Huckabee: I want money
Jonathan Martin notes that The Huckster doesn't miss an opportunity to pass the collection plate. Mike Huckabee is using the financial crisis as a lead-in to a personal fund-raising appeal for his own PAC. And to throw around a few I-told-you-sos. Classic Huck rhetoric.
Frankly, I’m disappointed and disgusted with my own Republican party as I watch them attempt to strong-arm a bailout of some of America’s biggest corporations by asking the taxpayers to suck up the staggering results of the hubris, greed, and arrogance of those who sought to make a quick buck by throwing the dice. They lost, but want the rest of us to cover their bets so they won’t be effected in their lavish lifestyles as they figure out how to spend their tens of millions and in some cases, hundreds of millions in bonuses and compensation which was their reward for not only sinking their companies, but basically doing the same to the entire American economy.
It’s especially disconcerting to see the very people who pilloried me during the Presidential campaign for being a “populist” and not “understanding Wall Street” to now line up like thirsty dogs at the Washington, D. C. water dish, otherwise known as Congress, and plead for help.
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C'mon grammar guy! Let's get on the misuse of effect/affect...
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September 24, 2008 07:27 PM
Huck made some compelling points......it's too bad that he felt the need to try to turn this into a fundraiser for himself.
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September 24, 2008 09:39 PM
In light of the current financial crisis I am suspending my 1% interest in Mike Huckabee. We've got no time to debate the value of Edsels or forgotten guys in the Political Graveyard.
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September 24, 2008 10:19 PM
DBI, DBI! So harsh! So cold! So true!
It's always fascinating to watch celebrities (show business, politics, whatever) who are past their prime search for continued relevance and Big Bucks.
McHuckabee thinks he has a chance down the road at WHAT, exactly?
Replacing Clay Aiken in "Spamalot?"
This is what happens when you forsake your religion for the secular world.
You coulda been a contender, McHuck. A Kenneth Copeland.
But you crossed over to the Dark Side, politics, and sold your rock 'n' roll soul to the Devil.
Because in politics you're a has-been. So that bridge has collapsed.
In TV punditry, you're too old. You're getting started too late. The competition's too stiff. Took Bill O'Reilly YEARS to get where he is, and he started young.
Didn't take Dr. Phil all that long, but he had Oprah backing him financially (now she can't stand him) and you don't.
You're not that good, McHuck. Your meandering, hokey, incomprehensible "earn that desk" story you pulled out of mothballs for your speech at the RNC just doesn't cut in in today's 21st media environment.
Your folksy "banana republic" self-deprecating Good Ol' Boy banter is forced, phony and fetid.
Your stars are not aligned for a stellar career in either politics or TV.
Which pretty much leaves Religion or vinyl siding and replacement window sales.
And since I can't think of anybody who's successfully left Religion for secular realms then tried to return to Religion and make a living -- not Al Green, not Little Richard, and certainly not Ted Haggard -- it's looking more and more, McHuck, like a slo-mo descent into the "End of Days" Faubus enjoyed.
As an obscure and forgotten bank teller in Alma.
Of course, there will be happier days 'twixt now and then.
Better savor them.
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September 25, 2008 04:53 AM