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Over the weekend, fundies and wingnuts gathered in St. Louis to discuss "How to Take Back America." And according to Mike Huckabee, one of ways to do this is to destroy the U.N. building.
“It’s time to get a jackhammer and to simply chip off that part of New York City,” said Huckabee, “and let it float into the East River, never to be seen again!” That remark got him a standing ovation, and Huckabee went on to suggest de-funding the U.N. entirely.
But then Huckabee backpedaled from outright destruction of the U.N. to simply moving it to sunny Riyadh.
“Let’s end the diplomatic excesses that these people enjoy,” he said. “Let any country that is willing to spend the money that the United States is hosting–let them have it. Give it to the Saudis and let these diplomats suck the sand out of the Saudi desert for a few summers and see if that’s where they’d like to go, and make their ridiculous speeches."
Now this sophomoric, wingnut radio talk-show level of U.N. bashing is red-meat for the base, but this isn’t how serious candidates for president talk. Either Huck’s trying to out-flank Palin, or he knows he can’t peel enough fundies away from her, and is just pumping up ad sales for his shitty show.
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Oh, my, that Huckabee. Ain’t he a kicker? He’ll be back with more in a few minutes. Enjoy the veal.
Huck and I-Can-See-Russia are stupid but dangerous demagogues.
I actually think Huckabee is quite a lot smarter than Palin.
So Huckster’s running on the John Birch platform these days? Or is it just that today’s Republican Party is a direct descendant of the Birchers?
Could he really help it?
No.
Hey if stupid works for Beck and Rush whynot the huckster
Republicans are assholes.
Mike is moving to the right quite desperately poor man he will never out crazy Sarah or get the Fundies from her. That and the Corporate wing of the GOP at best see him as VP material.
Give up now Mike keep the Fox paycheck. If Mike starts going to Iowa will his tv show be counted as an inkind campaign contrabution?
JHFC, did this guy’s mother have any children that lived?
Smarter won’t help him get Sarah voters or endear him to the GOP’s corporate wing not with Mitt and Jeb thinking about it.
Didn’t he brag about how much weight he lost when he was gov. of Arkansas
Heh! I read that the original reason for placing the UN in NYC was that it allowed the nascent CIA (and NSA) to more easily intercept communications and co-opt diplomats.
Seems like these goons and fundies always go for violent physical means.
If a jackhammer, why not jack boots, if a hammer why not a Timothy fert bomb, if not that then why not some planes? Is that not what bin Laden and those goons did…wipe out that piece of NYC?
What are they going to do now that voter fraud is not wokring as well, and one can never be sure about voter ingnorance (but I am not taking any bets).
Huckleberry is giving Neo Nut Jobs a bad name!!! He has really taken the Cluster-Fox KoolAide seriously…out there hawking points of view that may even be too radical to the ‘base’ what ever that is today (137 Klan Klowns all dressed up with no one to take out)..but he keeps swigging on that KoolAide jug and gets crazier by the day.
Huckleberry is only doing harm to himself and becoming more of a discredited ink spot everyday that passes…
Yup, you beat me to the punch. That’s just what I was going to say.
No, it won’t. And yeah, he’s really between a rock and a hard place. Too populist for the corporatists, not crazy enough for the Palinites.
I wouldn’t doubt that for a New York heartbeat. We got caught with bugs in a number of offices not so awfully long ago iirc.
plus, come on: “President Huckabee”?
Oh, and the ignorance that Saudi is all sand is a laugh.
The rich have it great no matter where. How about $500 dollar bottles and food and ”dancing” – as of the leaders would not be above the laws for the locals.
WHOA WHOA WHOA–
I am a liberal independent and this sounds fine to me. The UN is an embarrassment to me and to many other people. A stage for idiots.
Don’t you guys have more important things to complain about? What is it now, just trash every republican all the time?
Remember this stuff when the Dems get voted out, sorry to say. This rudderless ranting is just going to make it worse when things turn around, which they will, unfortunately, and the Democrats are squandering every opportunity to change things in this small window that they have. Perhaps that is the way they really want it so they don’t have to do anything. That is what I am starting to think now.
It really shows weakness that he has to pander to the mob. The GOP elites by pandering to the Common Man have now become the party of everything they used to fear.
