Huckabee wrong about pretty much everything except Cher
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The Note: Obama, McCain Could be Valuable Allies
Political Radar — ... ? (Which of those directions does Mike Huckabee’s new book take the party?) 3. Will the president-elect spend more political capital ...

Huckabee Lashes Out at Former Rivals in New Book
The Page by Mark Halperin — ... The former presidential candidate has some harsh words for Romney, Thompson and others in "Do The Right Thing: Inside the Movement That's Bringing Common Sense Back to America." Hits stores Tuesday.       ...

Mike Huckabee Settles The Score
Swampland — ... The former Arkansas governor has a new book due out Tuesday. I've written a sneak peak on Time.com. To wit: Mitt Romney, Huckabee's principle rival in Iowa, comes in for the roughest treatment. Huckabee writes that the former Massachusetts Governor's record was "anything but conservative until he changed the light bulbs in his chandelier in time to run for president." He notes that Romney declined to make a phone call of congratulations after Huckabee beat the oddsmakers to win the Iowa caucuses, "which we took as a sign of total ...

Huckabee Lashes Back, Settles Scores
Taegan Goddard's Political Wire — ... Time calls it "at once a memoir of his campaign, a treatise on the ills of the Republican Party, and a blueprint for his own political future." The book is also "filled with sharp words for fellow Republicans who frustrated his bid for the party's nomination." ...

Matt Lewis: In New Book, Huck Hits Romney, Fred
Townhall.com Blog's TownHall Blog — TIME's headline is "Huckabee, Finally, Settles His Campaign Scores..." Finally??? When did he stop attacking his opponents??? From the article: Mitt Romney, Huckabee's principle rival in Iowa, comes in for the roughest treatment. Huckabee writes that the former Massachusetts Governor's record was "anything but conservative until he changed the light bulbs in his chandelier in time to run for president." He notes that Romney declined to make a phone call of congratulations after Huckabee ...

Huckabee Knocks Romney in New Memoir
News — ... Former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee (R) has some pointed words for his former presidential primary rival Mitt Romney in his latest book. Huckabee, in "Do The Right Thing," says that the former Massachusetts governor failed to call after Huckabee defeated him in the Iowa caucuses. Time's Michael Scherer notes that Huckabee's team took that as "a sign of disrespect." Huckabee also dismissed Romney's record as governor as "anything but conservative until he changed the light bulbs in his chandelier in time to run for president." Schrerer notes that Huckabee, a Baptist pastor, ...

Huckabee Settles Scores With Fellow Republicans
The Huffington Post | Full News Feed — ... Time magazine reports that in his new book, Do The Right Thing: Inside the Movement That's Bringing Common Sense Back to America, Mike Huckabee settles some old scores. ...

Huckabee Settles Scores With Fellow Republicans
Politics on HuffingtonPost.com — ... Time magazine reports that in his new book, Do The Right Thing: Inside the Movement That's Bringing Common Sense Back to America, Mike Huckabee settles some old scores. ...

New Huckabee book rips Mitt, Fred, evangelical leaders, pretty much everyone
Hot Air » Top Picks — ... A desperately needed fix of campaign drama during this post-election interregnum detox. Just give me a little hit of score-settling to get me through the day, bro. Just one hit. Ah, that’s the stuff: Mitt Romney, Huckabee’s principal rival in Iowa, comes in for the roughest treatment. Huckabee writes that the former Massachusetts governor’s record was “anything but conservative until he changed the light bulbs in his chandelier in time to run for president.” He notes that Romney declined to make a phone call of congratulations after Huckabee beat the ...

Huckabee reflects, picks his targets
Political Animal — HUCKABEE REFLECTS, PICKS HIS TARGETS.... After relative silence for the past several months, former Arkansas governor and presidential hopeful Mike Huckabee is releasing his new book, "Do The Right Thing: Inside the Movement That's Bringing Common Sense Back to America." Time's Michael Scherer got an advance look , and notes, "[I]n terms of payback, it will not disappoint." Based on Scherer's report, some familiar Huckabee rivals are painted in a negative light, most notably Mitt Romney and Fred Thompson. Huckabee also reportedly lambastes the libertarian wing of the GOP, a ...

Mike Huckabee Unloads on Mitt Romney in New Book
FullosseousFlap's Dental Blog — ... Definitely no love lost between these two former GOP Presidential rivals. On Tuesday, that book will arrive on store shelves, and in terms of payback, it will not disappoint. At once a memoir of his campaign, a treatise on the ills of the Republican Party and a blueprint for his own political future, Do The Right Thing: Inside the Movement That’s Bringing Common Sense Back to America is filled with sharp words for his fellow Republicans who frustrated his bid for the party’s nomination. Mitt Romney, Huckabee’s ...

Huck 'Names Names'
Real Clear Politics - TIME.com — From Time's Michael Scherer's preview of Huckabee's upcoming tell-all book: Mitt Romney, Huckabee's principal rival in Iowa, comes in for the roughest treatment. Huckabee writes that the former Massachusetts governor's record was "anything but conservative until he changed the light bulbs in his chandelier in time to run for president." ... His treatment of former candidate Fred Thompson, a rival who helped sink Huckabee's upstart ambitions in South Carolina, is somewhat more favorable, if only because it is less personal. Huckabee maintains that Thompson's biggest mistake was ...

