While campaigning in favor of Issue 2 in Ohio (the referendum forced onto the ballot by voters in an attempt to veto the GOP bill that strips public unions of many collective bargaining rights), hilarious former Arkansas Governor and 2008 Republican Presidential candidate Mike Huckabee encouraged supporters to suppress the votes of opponents…
Hilarious stuff. Particularly in Ohio. As Comedy Central’s Dennis DiClaudio pointed out, “if any person who ever voted for a Democrat ever got within a 70-yard radius of a microphone and made a joke even slightly similar to that one, Andrew Breitbart would spend a long weekend foaming at the mouth in the video bay attempting to edit down footage of the guy into something that made him look like he murdered Ronald Reagan, and James O’Keefe would be trying to seduce him in front of a hidden camera with a salame.”
But, ya know, IOKIYAR.
But it’s not the first time Huckabee — now a host of a weekly show on Fox “News,” a cable channel that pretends to care about “voter fraud,” but only when they can trick viewers into believe it’s being performed by Democrats — has told the same bad “joke.” As we reported in April of 2009, he used the exact same voter-suppression hilarity while stumping for Virginia’s then Republican gubernatorial candidate Bob McDonnell…
Huck’s “joke” worked last time. Despite McDonnell’s Democratic opponent responding with a letter describing the matter as “no joking matter,” noting, “People died for the right to vote in this country, and we have to protect it,” McDonnell reportedly won the election. So why not encourage the same unlawfulness this time, eh?
Paul Weyrich — the legendary rightwing demi-god, GOP godfather of modern day voter-suppression and founder of the American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC), the rightwing organization which literally drafted the templates used by GOP legislatures across the nation over the past year to pass all manner of voter-suppression bills set to affect some 5 million largely Democratic-leaning voters in 2012 — would be proud. Perhaps Huckabee, a former Baptist minister, was amongst those at the Dallas convention of Baptist ministers in 1980 where Weyrich lectured from the podium — next to good Christians like Jerry Falwell and Ronald Reagan — on how keeping people from participating in their own democracy was a perfectly acceptable tactic to help Republicans win elections…
Mike Huckabee, who professes to embody Christian values, is a total contradiction of what Jesus Christ stood for, as depicted in New Testament. He is also contrary to the American way, as reflected in the US constitution and laws. Mike Huckabee is anti-American in making light of the ongoing war against US democracy waged by fascist extremists within the United States.
Gawd that is so funny.
Vandalize the vehicles of people who might disagree with you…gasp…hahahaha. Guffaw.
Deny them their right to vote! Oh the comedy!
He is merely echoing one of his mentors and spiritual leaders, Paul Wyerich.
So, what did you expect? Garbage in, garbage out.
All of the Bullsheviks joke about serious matters. It is one of their forms of denial induced by fear.
They are infected with the 1% virus ideology so they “support the fat cats” who like to eat them.
OFF TOPIC: Brad, did you see that Glenn Greenwald (see Updates) got Bill Keller to correct his editorial that originally implied that Hugo Chavez was President of Brazil? Now if you could only get Keller to fully admit to screwing up the James O’Keefe story and the “Iraq was involved in 9/11” story.
Isn’t that illegal? to attempt to obstruct voting?
When the New York Times deliberately promotes the fascist agenda of its corporate with abundantly discredited lies, do you really expect them to publish an honest retraction? What they’re doing is waiting it out, keeping they’re lies on the record, expecting people in-the-know to forget. Please never forget.
christina linhardt…
It is illegal, yes, but laws don’t apply to them. Just look at US Supreme Court and corporate servant intellectual eunuchs in the White House.