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To: Glenn Petersen who wrote (12576)	12/11/2007 1:07:45 PM
From: DuckTapeSunroof	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 25737

Re: "DEMS HOLD FIRE ON HUCKABEE; SEE 'EASY KILL' IN GENERAL ELECTION" LOL! (Seems you are assuming that the DNC types have a brain, or in fact have the slightest clue how to move the voters' needle. <G>) I'd be willing to bet that that ain't necessarily so! :-) (Now... it may turn-out however that ole Huck is Rudy's bestest friend... cause he largely pulls support away from Mitt in Iowa and South Carolina, and Mitt is the BEST FINANCED opponent to Rudy, with a lot of support from the Wall Street and 'Chamber of Commerce branch' of the GOP. Rudy never expected to do well in the first three primary and caucus states, so Huck actually could be helping him by keeping Mitt from building up an early head-of-steam....) PS --- where did that 'exclusive' COME FROM anyway? Was no link, no sourcing.... (Looked a little 'Drudgish'... was it?)

To: Glenn Petersen who wrote (12576)	12/11/2007 1:41:44 PM
From: DuckTapeSunroof	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 25737

FRC: Attacks on Huckabee an 'attack on faith'. frcaction.org

To: Glenn Petersen who wrote (12576)	12/11/2007 1:58:58 PM
From: Bill	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 25737

At one point, I figured four of the GOP candidates could beat Hillary. Then it went down to three because McCain is acting old and beaten down. Then it went to two because the sleaze factor with Rudy might be too much for him to overcome. Now it's down to one because Huckabee can be portrayed as nothing but a holy roller who will govern the country as if it was a church. Mitt, a flip-flopper and Mormon, seems to be the GOP's best chance against Hillary at this stage. IMO, of course.

To: Glenn Petersen who wrote (12576)	12/17/2007 1:05:26 PM
From: Bill	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 25737

As usual, there is dirt on most of the candidates, even the ones that appear clean... ==================================================================== Huckster haunted by Ark. ghosts By Howie Carr \| Sunday, December 16, 2007 Gov. Mike Huckabee has the soul of a Massachusetts state rep. Not to mention the ethics. What other conclusion can you draw after studying the squalid career of the current front-runner for the GOP nomination for president? The Huckster is from the same town as Bill Clinton - Hope, Ark. - and at the risk of engaging in geographic profiling, what more do you really need to know? From what I can tell, if Huckabee had been raised around here, he would now be known as either “Mr. Speaker” or “the defendant.” This barefoot boy with cheek is lucky he came up in the hookworm capital of America, because even here in Boston, where political corruption is seldom prosecuted anymore, he would have been in deep doo-doo a long time ago. In his years in politics, Huckabee has combined the veracity of Felon Finneran with the dextrous accounting of Good Time Charlie Flaherty, not to mention a law-abiding family not unlike Billy Bulger’s, the spot-on character judgment of M. Stanley Dukakis and, finally, a worse addiction to state aircraft than Jane Swift. After studying a 34-page printout of Huckabee’s record, thoughtfully provided by a Concerned Citizen, my nomination for most innovative Huckabee money-grubbing scam is the “wedding registry” he and Mrs. Huckabee set up last year as he was leaving office. This came 32 years after their first marriage and just a year after they entered into a “covenant marriage,” whatever that is. Told of Huckleberry’s “wedding registry,” a Republican legislator quipped, “Maybe I should do a registry for a car.” Then there was his political action committee, Hope for America, supposedly to help other candidates. By September it raised $800,000, of which it disbursed to pols not named Huckabee . . . $3,900. Sounds a little like those “golf charities” our solons set up and then neglect to incorporate, let alone dole out any money from - except to pay off their bar tabs. In the ’90s, Huckabee got $70,000 from a convicted stock swindler who did 14 months in prison for forging a $1 million stock certificate. The money from the con man went to buy furniture at the governor’s mansion. Leaving office early this year, Huckabee spent $13,000 in state funds to destroy the hard drives on the computers in the governor’s office. While he was governor, the state bought a $1.4 million Beechcraft turboprop - the Huckster and/or his wife flew on it 80 times in 2005 and 55 times last year. He and his family used something called the Governor’s Mansion Account for their own private needs, including gourmet meals at Taco Bell [YUM] and Papa John’s Pizza, and nine pairs of pantyhose for the missus from J.C. Penney. His chief of staff told the press, “As long as the first family feels it’s proper, they can do it.” She then thought a moment and added, “That doesn’t sound very good, does it?” It’s safe to say that when Mike Huckabee became a preacher, he didn’t take any vows of poverty. He paid his wife $14,000 for her alleged work as the “treasurer” of his Senate campaign in 1992. He paid himself $43,500 for use of a plane he bought for that same campaign. He was the subject of 14 investigations by the State Ethics Commission. He commuted the prison sentence of the stepson of one of his staffers. He commuted the murder sentences of any number of depraved killers, including at least one who had been turned down for release a total of three times by Gov. Bill Clinton, who himself should have gone to prison, and Clinton successor Jim Guy Tucker, who did (go to prison, that is). Huckabee ran his wife for secretary of state in 2002 against a guy named Charlie Daniels - I’m not making this up! His name was Charlie Daniels. Welcome to Arkansas. His son David was arrested last April for taking a handgun through security at the airport in Little Rock. Who does he think he is: an NBA player? In the next debate, there’s only one thing Mitt, Rudy et al. need to say to this faker: “You have the right to remain silent. . .” Article URL: bostonherald.com