The Man From Target

New York Times by Gail Collins | Dec. 13, 2007 (Opinion)

The Huckabee strong suit is morality and the Republican voters are clearly yearning for someone without a record of spectacularly public adultery who also does not remind them of a snake-oil salesman. The party base, we know, tends to be pro-life. Does that really mean they want a president who tried to stop an abortion for a 15-year-old mentally retarded girl who was raped by her stepfather? The primary voters are obviously not keen on gay marriage, but ... Full Story »

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Dwight Rousu
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 by Dwight Rousu - Oct. 1, 2008

The story barely restrains the appropriate ridicule for the pathetic batch of candidates for the inheritance of the Bush legacy. The incidents related to Huckahornet are telling, but not exhaustive. His preacher days focused on self enrichment are not mentioned. The destruction of disk drives as he left the governor's office are not mentioned. His petty acrimony toward the Clintons is not documented. Saying the Hucker's "strong suit is morality" ignores a more accurate categorization of his behavior; his strong suit appears to be an erroneous public perception that he embraces morality. Have the voters not learned from their duping by that most recent compassionate conservative born-again man of god who got elected and has nearly destroyed the concept of morality in government?

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