Oh Yeah, You Eventually Do
This was Mike Huckabee’s answer to a question about him selling snake oil on teevee as a diabetes cure.
Okay, if you’re a Baptist, like Mike Huckabee, you believe that God has two books. The Book of Life and the Book of Remembrances. God writes stuff down in these books so that when you died, he can remember stuff.
“For God shall bring every work into judgment, with every secret thing, whether it be good, or whether it be evil” — Ecclesiastes 12:14
If you’re a Baptist, like Mike Huckabee, you believe that you stand before God and the Devil argues against letting you into Heaven.
And there shall in no wise enter into it any thing that defileth, neither whatsoever worketh abomination, or maketh a lie: but they which are written in the Lamb’s book of life — Revelation 21:27.
So yeah, Mike, you kinda do.
Also, if you’re a Republican, like Mike Huckabee, you’re supposed to be the party of personal responsibility.
Thanks to Craig for the heads up.
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1I’ll bet dollars to doughnuts his best buddy,Ted Nugent, shows up in that book under the “black eye” category, along with his denial of the rights of all adult human beings to love and marry.
2Get your excuses ready, Mike. The Big Guy sees all.
Never mind getting into heaven. When you throw your hat into the ring you’re pretty much declaring yourself and your past an open book.
I don’t necessarily agree with that – some things are personal – but if you’ve gone on TV selling a product and endorsing its efficacy, and it turns out that you were just out to make a quick buck like any carny shill, that is something that will be scrutinized and it should not be a big gotcha moment for you.
The fact that the question caught him off guard is a big red flag, to me.
3PAC grifter on a book tour.
4The sayings in the bible are used to keep other people in line not themselves. The best thing that their gods can do is create a reality show where everyone can see judgement day for those who die, and we get to see who goes to heaven and who goes to hell. That’s when I will start to believe that deities exist.
5How about this for his campaign name: “Huckabee, the Huckster”? He’s certainly good at slickly maneuvering the discussion away from the main point of the question at hand. It makes me want to wipe that self-satisfied grin right off his mug.
6Boy, is he ever going to regret saying that! Its the kind of thing that will make full circle and bite you in the posterior every damn time!
7Do as I say, not as I do. He wants everybody else to answer questions fully.
8The Huckster (thank you Mary R) will not get past the GOP nomination quarterfinals. The suits are going to pool their money on another candidate. He also won’t be one of the more entertaining republicans; the competition in that category is out of sight.
9He is a evangelical Christian preacher, so he is used to peddling made up, useless crap that people buy based on faith. Get this man his own show on HSN (Hosanna Shopping Network).
10I know the R nominee will not be Huckabee. At this point, it looks like it’s going to be Scott Walker (R-Koch Industries), which is frightening. He’s very good at convincing people who should know better that he’s on their side.
11Huckster-bee’s only God is Mammon.
12Zyxomma, one of Walker’s problems is that he didn’t graduate from college. Polls consistently show that Americans (although anti-education in general) want a president with more than just a high school diploma.
Of course, this is why the Koch brothers love him so — he is poorly educated and easily manipulated.
13Hang on– God has to write stuff down so he remembers it? I thought that was me, and a god could do better than that….
@Mark: Americans want an educated president? That would be a nice change from “I want a president I could drink a beer with.” That worked out well, didn’t it? And I swore that if I heard one more cycle of “The Democrat is too smart to get elected,” I would move to some country where people wouldn’t dream of saying that.
14Walker also has a real gift for shooting himself in the foot and anywhere else. That alone could dunk him, along with his other baggage – anti-teachers, et al.
15No, he doesn’t have to explain everything he’s ever done. But then, no one is asking him to. He’s creating a straw man.
He does need to explain issues that affect his credibility, his ethics, his common sense and his character if he wants to earn votes. He’s running for the Presidency, not FOX pundit of the year.
16The Koch brothers, and their allies who aspire to replace democratic government with a plutocracy, will try to unite behind someone who looks like Romney or George W, good in either a tux or business attire. But what role will Roger Ailes, the Fox news potentate, play? Last time he tried to anoint the GOP candidate. Rotund Roger turns 75 this week, and looks almost as fat as Christie, but less well. If he is still at Fox we can expect that he will have the Foxette chorus line high-kicking for someone, maybe the Koch’s choice, and maybe not. Ailes’s contract with Fox ends before the election; perhaps he will be gone. Supposedly, Rupert Murdoch’s sons are not as far to the right as their fascist father; perhaps they will be in charge. Stay tuned, folks!
17Of course, he isn’t truly trying to be elected President. He’s really just using the campaign as a piggy bank and a resume builder so he can get a sweet consulting job/book deal/Fox news blog after the election.
18@annabelle lee, that’s what my husband, a man of parts, says! He says Rick Perry is much the same, except that he has such a serious case of Krueger Dunning syndrome that he actually thinks he COULD be president!
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