This is why Ron Paul makes the MSM?!?!
This?!
"Huckabee ad delivers a Christmas message; TV spot draws fascination and consternation" by Joanna Weiss, Boston Globe | December 19, 2007
Mike Huckabee doesn't wish you happy holidays. He wants you to have a Merry Christmas. And keep the Christ in it, please.
That's the subtext - as well as the text - of Huckabee's latest TV ad, which began airing this week in Iowa, New Hampshire, and South Carolina. Wearing a red sweater, the surging Republican presidential hopeful looks into the camera, acknowledges America's fatigue with political spots, then declares that, this time of year, "what really matters is the celebration of the birth of Christ."
"God bless," he says at the end, "and Merry Christmas."
The ad has drawn cheers from Christian bloggers, consternation from advocates of church-state separation, and a fair amount of fascination from all sides: Yesterday, the Internet buzzed with speculation about whether a bookshelf, prominently featured in the background, represented a subliminal "floating cross."
Conspiracy theories aside, the ad has gained attention for what it represents: a deliberate, pointed salvo in a Republican primary campaign that has increasingly hinged on religion. The implied message, observers say, seems to be twofold: that there's one important religion and one candidate who represents it best.
Ron Paul, a rival for the Republican nomination, asked about the ad on Fox News Channel yesterday, gave a sharp off-the-cuff assessment, quoting Sinclair Lewis:
"When fascism comes to this country, it will be wrapped in the flag, carrying a cross, [then went on to tweak Huckabee for] using a cross like he is the only Christian, or implying that subtly."
Unfortunately, Ron Paul is RIGHT and it is ALREADY HERE!!!!
"Huckabee Now a Candidate With Something to Lose" by MARK LEIBOVICH
MANCHESTER, N.H. —
Mike Huckabee, citing attacks from the news media, interest groups and other candidates over his record as governor, his background as a Baptist preacher, past ethical questions, alleged liberal tendencies, impolitic remarks about people with AIDS, raising taxes:
“I have a lot more enemies now, but that’s part of the deal... just about everything from the kidnapping of the Lindbergh baby to being complicit in the participation of the J.F.K. assassination.”
What a PRICK!
MSM is WHY YOU ARE WHERE YOU allegedly-ARE, Buck!
Huckabee, whose round brown eyes and smiley bearing make him slightly resemble the actor Jim Nabors:
“Hey, dogs never bark at parked cars. It’s not the size of the dog in the fight, it’s the size of the fight in the dog.”
That's an ATTACK? Gomer-Pyled him!
Huck ain't GAY, is he? That why he's a HOMOPHOBE?
Huckabee, despite his smiley demeanor, can betray some of the prickliness that earned him a reputation in Arkansas as being thin skinned and somewhat vindictive.
Oh, no! That is the LAST THING we need as a president!
We ALREADY GOT ONE LIKE THAT!
Mr. Huckabee’s campaign events have become increasingly crowded and media-heavy affairs while retaining an oddly lighthearted, even campy feel.
This is getting disgusting, readers!
So the CROWD is the MEDIA at Buckahee's events?
Oooooooh!
Now wait until you get a load of this!
The candidate has been accompanied of late by Chuck Norris, the tough-guy actor and martial arts icon whose face, Mr. Huckabee said, “would be on Mount Rushmore except the granite wasn’t strong enough for his beard.”
Yes, the tough-guy celeb endorsement, I know!
Mr. Norris can at times seem like a distracting relic of Mr. Huckabee’s “nothing to lose” days. In Concord on Friday, Mr. Huckabee addressed a packed news conference to introduce his new campaign chairman, Ed Rollins, the longtime Republican operative. Mr. Norris stood silently off to the side, and it was unclear why he was there at all, except to sign autographs for a few reporters afterward.
When asked what he felt he added to the Huckabee campaign, Mr. Norris said simply, “Nothing,” before posing for a few more pictures and leaving.
Haw-haw-haw-haw-haw!!!
That's Buck's star power, huh?
But the Huck and Chuck show plays well in the burly men circles that tend to vote Republican, if not always in primaries. In the northern New Hampshire outpost of Berlin on Saturday, a crowd heavy with teenagers and young men jammed the cafeteria of a small technical college, many clutching photos of Mr. Norris.
Oh, O.K.!
Lawrence Thompson, a 19-year-old dishwasher wearing an AC/DC sweatshirt, approached Mr. Norris and asked if he could be photographed bowing before the actor.
Mr. Norris obliged.
Mr. Thompson declared his “worship” for The Man, if not The Candidate.
Mr. Thompson said of Mr. Huckabee: “I’m still doing that whole research thing.”
I thought youth don't vote? I mean, COME ON!!
How come the MSM can NEVER FIND a Ron Paul supporter to talk to, readers?
It's NOT LIKE THEY AIN'T AROUND!!!!!
