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DonViejo

(60,536 posts)
Fri May 8, 2015, 01:13 PM May 2015

Huckabee the Huckster



“Behind former Gov. Mike Huckabee’s warm smile, inclusive rhetoric, and gee-whiz populism lies an ethics record that would make a Clinton blush. His greedy, cheesy money grabs in Arkansas were a preview of today’s greedy, cheesy money grabs,” National Journal reports.

“As part of what the New York Times called ‘unconventional ways to fund a campaign,’ the newly minted GOP presidential candidate recently pitched a dubious medical treatment via infomercial… But that’s not all! Huckabee is allowing his mailing list – the names and email addresses of his political supporters – to be used to peddle cancer cures based on Bible verses.”

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Fred Sanders

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2. Yes, but obvious corruption, in your face, on the table corruption, is not as interesting as possible, could be, what if corruption for the
Fri May 8, 2015, 01:26 PM
May 2015

perpetually ambulance chasing mass media and their masters.

The chase is the addictive thing for the media, endless things can be written during the chase, killing the Fox is anti-climactic and ends the chase.

Why is Huckabee simply not disqualified as a politician, and as a Preacher, due to this selling of snake oil, all out in the open??

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