Comments on: ‘Left Behind’ author, Concerned Women for America suck up to Huck

by: Maud

Fri, 30 Nov 2007 13:53:37 +0000

No matter how much you come to take these folks for granted, every once in a while one of them will say some little thing which makes you wonder anew at their way of seeing the world. Mike Huckabee thinks that going “from Barney Fife to Barney Frank” is going in the wrong direction. Jeebus.

I guess that’s why the wingnuts have shown such devotion to W. He follows the proud intellectual and public service tradition of Fife, not Frank.

by: tyro

Thu, 29 Nov 2007 02:32:29 +0000

This man was my governor.

I’m beginning to hate him, and not just for the whole mandatory BMI testing in schools bullshit.

STOP MAKING MY HOME STATE LOOK STUPID!

The Clintons came from here, the Clintons came from here…

by: mds

Wed, 28 Nov 2007 17:29:22 +0000

My fundie father was already beginning to lean towards Huckabee, and since he “witnesses” by handing around copies of Left Behind rather than actual Bibles, Tim LaHaye’s Huck endorsement is only going to convince him further. I’m actually glad about this, for it means at some point, I can reveal Huckabee’s support for carbon cap-and-trade to deal with the “moral issue” of global warming. It will be worth the risk of injury from head shrapnel.

For that matter, how do all these particular fundie groups feel about this, given how they beat up on the National Association of Evangelicals over their concern about anthropogenic climate change? Oh, wait, they all had their cognitive dissonance glands removed upon gaining their leadership positions.

by: hbsweet, empress of ice cream

Tue, 27 Nov 2007 22:11:07 +0000

Doesn’t.
Believe.
In.
Evolution.

–Clearly, because he hasn’t yet participated in it….

by: AtomicFruitbat

Tue, 27 Nov 2007 20:43:36 +0000

Look, as liberal Democrats a Huckabee nomination is the best possible thing that could happen for you guys. Even I would be voting for a Democratic President against this tax-raising, free-spending, interventionist social reactionary hillbilly.

Seriously, the rate at which he taxed and spent in Arkansas really make him look like a Democrat on fiscal policy. Add to that his religious fanaticism, and in my humble opinion this makes him the worst of both worlds.

by: other orange

Tue, 27 Nov 2007 20:12:51 +0000

Both of you: thanks so very much ! I would never have found it on my own. Hours of reading pleasure.

by: Sam

Tue, 27 Nov 2007 15:58:08 +0000

orange, you want Slacktivist.com. He’s still going on the LB thing (it’s been 4+ years, I think. Almost to the end of book 1.)

by: Chan, Duchy de Leche

Tue, 27 Nov 2007 15:56:35 +0000

Other Orange: Try Slacktivist for your reading pleasure. Scroll down; his Left Behind category has a link from his right sidebar. It's got a scan of a LB book cover.

by: Bitter Scribe

Tue, 27 Nov 2007 15:49:40 +0000

Even disregarding his positions on the issues, I wouldn’t want a president whose idea of splurging is spending illicit expense account money at Taco Bell. Here in Illinois, our corrupt pols eat in the finest steakhouses. We may be led by crooks, but they’re crooks with style.

by: other orange

Tue, 27 Nov 2007 15:41:34 +0000

This might be a little off-topic, but does anyone have the link to the excllent review/debunking that a blogger was doing of Left Behind ? It was a chapter-by chapter takedown, and wonderfully written by someone who understands how utterly unChristian these “Christians” are.

If anyone has that link, I’d appreciate it. I feel like a moron for losing it (and the author’s name) in the first place.