Arkansas Blog

Oh, so with Beebe its the John Kerry model of "I'm crappy, but I hope you think I'm better than my opponent."

A winning stragegy for sure.

What a joke of a column... Brummett is desperately trying to say something...anything nice here about Beebe.

With Beebe's campaign imploding, I sure hope he gets his sh*t together soon.

No amount of TV ads can cover for consistent sheer stupidity.

What a joke of a column... Brummett is desperately trying to say something...anything nice here about Beebe.

Good grief...how can anyone read Brummett's comments as support for Beebe? Only a A$a loyalist...like a campaign staffer.

It's pitiful pickings in Arkansas' gubernatorial race...Beebe a lifelong good-old-boy who's been running for governor (and collecting money/favors accordingly) forever or A$a a failed right-wing Bushie whose enlightened views will send Arkansas backward rather than forward...and so intermingle right-wing religion with policy that it'll take years to untangle the mess.

Quite a choice...but I can make it past anther pandering good-old-boy; I can't take any more of the Falwell fellas.

Ha, Ha, Beebe has turned into the no substance candidate, anyone but the other guy, guy.
The liberals should have sent someone else to the election. Beebe clearly has no clue what he is doing. Im starting to feel bad for him. Well ok, not really.

Damnit!!

I knew we should have sent Mike Ross! This is turning into a fiasco!

Bill Halter and other democrats are probably regretting his decision not to run for Governor.

Vote Green - at least we can establish a new third party and something good will come of this election cycle.

Mike Ross is kicking himself in the ASS!!!

If not Geen...it's independent....for me.

God I suck at this! Will ya'll just give me a break?

"The only thing he has going for him is the alternative."

That says it all. I will hold my nose and vote for Beebe but only because his opponent is Asa, the hypocrite impeacher from Bob Jones University.

I don't understand the hypocrite allegation against Asa. Maybe Tim is a hypcrite, but why do you call Asa one?

The Dem Gaz editorial is even worse than Brummett. It also lumps Beebe and Halter together, which must drive both of them crazy. Since both of them think the other is a drag on their campaign.

A$A is more like Tim that you want to believe. That family is reason enough to vote for Beebe. Throw in A$A's shady lobbyist work, and I won't even have to hold my nose in voting for Beebe.

The only answer is to vote the coiffure.

Beebe wins by a hair.

MIKE?

Today, federal judge George Howard Jr. hopefully will affirm his own ruling of 10 years ago and decide that Jim Lendall has enough signatures to get on the ballot as the Green Party nominee for governor. This should serve as a lightning bolt up Beebe's hindquarters that he needs to seriously overhaul his campaign if he hopes to win.

Right now, his campaign is a mixture of Bob Dole in 1996 and John Kerry in 2004--a combination of "it's my turn" and "I'll win because the other guy is so hated by my voters." Beebe just dropped $1 million on a TV ad that is about as convincing as Pamela Anderson portraying Mother Teresa.

Lendall + Bryan on the ballot means that Beebe either gets with the program---meaning a major overhaul of his campaign personnel and strategy--or he loses.

I can't believe that Beebe is going to let Asa win this election. I would have never guessed that Beebe would be such a bad campaigner.

"I don't understand the hypocrite allegation against Asa. Maybe Tim is a hypcrite, but why do you call Asa one?"--confused and disappointed

Here is what I posted on another string about the hypocrisy.....

"Here is a Congressman leading the impeachment crowd because of his high "morals" and all the time his roommate, Senator Timmy Hutchinson, is dallying around with one of his young female aides (that's adultry, son) and it doesn't bother either one of them to cast the stones at President Clinton. Pure bs about the moral white horse the Hutchinson minions suscribe to their flag carriers."

How do you know that Asa approved of Tim. How long did they remain roomates?

I hate Mike Beebe. He is a tool of the corporate interests of this state. How much has your electric bill gone up during his term as AG? Beebe just bends over and takes it up the ass whenever his money men tell him he has to. A vote for Beebe is no different than a vote for Hutchinson.

AsaTimBebee....all the same cloth. There will be two excellent choices for governor on the ballot: Rod Bryan and Jim Lendall. I look forward to voting for one or the other of them.

The last time Arkansans really cast a protest vote (over car tags, if I recall), it got us Frank White who signed the creation science bill into law without reading it and made us a laughingstock as the state tried to defend the indefensible.

We're getting rid of the Huckster. A$a, the Bob Jones alum, will turn back the clock fifty years or more. I'll hold my nose, vote for Beebe, and hope that the Dems can get the act together before 2010.

Beebe would not be the first who is a lousy candidate but might make a decent governor..

"How do you know that Asa approved of Tim. How long did they remain roomates?"

Why don't you do your own research on this, if you truly want to know. If you are an Arkie, how can you be in the dark on this? Of course, The Ark. Dem/Gz has never printed the reason why Senator Timmy and his wife of 29 years got a divorce.

Allow me to add.....I am not condemning Timmy for his adultry, nor do I condemn the acts of adultry of Henry Hyde, Burton, Livingston, Gingrich and other prominent Republicans. What I do condemn is their hypocrisy in attacking Clinton for doing what they were also doing or had done. Pharisees to the letter. GOP point men in the moral assault against Clinton. And Asa was one of the spear men for the GOP.

By the way, this group couldn't even get a majority vote of "guilty" in the GOP controlled Senate when a 2/3's vote is necessary for conviction. They knew that but still pursued the course and never once let their hypocrisy get in the way of their glorious march to never never land.

So how is Asa a hypocrite. I sort of agree with you on the others. But don't attack Asa because of what is colleagues did, otherwise Mike Beebe should be in jail with Nick Wilson.

"So how is Asa a hypocrite."

Wow. Ok. Did Asa ever once condemn his brother or any of his congressional collegues for their immoral behavior conduct while serving as member of Congress? Do you know of a single time he ever, ever said anything in the way of "heal thyself" to this GOP colleagues as he zeroed in on Clinton? Perhaps I missed it and you have examples of his expressions of indignations toward his GOP brothers that match those he expounded on about Clinton.

Asa turned a blind eye to his bother's dilly dallying right under his own roof. And shamelessly signing impeachment papers against Clinton for lying about the same thing his scummy brother was doing. And yes, Clinton lied, so did Asa and so did Tim - over the course of 2 years and the clandestine bump in the nights, he decieved his brother's family, and his own hypocritical standards.

Hutchinson's sin was his "ethical" standards were applied to one and not the other - for what - political gain? He doesn't merit Arkansas's respect or vote.

It's not do as I say - he sold his crediblity to gain favor with the worst president in the history of America. And that demonstrates to me that the man has absolutely no judgement of character.