Mike Huckabee fights new evil... Rainbow Doritos!!!

[Crossroads Inc.]

in the annuals of You can't make this shit up! News.

Republican presidential candidate Mike Huckabee has a new enemy: Doritos Rainbows.

After Frito-Lay this month said it would mail rainbow-colored Doritos chips to consumers who donate money to the It Gets Better Project, a nonprofit helping the lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender community, Huckabee went on the offense against the snack-maker.

In a letter his campaign said he sent Frito-Lay on Tuesday, Huckabee said Dan Savage, the man behind the group benefiting from the bags, has for years made “very hateful and vulgar comments toward Christians” and called “for violence and injury to people he disagrees with.”
The letter follows one four days earlier in which Huckabee first asked Frito-Lay, a subsidiary of PepsiCo that produces Doritos, to stop raising money for Savage’s project, according to Huckabee’s campaign, which said Thursday he had yet to receive a response to either one.

Huckabee and the outspoken gay rights activist and commentator, who created the It Gets Better Project, have had a stormy relationship for years.

Savage has long targeted Huckabee for what he believes are the latter’s homophobic views -- often using sexually explicit and graphic language to attack the former Arkansas governor and Baptist minister -- while Huckabee as recently as Saturday called Savage “one of the most vile, vicious, violent and vulgar individuals in an organization I’ve ever met.”

“It is beyond me to understand how a responsible corporation would think that partnering with someone who spews the vicious vitriol that Savage does would be worthy of your corporate contributions,” Huckabee wrote in his Tuesday letter after the Pride flag-inspired chips became available. In his earlier letter, Huckabee suggested Frito-Lay may not have fully vetted Savage, saying he was “not one to hastily call for a national boycott of a company that may have not adequately researched an affiliation.”

The It Gets Better Project works to "communicate to lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender youth around the world that it gets better, and to create and inspire the changes needed to make it better for them,” according to its website (http://www.itgetsbetter.org/pages/about ... r-project/).

All of the Pride flag-inspired, limited-edition Doritos Rainbows bags had been claimed as of this week, after Frito-Lay received an "incredible amount of support," it said on the chips' website.

Huckabee, in his letter this week, provided a link to comments in which Savage used vulgar, sexually explicit language to attack Huckabee, advised Frito-Lay management to watch it and “ask if it represents the values and views of Frito-Lay.” He referred to Savage’s project as a “hate group.”

Frito-Lay said today it had only worked with the It Gets Better Project, and not Savage, on the Doritos Rainbows program.

"We have not partnered with Dan Savage, and he has not been involved with this initiative," Alexia Allina, a spokesperson for Frito-Lay told ABC News.

She said the program has concluded after all the chips had been claimed.

A spokesperson for Savage said, “The It Gets Better Project is committed to suicide prevention and anti-bullying efforts on behalf of LGBT youth, inspired by a YouTube video created by Dan Savage five years ago this week. Unlike Mr. Huckabee, iconic corporations like Frito-Lay are on the right side of history and we appreciate their support."

So basically Doritos, inspired by a non profit group devoted to stoping kids committing Suicide from rampant Homophobic bullying...Gets Bullied by a Rampant Homophobe...
AH! America!

[Raw Shark]

Huckabee is flailing to remain relevant. This is as desperate as Falwell's assault on the rampaging Kaiju known as Tinky Winky. The Huckster is done.

[Crossroads Inc.]

It has basically got to the: "Angry old man yells at clouds" stage where it does indeed seem he has nothing left but shaking his fist at things.

It's amazing to think that when he first entered the American stage, he was hailed by the Right as the "Loveable Huck" and as "the Christian even non Christians can love!"

Funny how time, as always, shows the true measure of how "Loveable" someone is.

[Raw Shark]

It's kind of fascinating to me what an Emperor With No Clothes situation had to be going on in his campaign, that nobody, nobody at all, at any point just grabbed him by the shoulders and said, "It's fucking chips! Get a grip, man!"

[Channel72]

He's not mad about chips or any sort of additional artificial coloring Frito Lay adds to their vegetable oil and maltodextrin concotions. He's mad that a giant corporation is legitimizing behavior that he hates. Of course, he's a bit late on that bandwagon ... the CEO of the largest company on Earth is gay, and most large corporations have come out in support of LGBT rights. I guess he thought this particular case, with Dan Savage peripherally involved, would serve his interests better, because Dan Savage probably said some vulgar shit which Huckabee was hoping he could associate with a general hypocrisy or "bad behavior" on the part of all gays/LGBT supporters.

So yeah, basically "old man yells at cloud" is more or less an apt description.

