Here’s a link to the Huckabee son dog story.
http://www.fund.org/

Huckabee doesn’t stand a chance in, you know that hot place!
You have got to read this, if you haven’t already.
Check out the story about Huckabee and where he stands on animal rights and the fact that his kid, when he was a teen, killed a dog, oh yea when he was in the Boy Scouts.  He hung the dog, slit it’s throat and then stoned what was left of the carcas.
I guess this is what he thought was “Family Values.”

http://www.fund.org/

Interesting discussion. Over on Kevin Drum’s blog:
http://www.washingtonmonthly.com/
  there have been some intersting discussions of Huckabee. It seems the Republican powers that be, are afraid of him. Romney even accused him of being the anti-Republican (Foreign Affairs paper with his name on criticising Bush). I’m torn between whether he is the real deal (truly believes his religion and will do as it dictates -even when it contradicts Republican dogma), or is just another variety of hypocritical candidate.

  It’s true that he doen’t believe in evolution. Unfortunately more Muricans believe in angels than evolution. Its getting to the point where disbelief in science, be it biology or climate or pyschology is becoming a prerequisite for acceptance by an increasingly large chunk of the public. Trying to get policy right when so many Muricans reject logic is getting to be downright difficult.

Thanks all for these wonderful and insightful comments.

Special thanks to WmCobbet, DS Ellis, and Thomas Billis, (as usual) because I’m hoping to use YOUR words, to help connect the dots for others still swamped down in the mess of the religious BS. (sorry, I can call it nothing else)

Unfortunately, there ARE still those swarming about, (as some of you have noted) who have never got to the point of examining their beliefs, or any of the rest of it. The ones who still choose the dogma over any reason.

In many cases, they honestly BELIEVE that they HAVE. (examined their faith/beliefs) without realizing that their ‘examination’ has instead been a mass hypnotization, generally performed at mega-churches on Sundays, with a dose of bible study thrown in mid-way, (on Wednesdays or Thursdays) to keep the effects going.  Matter-of-fact, I’ve noted over the past several years, that people who were never overly religious in their ideology before, (or particularly religious AT ALL) have actually fallen way over the line to the other side, and fallen right into psychopathic muck of it all. I remember it hit me not long ago, when another poster (I can’t remember which thread, and so I paraphrase) made the observation that when a society begins to feel the effects of a decline such as the one we’ve been experiencing, the religiosity becomes even more overwhelming.

For instance, when I was doing research into the Big Pharma Oligarchy, I was in Canada to talk with some docs and ‘distributors’. One of the doctors asked me why so many Americans were taking anti-depressants. (this was about 3 ½ years ago, and the numbers then were already huge, though I can’t bring the exact stats to mind right now). I looked at him with a measure of shock, and said, Uh…do you pay much attention to US politics?  The economy? The deal with us in the Middle East? That said, we can see that for millions of others, the drug has been religious zealotry instead, and it’s been force fed, even if the masses don’t KNOW that they’re being hypnotized. Quite honestly, if given a choice, I’d say the anti-depressants are far less dangerous (and more effective for the millions of us suffering from the Shock Doctrine that Naomi Klein explains so well) than this religiosity. But then, that’s just my opinion, and I’m not running anything. Besides, we shouldn’t NEED any of it!! Still, that’s what it’s come to. And, it’s yet another symptom of the rot in the decline

Much humor embedded in this one. Psychologically speaking, when humans are faced with great fear or terror they often resort to humor. It’s sort of an emotional survival tactic. But I offer this: it has already happened so what makes anyone think it can’t happen again?

So, be afraid and be very afraid. More importantly,use that fear productively and do what many people do when they are afraid—fight back and fight back hard. The only way we will get our country back from the residing lunatics while keeping it out of the hands of those lunatics standing on the doorstep is by fighting back HARD.

Check out what Huckleberry Hound’s son did…a nice Christian boy, I’m sure.

Lambert over at Corrente noticed this little tidbit that Mike Huckabee definitely doesn’t want to have brought up:

  Here’s the barebones story of how 18-year-old Mike Huckabee’s son, David, and 17-year-old Clayton Frady killed a dog when they were Boy Scouts, and got fired for it. From the Arkansas Democrat-Gazette in 1998 (as quoted in DogBlog):

      [David Huckabee,] the younger son of Gov. Mike Huckabee and another teen were fired last month from jobs at a Boy Scout camp after the killing of a stray dog.[..]

  So, how and why did David Huckabee (and Clayton Frady) kill the dog?

