Huckabee tells Nashville crowd that US has lost its way....

[spanone]

“God, Guns, Grits and Gravy” ' the pandering pastor


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Mike Huckabee, the subject of renewed buzz about a possible presidential run, told evangelical Christians gathered in Nashville Thursday that the country has lost its way as he warned of a disconnect between the nation’s elite and “middle America.”

Huckabee called the latter the land of “God, Guns, Grits and Gravy” — it’s the name of the former Republican Arkansas governor’s soon-to-be released book. In a 35-minute speech Thursday before thousands of his biggest backers, he pushed the book’s battle cry that a culture war has undermined the values that made this country great.

“It’s a descriptive term for flyover country, middle America,” Huckabee said Thursday, appearing as a guest speaker at an annual conference organized by televangelist Morris Cerullo, held this year at Nashville’s Gaylord Opryland Resort & Convention Center. “For those of us who live in a place where it is not really all that strange to go to church. It is not weird to believe that we owe a dime of every dollar to God.”

But Huckabee, a former pastor and governor of Arkansas from 1996 through 2007, said the nation has lost what he called “our landmarks” — pointing above all to the word of God, which he called the “foundation of this country and of civilization.”

http://www.tennessean.com/story/news/politics/2015/01/08/huckabee-tells-nashville-crowd-us-lost-way/21458431/

[nichomachus]

1. You bet we have

When Huckabee is considered as a potential presidential candidate, we've pretty much fallen off a cliff. In a sane country, he'd be laughed off the stage.

[spanone]

2. i hope he ultimately will. i can't imagine the gop giving him a billion dollars to run.

against anyone.

[Jackpine Radical]

6. Nope.

He's marginally tolerated due to his grip on the fundie fringe, but he will never be let near the levers of power; the Kingpins know him for what he is--a sincere lunatic.

[randys1]

3. He is representative of why America has such a bad name almost everywhere around the world.

George W Bush invaded Iraq in large part because he wanted a holy, religious war.

Huckabee will of course bomb Iran if president and kill as many Muslims as he can.

The last thing Huckabee or W is, is a christian.

Again, these people, this man, represents death and destruction and nothing else.

[arcane1]

11. Bush did no such thing, and Huckabee has no intention of actually becoming president.

Huck is a huckster, doing what most repub candidates do: "run for president" in order to sell books and speaking fees.

[randys1]

12. George W Bush didnt invade Iraq largely as a religious war, of course he did

[arcane1]

15. I disagree entirely. The war wasn't even Bush's idea.

Hell, I'm not convinced he's telling the truth about being religious in the first place. But oil and money were the primary drivers of that war.

If there is a shred of evidence to the contrary, I will review my position and adjust accordingly.

[randys1]

24. Of course it was about oil for everybody else in his world, but he is one of those

braindead christian assholes, I truly believe he is and I truly believe he saw this as christians vs non christians just like so many in the hierarchy of our military.

http://www.csmonitor.com/2001/0919/p12s2-woeu.html

He saw his war in Iraq partly as a "crusade" against terrorism, no doubt about it.

[icymist]

4. He's pushing his new book.

I doubt he seriously thinks that he will win the nomination.

[spanone]

8. i think he thinks he can: Mike Huckabee Ends Fox Show to Explore Presidential Run

http://time.com/3652893/mike-huckabee-ends-fox-show-to-explore-presidential-run/

[workinclasszero]

14. Yeah the repub clown car will fill up in the next two years

All these marginal looney toons will be crawling out of the woodwork to "run for president"....and sell their latest screed in book form.

Its all about the Benjamins folks.

[tabasco]

23. Yep. It is an indictment of our society

that people like Sarah Palin are elected to positions of power.

Idiocracy was a documentary. This country is failing.

[Thinkingabout]

5. Looks like Huckabee has waited for Uncle Sugar too long, he has list his way.

[Ron Green]

7. Easy to do: hucksterism, nostalgia, fear

Hard to do: governing, diplomacy

These bozos are just lazy.

[easychoice]

9. People like him cause it.

gawd he's ugly...

[workinclasszero]

10. Hey the man is right

The US lost its way bigtime! We need to get back to the real FDR USA. This rayguns anti-american pro big business BS aint working out for 99% of us.

Question: When you give your dime to God, Huckster, does He actually get it or does the prosperity randian heretic preacher get it to build a new mega church of the Almighty Dollar? Or a new SUV or a new mansion??

Just askin....

[SammyWinstonJack]

19. hehehe.

Question: When you give your dime to God, Huckster, does he actually get it or does the prosperity randian heretic preacher get it to build a new mega church of the Almighty Dollar? Or a new SUV or a new mansion??

Huckster doesn't give his dime, he fleeces his flock and then spend it on himself however he sees fit.

[edhopper]

13. Huckabee/Christie ticket

Hefty and Heftier

[AlinPA]

16. He will be the favorite of the GOP's base. Right wing Christians and Fox watchers will love him. He

could easily win a lot of the primaries in the red states with his God talk.

[LordGlenconner]

17. He looks well aquainted with gravy

[AlinPA]

18. LOL ..and grits.

[hatrack]

20. Gosh, we 'Murcans just LOOOOVES us some fucking cornpone phonies, don't we?

Fuck Mike Huckabee and the Dr. Feelgood Wizard Oil buckboard he just rattled into town on.

[oldandhappy]

21. Running on the negative.

[napkinz]

22. Huckabee sounds like those terrorists who killed the twelve in France ...

"These are the things that I know. I know there is a God, and I know this nation would not exist had he not been the midwife of its birth. And I know that this nation exists by the providence of his hand, and if this nation forgets our God, then God will have every right to forget us," Huckabee said. "I hope that we repent before we ever have to receive his fiery judgment."

http://thehill.com/blogs/ballot-box/200209-huckabee-time-for-government-not-people-of-faith-to-scale-back