The rapist/murderer-releasing, Christian Reconstructionist-supported, Man-On-Dog wannabe, former Arkansas governor, and Baptist minister-without-a-theology-degree Mike Huckabee is back in the news — at least at U.S. News & World Report, in its Capital Commerce column.
A top McCain fundraiser with access to McCain’s inner circle, as well as one of those infamous “top GOP strategists” are saying that the Arizona senator has Pastor Huck at the top of his VP pick list. U.S. News’s James Pethokoukis on the purported logic of picking Huckabee.
1) He is a great campaigner and communicator who could both shore up support in the South among social conservatives (Huckabee is a former Baptist minister) and appeal to working-class voters in the critical “Big 10″ states of Pennsylvania, Michigan, Wisconsin, and Ohio.More below the fold.2) As any pollster knows, voters search for candidates who “care about people like me,” and Huckabee would probably score a lot higher on that quality than millionaire investor Mitt Romney. Plus, given all the turmoil on Wall Street, 2008 would seem to be a bad year to pick a former investment banker for veep.
3) Economic conservatives and supply-siders may balk, but the threat of four years of Obamanomics and higher investment, income, and corporate taxes might be enough to keep them on board.
As I said earlier this year, by naming Huck, who wants to amend the Constitution so it’s in God’s standards, as his VP, McCain ensures 1) there’s someone younger on the ticket, and 2) he’s got a “true believer” that would appease even Daddy D. The nightmare scenario of course is that McCain wins the general, he kicks it while in office, and we have Mike Huckabee, pastor-in-chief, a man who wrote this in his book Kids Who Kill” in 1998:“It is now difficult to keep track of the vast array of publicly endorsed and institutionally supported aberrations–from homosexuality and pedophilia to sadomasochism and necrophilia.”and this:
“I feel homosexuality is an aberrant, unnatural and sinful lifestyle. That’s millions of Americans.”
and…
“Lawrence v. Texas is an extreme example of judicial activism. It could, in fact, be inappropriately used to attack our marriage laws nationwide.”
plus…
“I think the radical view is to say that we’re going to change the definition of marriage so that it can mean two men, two women, a man and three women, a man and a child, a man and animal.”
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“3) Economic conservatives and supply-siders may balk, but the threat of four years of Obamanomics and higher investment, income, and corporate taxes might be enough to keep them on board.”
Big scary Democrat! Higher taxes! Panic! Mass hysteria! No, I donwanna take my medicine! No!
Any reasonable reading of the bible would make a very strong case that all of the Reichwing and fundnut war support is an abomination. But they don’t want to be reasonable.
They prefer to buildup the meager comments about homosexuality and abortion into existential concerns of global proportion. All that hippie-dippy peace-love-care-for-your-fellow-human stuff just goes right out the window
And then proposing to screw with the Constitution in the name of “god” really caps it off.
Any reasonable reading of the Constitution would leave LGBT people with as many rights as anybody else. But the Reichwing and the fundnuts they don’t want to be reasonable.
I love how within the last 40-years (and especially the last 10), virtually everything of value in the US Constitution has been considered by some Reichwing group to be a problem/obstacle/mistake/incorrect-interpretation/etc.
Finishing the destruction of the separation of church and state would be a great way for them to end this decade.
If a McCain/Huckster ticket gets elected, I’m preparing myself to be lined up against the wall…along with most people I know…
Falconer:
the funny thing is that Huckabee’s only good point (a very small one) is his public admissions that the GO has become the party of Big Stupid Money. So what they’re suggesting is that Wall Street should endorse Huckabee because he won’t actually get to implement his policies, but Obama will.
Considering that the last eight years of Bushnomics has led to record debt, a weak dollar, triple gas prices, and the disappearance of the middle class, “Obamanomics” sounds like a great deal.
Huckabubbles is the logical choice for MCain to head off the growing movement within the theocon faction to view an Obama win as god’s punishment on the USA for being sinful.
Maybe I’m misreading something here — but how did Huckabee write in a book published in 1998 about a Supreme Court decision that didn’t come down until 2003?