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"The dark side of Mike Huckabee"
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The dark side of Mike Huckabee
The national media seems to have a crush on our ex-governor, but here in Arkansas, we know better.
The Pony Express has reached us here in the Arkansas backwoods with the latest journals from the big cities. So the country correspondents have taken a break from hand-setting lines of type to read the Beltway boys and girls rave about our former governor, Mike Huckabee.
"Easy to like," wrote Newsweek's Jonathan Alter. "Who Doesn't Heart Huckabee?" said the headline over Gail Collins' column in the New York Times. And those are restrained commentators. If you Google the names Ronald Reagan and Mike Huckabee in tandem, I understand you get better than 600,000 hits.
OK. I exaggerate. I have a phone and a computer (and it's 208,000 hits). But you'd think from national press comments that our friendly state is unreachable by phone or Internet. Do national commentators do homework? Or is a smiling, shoe-shining parson all it takes to generate such fluff?
Come to Arkansas. You'll have to look hard to find a long-term political analyst who'd subscribe fully to the national media narrative about the latest man from Hope — fresh face, funny, nice.
Mike Huckabee is fresh to you, maybe. Funny? If barnyard humor is your shtick of choice. Nice? Well, he did do some good things in his 10 years as governor, but … read on.
Before we begin, though, a word of warning to any reporters who might want to repeat, on air or in print, any of the facts recounted below. Huckabee does not take kindly to journalists who practice journalism.
Even editorialists and columnists at the Arkansas Democrat-Gazette, the state's dominant (and Republican-friendly) daily paper, use words like "petty" and "thin-skinned" to describe Huckabee. Then again, he's compared hard-hitting (and accurate) news reporters for the Democrat-Gazette to the press fabulists Jayson Blair and Janet Cooke. He called liberal columnist John Brummett of Stephens Media "constipated" when that early admirer commenced some gentle criticism. His administration paid $15,000 to settle a suit filed by Roby Brock, the host of a public TV news show whom Huckabee's people tried to force off the air for his critical commentary.
Then there's me. I'm the editor of an alternative weekly, but I began covering Huckabee when I was a columnist for the now-defunct daily Arkansas Gazette in 1991, and Mike and I have been on the outs pretty much ever since. He once called me and the Memphis Commercial Appeal bureau chief "junkyard journalists" for our reporting. He also compared me, in print, to serial killer Jeffrey Dahmer and, I've been told on good authority, has wished aloud for my early and violent demise.
It all began 16 years ago for Mike and me. Huckabee, in his political debut, was preparing to become the Bible-thumping, abortion-decrying Republican challenger to U.S. Sen. Dale Bumpers, the Democratic incumbent. With a playbook straight out of James Dobson, he tried to portray Bumpers as a pornographer for his support of federal grants to the arts.
More important, Huckabee revealed an enduring weakness as glaring as that other Arkansas governor's fondness for women. Huckabee seems to love loot and has a dismissive attitude toward ethics, campaign finance rules and propriety in general. Since that first, failed campaign, the ethical questions have multiplied.
In the 1992 contest with Bumpers, Huckabee used campaign funds to pay himself as his own media consultant. Other payments went to the family babysitter.
In his successful 1994 run for lieutenant governor, he set up a nonprofit curtain known as Action America so he could give speeches for money without having to disclose the names of his benefactors. He failed to report that campaign travel payments were for the use of his own personal plane.
After he became governor in 1996, he raked in tens of thousands of dollars in gifts, including gifts from people he later appointed to prestigious state commissions.
In the governor's office, his grasp never exceeded his reach. Furniture he'd received to doll up his office was carted out with him when he left, after he'd crushed computer hard drives so nobody could ever get a peek behind the curtain of the Huckabee administration.
Until my paper, the Arkansas Times, blew the whistle, he converted a governor's mansion operating account into a personal expense account, claiming public money for a doghouse, dry-cleaning bills, panty hose and meals at Taco Bell. He tried to claim $70,000 in furnishings provided by a wealthy cotton grower for the private part of the residence as his own, until he learned ethics rules prevented it. When a disgruntled former employee disclosed memos revealing all this, the Huckabee camp shut her up by repeatedly suggesting she might be vulnerable to prosecution for theft because she'd shared documents generated by the state's highest official.
He ran the State Police airplane into the ground, many of the miles in pursuit of political ends. Inauguration funds were used to buy clothing for his wife. He once took control of the state Republican Party's campaign account — then swore the account had been somebody else's responsibility when it ran afoul of federal election laws. He repeated the pattern when he claimed in a newspaper story that his staff controlled the account to stage his second inauguration. When I filed a formal ethics complaint over what appeared to be an improper appropriation of donated money, he told a different story, disavowing responsibility for the money. He thus avoided another punishment from an Ethics Commission, which had sanctioned him on five other occasions. He dodged nine other complaints (though none, despite his counter-complaints, was held to be frivolous). In one case, he was saved by the swing vote of a woman who left the chairmanship of the Ethics Commission days later to take a state job. She listed the governor as a reference on the job application. Finally, unbelievably, Huckabee once sued to overturn the ban on gifts to him.