[Welf]

Or he is collecting material for his next book and speeches. He will probably make millions as commenter and motivational speaker after the campaign.

[SpottedKitty]

the rampaging Kaiju known as Tinky Winky

[Simon_Jester]

I imagine it's two things put together.

One is the "Emperor With No Clothes" problem- everyone is afraid to be the one to tell the boss he's doing something dumb.

The other is that Huckabee probably staffs his campaign with a lot of like-minded individuals: in other words, religious fundamentalists who in many cases think the apocalyptic end of the world is coming within a few generations, and who see a satanic conspiracy in literally every thing which they perceive as negative, undesirable, or bad news.

Creepy children's show with a character who is vaguely correlated with a few of the recently invented symbols for gay pride? Satanic corruption of America! Gay pride itself? Satanic corruption of America! Got fired for preaching at work? Satanic corruption of America! Heard an anecdotal story from a cousin's friend's in-law about a business getting sued into the ground for firing all the queers? Satanic corruption of America!

If you think that way... Let's just say that when it comes time to have a sense of perspective about how big a deal a given problem really is, the deck is badly stacked against you. You already think that everyday mundane normal events are part of a satanic plot to ensure that the minimum number of people have their souls saved by being teleported directly to Heaven in an upcoming apocalypse, and you are seriously considering the likelihood that this will happen in your lifetime. You're already predisposed to believe random miscellaneous rumors so long as they are passed on to you by anyone who has in the past, is now, or looks vaguely as though they might acquire, a degree from a seminary. It's hard to correctly calibrate your sense of the relative importance of different events and not overreact, if that's your starting point.

[The Romulan Republic]

I'm going to particularly enjoy watching Huckabee crash and burn. This man has no respect for the rule of law or the separation of Church and State.

Might I remind everyone of his saying that he would consider using the military to stop abortion, defying the Supreme Court? Effectively theocratic martial law?

http://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow-show ... r-abortion

Republican presidential hopeful Mike Huckabee caused quite a stir this week with repulsive Holocaust rhetoric, which the former Arkansas governor probably saw as a vehicle to a poll bump, despite rebukes from Israeli officials and domestic Jewish groups.

But as that controversy fades, the GOP candidate needs another ridiculous remark to keep his name in the headlines. This ought to do the trick.
GOP presidential candidate Mike Huckabee is open to the idea of using federal troops and the FBI to stop women from having abortions.

“I will not pretend there is nothing we can do to stop this,” Huckabee, the former governor of Arkansas and an outspoken social conservative, said Thursday at a campaign stop in Jefferson, Iowa.
According to the Huffington Post’s piece, Huckabee proceeded to attend another event in Iowa, where he was asked whether he’d seriously consider using federal troops or FBI agents to prevent abortions.

“We’ll see if I get to be president,” the Republican said, adding, “All American citizens should be protected.”

The Constitution guarantees the rights of citizenship to “all persons born” in the United States. Huckabee, however, seems to believe “citizens” also includes fetuses.

In case it’s not obvious, the far-right Republican is describing a deliberate constitutional crisis.

The Supreme Court has ruled that Americans have a constitutional right to terminate unwanted pregnancies. The executive branch does not have the legal authority to ignore the court’s rulings, dispatching federal personnel to block the exercise of those rights.

The trouble is, Huckabee has long embraced his own unique brand of constitutional law, which exists far outside the American system, but which the former Fox News host nevertheless likes to pretend is real. In Huckabee Land, the Supreme Court does not have the final say over what is and isn’t constitutional, and in his version of United States, rulings from the high court are not the “law of the land.”

So, when it comes to reproductive rights, which Huckabee opposes, of course a Huckabee administration’s attitude would be indifferent to the judicial branch.

Remember, among Republicans, President Obama is the lawless and tyrannical radical who disregards the rule of law.

As a practical matter, it’s probably worth emphasizing that the notion of a Huckabee White House remains far-fetched, and the far-right Arkansan is an unlikely contender for his party’s nomination.

But he’s nevertheless competitive, and Huckabee very likely assumes that the more irresponsible his rhetoric, the greater his chances of success in the Republican nominating process. The result, alas, is an increasingly unhinged candidate who’s made the transition from “the oven doors” to “let’s ignore Supreme Court rulings we don’t like” over the course of a single week.

I‘m not sure how much more it might take for the Beltway establishment to reevaluate their assumptions about Huckabee being a charming, great guy.

[Elheru Aran]

I'm fairly certain the only people supporting Huckabee are the hardcore Religious Right, and half of them are in love with Carson too, so it's not like his base is particularly reliable. He's not going to make it past much more than the first few primaries if he gets that far.