Huckabee Lies
Hugh Hewitt had an hour long discussion with Mike Huckabee . Mike lied about the campaign (which is not new ):
Huckabee: “If you look at the total amount of money that people spent, look at Rudy Giuliani. I think he spent something like, what, $60 million dollars? He got zero delegates.”
Hugh Hewitt: “Governor, through…for the benefit of the audience because I’m going to get dinged on this if I don’t point it out, through the time Romney dropped out, did he have more votes than you did”?
Huckabee: I don’t know. I’d have to go back and look at where things were at the time that he dropped out. But I know that by the time it was over, we had come in second with delegates and votes.
Romney’s backing Thursday could help McCain lock up the nomination faster than initially expected. Romney said he’s encouraging his delegates — which number 280 – to back the Arizona senator, though they’re not bound to do so.
But rival Mike Huckabee, who has 242 delegates, is vowing to stay in the race.
“I may get beat, but I’m not going to quit. It’s just not in my nature,” he told FOX News after the endorsement.
November 30th, 2008 at 7:28 pm
Well, well, finally he lies and knows full well what the numbers were. i said at time, Huck would stay in just to beat Mitt’s numbers. That he says he can’t remember is ludicrous. He knew every move Mitt made, actually I think he was obsessed and very jealous of Mitt and still is………I say, take the numbers at time of suspension…………..Mitt was 280, Huck only 242,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,, yep, Mitt won 2nd place….. Live with it Huck…………………. You lied!!!!!
November 30th, 2008 at 9:04 pm
I’m sorry you wasted your time even posting this. No news to us. We are already well aware that Huckabee is a self centered liar who’ll say anything to advance his cause. Come 2012 he’ll have more than Romney to worry about. Palin will be getting most of the votes he won this time round.
December 1st, 2008 at 12:58 am
Actually Mitt had about 311 delegates when he quit. Huckabee and his army keep counting the delegates after Romney lost the unpledged delegates and the delegates he could release.
Funny, no matter how many times you show them those numbers, they still insist Huckabee was No.2. Must have something to do with being mathematically challenged.
They also can’t seem to see Huckabee for what he is, but I think the rest of the voters are now getting a real good look at Huckabee they never did before. He may still be dangerous in a primary just becaues of the dynamics unless Romney has the same kind of support in the North and New England that Giulianni did to add to his support in the West.
If that happens, Huckabee doesn’t have a prayer.
But as I have heard Mitt say frequently, let’s work hard now with the new administration and for conservative values to get the country in better shape ASAP instead of hoping for the worst and waiting for 4 years.
December 1st, 2008 at 2:25 am
Seeing how far Huckamnesia’s Pinnochio nose is now protruding into the solar system, Nasa has entered into negotiations with Huck to position his ever-growing probiscus next to the International Space Station to allow earth-bound astronauts to simply latch on and slide home.
December 1st, 2008 at 10:28 am
Case Against Huckabee
Posted by: John Schroeder (Article VI)
November 26th 2008
http://www.article6blog.com/2008/11/26/legality-religiousity-post-prop-8-ugliness-and-the-case-against-huckabee/
Yesterday we began to “fisk” Mike Huckabee’s slippery-eel responses to his interview with Hugh Hewitt. With a book in release we are going to be hearing a lot of the Huckster in the next few weeks. I found the New Yorker’s review of his book most fascinating:
In “Do the Right Thing,” he takes a poke at Mitt Romney. “I never felt that he was leveling with the people,” Huckabee said. [emphasis added]
As we saw in the Hewitt interview the anti-Mormon case against Huckabee is not an easy one to make, he has done his job in a cloud of code, plausible deniability, and the Clinton-perfected technique of “if you tell people something other than what happened long enough it becomes what happened.” But, if we take that single quote from his book and examine it through the concluding sentence of Joel Belz ugly, bigoted excuse for a column at World Magazine:
“More than anything, I want a president who tells the truth. And I worry deeply when people are overly ready to believe a man whose religious upbringing, of all things, suggests that the truth is a negotiable commodity.”
We have a straight line from Mike Huckabee to anti-Mormon rhetoric, and sentiment.
The Republican party cannot tolerate such prejudice against Mormons or anyone else. Mike Huckabee can have his TV show, but he should never, ever have a shot at candidacy for anything with a (R) after his name.
December 1st, 2008 at 1:33 pm
Huck’s Daft Tax Plan - A silly political ploy.
By Rich Lowry
December 4, 2007 12:00 AM
http://article.nationalreview.com/?q=ODA1NmU2MGUzODZkM2U1Zjg0YWVlY2E0NTBmMzNhYjE=
Mike Huckabee is not running a substance-free campaign based on biography and applause lines. No, the former Arkansas governor has the distinction of advocating the most radical — and politically unsalable and substantively daft — proposal of any major presidential candidate of either party.