My newspaper chronicled all this and so much more. Since my paper wrote critically about him, I didn't often experience the "nice" Mike Huckabee that so many national commentators have enjoyed. In fact, ultimately Huckabee ended press services, which are publicly financed, to my newspaper. The Arkansas Times received no news releases from the governor's office, no notices of news conferences, no responses to routine questions. He was condemned for this by journalism organizations.
Truth is, we were happy to be thrown into the governor's briar patch. The world is full of disaffected Huckabee campaign workers, former employees and garden-variety Republicans who love to pass on tips about a governor they'd found self-centered and untrustworthy. If you think he left a well of warm feelings in Arkansas, note that Hillary Clinton had raised more money in Arkansas at last report and that a recent University of Arkansas Poll showed her a 35 to 8 percent leader over Huckabee in the presidential preferences of Arkansas residents. Only one-third of 33 Republican legislators have said they will support him for president.
Thanks to such unhappy people, we've broken numerous stories about Huckabee, from the first early word of his destruction of state computer hard drives (more fully reported by the Democrat-Gazette); to the time and place of his announcement for president; to his sale and purchase of homes; to his infamous "wedding registry." About the last: Three decades after the Huckabees' wedding, his wife registered at department stores so their new home, post-governor's mansion, could be stocked with gifts of linens, toasters and other suitable furnishings. In early 2007, our reporting also prompted the former first lady to decline dozens of place settings of governor's mansion china and Irish crystal that had been purchased with tax-deductible contributions to the Governor's Mansion Association, nominally set up to improve the mansion, not to buy going-away presents for former occupants. (Huckabee's governorship ended on Jan. 9, 2007.)
Ironically, I have many good things to say about the governor. The Bush administration would have done well to emulate Mike Huckabee's speedy and successful relief effort for Hurricane Katrina refugees. He raised taxes for schools, highways and children's health. Inevitably, this expanded government. I say bravo on all counts, though the conservative Club for Growth has delighted in quoting my liberal newspaper when it attacks Huckabee's fiscal record.
He was kind to immigrants and favored state help for college-going children of illegal immigrants. He once even briefly departed from Republican dogma to suggest to a newspaper in libertarian New Hampshire that, while he opposed gay marriage, he was open to civil unions. He's since denied he ever intended such apostasy, but the comment is on tape. At the Arkansas Times, we welcomed the governor's conversion to devoted school consolidator. When our state system of school finance was ruled unconstitutional, he initially decried the ruling as a usurpation of local control. But he flip-flopped — and we applauded the somersault — and led his Education Department to a significant reduction in the number of tiny, inefficient school districts and on the path to more demanding graduation standards.
But a paddling administered by a brute who sometimes smiles still hurts. Huckabee insists he's not one of those harsh, punitive, "angry" conservatives, but again, there are witnesses who might say otherwise if anyone's interested.
Ask the retarded Fort Smith teenager, raped by her stepfather, who sought Medicaid funding for an abortion as federal law required. Huckabee stood in the hospital door, at least figuratively, to prevent state funding. Ask the gay people belittled by his cracks about "Adam and Steve." Ask the scientists who've seen evolution virtually disappear from the textbooks and classrooms of Arkansas with his administration's acquiescence.
Social issues alone should give moderates pause. He championed a law in Arkansas making it harder to get a divorce, the so-called covenant marriage law that has been widely ignored except when he and his wife recommitted in a Valentine's Day publicity stunt held in a 17,000-seat arena.
Huckabee's administration worked hard and unapologetically to prevent gay people from being foster parents. He avidly supported the state amendment that bans gay marriage as well as civil unions and bans any equal treatment under the law — such as in health insurance coverage — for same-sex partners. He professed opposition to alcohol and gambling, but he allowed passage of legislation that made it easier for restaurants to obtain private-club mixed-drink permits in dry counties. Over the angry objection of the church lobby, he sped final action on a bill to allow video poker at the state's racetracks, an act followed not long afterward by a $10,000 campaign contribution from the owner of the state's biggest race track, at Oaklawn Park in Hot Springs.
All this is sometimes done with humor, but rarely the sort of gentle humor the national media has encountered. Huckabee prefers sarcastic putdowns and hyperbole. Because Arkansas Democrats tried to enfranchise more citizens with weekend voting in Arkansas, he called his home state a banana republic on the Don Imus show. He's compared weight loss with a concentration camp. Abortion, even in the earliest microscopic stages, he's called a holocaust. He referred in a Farm Bureau speech to "fruits and nuts" and "wacko environmentalists" in decrying environmentalists as a threat to agriculture. (Yes, this is the same man that gullible mainstream columnists praise for his ringing environmental proclamations.)
