Mike Huckabee book: vintage whine

Mike Huckabee truly was a different person during his presidential campaign. He curbed his proven ability to lacerate with a sharp tongue. The muzzle is off in his new book "Do the Right Thing," according to Time magazine. It's a campaign memoir, a roadmap for his political future and it is "full of sharp words for fellow Republicans who frustrated his bid for his party's nomination." Mitt Romney, the Jackson T. Stephens Jr.-financed Club for Growth, social conservatives and the press all get a few jabs. It sounds like a patented rendition of Huck's poor-pitiful-me routine. You don't feel much sympathy when you read about some of those who scorned him.
He calls out Pat Robertson, the Virginia-based televangelist, and Dr. Bob Jones III, chancellor of Bob Jones University in South Carolina, for endorsing Rudy Giuliani and Romney, respectively. He also has words for the Texas-based Rev. John Hagee, who endorsed the more moderate John McCain in the primaries, as someone who was drawn to the eventual Republican nominee because of the lure of power. Huckabee speaks to Hagee by phone before the McCain endorsement, while the former Arkansas Governor is preparing for a spot on Saturday Night Live. "I asked if he had prayed about this and believed this was what the Lord wanted him to do," Huckabee writes of his conversation with Hagee. "I didn't get a straight answer." Months later, McCain rejected Hagee's endorsement because of controversial remarks the pastor had made about biblical interpretations.
As ever, turning the other cheek remains the lost passage in Huck's bible of political behavior.
UPDATE: A libertarian site weighs in.
UPDATE II: Romney responds.
“This type of pettiness is beneath Mike Huckabee,” said Romneny spokesman Eric Fehrnstrom. “If we’re going to move the party forward, we need to offer more than personal recriminations. Unfortunately, in this book, Mike Huckabee is consumed with presumed slights, and he seems more interested in settling scores than in bringing people together.”
Pettiness? Beneath Mike Huckabee? It's his essence.
UPDATE III: Christian Broadcasting says "my goodness"
UPDATE IV: Wonkette says: "Huckabee writes whiny book about how awful everyone else is" And adds that Huck was "much jollier as a fat ass."
UPDATE V: Hot air just nails him.
Kudos to Time for a choice selection of representative quotes: Waging low-grade class warfare by sneering at Romney’s wealth and appealing to evangelicals to vote along religious lines is Huck to a T. As is the bit about “government-driven solutions,” of course — this is a guy who once endorsed a federal ban on smoking in workplaces, remember — although that’s qualified by the fact that he’s been a loud and, for most conservatives, righteous opponent of the bailout. Whether that’s because he knows an unpopular issue when he sees one or because an extraordinary intervention in extraordinary circumstances crossed some sort of statist threshold in his mind that ordinary interventions in ordinary circumstances wouldn’t, only he knows.
UPDATE VI: Iowa Independent recalls an episode that is SOOO Mike Huckabee. Covetous and resentful of others.
Many thought of Romney as the GOP presidential frontrunner until Huckabee’s surprising Iowa victory upended his candidacy. The two traded barbs in the press throughout the campaign, although since its completion Huckabee has been the one lobbing criticism. At the Republican Party of Iowa’s convention in July, Huckabee told the delegates about a man who thought he recognized Huckabee at an airport.
“I know who you are,” Huckabee said the man told him, “You’re Mitt Romney.”
Huckaee’s response – “Dude, if I were Mitt Romney I wouldn’t be riding in coach right now.”
UPDATE VII: American Spectator unimpressed.
UPDATE VIII: He alibis and explains on Town Hall.



Comments
Huck's has proven once again that his undisciplined tongue is his Achilles Heel!!
Posted by: BWC
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November 17, 2008 06:40 AM
We all know that Huck is a poor and sore loser!!!!! What's new?
Posted by: Arkdude
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November 17, 2008 08:05 AM
Huck has a hard time understanding there are people who don't understand as clearly as he does that he was "chosen" by you-know-who to do His mission.
Posted by: Cato
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November 17, 2008 08:18 AM
That's all we need in the White House, another "God told me to do it" mentality! He is a sorry excuse for a religious person. Seems to me that he is a power hungry, lying snake.
Posted by: MissyPat
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November 17, 2008 09:13 AM
That's all we need in the White House, another "God told me to do it" mentality! He is a sorry excuse for a religious person. Seems to me that he is a power hungry, lying snake.
Posted by: MissyPat
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November 17, 2008 09:14 AM
Looks like the Huck obsession is going to take this blog over again now that the election is over.
Just can't give it up, can ya?
