Mike Huckabee: The Smiling Happy Face of Theocratic Fascism

[Joanne98]

Those of us hoping that Sarah Palin might become the Republican standard-bearer are probably in for a disappointment — and it was probably far too much to hope for anyway, wasn't it? I mean, the GOP really isn't that suicidal, right? Although it's much too early to make any serious predictions, I think that if we are going to regard anyone as the most likely leader of the GOP's base of conservative evangelicals, it has to be Mike Huckabee. The reasons why he is a much stronger and better candidate for them are also the reasons why he is a much more dangerous candidate for everyone else.

Sarah Palin would have been a gift to progressives because it would have been so easy to convince everyone (except for the extremists and the base) that she shouldn't be elected. Mike Huckabee, in contrast, is the sort of person who has appeal far outside the base. Give the devil his due: Mike Huckabee can be easygoing, can sound reasonable, speaks intelligently, doesn't talk down to people, doesn't sound like a grumpy, angry old man, is by all accounts genuinely personable and friendly, takes stands on economic issues that make him sound almost progressive, and so on.

Many of these positive qualities are good for any politician, but they will also make it very easy for moderate conservatives and independents to convince themselves that they aren't really voting for an extremist. Even if they are awake enough to recognize how extreme many of his views are, they will assume that that's OK if his views are "balanced" by having some views that aren't extremist. But make no mistake, Mike Huckabee is as much of an theocratic, authoritarian, extremist Christian as anyone in the Christian Right today.

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I think that Mike Huckabee is the third anti-christ as predicted by Nostradamus...

Century 2, Quatrain 62
Mabus will soon die, then will come,
A horrible undoing of people and animals,
At once one will see vengeance,
One hundred powers, thirst, famine, when the comet will pass.

Century 8, Quatrain 77
The antichrist very soon annihilates the three,
twenty-seven years his war will last.
The unbelievers are dead, captive, exiled;
with blood, human bodies, water and red hail covering the earth.

http://www.crystalinks.com/mabus.html

Which means he will be the GOP nominee in 2012!

[patrice]

1. Bait 'n' Switch. P to get them up and ready to work for their candidate,

who will turn out to be Huckabee.

Don't know about the anti-Christ stuff.

[Joanne98]

4. It is predicted that the third anti-christ will have dimples!

It has to be him!

:)

[Shiver]

2. Check out 'The Apocalypse Directive', by Douglass MacKinnon

It's a novel about a hard-right fundamentalist evangelical president, who believes he gets instructions from Jesus. In the third year of his second term, he gets the 'order' to start the Apocalypse.

The book is a damn good read, and in some places damn frightening, since many of the groups mentioned are real.

Anyway, the reason I bring it up is because the author posted a blog on Huffington a few weeks back, saying that Mike Huckabee was the inspiration for the insane, ultra-fundamentalist President Shelby Robertson.

[Joanne98]

6. Oh! I've got to read it!

[Shiver]

8. I loved it, but found parts of it slightly frustrating...

... mostly that all the viewpoints were from the Right, and the Left was not represented at all, except for a few scenes with Speaker of the House Lopez. That's not to say the characters are all assholes or anything - one of the things I liked most about it, actually, was that other Christians are the ones trying to stop the President.

It takes place at some indeterminate point in the future; Dubya is mentioned as still having been President in the past, so at the earliest, it takes place in 2015.

I should really stop before I end up giving everything away... :yoiks:

[Hugin]

3. I couldn't believe Bill Press had him on his Radio Show recently.

That's 10 minutes of my life I'll never get back. :eyes:

Fortunately, my radio still has a volume knob and a tuning dial... So far anyway...

Ah, choices... choices...

[liberalmuse]

5. I used to say he was the least offensive of 'pubs, however...

the more he opens his mouth, the more I become a fucking liar.

[Joanne98]

7. He's scary. Really! I mean. Sarah Palin was fun. But Huck? He's creepy!

[liberalmuse]

9. I'll show you creepy...

Is the mother holding the dog by the trachea?

[AndyTiedye]

10. POD PEOPLE!

[lapfog_1]

11. That group of "guys" looks like they are one happy meal away

from greeting Jeebus in the sky personally.

Didn't Huckabee go on some sort of diet thing? Wasn't he the one that was proud of losing like 80 pounds or so? (Pride being a sin and all, but hey...)

[prostock69]

12. The anti-christ stuff is nonsense

The most esteemed New Testament scholar in the world, Prof. Bart Erhman, a former Fundamentalist Christian, explains in his book "Misquoting Jesus" how the devil, evil and antichrist were created by man's imagination to explain why the righteous were suffering when they shouldn't have been. You see in the Old Testament, God said the righteous wouldn't suffer but they were horribly. The prophets said it was because they were sinning, which they weren't. A group of men called apocalypsis came to the conclusion that God must have an opposing force that is working against him and BAM, the Book of Daniel was written where the apocalypsis writers predicted that the God would conquerer this evil and establish his righteous kingdom on earth again. The book of Revelations written by John is inspired by the book of Daniel. It's all nonsense. Dr. Erhman laughs about all the apocalypse books that are in all the Fundalmental Christian bookstores. He truly doesn't understand the preoccupation of it. Nostradamas was a crazy old man whose predictions are inspired by the bible. Please, dear people. Let Reason and Rational thinking reign and not superstitious nonsense.