But the national press has more to examine than rhetoric when it comes to Huckabee. He is not the man of principle that credulous commentators describe. Though Huckabee doesn't support embryonic stem cell research, he took a hefty honorarium and bulk book sales this year from a diabetes drug maker, Novo Nordisk, which performs embryonic stem cell research. He has lied when there's been no other way around admitting embarrassing missteps, such as his advocacy of freedom for a convicted rapist.
There are also legitimate questions about his skills as a manager. He left Arkansas with a bill of more than $40 million for overcharges of the federal government's Medicaid program. A State Police director left after a tiff over Huckabee's demand that the agency improve his private lake property in the name of security. Troubles dogged both the state's computer services agency and its workforce agency. Youth services have been an unending series of tragedies. The buck never stopped at Huck's desk, you can be sure.
The governor's office records — triumph and tragedy, sage advice and venom-filled screeds about members of the press and Legislature — would tell this tale. But, as I've mentioned, the computer hard drive destruction ensured that would never happen.
If I could resurrect one batch of files, it would be those reflecting the advice of his staff that he not pursue his desire to free convicted rapist Wayne DuMond. By "advice," I mean I think some of them all but pleaded with Huckabee not to do it.
Though DuMond's prior record included a conviction for assault and his alleged involvement in a slaying and one other rape, by the start of Huckabee's governorship DuMond had become a national figure thanks to Republican efforts to depict him as a victim of the Bill Clinton machine. The rape victim was a distant relative of Clinton's.
Huckabee, perhaps persuaded by DuMond's supposed conversion to Christianity, announced his intention to commute DuMond's sentence without talking to the victim. Outraged, she stepped forward to protest publicly. The backlash was swift and powerful. Huckabee backed away from commuting DuMond's sentence, but in a private meeting lobbied the state Parole Board to release him. Huckabee said, in writing, that he supported DuMond's release. DuMond moved to Missouri in 2000, where he molested and killed one woman and was suspected of doing the same to another, but died in prison before he could be charged in the second case.
To this day, Huckabee tries to minimize his responsibility for DuMond's release. Huckabee's 2007 book "From Hope to Higher Ground" also fudges the facts, implying that DuMond died before being convicted of either Missouri murder. In one recent interview, he even suggested that he had fought DuMond's parole, a statement his own writings prove to be a lie.
Speaking of Huckabee's writings: I'd recommend the Huckabee catalog to the national press. It's a ready representation of the man — quip-filled, shallow, factually challenged and full of the chip-on-the-shoulder mentality that has marked so much of his public life. In "Character Is the Issue," published in 1997, he complained bitterly about how some congregants of the Baptist church he left in Texarkana to seek public office didn't want to continue paying his health insurance. Funny, no employer of mine ever kept paying me after I quit work.
I digress. It's easy to do. In 10 years as governor of Arkansas, Mike Huckabee left a rich and complicated history. It is not without points to praise. But there's so much more, a record that the national media — so ready, since 1992, to plumb the tiniest cranny of Bill Clinton's past — seems uneager to discover. It's a measure of the loving kindness with which he's been treated so far by the coastal punditry that Huckabee has not yet had one of his famous self-pitying public meltdowns about the unfairness of the media.
But then, you don't have to believe me about any of this. After all, I live in Little Rock and, as Huckabee has often said, I'm just the editor of a trashy, throwaway liberal tabloid. Why not look instead to a conservative voice from the national media? At the American Spectator, once home to the anti-Clinton Arkansas Project, senior editor Quin Hillyer, a former Arkansas Democrat-Gazette editorial writer, wrote recently, "National media folks like David Brooks [of the New York Times], dealing in surface appearances only, rave about what a nice guy Huckabee is, and a moral exemplar to boot. If they only did a little homework, they would discover a guy with a thin skin, a nasty vindictive streak, and a long history of imbroglios about questionable ethics."
At last, something the national media and the Arkansas media can agree on.
Everyone needs to vote for RON PAUL. He's like…the best one, and no one even talks about him.
Good piece. Anyone know who the author is?
Well no shit, the last thing we need is another red neck backwoods country bumpkin in office.
******************Re: justjak – Hey there, Sweetstuff! It's SO nice to find you again! Lawdy, the nuts sure are tumbling out of the Planters can today! For the best example, see #94 "Sophia Smith." I think she's got to be one of the most SEVERE cases ever to (HailMaryFullOf) GRACE the GREAT PEREZ!
Doncha just know bitch is in it for the tax-free money??? Oh, while I have you, have you given any more thought to when we might have our (IM)PURITY BALL??? (Early Spring works good for me!) LUVYA (Trent) LOTTS (eats weenies), MYRIAM *************************
Wow! And I thought Huckabee was a bag of douche before I read the article!
