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The more they see of his ethics, his spouse, his sons, his thin skin, his prison pardons- the quicker he will disappear

I just burped real hard and I have a headache now...

Wayne Dumond will be traveling with Huck.....whether Huck wants him on the plane or not!

Wayne Dumond=Willie Horton

Yeah, those prison problems are bad. I mean seriously..can you imagine if they find out about his business failures, his past cocaine use, his DUIs??? Wow, that dude will never get elected. wait. ummm

Where's my bottle of Pepsi-Bizzi?

The only good thing about Preacher-Prez campaigning for the White House is that he'd be out of Arkansas for a while.

"...most read liberal blogger, Daily Kos..."

So you say, but here is a liberal blogger who takes issue with that, calling Daily Kos a "phony." I present D.C. blogger Wayne Madsen's views on Kos for anyone interested,
and the identity of Kos, especially for the folks at Arkansas Times.
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Time to take the gloves are off with the agitprop purveyors at Daily Kos (in addition to that other phony "liberal" web site, some of the content of which could be called DUng). Yesterday, Daily Kos, which likes to regularly steal content from WMR and post it and then proceed to expound on it while trashing the original provider, did it again. Since the proprietor of that web site has made a sport out of his web site being used for ad hominem attacks on this editor and WMR's backers and sources, its time for a close "Inside the Beltway" examination of Markos Moulitsas Zuniga, the much-ballyhooed "progressive" Democratic activist. "Kos," as he calls himself, grew up in El Salvador but moved with his family to Chicago to avoid the El Salvadoran civil war. Kos joined the U.S. Army in 1989 and was posted in Germany but avoided the first Gulf War. But while Mr. Kos was in the Army where he was presumably a valuable Spanish-speaking asset, on Dec. 17, 1989, the United States illegally invaded Panama, the final in a series of bloody Reagan-Bush Central American military operations that included Special Forces missions in Honduras, Costa Rica, Nicaragua, and Kos' boyhood homeland, El Salvador. In those days, Spanish-speaking Army personnel were in high demand in Panama and surrounding support base countries.

Mr. Kos later joined the Howard Dean campaign, helping to set up Dean's presidential campaign web site with Joe Trippi and managing to amass some $50 million in contributions, mostly from small donors contributing $100 or less via the Internet. But after Dean's campaign imploded after the Iowa caucuses (because some campaign staffer allowed Fox News to provide pool coverage of the Dean rally with a fateful noise-canceling microphone), no one could account for much of the $50 million. Where did it go? Joe Trippi, Kos, and a few others were the major point men in the Dean campaign and should know where the money went. Was $50 million spent on Vermont Teddy Bears and maple syrup confectionaries for well-heeled contributors? No one to this day can account for much of that money. And now there's some $35 million largely unaccounted for from the coffers of the Democratic National Committee where Gov. Dean now reigns as chairman. More sticky fingers at work?

But Kos and his merry band of holier-than-thou confabulators now act as a Ministry of Truth for the Democratic Party and progressive movement. In fact, they are pathetic censors and narrow agenda propagandists. Unlike Daily Kos, WMR neither has the desire nor the resources to become a blog and a platform from which cowardly anonymous posters can launch venal and uninformed attacks. As for yesterday's posting on Daily Kos, WMR will put its African political knowledge base against that of Daily Kos any day of the week. How many books on Africa has Kos or his sycophantic followers written? Contrary to what Kos' disinformation specialists claim, the search and seizure carried out by the FBI of Nigerian Vice President (and 2007 presidential candidate) Atiku Abubakar's Potomac, Maryland home involved long standing illegal money flows between Nigeria and top Republicans (and a few Democrats). The raid of Abubakar's Potomac home, the first known FBI search of the home of a high-ranking foreign official, seized documents related to the Jefferson bribery case but also petrodollar bribes paid to other top U.S. government officials by Nigerian officials. With Dick Cheney enmeshed in a criminal case involving previous bribes paid by Halliburton to Nigerian officials and Nigerian officials being used as conduits between Nigerian oil wealth and right-wing U.S. politicians and causes, it is understandable why the FBI would be ordered to conduct a clean sweep of any incriminating Nigerian documents, even if such seizures violated the separation of powers clause in the U.S. Constitution and international agreements on diplomatic immunity to which the U.S. is a signatory.