Mike Huckabee Writes Whiny Book About How Awful Everyone Else Is
Wonkette » top — ... the greedy and grubby process whereby too many elections go to the highest bidder and his sharpie hirelings,” he writes. WAH WAH WAH. What else… oh right, he’s a queer: In the middle of a disquisition on libertarianism, Huckabee pauses to praise the musician Cher for tours that are “an amazing blend of rock concert, circus and fashion show.” He was much jollier as a fat ass. Huckabee Finally Settles His Campaign Scores [Time]

No More Mister Nice Blog — ... positions that he's alienated the majority of the litmus-test base. Sure, he did surprisingly well in the 2008 primaries, but that's because no first-tier candidate truly appealed to evangelical voters; in 2012, if Palin runs (or possibly if the right-wing Catholic Bobby Jindal runs), Huckabee will be up against a competitor or competitors who talk about God the way he does and pass GOP-base litmus tests he doesn't. And now he's handicapped himself even more by settling some scores in a forthcoming book: Mitt Romney, Huckabee's principal rival in Iowa, ...

DAY'S END ROUNDUP
News — ... . Obama won't be able to rely on his ability to "look thoughtful" when he's actually the president, Rubin writes. Huckabee knocks former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney (R), Christian conservative leaders and anti-tax groups in his book, which hits shelves Tuesday. The book provides a nice jolt of post-election campaign drama and presages a potential 2012 showdown for evangelical voters between Huckabee and Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin (R), writes Hot Air's ...

Palin to Join Huckabee in Right-Wing Book Club
Crooks and Liars — ... 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 ...

Monday evening links
Sister Toldjah — ... —– Former Ark. gov and candidate for president Mike Huckabee has raised a lot of eyebrows this week with a new book coming out tomorrow that talks about, among other things, the race for the Republican nomination. The book, titled ...

The Christianists Who Failed To Hear The Call
The Daily Dish | By Andrew Sullivan — Huckabee settles scores in his new book: He calls out Pat Robertson, the Virginia-based televangelist, and Dr. Bob Jones III, chancellor of Bob Jones University in South Carolina, for endorsing Rudy Giuliani and Romney, respectively. He also has words for the Texas-based Rev. John Hagee, who endorsed the more moderate John McCain in the primaries, as someone who was drawn to the eventual Republican nominee because of the lure of power. Huckabee says he spoke to Hagee by phone before the McCain endorsement while preparing for a spot on Saturday ...

A Typo of Biblical Proportions
Swampland — ... Yesterday, I wrote a story about some highlights from Mike Huckabee's new book, "Do the Right Thing: Inside the Movement That's Bringing Common Sense Back To America." I quoted Huckabee commenting on what he saw as misplaced priorities among some social conservatives. "I lamented that so many people of faith had moved from being prophetic voices — like Naaman, confronting King David in his sin and saying, 'Though art the man!' — to being voices of patronage, and saying to those in power, 'You da' man!' " Huckabee wrote. As a couple ...

Mike Huckabee and libertarians
The Next Right — ... upset over today's intemperate attack by Kathleen Parker (Note: she was unnecessarily contemptuous, but her point that "the Republican Party -- and conservatism with it -- eventually will die out unless religion is returned to the privacy of one's heart where it belongs" is worth serious consideration). Well, I am a libertarian, so let's talk about the Kathleen Parker of the social conservative crowd: Mike Huckabee. This week, Huckabee called libertarians the "real threat" to the Republican Party... ...

Mike Huckabee Thinks Fiscal Conservatives And “Libertarians” Are A Threat
Say Anything — And no, not just Ron Paul-style “libertarians” (I’m willing to bet that most of the Ron Paul crowd voted for Obama because they were never really so much about limited government as being anti-war) but actual mainstream fiscal conservatives like those members of, say, The Club for Growth. From a review of Huckabee’s new book Do the Right Thing: Inside the Movement That’s Bringing Common Sense Back to America: In a chapter titled “Faux-Cons: Worse than Liberalism,” ...

The GOP Pile On
The American Spectator — ... Granted, fiscal conservatives are not the only ones piling on. In his new book, Mike Huckabee says the Republican Party's real threat is "libertarianism masked as conservatism." No, the real threat is the spendthrift, big-government, scandal-ridden wing of the party, which apparently has become the party. Shifting the blame to libertarians isn't the answer. ...

Regaining the trust of the small government wing of the GOP
The Next Right — ... If some in the party get their way, Huckabee won't have to worry about internal competition from what he calls the  “real threat” to the Republican Party: “libertarianism masked as conservatism.” ...

A Lack of Ideas Has Consequences
The Next Right — ... " nonsense which is social conservatism or the  "heartless, soulless" sadistic fantasy that is economic conservatism. ...

The GOP needs libertarians more than libertarians need the GOP right now
The Next Right — ... Immediately following Election Day, Mike Huckabee graced the pages of Time, blaming libertarians for his electoral shortcomings: ...