IS HUCKABEE FUCK-A-BEE GAY????? How many men regularly

[BornagainDUer]

send flower arrangements to each other?


Source: The Guardian

A $1,000 pair of cufflinks from a supporter, tens of thousands of dollars of clothing from a wealthy Little Rock businessman and thousands in gift certificates and cash from staff and appointees were among the lavish gifts given to Republican presidential candidate and unexpected frontrunner Mike Huckabee while he was governor of Arkansas.

The gifts fell within Arkansas's ethics rules but have raised questions among the governor's political opponents and ethics analysts at a time when scrutiny of the candidate is intensifying, and are at odds with the humble persona Huckabee has adopted on the campaign trail.

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Huckabee's chief source of largesse was Jennings Osborne, a Little Rock businessman who made his money in the medical testing business. In 1996, Huckabee's first year as governor, Osborne bought furniture for the governor's office and a fountain pen for the governor's use, and regularly sent flower arrangements. In subsequent years Osborne bought Huckabee gift certificates to department stores and clothing boutiques, 200 copies of a book Huckabee wrote, ties, flowers and air travel.

(snip)

A former top Huckabee staffer said the governor saw nothing wrong with Osborne's gifts. "It was because of his background as a preacher," said the staffer, who asked to remain anonymous. "They typically get gifts. In his own mind he was righteous, so the appearance didn't matter." Huckabee is an ordained Southern Baptist minister.

Read more: http://www.guardian.co.uk/uselections08/mikehuckabee/st... .

So what the faack else is new?

[alcibiades_mystery]

1. Hmmm

Are gay men not men?

Sorry to nitpick, but the form of the question is yucky.

[mak3cats]

4. I agree...

...who gives a damn if he's gay or not? I care that he's a religious nut job.

[BornagainDUer]

10. Oh fucking K why don't we just drop this story. Is that what you are

proposing?
Do you want me to say it nicely? Am I being to fucking hard on these hypocritical fucks for you?

Sheeet

[Lex]

11. It's homophobic bullshit.

Get a clue.

[TwilightGardener]

19. No, HUCKABEE is a homophobic shit. You don't think it's weird

that a rich man continually sent him ties, cufflinks, flowers? Are those NORMAL gifts for political favors? Usually it's stuff like box seats at football games and Cuban cigars. Sorry, but this is strange.

[Lex]

25. "Are those NORMAL gifts . . . " you ask.

So I say, it's homophobic bullshit.

[MonkeyFunk]

33. No kidding!

[TwilightGardener]

46. Nothing homophobic about it at all on my part. Just wondering why

a man sends another man thousands upon thousands of dollars worth of ties, flowers and clothing, and copies of his own book. I can't wonder about that?

[MonkeyFunk]

50. You can use your homophobic little mind

to wonder all you want, but you're not allowed to spread the shitty contents of your sad brain on this site.

[TwilightGardener]

67. Huh??? I speculate as to why a man would shower another man

with personal gifts, and if I suspect that there may have been some emotion involved on somebody's part, I'm a homophobe? Uh, no. I guess I'm a homophobe for speculating that Craig's toe tapping was a solicitation for gay sex too, huh? And by the way, when you launch into personal attacks on me, I can tell that you've run out of effective arguments and just want to lash out.

[racaulk]

40. DING! DING! DING!

Thank you!!!

[BornagainDUer]

60. I say you are defending a Repuke. Fuck you and your goddamn

namecalling. You call me a homophobe I call you stupid ass, or an imp for the bastards!

[MonkeyFunk]

65. Why are you thinking of asses?

Are you a little.. um... ya know...

[Lex]

68. It's a "little, um, gay"

maybe?

[racaulk]

70. .

[Lex]

66. You're right and everyone else is wrong I guess.

Ought to make you wonder a bit, though.

[terrya]

69. Then call him out on ethics, goddammit.

And don't post this "Gosh, is he GAY??" bullshit. It's out and out homophobia.

[alcibiades_mystery]

12. Easy there

Calm...calm...calm....

[BornagainDUer]

56. What do you mean? Why in the fuck are you people defending the

son-of-bitch!!
Shit the repukes don't have to defend themselves. DU is doing the job nicely!

