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It was just a month or so ago that Mike Huckabee, the former Baptist preacher and Arkansas governor, claimed that the hidden hand of God was behind the surprising success of his candidacy:
“There’s only one explanation for it, and it’s not a human one. It’s the same power that helped the little boy with two fish and five loaves feed a crowd of 5,000 people. And that’s the only way our campaign could be doing what it’s doing.”
- Huckabee
MIKE HUCKABEE: There’s only one explanation for it, and it’s not a human one. It’s the same power that helped the little boy with two fish and five loaves feed a crowd of 5,000 people. And that’s the only way our campaign could be doing what it’s doing. I’m not being facetious, nor am I trying to be trite. There literally are thousands of people across this country who are praying that a little will become much. And it has. And it defies all explanation. It has confounded the pundits, and I’m enjoying every minute of their trying to figure it out. And until they look at it from an experience just beyond human they’ll never figure it out. And that’s probably just as well.
That’s honestly why it’s happening.
Of course, no pundit has ever been even slightly confused about the reason for Huckabee’s success. It is quite simple: Christianist voters rejected the other candidates one by one — Giuliani, McCain, Romney, Brownback and Thompson — because they found them all to be insufficiently doctrinaire about the rightwing’s bizarre hate-filled version of Christ’s teachings. Huckabee became their only choice by default.
But now Huckabee is trailing at a distant third in New Hampshire in a series of polls:
An American Research Group poll of 600 likely Republican voters, McCain is at 35 percent, Romney 27 percent, Mike Huckabee 12 percent, Rudy Giuliani 10 percent, Rep. Ron Paul 7 percent, Rep. Duncan Hunter 2 percent, Fred Thompson 2 percent, and Alan Keyes 1 percent.
A CNN /WMUR poll of … 341 likely Republican voters, McCain leads with 32 percent, followed by Romney, 26 percent; Huckabee, 14 percent; Giuliani, 11 percent; and Paul, 10 percent.
A McClatchy /MSNBC poll of 400 likely Republican voters, McCain is at 32 percent, followed by Romney, 24 percent; Huckabee, 12 percent; Giuliani, 9 percent; and Paul, 8 percent.
A Rasmussen automated poll of 1,240 … 1,102 likely Republican voters, McCain is at 32 percent, Romney, 30 percent; Huckabee, 11 percent; Paul, 11 percent; and Giuliani, 9 percent.
If Huckabee comes in third in New Hampshire tomorrow, it would be nice to think that a reporter would ask him to explain why it was God’s will for him to lose in the Granite State. Don’t hold your breath, of course.
Huckabee would do well to look at George Bush’s claim in 2005 that God told him to invade Iraq and Afghanistan:
George Bush has claimed he was on a mission from God when he launched the invasions of Afghanistan and Iraq, according to a senior Palestinian politician in an interview to be broadcast by the BBC later this month.
Mr Bush revealed the extent of his religious fervour when he met a Palestinian delegation during the Israeli-Palestinian summit at the Egpytian resort of Sharm el-Sheikh, four months after the US-led invasion of Iraq in 2003.
One of the delegates, Nabil Shaath, who was Palestinian foreign minister at the time, said: “President Bush said to all of us: ‘I am driven with a mission from God’. God would tell me, ‘George go and fight these terrorists in Afghanistan’. And I did. And then God would tell me ‘George, go and end the tyranny in Iraq’. And I did.”
Mr Bush went on: “And now, again, I feel God’s words coming to me, ‘Go get the Palestinians their state and get the Israelis their security, and get peace in the Middle East’. And, by God, I’m gonna do it.”
Maybe God was joking when he told Bush to invade Iraq. After all, Bush and God share a love of practical jokes: Bush loves towel-snaps and making up snarky, demeaning nicknames — and God invented the duck-billed platypus.
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God’s will… ha! Huckabee is a schmuck. I wondered what Iowa saw in him, so I did a bunch of reading over the weekend. All of my suspicions were confirmed. He’s not a fiscal conservative, he’s not honest, he’s not fit to lead. I honestly don’t understand why he’s on the GOP’s short list.
As with most homages to a god, benevolent divine entities are only responsible when good things happen.
If something bad happens, that is not the fault of their god, but Satan.
It’s it so nice that the world can easily be sequestered into black and white categories.
Almost makes we want to believe in something where I can place blame of all my failures.
