HUCKABEE: THE GOP IS LIKE JESUS.

[kpete]

HUCKABEE: THE GOP IS LIKE JESUS.

Mike Huckabee stole the show today, as thousands of CPAC attendees, many of them college students, crammed the big ballroom to hear him talk about why John McCain lost the election the future of the conservative movement. Huckabee spared no criticism of the candidate he stumped for -- even lamenting, at one point, that he had campaigned for McCain even after the nominee voted for the bank bailout back in September. That "was not our best moment," said Huckabee, adding that it "would have been our best shot at winning the White House" if McCain had been a true conservative voice rather than "a meek 'me too' big government echo."

Huckabee was off the rails with the socialism theme -- saying that Stalin and Lenin would have loved the TARP and stimulus bill and that the United States was becoming the "Union of American Socialist Republics." It's the new cold war, only the enemy is here at home.

As is his shtick, Huckabee larded his speech with folksy tales of clean Arkansas living, precious metaphors, and biblical references. Some were more obvious than others, such as when he said that Democrats "want to keep dividing a loaf of bread among an increasingly dependent population," while Republicans understand that in a free market system, the "loaves and fishes" just keep multiplying. It might come as a surprise to many of his followers that Jesus relied on the free market rather than a higher authority. But for conservatives, the two are indistinguishable.

http://www.prospect.org/csnc/blogs/tapped_archive?month=02&year=2009&base_name=huckabee_the_gop_is_like_jesus

[ColbertWatcher]

1. He's been awfully quiet lately! Wave to Mike everyone ...

... hi Mike!

[Ikonoklast]

2. I have to agree.

They are both creations based on fiction.

[FiveGoodMen]

17. Bravo!

:applause: :rofl:

[mitchum]

3. Okay! Let me beat them and nail them up

sounds fun

[pleah]

8. Can I watch?

:evilgrin:

[Ken Burch]

4. Well, he's right...if, by "like Jesus", he means "thousands of years away from a resurrection".

n/t.

[RJ Connors]

5. And we all know what happened to Jesus. n/t

[BluePatriot21]

6. Snake oil! Getcher snake oil here!

The GOP is like Jesus, Dead and not coming back. At least I hope that's what he meant because if Jesus does come back he is going to kick the living snot out of people like Huckabee, Robertson and the phony baloneys that used his name to buy power and money.

[Mr. Sparkle]

It sounds like an American Taliban clan meeting.

[tangent90]

7. Yeah...dead.

:shrug:

[Mrs. Overall]

9. Yep, Jesus was all about the upper class, self reliance vs. helping others, & rigid dogmatics. Yep.

[omega minimo]

10. He spelt "Judas" wrong

[Bobbie Jo]

24. LOL....good one. nt

[leftstreet]

11. "Union of American Socialist Republics"

:rofl:

Wait. Was that Freudian? Doe he fear the Bolivarian movement in South America may reach farther north?

[steelmania75]

12. Wouldn't Jesus be for equal rights, like gay marriage, and anti-war, like getting out of Iraq?

Both are things that the GOP is against and according to the Bible, Jesus supports.

[SpiralHawk]

13. So does that mean he wants to TORTURE the GOP?

The way the GOP of Ancient Times (Pharisees & Roman Flunkies) tortured Jesus, and the way the modern GOP (Latter Day Pharisees) torture everyone they are afraid of?

That may work for Homelanders. But it don't work for real Christians, or for real Americans.

[Uncle Joe]

21. What Huckabee meant to say was that if the Roman Republic had been run

by the American Republics, they would have *water-tortured Jesus.

*Water boarding sounds too much like surfing, when in fact it is literally drowning someone.

[trof]

14. The republics have officially jumped the shark.

Jindal, Huckabee, Boehner, all of them.
Totally batshit.

[Deja Q]

16. "Republicants"

as in "Can't"... or "Cant". Works equally both ways. :D

[trof]

23. Yeah, I like that.

[midnight]

15. Jesus doesn't like killing, or treating widows and their children

like dirt. Mr. Huckabee better take a better look at the people he is paling around with.

[Deja Q]

18. Do they really believe in Jesus and live the way Jesus did?

[falcon97]

33. Believe in Jesus? Yes.

Live the way Jesus did? Ha. That's so idealistic.

:sarcasm:

[FiveGoodMen]

19. Lots of very funny replies on this one!

The GOP is nothing like the man described in Matthew, Mark, Luke and John.

Nothing.

[sufrommich]

20. So when will they call for sainthood for Milton Friedman ?

I'm sure God is flattered to be used as a propaganda figurehead. :crazy:

[Still Sensible]

22. How easy the charlatans ignore most of the things the

New Testament was about... you know loving thy neighbor, caring for the poor among us, feeding the hungry, healing the sick, and all that other stuff that these hypocrites leave out in favor of justifying their greedy, indefensible ideology. Like Jesus my ass.

[chollybocker]

25. He totally mis-interprets the 'loaves and fishes' parable

It's about communism. Like a church potluck.

It has nothing to do with Capitalism. What a dolt.

[Veritas_et_Aequitas]

26. Huckabee is a false prophet.

Yeah, I said it. What are you gonna do about Mikey? We'll have an old-fashioned theological throw down anytime, anywhere. Bring it!

[Goblinmonger]

29. I'd pay to see that. n/t

[fascisthunter]

27. The GOP is Complete Opposite of Jesus

[Kahuna]

28. Really?? Jesus said the rich should give up their riches and follow HIM.. because

It is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle than for a rich man to enter the kingdom of Heaven. Jesus was a socialist.

[name not needed]

30. Yeah, but it's probably this Jesus

[saltpoint]

31. The continuum from Jesus to John Boehner sure seems obvious enough to me.

[olegramps]

32. When the rich young man asked how to be saved Jesus to him sell every thing and follow me.

Mt. 19.21 Jesus said to him, "If you want to be perfect, go and sell all you have and give the money to the poor and you will have riches in heaven, then come and follow me." Have ever seen the mansion that Huckabee lives in?

[mwb970]

34. republicans are like Jesus! That'll be the day.

republicans rail against everything Jesus stood for and support that which he despised. Huck is way off base on this one. Although come to think of it, he's actually "on base" because it is specifically the shrinking right-wing base that is at CPAC to cheer for Huck and the other loonies.

(Does everyone remember that "al Qaeda" is Arabic for "the base"?)

[old mark]

35. Dead. nt