Palin to Join Huckabee in Right-Wing Book Club
By Jon Perr Monday Nov 17, 2008 7:00pm
In this the season of their discontent, Republican leaders are pointing the finger of blame, all the while positioning themselves to take over their battered and bruised party in 2012. So it is with Mike Huckabee. In his new book, the former Arkansas Governor, Baptist minister and Fox News host skewers presidential rival Mitt Romney and castigates leaders of the religious right who cast their lot with someone else. But while Huckabee looks forward to the future battle for the soul of the Republican Party in his latest book, it is worth remembering the culture war he advocated in past ones. And apparently, he will have soon have company in author Sarah Palin.
As Time describes, Huckabee's tome (Do The Right Thing: Inside the Movement That's Bringing Common Sense Back to America) is part political memoir, part policy prescription - and part payback. Former Massachusetts Governor Mitt Romney, his rival in courting the GOP's religious right base during the primaries, is mocked as "anything but conservative until he changed the light bulbs in his chandelier in time to run for president." Aggravating matters still, Huckabee "took as a sign of total disrespect" Mitt's refusal to call and congratulate him on his victory in the Iowa caucus which ultimately derailed Romney's campaign.
According to Time, much of Huckabee's venom is directed at his ersatz Christian conservative allies who backed other candidates during the Republican primaries. He blasts Pat Robertson and Bob Jones for backing Rudy Giuliani and Mitt Romney, respectively. Huckabee pans Gary Bauer for his "ever-changing reason to deny me his support." Lamenting "that so many people of faith had moved from being prophetic voices," Governor Huckabee unleashed his fury at the End Times Pastor John Hagee who ultimately backed McCain:
"I asked if he had prayed about this and believed this was what the Lord wanted him to do," Huckabee writes of his conversation with Hagee. "I didn't get a straight answer."
Huckabee's evident feelings of betrayal towards his fellow culture warriors on display in this new book are understandable. After all, among the first of his six books was everything they could have asked for.
In advance of a White House run, most would-be presidential candidates author the obligatory book featuring a heroic biography and bland policy prescriptions. But as David Corn reported, in 1998 Mike Huckabee instead penned a declaration of culture war in his vituperative tome, Kids Who Kill: Confronting Our Culture of Violence.
While Huckabee during the 2008 primaries claimed to be a "uniter" ("We've got to be the united people of the United States"), in 1998 he was anything but. Written the wake of a Jonesboro, Arkansas school shooting, Huckabee laid virtually of all of America's ills at the feet of everyone - and everything - he hates:
"Despite all our prosperity, pomp, and power, the vaunted American experiment in liberty seems to be disintegrating before our very eyes."
"Abortion, environmentalism, AIDS, pornography, drug abuse, and homosexual activism have fragmented and polarized our communities."
"It is now difficult to keep track of the vast array of publicly endorsed and institutionally supported aberrations - from homosexuality and pedophilia to sadomasochism and necrophilia."
Of course, Mike Huckabee's extremism hardly ends there. As I documented here, here and here, Huckabee called for the quarantine of AIDS victims, advocated a faith-based U.S. Constitution, predicted victory over Islam at the End of Times, declared wives should graciously submit to their husbands, credited God for his rise in the polls, undermined the teaching of evolution, offered faith-based pardons for prisoners, called on Americans to be "soldiers for Christ" in "God's army," equated homosexuality with bestiality, and so much more that the chattering classes reviewing Do the Right Thing will conveniently forget.
As it turns out, with his draconian social agenda, Mike Huckabee isn't alone in staking a claim to lead the Republican Party. With today's news from MSNBC of a possible $7 million deal, Huckabee is going to have some competition on the bookshelves - from Sarah Palin.
UPDATE: The Romney camp responds, calling "this type of pettiness is beneath Mike Huckabee."
(This piece is also crossposted at Perrspectives.)
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Hahahahahahahhahahahahahahahaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa (wiping tears of laughter from my eyes).
The Lord came to me in my plate of spaghetti sauce last night and said the Christofascists are Satan's angels and we should do whatever we can to insure their influence is banished from politics forever lest we never be free from the shackles of intolerance, ignorance and bigotry.
Palin to Join Huckabee in Right-Wing
BookKOOK Club!Birds of a feather flock together.
Shouldn't Palin read a book before she writes one?
