Fred: We Need A President, Not A Court Jester Like Huckabee

Ken McCracken • December 5, 2007

From the Thompson campaign:

When asked by Don Imus this morning about his lack of foreign policy credentials, Mike Huckabee joked: “And the ultimate thing is, you know, I may not be the expert as some people on foreign policy – but I did stay at a Holiday Inn Express last night.” (WABC Radio, 12/04/07)
“When confronted with a serious question about his lack of foreign policy experience, Mike Huckabee makes a joke. The security of Americans and our allies is no laughing matter. What Americans are looking for in their next president is a commander in chief, not a Court Jester,” added Bob Haus, Executive Director of Iowa Friends of Fred Thompson.

Sort of a cheap shot, to be honest with you, but it does highlight a larger point about Huckabee.
He’s very smooth in debates, in interviews and before audiences. He may be the smoothest speaker out of all the candidates. But are we really going to put a guy up for President because he’s funny? Smooth? And because he does all the right pandering for social conservatives?
Given Huckabee’s record on taxes, spending, expansion of government power and illegal immigration conservatives would be fools to support this man for President.

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He was in favor of the stealth communized medicine via the SCHIP.

Really what kind of guy claims that his soul makes him do charity with other peoples money?
HG

I like Mike. I don’t know what the rest of the Right has against him. He’s right on the issues I care about.

Gene,

I like Huckabee as well. What many conservatives have against him is his record on conservative issues. That’s fair game and the reason I support Thompson. Huckabee is a great guy, but Thompson would be a better President.
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FDR deserves at least equal consideration for his actions

FDR does deserve equal consideration for his actions…one of which was the interring of Japanese-Americans during WWII for no other reason than their race and country of origin!
robert108

I just don’t know how I would pass the days if there weren’t so many leftie lies to refute. Here goes:

Oh yea Ronie was so conservative, he raised taxes through the roof He signed the tax increase in 1986 on the Dem Congress promise that they would cut $2 of spending for every $1 of tax increase. As usual, they lied. was pro abortion Another falsehood; he was anti-abortion, but said that since he was President of all the people(in stark contrast to Clinton, for instance), he would follow existing law. and joked a lot just like Huckabee. As Far as the Soviet Union goes Reagan had nothing to do with it’s demise. The most egregious leftie lie; even the Soviets admitted that Reagan’s resolve to develop SDI broke them financially. Otherwise they might have held on for years.
That is just not true. The people of the United Soviet Socialist Republic decided they did not want to be United or Socialist/Communist any more. If you think that the Soviet people had any voice in a communist dictatorship, you must be smoking funny cigarettes. The USSR was on the brink of colapse when Reagan took office. The USSR was on the brink of collapse since 1917, since communism doesn’t work. Anyone who knows economics knows this.

Thanks for the exercise, e.
HG

R108,

… and watch what the MSM does to him should he get the nominee. All of the sudden “Huckabee” will be a Back-woods, Buck-toothed, Bible Thumpin’ Redneck from Arkansas.
Bat One

You expect insightful conversation on the Don Imus show?

Far more than the tedious, hate-filled drivel one finds on Air America… or Daily Kos for that matter.
ellinas

R. Reagan did not have foreign policy credentials, W. Clinton did not have foreign policy credentials,our current president G. Bush did not have foreign policy credentials, a lot of presidents did not have foreign policy credentials.
So what. As long as they can surround themselves with competent assistants, and capable foreign policy buffs,they will be ok.

Fred: We Need A President, Not A Court Jester Like Huckabee
By Rob on December 4, 2007 at 12:51 pm

What Americans are looking for in their next president is a commander in chief, not a Court Jester,” added Bob Haus, Executive Director of Iowa Friends of Fred Thompson.

You were propably sleeping when you wrote this.
Bat One

Paul Mirengoff on Huckabee’s unserious, moralistic quips regarding his lack of foreign policy experience:

It’s difficult to say which part of this answer is less serious — the reference to the Holiday Inn Express or the comparison to Reagan. The Gipper may not have conducted foreign policy prior to becoming president, but he had been thinking, speaking, and debating about vital foreign policy issues for at least a quarter of a century (roughly the period after his acting career ended and he became a political commentator). Reagan didn’t bring about our victory in the Cold War because he substituted “character” for expertise, as Huckabee proposes to do. He accomplished this because he came into power having already formulated the right line on the Soviet Union and Communism generally.

