Huckabee's wit on display for Florida delegates

Mike Huckabee was in rare form as he spoke to Florida Republicans at a lunch at the Airport Marriott in Bloomington, MN.

Huckabee blamed the media for doing a "horrible thing" to Gov. Sarah Palin.

"She got more votes running for the mayor of Wasilla, Alaska, than Joe Biden got running for president," Huckabee said.

Huckabee drew a big chuckle when he said John McCain was his "second choice" for president in the primary. And then he took a dig at the Florida delegation: "I'm not really so sure why I'm being so nice to you guys, if you had voted differently . . ."

Then he concluded by saying he meant all the honorable things he said about McCain and his integrity during the debates, when the two were running against each other, although he added, "maybe I was overly generous."

He interrupted the beginning of his speech to call out at state Rep. David Rivera, who had supported Huckabee's presidential run in Florida. "David how are you my friend, are you running late?"

He told a funny story about Wal-Mart, a "small retailer" in his state had a problem on its hands. It was running low on ammunition in Wal-Mart stores in Alabama. "You see, the folks in Alabama heard that the Russians had invaded Georgia, and they weren't going to let that happen in Alabama."

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Who is Louis Betz? And why is he giving to a green party candidate in Sarasota?

Huckabee has turned into a punchline. Dude needs to just go ahead and thinkin back up and move back into his cabin.

... sad

The future of the GOP, right here, people.

Absolutely pathetic.

Scared Dems!! I just love it!

Today at work, one of the young, black ladies working in our office called in sick. She hadn't been able to sleep all night worried about Sarah Palin becoming the VP. This lady is a big supporter of Obama and she is afraid that Palin may be causing some of the Obama voters to have second thoughts. Unbelievable, losing sleep and getting sick about Obama! What is our country coming to?

I'm not sure who is scarier from a Fundie (fundamentalist) point of view...Sarah Palin or Mike Huckabee.

Both of them are horrible examples of what America can produce and I am ashamed of them.

We are so much better, as a people, as a nation, then these vessles of ignorance, hatred, and xenophobia.

You are going to see a lot of very sick Democrats over the next two weeks. As a matter of fact, quite a few of them are leaving their disgusting words on this blog. The more they post, the better for McCain and Palin.

if more people got scared and sick about the future of our country we wouldn't have had the last 8 years.

the only people you can blame for the past 8 years of horrible leadership are your apathetic neighbors...and yourself....for not motivating them.

I'm not sure who is scarier from a Socialist point of view...Barack Obama or Jimmy Carter.

Both of them are horrible examples of what America can produce and I am ashamed of them.

We are so much better, as a people, as a nation, then these vessles of ignorance, hatred for America and edconomic destroyers of the capitalist system.

The past two years have been the worst I have suffered and all because of the dominance of the Democrat Congress in D.C. Out with them and NO to B. H. Obama.

[GOP = Dorks]

2:39 that was hilarious!? as witty as mike huckabee! you should be so very proud. Gold Star For You!

the only thing i fault the dem congress for is NOT impeaching Bush.

What a horrible example they've set for future presidents.

Hey 2:32, maybe she was actually losing sleep because she cares about the future of her country. I think there will be a lot of us losing sleep if McCain and Palin win.

do people who throw around the term 'Socialist' really NOT understand that we already live in a country with many, many social programs? Do they not realize that under Bush's, faith-based program -- it has become the fourth largest expense item in our national budget. Why don't they GET that? Why do uneducated people think they understand Socialism and why do they hate it so much? We need to take care of our people; didn't you learn that from Katrina???? Grow up.

I hate Fundies. Get them out of my government NOW!

[BRING THE TROOPS HOME NOW]

2. Here's what I said on April 16 in refusing to sign the statement in favor of McCain's economic policies:

This morning I received a request to sign an “Economists’ Statement in Support of John McCain’s Economic Plan.” The statement laid out his plans to prevent taxes from rising, to reduce some taxes, such as the corporate income tax, to support free trade agreements, and to restrain the growth of domestic government spending. Notice something missing? I did.

Here’s the answer I sent to the co-chair, economist James Carter:

There’s nothing in there I disagree with. [I later found a few things but I agreed with the vast majority.] The problem is that it leaves out a huge part of his economic policy that will make it virtually impossible to achieve what’s in the statement. That huge part is his policy on war–with Iraq and maybe with Iran. War is very expensive and is part of an economic policy. So by signing the statement, I would be helping Senator McCain maintain the fiction that there’s no connection between war and economic policy. I’m unwilling to do that.

2:39 must be a babyboomer (or 3 years old) -- that was the lamest rebuttal I've read since Donald Lance last posted.

To all you lemmings that fall on the Republican sword with no regard for common sense and reality...

Only a delusional idiot professes to be able to “Win a War on Terror”. Terror has been around since the beginning of time, and will be around until the end of time. Our focus should be to “Protect our Nation from terrorists”.

This will not be accomplished by frisking old white ladies at airports, checking only 3% of the ships that enter our ports, or spying on Americans… hell, we can’t even bild a freaking border fence.

So until you self-proclaimed “patriots” who spew your “vote us or die” fear rhetoric stop exploiting the deaths of innocent Americans on 9/11 for your personal, corporate, and political gain… and protect me from terrorists… shove your politics of fear up your treasonous ... A S S.

But, 2:53, the generation that is coming out of power (the one that put Bill C and Bush in office) has been CONDITIONED.

