Posted by
Furious on Wednesday, June 18, 2008 8:52:50 AM
I now present to you either a suicidal strategy (if employed) or an excellent reason why Huckabee was defeated in the Republican primary. The man is, quite apparently, a fool…
From Yahoo News 6/18/08:
[Former US presidential contender Mike Huckabee urged his fellow Republicans on Wednesday not to denigrate Democrat Barack Obama, saying they should celebrate the historic moment of a black candidate.]
I’m sorry, but if this is actually what Huckabee said; he should lose all rights and privlidges given to those who hold a Republican party identification card.
We Republicans should celebrate the nomination of Obama? We should jump for joy over the Democrats promotion of a Marxist for President? Why is the man’s skin color of any significance?
And what did the Huckster mean when he supposedly said not to “denigrate” Obama? ( I note well these remarks were not in quotes, it seems for obvious reasons.)
What is denegration to Huckabee? Can we challenge Obama on his lies? Can we defend our troops against Obama’s loathing of them? Are we permitted to debate his bitter wife on her absurd social assertions? Exactly, Mr. Huckabee, what is there to celebrate here?
[ "Republicans will make a fundamental if not fatal mistake if they seek to win the election by demonising Barack Obama," Huckabee told a news conference on a visit to Tokyo.]
Once again, what is the definition of “demonization”? This is politics, for God’s sake. I seem to recall some demonizng perpetrated by McCain and Huckabee with Mr. Romney during the primaries, or doesn’t that count? Is Obama inoculated against criticism because he is half black? Is that how it works? Please.
[The former Arkansas governor said that, having grown up in the segregated South, he never thought he would see an African-American win the nomination of a major party for the US presidency.]
Isn’t that special...(again please note the absence of quotation marks, makes me wonder what the hell he actually did say!)
Huckabee now throws his region under the bus. Sounds like ONLY the south was segregated. This is a popular myth perpetrated by the northern elite who also practiced segregation, and do so yet today. The north is just as segregated as the south ever was; only they refuse to acknowledge it. It fits the NY Times template, though. The south is still racist and the north is past all that. They are the enlightened ones.
["I do not want to have anyone misrepresent or miss the opportunity to celebrate what I think is a landmark achievement, not just for Barack Obama, but for the United States of America," he said.]
Ok, Huckster, it’s a landmark. Now can we, at least be allowed to debate this empty suit enough to keep his collectivist paws off our White House? Or would that be unfair?
[The country was able "to get to a point where we did not see his color but we truly saw his charisma, his message and what he brought to the campaign trail," Huckabee said.]
Charisma? If that’s sufficient to elect someone to the leader of the free world, then why not elect Tiger Woods? How about Beyonce? She has charisma, among many other assets. The Reverand Wright oozes charisma, why not him? What benefit does charisma bring to the oval office? Are we electing a salesman, a preacher, a miracle worker or a President?
And who can tell us Obama’s message? Not even Obama knows. And, once again, I do not care what color he is. His mother was white and his father was black. So what? My mother was English and my father was Polish. Does that fact equate into something of political value? Of course not.
Also what did he “bring” to the campaign trail? Besides lessons on how to read a tele-prompter, I can see nothing.
[Huckabee, who won the first nomination contest in Iowa on the back of support from evangelical Christians, said he hoped Republican John McCain would defeat Obama but urged his party to highlight policy differences and not race.]
I’m not sure where Huckabee has been, but it is not the Republican Party who is highlighting race in this election. Why would he even suggest that it would? It is, as always, the Democrats who are engaged in identity politics. Hillary ran a race for women, Obama runs for black hope, Leiberman ran for all Jews, Romney ran for all Mormons, Bill Clinton ran for all perverts and I’m now running to the bathroom, about to lose my breakfast , over the inanity of what passes for political punditry.
[Huckabee said the troubled US economy would be the top campaign issue and doubted that Obama's race would come into play.]
Oh, I see. Now he doubts that race would be an issue. It never was with me, you jerk! And way to support your party by pointing out how “troubled” the US economy is, as though the Dems have anything to offer that would improve things.
["When people are really hurting -- and they are right now -- they're not looking at a person's race," he said.]
So the entire article never had any significance to begin with? It almost sounds like an Obama endorsement.
If McCain chooses this moron as his running mate, he will have lost me. But honestly, I really don’t think he cares.