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maybe the real huck is finally getting out in the mainstream press. now it needs to spread. it starts in the net and a few days later it hits the news reports on tv and print. poor huck, we will now see him get mad and maybe see him get defensive.

Bonnie Erbe is doing Huck II (thanks to AT). All we've seen for the most part is Huck I. Stephens and others present Huck III. I suppose the payday lender in charge of spinning his image took a vacation?

I realize Buzzflash is not the mainstream press, but too many liberal websites have also bought into the fairy tale of Huck being maybe not so bad, so it was nice to see a reader contribution on it about Huckabee and Dumond. I think the guy may not have all the facts right, but he's got Huck's character nailed. Click on blue name.

and if NH goes before Iowa (now a 50/50 proposition)

or even within 3 days (even more likely)

the "lazy" NY/DC centric pressies will ignore Iowa

and whoever finishes 4th or worse in NH will likely be finished.

(imagine the GOP hair pulling out 'what's left of it' if after
NH all that's left (pardon the pun) are Rudy, Romney, and Paul)

whewhoo : )

Nope. Sorry. There is no hope whatsoever that the media will ignore Iowa. Not with Hillary's poor poll numbers there. Nope, nope, nope. Mark my words: all they will talk about for at least two days is "What happened to Hillary in Iowa?" If anyone does surprisingly well, they'll talk good about them. Romney will likely be the main benefactor from that. If you watch poll numbers, you know how those states will likely look after the primaries. And the media watches poll numbers. You think that will stop the sensationalist msm from acting like the sky is falling. I doubt it...So, yeah...I can see a good showing by Romney and Huckabee gaining him considerable good press, while Hillary and Rudy will get hammered. Everyone act surprised and play along now....we don't wanna hurt the media conglomerates feelings. K?

DA,

i don't know what polls you're watching, but all i see is "Hillary Wins" x 1,2,3,4,5, etc. leaving all the drama to the GOP side.

i understand your assertion that the media wants and will try to manufacture the 'drama', i just don't see it happening on both sides.

You haven't seen Iowa's numbers then. Watch www.realclearpolitics.com for new polls. Almost all of the polls in Iowa have Obama and Edwards right on her tail. She'll likely win, but a 2% win will not be enough to beat the expectations game.

i see what you mean da, but the 2% lead is from a poll of 306 likely voters, whereas the other polls listed show leads of 5, 6, and 11 % (including the one i follow closely, Rasmussen)

even so, were Hillary to win Iowa by only 2%, the media would have no difficulty in portraying that as a "dramatic" victory, as it is IOWA and she is HILLARY.

i don't expect HRC to squander a lead and meltdown (though i suppose it IS possible)

time will tell. many thanks for the lead/link.

Huckabee? Two words: Wayne Dumond. From today's BuzzFlash, by Mike Kohr:

"Huckabee has responded to criticism of his inexcusable actions by flat out denying he had anything to do with turning Dumond loose on the American public, in spite of voluminous testimony to the contrary.

"Blind adherence to rigid political ideology, an absolute refusal to accept advice from others, and stubborn refusal to accept responsibility for his own actions, has not served George W. Bush well as a President. These shared character defects will not wear well on Presidential candidate Mike Huckabee either.

"Ironically, perhaps predictably, Huckabee is emerging as the consensus choice for the Republican nomination for president among so-called Christian Conservatives."

America will soon catch on to Huckabee (if it hasn't already -- else, Where Is The Money?).

Cartoon of the day. Click on Cato

It is pretty clear 2 women who lived in Missouri are dead because "Dear Wayne" was released from prison here in Arkansas. The reason Dumond got released was because Gov. Huckabee thought "Dear Wayne" had a religious conversion while he was in prison, so he no longer presented a threat to public safety. No matter how hard Huckabee tries to spin it, the bottom line is 2 women were raped and killed by Wayne Dumond, and Huckabee had a direct part in Dumond's release from prison.

That's right. Mike Huckabee. Next POTUS.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/max-blumenthal/theocracy-now_b_70314.html

Good luck, Huck.

Can someone post all of Huckabee's bad points with bullet-points and links so we can spread a concise list of his negatives around the internet and maybe nip this in the bud?

You're forgetting the Clinton connection, RYD. Huck didn't care that Dumond might prove dangerous to women. He was trying to damage Bill Clinton politically by manipulating the fact that Dumond's victim was a distant relative of Clinton's into an argument that Dumond was an innocent man who had been railroaded by powerful forces. Now he says he thought Dumond had found God and was not a threat, but that's as believable as Bush saying he's just trying to spread democracy in Iraq.

Dennis, my sister and I were working on something like that a few weeks ago, but we literally listed so many things that we just got depressed and stopped. I'm not sure it would help anyway. How can people hear him say something like "stopping abortion would solve the immigration problem" and still take him seriously? I do not understand.

"..that's as believable as Bush saying he's just trying to spread democracy in Iraq."

Which is like saying bombing for peace is like screwing for virginity.

How can people hear him m[Huck] say something like "stopping abortion would solve the immigration problem" and still take him seriously? I do not understand.<<

The underlying reason and Huckabuck's implication is that there is a shortage of workers and people in America. If 25 million (number is theirs) babies had not been aborted since Roe v Wade then illegal immigrants would not be needed to mow our yards, pick up the garbage, lay bricks, make truckloads of french fries. Just think some poor, illiterate, bastard white kid from lower Mississippi could be doing it.

Thanks, eLwood, but now explain how anyone can hear him say that and still take him seriously.