he has a theology degree and he doesn’t? Maybe it is because when he took money from his previous campaigns and was fined for it, he blamed it on Bill Clinton picking on him. Maybe it is because he says he ran against the Clinton Machine 4 times and he was successful, when he actually lost twice and then only took office after a scandal and then ran as the incumbent?

So why is it that you think Huckabee is the hope for the Republican party?

If you could yell “Cut!” on life and speak to Mike Huckabee honestly, and he spoke honestly in return — both, I realize, low probability items — But if you could, and asked him why he was still running, and he answered from the heart, he would say…

“It’s a great way to fill the day. Without it, I’d have nothing to do. With it, the days are jammed with things that look important. They’re not, but they look that way, and that’s good enough for me. See, when I get up in the morning now, I come downstairs at whatever Four Seasons I’m staying in for free or on ‘The Campaign’ or paid for by the loans everyone knows I’ll never pay back, and when I get downstairs there are twenty or thirty reporters waiting for me. Someone on my staff hands me a cup of coffee, just the way I like it, and a bowl of melon balls — I miss the donuts, but you know all about that — and they ask me questions and I get to use hunks from my speech or let my fancy wander about Iran, and the economy, and life in general, and no one interrupts, and they write down what I say. Then, I’m whisked away in a Town Car with ten Suburban’s behind us to a junior high or a factory or a bridge club and everyone there fawns over me and smiles, and I say a lot of things again, and they don’t interrupt me, either. Then, more often than not, people come up to me with moist eyes and thank me for what I’m doing, or say they agree, or just yak. I usually can’t tell, really, because there’s just so much you can listen to people without tuning out, but who cares? Then there’s lunch, and the owner and the chef and the waitress all take a picture with me and insist there’s no way I can pay, and we drive off to another event. I hate passing the fried chicken places, ’cause I can’t have that anymore, either. Anyway, wherever we go people listen to me and applaud. The rest of the day is like that, and my staff and I will usually gather in my suite after dinner for some Yahtzee. And the next day is the same. So it’s all great.

(Seattle Times)

“See, without that I’d have nothing to do. If I leave the campaign, there’ll be no one waiting for me downstairs to ask questions. In fact, there’ll be no fancy hotels. No speeches, no photographs, no meetings, no teary-eyed hugs, nothing. I’ll have to go home and sit around there with my wife, and she’s sure as hell not going to bring me any coffee. She’s not going to listen to me go on and on about this and that, she’s heard it all before, plenty of times, more than she can stand. If I even comment on an item in the paper, she doesn’t even look up from her needlepoint, but just raises one hand and opens and closes it in the ‘Yeah, yeah, blah, blah’ gesture we all know and keeps doing it till I stop speaking. Then I probably have to pick things up from the cleaners or something. Then I spend a half hour or so making faces in the mirror. Then I pretend to be aiming at people walking by on the sidewalk outside. You know. Stuff like that.

“And you want me to go back to that faster than I need to just because I have no chance of winning? Are you out of your mind? The only thing I care about is that for another few weeks I get to strut around and pretend I actually have something to do in the world. What the hell do you think Romney is doing now, counting his money? Posing with those kids? I’ll bet that wife of his isn’t smiling so much anymore. They’ve been married two hundred years or something, so she’s way past smiling, believe me.

“Anyway, this honesty session is over. I’m running for president, and you can’t stop me. I’ve got three or four places to go today, and then we’re flying to Indiana tomorrow, or New Mexico. Hell, I don’t know, who cares? All I know is, it’s another day I won’t be sitting in my den drumming my fingers on some stupid table my wife got.”

Look for Mike Huckabee up in a booth on TV in a few months after he’s finally called it quits on the campaign. CNN or Fox if he can swing it, but he’ll take MSNBC or C-Span. Then maybe his own show, if he has enough juice.

There’s always the Food Channel.

I read a comment from lurker before I left and another just now. both are feeble.

Lurker, turn off your PC and go fishing. This life’s not for you. You lack the intellegence for it.

Please take this as constructive criticism.

I’m going to watch Kyle Busch win the Las Vas race now.

CHICAGO, Feb. 23 (UPI) — A Chicago Dental Society poll found 45 percent of dentists thought of all 2008 presidential hopefuls former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney has the best smile.

Of the Republican candidates, John McCain and Mike Huckabee have not impressed voters with toothy grins. McCain’s smile was favored by 6 percent and Huckabee’s by 10 percent.

From: http://www.upi.com/NewsTrack/Health/2008/02/23/poll_dentists_like_romneys_smile_best/1759/

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Comment by lurker
March 2nd, 2008 at 1:45 pm

According to Huckabee’s disclosure reports, he accepted more than 300 gifts worth at least $130,000, ranging from $3,700 cowboy boots to a $600 chainsaw and $250 worth of dental care.

Comment by lurker
March 2nd, 2008 at 9:06 am
Shelby… you right!

Huckabee is a B$10,000 a night hotel room Benny HInn wanna be. He coildn’t do it as a “paster’ so now he’s trying to get the riches and fame a through the presidency. What fakes… boh of them

Comment by frodo to Shelby
March 2nd, 2008 at 8:49 am
It could have just as easily been 140 ethic violations.

Unethical is such a soft way of describing Gomer Pyle. He is everything that you wouldn’t want to see a person.

He does have one talent (and it definitely not the Guitar)… He can get the support of Radical Fundamentalist Christians. The same one who bow to the Benny Hinns and James Dobsons. You know, the ones who have a daily one on one with GOD. All you have to do is to give them the Roe vs. Wade bone to gnaw on and they are oblivious at all else.

http://www.tylerpaper.com/article/20080302/OPINION04/803020340