[belcherboy]

This is on the front page of Drudge. Why? Those matching shirts and DORKY sons should cost him the election!

[Knucklehead]

This is on the front page of Drudge. Why? Those matching shirts and DORKY sons should cost him the election!

I hope you are joking?!??!?!?!??!

Drudge is totally trying to shotgun Mike!

[kel varson]

That picture works in Arkansas! lol

[MacGeek]

those shirts are sweet.

[Ed Dantes]

From the American Thinker:

Aw shucks, I like this guy, Huckabee. He's a smooth talker, he is. Why, he could charm the hide right off an ornery gator at a hundred yards and be wearing the genuine-hide boots by suppertime. I'll just bet he packed the pews and the offering plates in the Baptist churches whenever he was preaching. I might have even given a dollar myself for a few of his perfectly pitched one-liners, but I'd have to be hog-tied for sure to give him my vote.

Now, I don't want to go casting aspersions on the good people of Arkansas, but I am starting to wonder how politics works there. I should think the Arkansas brand might need a bit more refining before we give that state another shot at the Presidency.

Some will say that Slick-Willy Clinton and Tax-Hike-Mike Huckabee could not possibly be more dissimilar. I beg to differ with anyone who makes that automatic assumption.

Yes, they hail from different political parties. And yes, Bill Clinton is a social libertine; Mike Huckabee is a social conservative. Bill Clinton was a Rhodes Scholar; Mike Huckabee graduated from Ouachita Baptist University. Bill Clinton likes the treadmill; Mike Huckabee prefers to diet. Bill Clinton plays the saxophone; Mike Huckabee plays bass guitar.

Other differences may indeed be myriad, but when I listen to Mike Huckabee and Bill Clinton, I hear a couple of good ole boys of a certain, rather unsavory mold of old South politics, with a gift for smooth-talking gab that could only be topped by the con man who woos a lady out of her life savings, then runs off with another woman before his verbal syrup even begins to draw the flies.

And the real problem lies in the often huge disparity between what these smooth-talking pols say to get elected and what they actually do once in office. Jimmy Carter and Bill Clinton are two perfect examples; Mike Huckabee appears to be as well.

Mike Huckabee has done a better job of covering his tracks than even former Governor and First Lady of Arkansas, Bill and Hillary Clinton. Right at the end of Huckabee's eleven-year stint as Arkansas' Governor, he ordered the hard drives crashed on every computer so that no one would ever have access to his papers. Not only that, but now the churches where he served as pastor refuse to release any of the sermons he delivered, and I am truly dying to know what's in them that Huckabee finds so potentially offensive to mainstream America.

This is perfectly Clinton-esque; hidden or destroyed records seems to play well in Arkansas.

Now Mr. Huckabee may look and sound very salt-of-the-earth, but I find it downright bothersome that he had 5 formal ethics violations while in office, and that he used the operating budget (taxpayer money!) of the Governor's mansion to pay for personal expenses like a doghouse, clothes and take-out meals. And wouldn't you know it? The Clintons used taxpayer money to pay for Chelsea's full-time nanny.

Add to that the fact that Mr. and Mrs. Huckabee, who had been married a full 20 years, set up wedding registries upon leaving the Governor's mansion so "grateful" citizens (think lobbyists) could furnish their new, expensive house. Sound familiar? This is exactly what Bill and Hillary did when leaving the White House.

Also like the Clintons, the Huckabees tried to claim $70,000 worth of furnishings from the Governor's mansion as their own. Using public office to rip off the taxpayers seems to be something of a nasty habit in Arkansas.

Some folks complain that they don't like rich people running for public office. I don't like people running for public office so they can get rich!

Mike Huckabee is as socially conservative as anyone running in 2008. And that is the only thing he has going for him. He has governed as a high-taxing, high-spending, government-can-make-the-world-perfect liberal in every way.

He has zero foreign policy experience, thinks we should practice the golden rule with terrorists and wants to close Gitmo so that the Europeans will start liking us again. He doesn't even have a foreign policy adviser and he needs one more than anyone running.

