Huckabee From Out of Nowhere

I liked Mike until I seen him sucking up on TV with that scum bum Kenneth Copeland.Anybody that would cuddle up with that crook will never get my vote.

I'm not surprised at Huckabee's rise. He along with Romney and Jiuliani are good candidates based on experience and accomplishments. The Democrats don't have anyone as good as these guys.

Mike is the Man...I know he may not be cool enough for some voters. I mean some people respect you more if somehwere in your past you hit the crack pipe and whatever but I still like Mike anyway....Go Governor Huck prove all the elitist Nay-sayers wrong on Jan 3rd!!!!!!

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.

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.

posted by Keith S.
Copied here by me

Hey Goober Remember the previuos Governor in ARK right before Mike- Yeah Jim Guy Tucker the democrat with ties to Hillary Clinto and a little stuation called Whitewater- Jim Guy had to step down...So ease up- in a highly democratic state Mike would have had to of stepped down too if what he did was against the law. I think you have an agenda.

It's sad to see what the Republican party has been reduced to. I'm no John McCain fan at all. In fact, I'm a Democrat, but it is hard for me to believe that Republicans prefer Mike Huckabee over John McCain. Republicans wake up and see what the so called social conservatives have done to your party.

David,
I do not think Romney will be too worried about Huckabee. He may be vehement on the issues by word but he is soft on paper. The reason everyone thinks he is this “perfect Christian conservative candidate” is because he is just now getting name recognition. Whereas, Romney has been in the public eye sense the first reporter typed the word Mormon in an article. I have looked at Huckabee’s record and found he is mostly full of hot air and fluff. At first glance he does seem to be the ideal Christian conservative candidate but once you dig in his past- watch out the bones in his political closet will bury you. His previous behavior as Gov. of AK leaves him( as the above writer mentioned) no better than the previous Gov. Why should we accept him just because the other Gov was caught in the act but Huckabee was caught after the act? It is a lot easier to get away with local political err than national Gov err. I for one do not want to give him the chance to get caught in Nat. Gov err.

You palefaces sure are funny--you spent all that time and all those bullets civilizing us poor injuns and then you turn around and think that a couple of yahoos like Huckabee and Romney are qualified to run a country in your 21st century.

Sorry--he seems like a nice guy and all, but anyone who doesn't believe in evolution (or that the world is flat, or any 14th century, asinine "belief") can't get my vote. That's why India, the Asian nations, etc are whipping by our kids in science--this type of ignorance that Huckabee displays, and that automatically disqualifies him for any thinking person.

Anyone interested in what Huckabee is really like face to face should try this funny (but it actually happened) column:
http://goupstate.us/index.php/lanefiller/2007/11/02/title_14

We believe in this family that Mike Huckabee is a Fresh runner for The Office of President and is The #1 canidate...Mike will surpass all the others with Flying Colors..Ps..Anybody that calls Kenneth Copeland a scum bum is not playing with a full load...Kenneth is a Mighty Man of God, is Honest, with Great integrity!

I don't know if Copeland is a scum bum or not,but I haven't seen him on the news connected with sex, drugs,or other crimes. The first thing I want to know about a candidate is how he feels about my Second Amendment rights. If he wants to take away my gun, I sure can't trust him to be in my government, and certainly will not vote for him, no matter who he is or where he comes from!

Surely are not stupid enough to elect another BUSH--Huckabee or Rommney. Best stick wtih Rudi, I thnk heis the only person that can beat Hillary Clinton

Just what the country needs! Huckabee's just another dime-a-dozen I.Q.-deprived right-wing lunatic who thinks God is tellng him what to do, is completely ignorant about science and facts, and allows his moronic prejudices and biases to drive his asinine opinions. "Usually wrong, but never in doubt"--a sure fire hit for the Republican party!!!

