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Right on, Max. It occurs to me that the Gov has escalated this story to an even more significant issue - his thin-skinned, "I'm always right" temperament which disqualifies him for higher office. He should have learned by now that his post-story tantrums only do him more damage.

There's no one so foolish about money as a rich man. This is no surprise. Alcoholics aren't very smart about booze, either.

Max, from one outlaw to another... ride, captain, ride.
Here was something that really wasn't a big deal. Tacky maybe, but not exactly criminal. You said so yourself.
But you threw the carrot out there, and again, Huck bites.
Now it is a story, and it ain't gonna go away. Good job, guv.
Here's a guy who hires all these people to speak for him, and he opens his mouth to come off like the "village idiot."
And he aspires to be president?
On second thought ... hmm. Maybe he's perfectly qualified.

Max, whatever you do, hang on to all your notes. Back them up frequently. They will be gold if this guy actually does get his presidential run off the ground.

Remember the tough time we had in getting Jim Guy Tucker to leave - - Huckabee is exhibiting some of the same symptoms.

"...somebody who has tried on
every and any occasion he
can to find something
nefarious in everything I do..."

Public life, sir. Public position. Why does the governor keep complaining that the kitchen is hot? If you can't stand the heat, sir...

I don't know why I'm still surprised every time Huckabee does this. A wiser man might have said, "I can see now that the gift registry could be misunderstood. It was ill-advised and we've shut that down."

Instead, Huckabee goes on the attack and makes the story grow. Going on the attack is fine when you're responding to your opponent in a political race. It just doesn't work in a feud with the news media. As is often repeated, never pick a fight with those who buy ink by the barrel.

Mike! Mike!. Settle down bud.
Paranoid.
But hey, thanks for the comments about AT that we didn't come here to ask about.

Now, about that gift registry...

Can you believe the way the Huckster threw Jethrine under the bus? My wife did it! It's my wife's shower! My wife's friends set it up!

I guess it's clear which Huckabee is running for president.

Geesh, what a thin-skinned imbecile. He has such an entitlement philosophy for preachers and public officials that he truly doesn't believe he's done anything wrong. People are SUPPOSED to give him stuff in his mind.

Good press for you, Max.

Has anyone commented on the horrid style of the towels, plates, bed linens etc? It's one thing that they want to stock their home for free, but can't they at least have taste while doing it?

This is great stuff! Way to go, Huck!

Meanwhile, the Salvation Army kicks off its season of giving at 11:30 today on the Capitol steps. The Huckabees will be there with bells a-ringing and with their own donation buckets.

Max, The story made hinesight website as well it spreading like wildfire in the web blogs

http://www.hinessight.com/
Huckabee defends
'wedding' gift registry
Gov. Mike Huckabee on Tuesday angrily defended a gift registry that was set up to help furnish his new home, and said the registry was put together by his wife's friends for a housewarming party.

Quapaw, I hope you never go away!

As I said many times, the if Huckster gets to prime time the national media is gonna have a feast with him, not to mention his getting chewed up in debates.
When the new Willie Horton "Revolving Door" ads start then Huckster will really have something to rant about.

[The governor accused news media of being "tools"...]

Scuse me, but does the RevBroGuv know what it means to call someone a tool?

The Huckster is kind of a spiteful man, isn't he? Not much of the turn the other cheek kinda guy. Not very forgiving. He sort of loses his religion when he thinks it might cost him a few points in the polls.

He's a political amateur. Not ready for prime time.

Here's AP story [SW Times Record] on Huckabee's long frenzied rebuttal but they include his history of ethics violations:

http://tinyurl.com/y2mnh7

Huckabee is the tool. If my husband had distanced himself from me that way, leaving me hanging out to dry on something controversial, he would be literally, in addition to figuratively, nut-less.

One silver lining from Huckabee's tenure: I've developed a new-found appreciation for just plain good-ole-boy politicians...for politicians who don't hide their greedy ways behind religion. Please God, keep your preachers away from the money and the young boys; and send the atheists/agnostics to govern.

I can't wait to hear what new 'gift' information the Times has uncovered. It's sad, though, that with all its resources/reporters the Demzette keeps finding itself lagging behind the Times (and other state media)...guess money comes up short compared to talent/drive.

Has Beebe indicated he'll put the Arkansas Times back on the Governor's media list?

Huckabee told the reporters. "This isn't a story that originated from your own investigative skills.

By his "standard" we should not accept news accounts from Reuters, UPI, etc. What a little man with no hope of doing anything beyond the borders of this state. We thought W was bad, this clown can't even be his valet.

I am just glad the former fat friar is gone.

