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Why I can’t vote for Huckabee

I have been following former Arkansas Governor Mike Huckabee’s campaign, and he’s been coming on strong in Iowa.  He’s a supporter of the Fair Tax, which pretty much skyrocketed him to #1 on my preference list.

However, the more I read about him, the less I like him.  He looks like Jorgé W. Bush redux, especially on the criminal immigration issue.

NumbersUSA, a group who really rallied the opposition to Bush’s and the Senate’s amnesty plan this year (and helped to kill it), calls Huck “an absolute disaster“ on illegal immigration.  Huck has been unapologetic, touting (though in some cases, lying about) his record of giving college scholarships to criminal aliens.

More disturbing details of his record are here.  Throw in some tax-and-spend-and-tax-some-more policies, and Huck doesn’t cut the mustard.  I’ve had almost seven years of “compassionate conservatism” (aka “Nanny State Lite”), and I’m afraid I can’t handle much more.

November 30, 2007 Posted by | Fair Tax, Huckabee, illegal immigration | 12 Comments

Quote of the day, double dose

Trust me, my friends…this CNN-plant debacle isn’t going away any time soon.  From Instapundit:

But we learn that CNN did use Google:

He said CNN never spoke to Kerr and had Google, which owns YouTube, bring the retired general and about a dozen other questioners to the debate because their videos were likely to be used, although no final decision had been made.

Using Google for plane tickets is okay. But next time, try using them for… Googling. As a commenter at Kurtz’s observes: “What should be noted about this issue is that CNN probably has a whole army of interns and low-level producers who could vet the possible questioners. They ‘could spend hours Googling everybody’, while the top level hacks concentrated on choosing the ‘best’ questions.” 

Six known plants, and CNN couldn’t bring themselves to Google a single one of them in their “vetting” process?

Howard Kurtz has a funny take:

So let me get this straight… in the Democrat YouTube debates, the “undecided questioners” are Democratic activists and in the Republican YouTube debates, the “undecided questioners” are Democratic activists.

Well, at least they’re consistent.

Aren’t they, though?  LOL!

November 30, 2007 Posted by | CNN, media bias, quote of the day | 3 Comments

“Religion of peace” wants death sentence for teacher

A British teacher in the Sudan had a teddy bear in her class in the Sudan.  The students named the bear “Muhammed”, after one of the students in the class.  The predictable happens:

Hundreds of protesters brandishing swords and sticks gathered outside Khartoum’s presidential palace Friday to vent their anger against a British teacher jailed for allowing children to name a teddy bear “Mohammed.”

An undated amateur photo of Gillian Gibbons, who has been found guilty of insulting religion.

About 600 Islamic demonstrators piled out of mosques, chanting: “By soul, by blood, I will fight for the Prophet Mohammed.” Some of the protesters demanded the teacher’s execution, according to The Associated Press.

The agency reports that some chanted: “No tolerance: Execution,” and “Kill her, kill her by firing squad.”

Got that?  Naming your child “Muhammed” is A-OK, but naming a toy bear “Muhammed” is grounds for appearing before a firing squad.  It doesn’t take much to get the camelhumping weirbeards’ bloodlust flowing, does it?

November 30, 2007 Posted by | religion of peace | 10 Comments

Rudy decries MSM “hit job”

I don’t know how many of you guys will agree with me or not, but I’m not on Rudy’s side here.  I think it’s pretty shameful.  From CBS News:

Was it routine expenses, or is an apparent skeleton in Rudy Giuliani’s closet really coming out to haunt him? CBS News anchor Katie Couric sat down with the national frontrunner for the Republican presidential nomination Thursday.

A report posted on Politico.com Wednesday said that at the time when Giuliani was beginning an extramarital relationship with Judith Nathan, who eventually became his third wife, he billed obscure city agencies thousands of dollars for his police security detail covering trips to visit Nathan.

But Giuliani insists that everything was done in the open, “honestly, honorably, above board.”

With all due respect, Mayor Giuliani, there is nothing “honest” or “honorable” about anything you did here: the fooling around OR the misuse of taxpayer funds. 

Is this story a media “hit job”?  Possibly, if not probably.  However, the story is still most certainly newsworthy, and I really think Giuliani ought to be ashamed of himself.  But judging by the comments above, he’s not repentant in the slightest bit.

Despite being a Shrillary supporter, former mayor Ed Koch echoes my sentiments:

“I found it strange that his lady friend was given protection,” said the long-time New York politico. “That was bizarre. She’s not the city’s responsibility. Rudy is the city’s responsibility. Your wife and his children get protection, and that’s understood. But certainly not your lady friend.” 

