Meet the Huckster!

[Bigmack]

The two op-ed pieces below were published in the San Diego RW rag, Copley-owned Sandy Eggo Union Tribune. I think the conservatives really don't like Huckabee!

He could be the perfect candidate to wedge the Repubs apart from the Fundies.

If any of the stuff mentioned in the editorial proves true, Huckabee would be a great candidate for the Dems to attack... oh... wait... nobody pays any attention to any sort of moral lapse unless it involves Dems and blue dresses.
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UNION-TRIBUNE EDITORIAL
Meet the Huckster
December 3, 2007
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Unfortunately for Huckabee, the positive first impression he often makes fades when you learn more about him. He may have been a solid steward in his 14 years as lieutenant governor and governor in Arkansas. But he also showed an enthusiasm for parlaying his public office into a cushy lifestyle that makes Fabian NÚñez, California's similarly inclined Assembly speaker, look like a Boy Scout.
Over the years, Huckabee has:
Used campaign funds to pay himself $14,000 for being his own media consultant.
Used campaign funds to pay himself $43,000 for use of his private plane while attempting to hide what the payment was actually in return for.
Used an account set up to cover operational costs of the governor's mansion to pay such obviously personal expenses as fast-food and dry-cleaning bills.
Set up a nonprofit organization that paid him $23,500 without disclosing the source of the money.
Attempted to take $70,000 of furniture with him when moving out of the governor's mansion.
Took more than 130 gifts worth more than $300,000 – while suing to overturn a law that made him disclose the gifts.
We could go on in this vein, but space is limited. The bottom line: Mike Huckabee has an awful lot of explaining to do. And neither voters nor the national media should let the man Arkansas journalists call the “Huckster” get away with pretending that tough questions over his tawdry ethics record amount to mudslinging.
http://www.signonsandiego.com/uniontrib/20071203/news_mz1ed3bottom.html

ROBERT D. NOVAK    THE CHICAGO SUN-TIMES....Huckabee – the false conservative

Huckabee is campaigning as a conservative, but serious Republicans know that he is a high-tax, protectionist, big-government advocate of a strong hand in the Oval Office directing the lives of Americans. Until now, they did not bother to expose the former governor of Arkansas as a false conservative because he seemed an underfunded, unknown nuisance candidate. Now that he has pulled even with Mitt Romney for the Iowa caucuses with the possibility of more progress, the beleaguered Republican Party has a frightening problem on its hands.

http://www.signonsandiego.com/uniontrib/20071127/news_lz1e27novak.html

[TwilightGardener]

1. Huck is an opportunistic grifter. That's all he is. He's in it for the goodies, pure and simple.

Oh, and to bring about the Rapture--that too.

[TwilightGardener]

3. Kick.

[Poiuyt]

2. I didn't realize that he was that corrupt

[aint_no_life_nowhere]

4. "The Huckster" - good one