Two More Cases Against Huckabee

This one is from an conservative, evangelical, politically active Arkansas resident. Click through to read the details on each of these items:

1) Governor Huckabee did lasting damage to the Republican Party and conservative movement in Arkansas.2) Governor Huckabee’s non-stop clemencies continually hindered the work of criminal prosecutors and miffed Republicans.

3) Governor Huckabee’s pattern was to ignore immigration laws, often in the name of Christianity.

4) Governor Huckabee was no friend to fiscal conservatives in Arkansas.

5) Huckabee left a long trail of ethics questions while Governor of Arkansas

6) Huckabee’s education record shows him to be an advocate of the “status quo”

7) Huckabee has very little support for his Presidential bid here in Arkansas

Next, Russ @ Ace weighs in:

What bothers me here isn’t the filp-flop on immigration, Lork knows we’ve got plenty of flip-floppers in politics. Hell, I even LIKE some of them. No, what really bothers me here is Mike Huckabee’s use of religion as a blunt instrument. Look at the timeline: In January of 2005, opposing illegal immigrants was “un-Christian”. In January of 2008, Mike Huckabee is supposed to be the “real conservative” in the race because he wants to build the fence. What happened during the three years between these positions? Yeah, that’s right: Mike Huckabee decided to run for President.

I’m a Christian, and I would have to think long and hard before I publicly declared an opponent to be “un-Christian”. I’d like to think that a minister would be just as sensitive, or even more so, to the meaning of that charge as I am. When a believer declares that someone is against the tenets of their faith, it’s reasonable for an observer to believe that he’s alleging that that person has staked out a position against God himself. That’s not a charge to be made lightly.

And just for fun:

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h/t Ian Schwartz