Huckabee's "Shiite Republicans" A Standard Populist Slur?

I'd love to see Wallace asking Huckabee what he meant by Shi'ite Republicans at the debate tonight. Hot Air picks up on an item I also linked overnight but didn't highlight.

Campaigning for the other party is bad enough, but it’s the “Shiite Republicans” moniker that disturbs me more.

I wondered if there was evidence outside Sanders’ article for Huckabee’s smear.

Is this how it started? Huckabee's fellow populist Molly Ivins?

This week's "Leftmedia Poli-Theology" Award: "They think it's them against evil, and everybody who ain't them is evil. These are Shi'ite Republicans." --Molly Ivins on Texas politics 

Irony, here it is hurled at Gingrich by someone else, isn't it a Commie source? And isn't Newt now advising Huckabee? And the Huckster gets his talking points from the Far Left??

The Contract with America. It was used to sweep into office the freshman class of what some pundits are now referring to as "Shi'ite Republicans" who aren't interested in "what needs to be done" because, like Montana militiamen, they view the government as the enemy. Thus the "Contract ON America." The World Herald carried, on 11/19/95, an article titled "Just Slogans, Not Contract, Were in Poll." It now turns out the Contract with America was a fraud, the ultimate triumph of image over reality that so concerns you in today's editorial. "Republican pollster Frank Luntz, a Gingrich protege, ...merely measured the popularity of the strongest slogans that the contract's drafters could come up with.

Apparently Ashcroft is one, too. Should we thank Huckabee for broadening political discourse aimed at conservatives?

Once upon a time, in a land far, far away (Washington, DC, 2002), then-Attorney General John Ashcroft spent $8000 in taxpayer money to protect his fragile morality. In covering the “Spirit of Justice”, Ashcroft unwittingly made a loud-and-clear statement on the value of Justice to the Bush Administration. With Shi’ite Republicans ruling the roost, no longer would the values of compassion, diversity, justice, and open-mindedness rule the day.

Katherine Harris qualifies, I thought she was just a nut?

I guess the theocratic urge causes blindness among reactionaries. It seems to make them conveniently forget that we fought a revolution to get away from exactly that kind of tyranny. It's just too bad that so many people swallow this load of bull from Harris & other Shi'ite Republicans.  --Socialist With A Gold Card

Comments

[mike]

Saw this covered on the other blogs, nice run down on the sources and applications though. I really look forward to tonight as I sense a concerted effort in the ranks to pull Huck's pants down during the debate (so to speak).

[ZZMike]

"Shiite Republicans" - contrasted with Sunni-funny Democrats?

How quickly things like that spread around the world.