alternet.org— Truly damaging stuff about Mike Huckabee. Its all real too, not this fake reaching points made against Ron Paul.
Nov 22, 2007View in Crawl 4
Except for being completely unrealistic, it makes perfect sense./sarcasmThe Federal Government is too big, granted - but you just can't put 400,000 workers out on the street and call that a "solution", or stop feeding large segments of the economy money and expect something other than economic collapse.The Fair Tax is designed to replace the unfair "income tax" (read: government income redistribution scheme) with a tax that impacts everyone fairly. Contrary to the smear campaigns of its detractors, it has NOTHING to do with Scientology, and doesn't harm the economy.If you want to claim there is "no law" authorizing the Income Tax, get a copy of the 16th Amendment.There is nothing worse for Ron Paul than the ignorance of his supporters.
Bill Clinton was the best Republican president we ever had - welfare reform, balanced budget, great economy, constantly bombings some third world people, etc.
I won't mention Iraq. Nothing's going to sway anyone's opinion on that.Where in this document does ANYONE (let alone Huckabee) support torture?<a class="user" href="http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,295883,00.html">http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,295883,00.html</a>Okay, Huckabee did raise taxes overall (chalk one up for you), but since then he's signed a no-tax pledge. He's also in favor of the FairTax. With the FairTax in place there'd be no more tweaking of the tax code to satisfy voters or increase revenue.He also won't budge on medical marijuana (two for you), but neither do most of the republicans. If you want an overtaxed, terrorist-vulnerable, foreign oil-dependent, open-border, marijuana-friendly nation, vote Democrat.Huckabee would sign a nationwide public smoking ban, but almost every state already has some kind of smoking ban, even banning smoking in cars:<a class="user" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_smoking_bans_">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_smoking_bans_</a> ...He does not support driver's licenses for illegals:<a class="user" href="http://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/ftproot/acts/2001/ht">http://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/ftproot/acts/2001/ht</a> ... (RTFL, last letter is legislation)Whether or not abortion should be legal is a separate discussion, but why should tax-payers' money be funding anyone's abortion? The girl's situation was unfortunate, and anyone in such a bad position can easily raise a measly $419 for an abortion.Huckabee didn't parole Dumond. He has no authority to parole someone. Huckabee pushed for Dumond's parole and that's it. This event happened in 1997 and he was re-elected in 2002 despite the public's knowledge of Huckabee's actions. So it either wasn't as bad as it sounds or he was such a good candidate despite what happened.Huckabee does believe in Creationism, but he doesn't oppose the teaching of evolution in schools. He won't impose his (apparently silly) beliefs on anyone:<a class="user" href="http://www.ontheissues.org/Mike_Huckabee.htm#Educa">http://www.ontheissues.org/Mike_Huckabee.htm#Educa</a> ...Does anyone have these tapes and hard drives with all of this embarrassing data on it? What? They were destroyed? So there's no proof? Yeah, that's what I thought.I don't know what campaign finance reforms he's talking about, but you expect all candidates to get their funds from their own pockets so only the rich can run? Huckabee has a high level of disclosure for contributions. Full disclosure and honesty about funding is the only reform I need:<a class="user" href="http://www.opensecrets.org/pres08/summary.asp?id=N">http://www.opensecrets.org/pres08/summary.asp?id=N</a> ...Nothing will sway anyone on the gay marriage debate either. So like his views or not.So he allowed racetracks to put in video poker then they gave him a $10,000 contribution. Obviously they're thankful. If they donated $10,000 before passage then I would be suspicious. Are you trying to call this a shady deal? They're racetracks! Gambling is already allowed! He may personally oppose gambling, but I think it's good he can work with industries he doesn't particularly agree with.
prophet5Nov 24, 2007
Except for being completely unrealistic, it makes perfect sense./sarcasmThe Federal Government is too big, granted - but you just can't put 400,000 workers out on the street and call that a "solution", or stop feeding large segments of the economy money and expect something other than economic collapse.The Fair Tax is designed to replace the unfair "income tax" (read: government income redistribution scheme) with a tax that impacts everyone fairly. Contrary to the smear campaigns of its detractors, it has NOTHING to do with Scientology, and doesn't harm the economy.If you want to claim there is "no law" authorizing the Income Tax, get a copy of the 16th Amendment.There is nothing worse for Ron Paul than the ignorance of his supporters.
babywookieNov 27, 2007
Bill Clinton was the best Republican president we ever had - welfare reform, balanced budget, great economy, constantly bombings some third world people, etc.
tastywheatDec 7, 2007
I won't mention Iraq. Nothing's going to sway anyone's opinion on that.Where in this document does ANYONE (let alone Huckabee) support torture?<a class="user" href="http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,295883,00.html">http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,295883,00.html</a>Okay, Huckabee did raise taxes overall (chalk one up for you), but since then he's signed a no-tax pledge. He's also in favor of the FairTax. With the FairTax in place there'd be no more tweaking of the tax code to satisfy voters or increase revenue.He also won't budge on medical marijuana (two for you), but neither do most of the republicans. If you want an overtaxed, terrorist-vulnerable, foreign oil-dependent, open-border, marijuana-friendly nation, vote Democrat.Huckabee would sign a nationwide public smoking ban, but almost every state already has some kind of smoking ban, even banning smoking in cars:<a class="user" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_smoking_bans_">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_smoking_bans_</a> ...He does not support driver's licenses for illegals:<a class="user" href="http://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/ftproot/acts/2001/ht">http://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/ftproot/acts/2001/ht</a> ... (RTFL, last letter is legislation)Whether or not abortion should be legal is a separate discussion, but why should tax-payers' money be funding anyone's abortion? The girl's situation was unfortunate, and anyone in such a bad position can easily raise a measly $419 for an abortion.Huckabee didn't parole Dumond. He has no authority to parole someone. Huckabee pushed for Dumond's parole and that's it. This event happened in 1997 and he was re-elected in 2002 despite the public's knowledge of Huckabee's actions. So it either wasn't as bad as it sounds or he was such a good candidate despite what happened.Huckabee does believe in Creationism, but he doesn't oppose the teaching of evolution in schools. He won't impose his (apparently silly) beliefs on anyone:<a class="user" href="http://www.ontheissues.org/Mike_Huckabee.htm#Educa">http://www.ontheissues.org/Mike_Huckabee.htm#Educa</a> ...Does anyone have these tapes and hard drives with all of this embarrassing data on it? What? They were destroyed? So there's no proof? Yeah, that's what I thought.I don't know what campaign finance reforms he's talking about, but you expect all candidates to get their funds from their own pockets so only the rich can run? Huckabee has a high level of disclosure for contributions. Full disclosure and honesty about funding is the only reform I need:<a class="user" href="http://www.opensecrets.org/pres08/summary.asp?id=N">http://www.opensecrets.org/pres08/summary.asp?id=N</a> ...Nothing will sway anyone on the gay marriage debate either. So like his views or not.So he allowed racetracks to put in video poker then they gave him a $10,000 contribution. Obviously they're thankful. If they donated $10,000 before passage then I would be suspicious. Are you trying to call this a shady deal? They're racetracks! Gambling is already allowed! He may personally oppose gambling, but I think it's good he can work with industries he doesn't particularly agree with.