<p>What would possess a grown man running for president (Huckabee) to tell another candidate to drink metamucil? Who’s a Huckabee supporter? What am I missing here?</p>
<p>[My</a> Way News - Huckabee and Thompson Trade Barbs](<a href=“http://apnews.myway.com/article/20080112/D8U4EN880.html]My”>HeadlineAlley)</p>
<p>NOT ME, he seems to be vicious and I think he is playing the game in a very negative way, which is why I won’t support him</p>
<p>The main reason I WILL NOT support Huckabee is he focuses less on his politics and more on his pandering to the Evangelical republicans.</p>
<p>loose cannon</p>
<p>I don’t support him for many reasons- sad thing is I don’t believe its pandering- it is who he really is- that he is chosen by God to be president- that to me is much scarier-</p>
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An attempt at humor. Huckabee was trying to suggest Thompson was full of it. It was hardly an outrageous or obnoxious comment. Thompson is a big boy and I am sure he can take it; especially since he can dish it out.</p>
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I would say Huckabee’s description of Thompson is pretty accurate.</p>
<p>I think that if Huckabee can say something strange like that about another candidate, what could he say about another world leader? For example, would the prime minister of France like to hear from Huckabee that he needs an enema? Or the head of Peru that he needs Metamucil? Comments about bowel habits are inappropriate as a world leader. I also think that preachers such as Huckabee should also restrain themselves from mentioning bowel habits from the pulpit and how to repair them. Especially problems that are imaginary and invented for the cheap laugh.</p>
<p>As to what Thompson did during his 8 years as a Senator: He obviously is not going to be the Republican nominee for President, but if his constituents wanted to elect and reelect him as Senator, they must have thought he had done something that was worthy of votes.</p>
<p>Oh good grief, aren’t we overreacting just a bit here? What was so horrible, so “vicious” about Huckabee’s quip? —btw, for the record, I am NOT a Huckabee supporter. Edwards is my man. But latching onto what seems to me to be a fairly innocuous comment (at least by political standards) with such rancor points to other motivations. If Bill Clinton had made such a statement about Bush, Huckabee, or any number of others, many of you who are most offended by Huck’s apparent lack of “decorum” probably would have crowed with laughter and given him a cyber pat on the back. I agree with Razorsharp (LOL–:eek:). It was just a clumsy way of suggesting that Grandpa was full of it. Thompson and Huckabee were merely exchanging standard campaign trail insults. </p>
<p>“I don’t support him for many reasons- sad thing is I don’t believe its pandering- it is who he really is- that he is chosen by God to be president- that to me is much scarier-”</p>
<p>Just because Mike Huckabee is a former baptist minister, does not automatically mean he believes God pre-ordained him to be President. Has he ever indicated that he believes such a thing? Did Jimmy-the-baptist-Carter believe he was so pre-ordained? Would it have bothered you if he had? Seriously.</p>
<p>“What was so horrible, so “vicious” about Huckabee’s quip?”-poetsheart</p>
<p>poetsheart the reason I find Huckabee’s quip deplorable is because he has stated that he doesn’t base his campaign on personal attacks of any kind, bringing this up after his victory over Romney in Iowa. This was of course after Romney made several negative ads about Huckabee. I agree that it is typical political rhetoric, but if you claim to be above it you should be above it. If you turn your back on your own beliefs, be prepared to be hit by flak when they find you are a hypocrit, especially in this type of election.</p>
<p>I’m in favor of personal attacks. Indeed, that is perhaps the best way to differentiate among the candidates. </p>
<p>I especially like really mean, negative ads.</p>
<p>The American public agrees. They work!</p>
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<p>Boston Globe 12/21/07:</p>
<p>Asked recently by a student at Liberty University, the conservative Baptist school, about what he attributed his surge in the polls to, Huckabee replied:</p>
<p>“There is only one explanation for it, and it’s not a human one. It’s the same power that helped a little boy with two fish and five loaves feed a crowd of 5,000 people. And that’s the only way that our campaign could be doing what it’s doing. And I’m not being facetious . . . There literally are thousands of people across this country who are praying that a little will become much and it has.”</p>
<p>I’m afraid that mini is right and that negative ads do seem to affect public voting. Surely, the Bush-Kerry election was the “high” point of negative attack ads.</p>
<p>I thought metamucil was an attempt at humor–a bad one. Frankly, constipation/old folks jokes are not funny. Thompson has been playing the grumpy old man on the primary circuit.</p>
<p>There are many reasons not to vote for Huckabee, but bad metamucil jokes isn’t one of them.</p>
<p>This is going to entertaining to watch.</p>
<p>“I’m afraid that mini is right and that negative ads do seem to affect public voting.”</p>
<p>Standing up to negative ads is good training for committing genocide or invading sovereign nations and engaging in ethnic cleansing.</p>
<p>Agree, mafool! With the writer’s strike, we’re going to need that entertainment.</p>
<p>Sounds to me as if he is saying faith and prayer are responsible for his surge in the polls. Logical or not, Christians believe in the supernatural effects of prayer said “in faith”. That’s not the same thing as saying he believes he is pre-ordained. I know the difference seems subtle. Conversely, at times, Carter probably attributed the same phenomena his own political successes. The deeply religious tend to go for such explanations.</p>
<p>I will admit to being persnickety, but I think Huckabee’s comment was vulgar and I’m not a great fan of vulgarity in public life.</p>
<p>Huckabee is the scariest guy running, IMO.</p>
<p>He supposedly has a legendary temper, so I think the Metamucil remark is an example of where he can’t hold his sharp tongue. Funny, yeah. Ill-advised, yeah, that, too. Makes him look petty, kind of like the snipe he made at Romney during the NH ABC debate where, when Romney said he shouldn’t attack his position, Huckabee said, which one. Funny, and I love a fellow smarta.ss, but makes me question his common sense. In the Democratic debate, I was turned off when Obama said Hillary was “likable enough.” Just makes a candidate look small.</p>
<p>“Makes him look petty, kind of like the snipe he made at Romney during the NH ABC debate where, when Romney said he shouldn’t attack his position, Huckabee said, which one.”</p>
<p>“I was turned off when Obama said Hillary was “likable enough.””</p>
<p>How do you stand it? However do you manage to watch political debates and follow campaigns without completely loosing your lunch on a daily basis? If those “snipes” were over the top in your book, you’d best not listen too closely during this election season, because I promise you it’s going to get far worst, and from every quarter!</p>
<p>Oh, I have seen much worse in my years as a reformed political junkie. And, actually, I love the tussle of a campaign. I just prefer the more elegant, thought-out (or contrived!) responses – think Ronald Reagan defending questions about his age by turning it into a joke about the relative youth and inexperience of his opponent. Or Lloyd Bentsen taking Dan Quayle a notch by pointing out Quayle was no John Kennedy.</p>
<p>I characterized the comments as petty. Still think they are. Huckabee clearly has a quick wit. I just think he’d be better served by keeping it to himself sometimes.</p>