Rush Vs. Huckabee Continues
Posted on December 23, 2007
Oh, for all those folks that said the good news for Huckabee in this situation was that Rush’s show was going into re-runs until after the Iowa caucus….its still on!
Rush Limbaugh — responding to Mike Huckabee’s peace offering — said today that he doesn’t need to talk with the former Arkansas governor.
“I saw his comments and accept them as honest, sincere and genuine,” Limbaugh wrote in an e-mail.
Still, the conservative talk show host indicated his continued displeasure at the anonymous remarks Thursday from a Huckabee backer suggesting he takes his cues from the “D.C./Manhattan chattering class” that sparked this conflagration.
But wait…he doesn’t get off the hook that easy.
“Gov. Huckabee’s campaign is engaged in identity politics at this moment, so I understand his adviser’s/supporter’s intent to put the focus on me rather than the substance of my commentary,” he tweaked.
And as for Huckabee’s plea for Limbaugh to get in touch, the man behind the golden EIB microphone said this: [T]here are people on his Arkansas staff who know full well how to reach me and they have not. But that is not necessary to me. We’re not playing in a kindergarten sandbox here. We are all presumably adults.”
That charge is key to why so many conservatives have a problem with Huckabee. As most realize, he seeks to do the same thing with being Evangelical as the Left has been doing for years with identities such as Black, Hispanic, Female, gay, etc. Huckabee would have it so that his qualifications and positions on many important issues don’t matter – only his religion, or identity, does.
If he or his people engage Rush’s premise it opens the door for Limbaugh to take him down and make the argument that Evangelicals, of which Bush is one btw, shouldn’t be fooled. Conservatism and evangelical-ism are two different things. I wouldn’t look for Rush to drop this anytime soon. He’ll have to at least comment on it when he comes back.
Given that any conversation could be so dangerous for Huckabee, he’s going to look as though he turned tail and ran from a talk show host. So, the question for Huckabee is, how are you going to stand up to terrorists, if you can’t even stand up to Rush? He may not realize it, yet, but Huckabee has already lost this confrontation.
I tell you what. Any person from Iowa reading this right now that is planning on supporting Huckabee, think twice. Take a long, hard look at his record and scrutinize it. You’ll find, besides social issues, that his record is far from conservative. Don’t just pull the lever for him because of his religion. Think carefully.
Next up…Huckabee will be up against Tim Russert. Its starting to look a lot more likely that Thompson or McCain will get the second place prize in Iowa.
Hat tip: Hot Air
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Mike Huckabee is no conservative, but is he a Christian. Huckabee uses religion as an excuse to spend tax dollars. Being generous with other people’s property does not seem like the hallmark of a Christian.
Didn’t Huckabee canceled Tim Russert?
I think there are two basic reasons Rush is attacking Mike Huckabee.
Number 2 is that Huckabee does, admittedly, often lead with a populist sounding attention getter up front and one often has to sift for his solutions; which ARE CONSERVATIVE.
The Number 1 Reason is the one area where RUSH IS NOT CONSERVATIVE. Rush is too much of a hedonist to be able to support anyone who takes issues like homosexual mainstreaming seriously; or who mentions any subject before money.
As one who has listened to Rush for years, it’s obvious that he thinks homosexual mainstreaming is no big deal.
For me, it’s the biggest. We can recover from a temporary tragic bout of liberalism in fiscal areas; but a governmental sanction of homosexual practice would shatter our basic culture in ways that we would never recover.