Yes Janus...some one (who actually cares about him...me, I'd hand him a bigger one)needs to take that shovel away from Huck so that hole can't get any bigger. He's a self-righteous prick who wouldn't know 'good' investigative reporting if he fell head first into a pile of it.

Keep talking Huck.

Here is a man of the cloth who supposedly represents a doctrine in which all worldly goods and possessions are shunned and all material possessions are to be gotten rid of in preparation for the next life. That message was best exemplified by a man 2,000 years ago whom the Huckster is supposed to exemplify. I am still awaiting the Huckster's rededication to the message of not seeking material thinks but seek the spiritual. Or was his messages from the pulpit just so much B.S,?

Can you believe the way the Huckster threw Jethrine under the bus? My wife did it! It's my wife's shower! My wife's friends set it up! Posted by: Odell Goodrum

I loved how he said he never (MET) any of these so called (FRIENDS) as well who is givinig him (THousands of dollars worth of free gifts and presents ) seem odd to me he would admit to "never never "meeting Mrs Huckabee's( Friends ) who are these friends would be my question ?

mrs. rosso and I have been laughing all morning after reading the article in the DoG...

I remember kids like the RevBroGuv on the playground when I was a kid...if they didn't like the way the game was going...

"I'll just take my ball and go home..."

Is the RevBroGuv "Plays In A Band But Won't Dance" Huckabee really thinking he can handle the national press during a serious prez run?!

I have never seen a couple with such a bloated sense of entitlement...

Shit...why not register on the Neiman Marcus website?

Hey Quapaw--
I hope the Salvation Army has plenty of lieutenants to keep an eye on all those nickles and dimes and make sure the Hucksters don't grab them all.

Who would have thought one little mid-term election would start such a happy series of events. I may throw away my depression meds if this keeps up.

Our formerly high flying Republican buddies are barely making it over the tree tops these days. The neo-con-only-when-it-suits-him Governor of Arkansas is even self-destructing. Why this took 10 years is beyond me. If he's this good, Max might oughta start looking for a hidden Page who is always mysteriously there to take his hat and coat as he returns from another Love Offering trip. The guy is good!

Arkansas has had some real doozies in the Governor's chair before and Huckabee rates right up there with em. An easier news story to cover might be listing all the things that the Huckabee's actually pay for out of their own pockets every month.

Might take another look at the house in NLR too. It very well could be the new house we've seen pictures of is just the guard shack for the really really big house sitting off behind it. Huck must have a Sam's Warehouse sized building somewhere to hold all his spoils of the last 10 years.

I'd also ask some questions of someone who attended that Moonie wedding a couple of years ago. As clever as Huckster is, the chair bottoms may have been custom tilted to dump loose change out of the attendee's pockets. Leave it to Huck to come up with a Floor Offering.

And the people at the Red Cross better take one of those vibrating pen things and mark every piece of furniture and equipment in their office to keep Janet from sneaking stuff into her purse as she goes home every day. OBU.....are you listening to me?

My wife's Cosmo in the bathroom reminds me that someone as selfish and greedy as our Gov has probably never taken the time or the energy away from his own self gratification to ever give his old wife an orgasm. This very well could explain Janet's mood swings.

If in 32 years, no one had ever bothered to Take Your Mouth to Catfish Heaven, it wouldn't be surprising if she filled her time with shopping, gift begging and running all over Arkansas naming things after herself just to try an forget that 46% of the other women in the world have lovers with a slow hand.......know what I mean, Vern?

In 2008 Huckabee will win the Presidency as surely as I will be Paris Hilton's new lover. Janet will be in the NLR Palace sorting Red Cross paychecks, Mikee the Gift Whore will be helicopter-ing between OBU and the giant PAC compound in an undisclosed location, while all across Arkansas people will be trying to remember if it was Huckabee or Huckleberry and life will be good.

The citizens of Arkansas led on by towering Max Brantley should take advantage of the upcoming holiday season to fire as many harpoons into the fading Huckabee monarchy as we can, while we can. Don't cry for Huck Argentina...he is fading off into that good night a rich rich man with many more years of reduced Love Offerings ahead of him, since Arkansas is lousy with little country churches willing to pay for a minor celebrity to grace their rough pulpits.

But say a little prayer for Alice Stewart who will leave LR as a pariah, unliked and unemployable due to the Huckleberry stench that lingers on her....I mean Huckleburton....I mean Huckabee.....

