Is there anything these guys won't do to get elected?

Geez. Just like Cheney, he lost his situational awareness and fixated on the target. Lucky he didn't hit anybody or he'd kiss his candidacy good-bye.

/You have to be in office to get away with shooting someone in the face with your shotgun.

AirForceVet: /You have to be in office to get away with shooting someone in the face with your shotgun.

Or be able to use Jedi Mind Tricks to get the guy you shot to not press charges. Huckabee only has Jesus Miracles, and those aren't as reliable.

Was he a drunk as Cheney when he did it?

/reported 18 hours later

Aarontology: Or be able to use Jedi Mind Tricks to get the guy you shot to not press charges. Huckabee only has Jesus Miracles, and those aren't as reliable.

Seriously, I have been asking someone, anyone, to turn water to wine all day... and yet, all I have in the house is water and diet Coke.

*sigh*

bacccc: Was he a drunk as Cheney when he did it?

/reported 18 hours later

If he's a Baptist, he shouldn't get drunk, ever.

Key word: shouldn't

Aarontology: Or be able to use Jedi Sith Mind Tricks to get the guy you shot to not press charges. Huckabee only has Jesus Miracles, and those aren't as reliable.

Sorry to nitpick.

Now if he had shot at a group of lobbyists, then he would have the nomination in the bag.

what an a-hole.

/all I got, cause I can't believe people take this guy seriously

C'mon, who hasn't wanted to take a shot at a reporter?

/he who is without sin among you chamber the first shell.

He was aiming too high in my opinion.

I watched the CNN video; curiously enough the incident of irresponsible hunting was edited out, and only the two other birds included.

Way to endear yourself to the press. If those reporters weren't already part of the liberal media then they are now.

The Big H: img.photobucket.com

You make it sound as if he did this for regular old rapists whose victims weren't related to Bill Clinton, or something.

FTA: But, near the end of the hunt, as a pheasant got up and flew toward the onlooking reporters, Huckabee and his fellow hunters turned toward them, aimed and fired their guns right over their heads - a cardinal sin of hunting.

A cardinal sin of hunting is to never fire your gun right over the heads of reporters?

Guess_Who: FTA: But, near the end of the hunt, as a pheasant got up and flew toward the onlooking reporters, Huckabee and his fellow hunters turned toward them, aimed and fired their guns right over their heads - a cardinal sin of hunting.

A cardinal sin of hunting is to never fire your gun right over the heads of reporters?

I LOL'd

I love how he talks about what a regular hunter he is, and then he can't work the safety on a gun, and now this.

Not to mention the whole "Christian shooting animals for fun" thing but that's another issue.

deevo: I love how he talks about what a regular hunter he is, and then he can't work the safety on a gun, and now this.

I have to wonder: is hunting really that appealing to the average American? Being someone who grew up in NY and hasn't traveled much out of the surrounding areas, it's a pretty big turn-off. It's also not at all part of our culture, much, certainly not in NYC.

Is this, overall, something that helps or hurts a candidate?

This must have been before he pointed at the dead birds and quipped, "These three birds told me they weren't going to vote for me. This is what happens when you don't vote for me: you die."

Just wow.

serpent_sky
I have to wonder: is hunting really that appealing to the average American? Being someone who grew up in NY and hasn't traveled much out of the surrounding areas, it's a pretty big turn-off. It's also not at all part of our culture, much, certainly not in NYC.

Is this, overall, something that helps or hurts a candidate?

I think they do it to show (okay, pretend to show) how committed they are to the second amendment because, hey, they wouldn't want their own leisure activity curtailed.

Of course, it's an act, and you should look at the legislation they introduce or voted for instead. But hey, people are lazy.

if this guy wins we're all farked.

serpent_sky: deevo: I love how he talks about what a regular hunter he is, and then he can't work the safety on a gun, and now this.

I have to wonder: is hunting really that appealing to the average American? Being someone who grew up in NY and hasn't traveled much out of the surrounding areas, it's a pretty big turn-off. It's also not at all part of our culture, much, certainly not in NYC.

Is this, overall, something that helps or hurts a candidate?

Yes, very popular, and yes, helps the candidate.

deevo: I love how he talks about what a regular hunter he is, and then he can't work the safety on a gun, and now this.

Not to mention the whole "Christian shooting animals for fun" thing but that's another issue.

I think that most hunters aren't out there for fun, but for food?

(or maybe a little of both)

jcooli09: if this guy wins we're all farked.

I don't think he can; he has to keep the batshiat crazy reigned in for far too long to actually win.

We'd be in serious danger if the election was tomorrow. But since it's not, I think he'll be knocked out by things like this, or just ridiculous statements like the whole "reclaiming the nation for Jesus" thing.

serpent_sky : Is this, overall, something that helps or hurts a candidate?

