The Perfect Republican Candidate
What would the perfect Republican candidate look like?
Soft on crime: check.
Ignorant about science: check.
Ignorant of important foreign affairs issues: check.
Dismissive of Jews: check.
Dismissive of women: check.
In favor of higher taxes: check.
In favor of bigger government: check.
In favor of a more intrusive federal government: check.
Hides his early public records: check.
Flip flops on long-held previous positions: c h e c k .
Yep, those are the attributes of the perfect Republican candidate for President . . . if your name is Hillary Clinton.
December 12th, 2007 at 7:45 am
I didn’t know where you were going with this post when I first glanced at it. It’s certainly clever. I think you are a bit hard, by implication, on Huckabee, but I appreciate your warning that he is not necessarily the candidate that conservatives should support.
December 12th, 2007 at 8:00 am
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December 13th, 2007 at 8:15 am
I find it interesting that you used that link to say he was “dismissive of jews,” so if he had said “except you Jews, you’re the chosen people,” that would’ve made his statement OK?
But what is somewhat ironic, is that his theories that bad things happen because we turn away from God, was an idea very prevalent in Jewish thinking prior to World War II. But after the Holocaust, that line of reasoning sort of faded away as they found it hard to justify the notion that the Holocaust was punishment from God.