Of course, there's actually nothing a Republican can say that will disqualify them from being invited on TV by media figures. Huckabee is disgusting. I don't remember the comment, but there was another comment by Huckabee during the campaign last year that showed him to be a vicious, nasty person. Was it something about Hillary Clinton? There was also something during his RNC convention speech...

He forgot Mary Joe , that in itself describes an unforgivable weakness to pearl bag tea clutch gangs .
Double plus ungood "He would be a very fortunate man if his heroic last few months were what future generations remember him most for." Placing any of the eighty percent of the country which supports liberal policies , if gun shy about identifying as liberal , in a frame work that uses a word like heroic , tsk tsk ...

Unstable Isotope, I believe it was a debate or something and he joked that a noise backstage was nothing, it was just someone pointing a gun at Barack Obama and he dived under a chair.

Despite his bloated physique, Mike Huckabee is very, very little man.

"Huckabee probably hopes to impress the Tea Bagging crowd with this disgusting rhetoric, proving that Sarah Palin isn't the only crazy far-right voice who deserves their adoration in advance of 2012."

I actually feel sorry for them - this is, indeed, a stunningly low bar that they have to crawl under.

I think you are being unfair Steve. Republicant's like Mike Huckleberry really think the Government is going to have to get around to the point of telling old people to just die already.

Of course, the fact that this is because Republican't conservatives and blue dog Democrats WANT to stop funding solutions for the Medicare shortfall won't be mentioned by the Pro-Life conservatives.

Nope, it is all Teddy's fault.

When I heard him say he didn't believe in evolution, that killed him for me--"likeable" or not, he's a moran.

Huckabee also conveniently forgets that a man with Kennedy's resources can pay for any treatment he wants, no matter what form of health care may be available to the rest of us. But as things stand now, if one of my neighbors got the same form of brain cancer, and his insurance company could find an excuse to refuse payment for treatment, he might have to give up everything, declare personal bankruptcy and go on Medicaid. As for "taking pain pills," I believe that during the last six months or so, Kennedy and his family did decide to "focus on keeping him comfortable." That's the medical euphemism for just managing the pain, and not attempting to cure a condition that is clearly terminal. And it's a decision that everyone who doesn't die suddenly (of a massive heart attack, or in an accident, for example) has to face eventually.

Okay, here is how the Republicans play the game: They come out hard (using their radio propagandists and FOX News) accusing Democrats of doing something that the Republicans intend to do. The corporate-owned media, which manages to retain plausible deniability by remaining one step removed from the official GOP propaganda apparatus, picks up on the propaganda and does its part in distributing the false argument. Then, Republicans do what they accused Democrats of doing and if the Dems whine, the Repubs claim that the Dems did it first and the American people believe them because, after all, didn't Katie Cheerleader on CBS News tell them that the Democrats did it first?

My point is that the Republicans didn't just happen to accuse Dems of politicizing Teddy's death long before any Dem dreamed of doing so. The Repubs accused Dems of politicizing Teddy's death, so Republicans could get it in the news cycle that the Dems were politicizing Teddy's death, while, simultaneously, politicizing Teddy's death. This is the same Bush-Cheney-Frist-DeLay-Rove playbook being played over and over and over again. And, it isn't hard to figure out the game. That the corporate-owned media continues to play along is all the proof one needs to realize that it is just another aspect of the Republican (read corporate) Party's propaganda machine.

As others have noted, Huckabee's nasty streak showed up long before this. My opinion of him has dropped more and more with each insensitive remark he spouts. His aw-chucks likeability scares me a little though. Behind McCain, it got him, along with his preacher cred in the south, further than anyone else in the republican field.

I never saw anything "nice" about him. I think its all an act and under the Gommer Pile schtick he's dangerous.

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"This despicable rant should disqualify Mike Huckabee from any further liberal sympathy,....
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It won't. Democrats are akin to battered wives, they just keep coming back for more, afraid to leave or abandon the relationship. Whereas the abused women fear lack of income, shelter or threatened violence for leaving, Democrats fear unraveling some tenuous coalition of voters that will win them the next election. Can't be tellng a bunch of xenophobic, homophobic troglodytes to shove it up their ass, it might tip the balance of power on some goddamned impending vote for modification of EPA rules regarding chlorine discharge in waste water treatment facilities.

Mike Huckabee calls himself one follows Jesus. Did Jesus lie about anyone? The answer is no. People who make fraudulent claims without proof clearly show that they have not only any character but no integrity. He along with many who share these outright lies do great damage to the name of Jesus Christ. If Mike, Sarah, Sanford, Ensign and others Want to lie it is their right to do so, but those that follow them choose to follow and defend them have the same come character and no integrity. Where are to true followers of Jesus Christ in speaking out against these frauds? I don't care about politics, it is time for the true worshippers of God to be heard! Don't Give the lame excuse that God knows the heart and you can,t judge me. Matthew 15:19 for out of the heart proceed evil thoughts, murders, adulteries, fornications, thefts ,false witness (lies) , blasphemes. Thats what Jesus said.

Over at Right Wing Watch, Kyle has been compiling info for months on the company Huckabee keeps. For example, he is speaking at three conferences in September, being sponsored by people so far on the horizon of the right wingnut outer circle, they make the teabaggers look like Nelson Rockefeller.

The entire Republican field of presidential candidates will try to go further to the right than Palin to curry the favor of the base. I expect in the end Glenn Beck will look like a mainstream Republican. It should be quite a (dangerous) show.