Thank you, Perez, for posting this. People may dismiss you as a 'mere' celebrity blogger, but so many more people will read this indictment of Huckabee because you are taking a stand and posting it.
Knowing his stance on Gay rights (and the fact he's a Republican!) was enough for me to think he is really scary and dangerous, and this insightful article only goes to prove it.
Love you, darling Perez! Keep up your important work!
xoxoxo
Re: rachel – "I say vote Giuliani or something."
OR SOMETHING? jesus christ. sometimes democracy is scary. please be a little more invested/educated in a canidate before you head to the polls.
Perez, please post the author's name
Re: joey –
Huckabee is awful!!! I know. I lived in Arkansas the entire 10 years he was in control!! he is a completely miserable person who will do anything for money. I will NOT live in a country with him as President….or anyone equally as stupid. Mark my word dude, i would leave in a heartbeat.
Plus, he makes crap up……..
"I want to make sure that when we look at a disease, whether it is AIDS, diabetes, or cancer, we look at it from the macro perspective, and we don't just single out one thing that affects, in America, you know, about 5,000 people a year," Huckabee said.
The Centers for Disease Control reported that there were 42,514 new AIDS cases and 13,064 deaths from the disease in 2004, the most recent year for which it provided data. About 1.5 million people in the United States have been infected with the AIDS virus since 1981, resulting in more than 500,000 deaths.
(report from Boston.com)
Nevermind everyone else in the world…..
GOOOOO MIKE HUCKABEEEEEEEE!!!!!!!!!!!
WOOOOOOOOOOO
Mike Hukabee = Scumbag
RON PAUL 2008 BABY!
Re: WooHuckabee –
I know the Clintons asshole, im not a blind follower. Our tax dollars pay for the secret service of every ex president until their death. Do you have any clue how much it costs to live in NY? Youre an idiot.
BITCHES - IF YOU WANT TO OUTLAW ABORTION, FREE SPEECH, AND A CITIZEN'S RIGHT'S TO MAKE THEIR OWN INFORMED CHOICES, THEN YEAH - VOTE REPUBLICUNT. RIGHT-WING, RELIGIOUS FREAK REPUBLICUNT.
FUCKIN BIGOTED, NARROW-MINDED, UPTIGHT, HIPPOCRITCAL JACKASSES CAN MOVE TO A COMMUNIST COUNTRY - MAYBE YOU'D FEEL MORE COMFORTABLE THERE.
THAT WILL GUARANTEE A DEM PRESIDENT!
THAT WILL GUARANTEE A DEM PRESIDENT!
Haven't we suffered enough over the past 8 years…these people need to just shut up and stay out of the white house. Hypocritically Cock Suckers.
HAHA
I'm not sure who is MORE delusional - Ron Paul or Suckabee supporters.
WOOOOWWW i hate the very IDEA of an evangelical president… to me, they all have good intentions but they're crazy bible hugging nuts who live their life by a single BOOK.. he is such a corrupt man, it makes me sick. iv said it before, and ill say it again, the day this man is president is the day i move out of the country. we are digging ourselves in a massive hole and i honestly feel like ron paul, or kucinich are this country's only hope. we keep spending money on this endless war, when we HAVE TO BORROW MONEY from the chinese?! DONT BELIEVE WHAT YOU SEE ON THE NEWS!!!!! ill say it again.. DONT BELIEVE WHAT U SEE ON THE NEWS!!!DONT BELIEVE WHAT U SEE ON THE NEWS!!!DONT BELIEVE WHAT U SEE ON THE NEWS!!!DONT BELIEVE WHAT U SEE ON THE NEWS!!!DONT BELIEVE WHAT U SEE ON THE NEWS!!!
do your own research, and you will find THERE A REASON you dont hear about kucinich and ron paul.. THE MEDIA IS OWNED AND OPPERATED by the same people who own and opperate our government.eventually people WILL know about the real candidates and its only a matter of time till either this country goes to shit, or turns around..
PAUL AND KUCINICH are the country's only hope.
Bravo! I live in Arkansas and every single bit of this article is TRUE! I am a huge fan of the Arkansas Times, because they report happenings as they are and not with their 'spin'as our only local state paper does. I cringed when I heard that Mike Huckabee was running for president, if there is a God in Heaven that will not happen.
DON'T VOTE HUCKABEE!!!!!!!!!
Oh Perez! No body gives a shiz about politics. That is why we are in the situation we are. We all care about weather Brit Brit wore panties to the courthouse or if that beaver is free flying today.
Stick to celebrity gossip Perez, I am not here for political insight…
Perez… if you're going to post someone else's story, um, maybe you could credit the publication or — at the very least — the WRITER?! The link to Salon is easy to miss and, besides, it doesn't mention the writer's name either.
