Wasserman Schultz FIRES BACK At Huckabee

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After the former Arkansas governor insults her on the stage
of the Republican National Convention




This bloated, evangelical con artist should learn to keep his pie-hole shut.





Mike Huckabee started his speech Wednesday night at the Republican National Convention not with a shot at Barack Obama, but, oddly, a shot at Democratic National Committee Chairwoman Debbie Wasserman Schultz.



“Tampa has been such a wonderful and hospitable city to us,” Huckabee said. “The only hitch in an otherwise perfect week was the awful noise coming from the hotel room next door to mine. Turns out it was just Debbie Wasserman Schultz practicing her speech for the DNC in Charlotte next week. Bless her heart.”


In a statement, Wasserman Schultz’s national press secretary, Melanie Roussell, replied to the former Arkansas governor and Fox News host’s insult:

Perhaps Mr. Huckabee should pay more attention to the company he keeps, such as Todd Akin, instead of taking potshots at the Chairwoman for applause lines. While Huckabee continues to promote the extreme Akin plank, the Chair will defend women’s rights to reproductive health free from dictation by men who don’t know fundamental biology.

http://www.salon.com/2012/08/30/wasserman_schultz_fires_back_at_huckabee/

[tallahasseedem]

1. K&R

For one bad ass answer! You go Debbie!

[Lucy Goosey]

2. Well done, Debbie!

Huckabee is a mean little boy, and Wasserman Schultz is an intelligent

What was with Huckabee's DWS potshot, anyway? It seemed so random and mean spirited, and the crowd didn't really seem to get it; is there any particular animosity between Huck and DWS? Or was it just a random sexist dogwhistle that could just as easily been directed at Pelosi or Clinton or Fluke or the First Lady?

Note to Huckabee: you are not in the same league as Chairwoman Wasserman Schultz, and making bad jokes at her expense only serves to highlight your intellectual and moral inferiority to her.

[papa3times]

19. Good reply about the hate filled

Mike Huckabee! Like the rest of his political party Huckabee is off the rails and demonstrates such on the so called 'fair and balanced' channel whenever he opens his mouth.

[cactusfractal]

3. No, bless YOUR heart...

...you sanctimonious prick. We know what that means in such a context, but I won't mince words in "Southern-speak".

Fuck you, Huck. It's too bad there's no Hell, because you deserve it.

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5. Huck has all the markings of a ' woman hater '

Flashback:



Documents Expose Huckabee's Role In Serial Rapist's Release


Little Rock, Ark -- As governor of Arkansas, Mike Huckabee aggressively pushed for the early release of a convicted rapist despite being warned by numerous women that the convict had sexually assaulted them or their family members, and would likely strike again. The convict went on to rape and murder at least one other woman.


Confidential Arkansas state government records, including letters from these women, revealed publicly for the first time, directly contradict the version of events now being put forward by Huckabee.


While on the campaign trail, Huckabee has claimed that he supported the 1999 release of Wayne Dumond because, at the time, he had no good reason to believe that the man represented a further threat to the public. Thanks to Huckabee's intervention, conducted in concert with a right-wing tabloid campaign on Dumond's behalf, Dumond was let out of prison 25 years before his sentence would have ended.


"There's nothing any of us could ever do," Huckabee said Sunday on CNN when asked to reflect on the horrific outcome caused by the prisoner's release. "None of us could've predicted what [Dumond] could've done when he got out."


But the confidential files show that Huckabee was provided letters from several women who had been sexually assaulted by Dumond and who indeed predicted that he would rape again - and perhaps murder - if released.

In a letter that has never before been made public, one of Dumond's victims warned: "I feel that if he is released it is only a matter of time before he commits another crime and fear that he will not leave a witness to testify against him the next time." Before Dumond was granted parole at Huckabee's urging, records show that Huckabee's office received a copy of this letter from Arkansas' parole board.

The woman later wrote directly to Huckabee about having been raped by Dumond. In a letter, she said that Dumond had raped her while holding a butcher knife to her throat, and while her then-3-year-old daughter lay in bed next to her. Also included in the files sent to Huckabee's office was a police report in which Dumond confessed to the rape. Dumond was not charged in that particular case because he later refused to sign the confession and because the woman was afraid to press charges.





http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2007/12/04/documents-expose-huckabee_n_75362.html

[Lucy Goosey]

8. Oh, jebus, I didn't know about this.

Though I've been saying for a while that I believe that Republicans don't think rape should be a crime, you know, because women always "ask for it."

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13. Huckabee should be reminded everyday of his useless life

that he " aggressively pushed for the early release of a convicted rapist despite being warned by numerous women that the convict had sexually assaulted them or their family members, and would likely strike again. The convict went on to rape and murder at least one other woman. "


His decision allowed this rapist to rape and murder at least one other woman. He should shut his bullshit spewing trapper SHUT!!

[meow2u3]

17. Repunks not only thing rape shouldn't be a crime

They think rape should be a freaking sacrament!

[klook]

20. Dumond didn't look much like Willie Horton.

In other words, he was white. So he never became the poster-boy for erroneous emancipation that Horton did. (And of course there's no comparison between the two anyway.)

It appears that Huckabee specifically released Dumond because the high school cheerleader he was accused of raping was a relative of Bill Clinton's and the daughter of a Clinton campaign donor. Beyond disgusting.

[Doctor_J]

31. Yes, this was also never broadcast

Dumond's victim was a relative of Clinton. That's why Hucksterbee released him.

[colorado_ufo]

41. Huck is a big Ted Nugent fan.

I saw him "jammin" with Nugent on a guitar to "Cat Scratch Fever."

