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Going for Broke

3.10.08 @ 12:01AM

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I can't help but think many conservatives' near-allergic reaction to Huckabee is something of a projection of our dislikes of the shortcomings of our current president. How else can we explain why two pro-choice, anti-gun, effectively pro-civil union politicians were hailed as true conservatives by the likes of TAS, NR, Rush Limbaugh and Sean Hannity while a pro-life, pro-gun, anti-gay marriage guy running to abolish the IRS (however unseriously) was heralded by some as a pro-life liberal? Are Republicans really so determined to define a third of their base out of the coalition?
-- Brian C. Mueller

Mike Huckabee, Bill Clinton's favorite Republican, masqueraded as a conservative and lied about his record. That he was able to fool people should not be surprising in a year when style over substance is the name of the game as illustrated by the meteoric rise of the "Obamanation" and his cult. Huckabee was our Obama, but fortunately the majority of Republican voters (including conservative evangelical Christians like myself) were not fooled by a 21st century Huey Long.

Huckabee is an egocentric, unethical and dishonest politician from the old school of Southern Democrat politics. Those fooled by this charlatan need to wake up -- true to his liberal roots he is an old time tax and spend politician, with a foreign policy agenda straight out of the McGovern playbook, who believes the Constitution is a "living doctrine" (the bedrock of pro-abortion fanatics) and sodomy is a Constitutional right. How long do his devotees really believe he'd stay pro-life and for the marriage amendment once he was seduced by the DC "harlot of Babylon?" As far as ethics he has none. Like Bill and Hillary Clinton politics for the Huckabee's is all about personal gain at other's expense. It's too bad his shaking down lobbyists and stealing furniture from the Arkansas Governor's mansion among his many "crimes" didn't win him a cell in prison.

I wonder if Chuck Norris hadn't been so gullible how long the Huckster's vaudevillian campaign would have lasted? Mike Huckabee needs to do the ethical thing and embrace his real political home -- the Democrat party. He's dishonest and shady enough to fit in just fine and like wimpy Harry Reid he's supposedly pro-life.
-- Michael Tomlinson

GUT CZECH
Re: Shawn Macomber's Fighting Words:

The article was very good. Your writers do a wonderful job, and I just wanted to express that thought.
-- Brett Butler
Springfield, Illinois

Isn't there some way that we can abrogate the Constitution and draft Pres. Klaus for the upcoming POTUS elections? I have to say that he seems to have humongously more potential then ANY of the candidates planning to run by any of our parties, including the minor ones. Yes, I am including McCain in that list of lesser lights.
-- Ken Shreve

Vaclav Klaus is Ronald Reagan's legacy! Prayerfully, George W. Bush's legacy will be an Arab and Muslim who 20 years from now sounds like the brave Czech. Of course, Hillary "Obama," Barack "Clinton" and terrorist loving liberal fascist Democrats will do their best to insure that never happens. They prefer Jimmy Carter's Iran and Bill Clinton's letting Osama bin Laden running free to democracy and freedom.
-- Michael Tomlinson

Between Vaclav Klaus in the Czech Republic and Alvaro Uribe in Colombia, there's still some hope in the world.
-- Mike Showalter
Austin, Texas

BATTLE SCARRED
Re: Jay D. Homnick's I Hold Hillary Responsible:

About Jay Homnick's flawed offering:

Jay Homnick's rude dismissal of Madam Clinton's claims to experience in military crisis is wrong. Has he forgotten that she was co-president, and therefore we must assume, party to every national security decision rendered during the reign of The Honorable Bill?

She was there when Bill refused to deploy anything other than small arms in Somalia, where American forces were guarding a humanitarian effort. The consequences of that decision, the defeat and humiliation of crack American troops by a better-armed swarm of brutes, echoed around the globe. They caused every third world windbag with an attitude and a funny hat to probe the edges of American power, and exploit every trace of weakness. They condemned an untold number of innocent black Africans to starvation. Americans died because the Clintons did not want to get their hands dirty.

Hillary was party to the initial articulation of the Clinton Doctrine, drafted during the zaniest days of pandemonium in Haiti. Written in plain language, this document declares that when a crisis besets any nation close to home, or far away, America will-dispatch-troops-or-maybe-not-dispatch-troops-because-someone-might-get-shot-so-maybe-dispatch-troops-without-bullets-what-do-the-polls-say-does-anyone-know-Jimmy-Carter's-phone-number.

Hillary was a prime mover of a policy that allowed the Clinton Administration to let Sadam Hussein thumb his nose at the United Nations for eight years, and subsidize every terrorist in the Middle East. She helped frustrate an attempt to turn Osama bin Laden over to the United States. She wrestled with the decision to bomb a factory that made baby aspirin when a grand jury was about to work serious damage upon her chances at the White House. Then she helped launch the only wholly righteous war ever undertaken by the United States.

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