Comments on: Remember Mike Huckabee?

By: Chris

Chris — Thu, 19 Jun 2008 14:04:47 +0000

Who cares if Mike Huckabee is a big tax-and-spend liberal? He’s a good Baptist. Jake Knotts, too.

By: Chackog

Chackog — Thu, 19 Jun 2008 05:54:38 +0000

Mike Huckabee speaks people heart. Remember… He is holds 33 percent of religous votes..

By: mikey g

mikey g — Wed, 18 Jun 2008 19:05:14 +0000

Toyota Kawesaki……Japan just recalled all toyota kawesaki’s because of loose wiring.

By: LonelyBathTubGuy

LonelyBathTubGuy — Wed, 18 Jun 2008 14:23:24 +0000

Mande, why is nobody posting on the bath-tub dude piece? He is sad.

By: Scott H.

Scott H. — Wed, 18 Jun 2008 14:20:26 +0000

“Despite the fact that the Republican Party was born of libertarianism,”

This is factually incorrect. The Republican Party was founded by Abolitionists, Free-Soilers (a party that felt the government should give away land in the west to would-be settlers free of charge), and what was left of the Whig Party (who, by the time they joined the Republicans were in favor of major governmental intervention into economic areas).

I think your argument would have been better made if you had said something like: “The modern Republican Party is founded on libertarian principles.”

You could then define “modern” however you wished: Barry Goldwater small gvt principles or even Republican opposition to the New Deal. However, giving away gvt land free of charge, the government telling people what they are allowed to do, and favoring government intervention into the economy is hardly libertarian.

Slavery was a moral evil, but for southerners, it was to foundation of the entire economy…so in their minds…it was gvt meddling in the economy. Additionally, the “American System” advocated by Whig Henry Clay was in favor of tariffs (i.e. not free trade) and the use of tax money to invest in infrastructure and the economy….i.e. meddling in the economy.

Even rants should be accurate if you wish to cultivate credibility.

By: Toyota Kawesaki

Toyota Kawesaki — Wed, 18 Jun 2008 12:50:47 +0000

Mande this Mork calling once again phone home

By: CL

CL — Wed, 18 Jun 2008 12:28:06 +0000

#28,

You do not cite a single “lie” or refute anything posted about Huckabee. You simply talk about him like he is the 2nd coming. Geez, I thought Obama supporters were delusional.

The fact that Huckabee was a man of faith was one of the few things I liked about him. However, there were certainly other “men of religion” in the race whose policies actually resembled the Republican platform. Pop quiz: who said

“I have a great respect for Barack Obama. I think he’s a person who is trying to do in many ways what I hope I’m trying to do and that is to say let’s quit what I call ‘horizontal politics.’ Everything in this country is not left, right, liberal, conservative, Democrat, Republican.”

That’s right, Mike Huckabee, who apparently sees Obama as a kindred spirit.

By: David Anderson

David Anderson — Wed, 18 Jun 2008 10:28:04 +0000

Always the same lies and distortions about Huckabee from the haters on the far left (as well as the far right). People with little real knowledge of him grasping at straws because they fear that a man of religion will interfere with their self-centered lifestyles (he won’t). America desperately needs the vision, integrity, and courage of Mike Huckabee. The corrupt establishment will do everything possible to destroy his reputation because they do not want reform. The young people of America with any conscience at all should get behind him and help him any way they can.

By: Eric

Eric — Wed, 18 Jun 2008 06:28:34 +0000

Just curious Brenda,

Of all the sincerely religious candidates, how did you determine which one spoke for God?

By: Vagabond

Vagabond — Wed, 18 Jun 2008 04:32:01 +0000

Huckabee and anybody else who wants to donate their money for these social giveaways is welcome to do so. Forcing other citizens to follow suit is not charity, it is state sponsored theft. Spin it however you like, but when the government controls the fruits of your labor you are not living in the free country our founders gave us. Like it or not, cold hearted libertarianism is the only sustainable form of government. When the fiat currency house of cards finally collapses you’ll have only yourself to rely upon. Get used to it.