Because college records and income tax returns are the same thing, that's why! I can't believe y'all elected this rube governor.

Curiouser things have happened. California passed on Peter Ueberroth and elected Arnold "stop being girly men" Schwarzenegger governor in a fit of pique at Gray Davis. Arnold did make one of my current bed mates, Darrell Issa, cry, so there's that. It starts at about 1:25 of a 1:41 clip.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7VW0v7wwfkQ

Issa had spent a million of his own ill-gotten fortune to make the recall election happen.

The rubes in California are fitter and eat quiche I guess. The electorate in the entire country needs to grow up and get informed. The alternative is people like the Huckster, etal.

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Thanks banana republic Gov. for reminding us, once again, what a sleaze ball you are(not that we needed much prodding). What a sleazy leap from assisting Romneys hide and seek to college transcripts?

What a lying man of the cloth, the highest of hypocrites. Of course, perhaps his curse is already in place, being married to jethrodine and his children of the corn meets in-breeding.

My appologies to the children of the corn, in-breeders and the Beverly Hillbillies.

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LOVES Huckabee's "remarkably petulant defense" as opposed to just his normally petulant one.

Does anybody REALLY believe Mike Huckabee can stay politically relevant for four more years? STILL have his FOX show? STILL sell smarmy recycled prose through pre-negotiated deals with right-wing bulk-buyer orgs so it looks like he's selling actual books to actual people? STILL be gaining back all that weight and more, now that Jesus apparently changed His mind about keeping it?

Now that Huckabee's petulantly aligned himself with Orly Taitz it's safe to say in this particular circus SHE'S the one with the funny hair and HE'S the one with the baggy pants and funny waddle.

Mike Huckabee in 2016? REALLY? Can you even IMAGINE that family accepting a nomination on a national convention stage in four years? Only if you can imagine The Rapture.

We're looking at a GOP seriously needing rebranding, Razorbabies.

The debacle of their current slate appalls everybody. Rick Santorum, the youngest of the bunch, looks even more a throwback than the others, given his regressive theocratic yearning to return to the good ol' days of the early 50s before the $2 billion PLUS child-abuse scandal, before losing all those priests, parishioners and churches to scandal and attrition, when the Catholic Legion of Decency told everybody what movies they could and could not see and newspapers in various cities refused to run ads for those movies accordingly. Oh. And Santorum's obsession with Gay Sex.

The Legion of Decency is long-since dead.

So are thin-skinned throwbacks and zombies like Romney, Gingrich, Paul, Santorum who still sell code phrases invoking an ugly fantasy yesteryear when blacks knew their places, Mexicans were wetbacks, Asians were grateful for release from our concentration camps after the War, everybody had homes and jobs, from birth gays were criminals and hairdressers, there were only three TV networks, the majority was white and therefore entitled to (metaphorically and literally) beat up everybody else at will, Main Streets were vital and 100% leased (instead of occupied), and at General Electric progress was our most important product.

Where will THEY be in four years, politically -- the GOP's zombie pols for its zombie electorate -- the Romneys, Gingriches, Pauls, Santorums, Perrys, Palins, Cains and McCains?

As I like to say: The dead are always the last to know.

(Listening, Mel Gibson? Text me for Chuck Norris' cell.)

They can't ALL end up at Trifecta. One wonders, in fact, where TRIFECTA will be in four years.

Rebranding, Razorbabies. The GOP is desperate for new dinosaurs yet not fully awake to needing a Whole New Message.

The Party of No -- to taxes on the wealthy, to women, blacks, educated intellectuals, gays, the poor and middle classes, the unemployed and sick, social safety nets like Medicare and Social Security, the environment, the Constitution and Bill of Rights -- is officially the Party of Old.

That's the kiss of death in politics and in marketing.

The Moving Finger writes; and, having writ,
Moves on: nor all thy Piety nor Wit,
Shall lure it back to cancel half a Line,
Nor all thy Petulance wash out a Word of it.

..............................................Omar Bates

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P.S. O'Reilly's and Huckabee's joint smirks in that screen capture says it all.

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Hey Huck, maybe President Obama will release his college transcripts when you give the state back one of those hard drives that you had destroyed in violation of Arkansas state's laws which shows how much of Huck you can actually trust.

And if you didn't read it elsewhere, Mittens destroyed the hard drives in Massachusetts when he left office so it is a ReTHUGlican thing. You can act illegally if you destroy the evidence as destroying state records has a much smaller penalty (remember, he wasn't chasrged with anything) than any criminal actions that might have been discovered on the hard drives.