Your alleged support for striking writers clearly doesn't go beyond the cause-of-the-month superficialities. Too bad none of your impressive ad revenue doesn't go to the people you poach for content!
WOOT! WOOT! I HATE WOOFERS!
HIS SON STONED, HUNG and SLIT A DOGS THROAT. HE WAS THROWN OUT OF SUMMER CAMP BECAUSE OF THE INCIDENT. MIKE HUCKABEE STILL TO THIS DAY JUSTIFIES HIS BEHAVIOR. IMAGINE IF THAT WAS TEDDY PEREZ!!ANIMALS NEED A VOICE! HIS SON STONED, HUNG and SLIT A DOGS THROAT. HE WAS THROWN OUT OF SUMMER CAMP BECAUSE OF THE INCIDENT. MIKE HUCKABEE STILL TO THIS DAY JUSTIFIES HIS BEHAVIOR. IMAGINE IF THAT WAS TEDDY PEREZ!!ANIMALS NEED A VOICE!
All I can say is "Thank the LARD for the A C L U !!!"
Re: nathalie – Girl, you are one smart cookie~!
Oh, this guy really sucks!
Re: Jaci –
Seriously. What a bunch of drivel. Makes me want to vote for him. Oh, and HELLO?! Shall we post a "dirty secrets" post about Hillary Clinton? Much longer- I promise!
if you plan to vote for huckabee you don't deserve the right to vote.
huckabee is evil
Yes, I really enjoyed reading this article two months ago, on its publication date.
I fully support a persons right to have their religious beliefs, but I do not support a person who cannot seperate chuch from state. this united states is a place were there is a diversity of people with a diversity of religions and beliefs. We need a person to act as our voice and not limit what we can or cannot do. In the days of slavery Blacks were not given the right to wed, later americans realized that this was unjust and they should have the same rights not only as americans but as humans. Why now are gays not given the same rights? For those religious people who are thumping their bibles you should know more than anyone in the end the only one to pass judgement is god, not you. we are all created equal, what gives huckabee the right to tell me what I may or may not do or who I can or cannot wed. I am a straight women and it makes me sick that there is someone who is closed minded enough to think he can tell human beings that they cannot wed because it is a sin. His god may not be the same as my god so why should my laws be based on his religious beliefs? whats worse is that comment he made about gays and their rights " Until moses comes down from brokeback mountain with two differnt tablets changing things, lets leave it like it is"
why dont we just put all the gays in concentration camps you biggot!
Self-fixated homo!!
Look up the big words, Perez, 'cuz I'm talking about you, rump ranger.
Re: KJ –
kj … you're dumb.
Please don't vote for him people.
I don't know if this article is true or not but what I do know is that Huckabee should not be our president. I'm very open minded and I don't have anything against religion but keep it out of our government. If he becomes president I can already see so many bad things going towards the homosexual community and stem cell research.
Re: AudreyforClinton – Do you KNOW the Clintons Audrey? Really know them? I am aware of the cost of living in NY and the fact that secret service are provided to former presidents of this country. I am not an asshole nor an idiot. I'm very informed AND polite. Here are some websites on etiquette for you darling. www.emilypost.com, www.etiquettehell.com
I have no idea how anyone could support a man who is blatantly anti-gay and clearly a religious fanatic. Our country is supposed to be moving forward, not returning to the stone age. The only way our country could be more of a joke in the eyes of the world is if this radical conservative asshole is elected. Yea, we all know politicians have shady pasts, but this is ridiculous. Honestly people, let's make some informed decisions for a change.
I have no idea how anyone could support a man who is blatantly anti-gay and clearly a religious fanatic. Our country is supposed to be moving forward, not returning to the stone age. The only way our country could be more of a joke in the eyes of the world is if this radical conservative asshole is elected. Yea, we all know politicians have shady pasts, but this is ridiculous. Honestly people, let's make some informed decisions for a change. Thanks for posting valuable and relevant information Perez.
#94 - Sophia Smith-HA HA HA HA HA! What a LOOOOOOSER! You traded one phony delusional fake load of bullshit for another! Why didn't you try taking control and responsibility for your own life & destiny instead of replacing one psychological addiction for another? So Sweetie, FUCK GOD FUCK JESUS FUCK THE BIBLE & FUCK YOU!
Perez, Thanks for posting this. People really need to know what an evil prick Huckabee is.
Jackie-HEY ASSHOLE! YOU CAN'T VOTE FOR SOMEONE WHO'S NEVER GOING TO BE ON THE BALLOT!
Re: jackie –
Mike huckabee is an ass hole, its people like you that are voting for people that run this country into the ground. I bet you voted for George Bush too, lot of good he did us
I live in Arkansas, and I swear to you, if Mike Huckabee becomes the president of the United States then I am moving to Canada.
Why isn't this making national news????
