Huckabee: Demonizing Obama is a ‘fatal mistake’

[Jamie_B]

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[quote](CNN) – Former GOP presidential contender Mike Huckabee called Barack Obama's candidacy "a landmark achievement" Tuesday, and warned fellow Republicans not to demonize Obama.

"Republicans will make a fundamental if not fatal mistake if they seek to win the election by demonizing Barack Obama," Huckabee told reporters in Tokyo, according to a report by Agence France-Presse.

Huckabee praised the country for getting "to a point where we did not see his color but we truly saw his charisma, his message and what he brought to the campaign trail."

"When people are really hurting — and they are right now — they're not looking at a person's race," he added.

Huckabee said he hopes John McCain beats Obama, but that Republicans should focus on policy differences, not race.

Huckabee suggested questions about whether he might join McCain on the ticket were premature. "You can't accept an invitation to the prom until the football captain asks you. So I'm not going to go out and buy the outfit just yet," said Huckabee, according to AFP.[/quote]

[Go Skins]

And now he is running for President:

http://www.nbcwashington.com/news/politics/Mike-Huckabee-Launches-2016-Presidential-Bid-302571271.html?_osource=SocialFlowTwt_DCBrand

 

Former Gov. Mike Huckabee has declared his candidacy for president in the hometown he shares with former President Bill Clinton — Hope, Arkansas. It's his second run for the Republican nomination.

He told supporters at his Hope rally on Tuesday: "It would be perfectly fitting that I would announce here that I am a candidate for president of the United States of America."

[Jamie_B]

2nd time running right?

 

No chance.

[T-Dub]

He's right, demonizing the poor and foreign people is a much, much better strategy.

[CarolinaBengalFanGuy]

Best Republican Primary ever. Mike Huckabee AND Rand Paul? #Winning

 

 

It's probably sad to say yes I am a republican and yes I love both those guys I know....

 

Rick Sanatorium is running again as well.

[Jamie_B]

oh lord

[Go Skins]

http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/article/2565173?utm_content=buffer88392&utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter.com&utm_campaign=buffer

 

Mike Huckabee has become the second Republican presidential candidate to vow the abolition of the Internal Revenue Service if elected in November 2016.

Like Sen. Ted Cruz of Texas, the former Arkansas governor is pitching a radical tax reform plan that would junk the progressive system, with all of its deductions, in favor of simpler approach. Like Cruz, Huckabee said that going this route would render irrelevant the IRS or any similarly massive agency that tracks and collects federal taxes. Still, the federal government would have to collect tax revenue — and someone, or some bureaucracy, has to do it.

 

So how would it work in a Huckabee administration if he could convince Congress to go along? Like Cruz, Huckabee envisions some small sub-agency of the Treasury Department doing most of the work. But Cruz's plan calls for an income-tax based "flat tax" collecting directly by Washington, whereas Huckabee is advocating a national sales tax (aka the "FairTax") that would require state governments to do most of the heavy lifting.

[T-Dub]

I swear these guy's policies are like some stoned freshman college kid that slept through civics class.

 

 

Dude they should just like... pay everyone in burritos