Comments on: Talk radio vs. Mike Huckabee

By: Larry

Larry — Tue, 12 Feb 2008 12:23:08 +0000

Floyd,
The Republican establishment and the talk radio establishment decided long ago that they didn’t want someone like Mike Huckabee as the Republican nominee. That is the reason they have distorted his record like they have. The same goes for a lot of the Christian leaders. They don’t want a candidate who connects to the people and would rather have someone they can manipulate. That is why they are against him so much, in my honest opinion. That is also the reason I have urged people to do their own research, instead of relying on the likes of Hannity and Limbaugh to tell them what to think about Huckabee. When you listen to them, you are most certainly not getting the full and complete story of Mike Huckabee’s record.

By: Floyd

Floyd — Tue, 12 Feb 2008 03:58:41 +0000

I was not a Huckabee supporter. I was hoping that Fred would become our nominee. But because of the constant on- air bias against Mike Huckabee from Rush and Hannity, I decided to do my own research. To my amazement, I really loved the things that Gov. Huckabee was proposing. I found myself agreeing with most of his ideas. So I now I am really confused. Huckabee seems to be more conservative then any of the previous guys including Mitt. So why the hatred toward him from the likes of Rush, Hannity and Laura? I don’t get it. I use to love listening to talk radio but lately I have found myself seeking alternatives. Please help me understand what’s going on.

By: Alexander

Alexander — Thu, 07 Feb 2008 22:52:00 +0000

As a moderate conservative who supports Huckabee, I am outraged at how Limbaugh and Hannity distort his record and how the media pigeonholes him as the guy who only gets Evangelical votes. If you look across the board, Huckabee has only gotten about one third of the Evangelical support in the Republican primaries. He also actually happens to be a fiscal conservative. He only raised taxes because Arkansas had the worst roads in all of America. When you fix roads and infrastructure, that helps create jobs. Furthermore Huckabee left office with an $800 million surplus.

It’s just baffling how so-called conservatives like Rush and Hannity supported a guy like Romney who has taken two different stances on every major political issue. When he was running against Ted Kennedy for the Senate he even said that he was not affiliated during the Reagan era, and that he didn’t want to go back to those days. I love how this man has gotten away with so many convenient changes of heart. Now these pundits say Huckabee is only staying as a spoiler for Romney, when the fact is that most of the people voting for Huckabee don’t like Romney anyway. I have officially given up on so-called conservative talk radio (Rush, Hannity, Levin). I will no longer waste my time with uninformed intellectual pygmies who can’t get their facts straight. I guess Savage is the only guy who’s tolerable.

By: Mary Lou

Mary Lou — Fri, 01 Feb 2008 23:05:40 +0000

You are so right about the talk show comments of Rush and Hannity. The other day I listened to Rush’s show one more time to see if he had any relenting of his dogma, and he had a caller ask him to recommend wines for everyday use. After wine banter back and forth, Rush finally recommended a bottle of wine with the word “screaming” in the label. The caller was a bit taken aback, saying, surly that isn’t for everyday use, that wine costs about $1600.00 a bottle.

Suddenly I saw his hatred of Huckabee and all things normal. He and Romney can drink their $1600 bottles of wine and not blink an eye, but they don’t speak for all of us. The comments about the money being tax free off shore are probably right. It has to be about money. But the average value voting Republicans have finally awakened, these loud mouths with no honorable private life do not speak for us. We must stop listening to them and reacting to them. All they want is the money from being sensational.

By: JP

JP — Fri, 01 Feb 2008 05:13:09 +0000

Larry I strongly agree with your post. I have tried to restrain my anger and figure out what motivated the attacks against McCain (who, imo, mostly deserved it) and Mike Huckabee. After decades of false accusations against Rush, etc. I found it truly shocking to see him behaving exactly like a mindless jackbooted thug … and even more shocking to see so many other talk radio hosts doing exactly the same thing. This was imo obviously a coordinated attack; since show after show day after day kept bashing McCain and Huckabee with half-truths and outright lies. This must be what life is like in a totalitarian state.
Whether there really is a “Dr. Evil” in charge of this conspiracy I have no idea … could have resulted mostly from sloppy careless work by Rush and then many others just copying him? How could they expect to get away with their credibility in tact? Any fool can just go to mikehuckabee.com and see they have totally distorted his written positions on point after point. There are many other things we can argue about but they have made countless distortions to his written positions. Wonder if they are big enough people to admit they were wrong and ask publically for an apology? I’m going to guess they are not that big .. hope I’m proven wrong. It would be nice to at least get an explanation for why they’ve been acting exactly like Nazis.

By: tam

tam — Sun, 27 Jan 2008 02:21:25 +0000

Larry has a very good point on the difference between what a legislature can do, and what a governor has to do.