ARK. BLOG: Not as long as there's a chance he'll run for president again. Which means, right, we just can't quit him. Apart from that, he's an Arkie making national news headlines. That's fodder for this blog, whether the newsmaker be a former president a woodpecker, a baseball pitcher or a peckerwood politician.
Posted by: calmwriter
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November 17, 2008 09:28 AM
How exactly does Huck think these folks are going to feel about him when he comes around looking for their support in a few years? Think the Stephens clan or any of their friends are going to be free with campaign contributions? Think Evangelical Kingmaker Pat will have a short memory? Or is he planning on just being a Faux gadfly for the rest of his life?
Posted by: EY
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November 17, 2008 09:40 AM
Bill W., one of the co-founders of AA, once remarked: Nothing pays off like restraint of pen and tongue. This is a lesson The Huckster has yet to learn.
Posted by: Pavel
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November 17, 2008 10:22 AM
Pavel: On a similar note: "Never miss an opportunity to keep your mouth shut."
[Of course, if WE did that, there would be no blog. :-) ]
Posted by: SkyPilot
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November 17, 2008 10:54 AM
Huck says: The whole "turn the other cheek" thing is so last year.
Posted by: Monkeybone
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November 17, 2008 12:22 PM
If we're going to move the party forward,
Hey...I got an idea....why not just dig a hole and bury the party and be done with bad rubbish? With Huckabee actually being one of the better humans connected with the Republican Party....why should such a group of goobers survive just to make more trouble on down the road.
The news stories of bad Republicans are just now starting to trickle out....just wait until next year, there won't be enough hours in the day to read about all the horrible shit inflicted on the world by this rabid bunch of soulless vampires. Let them go the way of the Whigs and let another political party spring up to not only take their place. And let the new political party be a vast improvement on this dishonorable band of rogues.
All good things come to an end. A bad thing like the Republican Party should come to a quick and violent end for the good of the world. Let them morph into their own religious group and go hide in the mountains until their sins are purged.
The next political party should believe in science, in the right of unions, in personal freedom and privacy. The next political party shouldn't support warmongering, torture, the destruction of the US Constitution, discrimination against gays, non-whites and women. Let it be a new party for the 21st century. ENOUGH of this 19th century bullshit! RIP Republican Party 1854-2008! I take it back....don't RIP!
Posted by: Deathbyinches
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November 17, 2008 12:43 PM
NOW I'VE HEARD IT ALL. DBI... YOU ARE ONE OF A LONG LINE OF "POOR WINNERS" ON THIS BLOG.
ORDER THE CHEESE WITH THIS WHINE. ENUFF
ARK. BLOG: I am surprised nobody has yet offered to LA and others of her ilk the all-purpose Bush-era rejoinder to those who backed Gore and Kerry:
"Get over it," LA.
Posted by: LargeAss
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November 17, 2008 01:11 PM
Ark T Blog,
Saying "Get Over It", A Don Henley/Glen Frey song, to LrgA** could be like saying "Frank Buck to the Monkeys," depending upon LrgA**'s knowledge and perception sensitivity. Although I suspect, he is more into Ted Nugent and RINO hunting.
For those who don't get the reference and want to Google it, you won't find the phrase, unless you read old books. However, googling Frank Buck will give you enough to infer the meaning if you hit the Monkey Mountain Exhibit in Massapequa. Ted would have liked Frank.
Posted by: docholliday
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November 17, 2008 01:33 PM
>>"This type of pettiness is beneath Mike Huckabee," said Romneny spokesman Eric Fehrnstrom.<
Oh, little does he know.
Keep it up RevBroHuck. All along I've maintained you're nothing but a side show and once again you step up and prove it.
When's Wasilla Barbie's book coming out?
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Posted by: eLwood
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November 17, 2008 02:10 PM
I'm a happy winner. But I am always interested in the guilty being punished and for hate groups being put out of business.
There is no reason for the Republican Party to stick around. Those that aren't fools are failures, those who aren't ignorant are crooks.
We don't need NAMBLA and we don't need the Republican Party. We need a new political party to form and take their place. Period.
Posted by: Deathbyinches
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November 17, 2008 04:04 PM
eLwood: "When's Wasilla Barbie's book coming out?"
It'll be a while. She's got to learn to read first.
Posted by: Perplexed
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November 17, 2008 05:34 PM
DBI -
May I now enfold you, along with eLwood, as a soulmate? "You betcha?" Thank you.
"I am always interested in the guilty being punished and for hate groups being put out of business," you say.
Me too.