I read Huckabee as a talented fool! He's just flailing around trying to fit in wherever he can. As he courts his faithful, his foolishness is becoming more pronounced! -Kevo

There should be nothing surprising about the inherent nastiness in the self-righteous...Huckabee is just the latest example. If any of these hypocrites really liked and/or respected Senator Kennedy they would drop the facade of their "my good friend crap" and look honestly at what would serve the PEOPLE they were elected to represent. Ain't gonna happen...and listening to the insipid commentary on CNN (couldn't take Pat Buchanan today) makes one realize that C-Span is truly an American treasure!

The guy's politics are toxic.

Does this Baptist minister who dropped out of seminary know lyin's a sin that can get him into trouble with the babby Haysoos?

Or is he one of those Christianists who believes he can sin with impunity so long as he asks for forgiveness afterward? Jerkoffs like Huckleberry treat repentance like it's some sort of Get-Out-Of-Hell-Free card.

Deborah, above, makes the comment I wante to, except she really should have given the list of people who are involved with the "How to Take Back America" conference that Huckabee is the main speaker at. The Host Committee includes such "Old friends" as Don Wildmon, Rick Scarborough, Mat Staver (of Liberty Counsel). Don Feder, Rick Green (of Wallbuilders) and, topping them off, is Joseph Farah of WorldNutDaily. But the 'prizes' are the co-Chairmen (their term), our oldest friend from the Radical Right, Phyllis Schlaffly and the 'rising star of the right' -- and organizer of the "Value Voters Debate" that even other Republican candidates were wise enough to skip -- Janet Porter, who had previously been co-chair of Huck's "Faith and Family Values coalition."

And if you need to know more about Porter, realize she has gone the farthest of them all into nutty conspiracy theories, even having Jane Burgermeister as a guest on her program. And Burgermeister seems to have discovered the 'unified field theory of crazy' with her filing of criminal charges (with the FBI?!?!) ...

"against the World Health Organization (WHO), the United Nations (UN), and several of the highest ranking government and corporate officials concerning bioterrorism and attempts to commit mass murder. She has also prepared an injunction against forced vaccination which is being filed in America. These actions follow her charges filed in April against Baxter AG and Avir Green Hills Biotechnology of Austria for producing contaminated bird flu vaccine, alleging this was a deliberate act to cause and profit from a pandemic.

"In her charges, Burgermeister presents evidence of acts of bioterrorism that is in violation of U.S. law by a group operating within the U.S. under the direction of international bankers who control the Federal Reserve, as well as WHO, UN and NATO. This bioterrorism is for the purpose of carrying out a mass genocide against the U.S. population by use of a genetically engineered flu pandemic virus with the intent of causing death. This group has annexed high government offices in the U.S.

"Specifically, evidence is presented that the defendants, Barack Obama, President of the U.S, David Nabarro, UN System Coordinator for Influenza, Margaret Chan, Director-General of WHO, Kathleen Sibelius, Secretary of Department of Health and Human Services, Janet Napolitano, Secretary of Department of Homeland Security, David de Rotschild, banker, David Rockefeller, banker, George Soros, banker, Werner Faymann, Chancellor of Austria, and Alois Stoger, Austrian Health Minister, among others, are part of this international corporate criminal syndicate which has developed, produced, stockpiled and employed biological weapons to eliminate the population of the U.S. and other countries for financial and political gain.

"The charges contend that these defendants conspired with each other and others to devise, fund and participate in the final phase of the implementation of a covert international bioweapons program involving the pharmaceutical companies Baxter and Novartis. They did this by bioengineering and then releasing lethal biological agents, specifically the "bird flu" virus and the "swine flu virus" in order to have a pretext to implement a forced mass vaccination program which would be the means of administering a toxic biological agent to cause death and injury to the people of the U.S."

Now that is Olympic-level craziness.

I wrote about this, too. He's a liar and a hypocrite.

"Huckabee probably hopes to impress the Tea Bagging crowd with this disgusting rhetoric, proving that Sarah Palin isn't the only crazy far-right voice who deserves their adoration in advance of 2012."

Yep. The knock on Huck last year was that he was basically a sunnier, friendlier version of Pat Buchanan: suitably right-wing on all the culture war stuff but a little too populist on economic issues to actually get a GOP nomination. Huck is trying to reassure the party's kingmakers that he's a born-again laissez-fairist and will pose no threat to their coporate masters.

I was never taken in by this creep. I saw him as a big manipulating phony who was emotionally deeply disturbed. His rhetoric shows his mind goes places that just don't fit with a sense of goodness and kindness.

Just like Palin...underneath the facade is a vile wanna-be who wants recognition for being great but wants to punish all who fail to recognize how great they really are.

Is it a "beauty pageant" mentality that makes them so manipulative and people pleasing while masking their true nature of being spiteful and hateful, egotistical and ruthless and a sociopath who lies without a drop of remorse and as vengeful as they come. Fu*k Huck and the Jeebus he rode in on. btw...anyone who is pallin' around with Chuck Norris is just contemptible as a citizen of democracy.

Huckabee is the worst of the bunch. His slick Southern BS smooths over his far right hatred for regular people. Its no surprise that his last name starts with Huck as in Huckster. He's a snake in the grass.

I can see it now... the GOP's /12 ticket will be Palin/Huckabee. They'll bank on the US political memory being ~2 years long, and figure that, by then, they can blame any economic problems on Obama. History says we should give it decent odds of winning as a strategy.

-Z

Frankly.. I am not impressed.

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