Sure Huck go ahead run on an anti UN platform without a working international law patents become worthless drug company patents DVD, Music copying runs rampant the Corporate wing of the GOP might not like the UN but the UN is the trade off for international law being respected.
We get more than we give. For Huck heck for the GOP they have become the Crazy party who promises anything to get elected.
Then they forget Bush remember ran as a Compassionate Conservative then forgot all about it once elected.
No international law no patent protection the entertainment industry is how big a part of our economy same goes for new drugs and inventions we make.
How many misunderstandings almost became wars but for the UN?
These crazies are begging for a pounding.
Here’s a crazy Saphire speech:
Bashing the UN has been a favorite pastime of the far-right — including their kookier elements– for decades. This is how someone like John Bolton wound up representing the US at the UN under Bush. I assume you’d prefer Bolton to Susan Rice? Because if Huckabee’s rant “sounds right” to you, you’d love Bolton.
Is there a republican that doesn’t deserve trashing?
Winning is the only object of the exercise for these people. Governing is giving as much public money to one’s cronies as possible. All in the name of national security, of course.
Ever notice the age demo represented at the reichwing events? The iPod listeners are vastly outnumbered by the Lawrence Welk fans.
As far as foreign diplomats committing crimes and getting away with it Bush seems to have gotten away with torture and Huckabee is on Fox saying nothing to see here.
If crime is the issue then Huckabee should apply his brush even. If its money wasted I think KBR electrocuting our troops with showers is much worse.
Hmmmm, now yer make me work my gray cells. Damn. I’ll catch up witcha when I think of one.
Why are the old folks going GOP?
I’ll give her John Dean. Is he still a republican?
Huckabee/Huckleberry 2012!
Why not cut Jesusland free from the United States and allow them to go their backwards way?
AND THE KILLIN’ GOEZ ON AND ON AND…
Citizen Blue Texan and the Firepup Freedom Fighters:
True blue American fascism has now been politically reinstitutionalized, for the first time since 1865, with the Nazi anti-socialist political arguments and terrorist nationalism now accepted as part of a defining mainstream political ideology. We have had attempts to reinstitutionalize fascism a couple a times in the last 140 years but as in 1932, we always had a president who recognized the threat and used the power of mass popular will to keep the bastards from implementing the end of electoral democracy…remember that Huey Long was the biggest threat to FDR in the first term and only an assasin’s bullet kept the fragile Democratic coalition from comin’ apart in 1936.
Make no mistake about it, the lunatic Bircher rhetoric of 1950 has now become conventional wisdom among the political elite. Unless Obama wakes up and smells the cordite soon, he’s gunna be gone.
KEEP THE FAITH AND PASS THE AMMUNITION, NO ONE WILL FIGHT THIS ONE FOR US!!
it is afterall, a target rich environment
oh and p.s. weren’t we all “engaging in wild speculation” a year ago about the coming contest to outcrazy one another
they don’t do subtle or nuance so I expect ol Huck is just about to get his Glenn on
Liberals have spent too much time in the veal pen to know how to fight back when it comes to that.
Citizen marcos:
The veal can be led away from slaughter and all it takes is leadership…that’s what I thought we were gettin’ in Obama but I thought wrong!
The GOP has nothing no ideas no causes that can win a majority they are reduced to keeping the 20%ers at the cost of Moderate voters they are eating their seed corn.
I remember saying something about how we needed to anger the GOP to provoke them to be crazier so we could win more elections.
I was wrong no provoking was needed:)
They’re not going GOP that I know of. They’ve voted Republican all their lives. It’s not so much the preponderance of old folks, it’s the absence of the young. Look at an event on the other side. The demos are reversed. These are the folks not reflected in the polls because they’re not linked to a land line. They’re all mobile but are a force to be reckoned with. They are the future, not some cranky old man or lady who thinks Obama is a Kenyan Muslim.
Back to the cesspool.
Namaste
That’s just it. This is recycling old John Bolton nuttery. Bolton made his speech about losing the top 10 floors of the UN in 1994. So this isn’t just crazy. It’s old crazy, which goes to show that even when Republicans flip out they still can’t come up with anything new.
I really hope you’re right, but I’m afraid all this crazy hitting the main stream will eventually start to seem less crazy.