Conditioned like a lab rat to ALWAYS be scared, to ALWAYS believe that some non exsistant (or at least, massively distorted) foreign power is coming to destroy their way of life.

"Duck and Cover" to "Duct Tape Your Windows" is all the same forced fed propaganda that this generation is used to. They re-elected Bush because of it and they will rally and support McCain because he tells them that this 'battle' is the most important one of all time.

At the end of the day, hard working Americans who try and do what is right and vote in their best interest just give up; there is no more bandwidth to process all of the rhetoric that is spewed out on shows that claim to be 'news' when all they are is commentary, there is no more bandwidth to believe a president or anyone in that role because we were just fed the largest lie in the history of our republic.

Someday the babyboomers will die off and my only hope is that my generation , when it comes to power, won't be such a disappointment.

This new economy isn't going to wait around for us and will leave this country behind if we don't change and change quickly. The new innovations are not tangible (they are software) and there is no reason why it should be developed here. India and China produce the equivalent of our entire IT workforce...including software engineers, architects, and programmers every 4 years.

Any response, from a babyboomer, will be a pre-conditioned response and not anything enlightening or productive to the conversation that's already going on and I'm just mentioning here....

The good news, is that the political strategists and marketers of the world know this...so whoever comes up with the most efficient way to spend the money to solicit the desired response from the voters will win...the bad news is when we have this chunk of the population so conditioned you don't really end up with a democracy.

I'm the first of my family to go to college, a middle-class wage earner raising three kids, one in college, and the last eight years have been just fine to me, thanks. I'll take eight more of reasonable tax rates, bull markets, economic growth, and crime dropping like a rock.

2:45-

What i learned from Katrina is that there are far too many parasites in our society.

It is you who are obviously uneducated, because if you understood history, you would know that socialism has a record of failure so blatant that only an idiot could ignore or evade it.

3:40 - first of all, crime is NOT dropping -- but I didn't come here to post that. Please read Freakanomics to understand WHY crime rates do drop...and you'll never vote for a Republican again. Ever.

3:53 -- you still don't get it. Where has socialism failed? we have a lot of socialized programs here...and we are the only country that is coming CLOSE to failing.

You seriously don't believe what you wrote, do you?

(P.S. Communism and Socialism are vastly different, perhaps you are confusing the two)

4:08-

The problem arises because socialism INEVITABLY reverts to communism, like Cuba.

Socialism fails because of its blatant disregard for property rights. Property rights create incentives.

Socialism fails because fixed prices create scarcity.

Socialism fails because there is no profit-loss system of accounting.

Capitalism does none of this.

5:04-

cuba is a country where a dictatorship is masked as the communist party and the government structure is communist controlled socialism, yes.

the eu is comprised of countries that have implemented immense amounts of flavors of socialism under a democracy -- let me repeat that -- UNDER A DEMOCRACY-- it has been a success.

america is currently under the control of a pro business administration that used the military-industrial complex to redistribute current and future tax revenues to a small cluster of private and public organizations that support the military effort as well as pay for...don't wince....social programs. social programs that are vital to the quality of life that makes 'being american' a worthwhile experience.

Bush's crime is twofold- destruction of our Government and the looting of our tax revenue. And the angst in this country, currently taking the form of McCain opposition/Obama support, is a result of this administration's systematic attack on our government's institutions. From the oversite the VP's office provided to the DOE, to the massive wiretapping/email reading program currently going on, to the emergency response orgs such as FEMA.

Rebuilding vital departments that provide both critical and non-critical systems is in NO way some form of Communism or will it ever assist any effort in bringing about a communist revolution in this country no more than Paris Hilton endorsing it. Seriously, I dont want every neighborhood turning into a gheto, every street destroying my car, or more stupid kids being pushed out of our school systems (or what is more likely, more smart kids being pushed out of schools without the means for further educational opportunities).

5:04-

cuba is a country where a dictatorship is masked as the communist party and the government structure is communist controlled socialism, yes.

the eu is comprised of countries that have implemented immense amounts of flavors of socialism under a democracy -- let me repeat that -- UNDER A DEMOCRACY-- it has been a success.

america is currently under the control of a pro business administration that used the military-industrial complex to redistribute current and future tax revenues to a small cluster of private and public organizations that support the military effort as well as pay for...don't wince....social programs. social programs that are vital to the quality of life that makes 'being american' a worthwhile experience.

Bush's crime is twofold- destruction of our Government and the looting of our tax revenue. And the angst in this country, currently taking the form of McCain opposition/Obama support, is a result of this administration's systematic attack on our government's institutions. From the oversite the VP's office provided to the DOE, to the massive wiretapping/email reading program currently going on, to the emergency response orgs such as FEMA.

Rebuilding vital departments that provide both critical and non-critical systems is in NO way some form of Communism or will it ever assist any effort in bringing about a communist revolution in this country no more than Paris Hilton endorsing it. Seriously, I dont want every neighborhood turning into a gheto, every street destroying my car, or more stupid kids being pushed out of our school systems (or what is more likely, more smart kids being pushed out of schools without the means for further educational opportunities).

I have no problem with a certain amount of "social services", but the fact is that capitalism CREATES wealth, socialism simply redistributes wealth.

There is a difference.

Capitalism allows the economy to grow by creating NEW wealth.

Socialism does not.

Reporting in from the Republican convention. It is wonderful, we all love one another. I just saw Senator Fasano and Senator Haridopolis tapping toes and holding hands in the mens room. What a pro family value convention

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