Thank ye, Lwood and Uncle Earl. I don't plan on going anywhere, but I sure hope to wrangle an invite over to the Huckabees' new place for a little game of foosball, or whatever their new-fangled gift is that's about to be unwrapped by the Times. I hope their gameroom comes with beaded curtains and a quadrophonic AM-FM hi-fi stereo music system. I hope I get to hear the good BroGov play the bass guitar to "Pennies from Heaven (And from my wife's Friends)". I sure hope those Huckabee boys are around for a little target-shootin' in the backyard. I hope the governor will allow me to assist him in putting any tires atop his roof for the next thunderous gale like we had last night. I hope there's lots of hominy and Treat potted meat toted over from the Food-and-Furniture Drive coming up at the Governor's Mansion.

I gotta go: the governor and his Yukon just pulled up, and I want to give him a couple of bucks for gas.

"If in 32 years, no one had ever bothered to Take Your Mouth to Catfish Heaven..."

I am DYING, DBI. Coffee all over the keyboard. Best euphemism of all time, ever.

Two Points,

1. Two point: (1)WWJRF?

( What would Jesus register for?)

2. What if someone, mischievous, like for instance, me, bought something on that register for the express purpose of rewarding Huckabee on a job well done? According to the ethical rules, I don't think that would be kosher.

3. If you are curious and nosy, here are the rules about gifts. Reminds me of a wingnut bumper sticker "Its the 10 rules, not the 10 suggestions"

http://www.arkansasethics.com/rules/Rules_on_Gifts.doc

I was watching MSNBC's Hardball and across the television screen scrolled:"AR governor angrily defends gift registry". It was so funny to see Huckabee go all around the country secretly campaigning for president and up pops this. This is so great for Huckabee's campaign!

Pat Lynch, world record holder of two titles:
1 ). World Champion - Thin-Skinned Blowhard
2 ). World Champion - Nobody's Home Hypocrit

The bloated broadcasting bloviator rants interminably about what a thin-skinned hypocrit is Mike Huckabee????? Duh!!!!!!
A Secret Admirer,
ROY MURTISHAW

P.S.: My continued prayers and sympathies go out to
Carole Kramer!

Read the whole Demo-Zette article. Yet again, RevGov just doesn't get it. And I say this as someone who has had a housewarming in the past 4 years. At first, I was opposed to having one on the grounds that I didn't want to appear greedy and that Hub and I didn't need anything. My friends insisted. So I did register, but for VERY inexpensive things and made it clear that what I really appreciated was the presence of my friends at a party to welcome them to my home.
If Sugarbutton's friends were that insistent, they could have planned the event for well after he left office and she could have insisted that in lieu of gifts, people donate to her favorite charity in her name. Problem solved.

To be fair, I understand the Huckabees wanting to get some things for their new house. The stuff they had when they moved into the Gov Mansion is probably outdated. Janet has some friends that want to make available a convenient and common way to provide gifts.

But I think it is in bad form to solicit those gifts while he is still in office which could possibly enhance their collection by virtue of their position. Better to wait until they are out of office.

At his current annual salary of $80K for his tenure and having all incidental living expenses covered the whole time you can't tell me they don't have a sack full of savings somewhere.

They've received adequate compensation from the state and now it is the time to begin that transition from the perks of governorship.

Though Janet's friends insisted on making available a registry Janet can just as easily and respectfully decline their offer and insist that Target and Dillards remove the Huckabee name from the registries.

They can set it up again after they move into the NLR house.

If the registry is truly for friends to buy them gifts then I have a few questions:

1) Why not set the registry up under an alias? Surely there aren't thousands coming to the party where it would be difficult to alert them of the alias.

2) Why would you register for gift cards up to $1K if only your friends are attending?

3) Who registers for an area rug?

4) Who registers for 24 $30 cups that are specific to the holidays?

Oh holy cow! I just heard the Huckabees are also registered at Crazy Earl's here in Fort Smith. Old Crazy Earl sells all kinds of neat sex toys. I guess Janet read my cure for her sexual woes and got right on the phone.

Last time I was at Earl's they had a foot long black dildo mounted to a shovel handle. That's been at least 15 years ago and I'll be damned if I've ever figured out which sex or who you'd ever use such a thing on. My advice to Janet....start off with the smaller items and work your way up hon. Keep the Crazy Earl gifts away from your teeth and all the new chiny..chip chip chip, ya know.

I'm getting on the phone and letting Huck's friends at 1st Baptist in Lavaca know they can send gifts from Dillard's and Crazy Earls. What a great Christmas it's goin to be in NLR for the Hucklesons!

DBI wrote:

"My wife's Cosmo in the bathroom reminds me that someone as selfish and greedy as our Gov has probably never taken the time or the energy away from his own self gratification to ever give his old wife an orgasm. This very well could explain Janet's mood swings."

Best. Post. EV-AR!

Hucklebork is a joke. So is his scary wife. She looks like Frankenstein.