Halperin On Huckabee: Lying Is His Strength

Sort of a sad statement on politics when a pundit lists the reasons why Mike Huckabee might be hard to stop and lying just about tops the list. But how else should this be characterized?

2. Huckabee is unflappable, unfailingly genial, and willing to pleasantly deny the truth when it suits his purposes (such as claiming that he did not support the quarantine of AIDS patients in 1992).

Is Huckabee the second coming? If he is, it's looking more like the second coming of a man from Hope and not Nazareth, as some primary voters seem to think. That as a new CNN poll has Huckabee losing in double digits to all the top Dems in a national campaign.

Now, concerning Aw-shucks-abee's powers of obfuscation, take a look at this regarding his recent Cuban embargo issue. From Powerline, he tells Don Imus:

Certainly governors have more experience (on foreign policy) than people realize because we do trade missions and we are involved in cultural exchanges, we deal with multinational corporations in bringing jobs, travel extensively. But more importantly, the role of foreign policy is one of character and understanding what your principles are and then surrounding yourself with good advice. And the ultimate thing is, I may not be the expert that some people are on foreign policy, but I did stay in a Holiday Inn Express last night.

Yet, in his letter to Bush on dropping the embargo he appears to have known precisely why it was in place. Where were his character and principles then and what experts did he seek out for advice? Raoul Castro, or only a few rice farmers? Whatever it was, it didn't stop him from changing his mind on a dime when it was politically expedient.

In a letter to President Bush, Mr. Huckabee wrote, "U.S. policy on Cuba has not accomplished its stated goal of toppling the Castro regime and instead has provided Castro with a convenient excuse for his own failed system of government."

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[seekeronos]

"--- Is Huckabee the second coming? If he is, it's looking more like the second coming of a man from Hope... ---"

What is it with these miserable, lying liars who despicably tell lies who come from a horrbiyl misnamed town of "Hope", Arkansas...

For once, I think the CNN poll is right: a vote for Huckabee is effectively, a vote for Clinton '44... no matter if he actually wins, or provides Hillary a wonderously soft, pliable paper tiger to swat down with her dozen 460mm main guns all trained upon him like the IJN Yamato shooting down a fishing trawler at point-blank range.