Just because General Petraeus is now winning the war in Iraq does not mean we can let our guard down, and giving Mike Huckabee the Republican nomination will give Americans a choice next November between the-war-is-lost Democrats and a candidate who thinks that going to war with the terrorists in the first place was "arrogant." He sounds more like a Clinton everyday. That's precisely the word Hillary Clinton has used to describe the President's war policy: "arrogant." Quite a coincidence.

A President simply cannot be all things to all people; the Office is not designed that way. We are up to our necks in a war for our own survival, and I will not put my vote in the hands of a man who learned his methods for foreign policy in vacation Bible school. We need a fierce, street-fighting Commander in Chief without a single gullible bone in his body.

Mike Huckabee can play his bass guitar at barbeques with Bill on the sax, do Saturday Night Live with Barack Obama and re-decorate government houses with Hillary, but anyone who thinks he can be a wartime President, might need a civics refresher course.

As for me, I would indeed have to be hog-tied to give Mike Huckabee my vote, because in the end, a President's primary duty is to defend this Country from all enemies, foreign and domestic. And that's not something you learn in Sunday school or by padding your government expense accounts in Arkansas.

What is this Party coming to?

[LUconn]

Oh American Thinker, what has become of you?

Tax-Hike-Mike Huckabee

They throw that at one of the only two candidates that support the fair tax?

[ATrain]

Oh American Thinker, what has become of you?

Tax-Hike-Mike Huckabee

They throw that at one of the only two candidates that support the fair tax?

I think they were referring to his record as Arkansas governor

[belcherboy]

Did anyone else notice the elbow pads on the shirt?? I didn't know they still made those!

[TallyW]

Terrible picture. Great Candidate. People are desperate to smear him b/c they are afraid. He is resonating and it makes people angry. To come to a point where you believe he's put a "cross" beind him... that's insane.... It get pretty bad. Then they go after his son who was a minor? What does that have to do with the President of the United States? And the complaints were a total of 5 of which none of them resulted in guilty findings... they were merely complaints which anyone can lodge. Now Drudge intentionally puts up this picture.

Drudge also put up a not so flattering picture of Hillary the other day... these attacks are pathetic. They attempt to bring out the worst in our nation and dumb down the electorate. Drudge is losing whatever respect he once had in my book... not just for the Huckabee stuff... but by what's coming off as "headlines"... it's pathetic.

[El Scorcho]

Oh American Thinker, what has become of you?

Tax-Hike-Mike Huckabee

They throw that at one of the only two candidates that support the fair tax?

I think they were referring to his record as Arkansas governor

Which, to me, is more important than anything he says he supports. I've learned my lesson of listening to what politicians say they support. If they don't have the record to back up their platform and promises, I don't believe them. Call me crazy, but I'm done with those people.

[jcmanson]

It is very disturbing to me, that we would be making fun of this man's kids for the way they look in a picture. Grow up and face the real world, where real people actually look like that.

[Knucklehead]

Oh American Thinker, what has become of you?
They throw that at one of the only two candidates that support the fair tax?

I think they were referring to his record as Arkansas governor

Which, to me, is more important than anything he says he supports. I've learned my lesson of listening to what politicians say they support. If they don't have the record to back up their platform and promises, I don't believe them. Call me crazy, but I'm done with those people.

So what has Paul done to give you faith in him?

[belcherboy]

It is very disturbing to me, that we would be making fun of this man's kids for the way they look in a picture. Grow up and face the real world, where real people actually look like that.

I'm sorry. I did not wish to offend anyone. (I still find it funny though. The dark haired son looks like the before pictures of Jared from Subway! )

[vastrightwinger]

Even though I am not a Paul supporter, I will admit that from a fiscal standpoint he has done an outstanding job in congress. He is consistently voted against spending and for tax cuts. I can appreciate this more than Huckabee raising taxes in Arkansas more than Clinton did.

[El Scorcho]

So what has Paul done to give you faith in him?

He has voted his ideology every single time for 16 years of holding his seat in Congress. Every. Single. Time. He doesn't take corporate bribes. He doesn't pander to lobbyists. He votes the way he was elected to vote.