I don’t want to hear libs complain about Rudy’s philandering, since they had no problems when Bubba was doing it (and commiting perjury over it).  However, the complaint about Rudy using taxpayer-subsidized police protection or taxiing of his mistress is, in my view, a legit complaint.  I am disappointed by his cavalier attitude about it.

November 30, 2007 Posted by | media bias, Rudy, shameful | 3 Comments

UPDATE: Hillary’s garden

UPDATES AT THE END THIS POST.

Shrill-ary, Shrill-ary, positions contrary, how does your garden grow?

Not only has Her Highness had a problem by planting questions at her own debates, but now she’s resorted to using plants at the other party’s debates.  From Townhall:

It turns out that Keith Kerr, retired Colonel., U.S. Army; retired Brigadier General, California National Reserve, who submitted a YouTube question about gays in the military, is actually a member of Hillary Clinton’s Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transexual Americans For Hillary Steering Committee.  He’s also part of a film production crew trying overturn the “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” policy.

CNN’s retort?

In the final seconds of the post-debate coverage, Anderson Cooper acknowledges that CNN messed this up and states that CNN did not know that Kerr has a position within the Clinton campaign and that had they known, they would have disclosed the association. 

Uh-huh.  Just an honest mistake, I’m sure.  It’s not like CNN has been embarassed before for not “weeding” before debates.  Oh, wait…yes, they have.

CNN’s “vetting” process allowed many more “undecided” questioners in.  By “undecided”, I mean “people who are already campaigning for Obama or Edwards”…you know, that kind of “undecided”?  Nope…no liberal media bias!

UPDATE (11/30/2007 – 07:39 a.m. EST): This thing keeps getting progressively (pun intended) screwier and humiliating for CNN.  We’re now seeing that a CNN producer last week swore that the GOP debate would have leftist plants weeded out, and that he wanted the debate to be a debate of the GOP party…which, as Allah puts it, would “explain the six different Democrat questioners”, right?  Yep…two more Democrat plants!

As if that weren’t bad enough, CNN then admits that they never should have used General Limpwrist’s question (on account of him working with the Shrillary campaign).  But if they really felt that way, why then did they get defensive thusly?

“It’s interesting to see our critics really focusing on the questioners, but not really focusing on the questions. You haven’t heard them say that these were not useful questions.”

Dude, make up your freakin’ mind, already!  If the questions are legit and the questioners irrelevant, why say that you never should have used General Cornholer’s question?

As to the question of “Does it matter who asks the questions, if the questions are legit?”,  Allah puts it best:

As I said, it matters when they’re affiliated with a campaign and the affiliation isn’t disclosed because then you’re left to wonder (a) if they were there secretly at the campaign’s behest to try to force an issue into the other party’s nominating process for political advantage, and (b) what CNN’s motive might be in not vetting and disclosing the affiliation. All they had to do with Kerr was mention he was with the Clinton campaign. 

But why would they want to do that?  That would require journalistic competence and integrity, both of which are sorely lacking at CNN.  No wonder Fox News continues to kick their pinko #sses.

UPDATE (11/29/2007 – 01:35 p.m. EST): Byron York makes an excellent point here.  Remember when the Dems refused to debate on Fox News due to charges of bias?  If anyone should have boycotted a network’s moderation of a debate due to bias, it should have been the GOP boycotting the Clinton News Network…

Democrats would not even appear for a debate on Fox News, where they would have been questioned by experienced and respected journalists like Brit Hume and Chris Wallace.  But Republicans went ahead with the CNN/YouTube show, where they were questioned by…well, some questionable characters.

As Ace quips:

It made for sharp questioning and good drama. But if that’s the name of the game, let me suggest to CNN that they allow a paralyzed veteran with limbs missing due to an IED attack similarly grill the Democratic candidates on whether they support the Democratic Congress’ determination to choke off all monies needed for the military’s anti-IED program. Give him the mic, live, and let him harangue the Democrats on the viciousness of IEDs, and the viciousness of them putting soldiers’ lives, and limbs, in jeopardy to appease their netroots base.

UPDATE (11/29/2007 – 12:30 p.m. EST): How about this?  This queer general (Kerr) that CNN supposedly didn’t know was part of the Hillary camp was flown to the debates, put up in a hotel room, and given free transportation to and fro…by CNN!

According to General Limpwrist, Kerr told FOX News that CNN “never asked” him if he is a Clinton supporter so he “never told.”  I thought dude was against “don’t ask, don’t tell”?

I agree with MSNBC host Joe Scarborough: CNN’s contention that they “didn’t know” about Kerr (or any of the other plants) is “total crap”!

November 30, 2007 Posted by | CNN, gay, Hillary, media bias, shameful | 6 Comments

   

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