Chris ~ au contraire ~ that’s why … he’s perfect for the gop short list . . .
Only a child would ask your question…so I’m not surprised it’s coming from a liberal schmuck.
Have you ever wondered if maybe God truly IS in control and is orchestrating a defeat for Romney and Hillary?
Can’t stomach that one, can you?
When I read your remarks from time to time…and those of your readers, I envision angry little children whose parents have deserted them.
You have no principles except those that serve you personally… each and every one of you leftist idiots!
You think like children, act like children, communicate like children…ALL of you.
Too bad you’re miserable adulthood prevents you from finding that child-like faith that is required to experience the loving peace from the Creator.
While your vitriol and ignorance disgusts me, I am saddened for each and every damned one of you.
Al-Ozarka:
It’s vitriol like yours that proves right-wingers are hate-filled, xenophobic, illogical, uneducated, immature bloviators. Why do you hate democracy so much?
Observations, Demo-Lib…nothing more.
Vitriol begets vitriol, dimbass.
Or are you too immature to recognize that?
Probably.
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Hmmm… al-ozarka “Hillbilly Fer Huckabee!” how do you justify the two dead women ?
And his son’s cruelty to animals is something to brag about too. I hope Karma gets the Huckster. You know what they say about people who are cruel to animals. And what kind of a monster did he rear? The same kind he lets out of jail. Karma Karma Karma. I hope
Well, Moses was ordered to commit Genocide (remember all the tribes he wiped out?) so if the Huckster gets in… better make sure you are in HIS tribe… or else!
Al-Ozarka, fantastic stuff, never have I seen such contradiction in such a short statement.
“You think like children, act like children, communicate like children”
then
“finding that child-like faith that is required…”
Year 1 must have been the hardest 4 years of your life.
I don’t understand why you people hate God, and all who believe in him, so much. Just because God doesn’t hand you everything easily on a silver plater does not mean he hates you. When you sin and you get punished for it you blame God? That does not make sense either. Why make fun of Huckabee, who has been more truthful then all the other candidates especially Romney. Heres a quote for you all…”before you pick the splinter from my eye, try taking the log from your own.” I’m sure you know what that means.
We don’t hate god he’s just like any another asshole. huckabee is a fucking lying piece of shit. Why don’t you take that log and stuff it up your ass sideways, bryan?
Gosh, alozarks, talk about the pot calling the kettle black!
Al, you are a pistol. You accuse of us being stereotypes at the same time you’re posting a prime example of the stereotypical rightwing combination of avoidance, bullying and projection.
First you avoid addressing the topic at hand because you know the answer makes your beloved Huck look like the abjectly ignorant yahoo that he is. Instead you toss around invective and characterizations that are intended, I guess, to hurt our feelings. Unfortunately for you, nobody here gives a shit what you think.
And then, as is the way of Rove, you project onto us the very bad behavior you’re engaging in: being insulting and vitriolic.
Classic. But then what should we expect from someone whose handle references al Qaeda, an ultraconservative terrorist group, but is only scary in the way that the Ozarks’ own Jethro Bodine is scary when dressed in drag as Jethrine.
And if your seething anger, hate-filled rhetoric and nastiness is a by-product of the “child-like faith that is required to experience the loving peace from the Creator,” I, for one, will pass and continue in my blind obedience to the Flying Spaghetti Monster.
Ozarka, I just went to your web-site. Wow. I can’t believe you took that much time to organize your drivel. If I were you, I’d leave the picture of yourself off, though; you look a LOT like what you talk about. It’s like the words and pictures go together perfectly. (BTW, that’s not a compliment) Thanks for the laugh, though. I needed a good one.
Al-Ozarka:
That is an odd name for someone who thinks I act like a child? Did spell your name wrong? I do not know a family in the Ozarks named Al-Ozarka. My friends from there usually spell better and are educated. I think you meant Al-Qaeda? Most uneducated folks get the spelling wrong. Now, I have to go stop my mother from laughing at you. She is studying for her graduate degree in religion at the age of 78. I also live in a real house and I am surounded by a loving family. I am so sorry that we scare you. Try subscribing to a great magazine, “The Economist.” It will help you with your education. That is if you want one. I am not going to visit your web site. I am sure you do not have a photo up for a damn good reason and I support you in that. From what I have read here…I wouldn’t put my photo on such drivel either. Ethel Mae
Thanks for proving my point Frank. You have been a great help with that.