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OK, let me see if I follow this...Huck wants the Prez to release college records, but even Huck says "And the thing is you get zero credit from the media for releasing them and then you buy yourselves a lot of grief. The question is, why would you help load a gun that's pointed at your own head?"

Ummm, yes, why indeed would you criticize the Prez for NOT doing that?

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""...that's why! I can't believe y'all elected this rube governor.""

Outlier, he was elected because the Bap-tits (misspelling intentional) ministers wanted a man of GHod at the helm after the sullying of that sacred post by 'Teh Bill' and his progeny Jim-Guy. They reasoned "surely one of us will lead this state back to the holy land" and told their parishioners so.

I firmly believe that a religious title before your name should disqualify one to hold public office. You cannot separate the state and religion when the folks in charge ARE religion even if they purport to not let that sway them.

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Laugh of the day- shrinking Faux heads Oreally and Huckabuck side by side. Maybe you two boys can start your own country (far, far from here, please, maybe on some other planet if I may be so bold?) where you can be co-despots (christian based of course).

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The last thing you would want anyone to see is how little is made from books and how much is made from speaking fees. But can't have one without the other. Plus, the amount spent on Lava soap to keep hands clean should never be revealed.

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I'm not worried about Huckabee 2016. Fat boy will drop dead over his big plate of vittles way before then. Hard drive crushing karma is a real bitch.

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"Avoid, as you would the plague, a clergyman who is also a man of business." -- Saint Jerome

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I see another empty-headed troll has joined our midst! Welcome to the AT Blogs, Julie. You'd best stay on your toes grammatically, intellectually and philosophically as we do tend to rend the umm...less capable limb from limb.

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If Huckabee really is "the best there is," the Republicans are in much more desperate straits than I ever imagined.

Huckabee was not much of a force as a Baptist minister and an embarrassing specimen as a governor.

I'm not much of a political guru, but here's my take on his election as governor: He managed to be elected as lieutenant governor, which wasn't/isn't much of a position (usually), then slid into the governor's office when Jim Guy Tucker was eased out; finally, he won re-election largely by virtue of being the incumbent. And, granted, there was some dissatisfaction with Bill Clinton and perhaps a sour taste in the mouth about Democrats by that time.

But I was newly returned to Arkansas at that time and may have misread (be misreading) the whole thing.

All in all, Huckabee was/is a lightweight in every sense except his physical body.

And I'm kinda like some other people, I just don't have any real respect for people who profess to be "called to the ministry" who give it up to enter politics and/or make millions by writing books or becoming TV or radio "personalities."

In my youth I heard an adult speaking to a group of young people say, "If God calls you to be a minister, don't stoop to be a king!"

Granted, I'm biased, as I was one of those "called." But in my biased opinion, Huckabee can't hear the call anymore because it is drowned out by the sound of sheckels hitting the coffers!

But that's just me.

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skypilot, that was my feelings on an earlier thread. Either Huckabuck wasn't called and lied about it or he was called and walked away. Neither speaks very well of his variety of "Christianity".

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I would not venture a guess as to Huckabee's motivation, however, it does appear that he likes the trappings of success such as his garish beachfront home in Florida. Remember, he started his career as a poor local disc jockey in Arkadelphia, so he probably thought the successful Baptists ministers he encountered at Ouachita Baptist University had achieved financial security. Once he became one, though, he realized that it was still just a salary. So, let's get into politics to make our mark. Who would have thought that a lowly lieutenant governor would ever rise so high? However, Jim Guy Tucker had the misfortune of being targeted in the Whitewater investigation, and being charged in connection with something which had nothing to do with Whitewater, and having to resign. So, Mike ascended to the governorship.

Even there, he wanted more money, so he got Jennings Osborne to buy him expensive suits, ripped off the state for his air travel on private business, and apparently sold pardons. Sad that a man of the Word would descend to this. Now, he is a Fox superstar, and makes a half-a-million a year for a show that airs one night a week, and which usually is a waste of time

I think Norma is right. I think the curtain has come down on Mike Huckabee, and he is now a footnote to history. At the same time, as has often been pointed out here, he did good things. He brought health insurance coverage to Arkansas children who otherwise would have had no health coverage, and was one of the first in the nation to do so. Max used to talk about "Good Mike, Bad Mike," and his point was well-taken. Which facet of Mike's split personality will in the end write is legacy? I don't know.

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