Huckabee family values: Son fired by Boy Scouts for torturing/slaying stray dog

[LTR]

“Most of us grew up going to Boy Scout meetings and, you know, our communities were filled with Rotary Clubs, not madrassas.”

(snip)

...During the 2008 presidential primaries, it came out that, at age 18, Huckabee’s son David had been fired by the Scouts as a camp counselor after he and another counselor captured a stray dog, hanged him by the neck, slit his throat and stoned him to death.

The elder Huckabee, who was governor of Arkansas at the time, later fired a local prosecutor who had investigated the matter with the aim of filing animal cruelty charges against David Huckabee and the other boy. In the end, other than being fired by the Boy Scouts, the boys were never held accountable for killing the helpless dog.

Since Mike Huckabee has chosen to spend the week smearing the president’s family by criticizing his upbringing and the way it purportedly shaped his worldview, someone should ask him who warped his own son into the kind of person who would commit such a heinous and gruesome act — was it David Huckabee’s bigoted Southern Baptist preacher father, the Boy Scouts of America — or both?

http://www.pensitoreview.com/2011/03/04/huckabee-and-the-boy-scouts-his-son-was-fired-as-a-scout-counselor-for-torturing-a-dog-to-death/

And see the article for a 2007 mugshot from when David Huckabee was busted on weapons charges.

[Exultant Democracy]

1. The republicans will do plenty to slime eachother, no need for us to elbow our way to the trough.

[proud2BlibKansan]

15. Especially since playing nice has worked so well for us up to now

:sarcasm:

[thanks_imjustlurking]

19. This is not run-of-the-mill slime

If this story is correct, he covered up abuse of a being capable of feeling pain, for the benefit of his offspring. Shows where his priorities are.

[snot]

2. Holy f*ck. This needs to get out there.

[IntravenousDemilo]

3. The apple falls not far from the tree. n/m

[Raine]

4. DISGUSTING and to have the gall to even bring

up Scouts with that kind of family incident is almost unbelievable if it wasn't such typical rethug hypocrisy. x(

[Ramulux]

5. What the fuck?

Thats some sick shit that is gonna cause him problems if he wins the primary.

[bluedave]

6. Should have locked him up like Vick--oh,I forgot, he's young Huckabee.

ah the legal system

[devils chaplain]

21. What this kid did is worse than what Vick did...

At least on a psychological level. At least one could make the case that dogfighting had some kind of competitive thrill involved... this is just torturing a poor defenseless animal for it's own sake. This kid either has some hideous trauma in his past and/or is a psychopath... either of which raises some serious questions about Huckabee Sr.

[leveymg]

7. Sounds like that hound was a stand-in for another sort of lynching.

What kind of sick sh-ts are still roaming around the South?

Mike Huckabee's White Supremacist Links
The Nation via Yahoo News ^ | January 18, 2008

The Nation -- As South Carolina's Republican primary election draws nearer, Mike Huckabee has ratched up his appeals to the racial nationalism of white evangelicals. "You don't like people from outside the state coming in and telling you what to do with your flag," the former Arkansas governor told a Myrtle Beach crowd on January 17, referring to the Confederate flag. "If somebody came to Arkansas and told us what to do with our flag, we'd tell them what to do with the pole. That's what we'd do."

Making coded appeals to white racism is nothing new for Huckabee. Indeed, well before he was a nationally known political star, Huckabee nurtured a relationship with America's largest white supremacist group, the Council of Conservative Citizens. The extent of Huckabee's interaction with the racist group is unclear, but this much is known: he accepted an invitation to speak at the group's annual conference in 1993 and ultimately delivered a videotaped address that was "extremely well received by the audience."

(Excerpt) Read more at news.yahoo.com ...

[mainer]

8. That's it. Stick a fork in him because he's done.

And to think I used to view Huckabee as one of the less objectionable candidates.

[tanyev]

9. Maybe David would have done better growing up in a community filled with madrassas.

[woodsprite]

10. Better keep Huckabee out of the White House

Otherwise we could have a Huckabee II that would rival Bush II.

[lonestarnot]

11. Fucking pig!

[BeFree]

12. Yep

They probably do that with pigs. That does seem to be right there with their family values.

[jpak]

13. But at least his grandpaw weren't no Mau Mau in Kenya where he grew up!111

sick fucks

all

yup

[beac]

14. SERIAL KILLER behavior.

Anybody got eyes on Huckabee Junior now b/c people that torture and kill animals as teenagers do not generally grow up to be model citizens.

[Initech]

20. That's how Dexter got started.

[magdalena]

16. Wow! A simple google search brings up a lot of crazy stuff.

Trying to carry a glock through airport security and getting fined for not licensing his business so he goes to pay his $62.50 fine with 6250 pennies. This man has the makings of a sociopath. Almost makes me feel a little bad for his father since it sounds like David has some serious issues. Although the ease with which Poppa Huckabee passes his own judgment on others makes me give less of a shit.

[deacon]

17. What's wrong with these people??? And, Romney tying his dog to the roof of his car

sheeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeesh.

[Alameda]

18. It is hard to not feel there is some relationship to his upbringing

and his actions. Granted, a sociopath would be a sociopath no matter what, but at least they would have some sense to at least act like they had repented. It doesn't look like any of that was here.

[JeffersonChick]

22. This means he's probably a psychopath...

Gotta wonder how he got that way. Hmmmm....

[Vidar]

23. Delightful! Huckabee Jr. can grow up to be just like W Shrub.

[HEyHEY]

24. Oh, lighten up, what's a stray dog here or a hitch-hiker there?