Mr. Kos seems to think its perfectly legitimate and professional to allow his web site to be used to question the veracity of an on-line editor who has just released a new book and who, in part, depends on book sales to earn a living and be able to subsist in cost-of-living soaring Washington, DC. For a guy who claims to have a law degree, he must've cut all his tort classes. But Mr. Kos has also recently released a book. If you still think he has a shred of credibility, go buy it and read it. This editor, for one, will not be "crashing any gates" or be in line for one of Kos' book signings any time soon.

---May 29

The more they see of his ethics, his spouse, his sons, his thin skin, his prison pardons- the quicker he will disappear

Posted by: Anonymous
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Maybe . . . but for a minute, I thought you were describing traits of the last presidential candidate from Hope.

Didn't seem to bother him much.

Lord, you folks are horrible at staying on point. Is it impossible for you to merely debate the substance instead of attacking his family, looks, weight, etc.? (No, those last two don't appear here YET, but based on many other posts, they will soon enough).

I would think y'all have more than enough policy disagreements with the man to show your differences than to stoop down to those kinds of retorts.

Anyways, I think what Kos has to say merits some consideration. On a national level, the Republicans are sorely lacking a "frontrunner" or at least an "heir apparent." Like her or not, the conventional wisdom says that HRC has the Dem nomination locked if she chooses to put forth some minimal effort. Not so with Repubs. It is from that perspective that Gov. Huck looks as good as any other candidate at this point. There's a void there and he could very easily rise to fill it.

Yes..but...but...like Huckabee couldn't doom himself without any help, you're forgetting that the Republican Party is a sinking ship, or if you like, a dying patient riddled with cancer, or maybe a turd circling the drain...I'm sure you get my jest.

And because of that, leaving Diebold out of the equation, NO Republican will be elected President in 2008 even if their necks are covered in Jesus hickies. No Republican will be elected in 2008 unless they can pull an AIDS, Cancer and Acne cure out of their butt, and that still might not be enough to get them elected.

Face it Republicans, with the exception of Carter and Clinton, you all have had a nice run for nearly 40 years. But that era is over, you shit in your own mess kit and now the other side will get to see how badly they can screw things up for years to come.

Like a homeless starving German frowning at Hitler's picture in 1946, you can look at Bush and see the man who single-handedly, well not really, killed the Republican Party. And I sure hope that suckers dead...dead...dead.

DBI--

I agree with you - in some respects. The President and his policies have certainly put the Party on a long walk on a short pier. I'm not sure it will have the fatal impact you are forecasting though (even though that may be the best thing the Party needs - a swift kick in the electoral pants).

Without a doubt, the Party is going to take some hits this November. Its even possible the House of Reps will fall to their opponents.

However, the problem for the Democratic Party is that there is a real dearth of ideas on that side. As the comedian Black said, "the Republican Party is the Party of bad ideas, the Democratic Party is the Party of no ideas."

I believe that's really the case on a national level. Sure, I suppose the National Dem machinery could be saying lets just watch Repubs lose control of the government and not actively propose ideas to show why they offer a viable alternative; but that's only good for the short-term. Its not a workable long-term solution and certainly doesn't show folks why the Dems are the Party to place in control.

You are certainly right in saying the mess kit is looking pretty bad right now.

Wayne Dumond=Willie Horton Posted by: Anonymous

Yeah, that's the kind of thing they said about the Clinton bimbos, too. JR Starr confidently said that as soon as the country heard about Clinton's "secrets" he'd be toast. Didn't turn out that way, and we can't expect Huckabee's sins to sink him, either.

What is "Kos" having for breakfast? It is really spacing him out.

However, the problem for the Democratic Party is that there is a real dearth of ideas on that side. Posted by: Hog Snout

Yeah, the Republicans keep repeating that, and repeating it, and repeating it. It's all they have. But don't count on it. Whoever told you a bunch of ideas are what the American people are looking for has fooled you.

But you won't fool us. We know very well that if the Democrats parade out a bunch of ideas, you'll come right back with your slam dunk line: how you gonna pay for it?

You guys are in big trouble and no amount of trying to change the focus to the opposition is going to work this time....let's hope.

Patrick,

Yes the American public is tone deaf and in many cases dummer than dirt. But a Clinton Bimbo alert does not equate to Rape and Murder - trust me the sheeple can make that distinction.
When this gets out and is beautifully "swift boated", every women who casts a voter (that be 52% of the voters) is gonna look at the Huckster and say - NOPE - even Bubba Baby Bush had enough sense not to pardon rapists because they had found Jesus. This will not pass the "girls" smell test. Huckster is toast.