I don't think this will hurt Huckabee. In 2004 the NRA found a picture of Kerry with his finger on the trigger of a rifle but his eyes were closed or looking somewhere else, and they used it as the basis of a negative ad campaign. because the NRA is not actually dedicated to gun safety education but rather partisan political advocacy, i doubt they will do the same here.

what hurts huckabee more are the constant factual errors he keeps making, because that plays right into the established perception that he is a rube.

I can't understand why candidates who aren't really into guns personally don't just say "I support the 2nd amendment" and be done with it. Once can support the concept without actually owning or knowing how to use a firearm.

AirForceVet


Lucky he didn't hit anybody or he'd kiss his candidacy good-bye.

Huckabee is going to flash in the pan like every other Johnny-come-lately republican that wants to declare himself a candidate. The desperate lemmings on the right have been jumping on any bandwagon that rolls through bearing the standard.


NEver give up! Never surrender!

Guess_Who: A cardinal sin of hunting is to never fire your gun right over the heads of reporters?

Aim lower.

Almost all of the current GOP candidates have this weird fascination with trying to portray themselves as even more extreme than the Bush Administration:

Bush Administration: I want to see comprehensive immigration reform that secures our borders.
Candidates: "I want to deport all illegals!!!" "Oh yea? I want to CASTRATE them and then deport them!!!"

B.A.: We must continue the War on Terror and Iraq indefinitely, to defeat terror everywhere. This means sacrifices for Americans' rights at home.
Candidates: "WATERBOARD all Muslims!" "Tap everyone's phone!!!" "Let's attack Iran and Syria too!!!"

bighasbeen 2007-12-29 03:08:05 PM
This must have been before he pointed at the dead birds and quipped, "These three birds told me they weren't going to vote for me. This is what happens when you don't vote for me: you die."

Just wow.

What a bunch of psychos. Really, I mean I can kind of understand how people get snowed by the Democrats into thinking that they're nice or whatever. Foolish, but understandable.

But why are people Republicans? Who are these people who expect their leaders to love Jesus, love killing animals from across a field, promise that death is just around the corner from their hands or some bogeyman's, etc. It's like just being a Republican makes you a sociopath.

last_ditch: But why are people Republicans? Who are these people who expect their leaders to love Jesus, love killing animals from across a field, promise that death is just around the corner from their hands or some bogeyman's, etc. It's like just being a Republican makes you a sociopath.

Maybe they like being frightened?

I don't know. Religion, to me, uses a lot of fear to control. So do Republicans. It all plays to the same thing, and it's already indoctrinated in these people?

Jammybee: "Oh my God! Oh my God! Don't shoot. This is traumatizing."

Yeah, you know? That's an odd phrasing.

I thought that when I read the article actually.

I don't think, if a gun was pointed in my general direction, "this is traumatizing!" would come out of my mouth.

I wonder if anyone who was traumatized will sue?

What a farking douchebag.

Is anyone really fooled by this flag?

"Hey Bubba...let's take the confederate bars and rotate them a bit to make a diamond in the middle of the flag...then the yanks won't know what we're up to down here"

"Sounds good Jed...let's get our cousin-mom-sister to sew one up!"

Your offense comment aside, Huckabee does have a chance of winning this election and instituting some needed sweeping changes in this country. He could well be the best candidate to take up the foundation laid by Bush and lead this country through some seriously trying times, starting with a focus on domestic issues like the damage liberalist viewpoints and actions have caused.

skookum
Your offense comment aside, Huckabee does have a chance of winning this election and instituting some needed sweeping changes in this country. He could well be the best candidate to take up the foundation laid by Bush and lead this country through some seriously trying times, starting with a focus on domestic issues like the damage liberalist viewpoints and actions have caused.

Oh well, my monitor needed washed anyway.

BTW, quoting my entire post and responding with a single non-sequitur does not constitute an argument.

Huckabee may be having to endure a test of fire at the moment, but come this November Americans are going to sensibly vote Republican once again, and will show the real minority in this country that they agree with the anger and frustration expressed in these broadcasts.

Neesie: deevo: I love how he talks about what a regular hunter he is, and then he can't work the safety on a gun, and now this.

Not to mention the whole "Christian shooting animals for fun" thing but that's another issue.

I think that most hunters aren't out there for fun, but for food?

(or maybe a little of both)

It's for fun. The food is just a bonus. I could buy food at the store easier and cheaper.

/now I'm hungry for oregano-stuffed grilled dove wrapped in bacon

skookum: Huckabee may be having to endure a test of fire at the moment, but come this November Americans are going to sensibly vote Republican once again, and will show the real minority in this country that they agree with the anger and frustration expressed in these broadcasts.