It is the so-called FairTax. It would eliminate the income and payroll taxes and replace them with a (supposedly) 23-percent national sales tax. Not given to rhetorical understatement, Huckabee says, “When the FairTax becomes law, it will be like waving a magic wand releasing us from pain and unfairness.” Waving a magic wand is about right — since the FairTax is a bedtime story for IRS-hating conservatives.
Huckabee adopted the plan when he, unknown and languishing far back in the polls, was a Not Ready for Prime Time Player. It probably seemed a cheap way to inoculate Huckabee from his tax-raising history as Arkansas governor. Huckabee both raised and cut taxes during his 10 years as governor, but his tax hikes outweighed his tax cuts by half a billion dollars.
An editorial in the newspaper The (Arkansas) Leader recounting Huckabee’s tax increases reads like a roll call of most of economic life. Huckabee repeatedly increased or expanded the sales tax; hiked the corporate income tax; imposed an income-tax surcharge on individuals and domestic and foreign corporations; raised the tax on gasoline and diesel fuel; taxed admission to theme parks and other tourist activities; taxed snuff, cigarettes, mixed drinks, private clubs and retail sales of beer; and so on. To all of this, Huckabee can now respond, “Yes, but I want to eliminate the IRS.”
Tactically, the FairTax offered Huckabee a built-in cadre of activists in the crucial state of Iowa. He knew that he needed to do well in August’s Iowa straw poll, where just a few hundred votes either way could make all the difference. As the champion of the FairTax, he tapped into the busloads of FairTax supporters there, finishing second and beating fellow social conservative Sen. Sam Brownback — who was never heard from again — by less than 400 votes.
So the FairTax has given Huckabee a convenient talking point, and it boosted him in a key test of Iowa strength five months before anyone actually votes. For the seat-of-the-pants Huckabee operation, this must make it ipso facto good policy. Never mind that it is unworkable and would be politically deadly in a general election.
To avoid the risk of getting both a national sales tax and an income tax, FairTaxers would have to repeal the 16th Amendment. Good luck. Huckabee’s magic wand will come in handy.
Then, there’s the rate of the sales tax. FairTaxers say that a 23-percent rate would be enough to replace current revenues. What they really are talking about is a tax of 30 cents on every dollar — what most people would consider a 30-percent rate. The government would pay the tax on all its purchases, a gimmick “done solely to make revenues under the FairTax seem larger than they really are,” writes economist Bruce Bartlett. Budget trickery aside, the congressional Joint Committee on Taxation has estimated that the rate would have to go as high as 57-percent.
The tax would apply to everything, even medical expenses, so it would amount to an incredibly regressive tax on even the most necessary purchases of low- and middle-income taxpayers. The home mortgage deduction would be gone, and instead buyers would pay a 30-percent (at least) tax on purchases of new homes. To make up for this burden, the government would send people monthly “prebate” checks. (And you thought our current tax scheme was complex?)
Any of these points makes the FairTax so vulnerable to attack that it would kick away the tax issue as a Republican strength. This is why no serious candidate would ever endorse it. And why, despite his stupefying rise in Iowa and other states, Huckabee seems likable and talented — but still something less than a serious candidate.
December 2nd, 2008 at 10:44 pm
the guy continues to sicken me, even all these months later. i can’t believe he STILL throws punches at Romney. what a piece of work.
December 3rd, 2008 at 9:18 pm
I refuse to watch Mike Huckabee promote himself. He is alegeng in his own mind.
December 5th, 2008 at 10:59 am
I don’t care any more…Huckabee will get what he deserves because of his choices, Either in this life or the next he will have a very rude awakening. Let God have his revenge I am done bashing Mike Huckabee. I am done with Palin Bashing. I am done with Bigotry. I am just fed up with it all.
December 5th, 2008 at 11:57 am
I agree. We should not “bash” anyone. I am involved with politics because I like arguing ideas… I enjoy arguments, and trying to make good arguments that make logical since. I hope my post never seem to be “bashing”… I know people will eventually get what they deserve, but I want to try and explain the way I see things while I am here…
December 5th, 2008 at 7:38 pm
So if we point out that Mitt Romney brings more experience to the table than Palin OR we point out that her claims about her record do not pan out when you look into it a little deeper OR when we point out that she did not preform well in news interviews OR the debate OR that she did not attract independents… Is that Palin bashing? No, it is the facts.
My idea of a good choice for president is someone who has excellent experience, someone who can stand proudly by his record, who interviews well and informs the public ( does not have to “get back too you on that one.”)and a candidate who attracts independents because that is the only way the republicans can win back the White House.