He has never voted to raise taxes.
He has never voted for an unbalanced budget.
He has never voted for a federal restriction on gun ownership.
He has never voted to raise congressional pay.
He has never taken a government-paid junket.
He has never voted to increase the power of the executive branch.

He voted against the Patriot Act.
He voted against regulating the Internet.
He voted against the Iraq war.

He does not participate in the lucrative congressional pension program.
He returns a portion of his annual congressional office budget to the U.S. treasury every year.

It doesn't matter to me whether anyone else likes him. He's a class act and a shining example of how politicians in this country should conduct themselves. If we had a government full of Ron Pauls (in terms of doing their jobs, not political ideologies), we'd be much better off.

[jmdickens]

So what has Paul done to give you faith in him?

He has voted his ideology every single time for 16 years of holding his seat in Congress. Every. Single. Time. He doesn't take corporate bribes. He doesn't pander to lobbyists. He votes the way he was elected to vote.

He has never voted to raise taxes.
He has never voted for an unbalanced budget.
He has never voted for a federal restriction on gun ownership.
He has never voted to raise congressional pay.
He has never taken a government-paid junket.
He has never voted to increase the power of the executive branch.

He voted against the Patriot Act.
He voted against regulating the Internet.
He voted against the Iraq war........

He does not participate in the lucrative congressional pension program.
He returns a portion of his annual congressional office budget to the U.S. treasury every year.

the only thing i disagree with him over....such a good candidate

[RubberMallet]

It is very disturbing to me, that we would be making fun of this man's kids for the way they look in a picture. Grow up and face the real world, where real people actually look like that.

did you see those mongoloids?

[Ed Dantes]

He voted against the Iraq war........

He does not participate in the lucrative congressional pension program.
He returns a portion of his annual congressional office budget to the U.S. treasury every year.

the only thing i disagree with him over....such a good candidate

Ummm... should we fault Paul for having accurate foresight?

[jcmanson]

It is very disturbing to me, that we would be making fun of this man's kids for the way they look in a picture. Grow up and face the real world, where real people actually look like that.

did you see those mongoloids?

I'm not getting sucked in to your petty games. He is a real human being, with real feelings.

[RubberMallet]

It is very disturbing to me, that we would be making fun of this man's kids for the way they look in a picture. Grow up and face the real world, where real people actually look like that.

did you see those mongoloids?

I'm not getting sucked in to your petty games. He is a real human being, with real feelings.

hahaha

[belcherboy]

It is very disturbing to me, that we would be making fun of this man's kids for the way they look in a picture. Grow up and face the real world, where real people actually look like that.

did you see those mongoloids?

I'm not getting sucked in to your petty games. He is a real human being, with real feelings.

You got to admit the "sexy" look of the kid on the left is quite erotic!! Grrrrr!

Seriously, you don't have any old pictures that you are embarrassed about? One of my old girl friends has a SWEET senior picture with her hair standing up about 3 inches on her hair. It is on her parents mantle and embarrasses her to this day. It can be fun to pick on people for fashion faux pau's!! You might want to lighten up a bit. Just a suggestion.

[jmdickens]

He voted against the Iraq war........

He does not participate in the lucrative congressional pension program.
He returns a portion of his annual congressional office budget to the U.S. treasury every year.

the only thing i disagree with him over....such a good candidate

Ummm... should we fault Paul for having accurate foresight?

he was right about the strategic approach.....but he doesn't find islams a threat, and that bothers me.....let's go Europe and deal with all the crap they have to deal with because of the islams

[belcherboy]

Why do you guys got to hijack a fun thread and make it into serious political debate!!

You are ruining it!!

[jmdickens]

easy there big fella......just make fun of hilary

[jcmanson]

did you see those mongoloids?

I'm not getting sucked in to your petty games. He is a real human being, with real feelings.

It can be fun to pick on people for fashion faux pau's!! You might want to lighten up a bit. Just a suggestion.

I think you need to get the stick out of your butt.