You people either don't get it or you are working for the fascist swill.

[Lex]

61. We don't get it, eh?

Oh, I think we understand just fine.

[MonkeyFunk]

62. Defending him?

So you agree that it's an attack to say he's gay (even though you have no evidence at all)!

You should really go sit in a corner and think about this issue, and why it's so important to you.

[FredScuttle]

Mike Huckabee is a saint compared to you

chew on that

[Arkansas Granny]

71. I don't see anyone defending him. I see people offended by the

premise that gay is something you can use to bash someone.

[Lex]

2. Yes, of course. Everyone we despise is gay, gay, gay!

Didn't you get the memo?

[FredScuttle]

3. Boooooooooo.

Focus more on the abuse of office and less on thigh-rubbing.

[La Lioness Priyanka]

5. yes. everyone who is evil is gay.

[TwilightGardener]

6. Ties and flowers? Clothing? Weirdly personal stuff. Huck was a kept man.

[bunkerbuster1]

29. I think it's a "baptist minister" thing more than a "gay dude" thing.

From what I've read, most southern baptist ministers aren't real well paid, and are expected to mooch off of their congregation for freebie goods and services.

And it might not be a "baptist" minister thing, even, but a "minister" thing.

[TwilightGardener]

39. Regular flower deliveries? Ties and clothing? Sorry, it wouldn't

merit a second look if this man was a close friend or relative, but this is some sort of strange wealthy benefactor of Huckabee. Hucky doesn't need flowers. And I'm pretty sure he can afford ties. This man didn't just make the occasional gift, he LAVISHED gifts, personal gifts, on Huck--either Huck was doing him some political favors, or this man had a crush on him.

[BornagainDUer]

64. I think you are a Repuke enabler, and full of shit to boot.

[TwilightZone]

7. Can we please, please, please stop using stereotypes to opine that Republicans must be gay?

Please?

[kestrel91316]

8. This pretty much sums up what we can expect from the Huckster:

".......In his own mind he was righteous, so the appearance didn't matter......."

[EFerrari]

9. Gay men are men. n/t

[alcibiades_mystery]

13. You're about to get Oh-fuckin-K'ed

[Lex]

15. LOL!

Oh no, not that!

[EFerrari]

23. It's okay, I'm sitting down.

The most manly man I've ever met is a good friend, a gay DUer. We met long before I posted here and, it's so bizarre that people can't put those two things together. Or, maybe not with all the propaganda.

For my secret DU crush.

[MonkeyFunk]

14. Stop it! Just fucking stop it!

Every republican is "accused" of being gay here, and it's just ridiculous and offensive.

[terrya]

20. It's tedious, offensive, stupid, homophobic bullshit.

And I get goddamned sick and fucking tired of seeing this blatantly offensive shit around here.

[MonkeyFunk]

26. Me, too

They know it's against the rules and they keep doing it.

[terrya]

35. I alerted on it.

But that doesn't address the fact that some ignorant, bigoted creeps around here regularly post this kind of shit.

[comtec]

24. and if it wasnt starting to really pan out I'd agree 100% with you

as it stands, VAST numbers of the most virulently anti-different gopers are turning out to be heavily closeted!
There are evil, vile, pathetic, embarrassing excuses for humanity, and they deserve to be shown as hypocrites!

that said, I agree it's a little too much piling on - but seriously, how often has this turned about to be true?

[MonkeyFunk]

37. Starting to pan out?

Bullshit. Just fucking bullshit. EVERY major republican has been called gay here, and none of them have "panned out". Larry Craig wasn't pegged (no pun) before his incident. Ted Haggard wasn't.

Don't justify stupid homophobia because SOME republicans are gay.

[La Lioness Priyanka]

32. but all evil people are gay, straight people are beyond this.

dont you know that? its in the memo.

[LeftyMom]

16. Who gives a flying fuck?

He's a crooked scummy charlatan. He's petty enough that he let a woman die so he could give Bill Clinton the finger. He's about as smart as a box of rocks, provided the mama rocks drank heavily during pregnancy.