Hasn't she read all of them? :-)
The bible doesn't count. Although I do wonder how many Christians have actually read it.
Hah!
Write a book? Do they even READ a book?
So long as they can find 'em on 8-track.
...and could find only one instance where Jesus made any political foray.
In this He said to render unto Ceasar what was Ceasar's. He was speaking specifically about taxes(which the Republicans oppose,at least for themselves).
Any other claim that Jesus requires political assistance for His Plan is blasphemy.
...God forbids the people a king for generations, then finally gives in, lets them have kings, & then begins Israel's descent into a millennia of being the whipping boy of the ancient world. They were invaded, defeated in battle, & enslaved by just about any population bigger than a boy scout troop.
"I asked if he had prayed about this and believed this was what the Lord wanted him to do,"
Riiight. Because Jesus hung on a cross for nine hours to back some cheap political hackery. Someone give these nuts 39 lashes.
I wouldn't mind 39 lashes
Just not on the nuts.
Huckster the theocrat should not be allowed to include "Common Sense" in the title of his book. Not only is common sense antithetical to his political view, but it was also the title of a very famous American pamphlet written by a passionate anti-Christian. :)
It seems like a frigging waste of paper to me.
Frigging waste of paper?
Maybe the paper is to wipe up afterwards.
huckabee may be a social conservative, but look at his record...he is far from a fiscal conservative, and has advocated for (good lord almighty) programs for the poor and needy, to be paid by taxes on the more wealthy
doesnt he understand that most of his coreligionists dont give a shit about the word of jesus or god...they only care about their private pocketbooks
as an aside, focus on the family, after spending a half a mil to pass prop 8, has just laid off 500 employees...seems donations and biz is way down
see...you dont have to protest them...they will self destruct
on the other hand...go after those fuckin mormons...i hate that cult
The rethugs will never accept him as long as he spends money on poor people, money that could have gone to tax cuts.
These Christianists are not Christians in my eyes.
huckabee reminds them of what true christianity is...and they hate that
note that during the entire campaign season, even on his show on fox, he not once attacked obama in the way the rest did
i disagree with many of his policies, but he was probably the only true christian in that entire bunch
and hes right about mittons....mittons aint a conservative
of the world will be "witnessed to" for their false hatefulness very soon.
These false prophets are not Christians at all.
They are merely fools masquerading as wanna be Saints.
yellowdogD you got it right. Most of the Christian right could give a shit about the poor, needy, startving, diseased or anything of the sort. But try pulling a the plug from a vegetable or researching a cure for disease using stem cells and ......Their only passion is take away peoples rights and pass their judgment. I hardly call that Christianity.
As long as the social conservatives are controlling the repubs agenda they are going nowhere.
Sarah Palin's book chapter 1:
"The nation's governors that we all are, in our common goal to at long last find solutions to America's problems at this time of great unrest and economic uncertainly, like we governors do in our home states everyday such as slashing budgets and working as a team with our team members across this great land that is the great country of America, is what we do to insure the proper solutions are found and challenges are met..."
As are the woodland creatures.
Piper and Willow? Or are they considered forest imps?
Actually they are witches. Piper on Charmed and Willow on Buffy the Vampire Slayer.
We progressives won't read Huck and the dumb bitch's books and their constituents can't fucking read! What a Goddamn waste of time and wood. Lol.
No but their constituents can color, even if they can't manage to stay between the lines, so each Huckabee/Palin book copy will come with it's on box of Crayolas.
"I asked if he had prayed about this and believed this was what the Lord wanted him to do," Huckabee writes of his conversation with Hagee. "I didn't get a straight answer."
Ya think? Face it Mike, maybe the Lord doesn't want you to be President. Take that as a sign and go away.
Gives the whole book burning idea new life
with all of the naughty liberal books and then Huckabee could barbeque some squirrels for tasty dining.
Hey, it's a win-win situation for all. Recycle and re-use!
eat their own.
re: "Let the righteous eat their own"
It looks like the Huckabee family is off to a good start.
My concern has been
the atrocities
there in Darfur
and the relevance to me
with that issue
as we spoke
about Africa
and some of the countries there
that were kind of the people
succumbing
to the dictators
and the corruption
of some collapsed government
on the continent
the relevance was
Alaska's investment
in Darfur
with some of our
permanent fund dollars
Such as, y'know, you betcha. Also.
"author Sarah Palin"...bwaaaahaaaahaaaa...
