Write this down: Huckster will be on the ticket

[Va Lefty]

The fundies are pissed. Well, that's nothing new, but look who they are pissed at. It's the republic party establishment. They are tired of being taken for granted, as they see it. W wasn't enough with his bible thumping and "culture of life." Roe v. Wade has not been overturned. Evolution is still taught in most public schools. Birth control is still readily available. It's Armageddon for these nuts.

Here is my prediction: Huckster wins Iowa. McCain wins NH. McCain wins Mich. (Romney withdraws) Huckster wins SC.(Whoever finishes 2nd McCain or Thompson, that's who the GOP establishment will unite behind) Then it's on to Fla. between Rudy and Huckster, can't see McCain getting much more than 15% with his record on immigration. Fla. is a tossup between Rudy and Huckster. Then it's on to super Tuesday, with their agents in the MSM and the republican noise machine they will unite behind either McCain or Thompson who will win the lion's share of the delegates and get the nomination. They will have to put Huckster on the ticket to unite the "party".

Just my take on things as of now...

[annie1]

1. i think it will be him as well.

[AndyTiedye]

2. If It's Huckster as VP for McCain, He Still Gets to be President Pretty Soon

How long do you think McCain will last as President? With Fuckabee a heartbeat away from the Presidency.

[autorank]

3. Dumond & Green will be his campaign trail buddies

Come on down Huck. Don't count on many votes in Missouri or Arkiansas, or anywhere else
you find the public wanting protecting form sociopaths.


Wayne Dumond - Huckabee wanted to let
him out of jail outright, then backed
off and saw that he was paroled.

Selective Forgiveness as Governor
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0712/S00059.htm

Charles Singleton was convicted of murder in Arkansas and executed by lethal injection during Huckabee's term as governor. Singleton was a diagnosed schizophrenic. Huckabee was unimpressed and issued the required death warrant.

Supreme Court decisions mandate prisoner mental competence prior to execution. Singleton was given (his lawyer says forced) antipsychotic medication to relieve his schizophrenia. As a result, the prisoner regained a grasp on reality. Singleton's successful treatment for a serious mental illness then became the vehicle that allowed the state to kill him.

Of the 16 Huckabee era executions, there is a pattern of dismissing or refusing to examine legitimate questions or claims concerning mental illness.

Huckabee did find forgiveness in his heart for at least one Arkansas criminal. Wayne Dumond was convicted for raping a 17 year old girl in 1985. This fourth sexual assault conviction earned Dumond a sentence of life plus 20 years.

At the start of his first term, Huckabee took a special interest in the Dumond case and had plans to commute his sentence. When an irate public stopped that, the new governor effectively lobbied the pardon's board. Just four months after they'd denied a Dumond parole request, the board ruled favorably. These events and a broader narrative of the case were well documented by investigative journalist Murray Waas.

Dumond was released on parole in 1999. Just months after the parole, he bound, gagged, and suffocated a Missouri woman. He was convicted of that murder and a suspect in another by the time he was confined to a Missouri state prison where he died in his cell.

Huckabee continues to deny his role in the pardon despite the evidence amassed by Waas and others. On Aug. 31, 2007, Associated Press (AP) reported that the Wikipedia entry on Huckabee was edited to delete critical references to the Dumond pardon. AP traced the source of the edits to Arkansas state government computers.


*****************
Why parole a monster like Green

The Leader, Pulaski Co. Arkansas
http://tinyurl.com/2jp6wy

Gov. Huckabee probably never read the confession of a demented killer named Glen Green before he made the monster eligible for parole.

Green's confession is so depraved, its sadistic details so scary that no sane, responsible adult would consider him for parole.

If the governor didn't read the confession, he is guilty of dereliction of duty.

But if he read the confession and still considers Green deserving of parole, he's certainly unfit to hold office. Who would free a madman who beat an 18-year-old woman with Chinese martial-arts sticks, raped her as she barely clung to life, ran over her with his car, then umped her in the bayou, her hand reaching up, as if begging for mercy?

[dugggy]

5. However do not overlook that Huckster beat democratic

opponents in evey election in Arkansas, Big Dog's state of origin.

[autorank]

11. He's has a strong run but look where things re at.

Calls for a moratorium on paroles, calls for examining all of his paroles, commutations,etc.

He'll never win Missouri, not possible. His freed perp went right up to KC and did some killing.
The KC Star is already on the story.

We'll see. I hope they put him on. He's not even solid with the Southern Baptists. The first
article quoted was on the front page of Southern Baptist News for five days after it came out.
That's a long time for that type of indictment.

[Triana]

4. Great. He'll outlaw birth control, abortion and divorce...

...women will be denied the right to own property, work outside the home or get educations.

Next: Burkas

Better hope Hillary isn't the nom. She'll never beat Mr. American Taliban.

[dugggy]

6. Huckster reminds me of that 1 eyed sheik who was behind

the first bombing attack on twin towers. I just can't trust
cross-eyed politicians. I can never tell what they are looking at.

[Triana]

8. "one-eyed sheik"...

..didn't that used to be a rock band?

;)

[dugggy]

9. hmmmm

dunno..but I bet my teenage kids would know.

[annie1]

7. Obama should drop out at give his support to Edwards. now THAT would be gutsy.

i'll keep dreaming though. *sigh*

[cali]

14. lol. any of our candidates will beat Huckabee if he's the nom, in

a blow out election. Not only does he have the history from hell for a presidential candidate but he's already makie rookie mistake and he's letting his temper show. He's a trainwreck, and that's why the repuke establishment is so freaked out. However, he won't get it. I've been saying for months it'll be Romney/Huckabee, but it could be McCain/Huckabee. I do think that he'll be on the ticket as vp.

[democrat2thecore]

10. It's a strange thing because so many Republicans in Ark. hate him for being "liberal"

So many litmus tests.
Huckabee would be a complete and total disaster as president. Maybe not George W, Bush, but bad. Very bad. This is the most important election, surely of my lifetime.

[MADem]

12. As McCain's VP??? NT

[dmosh42]

13. The media won't let it happen, but I hope you're right!

All the political pundits and news shows are suddenly playing up McCain, and reporting his 'surge' in NH. It wasn't really happening, but they want it, so he's getting millions of dollars worth of 'free' exposure, at Huckabee's expense. The corporations and billionaires know Huck comes off as a religious wacko, so are trying to avoid having him on the Repuke ticket. I think if he's nominated, it will be a shoo-in for any Dem nominee. Bring it on!