For some reason it used to bother me when people would ask me. “Is there any Democrat you would vote for if the GOP ran [Obnoxious Fill-In-The-Blank]?” It bothered me because my honest answer was generally no, not this election. I guess I was brainwashed into thinking I should be somewhat bipartisan, but my common sense told me these Democrats were all morons.
In 1992, Pat Buchanan rode to the rescue, at least until Paul Tsongas lost the nomination fight to Bill Clinton. If I had been asked to choose between Buchanan and Clinton, I might have replied that Canada really wasn’t just for American draft evaders. Seriously, I would have voted for Tsongas and might have gone for Bill, had Pat Buchanan been the GOP nominee.
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Since 1992, the GOP hasn’t had anyone in serious contention that would make me willing to support the Democratic alternative until this year. Dole, McCain, Bush, Giuliani, Thompson, Romney and even Prawn Paul seemed vastly preferable to what the Dems had to put up for election.
Mike Huckabee has solved my bipartisanship problem. As long as The Jackass Party doesn’t nominate the execrable John Edwards, I could see myself stifling the gag reflex and voting either Clinton or Oprahbama to keep Mike Huckabee from acquiring more political power. The man makes me vote against him like he was a Democrat, because he reminds me of so many prior Democrats.
He, like Bill Clinton, has never met a lie he felt too ashamed to tell. Like Bill Clinton, he won’t ever own up to his actions. He wants “things need to get investigated.” He believes. “We just can’t have high CEO salaries.” He thinks our foreign trade policy “needs to be fixed.”
Most egregiously, he wrote a letter to the then-incarcerated Wayne Dumond stating.
“Dear Wayne,” Huckabee wrote in a letter to Dumond. “My desire is that you be released from prison. I feel that parole is the best way for your reintroduction to society to take place.” “My desire is that you be released from prison. I feel that parole is the best way for your reintroduction to society to take place.”
Huckabee then leaned on the parole board to cut Dumond loose, while at the same time publicly rejecting his petition for pardon. Had Dumond kept his nose clean, Huckabee would have as well. After all, he rejected the pardon like a good Law-and-Order Republican Governor.
Huckabee, like America’s worst President of the 20th Century, James Earl Carter, uses Christian Theology as an excuse to expand the reach of government into areas it has no business entering. When Club for Growth criticized Governor Huckabee’s record on taxation in Arkansas, Huckabee referred to them as “Club for Greed.” The obvious implication being that a State Governor really does own the paychecks of the workers who live there and those people are just greedy for wanting to limit what the state taxation apparatus would vacuum from their wallets.
Huckabee also uses Christianity to justify his decision to pressure the parole board into cutting Wayne Dumond loose to rape and kill. He said it was part of Christian moral philosophy to be merciful. This blasphemous utterance used religion as an excuse for a political executive not to protect the citizens under his governance.
To use a different Christian analogy, he was a corrupt, disingenuous official washing his hands of a politically charged law enforcement decision. Like Pilate freeing Barabus, Huckabee cut Dumond loose to be politically correct, and then wound up regretting his decision. However, given his criticism of President Bush’s decision to veto the S-CHIP socialist power grab on the grounds of President Bush being cruel to the poor, Huckabee hasn’t learned his lesson on pandering.
So when Huckabee talks about what his faith causing him make decisions, he’s blaming the lord, not praising him. It makes me expect him to channel Jimmy Carter and start announcing, “I asked my daughtta Amma what to do about the Control of Nookaler Ahms…” I don’t even have to go into how Mike Huckabee reminds me of Massachusetts Governor, Michael Dukakis. The man is a Democrat flying a flag of convenience.
If the GOP nominates Mike Huckabee, I can feel vindicated voting for either Obama or Hillary. It’s not like I would have the option of supporting a Conservative Republican instead.
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