HUCKABEE WILL WIN, ONLY HE WILL SECURE OUR BORDERS!! hE WILL NOT ALLOW ANCHOR BABIES TO GET AUTOMATIC CITIZENSHIP WHEN THEIR ILLEGAL MOTHERS GIVE BIRTH TO THEM IN OUR COUNTRY!!!! HUCKABEE WILL BUILD THAT FENCE AND HE WILL WIN. ALL THE EVANGELICALS WILL VOTE FOR HIM NOW!!!!!! HUCKABEE IS NOT A REPUBLICAN HE IS A POPULIST WHICH IS WHAT WE NEED AT THIS TRYING TIME!!!!
Re: Catherine – ME TOO! CANADA'S LOOKING REAL GOOD RIGHT ABOUT NOW!!!
Re: ME TOO! – ************************************* Toronto is my favorite city!
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that is fucked up
if he gets elected, im moving to canada
hmm is it me or does this asswipe sound like Bush?
Mike Huckabee has common sense and a realistic view on the world. He also still has values and morals. Imagine that! Go Huckabee!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Go bust on other candidates…I love Mike!
When one person suffers from a delusion it is called insanity.
When many people suffer from a delusion it is called RELIGION.
–Robert Pirsig
I'm happy that you posted something like this. Huckabee is an unworthy candidate, and though politicians notoriously lie and cheat, Huckabee is just in a league of his own. I hope that this country does not let him win the primarys.
Perez, though you are harsh sometimes and get a lot of bad press; I truly love you site and I feel that there are so many people that would love to say what you say, but just don't have the guts.
Keep on keepin' on.
Harlow Eve.
Re: JOE – This trying time? Get over yourself! Such ignorant sentiments give Americans a bad name, I know there's some good educated guys out there with brains and passports, lets not have the whole world laughing at you again because of who you vote in as your president!
#157 - John Stall the Wonderpope-MAY I QUOTE YOU ON THAT?
Hmmm…I am from Arkansas and I love Huckabee!
It's sad that people take the words of a tabloid writer and decide that those will be their political opnions.
If someone is THAT in depth and rambles THAT much, they have a personal vendetta and half of it could be bull. I don't doubt most is true, I'm just saying. Hilary, Obama, Huckabe all of them have "dark sides" and skeletons in the closet. Hilary doesn't just have a skeleton in her's she's in it too, hah. In all seriousness tho it seems to be a successful politician one has to be a liar, cheater and thug who hides under a nice suit and some financial backers. They're all the same! Democrat or Republican. F— EM ALL!
I am from Arkansas and I can tell you that Huckabee is actually a decent man but if you don't like him that's your right, we do live in AMERICA..that being said, VOTE FOR HUCKABEE!
REGARDING: #155 - Michelle says – reply to this
Mike Huckabee has common sense and a realistic view on the world. He also still has values and morals. Imagine that! Go Huckabee!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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Yes, and so do a lot of other's including myself, but I will be butt fucked if I pushed MY VALUES AND MORALS ON OTHER'S - WHO BELIEVE DIFFERENTLY THAN I DO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
YOU ARE A MORON. MORONS VOTE FOR RIGHT WING SO CALLED FAMILY VALUES - AND THEN THOSE SO CALLED VIRTUOUS MEN TURN THE OTHER CHEEK - pun intended - AND GO AGAINST THE SO CALLED VALUES THEY ESPOUSE. Don't EVEN get me started on those Catholic priests………………
BULLSHIT BABY!
love the political drama. Huckabee is the gayist last name ever. He's probably gay himself and can't come to terms with it cause he's a pussy. I totally believe it, and bush is probably even worse.
Everything that was said is true. Huck has done all of this with smugness and arrogance. One of the worst things he did (besides set Wayne DuMond free to kill again)was testing school kids for obesity that started a wave of self-esteem issues and all the time his own FAT ASS KIDS were wondering around our great State. Huck needs to go cry in his fluffy goose down pillow in the mansion he bought in NLR and keep writing nonsensical books for the cheeses that love him.
It will be a cold day in hell when my vote goes to a man who raised an ANIMAL ABUSER KILLER.
Must have been all of that strict, rigid Baptist bullshit that ANIMAL KILLER lived with his entire life, that flipped him out.
THE HUCKABEE'S ARE A PATHETIC, DISGUSTING FAMILY.
R KANZ ASS brought us one fabulous politician - President Bill Clinton.
Just goes to show with Suckabee running, it won't be history repeating itself, unless it's another Clinton in the White House. Then they have two for three.
Re: HUCKABEE ALL THE WAY! –
wow. that explains a lot
What does this have to do with Britney?
you are an absolute fool if you vote for this moron.
Hucka-fuck-up more like it. Dumbass fooled Iowa…we know who he is an his place to rot in hell!
PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE VOTE!!!