He has proven to me that he has the stomach for making the hard choices necessary to cleanse our nation's liberal taint by freeing a man whose only crime was raping Clinton's cousin. His jailhouse salvation seems almost an unnecessary frivolity after that sainted act.

rush_limbaugh_sent_me: It's amusing that liberals assert that Islamic terrorists are not real...they are just "bogeymen" that Republicans just made up to scare the masses into voting Republican. Doesn't the terrorist's assasination of Bhutto in Pakistan contradict the liberal's naive view that terrorists mean no harm and are not a threat?

It is exactly this sort of threat that keeps god-fearing American patriots armed to the teeth when they pop into Rawalpindi for pappadums or Peshawar for prawns pickle. It is the clear-eyed vision our Republican candidates that will make the parking lots of Islamabad safe and clear.

As far as scaring people, don't liberals do this with their manufactured hysteria over global warming? Isn't it their contention that the end is nigh if we don't take action to stop global warming, something that they have not even proved has been caused by man even if it is happening? Don't they like to tell little kids that polar bears are going to drown due to global warming in order to indoctrinate the little kids? Libberals fearmonger using global warming and it's not a manufactured threat on their part. Terrorism wasn't made up by Republicans and we do take it seriously...Democrats do not, and that reason alone is enough not to vote for them.

Indeed. We will all be raptured to our maker long before we are hot-tubbing in Lake Michigan.

Most liberals hate Huckabee simply because he is a Christian, pro-life, anti-gay marriage, or pro-gun rights, or a combination of the above. But Christian identity does not make you conservative and Huckabee is a socialist on the majority of issues.

May God have mercy on your soul.

skookum: BTW, quoting my entire post and responding with a single non-sequitur does not constitute an argument.

Huckabee may be having to endure a test of fire at the moment, but come this November Americans are going to sensibly vote Republican once again, and will show the real minority in this country that they agree with the anger and frustration expressed in these broadcasts.

Bub, there are lots of Republicans who won't be voting Republican in November--me being one of them--because of what the Republican party has become. Until and unless it sheds itself of the Huckabees and the Bushes and Cheneys there are going to be generations of Republicans who won't vote for a Republican nominee.

I'll gladly trade the 8 Clinton years for the Bush Cheney years. And if Clinton deserved to be impreached, well then, there is still time for Bush and Cheney, along with criminal trials for Fredo and Turdblossom.

rush_limbaugh_sent_me: Terrorism wasn't made up by Republicans and we do take it seriously...Democrats do not, and that reason alone is enough not to vote for them.

I think the difference is that...and I'm not going to use words like "liberal" or "democrat" because not everyone who has something to say about our policies fall into those categories...these people aren't taking the terrorist threat lightly. They just think that it's an intelligence and law enforcement issue, rather than an issue that is to be handled by tearing up the Constitution and invading random countries.

rush_limbaugh_sent_me: No, it's patriotic leftist hippies like yourself that are willing to bend over and grab the ankles for terrorists that will save the day.

In this thread I am playing a jingoist RW tool, just like you and skookum are doing.
Surely there is room for one more person who thinks it is the height of wit to impersonate the mentally challenged?

rush_limbaugh_sent_me

The Madrid train bombings also happened, but you don't see the Spanish declaring endless war on an ill-defined enemy.


What are you so worried about anyway? You think Osama has his eyes on South Carolina?

Jammybee "Oh my God! Oh my God! Don't shoot. This is traumatizing."

Doesn't that call for a "Man up, Nancies!" response?

rush_limbaugh_sent_me: Where does it state in the Constitution that a president cannot go to war with a country? America was founded by people that went to war with England, and they didn't pose any terrorist threat to us.

Now I know you're a troll. I feel silly for taking the bait this long.

last_ditch: But why are people Republicans? Who are these people who expect their leaders to love Jesus....

Bingo! He's surged specifically because he's aligned with the religious views expressed by a staggering percentage of Americans. Giuliani is a baby-killing adulterer and Romney may/not think Jesus and Satan are aliens from foreign planets (according to YouTube, anyway).

I've voted Republican because I'm a one-issue voter on the Second Amendment. If you want to take my toys and self-defense items away, I shall not vote for you. The reason candidates go hunting to 'show their 2nd amendment support' is because you can hardly expect the press corps hiding in your bedroom at night with infrared cameras when an armed robber enters so you can demonstrate your castle doctrine rights. Of course, Huckabee just demonstrated he's an idiot who doesn't understand basic gun safety principles, so not really helpful there.

It seems we have to choose between politicians who trample the 1st/4th/5th (current batch) or violate the 2nd (previous batch). It makes me sick that the introductory wording to Clinton's 94 Skeery Gun Bill said that Congress had the right to pass the legislation because it impacted interstate commerce. Since this is a Huckabee thread, I won't mention a candidate who thinks the federal government that governs least, governs best.

"Well, suprise, suprise, suprise... I didn't know them pellets would go that far, Sgt Carter!!"