I am very much a small, “get out of my life” governement person… but I do think we need at least some standards/over-sight for homeschooling. My state has some that I think a fairly reasonable. The sad fact is… without any kind type of oversight, you do not know if the child is actually being taught (and I have seen cases where the kids weren’t).

By: Jon

Jon — Sat, 26 Jan 2008 12:54:05 +0000

I want to comment on the overwhelming bias against Huckabee and McCain displayed by Limbaugh, Hannity, Beck and others. I believe that these talking heads have no sincere disdain for Huck or McCain, but rather are merely “clearing the way” for Romney. If Thompson or Guiliani had become a real threat to Romney, I don’t doubt that they would receive like treatment. Why?
Limbaugh, Hannity, and Beck are part of Premiere Radio Networks, which is a subsidiary of Clear Channel Communications, which also owns over 1100 radio stations and 30 TV stations. Near the end of 2006, Bain Capital purchased Clear Channel. Bain Capital is the private equity firm founded by none other than Mitt Romney. Although Romney is no longer CEO of this firm, his money is still there and one must assume that Bain Capital’s leaders want him to be in the Oval Office for obvious reasons.
Everyone in the world can dismiss me as a conspiracy nut, but the connections between talk radio and Romney are public record.

By: Larry

Larry — Sat, 26 Jan 2008 12:30:49 +0000

Natschultz,
I would like you to read ar article by Kerry, over at One Mom, that addresses the very homeschooling bill that you are talking about. It is Huckabee and Homeschoolers, The Rest of the Story. Yes, Huckabee did sign that bill, but it was a bill brought forth by a homeschooling parent and supported by Arkansas homeschoolers, as a way to prevent a much more resctretive bill from passing.

In response to your comment about Huckabee running Arkansas as a big government state, you need to keep in mind a couple of things. He was Governor of a state with a very heavily Demorcratic controlled legislature. He had to make compromises, otherwise, they would have ran roughshod over him and he would have been able to accomplish nothing. From your comments, I would suspect you are supporting Ron Paul. If so, I would respectfully submit one thing. It is altogether easier for a legislator to vote yes or no on legislation, than it is for a Governor to actually implement policies and govern a state. That is the task Mike Huckabee was face with and that is what he did.

By: natschultz

natschultz — Sat, 26 Jan 2008 09:15:04 +0000

While I agree with Rush regarding Huckabee and McCain not being true Conservatives, I must add that neither is Romney nor Rudy. There is no point even discussing Rudy, but McCain is a true threat. Huckabee is not a true Conservative based on his running Arkansas as a Big Government state. It has nothing to do with being Christian.

The fact is he raised taxes, increased spending and gave scholarships to Illegals. There is no arguing that this is NOT a Conservative form of government. But, as a Christian who believes in Parents’ Rights, I am furious with Huckabee for being the only governor to actually restrict the rights of home-schoolers (1999 AK House Bill 1724) by imposing numerous restrictions on parents who pull their children out of public schools, as well as forcing home educated students to participate in state testing under threat of truancy prosecution. It is well-known that public schools increasingly teach through a very immoral, un-Christian lens. Soon enough the state and federal tests will reflect these values, and home-school parents will be put in a very tough position knowing that if their children fail these tests because they refused to teach this immorality, that their children will be forced into pubic schools, or worse that these parents may lose custody of their children to the state. Unfortunately, Mike Huckabee has a very Socialist view of government, even if he does preach Christian values. Any politician that tries to take away Parental Rights for any reason, even a Christian reason, must be questioned.
This is why I do not support Huckabee.

I do not base my views on talk radio, but on actual analysis of each candidate’s record. Even Fred did not pass 100%.
Only one GOP candidate has a perfectly Conservative anti-tax, cut spending, pro-Parental Rights, pro-Life record. McCain and Romney fail across the board. Huckabee may be pro-Life, but that is not enough for most Conservatives.

Only one GOP candidate still in the running has actually written legislation to cut taxes and spending and to overturn Roe v. Wade (HR 300), to outlaw federal funding for abortion (HR 1095), and to declare that life begins at conception (HR 1094). Only one candidate wrote a bill to guarantee Parental Rights, the “Family Education Freedom Act” and stated “No nation can remain free when the state has greater influence over the knowledge and values transmitted to children than the family.”

So, while I may agree with Rush on some points, he argument fails miserably, as is the case with all the Pundits, because they deliberately ignore the one candidate who truly does have a clear and consistent Conservative track record (and happens to be Christian as well).

By: BJ

BJ — Thu, 24 Jan 2008 14:15:56 +0000

It will be a shame if big money takes the presidency away from Mike Huckabee. Mike has the grass roots support. I want him to talk about the real change for this country that he has committed to. Dismantling the IRS and replacing it with a FAIR TAX for everyone. This is what we want to hear about. Religion and abortion issues are devisive and will be used against him. We know his stand on those issues, so let move on the issue that could get him elected, taxes and the economy.