Arkansas Blog

Huck is finished. Why dig up anything on him?

What next? TV comedy-talk show? Director for Nat'l Manufactures Assoc.? Special Assistant to head of SBC? Hawking Chuck Norrris' new line of vitamins and using Huck's before and after pics?

I think FAUX NEWS didn't like him much so that's out. They prefer country club Republicans.
MSNBC seems a likely spot to Huckalize.

This is one of many examples that clearly show Huck's true colors...

As the primaries drag on more and more national pressers are going to dig...

I have noticed there has been a lot of talk about Huck being a running mate to help bring in the evangelical vote...

Well, so be it...but in the end Huck won't be able to handle the scrutiny...too thin skinned...

You might also notice that the Huff piece mentions who replaced Huck at the CoCC's national convention is that idiot cartoonist Ramirez...seems like he is in the DemGaz every other freakin' day...

I remember hearing saying this on the TV -- forgot exactly when/where?

"You don't like people from outside the state coming in and telling you
what to do with your flag. In fact, if somebody came to Arkansas and
told us what to do with our flag, we'd tell them what to do with the pole,
that's what we'd do."

-- Huckabee, telling South Carolina that he's proud of the GOP Racist Flag,

Link

Huckabee wants to put a flagpole up the ass of everyone who's less racist than he is?

Mike Huckabee's White Supremacist Links

Hold him accountable for addressing the audience but the flag comment doesn't bother me - besides, I am not sure what the "GOP" racist flag is - Are you referring to the Confederate battle flag or do you mean South Carolina's state flag?

If its their state flag, then I would agree with him - its THEIR flag - keep your nose out of their business.

Shoot, the Arkansas flag has its roots in the confederacy - its got the red background, blue stripes (just not an X) and white stars - even modified to add a special star specifically symbolizing the confederacy.

Where's the uproar over our flag?

THIS MIGHT NOT HAVE WORKED,,,,,trouble on blog for two days Max.

Well, it came out as intended after all.
I'm confused, are we voting for a prez, head preacher, quip funnyman, toastmaster,
over-the-hill wanna be guitar player hanger on or what??
Maybe he could go over to the mid east and strum his guitar and they would all be infected
with the love bomb for the U S A.
Better than idiot I guess.

"The extent of Huckabee's interaction with the racist group is unclear . . ." -Max Blumenthal

Nevertheless, Blumenthal plods on --- paragraph after breathless paragraph --- with all kinds of insinuations that Huckabee MUST be a white supremist or involved in some kind of conspiracy with them! Poor guy: must have been short on material.

The Blumenthal column is just one more piece of evidence that the "profession" of journalism (particularly as it relates to politics) is in a state of severe decline. Frankly, I have no more respect for the Blumenthals of the world than I have for Huckabee.

I'm with eLwood; the Huckster is dead meat. Can't we move on or at least cut back on threads dedicated to him?

ARK. BLOG: I think it is a terrible mistake to underestimate a politican this gifted. What's in his heart on this issue doesn't matter. His judgment, in agreeing to speak before a group with this background, is important. It's not over until it's over.

elwood, I think it is important to continue to vet Huckabee. He is a strong vice predential possibility.

Donkey hotetey, what does the Arkansas flag have to do with any discussion of the Confederate Battle Flag? It was the winner of a contest. Like the quarter recently.

>>It's not over until it's over.<< MB

Huck is not the first Rwing political person to achieve near stardom in Iowa, we all know that.

He is finished. By mid February he will be a has been. That's less than one month away.
Romney already has more delegate votes than any of them because he's won the big
delegate state. If Huck cannot win where his so-called base is a near majority then he
cannot win elsewhere. Were he a contender he would have won S.C. by at least 8 pts.
So far he's run as a media-freak, side show which means no cash outlays for campaigning.
He's used bizzare stuff like the pole up your ass Confederate flag skit to get free coverage.
Likewise for his rad 'change the Constitution to fit my god' bs.

But the South won't determine
this nomination. In 15 days is the Great Meat Grinder of Super Tues and sizzle doesn't count.
Huck is through.

Aside from the connotations of racism vs confederate pride that images of the confederate flag represents there is more to it in the way of inconsistent messages that Huckabee sends and his poor choice of battles.

The image of the SC flag is too close a resemblance to an era of divisiveness in this country. If Huck is supposed to be the great uniter as he claimed early on he sure picked a poor example in supporting the SC state flag to hang his hat on.

But that is Huckabee. Blowing off his mouth and making bad choices. Not the person I want representing the United States of America.

Thanks, Durango, for perfectly embodying the "Shoot the messenger" debate tactic beloved by the uninformed.

The facts surrounding the Huckster's speech-making involvements with the CofCC and other Christian extremist individuals and organizations are clear and well-documented. Just not the "extent" of his involvements, a word apparently beyond your comprehension.

