Huckabee’s Pro-Life Principles Questionable
Posted on December 22, 2007
Update: Jonah Goldberg wonders why this hasn’t made more of a splash. So am I. Maybe now that NRO has picked it up, it will pick up some steam.
With as many critiques that I’ve given Huckabee, I’ve never questioned him on social issues. I’ve always thought that was his strong point. But now comes news that those principles may not be so bonafide, at least when money gets involved.
The Caucus Cooler reveals details on some shady fundraising that includes $35,000 from an embryonic stem cell research group.
Most noteworthy, $35,000 came from Novo Nordisk, one of the world’s largest embryonic stem cell researchers. It seems that when money is at stake Huckabee may be able to look past his supposedly fervent opposition to this procedure
He also received speaking fees and honoraria from churches while Governor.
It is certainly calls into question whether or not it is appropriate for a Governor to be taking a consulting fee from interest groups, as Huckabee did, when issues surrounding that interest group could come across his desk.
The consulting money was funneled through an organization called 12 stops, a group created in 2004 to handle Gov. Huckabee’s book deals. With all the attention Senator Obama received for running a separate PAC and potentially funnelling money from maxed out donors through that PAC, it calls into question whether Huckabee may have done the same.
More at the Boston Globe:
He opposes embryonic stem-cell research, but this year accepted a fat speaking fee from drugmaker Novo Nordisk, which conducts embryonic stem-cell research. Over protests from churches, he pushed through a bill allowing video poker at the state’s racetracks, then took a cool $10,000 campaign contribution from the owner of the state’s biggest track.
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Brantley reports that Huckabee used campaign funds to pay himself as his own media consultant. (Personally, I consider this a hanging offense.)
According to Brantley, “Huckabee raked in tens of thousands of dollars in gifts, including gifts from people he later appointed to prestigious state commissions. Inauguration funds were used to buy clothing for his wife.”
Matt Taibbi in Rolling Stone found Huckabee had a $60,000 taxpayer slush fund for personal expenses like dog food, pantyhose, and meals at Taco Bell. Taco Bell?
Rob Port of Say Anything:
Mike Huckabee is no fiscal conservative, but he’s strong on social issues. But if he loses credibility on social issues as well, his campaign “ship†is sunk.
The word on Huckabee is that he likes his money. I’m not sure people realize just how much, given the poor preacher image and all. He appears to have made several times his salary as Governor from outside business interests.
So how will this make his social defenders feel? Will they look elsewhere? This news so far isn’t registering in the MSM. Will it be ignored as he is the media darling?
Far from being an impoverished Preacher humbly serving his fellow man as Governor, Huckabee made that job pay in ways that must have Team Clinton green with envy. $400,000.00 in 2006 while still serving as governor.
The more you look the more Huckabee looks like yet another Elmer Gantry.
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I’m beginning to think this guy wouldn’t just rent the Lincoln Bedroom, he’d auction the furniture.
He’s seeming more like an unscrupulous televangelist each day.
And yep, if he loses his prolife credentials, he’s sunk.
Crash……………..burn.
There may be no perfect candidate, but this guy is the opposite of perfect.
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Lobo
It’s great watching you guys eat each other. Will anyone’s principles ever be pure enough for guys like you? Well if they are, rest assured they will come off like total nutcases to the rest of the country.
Get ready for liberalthon 2008! Panderers to the right have proven themselves totally incompetent in office.
In response to the false allegations and double standards used against Mike Huckabee by the so-called conservative “Elite Talk Show Hosts†and writers, consider the following;
Did the current President and their elected pals in the US Congress uphold their responsibility by holding the line on spending starting in the early 90s? Did the “Elite Talk Show Hosts†and writers help vote them out of office by working night and day mocking their names as dreadfully has they have smeared Mike Huckabee’s name, only after his rise in the polls?
Their “Talking Points†propaganda warfare used against a fellow conservative who could very well be more of a conservative than they are provides a good look at their true colors.
Comments like “tax and spenderâ€, “not a conservativeâ€, and “soft on immigration†are merely “Talking Points†without specifics and offered in the style of propaganda as Dictators who employ the same tactics to spread only their message with little facts or specifics and/or direct rebuttal from the opposing candidate/s.
I have seen enough and prefer not to lessen or watch Rush Limbaugh, Michael Reagan, Ann Coulter, Sean Hannity and Laura Ingraham until after the 2008 election. I prefer my news and entertainment “UN-FILTERED!â€
Whatever David. We’ve always cited evidence with any claim we’ve made on Huckabee. Go bark up some other tree. I don’t have any kind of agenda other than keeping a liberal posing as a conservative, Christian or not, from getting President. I’m not smearing anyone, I’m simply stating backed up facts. Go somewhere else with your “propaganda” excuse.
“I prefer my news and entertainment “UN-FILTERED!â€
Oh, like at NPR, right?
Is there a such thing as a Seminar Troll?
Talk about “propaganda” — David, you are simply parroting the Huckabee campaign “Talking Points.” “Sounds” “Like” “Projection” “To” “Me.”
Novo Nordisk, a Danish based research company that is hell-bent on curing diabetes through embryonic stem-cell research.
Newsline should read:
Newsflash: Huckabee trades soul with devil — kills babies to cure his diabetes!