If you are fed up with politics as usual-PLEASE come out and vote. Our country needs a strong showing of young people to come to the polls. The last time such a strong turnout of young people came we elected Bill Clinton. PLEASE vote. I am a Democrat, but I could withstand Romney or Guiliani if it had to be Republican, but NOT this guy. Huckabee makes Bush Jr. look like a saint. PLEASE VOTE WE CAN CHANGE THINGS
PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE VOTE!!!
If you are fed up with politics as usual-PLEASE come out and vote. Our country needs a strong showing of young people to come to the polls. The last time such a strong turnout of young people came we elected Bill Clinton. PLEASE vote. I am a Democrat, but I could withstand Romney or Guiliani if it had to be Republican, but NOT this guy. Huckabee makes Bush Jr. look like a saint. PLEASE VOTE WE CAN CHANGE THINGS
Re: MYRIAM C WEBSTER – Myriam Dahhhhling…it's been a dreadful day… but you alway manage to sprinkle some sunshine in my world….I say…Send the ignorant hillbilly back to the trailor park that he used to be the maintanance man for. Huck-A-Fuck is Shit out of Luck ! And have you seen his children ??? They're positively GROTESQUE ! Fat as Virginia Hams, with that DUMB backroad stare in their eyes. And I'm reluctant to say much about POOR Sophia…I try my best NOT to poke fun at the TRULY INSANE ! As for the ball honey, early spring works just fine…as long as we throw the shindig in the South…I'm partial to New Orleans…Katrina did little damage to the French Quarter…Anywhere but up North…It's still colder than that rotted cinder pretending to be a heart in Huck-A-Fuck's chest in early spring.
I will move to Denmark where the call me Woot!
Imagine there's no heaven
It's easy if you try
No hell below us
Above us only sky
Imagine all the people
Living for today…
Imagine there's no countries
It isn't hard to do
Nothing to kill or die for
And no religion too
Imagine all the people
Living life in peace…
You may say I'm a dreamer
But I'm not the only one
I hope someday you'll join us
And the world will be as one
Imagine no possessions
I wonder if you can
No need for greed or hunger
A brotherhood of man
Imagine all the people
Sharing all the world…
You may say I'm a dreamer
But I'm not the only one
I hope someday you'll join us
And the world will live as one
hey guys, your country is turning into the england of v for vendetta
that sucks, because im sure theres a lot of intelligent and good people in america, but your choices of presidents, lately, make you look like stupid…
everybody laughes at you… and nobody i know wants to live there, and i know a LOT of people…
come on guys, you can do better that bush and huckabee…
re: #66 Jay Stone…ooh I want to hear about Osama, I mean Obama's dark side!!! can't you submit in parts (1 of 39, 2 of 39) or? Pleeeeeeeeeeezzzze
The only reason his record isn't raised is because the democrats know for a fact they can beat this guy because most of his voters are evangelicals and he has NO CHANCE in winning the general election!
Re: Zacquieefer –
false. NOT ron paul. he is the ONLY one that speaks truth.
America voted for Bush. That about said it all really.
he reminds me of the evil-yet-folksy politician from Stephen King's 'The Dead Zone'….
Re: TRINA – the fact you cant explain yourself is bad enough…
Re: HUCKABEE ALL THE WAY! –
A shining example of all that is wrong with America…
Perez -
I have never posted a comment before, but had to do so after reading this posting. I'd like to thank you for this post and others like it that I have seen before on your site. Many of the readers' comments are disturbingly ignorant, so ignorant that I wonder about the future of our country! If it wasn't for your posting, I doubt that these readers would otherwise expose themselves to news related to this very important upcoming presidential election. Thank you for bringing these issues to their attention. They may not read much, since many found that article to be "a book" (HA!, yet very sad), but at least they are exposed to truthful commentary about Huckabee. Perez, I appreciate you more than you know. For some, celebrity gossip is the only news to read. You know this, and with that, you smartly include political commentary that you know these people will read. Thank you for encouraging the American people, OUR people, to educate themselves. Thanks also, of course, for the gossip!
Respectfully,
Georgia Girl
Perez -
I have never posted a comment before, but had to do so after reading this posting. I'd like to thank you for this post and others like it that I have seen before on your site. Many of the readers' comments are disturbingly ignorant, so ignorant that I wonder about the future of our country! If it wasn't for your posting, I doubt that these readers would otherwise expose themselves to news related to this very important upcoming presidential election. Thank you for bringing these issues to their attention. They may not read much, since many found that article to be "a book" (HA!, yet very sad), but at least they are exposed to truthful commentary about Huckabee. Perez, I appreciate you more than you know. For some, celebrity gossip is the only news to read. You know this, and with that, you smartly include political commentary that you know these people will read. Thank you for encouraging the American people, OUR people, to educate themselves. Thanks also, of course, for the gossip!
