Huckabee: "Vote for me and live."

SirNitram · Post by **SirNitram** » 2007-12-27 01:24pm

WASHINGTON (CNN) — It's become a campaign staple for all presidential candidates: perform an activity that demonstrates 'regular-guy' status.

Republican Mike Huckabee took his turn Wednesday, going on a pheasant hunt in Osceola, Iowa during which the Arkansas governor made it clear he is no stranger to the great outdoors.

"Maybe it will show that I certainly understand the culture of being outdoors," he said of the expedition. "It's not something we had to go out and get a primer in. It's very much ordinary to me."

Huckabee's team brought back three pheasants — one of which the candidate claimed he personally shot — and promised they'd be "cleaned and eaten."

Huckabee, who polls show continues to hold onto his lead in Iowa eight days before the state¹s caucuses — also joked the trip could serve as a metaphorical campaign message.

"Don't get in my way," he said while pointing to the three dead birds.

"This is what happens…You vote for me, you live. You don't…there you go."

Huckabee said he was as a lifelong hunter, a statement that harkened back to rival Mitt Romney's similar claim earlier this year. The former Massachusetts governor later backtracked from that statement, saying he had only hunted "small varmints" occasionally.

Huckabee's rise is fueled in part by his "normal guy" appeal, and the governor took the opportunity to reinforce his heartland roots.

“People in Middle America feel like folks will come and campaign in Iowa, and then they get elected and they forget that people out here in flyover land still exist," he said. “Some of us grew up in the middle of the country and still live here."

Got to love that GOP.

That NOS Guy · Post by **That NOS Guy** » 2007-12-27 01:26pm

So if someone kills him, can they claim self defense? After all, he is brandishing a weapon and threatening lives.

The Spartan · Post by **The Spartan** » 2007-12-27 01:26pm

Ooga booga!

Sorry. It's something new I'm trying out. Every time a candidate (or someone else) tries to scare me into voting for them (or their preferred choice) I shout 'Ooga booga!' as a form of mockery.

Flagg · Post by **Flagg** » 2007-12-27 01:30pm

It's the Christian way. No, seriousely.

Androsphinx · Post by **Androsphinx** » 2007-12-27 01:46pm

Worked for LBJ against Goldwater

White Haven · Post by **White Haven** » 2007-12-27 01:48pm

Vote for me if you want to live.

Glocksman · Post by **Glocksman** » 2007-12-27 01:52pm

Flagg wrote:It's the Christian way. No, seriousely.

I can't stand Hucksterbee and would vote for Clinton or Ron Paul before supporting him, but it sounded as if he was being tongue-in-cheek about it.

He's a nut who shouldn't be in the White House without a tour guide in front of him saying 'Now let's go see the Rose Garden', but I don't think he's going to go shoot anyone who doesn't vote for him.

Flagg · Post by **Flagg** » 2007-12-27 01:55pm

Glocksman wrote:
Flagg wrote:It's the Christian way. No, seriousely.

I can't stand Hucksterbee and would vote for Clinton or Ron Paul before supporting him, but it sounded as if he was being tongue-in-cheek about it.

Of course he was. So was I... barely.

Post by **Kuja** » 2007-12-27 02:47pm

The fact that he even makes a joke like that goes to show what a moron he is.

Post by **Darth Wong** » 2007-12-27 03:03pm

Mike Huckabee: the candidate for Americans who are tired of George Bush's intellectualism.

Post by **K. A. Pital** » 2007-12-27 03:28pm

Wow. How many lows to hit? Will we get to torturing live kittens on stage as an example of "terrorist dealing-with" at last to ensure voter sympathies?

Durandal · Post by **Durandal** » 2007-12-27 03:30pm

What would Jesus do? Kill pheasants and then use them as an example to those that would oppose his political campaign.

Post by **Darth Wong** » 2007-12-27 03:30pm

Honestly, his success is not that hard to understand. George W. Bush proved that you can be very successful in American politics by shamelessly going after the intellectual lowest common denominator. Huckabee is just another bottom-feeder, like Bush was.

Ericxihn · Post by **Ericxihn** » 2007-12-27 08:08pm

Still I'd be much more scared of Guiliani, the same way I'd be much afraid of Tony Soprano than Boss Hog.

SirNitram · Post by **SirNitram** » 2007-12-27 08:18pm

They're all scary in their own way, like fascist, coward snowflakes.

Huckabee we have here.

Willard Romney wrote:"Our most basic civil liberty is the right to be kept alive"

Which seems to mean everything else can be trampled to protect people from something.

Is there any executive power the Bush administration has claimed or exercised that you think is unconstitutional? Anything you think is simply a bad idea?

The Bush Administration has kept the American people safe since 9/11. The Administration’s strong view on executive power may well have contributed to that fact.

Proving that..

Rudy Guiliani wrote:Freedom is about authority.

Ron Paul wrote:"Given the inefficiencies of what DC laughingly calls the criminal justice system, I think we can safely assume that 95 percent of the black males in that city are semi-criminal or entirely criminal."

And then of course there's 'I was tortured but I'll help allow Bush do it' McCain and 'THE SOVIET UNION IS GONNA GET US!' Thompson.

Post by **Gandalf** » 2007-12-27 10:08pm

This reads like Bush's 2004 election campaign, just playing the fear card to appeal to the moronic middle.

Of course, it's also got a Tony Soprano feel to it.