  The original story isn’t clear in the lead (the admissions and the details come as you read down). Still from the Democrat Gazette:

      The dog was killed [passive voice] July 11 at Camp Pioneer near Hatfield.[..]

  I believe the following is the faxed description of the “particular process.” It’s on a reputable site, Utopia Animal Rescue, which is run by, of all people, Kinky Freidman:

      (Miller County, Arkansas) Two boy scout counselors, 17 year old Clayton Frady and 18 year old David litickabee [sic], the son of Arkansas Governor Mike Huckabee, have admitted to catching a stray dog during their summer session at Camp Pioneer in Hatfield, AR, and hanging the dog by his neck, slitting his throat and stoning him to death.

Lambert notices that Michael Isikoff’s coverage of the story for Newsweek is particularly lacking in investigative curiosity on how David Huckabee killed the dog, which as you can see above, really does color the event.

Digby’s on top of this too. The Huckster’s son seems to be a real winner and his father tried to cover up his sick, twisted behavior — the same kind of behavior that landed former NFL star Michael Vick in prison.

I think Huckabee is running for VP anyway.  The Republican ticket will probably be Romney-Huckabee. Romney has won the National Review’s seal of approval
for ideological purity, but he’ll need Huckabee to keep the holy roller vote in the Republican camp.

Is it not usually the case that in the twilight of empire some fairly disreputable or otherwise undesirable characters end up as head of state?  It is highly unlikely that a Jefferson, Lincoln, or FDR is going to burst upon the scene at this time in our history.

Chuck Huck.

We need to be concerned with the fact that most of these GOP candidates believe that the world is just over 6,000 years old!

Doesn’t Mike Huckabee also feel that some parts of the Bible are allegorical but other parts are the cast-in-stone truth?  If so, who determines which parts are allegorical?  Either the Bible IS the word of (or inspired by) your god or it isn’t.  Another case of so-called ‘good christians’ trying to have it both ways.  If he can choose which parts of the bible to ignore/disregard, then what parts of the Constitution will could he choose to ignore?  Which parts of the Bill of Rights would be allegorical?

Also, the far right wants every fertilized egg to be born, but only so they can send them to war 18 years later.  Remember, all life is sacred until the amniotic fluid is wiped off.  Then, all bets are off.  After that, you can be sent to fight in illegal conflicts or put to death by execution.

And… despite 150 years of rigorous testing, retesting and proven predictions (at the micro- and macro- levels), Mr. Huckabee STILL doesn’t believe in evolution.  He’s proud of the fact that he believes Adam and Eve were real people.  If he’s willing to ignore a century and a half of verifiable scientific proof, what other evidence will he disregard when it conflicts with his faith?  America, religious tolerance is one thing; tolerance of ignorance is entirely another.

With all that said, Mike Huckabee seems like a genuinely likeable guy but that does not make him presidential material.  However, given his preference of dogma over reason and facts and considering our country’s recent history, odds are he’ll be elected to two terms.

“He apologizes later—as he did this week for his false suggestion that Mormons believe Satan is Jesus’ brother—but by then, of course, the damage is done.”

Huckabee’s tactics here remind me of the tactic of planting a thought in jurors mind usually done by the defense attorney, involving a suggestion, an image, a smear and then saying “withdrawn.”

Huckabee obviously has no integrity, contrary to his Christian claims. Doesn’t that sound too familiar.

I am 61 years old and the fact that you Mr Robinson had to write a column basically saying we are electing a President not a Pope makes me sick.Rather than cry at night I consoled myself that GWB was an aberration that when the voters saw A thoeocratic government that they would be so appalled that it would be dead for another 200 years.Instead religious fervor has gripped this country to the degree that many main stream media people have referred to Romney’s speech in Texas as great.Freaking great.Why don’t we just burn the Constitution completely and make the bible the law in America.If you don’t believe in Christ I guess being an American is out of the question.Huckabee surging on the Republican side does not worry me as much as one’s faith is all the rage for everybody who is running for public office.Mr Robinson ponder on this if Thomas Jefferson was running against Huckabee right now for President Huckabee would win because Jefferson’s belief did not include a belief in Jesus Christ.George Bush once said that there are no Thomas Jefferson’s in Iraq because Saddam Hussein killed them.All the religiosity in America is killing our chance of finding a Thomas Jefferson here.

So Huckabee doesn’t separate his faith from his personal and professional lives. Then he better separate himself from the political life he thinks he wants. There is no room for freedom when religious law rules the masses.