Huck may or may not be "finished" as many (including those in his own party) might wish.

I, for one, hope the MSM continue to dig up enough "facts" about him to bury him once and for all beneath his own sludge.

Even if they do, Huck's message will keep rising from the grave to suck the blood from America's living Democracy and morph us into a totalitarian theocracy. You know: like the Baptist church.

Wait. Isn't Clinton Baptist? The Bill one, not the Hillary one (isn't she Methodist?)

I'm trying to keep everybody's religious preferences straight (pardon the pun), but -- I feel funny. Too much wine with the wafers?

OMG! My head just spun around 180 degrees!

what does the Arkansas flag have to do with any discussion of the Confederate Battle Flag? -Posted by: Polecat
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See quote from the article and BWC's comment regarding the "racist" SC flag. If theirs is, ours is.

"The image of the SC flag is too close a resemblance to an era of divisiveness in this country."

Folks, the South Carolina flag has no stars and no bars, and is entirely blue with a white "crescent" and palmetto tree. Quit barking up the wrong flagpole.

See blue name.

As a historian, I hate it that a piece of history has been turned into more than that. I don't hate the Confederate flag. Neither do I love it because the Confederate states allowed slavery. And I sure don't like that modern people use the Confederate flag as a symbol of hate.

I understand why the Confederate flag offends most black people. I doubt it has much to do with the old, dead, Civil War as much as the current threat of the people today who use it as a weapon. You can be damn sure if a guy has a Confederate flag in his window or a Confederate flag bumper sticker his message is I hate blacks, their message is loud and clear.

However, rather than bitch and scream about a piece of cloth, it would be better to attack the evil that hides behind it. If we use this silly flag reasoning then the Bible would be the hated symbol of many past horrors.

The man who built my house headed the committee to pick the new State flag back in 1914. It is true that our State flag honors its membership in the Confederacy, that's what the single star above ARKANSAS represents. The 3 stars under our name represent Spain, France, and the United States. It's like 6 flags over Texas, in our case representing the 4 different nations whose flags we've flown. I guess if you want to lose your mind over that....get after it. But rather than attacking a flag your time would be better spent attacking people like Huckabee who pander to the haters we should run out of town on a rail.

It's stupid to deny our history. It's worse to hate black people 142 1/2 years after the Civil War ended and the South lost. It's even worse than that to watch the city of Rogers treat their Mexican workers like black slaves of yore. Quit expending your energy fighting over flags.....go right to the source of the real evil and get jiggy with it.

". . . the "Shoot the messenger" debate tactic beloved by the uninformed." And ". . . 'extent' . . . a word apparently beyond your comprehension." ---NormaBates

My sincerest apologies, Madam Bates. This time of year I'm sometimes in the duck blinds long enough to forget that there are those as erudite as you who might be reading my posts. In the weeks ahead, I'll work diligently to raise myself to your level, I promise.

"Folks, the South Carolina flag has no stars and no bars, and is entirely blue with a white "crescent" and palmetto tree. Quit barking up the wrong flagpole."

Thanks for the information about the SC state flag. I had assumed it was.

Nonetheless, an image of the confederate flag being flown over a state's Capitol is still inappropriate. The image portrays an era of divisiveness in the county. That point remains. Huck is endorsing the right to fly this image and that point remains.

Its presence tells me its there flying in the face of all the efforts since the Civil War to ensure civil rights for every American. What better time for MLK day to remind us all of that.

Love the "anonymous" posts. Couldn't you have dared even a phony nik?

Oh, well. I love God. Particularly quotes like this, from the, you know, Bible. Where God wants to kill everybody on earth.

Like Mike Huckabee, who wants to amend the American Constitution to conform with his Southern Baptists "beliefs."

"And the slain of the Lord shall be at that day from one end of the earth even unto the other end of the earth: they shall not be lamented, neither gathered, nor buried, they shall be dung upon the ground" (Jeremiah 25:33).

Seriouly. If there's one thing I like it's a fantasy white guy in a beard and a robe in the sky killing everybody who doesn't believe this crap.

Second, the "You're taking it out of context," crowd. No, I'm not. That's what your "Holy Book" actually says, Pilgrim.

Lie about it if you wish.

imagine what a native-American thinks and feels when viewing the 'star-spangled banner' ?

I remember listening to a historian from Mississippi named Shelby Foote bemoan how he and other southerners allowed the CSA flag be taken over by bigots and converted into a symbol for their use. We are, of course, talking about the CSA battle flag and not the CSA national flag. There is a difference.

"imagine what a native-American thinks and feels when viewing the 'star-spangled banner' ?"

True. In our country's brief history, its treatment of native-Americans is a whole other atrocity.