When it comes to foreign policy, Huckabee more closely resembles another former governor, Jimmy Carter. It was Carter, not Reagan, who viewed foreign policy as an extension of his own character and personal principles. Carter stood for a foreign policy “as decent as the American people.” Reagan stood for defeating our enemies. When Huckabee frets about how Gitmo is making us appear to foreigners, when he asserts that “we broke Iraq,” and when he says he’s qualified to be commander-in-chief because of his character rather than because of his understanding of our enemies, it’s pretty clear that his foreign policy roots extend nowhere near the fertile soil of Reaganism.
Bat One

I’m convinced that Ronald Reagan’s accomplishments as president place him on a par with Washington and Lincoln as one of our three greatest presidents.

Liberals will of course yammer that FDR deserves at least equal consideration for his actions during the Great Depression, but it is clear to me that from an economic policy perspective, Roosevelt could have done a much better, and much quicker job of getting the country out of its economic mess. There is also a very real question in my mind whether FDR would have actually declared war against the Axis powers, had Hitler chosen to honor his former treaty with Stalin and had not attacked the USSR.

The triumph of Reagan and that odd little priest from Kracow over Soviet communism is brought to mind again with the release of that “new and improved” NIE on Iran. For 40 years after WWII the Intelligence Community (what a strange and benign euphemism for spies!) repeated the mantra of Soviet strength. Reagan refused to believe it. And in the end, it was Ronald Reagan who was proved correct, not the State Department and the CIA. Another lesson well worth remembering.
ellinas

Maybe it was due to Reagan being a Conservative, with the resulting action on American principles, while Clinton, not being a Conservative, acted on some other ideology. Hmmmm.
robert108 on December 4, 2007 at 01:42 pm

Oh yea Ronie was so conservative, he raised taxes through the roof was pro abortion and joked a lot just like Huckabee.
As Far as the Soviet Union goes Reagan had nothing to do with it’s demise.
That is just not true. The people of the United Soviet Socialist Republic decided they did not want to be United or Socialist/Communist any more. The USSR was on the brink of colapse when Reagan took office.
robert108

Bat: There is no doubt that FDR’s injection of communism into our country prolonged what might have been a short recession into a full-blown depression. Furthermore, it was the productivity needed to win WWII that actually ended the Great Depression(what was so “great” about it?), not the New Deal.
robert108

R. Reagan did not have foreign policy credentials, W. Clinton did not have foreign policy credentials…

Good point, e. So, why did Reagan accomplish great things in foreign policy, like the defeat of the Soviet Union, while Clinton ignored Islamic terrorism, enabling the growth of Al Qaeda, with all the attendant damage we are living with today?

Maybe it was due to Reagan being a Conservative, with the resulting action on American principles, while Clinton, not being a Conservative, acted on some other ideology. Hmmmm.
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Rob, as a fellow Bible thumper Huckabee is pretty attractive to me.

I think he is surprising even me.

Polls = He would wipe the floor with Hillary. Obama not so much.

I think he may be a good bet. I’m sending him money.

Rudy, Romney, Thompson all wilt in the light. The tin foil hat crowd loves Paul. I don’t know who else matters at all.

I like Mike. I don’t know what the rest of the Right has against him. He’s right on the issues I care about.
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Reagan was a pioneer in the leadership for his belief that Communism was unsustainable and only needed a push to collapse.

The rest of the leadership was more along the lines of how do we live with the Communists. They were pretty much resigned to Communism growing.

Turns out Reagan was right.
dannyboy

You expect insightful conversation on the Don Imus show????????
robert108

If you think the MSM is dead set against us ever having a Republican President(no matter who he is), then the recent support of the MSM for Huckabee should tell you all you need to know.
robert108

HG: Exactly. He’s the one they want, which is a really great reason for conservatives not to vote for him. The MSM will never support any Republican that has a chance of winning.
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I don’t know what the rest of the Right has against him.

Taxes.

Spending.

Illegal immigration.

Nanny statism (a national smoking ban? c’mon).

Those are just a few things, because I think a President should be about more than how hard he thumps the bible.

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