{"id":7038,"date":"2009-04-02T22:06:19","date_gmt":"2009-04-03T05:06:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bradblog.com\/?p=7038"},"modified":"2011-10-17T18:39:25","modified_gmt":"2011-10-18T01:39:25","slug":"video-huckabee-jokes-about-keeping-voters-away-from-the-polls-in-va-gubernatorial-election","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/?p=7038","title":{"rendered":"VIDEO: Huckabee Jokes About Keeping Voters Away from the Polls in VA Gubernatorial Election"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/BradBlog.com\/Images\/Huckabee_VoterSuppressionJoke_101411.jpg\" hspace=\"6\" vspace=\"3\" border=\"0\" align=\"right\"><iframe width=\"240\" height=\"192\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Tiwhi6lQF7Q\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen align=\"right\"><\/iframe>While out on the stump for VA&#8217;s Republican gubernatorial candidate Bob McDonnell, former Gov. Mike Huckabee made an <i>hysterical<\/i> joke to the laughing assembled crowd of Republicans, instructing them to &#8220;Do the lord&#8217;s work&#8221; by not letting voters to the polls if they don&#8217;t plan to vote for McDonnell.<\/p>\n<div class=\"media\">HUCKABEE: You have two jobs. One &#8211; get all those people who are gonna vote for Bob out to the polls and vote. If they&#8217;re not gonna vote for Bob, you have another job. Let the air out of their tires and <i>do not let them<\/i> out of their driveway on Election Day. Keep &#8217;em home. Do the lord&#8217;s work, my friend. I&#8217;m giving you an opportunity&#8230;yes, do the right thing.<\/div>\n<p>Of course, it was <i>just<\/i> a joke. Who in the Republican Party would <i>ever<\/i> do such a thing in this country?!<\/p>\n<p><iframe width=\"240\" height=\"192\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/8GBAsFwPglw\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen align=\"right\"><\/iframe>Well, other than <a href=\"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/?p=6375\">the guy in the video on the right<\/a>, Paul Weyrich, one of the founding fathers of the modern Republican vote suppression movement, who, until he recently died, was a regular, legendary consultant to the nation&#8217;s top Republicans, and also another hysterically funny Republican Baptist just like Huckabee.<\/p>\n<div class=\"media\">WEYRICH: Now many of our Christians have what I call the goo-goo syndrome &#8211; good government. They want everybody to vote. I don&#8217;t want everybody to vote. Elections are not won by a majority of people, they never have been from the beginning of our country and they are not now. As a matter of fact, our leverage in the elections quite candidly goes up as the voting populace goes down.&#8221;<\/div>\n<p>McDonnell&#8217;s Democratic opponent in the VA race, former DNC chair Terry McAuliffe, wasn&#8217;t laughing. He sent a letter to supporters describing Huckabee&#8217;s comment as &#8220;no joking matter,&#8221; noting: &#8220;People died for the right to vote in this country, and we have to protect it.&#8221;  Rachel Weiner has <a href=\"http:\/\/www.huffingtonpost.com\/2009\/04\/02\/huckabee-encourages-vote_n_182541.html\">the full letter tonight at HuffPo<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Beyond that, we&#8217;ll spare you the photographs of the who-knows-how-many African-Americans who not only were kept from voting in this nation by others just &#8220;doing the right thing&#8221; and &#8220;the lord&#8217;s work,&#8221; but who were strung up in trees by their necks in order to keep them from voting <i>and<\/i> to send the <em>hilarious<\/em> message to others that they&#8217;d best not be let out of their &#8220;driveways&#8221; come Election Day. We&#8217;d go on, but it&#8217;s all just so funny, we can&#8217;t even keep typing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>While out on the stump for VA&#8217;s Republican gubernatorial candidate Bob McDonnell, former Gov. Mike Huckabee made an hysterical joke to the laughing assembled crowd of Republicans, instructing them to &#8220;Do the lord&#8217;s work&#8221; by not letting voters to the polls if they don&#8217;t plan to vote for McDonnell. HUCKABEE: You have two jobs. 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