GOP candidates in trouble!

Hey folks!

There may or may not be a show tonight - I was planning on skipping one of the three replay shows, and it seems like tonight will be the night. Next Thursday will bring with it some fresh repeats, as I will be hard at work mixing down past shows over the next week.

Now, onto the regularly scheduled blog post...

Many of the front-runners for the GOP nomination for president are finding themselves in even more hot water. Let's take a look...

Mike Huckabee:
Mike Huckabee's flavor of Christianity keeps getting him in all sorts of hot water. Writer David Corn dug up Huck's 1998 book Kids Who Kill, and mined some intriguing tidbits from it:

"He drew stark lines, equating environmentalists with pornographers and homosexuality with pedophilia and necrophilia. He also declared that people who do not believe in God tend to be immoral and to engage in 'destructive behavior.' He drew a rather harsh picture of an American society starkly split between people of faith and those of a secular bent, with the latter being a direct and immediate threat to the nation."

(Side note: So, if you don't believe in (presumably HIS) "god," you are a traitor to this country? Mike Huckabee: Vote for me, and learn to love the Jesus like I do... or else!)

As Governor of Arkansas, Huck was AGAINST any extension of marriage and/or partnership rights to cover homosexuals at any opportunity, and denounced their lifestyle as "aberrant, unnatural, and sinful." So when he goes on Larry King sounding like he has no problem with homosexuals, don't buy it for a second!!!

In fact, don't buy anything Huckabee says. He's probably lying his ass off, like when he refers to the treatment of prisoners at Gitmo as "too nice" in comparison to that received by Arkansas state inmates. The Perrspectives blog has posted a two-part series detailing the most outrageous - and dangerous - things the Huckster has said. If he gets the GOP nod, the Dems will easily win.

Mitt Romney:
Mitt cannot avoid accusations of being a complete political weathervane. He has been all over the map with every single issue. There was a time where Romney would be critical of our Commander-in-Chimp; now, Mitt supports him. That gust of wind that put Huckabee over you spin you around hard, Mitt?

Would you be interested to know that Romney's family may have illegally immigrated into two countries? When polygamy was being made illegal in the US (late 1800's), Mitt's father's family felt the sudden urge to move... to Mexico! One small problem: Polygamy wasn't legal there, either. Mitt's grandparents, with their son (Mitt's pop) in tow, fled Mexico in 1912, and may just have crossed our border under less-than-legal circumstances.

Tom Tancredo:
Speaking of him... Oh... He's done.

Rudy Giuliani:
The paleoconservative rag The American Conservative's latest cover depicts Rudy looking very Hitlerian. They even ran an article by Glenn Greenwald (a writer for Salon) in which he shows why Rudy + Presidency = Bad for Freedom.

Oh, and George Stephanopoulos challenged Giuliani recently about the firefighter radios.

Just more in our continuing coverage of Giulianofascism!

Ron Paul:
Ah, saving the best for last. The darling of the Young Republicans is, undoubtedly, a racist douchebag. Now we know where all his support is coming from - the racist right! What does Mr. Paul have to say for himself? Let's see:

"Indeed, it is shocking to consider the uniformity of opinion among blacks in this country. Opinion polls consistently show that only about 5% of blacks have sensible political opinions, i.e. support the free market, individual liberty, and the end of welfare and affirmative action…."

So, they all agree with each other, and that's bad. But then you declare the 5% that don't "sensible," with the implication that they support positions that you support. Well, now, that sounds like, "Agree with me, you're sensible; disagree, you're insane."

"Given the inefficiencies of what D.C. laughingly calls the “criminal justice system,” I think we can safely assume that 95% of the black males in that city are semi-criminal or entirely criminal. If similar in-depth studies were conducted in other major cities, who doubts that similar results would be produced?"

95% of the black males are criminals? All over the country? I think the criminal statistics of DC - and EVERY OTHER American city - would disagree with you. The "semi-criminal" is his out on the numbers, but in spirit, that screams KKK to me!

"We are constantly told that it is evil to be afraid of black men, but it is hardly irrational. Black men commit murders, rapes, robberies, muggings, and burglaries all out of proportion to their numbers."

To me, this is the worst part. He's telling you - TELLING you - it is LOGICAL to be afraid of black men, because their being black makes them likely criminals who will commit a crime against you!!!

Again: Ron Paul, racist douchebag. Link the two together as often as you can.