comMITTed to Romney!

UPDATED AND BUMPED: Is Huckabee petty?

1. Of small importance; trivial: a petty grievance.
2. Marked by narrowness of mind, ideas, or views.
3. Marked by meanness or lack of generosity, especially in trifling matters.

Reasons to agree:
1. Instead of listening to those who criticize him, Huckabee tries to destroy those who dare examine his record. He does this in a personal, non-substantive, and yes, a petty way.
2. Huckabee never criticized Romney over issues. Huckabee never said substantive things about Romney that were wrong, all he did was 3rd grade type petty criticisms, like saying that Romney needed to take acting lessons, was too successful for people to vote for, or should commit suicide after spending so much of his money on his campaign.
3. Huckabee had a foot-shooting, cheap political stunt of trying to “pull” a negative ad he just had to air first for the media, suggesting to those who pointed out his hypocrisy that they were “cynical.” Huckabee aides told the press the candidate was driven by his anger toward Mitt Romney before changing his mind at the last minute.
4. Huckabee refused to deal with an alt-weekly because it wrote negative stories about him. Google “petty and Huckabee”.
5. When Romney endorsed John McCain Huckabee said; “I won’t have to take acting lessons to endorse McCain”. I don’t get it. Does Huckabee seem to think there was no reason for Romney to criticize McCain? Does he not think that grown adults can disagree with each other? Did Huckabee think it was difficult for Romney to endorse the guy, whom everyone agreed lied about him with regard to time lines in Iraq? There were differences between Mitt Romney and John McCain. These were substantive difference that have consequences more than just personal relationships, but for the future of our party, country, and world. But these were personal difference between two very different men, and it was petty of Huckabee to try and insert himself into the situation, and insist (very self righteously) how much better chums he was with McCain than Romney.
6. 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.
7. Huckabee compared hard-hitting (and accurate) news reporters for the Democrat-Gazette to the press fabulists Jayson Blair and Janet Cooke.
8. Huckabee called liberal columnist John Brummett of Stephens Media “constipated” when that early admirer commenced some gentle criticism.
9. Huckabee’s 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.
10. Huckabee once called Max Brantley and the Memphis Commercial Appeal bureau chief “junkyard journalists” for their reporting. This was very small of Huckabee. You have to look the case up yourself, but Max Brantley was a respected journalist, and it was petty of Huckabee to go after him personally.
11. Huckabee also compared Max Brantley, in print, to serial killer Jeffrey Dahmer and wished aloud for his early and violent demise. It is petty to viciously attack someone who dares criticize you.
12. Google “Huckabee” and “petty”. You will fnd some good stuff

Reasons to disagree:
1. It wasn’t wrong for Huckabee to make the campaign about personal attacks. People don’t just vote on the issues, they want to have a guy in the white house they like. It wasn’t petty for Huckabee to point out things about Romney that people could be made to not like. Romney brought up policy positions Huckabee took in the past about immigration, and letting people out of jail. Huckabee had every right to respond with personal attacks. It wasn’t small or little of him.
2. Everyone is petty. No on is perfect. We are told to judge people by their fruits. The question we should ask is if Huckabee, and we, are less petty than we were yesterday.
3. It is good that Huckabee fights back, when people criticize him. I wish Romney would do the same. No charge should go un-responded to. It’s a war of ideas. If other people are going to attack your weaknesses, you need to attack theirs. People say Huckabee was petty. Well so what? That’s not what kept him from getting elected in 2008.

I don’t mean to be petty myself, going after Huckabee. However, conservatives took too long to decide whom to get behind this year. Huckabee is relatively young. He will be around in 2012, and will be one of the leading contenders. I’m trying to work out all these issues, so we don’t have to figure out who to support the day before Super Tuesday in 2012.

Well I’ve kind of gotten all my ideas out on paper. Which side is right? What did I leave off? Now that we have investigated that issue, lets go onto the next one:

Huckabee is a hypocrite.

Reasons to agree:

1. Huckabee is constantly complaining about Romney’s criticism of his record. But Huckabee hardly goes a day without making personal attacks about Romney’s character, and it is better to criticizes someone’s record, in a political setting, than to get personal.
2. Huckabee always talks about how he is a “Christian leader” but he made jokes about shoving a flag pole up the collective butts of people who thought the confederate flag was somewhat racist.

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