DBI, you make a good case. Allow me to present this info.

For the past fifty years, our presidents have been:
GOP
Ike (8 yrs)
Nixon/Ford (8 yrs)
Reagan/Bush (12 years)
Bush (8 years)
Total: 36 years

DEMOCRAT
JFK/LBJ (8 yrs)
Carter (4 yrs)
Clinton (8 yrs)
Total 20 years.

So, the GOP has dominated the White House 36 years and the Democrats 20 years. And all we hear from the Right is how terrible things have been in this country the past 50 years. Do you suppose they even have a clue?

Attn: Cato

"You go,,,,girl!" (or guy)

Thanks for doing my math homework for me. This was the lunch topic today at my local diner.

Guy.

...a Clinton Bimbo alert does not equate to Rape and Murder - trust me the sheeple can make that distinction.
When this gets out and is beautifully "swift boated...Posted by: BlueTicker

Well, there you have it. The American people weren't sharp enough to avoid being mislead about swift boats and a triple-Purple Heart earner vs. a Guard Dodger, but you think they'll catch on to Huckabee. You'd think they would, but we have good reason to be not so sure.

Forgive me for being worried. The almighty People have failed me too many times before.

The problem is not Repubs' repetitions (Is groupthink a strength?). The problem is money, the lack for anyone who questions. There's no want of money for corporate welfare or war. Politicians make a choice. If the electorate can't make a decision unless obscene amounts of money are spent, such is price of poor citizenship.

"In the United States, the majority undertakes to supply a multitude of ready-made opinions for the use of individuals, who are thus relieved from the necessity of forming opinions of their own."
Alexis de Tocqueville

Cato, when did you morph into a brain-damaged DBI?

Batchain.....DBI and I have been closet lovers for ages. Try it. You might like it. Perhaps you won't be such a sour puss.

Pat-Poca--

No, I still believe the Dems are lacking wholesale ideas right now on the major issues. I'm not sure that is simply a tired line that Republicans keep using, I think it's pretty close to the truth.

However, later this summer, the Dems are expected to announce a major initiative outlining their ideas on things. The headliner for this announcement is supposed to be Sen. Clinton. Perhaps that will paint a clearer picture of where they stand on the isses and how to get us, as a nation, there.

How will they pay for it? Hopefully it will be to propose new tax cuts and tax breaks for everyone. Revenues are up across the nation in the different States and at the federal level because of the people being able to get more money. If raising taxes, or implementing new ones, are proposed, then the idea needs to be put out into the public arena for debate. I think you'll find thought that not many average Americans are in the mood to have more of the money taken by the government in the midst of an energy crisis. Especially since, on the federal level, nothing seems to get done to help that crisis - be it the opening of new areas for domestic drilling or the encouragement of new energy sources and uses.

But, we'll see. If anything, this proposed Dem. roadmap will foster more discussion and debate, which is healthy for our democratic republic and isn't exactly happening currently.

No, I still believe the Dems are lacking wholesale ideas right now on the major issues. Posted by: Hog Snout

I'm pretty much agreeing with you, but what I said was "Whoever told you a bunch of ideas are what the American people are looking for has fooled you."

I don't think the Democrats' lack of ideas is that big a problem for them. The Republicans seem to think it is, and they keep repeating this lack over and over as if it's going to make people vote Republican again. It won't.

My point is that I don't think people care if the Democrats have a lot of new ideas or not. What the people will be looking for are candidates who don't have "Republican" after their name.

I know it galls you all to no end to know that there is absolutely nothing you can do to stop the Huckabee train. Deep down, you know how far outside the mainstream you are (and how mainstream Huckabee actually is). He'll have more problems from the right than from the left. In fact, he'll likely create more "Huckabee Democrats" than Reagan created "Reagan Democrats." How does that sit with you...knowing that it will be the moderates of your own chosen party who put him in the White House?
BWWAAHHAAAAA

BWWAAHHAAAAA Posted by: seeyallin08

Well, now we see that Mike Huckabee himself occasionally visits this blog.

And I asked last week if Huckabee can give a Howard Dean Scream. I guess the above answers that question. Great job, Mr. Governor!