Joseph noted that the lead suspect in the massacre of four police officers in the State of Washington was someone that former Arkansas Governor/National Kasich endorser Mike Huckabee.
Curiously, after first removing from the post a gratuitous reference to the wrongfully convincted inmate’s race, Sisk has now scrubbed the post entirely from his blog.
Kasich spent much of October touting Huckabee’s endorsement.
And yet, Kyle Sisk hasn’t said ONE WORD about the police killer Huckabee released early, not because he was actually innocent and over the vocal objection of prosecutors because of his age at the time of the offense. Now, he stands accused of raping a child and murdering four police officers.
Sisk couldn’t even wait until an innocent man committed a crime before using his case as a means of attacking the Governor. And yet, when John Kasich’s good friend turns out to have let out a guilty felon who went on to allegedly rape a child and murder four police officers? Nothing.
February 15, 2008 — THE founder of the rock band Boston is enraged that Mike Huckabee is using his band’s hit “More Than a Feeling” on the campaign trail. He’s written a letter to Huckabee demanding the GOP candidate stop using it. “Boston has never endorsed a political candidate, and with all due respect, would not start by endorsing a candidate who is the polar opposite of most everything Boston stands for,” wrote Tom Scholz. “In fact, although I’m impressed you learned my bass guitar part on ‘More Than a Feeling,’ I am an Obama supporter.”
“You don’t like people from outside the state coming in and telling you what to do with your flag,” Mr. Huckabee, a former governor of Arkansas, told supporters in Myrtle Beach, according to The Associated Press.
“In fact,” he said, “if somebody came to Arkansas and told us what to do with our flag, we’d tell them what to do with the pole; that’s what we’d do.”
Donahue, the president of the Catholic League and an ardent defender of Christmas in what he believes is a secular “war” against the holiday, told hosts of the Fox and Friends morning program that the ad had gone too far.
“The whole idea is to give the appearance of a cross,” he said, “and this is just injecting religion into politics even too far for guys like me.”
Asked if the ad was “too much,” Donahue said it was.
“Because there’s a pattern here,” he added. “Every other word out of [Huckabee's] mouth is that ‘I’m Christian.’ He’s calling into question Romney’s Mormonism…let people talk about there faith, but don’t sell it on your sleeve.”
Added Donahue, “Yeah, I believe in freedom of speech and freedom of religion, but don’t become a salesman. Don’t hawk it like that on the street.”
The Catholic League president suggested that Huckabee was relying on his faith too heavily as a campaign tactic.
“If it was just the Christmas ad, I wouldn’t have one complaint about it,” he said. “But when you juxtapose that with all these other kinds of things, there’s a subliminal message there, and it’s all done intentionally…what he’s trying to say to the evangelicals in Western Iowa is ‘I’m the real thing.’”
“You know what?” concluded Donahue. “Sell yourself on your issues, not on what your religion is.”
Maybe Romney’s attempts to draw parallels to JFK switched on a little light in Donahue’s head that made him realize that an evangelical Christianist nation isn’t necessarily good for Catholics. After all, it was only 50 years ago that Kennedy had to defend his right to run for President as a Catholic. Now if he could just wrap his head around the fact that there are a lot of non-Christians in this country too, he’d understand where the “secular left” is coming from.
Did you know gay sex is a relatively new phenomenon in human history? Mike Huckabee sets the record straight.
The governor regards 1968 as the dawning of ‘‘the age of the birth-control pill, free love, gay sex, the drug culture and reckless disregard for standards.’’
Apparently the Greeks and Romans didn’t have widespread gay sex. Who knew? (Huck.) You learn something new every day!
A newly-formed group claiming to support Mike Huckabee hit the phones of Iowa Republicans tonight with an automated push-poll attacking Huckabee’s GOP opponents and praising the former Arkansas governor.
Officials representing the Iowa campaigns of Fred Thompson, John McCain and Rudy Giuliani all said that their supporters contacted them to complain about the calls. A spokesman for Romney’s campaign said they had gotten reports of calls, but did not know of anything negative being said about their candidate.
It appears this group might be related to “Common Sense Ohio”, the group responsible for push-polling in Ohio last year.
The group claims to be affilliated with a larger 501(c)(4) called “Common Sense Issues.”
A link to this group’s homepage turns up a vague website that appears to be a third-party conservative group. A video posted is an attack spot against Rep. Mark Udall (D-CO), a Senate candidate next year. The page has links back to the “Trust Huckabee” page and also includes news stories about “Key States,” all of which are Republican-leaning and have incumbent Democratic senators up next year.
Groups called “Common Sense Ohio” and “Common Sense 2006″ last year spent hundreds of thousands of dollars to attack Democrats in targeted Senate races using similar such automated calls as went into Iowa tonight, per the New York Time. These groups were led by executives at Cincinnati-based Procter & Gamble, one of whom, Nathan Estruth, is now a Huckabee donor.
Two thoughts: 1) Wow! and 2) Particularly considering it just so happens to be Iowa, it will be extra interesting to see how this ongoing story will play out alongside the presidential primary election.
DES MOINES, Iowa – A Polk County judge on Thursday struck down Iowa’s law banning gay marriage and ordered the county recorder to permit gay and lesbian couples to marry.
Less than two hours after word of the ruling was publicized, two Des Moines men applied at the Polk County recorder’s office for a marriage license, and for the first time the application was accepted. The process of granting a license to marry in Iowa takes three days. [click to continue…]
“The American people will forgive us for being sinners. They will not forgive us for being hypocrites.”
But I’d take it a step further by asking: who really cares if Larry Craig is gay?
I certainly don’t. I don’t even care if he wants to meet people in a bathroom to have sex.
Being a lying hypocrite, though- that’s a different story.
The fact is: a lot of people are gay. It doesn’t make them sinners and it certainly doesn’t make them bad political leaders.
Not that we’d know though- since, at last count, I think there were only three OPENLY gay members of congress.
Which is strange given that somewhere between two and ten percent of the general population is estimated to be gay.
In reality, we should have around five gay senators and twenty five gay members of the house.
So… either the sexual preferences of the members congress are strangely different than that of the general population or, more likely, congress is full of a bunch of lying hypocrites.
Might not make the party @joingles but will donate any new PB ad revenue for next week to the foodbank in honor of St Pat http://ow.ly/1jL5V6 hours ago
New Blog Post: : Catholics Supporting a More Progressive Political Agenda http://bit.ly/bscBlw6 hours ago
I think you're a few days early with the St. Pat's celebration @joingles. Be sure to save up some celebrating for the actual holiday. ;) 7 hours ago
Not a big dancer, but know EXACTLY how you fell @joingles. Totally tired while traveling (and delayed) but arriving suddenly wakes you up! 7 hours ago