Respectfully,
Georgia Girl
Huckabee is a SCUMBAG!!!
Re: Sophia Smith –
Exactly why religions should have NO part in politics. Just shows the ignorance in this country.
If you are seriously getting your information on who to vote for from a Celebrity Gossip site, you should not be allowed to vote!! If you really want to learn the facts, educate yourself. Watch the debates, research the candidates, and come to your own conclusion on who would be best to lead our country.
i'm also from Arkansas, and i've had several of my friends to suggest moving to Canada if he wins. I'm down. Anybody else up for it?
Is there honestly a good presidential candidate? Even the one who has the best promotion story is full of shit and wont do half of it anyway? There never has been and never will be a president that actually accomplishes everythign they say they will so whats the point?
Re: I heart Huckabee – We should be so lucky to have a president like Jimmy Carter again. Oh yeah- & that movie sucked as much as your Bush-replacement-parts candidate!
WE WERE IN "TIP-TAPPING" CLASS TOGETHER!!!
Re: WooHuckabee –
i CANT BELEIVE SOMEONE WOULD SAY THEY WANT TO OUTLAW ABORTION!
I am personally against abortion but its not my place to tell someone what to do. taking away peoples rights to make free choices is a slap in the face to all of our americans overseas They are fighting for us to have these rights you moron.
YOU REALLY THINK THAT POOR MENTALLY HANDICAPPED KID WHO WAS RAPPED BY HER FATHER SHOULD HAVE BEEN DENIED AN ABORTION???? THE POOR KID CANT EVEN TAKE CARE OF HERSELF!
LETS SEE IF YOU GET RAPPED AND GET PREGNANT FROM THE BRUTAL ASSAULT IF YOU WOULD KEEP THE KID! IM GUESSING NOT!
ITS NOT YOUR PLACE TO TELL PEOPLE WHAT TO DO WITH THEIR BODIES ITS CALLED
FREEDOM!
Ok Freaks that are Republicans..go the hell away..If you drive an economy car and you don't make over 100,000.00 a year YOU ARE FRIGGIN RETARDED FOR BEING REPUBLICAN. GO ON WITH YOUR UNEDUCATED RETARDED LIVES, DON'T PUSH YOUR WANNA BE ONE SIDED CHRISTIAN CRAP on a nation that is full of all KINDS OF PEOPLE
Quote: "He referred in a Farm Bureau speech to "fruits and nuts" and "wacko environmentalists" in decrying environmentalists as a threat to agriculture."
When he made these comments, one of the people he was referring to was my mother, literally. Part of this reaction speech was due to a fight some coalitions (one of which my mother headed) were having with the Arkansas EPA. I also attended the meeting that part of his name-calling was referring to. He helped Arkansas loosen environmental protections that will take years to reinstate and some damage that was caused from his disregard for environmental protection may never be reversed or restored.
Mike Huckabee is a waste of presidential space other than to take votes away from some of the other Republican runners. He has an ugly character (regardless of his humor on the Colbert Report) and an ugly personality — which is just what we DON'T need another of in the White House.
Re: Pop – \
WOW. Only the uneducated, ignorant and geriatric still refer to France as weak and soft. I bet you called them Freedom-Fries for a year too, didn't you? What is an old codger like yourself even doing on a gossip site, trolling I am sure.
Re: TexasGrl –
Do you really think Clinton could have made it to the white house without the support of his home state? Bill Clinton was not a rich man, he couldn't just use daddy's money to fund his campaign, he needed the people of Arkansas to support him. I know, I was there. Get your facts strait.
Even Democrats know we can't pull out of Iraq right now. Our freedom and homeland security will be at risk. Why do all of you choose to turn a blind eye to the death wish muslim nations have out for Americans & Jews? If we leave Iraq now, we as a nation, are only setting ourselves up to be victims of terrorist attacks. What happens to our freedom & everyday living when a suicide bomber decides to blow himself up in a mall or a movie theater?? It would change our way of living drastically! Stop ignoring the fact that these muslim countries HATE America and will stop at nothing until we accept their "Allah" as god or until we're all beheaded. You complain about the WAR now, but I think you'll be complaining ALOT more if we leave IRAQ now and suffer the consequences of our own safety!
Re: Michelle – NO…GO MICHELLE…STRAIGHT TO HELL !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! FUCKING KUNT !
Obviously some of you people can't read.
I too thought maybe this guy is just pissy.
Then I did the research.
Turns out everything he said about Huckabee is true.
So go ahead and vote for him and go ahead and say that this editor guy is just pissy, but one day you'll realize the huge mistake you've come to make.
He wanted to free a KILLER//RAPIST for cryin out loud!
You people are thick.
And I'm not changing my mind about that shit.
Huckabee is a piece of shit who needs to fall of the planet.
I wasted my time reading this.I already knew he was a peice of shit
That is the best thing I read in the responses.