Zsa Zsa: So good I posted it with thanks to you for sharing it.

Besides, exactly what are journalists doing only 75 yards from hunting?

I’m sure they were put there by the campaign staff who were running the campaign event.

While I detest Rob’s Christian baiting approach to Huckabee so often, I do believe it is blogs like this one that are so good at educating the people about Huckabee’s an dother candidates real records. It is to my mind counterproductive to call Huckabee a Bible Thumper, thus demeaning Christians generally, as it is counterproduictive to say things like Huckabee is a phony or a snake in the grass, these personal attacks only alienate people and in anger cause them to defend the candidate under attack.

The real, most powerful role of blogs today is to educate people, so even if Rob engages in name calling because of his sincere dislike for Huckabee, if conservatives want to nominate a real conservative, we need to highlight the issues wherein Huckabee is off the conservative reservation and expose his campaugn promises that are not based on reality or that may be harmful to the nation.

We are getting into the voting season, I hope Rob and others will invest more effort in speaking to the issues rather than named calling, and if they do, I believe Thompson will win. Name calling will only help Huckabee!

From the end of the article:

Huckabee emerged happily from his hunt, three dead pheasants in tow, Oliphant reports. Asked for a metaphor to describe the hunt, he replied, “Don’t get in my way. This is what happens.”

This guy is a nut.

Collateral damage

I am put in mind of Tom Lehrer’s Hunting Song:

I always will remember,
‘Twas a year ago November,
I went out to hunt some deer
On a morning bright and clear.
I went and shot the maximum the game laws would allow:
Two game wardens, seven hunters, and a cow.

I was in no mood to trifle,
I took down my trusty rifle
And went out to stalk my prey.
What a haul I made that day!
I tied them to my fender, and I drove them home somehow:
Two game wardens, seven hunters, and a cow.

The law was very firm, it
Took away my permit,
The worst punishment I ever endured.
It turned out there was a reason,
Cows were out of season,
And one of the hunters wasn’t insured.

People ask me how I do it,
And I say “There’s nothin’ to it,
You just stand there lookin’ cute,
And when something moves, you shoot!”
And there’s ten stuffed heads in my trophy room right now:
Two game wardens, seven hunters, and a pure-bred Guernsey cow

J.

We really ought to keep in mind that the journalist is quoted not in an article, but a weblog, and hasn’t provided too much corroborating evidence of this. Even his own testimony does not clearly state that the gun was actually pointed at them.

Besides, exactly what are journalists doing only 75 yards from hunting? Scaring up pheasants?

I thought that most of Rob’s coverage of Huckabee has been policy related and not related to his faith.

One that I can think of that might be borderline is Huck’s support of in-state tuition for illegal aliens because as Huck explained his soul wouldn’t allow him not to.

Perhaps that’s picking on his faith, but to my mind that’s a very improper place for Huckabee to inject faith into the issue.

Whistler: I don’t question Rob’s intellect, honesty or his ability to tackle the issues, nor would I imply that he has not done that job very well until lately, wherein his threads and comments have involved some ugly comments like Bible Thumper and other anti-Christian comments or name calling that I don’t believe are productive. We are mostly on the same page about Huckabee not being a true conservative and Thompson being the best man for his record and ideas, but the few instances of name calling, in my opinion, have been counterproductive.

Zsa Zsa: I am sorry I didn’t understand your instructions or I would do exactly what you suggested.