Tue, 01/15/2008 - 4:15pm — vastleft
I wonder what Susan Powter is doing nowadays, because someone has to stop the insanity:
"I have opponents in this race who do not want to change the Constitution," Huckabee told a Michigan audience on Monday. "But I believe it's a lot easier to change the Constitution than it would be to change the word of the living god. And that's what we need to do -- to amend the Constitution so it's in God's standards rather than try to change God's standards so it lines up with some contemporary view."When Willie Geist reported Huckabee's opinion on MSNBC's Morning Joe, co-host Mika Brzezinski was almost speechless, and even Joe Scarborough couldn't immediately find much to say beyond calling it "interesting,"
Scarborough finally suggested that while he believes "evangelicals should be able to talk politics ... some might find that statement very troubling, that we're going to change the Constitution to be in line with the Bible. And that's all I'm going to say."
I've been keeping track of a few new laws we can use to get started.
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As soon as we can arrange a
sit-down (even Larry David's stop and chat would work) with this God character, the better, so we can hammer out the details vaguely referenced by the GOP's leading Christianist
candidate. Without an appearance by said transcendent deity our darling Huckabee, standing up for that which cannot be measured, is blowing holy smoke rings out of his fabulist asshole.
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Note: when Holy Huckabee gets kicked to the curb, his endorsement will be neolithic gold to the GOP candidate who receives it. Lots of maneuvering and quid pro quos left to do...stay ever so tuned.
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MJS, absolutely right on Huck's endorsement
The value of Huckabee's "brand" has gone way the hell up because of this campaign. Not that a man of the cloth would ever exploit such a thing, mind you.
Why stop at branding?
Uh, cross your ankles, please? We only got one nail....
And is anyone else reminded of Reverend Wayne in Snow Crash?
[x] Any (D) in the general. [ ] Any mullah-sucking billionaire-teabagging torture-loving pus-encrusted spawn of Cthulhu, bless his (R) heart.
"First they ignore you, then they ridicule you, then they fight you, then you win." -- Mahatma Gandhi
Huck would be astounded, and severely pissed
if by some fluke he ever became president. That ain't the job he's auditioning for and statements like this make it increasingly obvious. Along with the complete devotion of the media to the notion that once one is confirmed as a Serious
Candidate he/she must be treated in a Very Serious Manner particularly if the subject is their religion.
Mitt is auditioning for Billy Graham's old job. He wants to be at the top of every reporter's Rolodex for a call when an issue of Ethics or Morals comes up, just like Al Sharpton (and, although less nowadays, Jesse Jackson) is if an issue of Blackitude arises.
Being installed as president would fuck everything up and he knows it. Thus these increasingly ludicrous comments like the one today. I suspect he has running bets with people in his "campaign" as to what level of looniness he can get to before somebody--not DFH
's mind you but a Serious Journalist--says "Wait a minute, this guy is crazy."
maybe not all bad.
perhaps he could require all rich people to sell all of their earthly possessions and give the money to the poor. that would be a good start. after that, he could issue a serious rebuke to organized religion. that would also be useful.
throw some moneychangers from the temple of wall st
and have a debt-forgiveness program every so often in which all wealth is redistributed equally? yeah, someone made that argument elsewhere. only problem is all the other stuff too, i don't suppose progressives will be the ones to pick and choose how to interpret the 'living god's intent. which is too bad, cause if it were up to me we would do the cool stuff, making prayer mandatorily secret and the workweek never having more than 5 days; and lose the parts about lobsters, cheeseburgers, or bashing little babies' heads in, for being born of the wrong faith.
Worst candidate ever.
Huck Threatens Symbolic Sodomy to Confederate Flag Opponents
I swear to, um, well, I just swear I am not making this up:
Gives rather a new meaning to "turn the other cheek" duzzenit?
See earlier comment above re: "making increasingly outrageous remarks until called on it" by somebody with a large enough microphone to be heard, which clearly we are not. [sob]
That's amazing, Xan
As Letterman used to say whenever discussing survey results, "if you've ever been polled, you know just how painful that can be."
Do we have to choose between "Col. Guv. Hucklebee Suh!" or
my former favorite, "Radical Cleric Huckabee"?
The latter seems to be catching on...
(from Atrios comment thread)
but then again Huck just made the sodomize-you-with-the-Confederate-flagpole remarks hours ago so it hasn't really had time to make the rounds. Maybe we can get a googlebomb war going between the two?
:)
Grand Ayatollah Huckabee?
Since I guess "Mullah" has been pre-empted for Mullah Dobson.
Hey, where's your sense of humor?
[x] Any (D) in the general. [ ] Any mullah-sucking billionaire-teabagging torture-loving pus-encrusted spawn of Cthulhu, bless his (R) heart.
"First they ignore you, then they ridicule you, then they fight you, then you win." -- Mahatma Gandhi
stiff poles, cheeky flags, oh my
toss in the burning dogs, and you prove my earlier point re: stewart and the writers' strike.
this shit just writes itself, how hard can it be to fill a lowbrow 22min political comedy show in these times? the crackdenizens could do it stoned, in less than the time it takes me to link to "radical pole-dick hole-He-be" hits on google.