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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsMike Huckabee is an evil genius: How the GOP candidate perfected the art of right-wing resentment
Huckabee threw his hate into the 2016 yesterday. Here's a look at what makes him so scarily effectiveHEATHER DIGBY PARTON
Yesterday, Mike Huckabee, the guitar-playing, Nugent-loving, ex-Governor preacher from Arkansas, announced that he is running for president. This was not unexpected, but its always a treat to hear him give a full-blown speech. Hes very talented, after all, at doing what he does best stoking resentment among the white working class and lifting up the spirits of social conservatives. Often they are the same people. And they are all Mike Huckabees people.
In his speech yesterday, Huckabee hit all the right notes to get crowd excited. He pledged to repeal Obamacare and promised instead to adopt what he called a curative approach, which means he thinks we should concentrate on curing diseases rather than treating them. Its an unusual policy, to say the least, but considering who he is and his background as a fundamentalist preacher its always possible that he thinks this can be accomplished through faith healing. So theres that.
On the other hand, he heartily defended Social Security, a very wise move that you would think all the Republican candidates would adopt, considering the average age of their base voter. He also, however, defended Medicare against the encroachment of the evil Obamacare, following a successful GOP strategy since 2010: convincing the elderly that the federal government wants to put them all on the proverbial ice floe in order to give their hard earned health care to people who dont deserve it.
Huckabee also took a very hard line on national security, characterizing Islamic militants in serpentine terms:
When I hear our current president say he wants Christians to get off their high horse so we can make nice with radical jihadists, I wonder if he could watch a Western from the 50s and be able to figure out who they good guys and the bad guys really are. As president, I promise you that we will no longer try to merely contain jihadism, we will conquer it! We will deal with jihadis just as we would deal with deadly snakes.
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http://www.salon.com/2015/05/06/mike_huckabee_is_an_evil_genius_how_the_gop_candidate_perfected_the_art_of_right_wing_resentment/
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Mike Huckabee is an evil genius: How the GOP candidate perfected the art of right-wing resentment (Original Post)
DonViejo
May 2015
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Thinkingabout
(30,058 posts)1. Huckabee loves Nugent but hates women and LGBT groups, go figure. This is
what his version of a man of God is.
DonCoquixote
(13,615 posts)2. I hate to be cynical
But Mike entering the race is good for Hillary. Simply put, Mike wants the Xtain soliders to be upfront and fly their theocracy flags. As a Jeb or Scott fights Mike, they will only anger the xtians who WANT to be as open in IN YER FAAAACE, who will then want to punish the GOP.