Why, pray tell, do we have to take our minds anywhere near the dark corners of his bedroom to figure out that he's not fit for any public service that doesn't involve coveralls and frequent trips to the dump?

[gatorboy]

17. BornagainDUer: Today's WORSE PERSON IN THE WOOORRRLLLD! n/t

[racaulk]

18. So if I send flowers to another man, does that make me a woman? Or gay?

Your question perplexes me.

[onenote]

22. I'm straight and a lesbian woman I know once sent me flowers

So does that mean I'm gay or that she's straight?

[mak3cats]

36. I'm a straight female and I've sent men flowers...

...so what the hell would that mean???

[Dr. Strange]

47. My wife sent me flowers when we were dating.

She'll probably be devastated when she finds out she's a gay man.
I probably will be too.

[racaulk]

55. If she's a gay man...then what does that say about *you*?

[Arkansas Granny]

21. It really disappoints me when a fellow DUer uses "gay" as the

basis of a personal attack on someone, regardless of their political views. If a person is gay, so be it. If they have endorsed legislation that discriminates against the GLBT community, call them on their hypocrisy, not their gender identity.

[TwilightGardener]

27. Huckabee HATES gay people. If there's something in his background that looks

a little, um, gay, why are we not allowed to speculate?

[MonkeyFunk]

38. Because receiving flowers from somebody

doesn't make him "the bottom".

Homophobic bullshit.

[TwilightGardener]

54. I didn't say it did. Just that it seems a little...uncommon. Is it so hard

to believe that this Osborne guy was showing some feelings for the charming Huckster?

[MonkeyFunk]

57. When you have an unaltered photo

of Huck with a cock in his mouth, then we can discuss what looks gay to you.

Short of that, this is just homophobic bullshit.

[Arkansas Granny]

49. If you can find some way to substantiate the rumor, get back to me.

Until then, I'm really tired of seeing people using "gay" as a way to denigrate someone. If he is gay then we would have a reason to trounce him soundly for his hypocrisy. I don't care for negative attacks against anyone on evidence as flimsy as that in the OP.

[TwilightGardener]

58. What rumor? These are gifts that he accepted from this man, on a regular basis,

over a period of years. I have no idea whether it means anything or not, but it certainly seems like a strange choice of political bribery.

[Touchdown]

52. What , exactly looks "a little um, gay" to you?

Do we all lok and act alike, just all black folks look alike, and all jews work in banks or delis?

[racaulk]

63. If you find an answer to your question, please let me know.

I don't think I got that memo, so I would like some reassurance that I'm "acting gay" properly.

[JuniperLea]

28. "Most" Fundies are hypocrites...

Not surprising that he would join his ilk and bash homosexuals. What he doesn't realize is that "most" people will think less of him for being a hypocrite than they would for his being homosexual... yet he puts the hypocrisy out there and shoves the rest of himself in the closet. Sad.

[Touchdown]

30. Lookie! another "hey everybody! Let's say all GOPers are Gay!"

thread from those oh' so tolerant DUers.

Ah' let me count the fag jokes with the proper names changed to Goopers instead.

You need to be re-born a 3rd time. The second one didn't take.

[DS1]

31. Gay people fuck bees?

Is that where they all went?

[racaulk]

34. Watch out for those stingers!

[gatorboy]

45. Not that there's anything wrong with that.

[iamthebandfanman]

41. hey now!

i like getting flowers, and im a guy.

[MonkeyFunk]

44. Yes, but evidently you're not a "normal" guy

[madinmaryland]

42. Nice post, Hitler!

[Lex]

43. Hitler . . . also gay.

nt

[MonkeyFunk]

48. Goebbels sent him cufflinks

just sayin'

[madinmaryland]

51. Nice post, Mengele!

[ThomCat]

53. Wow! Every republican we hate must be Gay!

Everyone evil is Gay!
It's all Gay people's fault!


If someone grew up in a household where fresh flowers were often around, maybe you just like the idea of having fresh flowers on display. I know straight executives who like having fresh flowers in their offices.

I'm really sick of people using accusations of gayness to smear people.

[IndianaJones]

59. homophobia here? no? nt.

[maddezmom]

72. locking

Homophobic