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   Twenty years after the fall of the Berlin Wall, Gnter Grass still thinks reunification was a bad idea.
 Forty years of writing from Taylor Branch, James Fallows, Katherine Boo, Marjorie Williams, Joshua Micah Marshall, and more.
 With help from Washington, the for-profit college industry is loading up millions of low-income students with debt they'll never pay off.
 The best recent memoir from republican Washington is a hoax. That should tell you something.
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February 24, 2009
THE LOW ROAD TO HIGH OFFICE.... When I think back to the fight for the Republican presidential nomination last year, I tend to think of Mike Huckabee as a radical ideologue with a very pleasant veneer. I disagreed with him on practically every issue under the sun, but I seem to recall him being rather nice about his vacuous, far-right, vaguely-theocratic worldview. I don't recall him being such a hack.
This comes just two weeks after Huckabee attacked the stimulus package as "anti-religious," because of a provision that, it turned out, doesn't exist. Now he's running robocalls attacking Democrats over legislation that hasn't even been introduced? Amy Sullivan recently had a good item about the Freedom of Choice Act, which Huckabee may want to read.
So why is Huckabee bothering? Because he needs to find a way to stay relevant to far-right activists, and he'd like to scare them into taking his warnings seriously. —Steve Benen 12:30 PM Permalink | Trackbacks | Comments (18)Comments
"So why is Huckabee bothering? Because he needs to find a way to stay relevant to far-right activists, and he'd like to scare them into taking his warnings seriously." Amen (as it were). Or, more generally: How can you tell when Republicans are lying? When their lips are moving. Posted by: smartalek on February 24, 2009 at 12:28 PM | PERMALINKThey have to out-paranoid one another -- that's the one and only route to crazy-base credibility (and donations) within the national party. Let's start a pool to guess which 2012 GOP nominee-wannabe demands to see Obama's birth certificate first. (My money's on Sanford.) Posted by: Steve M. on February 24, 2009 at 12:28 PM | PERMALINKOne more lie to toss out there and hope will stick--will be believed to be true, will grow... One more fearful thought folks will link to Obama: I haven't seen his birth certificate, have you? I don't know much about this bill, but if it's so radical that even Congressional Democrats won't pass it, has Obama actually promised to sign it into law? That seems uncharacteristic of his generally conciliatory position on abortion. Posted by: JRD on February 24, 2009 at 12:39 PM | PERMALINKSo why is Huckabee bothering? Because he needs to find a way to stay relevant to far-right activists, and he'd like to scare them into taking his warnings seriously.
I felt this thrill go up my leg when it became obvious that rube Huckabee's populist candidacy scared the crap out of his fellow Republicans. Too bad he's become such a hack. Posted by: Monty on February 24, 2009 at 12:41 PM | PERMALINKHuckabee is rapidly becoming a case study in how to marginalize oneself by appealing to the fringe. Posted by: doubtful on February 24, 2009 at 12:43 PM | PERMALINKWell, this issue is a little more genuine than the Fairness Act. Or accusing Obama of being a Communist. At this rate, the Republicans might achieve sanity in only one hundred years. Posted by: fostert on February 24, 2009 at 1:02 PM | PERMALINKI got that call here in Washington. Gave them the answers they didn't want to hear. Huckabee's an asshole. If I were a Christian, I'd hang my head in shame. Posted by: Screamin' Demon on February 24, 2009 at 1:13 PM | PERMALINKMike Huckabee was the only Republican candidate last year who truly scared me. His views are FAR out of the mainstream, but he comes across on TV as perfectly normal and nice. He is possibly the only Republican candidate who could have won in 2008 because of it. That thought terrifies me. We would be looking at an administration that makes the Taliban look tolerant in comparison. I'm glad he is showing his true colors now, so the people won't be fooled when he runs again. Posted by: atlliberal on February 24, 2009 at 1:15 PM | PERMALINKSo Huckabee has decided to use the fear and hate wedge, the overused and rusted tool of far right groups. Posted by: Evergreen2U on February 24, 2009 at 1:17 PM | PERMALINK"I tend to think of Mike Huckabee as a radical ideologue with a very pleasant veneer." A BIG mistake. There's nothing nice behind the awe-shucks-Mayberry hockhum. Don't fall for that...ever. Posted by: Saint Zak on February 24, 2009 at 1:18 PM | PERMALINKI disagreed with him on practically every issue under the sun, but I seem to recall him being rather nice about his vacuous, far-right, vaguely-theocratic worldview. Funny, I always recall Huckabee's pushing to release a rapist-murderer from jail -- who then went on to commit more rape-murders. Posted by: Stefan on February 24, 2009 at 3:08 PM | PERMALINKIt's the company he keeps - hanging around the faux news crew has poisened his mind further but as atlliberal says above , the truly scariest of the lot . If you want to get really scared read Matt Taibbi's piece he did last year in Rolling Stone Batshit crazy, I think was the descriptor he used. Posted by: John R on February 24, 2009 at 3:38 PM | PERMALINKFunny, I always recall Huckabee's pushing to release a rapist-murderer from jail ...solely for the noble purpose of looking like he was sticking it to the Clintons. What a piece of trash. Posted by: shortstop on February 24, 2009 at 3:54 PM | PERMALINKIt's just a little Republican fundraising -- after all, in these tough economic times, people aren't going to donate money to you for anything short of jackbooted government thugs breaking down your door to force your wife to abort her wanted pregnancy. The normal scare tactics used to shake money out of people aren't working. Time to ramp them up. Posted by: Mnemosyne on February 24, 2009 at 4:23 PM | PERMALINK
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