Mitt Romney is THE ONLY CANDIDATE who, if elected President, can turn around our beautiful country's inevitable collision and absorption into the sewage in which She has been heading for years. The next president MUST possess and demonstrate honesty, integetrity, high moral values, a REAL leader, a true believer and follower of God, someone who refuses to compromise with lobbyists, big money people, greedy corporations whose only intention in life is to take from the working class and pad their own pockets. Those are the shameful maggots with whom we deal. And that may just be an insult to maggots everywhere. Demand and prove to us that the needs of America and her citizens are first and foremost. That our Country IS OF GOD and is NOT a puppet of politicians. Shame on those in ALL elected or appointed office who have led us into the potential demise of our Country; who invaded the WRONG country to begin with; who ignored the warnings before 9/11; who listened to and believed the words of those who led us to this path. More than ever WE NEED GOD and HIS GUIDANCE and a leader of God's choosing. We MUST be vigilant. We MUST retake that which has been stripped from us over the years! Stop blaming others for problems that we alone are responsible; individually we CAN be prayerful and listen to what GOD is telling us. Purge your hearts and minds of paradigms that we have allowed others to convince us of. I am NOT a religious person, per se, but I AM convinced that the ONLY way out of this mess is to turn it over to the ONLY POWER who can help us; but will we let HIM? Or are we so smug and so prideful to convince ourselves that we can fix this cancerous problem alone? I hope not.

Uhhhh...You want integrity? MITT ROMNEY FOR PRESIDENT!

I have watched the rise of Huckabee. He has siezed upon the vaccume left by the withdrawal of Brownback. He's also viewed by some Iowans as the last option for the evangelicals.

As Thompson has been deflated by more intense exposure, Juliani suffering from really not being a conservative, and McCain still dragging his load of old chain, Hukabee piles on the whole bunch including Romney. Can he survive? Only Arkansas exposed will tell. He's politically smart. Presidential? Ummm, he surely isn't. Can he become Presidential? Exposure will tell.

Speaking of Romney, it's evident he didn't succeed in business or pulling the Olympics out of utter disaster by being stupid. His faith is questionable to some, which will be a draw back at present. When the last wheel hits the road, we'll all be able to evaluate who has the "STUFF" when it comes to the test of politics,
MONEY!
Romney has put his money where his mouth is. Giving up money to get the story out tells me that he knows who he is. He has to believe when the voting public knows the same thing, he'll be a winner. Presidential timber has to endure the impossible to be President. We shall see.

I like Mike... if he can get rid of the income tax!
Check out the Fair Tax!

Oh, yeah, one other thing: This is the only country in which the Supreme Court elected our president..a closer look at them, please, along with the politically incorrect and antiquated electoral college. Majority never really did rule, did it? We have been so blind sided and led by the nose. Shame on us!

Laurie 6:48PM Nov 21st 2007
I like Mike... if he can get rid of the income tax!
Check out the Fair Tax!
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Fair tax is hardly fair!
It leads to black markets. Just like prohibition did. Take milk and make it 7.00$ and see how many people pay for it. No, they will cut the stores out and by it from the street.

It is unfair to consumers that have to consume.
I have a handicapped child that must have 250$ worth of meds that ins don’t pay for. How will I pay twice as much for them under your supposed “fair tax” ?
How will I pay twice as much for her 100$ diapers that she will wear for the rest of her life but ins don’t pay for?
How will I get my medical refund on my income tax. I travel 20,000 miles a yr from MS to NY for her medical treatment. That is hotels and meals as well that I will pay twice as much for.
FAIR TAX punishes people who have no choice but to spend 2/3 of their income on a handicapped child!
Then I will be forced to get on welfare and/or not get my child the treatment she needs.
WHY because some super rich guy don’t want to pay taxes.
He will simply buy his goods under a tax exempt status.
Wake up and do research on your fair tax before you punish business and kids that depend on it really actually being fair!!!!!


Try Romneys plan:
that does not punish you for saving.
Perm tax cuts.
no death tax
etc.