Comments on: The Dark Side of Mike Huckabee https://bartblog.bartcop.com/?p=1360 The Blog of BartCop.com Wed, 14 Nov 2012 04:36:18 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.9 By: grimgold https://bartblog.bartcop.com/?p=1360&cpage=1#comment-6544 Wed, 14 Nov 2007 22:10:48 +0000 http://bartblog.bartcop.com/2007/11/13/the-dark-side-of-mike-huckabee/#comment-6544 Rhetor, you have a ready-made issue to smack Huck with that will send the conservatives into screaming fits – he immediately raised taxes in response to deficit in state of Ark.
If his track record is of any use he’s full of crap in his supposed desire to reduce taxes.

]]> By: rhetor https://bartblog.bartcop.com/?p=1360&cpage=1#comment-6522 Wed, 14 Nov 2007 05:43:56 +0000 http://bartblog.bartcop.com/2007/11/13/the-dark-side-of-mike-huckabee/#comment-6522 I oppose Mike Huckabee’s presidential bid because I think he’s a theocrat and I know he’s a Repiglican — ’nuff said. The man makes me nervous because he seems so “reasonable” to my wobbly Democratic friends, and he’s rising in the polls. So I sure hope we can find better dirt on him than the dusty puff job Max Brantley just handed us:

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“Other payments went to the family babysitter.”
So we’re to despise Huckabee for paying his babysitter?

“He failed to report that campaign travel payments were for the use of his own personal plane.”
His own plane was probably a lot cheaper to use than a chartered turboprop would have been. What’s the problem?

“The Arkansas Times received no news releases from the governor’s office, no notices of news conferences, no responses to routine questions.”
So the governor cut off a news organization he perceived as a critic and a threat…just as I hope all Democrats do to Fox Noise. You know, what’s good for the gander is good for the goose.

“…he’d crushed computer hard drives so nobody could ever get a peek behind the curtain of the Huckabee administration.”
If that was an illegal thing to do, this would have been helpful information to mention. If it was *legal*, it sounds like a pretty good idea to me.

“…doghouse, dry-cleaning bills, panty hose…”
Get frigging serious.

“He ran the State Police airplane into the ground…”
Assuming this doesn’t mean the governor crashed the plane, I see he comes in for criticism whether he uses his own plane or the state’s. Maybe Huckabee should just walk everywhere he goes?

“…he called his home state a banana republic on the Don Imus show.”
I have never heard convincingly from any source that Arkansas is NOT a banana republic! It might have been the most truthful utterance on the radio that day.
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The various “gifts” and “questionable ethics” sound for all the world like the small-time, Arkansas-sized grubbing that I remember hearing about in connection with another politician from Hope. But I liked Bill Clinton anyway. He brung home the bacon; we all prospered in his time.

Brantley’s article plays out like a personal drama between him and Huckabee. Pretty small-time stuff. The foibles Brantley mentioned wouldn’t corrode our nationhood nearly as much as mere continuance of Repiglican rule…and the fact that Huckabee seems not the worst of the Repiglicans makes him all the more dangerous, IMO.

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