Speaks volumes.

What an a_hole.

[Submariner]

4. Debbie should open her speech by saying

“Tampa has been such a wonderful and hospitable city to us,” Wasserman Schultz said. “The only hitch in an otherwise perfect week was the awful noise coming from the hotel room next door to mine. Turns out it was just Teabilly Huckleberry entertaining women with what sounded like whips. Bless his little heart.”

[rfranklin]

7. Perhaps you could elaborate on that thought?

????

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9. Another word for Uncle Sam

Uncle Sugar

The concept that Uncle Sam is everyone's pimp because he takes his share of your money before you get your share.

[avebury]

10. K&R nt

[vanlassie]

11. He really said that??? OMG

He must be so hate filled. Pitiful.

[SemperEadem]

12. well played, Madame Chairwoman...

those comments just made hucklesnot (or is it huckaloogie? I can't decide) and those who laughed at it look like the out of touch lamebrains that they are.

[Raven]

14. Noise from the next room????

What the hell is that supposed to mean!

What a creepy clod of dung he is!

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15. A perv with his ear to the wall.

[SunSeeker]

39. That's how it came off to me too. He's creepy.

[socialindependocrat]

16. Not a very pointed cut if you think about it...

Kind of a poor attempt at humor

oh well... There are more important issues to deal with
than a preached who can't write a good joke..

whatever

[randome]

18. Huckabee is a true hater. Not like some in the GOP who try to hide it.

He is not only against gay rights, he wants to celebrate discrimination with his idiotic Chick-Fil-A parade.

He is not only against women's reproductive rights, he blatantly supports and celebrates Akin's ignorance of basic biology.

He is more scum-worthy than most of them.

[Plucketeer]

26. Huckadunce

Hatin' fer Jesus!

[klook]

21. Perfect comeback. Keep the Akin anvil chained to Huckabee's leg. (n/t)

[Ichingcarpenter]

22. I miss former DNC chair Tim Kaine

He would have said a mouthful...and lead the party through an election cycle.


NOT!

Thanks Deb

[bigdarryl]

23. Huckabee has gained all his weight back and some

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25. Thats pure muscle in case you haven't noticed.

[longship]

24. "Bam!!!!"

Emerel would be proud for the chair kicking it up a notch.

[Grammy23]

27. I think the thing that makes me the most angry about the lies and vitriol

that seems to be the theme for this year's Republican Convention is that a LOT of it is coming from so-called Christians. Huckabee is supposed to be a preacher, isn't he? I am no bible scholar but it seems to me that I remember a verse (or maybe two or three) that says something to the effect of......Thou shalt not bear FALSE WITNESS against thy neighbor. But like other parts of the "good book", they cherry pick what matters to them and what can be ignored.

Huckabee almost delighted in repeating his lies and you could just about see a twinkle in his eye as he was leading up to the punch line about DWS and the "noise coming from her room". What a low life! Not content to confront the other side with disagreements on policy and programs, he had to sink to the low tactic of making it personal.

I just do not understand how the people who want to vote for Romney/Ryan ticket cannot see how they are being lead like sheep to the slaughter. The lies are so easily refuted it is almost laughable, but many on the right won't bother or WILL NOT BELIEVE it if they hear that there were lies throughout the speeches last night.

I wish there was evidence that the electorate (those inclined to vote Republican) is able to see through the lies and half-truths but alas, I fear they won't and that with their lack of facts combined with voter suppression and outright fraud, we'll be facing a Romney/Ryan administration in January. Can anyone help quell the uneasiness I feel today???

[Aeroette]

28. I wish I could but...

I feel the same way and it scares me.

[liberal_at_heart]

29. Pow right in the kisser

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30. He just might get off on that.

[IggleDoer]

32. DWS could have said ...

"I was in the room next to Huckelbuck, but there appeared to be a gas leak and the front desk moved me to another floor. It turned out that Huckelbuck just ripped a few.

[flamingdem]

33. The upside to this is that DWS gets some attention for her role

and she's important in the fight for FL in November

[jillan]

34. Hey Huck - Do NOT mess with us women!

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35. Did Huckabee mention his accomplishments as governor of Agkansas?

It's no wonder he resorted to making jokes.

All he ever talked about as governor was how he'd redone all of the highways in Arkansas.

I believe that they passed some kind of new tax, and coupled with the 90% matching federal funds; Huckabee was latched on to the teet pretty tight for a pretty long while.

The thing about him being governor is that he acted like he was 'pastor for the state'. Apparently people buy gifts for their pastor when they leave the church. He expected that the state would buy him stuff and he had accounts set up where people could pay toward his 'wish list'.

The whole thing seemed kind of tasteless to me, but Huckabee's whole weight loss thing seemed kind of tacky too (always bragging about it). Even more so; now that he can't seem to keep the weight off

[steve2470]

36. k&r nt

[DirkGently]

37. Another doughy lunatic claiming to speak for god.

[Cha]

38. Husterbee.. the Pious Punk who call himself

a preacher. Better stick to defending idiots like Akin for attention instead of trying to snipe at Intelligent beings.

[tblue37]

40. They don't know fundamental biology--but they do know

fundamentalist biology.

[_Liann_]

42. The Huckster...

[Warren DeMontague]

43. She's kinder & more tactful than me. I would've said "that's funny- I heard a horrible ruckus coming

from the hotel room next to mine- really, it sounded like a sick walrus trying to mate with one of those cheap speakers rip-off artists sell out of those white vans- and when I asked the Desk what it was, they told me Huckabee and Chris Christie were next door wrestling over the last drumstick in a 50 Lb. bucket of KFC."