On a teeter-totter, you can have a bunch of people about halfway down the the left side and fewer people all-the-way down the right side and the thing will tip to the right — and all the people trying to balance in the middle will gradually start drifting down toward the right.
Whats that joke about a Mob going down the street during the French Revolution followed by a politician a few minutes later saying I am their leader I must get to the front?
Real Revolution works faster than the politicians Newts Republican Revolution for example was not real/grass roots he and the GOP were to the Right of the country.
Today the majority of the country is to the Left even of Obama on the big issues everyone cares about. Healthcare Now, Public Option, same drug prices Canada and Mexico has. End the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan Check help people in this economy not banks check we are all Lefties Now:)
Gotcha we need to get young people to show up in polls somehow that is a problem for us a real one our true strength is underestimated.
I’m hoping the electorate matches up with people who want the public option. 75% non-crazies.
8 years of Bush saying the sky is falling and being wrong on everything from the wars, the economy, Katrina, Privatizing Social Security, Terry Schiavo, etc etc.
Crazy is not normalized I think its like a tv commercial at my house…time to see what else is on the other channels.
And it is a really, really, shitty show.
Veal can’t be led anywhere, it has to be carried because its muscles have atrophied, that’s the whole point.
Organized labor is slightly better off than the single issue advocacy nonprofits which are slightly better off than the Democratic Party.
Thus, the three pillars of liberal America are weakened to the extent that they can’t support their weight, witness Van Jones.
The rest of us are so acclimated to lives as entitled couch potatoes, that we’re relegated to the rat in the cage pushing a bar for more cocaine. Difference is that we should be smart enough to know that the cocaine can’t last much longer.
Huckabee is a religitard. Religitards are morons.
Think for yourself instead.
Believe no one, not even me, without first doing your own research.
The Constitution does have something to say about long-standing allegiances, but since when did anyone base national policy on the Constitution?
I propose kicking Huckabee in the fork and sending his balls to Saudi Arabia!
I call 1st dibbs!
Huckabee is a shameless, irrelevant, pandering ham.
They take delight in idiocy and revel in the stupid.
MSM ordered to censor G20.
8 more years just like the last 8?
Gates speaks as if he is a Cheney Clone.
Judeofascists loved promoting their “Islamofascism” propaganda.
Carrots(bribery) Sticks(murder) Coercive Diplomacy(extortion & blackmail).
Did you see all the same bloodthirsty AIPAC-paid recycled neocon shills on TV selling more war for profit?
Watch as they pretend to know nothing of the mounting 9/11 evidence, whistleblowers, & leaks that point to them
When the U.S. finally loses its premier position as head of the free world, and the UN comes calling to get back at us for years of snubbery and stupidity, it is going to hurt.
Weren’t these losers spouting this “get US out of the UN” idiocy ten or fifteen years ago?!? Crap, I figured that they would have come up with a better distraction for their base than that by now.
What have you got against ham?
I don’t have anything against ham, but a guy like Huckster, who is a ham, just annoys me.
Playing on the different definitions of ham, you see. ;)
Here’s my comment to the CNN political ticker story “Gingrich, Jindal raise $350,000 for McDonnell”
http://politicalticker.blogs.c…..mcdonnell/
Wow and all this time I thought he was some shitheel backwoods Goober. This man has a head on his shoulders. He’s a thinkin man’s thinkin man. I can see why all the TeaGoobers, Inbredheads, Trailer Popes,DittoHeads, Beckerheads,Neo-Nazis,birthers, deathers,global warming deniers,pedophiles, airport c**ksuckers,methhead priests,racists,Trigg tribute bands, and HypoChristians speak so highly of him. Sarah Palin isn’t fit to empty his diaper (yeah I know that’s a Dave Vitter joke but all these Repubtards are sick)
I think you should apologize to all the airport c**ksuckers and pedophiles out there for having thoughtlessly included them in this list alongside Neo-Nazis and racists.
What has the Republican Party come to?
I haven’t heard the Dave Vitter joke about emptying diapers. Please tell it to us! Please, please!
I think Huckabee knows he will never be elected president, & he’s just playing to his “base”. Probably helps him in future book sales, paid speech opportunities for the far right, etc.
I have a better idea. How about if we send Huckabee to Riyadh? He can air his program on Saudi TV.
Trailer Popes. Hadn’t heard that one before!