So it'll be interesting to see exactly how the Mormon and Catholic churches, not to mention Bill Marriott's (another Holy Underwear wearing Mormon) Marriott and Ritz-Carlton Hotels (among his other enterprises) are going to be punished and put out of business.
As a devout Mormon who's already sent out rather desperate-sounding viral letters of the "please-don't-boycott-my-hotels" variety, Bill Marriott is pledged to tithe 10% of his gross to the Mormon Church.
What does the Mormon Church DO with those annual Marriott millions? Passing Prop 8 and defeating same-sex Americans' equality are at the top of their list. As reported web-wide, the Mormons have been fighting this hateful battle for at least 11 years.
Now, I love the Ritz-Carltons as much as anybody. Truly, the best-run hotels worldwide.
Since learning that 10% of my Marriott or Ritz-Carlton tab goes to supporting a hate group, not so much. Not at all, in fact.
I'll be staying elsewhere from now on.
Of course, the Catholic Church is larger than the Mormons, and has seemingly endless coffers to hide its centuries-old and ongoing child-abuse scandals whilst STILL supporting hate in the name of God. No news there.
Plus their guys wear dresses while Mormon men stick to, uh, "gender-appropriate" drag.
And NAMBLA? Didn't they disappear with the KKK? Or become Priests? I forget.
Oh, right. The KKK just last week murdered a new initiate when she decided she didn't want to join after all. Her bad.
So I hope you're right, DBI, about putting hate groups out of business. But I doubt it, since they're hiding, tax-free, behind the name of "God." And STILL getting a free pass from America's supposedly religion-neutral government.
Telling the truth is never an "attack." Lying is an attack. You only do it when you know you can't win with the truth.
To the degree that the Mormon and Catholic churches lied about Prop. 8 and about same-sex equality in America -- and, indeed, lie about the ludicrous, historically vicious and now-transparent origins of their religions (which, in the Mormons' case at least, like Scientologists', are inmates taking over the asylum) thanks to readily-available facts on the internet -- the hate-filled, subservient, superstitious crazies are viciously attacking the very foundations of America's Constitution and freedoms with lies.
They're literally at war with Truth, Justice and the American Way of Life.
So I light a candle and genuflect, every day, to P.T. Barnum . . . who famously said:
"There's a sucker born every minute."
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Speaking of Mike Huckabee, have you noticed he's packing on the pounds again?
In light of his amazingly rapid weight-loss and subsequent yo-yo-ing back up, the rumors of his alleged risks of upcoming and ongoing alleged cardio-gastro health issues that will affect his long-term career over the next few years are perhaps to be considered.
Maybe those allegations and leaks are of the National Enquirer ilk (though of course the NE has actually been right so often, over so many years).
I have no idea.
All I know is those alleged leaks come from allegedly even better-placed leakers than those who allegedly leaked that Clay Aiken was allegedly gay.
I'm just saying.
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Think I'm "joking" when I close with, "I say this with love, my darlings?"
I'm not.
I love this country. I love our Constitution. I love our Freedom. I love Facts. I love Information. I love Science.
And, though my lifelong experience of it may not resemble yours . . . I love God.
I say this with love, my darlings.
Posted by: NormaBates
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November 17, 2008 05:53 PM
I feel so secure, enfolded, as I am.
Posted by: eLwood
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November 17, 2008 06:33 PM
As well you SHOULD feel secure, eLwood. And now, DBI too.
Both of you enjoy significant others in your life. Yet I broadcast my warmth.
And, oh -- how to express my Secret Heart maturely, as a grown woman recently rejected by Soirée (see clicky, and I'm not sure what you meant about a "nose job" since I was wearing a prosthesis for the role) -- Soulmates aren't about Pee-pees and Va-jay-jays.
Soulmates are about sharing those intangible depths of emotional connection that unite kindred souls in a higher Life Mission.
Like annoying the shit out of Right Wing Bigots.
Tutu to you too.
Posted by: NormaBates
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November 17, 2008 06:56 PM
Huck has a point about Hagee - if he were really sincere in all that crap he preaches, he wouldn't have endorsed McCain. I like it when one hypocrite turns on another and they reveal each others rotten underbellies..
Posted by: Ci.Ci
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November 17, 2008 07:23 PM
Huckabee wasn't worth a damn as a governor and he sure as hell don't need to be in Washington.
He's as hard hearted as Sarah Palin when it comes to animals and their rights.He needs to go stick his head in the mud somewhere and keep it there.
I'm sure the money he paid his daughter came right back to him.He's not about to give anything to anyone.I'm sure it's still in Hucks bank account.
Posted by: chatterbug
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November 18, 2008 08:42 AM