Mike Huckabee's 2016 Hopes Face A Roadblock: His Former Conservative Media Colleagues

[KamaAina]

http://mediamatters.org/blog/2015/05/11/mike-huckabees-2016-hopes-face-a-roadblock-his/203593

Presidential candidate Mike Huckabee is facing vast skepticism from some of the people who know him best: his former colleagues in the conservative media....

That advantage with Republican primary voters hasn't necessarily translated to many of his former colleagues. Conservative media figures have called Huckabee's positions "appalling," and said he represents "big government, big taxes, and pro-amnesty." They've also questioned whether he's serious about running, or is just being a "spoiler" on behalf of the Republican establishment.

Conservatives have used Huckabee's time as a media commentator as evidence that he's doomed to fail. Fox News correspondent Jesse Watters said that Huckabee's "been on Fox for how many years? He's got the radio show. He's probably given the enemy so much material to work with there."

Media Matters documented how Huckabee's years in the media were filled with numerous lowlights, including staunch anti-LGBT rhetoric, claiming President Obama grew up "in Kenya," linking the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting to the lack of God in schools, and renting out his email list to shady companies.

[tularetom]

1. If you read stuff he said ten years ago he sounded a lot smarter than he does now

Either God smote a few of his brain cells or he dumbed himself down after he saw how well the dumshit demographic reacted to Sarah Palin.

[KamaAina]

2. Indeed. Believe it or not, I actually learned something from his '08 campaign.

I was wonking on all the candidates' positions on health care for a national committee my boss was on. The Huckster taught me that employer-sponsored health care is a relic of WWII-era wage and price controls. Companies couldn't raise wages, so in order to recruit top executive talent, they offered choice benefits -- like health insurance. Eventually unions (remember them?) started demanding health care for their members, too. Before long the practice had become commonplace throughout American business, and a job that didn't offer healthcare was considered crappy.

[Jamaal510]

3. ...

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[KamaAina]

5. Dafuq?

[Jamaal510]

6. Maybe

I should've posted the one instead. My bad.

[FSogol]

4. His hopes also face a challenge from the subset of American Voters with functioning brains.