Monday is Behind Us

Tuesday evening is in full swing.  Strange weather.  45 yesterday.  65 today. The stuff that creates sniffles and coughs.  Drive a few hours north or west from here and you’ll be sliding around on ice. It’s the holiday season.

And we begin with the latest chapter in “How the Huckster Turns”.  Huffington Post is all over the latest developments and we’ll defer to the Arkansas Times, with credit for doing an excellent job of pursuing this information.  There’s a lot of “stuff” being thrown at Huckabee right now.  So far, not much of it seems to be sticking.

Why do they lie?

Big mistake, though one the Huckabee camp has committed before. When former aide Kamala Williams dumped documents on us demonstrating Mike Huckabee’s greedy grab for the Governor’s Mansion spending account,the Huckabee team suggested she somehow had made up the reams of documents, many personal memos unmistakably from Huckabee’s pen. Now the Huckabee team has made the mistake of questioning the validity of documents the governor’s office received from [...]

Here’s what happened when reporters went looking for some of Huckabee’s old sermons.

Get to know Pastor Huckabee — or in this case, don’t

More so than any other presidential candidate in either party, Mike Huckabee is using his Christianity has a campaign tool. In his first TV ad, the viewer is told that the former Arkansas governor is a “CHRISTIAN LEADER” (all-caps in the original). In his first debate, Huckabee rejected modern biology, preferring creationism. In his first [...]

Now, it is possible that he preached from notes, not a fully written script.  He’s pretty darn good at extemporaneous speaking.  By the way, tonight’s collection continues – after the jump.

Huckabee Snags Key Endorsement From Extremist Xenophobic Vigilante

Huckmania! “Huckabee announced this morning the endorsement of Jim Gilchrist, the founder of the anti-illegal immigration and border security group the Minutemen.” Now I know Huck needs to bolster his keep-the-brown-people-out credentials for [...]

Huckabee starts flip-flopping all over the place

In the 2004 presidential election, Republicans decided that changing one’s position on a major policy issue is perhaps the single worst thing a presidential candidate could possibly do. On any given matter, being “against something before I was for it” was tantamount to a kiss of electoral death. Consistency, the GOP insisted, was the be-all, [...]

Huckabee says AIDS may be spread through casual contact

The man is certifiably insane. No one thinks that AIDS may be spread by casual contact, it’s simply not true, nor has anyone even considered the possibility for over a decade, if not two. From AP: “Huckabee acknowledged the [...]

DNC To Lay Off Huckabee Until After Nomination

And then they are going to release everything they have on him and make the election a rout: Democrat party officials are avoiding any and all criticism of Republican presidential contender Mike Huckabee, insiders reveal. The Democratic National Committee has told staffers to hold all fire, until he secures the party’s nomination. The [...]