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Harsh truths on Mike Huckabee

by: Clem Guttata

Sun Feb 03, 2008 at 06:31:59 AM EST


Yes, I know Mike Huckabee will not be the next President of the United States. He won't even be the Republican nominee. (Saint McCain is on his way of riding the winner-take-all Republican primary system to that dubious honor on Tuesday.)

Still, there will be many people who view Mike Huckabee more favorably after this run for President. tristero at Hullabaloo reminds Nick Kristof there are many reasons why Mike Huckabee is unfit for public office.

Huckabee ignored court testimony in favor of right wing operatives and worked to release a serial rapist. Upon his Huckabee-engineered release, the rapist graduated to murder, possibly twice, before he was caught. Because of this incident, I have spoken with blistering contempt about Huckabee's character.

Huckabee blamed everyone but himself for the release of this rapist/murderer, especially Bill Clinton and lied repeatedly about substantiated facts. Because of his failure to tell the truth about his mistakes, I have denounced Huckabee's integrity numerous times.

During Huckabee's reign as governor, Arkansas' public schools regressed to a pre-modern attitude towards science, especially biology. This neglect was willful, and done with Huckabee's knowledge and consent. Because of his ignorance, I have denounced Huckabee's actions at every opportunity.

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GOP throws religious right under the bus (4.00 / 1)
His only win came off a great ground game in Iowa where he lay the ground work for months. The rest of his campaign has not matched that success because he would make a terrible president. However, the response of the rest of the Republican elite to him has been interesting because while they love to receive Christianist right's votes, they threw Huckabee and the Christian right under the bus and then backed it up a few times to run over them again and again.

As we've seen from the West Virginia Republican chairman and former Senate Minority Leader Vic Sprouse, they often claim "family values" are important to them, but it's a con game they've demonstrated by tossing aside the religious right's issues to focus on what's really important to them: helping the rich get richer on the backs of everyone else.

When a man embarks upon a crime, he is morally guilty of any other crime which may spring from it. Sherlock Holmes.


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