Arkansas Blog

I heard that Huck is putting the boys in charge of campaigning at all you can eat buffets or wherever funnel cakes are served.

She will be heading the Governor's PAC. Actually a really smart, charismatic girl...should do a great job.

ARK. BLOG: Which PAC? Healthy America? CLAPAC? A new PAC? Is it formed yet? PS -- We've met Sarah a time or two. She's been pleasant and seems bright. Maybe she could talk a little sense to her dad. Mediate.

Will she be put on the state payroll and have use of the airplane?

You know this running for office thing has to be a racket. I do wish someone smarter than me would look and see how much money a candidate gets to keep after they run for office and get beat.

There are too many people, including Huckster that run for high office that have to know they don't have a snow ball's chance in hell, yet they raise millions of dollars and run anyway. I think the key words here are millions of dollars. Anyone know if this is really a get rich quick scheme? What does the law say about how much they can convert to their own use during and after they lose or win at the polls?

Surely it is not true that Sarah has been prepping with "some folks from NGA to sharpen her public appearence." Arkansas' NGA dues are paid with public funds, which I can't imagine The Huckabees diverting for political business or personal pleasures, even if it is to hone their daughter's performance for a national campaign. Would NGA talk on the record about its role--at the expense of losing its tax-exempt status as a non-profit--in doing speech coaching for a federal employee getting ready to go to work in a federal campaign?

DBI,

In a federal race, you are not allowed to keep anything. Every expense is reported to the FEC and there are people that have been busted for having personal reimbursements on campaign money.

I have no idea why some of these people run, but it is not to keep the campaign money.

ARK. BLOG But PACs have been used -- see Tom DeLay -- to put close relatives in immensely lucrative jobs effectively financed by people seeking favors from the beneficiary of the contribution. FYI.

Sarah will do a great job for her father and If I were a liberal Arkansan I would not be shopping for a newTux or Party gown for the '08 Festivities in Washington..you ain't gonna be there Pal !!

ARK. BLOG Au contraire. Hillary has promised us choice seats.

Max, who is that man standing next to Sarah Huckabee?

Sarah looks kind of hot, from what I can see. Do you think she'd have that "preacher's daughter" thing going on?

Sorry for not getting back to you blog... she will be working at Hope for America PAC...Healthy's slimmer name...

DBI-

Can you please tell us who these "too many" people are? A short list of 5 or so that raised millions and knew that they had no chance would be sufficent.

Please also point out under what circumstances and at what times the knew they did not have a snowball's chance in hell of winning.

Or is this another instance of you shooting off at the mouth?

Well, you know what they say: No kid left behind!

'moron:

Dennis Kucinich comes to mind, although he didn't seem the type to be in it for the bucks.

When will someone say she isn't really an Arkansan because she served in Washington DC. It seems to disqualify everyone else from loving their homestate.

DBI shoot off at the mouth? go figure!

Huck come back to earth, forgot running in 08 and land a cabinet job with W for the last 2 years than when hillary wins in 08 you can run for senate in 2010 when everybody would be starting to hate dems again, thus you'd be a senator and could run for the white house in 2012.

Dennis Kucinich comes to mind... Posted by: hillbillyswamp

A few other possibilities...
Al Sharpton
Carol Moseley Braun
Lyndon LaRouche
Gary Bauer
Elizabeth Dole
Orin Hatch
Alan Keyes
John McGrath
Dan Quayle
Sen. Robert C. Smith

A couple of thoughts:

Sarah is indeed a pleasant face to put forward. Unfortunately for the Huck, the faces that will show up on the blogs and TV sets across the country will be his less photogenic sons, probably with the theme from Hee Haw playing in the background. Last time I saw him, John Mark didn't seem too hip to the healthy eating rap.

Also, here's a prediction: as with Bill Clinton, every seedy story will gain new life with the national media. Accusations of animal cruelty. Velveeta slush funds. The State Police airplane. Unaccounted PAC funds. Jennings Osborne's largesse. Janet's excess. Don Bingham in tight red minidress. (Okay, that last grotesquely disturbing line I made up, but it rhymed, gimme a break.) Anyway, expect all this and some I may have forgotten to resurface. The media are gonna love him--like the only woman on a pirate ship.

Thank you Patrick, that list will do just fine. So when Al Sharpton (I know you all don't like him) ran in 2004 and got blown away by John Kerry, did a team of CPAs manage to spend the very last penny of his campaign funds in the very last seconds before he dropped out?

What if there was a few hundred thousand left in the till. Where did that money go? Is it just laying up in some bank gathering dust? Did the law let him donate it to the Sister Alberta Sharpton Home For Stray Cats? Did he make a love offering to the Kerry campaign?

Did it just go up in smoke like the old tape recorder on the TV show Mission Impossible? Oh gee, oh golly, I hate to be shooting off my mouth, but oh gee, oh golly I don't seem to be as trusting of politicians as my Republican friends.

I understand in Hebrew Pac means the golden lined pockets of our Lord and Savior Yahweh vouchsafed for little children and even littler lambs. But I just don't think PAC means the same thing in English.....

The reason is, according to Sarah, is that Mike is worried that if he anounces a run for President before he leaves office the Arkansans will turn on him;

Hahahahahahahahaha. She's got that right.

Don't be naive. They keep the money. They can keep if for a long while in their campaign accounts, then transfer it to their PAC's or start a new PAC.

It's just a matter of moving money around.

Don't be naive. They keep the money. They can keep if for a long while in their campaign accounts, then transfer it to their PAC's or start a new PAC.

It's just a matter of moving money around.

Don't forget Wayne Dumond -- Huckabee's very oen Willie Horton!

Patrick and DBI-

You forgot to tell me when it was clear to these people they had no chance to win and they decided to do it just for the money. Also providing a basis for your knowledge of their thought process would be nice.

By your list, anyone that runs in a primary and loses must be in it just for the money.

You still fail to back up your statements that they are in it for the money.

Perhaps they are in it to get their ideas and voice heard.

Al Sharpton used it to get messages out, just as Carol Mosley Braun.

Dan Quayle won many races and was the VP, so running again seemed to fit him well.

Alan Keyes is another example of one who ran to get his ideas out there.

You see, what you two fail to realize is that many people run to give a voice to their causes no matter what it is.

Take Rod Bryant for instance, is he in it for the money? He obviously has not chance of winning so why is he running? TO get his ideas out.

THe two of you would like nothing more than only people who espouse your ideas and beleifs to run and no one else to get in the race. You two are as biased and close minded as the right wingers and the 39'ers, you just are on the other side of the spectrum.

You both take your opinion and and espouse it as fact.

If either of you are members of the DPA, it further enforces my thought that my party will soon be as extremist as the republicans.

Sarah Rocks, I cant wait to watch her in action.

By any chance, is Sarah adopted? She seems like a nice young lady.

OK, if i'm the huck's political guy, i tell him to foget running for president in 2008. The plan would be to get the UN Amb job, or any AMb job, but that opens in 2007, live the posh life in NYC with your buddy bill for 2 years gains some international experience, etc. Than come summer of 2008, put your hat in the ring for veep, much better odds get that than winning the nomination. If no luck, than come 2008 if a repub wins the white house, land a cabinet job, if a dem wins the white house, plan to run for US senate in 2010. After winning the senate, which i think he could do, plan to run for the white house in 2012 or 2016