The woman can't construct a coherent sentence...who in their right mind would think of referring to her as an 'author'?!?
Sure, I know there would be lots of 'celebrity-struck' non-thinkers out there who would buy her book & probably wait in line to do so...but, please, let's keep some perspective here & call it as it stands.
Sarah Palin is something 'new' on the scene; someone new who bedazzles some with her looks & her brazen aggressiveness, with family & circumstances to get caught up in, like any other 'flash in the pan celebrity'.
There are enough people buying up magazines such as People, Us, In Touch, etc. so we know there would be no problem marketing something from this, the latest distraction.
I cannot imagine, in all honesty, anyone who enjoys reading wanting to put eye to page to read what Sarah Palin might have to pen.
As for laughing all the way to the bank...well, she certainly scores on that one!
I don't want to hear another word about how the election of Obama proves "there's an equal playing field" and that "blacks have no more excuses."
You can be white and get into Yale as a Legacy, kick around for years as a pathetic loser and drunk, drive your company into the ground and still become president of the United States.
You can be white and fail your company utterly, drive it into the ground and still get billions of dollars of bailout money and a golden parachute.
You can be white and a poorly spoken, international joke for a politician who loses a VICE presidential bid and still get a $7 million book deal.
For a black person to get rich in America, they have to be SUCCESSFUL. Until a black person can get rich by being a complete and utter failure, don't tell me the playing field is level.
1: wolf blood red
2: prank phone call blue
3: $150K green
Chapter 1) Contributor Sarah Palin: "This flat planet which the sun rotates around every 24 hours was created in it's present form 6000 years ago..."
Chapter 2) Contributor Mike Huckabee: "First remove the lid from the pre-heated popcorn popper. let the butter melt. Toss in 2 fresh road kill squirrels. Let fry for 7 minutes or until the good Lord tells you it's ready to eat. Serves 2-3 God fearers. Goes great wit Kool-Aid and a bag of wingnuts."
Forward by Mitt Romney: "Tie your family pet securely on the roof of your car for the 10 hour drive to Florida. Make sure the back glass wiper recepticle is full of washer fluid as I know first hand how hard it is to see driving down I-95 with shit from a petrified animal running down the back window while going 75. Now sit back and enjoy the enlightened writings of Sarah Palin and Mike Huckabee"
You're a friggin' genius, G&B. An acid tongue pointed in the right direction. Made my day.
Nearly as funny as the Bush Library!
...where the shelves will be lined not with books but with empty liqour bottles and used cocaine straws.
As President Obama takes office, the racists, homophobes, and flat-earthers will squeal, whine, strut, bully, and, unfortunately, commit acts of violence as their true colors seep through. Those of us who put Obama into office now have a responsibility to help take up the progressive causes in our local communities. For example, check out www.au.org, the Americans United for Separation of Church and State. The religionists have got to be challenged, their tax exemptions have got to be challenged, their public policies on school boards and curriculum need to be challenged, their involvement in political speech during church services needs to be challenged. There has to be a counter voice to the rantings of the right, the heirs of the Confederacy. Let's define them before they redefine us.
and put their rights up for vote on ballot initiatives.
You are so right.
I stop going to church because I realized it was all a lie.
Remember who wrote the bible? Not the people who were there but the 3rd son of a Lord. Number 1 got the chateau, 2 went to war and the 3d son was given to the Church and wrote the bible.
Nowhere does the bible mention Marriage, as all were bigamist!
To see the looks on their faces when they find out that they don't get to actually "club" any books!!
and applying to be the new librarian....just so i can ban her book
I do not want to hear about those looser anymore. Lets that Conservative nut give Palin 7 Million for a book and see who will purchase that book! None of the kooks, that when to see her can read.
That and mystery purchases of batches of 1000s to push it into the NYT bestsellers list.
Those vanity Repug books make for good toilet paper for those special hot chilli days.
So who do suppose she's going to have write the book?
One of her younger kids.
Wow there's two republicans who can read? More than I thought.
Stupid piece of camel feces. Can can hardly babble. How is she going to find 70,000 words to string together into a book? She has a vocabulary of about 500 words.
yes, but she repeats those same 500 words about 70 thousand different ways.
