Being a professional journalist is a tough job.
The news media establishment — which did such yeoman work emasculating Al Gore and disrespecting John Kerry’s service to our country — has invested its energies into crafting a “Nice Guy” image for Mike Huckabee.
It’s hard work creating and mindlessly repeating shallow memes until every soccer-mom and -dad has learned them by heart.
When you thought Scooter Libby
should pay for his crimes like any other convict — maybe even more so, because he abetted the wrongful killings of hundreds of thousands of people and helped shatter our nation’s intelligence apparatus — the media told you that you wanted him to go free. Think of how it would have hurt their feelings if they’d looked at the polls that showed you’d come to the wrong conclusion.
How about a little compassion, folks? What are you going to do next, ask Joe Klein to read the legislation he writes about? Thoughtless bastards, you are!
Think of the heartache that professional journalists suffered when years of propping up arch-conservative John McCain as a moderate maverick went down the drain as the Straight Talk express sputtered into incoherence and Iraq War boosterism, even after the classes of 2006 and 2007 posed for their yearbook photos.
So when Huckabee claims that Jesus is rigging the polls in his favor and when he says “I feel homosexuality is an aberrant, unnatural, and sinful lifestyle, and we now know it can pose a dangerous public health risk,” just remember that it all depends on what your definition of “nice” is.
If he lets a serial rapist go free because he attacked a Clinton relative, only to keep on raping and killing, well you can’t be much nicer than that, can you?
The definition of “nice” is Mike Huckabee. This I know, because the MSM tells me so.
To say otherwise is aberrant, unnatural, and sinful. So, get with the program, heretic! And be nice about it.
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Here's what Rove would do, if he were a Democrat
During the primaries he’d smear Giuliani. He’d say “we’re licking our chops at the thought of running against Romney.” (He said something like that about Dean.) He might even say Huckabee was credible.
Then in the general, he’d attack Huckabee with all he had.
Me personally, I heard Huckabee on “Wait, wait, Don’t Tell Me,” and he seemed like a good guy. (You see how that works?)
I’d rather run against Huckabee than Romney or Guiliani in the general.
“A small group of thoughtful people could change the world. Indeed, it’s the only thing that ever has.” - Margaret Mead
THB, I'm so filled with revulsion over the thought of...
“Bush’s Third Term,” that I can’t even play the “who I’d rather run against” game.
That enough of my fellow Americans voted for Bush for him to win or be able to steal the 2004 election was simply soul-crushing. The act of imagining how many of them would vote for the sequel is more painful still.
Now, the chance that the Dem who inherits Dubya’s trainwreck faring like the guy who mopped up for Tricky Dick and Gerald “Pardon Me” / “Whip Inflation Now” Ford is worrisome too. It’ll take a good, and I mean good, 8 or 12 years before I feel I have my country back. If I’m still around (and if it is).
Huckabee IS Nice
Mike Huckabee IS really nice, OK? Leave the guy alone. He only wants to quarantine people with AIDS and stop using public funds for AIDS research. What could be nicer? He’s almost as nice as Ronald Reagan himself! The AIDS research can still be funded by Hollywood celebrities and Bill and Melinda Gates — that’s the free market for you! The free market is nice! Mike Huckabee is nice! Let’s cheer for Mike Huckabee!
I’ll have to admit that he’s likable, though. If he weren’t a religious lunatic I might even consider not being upset if he ended up winning the Presidency.