Let's see there's "America, great, land, solutions, and, team, members, solutions (wait, already said solutions), Alaska, Russia, from, my, house, can, see,on, a, clear, day, Putin, Achmedinejad, pals, around, with, domestic, terrorists, Bill, William, Ayers, Kim, Jung, may, I, call, ya, Joe, you, betcha, doggone, it, solutions (damn, already said that one twice), Katie, in, what, way, Charlie,good, Lord, opens, door, will, go, right, through, it".
I was only able to come up with a vocabulary of about 50 words.
...the, plumber,...
For the love of all that is right and good!! WE HAVE SPELL CHECK PLUS THE ABILITY TO EDIT PREVIOUSLY SUBMITTED POSTS!! IF IN NO OTHER THREAD, PLEASE GO BACK AND CHECK YOUR SPELLING IN THIS ONE!! MR. AMATO DESERVES AT LEAST THAT MUCH!!
If you're going to write a book,
don't you need to be able to read?
"Yeah, mocked, I guess that's the word. Yeah."
Submit, or die.
It would save a lot of trees if the theocrats would just tell the truth.
Can't wait for the movie.................Can you?
"Palin around with Joe the Plumber"
How that for a title.......................
Its a coloring book.
Isn't anyone sick and tired of this woman. We give her life by continually talking about her. We should all write all the media outlets and tell them to STFU.
Well, that is two books more than either of them has READ.
... that if God wanted any of these schmucks to be president, it didn't happen, but they're all still making noises like all they have to do is the right happy dance, and the Amazing Sky Daddy will give them Supreme Political Power here on Earth so that they may do His Bidding.
(From a theological standpoint, the problem here is man telling God 'I need this to do what you want' or that God's plan somehow always seems to mean 'position of secular leadership.' I always thought the point was that you don't get to pick your 'calling' - you go where it leads you.)
"Author Sarah Palin"? You gotta be kidding. This one gets my vote for the Ultimate Oxymoron.
While most people believe the Inquisition is a remnant of the distant past, the Roman Catholic Church did not offically end it until 1918. It looks like Huckabee wants to create his own more modern Evangelical version, to include not only government endorsement, but official government policy. Perhaps he has a plan to torture disbelievers by playing a tape of Palin endlessly reading her book aloud to them. If these guys take over the Republican Party, both the Party and the Inquisition will be history.
Actually, the Inquisition is still around under a new name: Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith. It's where Cardinal Razinger came from (former Hitler's Youth), now Pope Benedict XVI.
The only other organization of long-standing and questionable reputation that gets renamed a lot is the KGB.
BTW, Pope Benny's original name is 'Rat Zinger'
I realized that, but forgot their new acronym. I looked it up; it's FSI, which I think means Federal Security Investigation.
Here's someone else who has the same hand thing going:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CLQ3i_XQXsw
Can anyone explain to me why Romney keeps getting lumped in with the Christians when it is well known that he is actually a Mormon?
Mormons are Christians, in that their actual name is Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints, however they're neither orthodox nor Paulician, but then neither are most mega-churches.
For the same reason that the people in this thread continue to make the assumption that anyone who disagrees with them is stupid, can't or doesn't read, and demands that sitting Governors and former Governors "go away" so they don't have to think about them any more.
Ignorance, and an unwillingness to inform oneself with facts prior to spouting ill informed opinion.
Beep
Wrong...
The joke is sarah palin couldn't name a book or magazine she's read, and she's writing a book?
And both she and hockaloogy are more likely to hire spooks to write it under their name.
The books will indubitably be published by conservative book distributors who'll buy them up to look like best sellers, but turn around and sell them for a buck if you sign up with them.
Palin can't:
- Manage a coherent sentence, let alone understand Putin's head is neither airborne nor going to lead a Russian invasion across the Bering Strait ...
- Correctly define the vice-president's job ...
- Can't name a magazine or newspaper she's read ...
- Scoffs at 'research into fruit flies' without realizing that those findings are, in fact, tied into the 'policy' speech she was supposed to be making ...
... and your trollish ass is over here castigating me about being 'ignorant' and 'unwilling to be informed'?
Laughable.
That should say Paulist. The Paulicians were a Gnostic heresy group comparable to the Patarenes, the Waldensians, Bogomils, Cathars and Albigensians.
or do they call them something else. Cliff sounds so gay ya know.
I dunno, isn't boosh using Cliff's notes (Claven?)
Booosh can READ?!?!
He's translating:
http://www.fermentingrevolution.com/Assets/BA...
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