Now THAT'S Slick!

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This article by NewsMax shows that Mike Huckabee is more slick than Bill Clinton ever was (and apparently Clinton is giving Huckabee his "props" in recognition of the fact).


The headline of the article is the Huckster's claim that:


Huckabee: I Beat the Clinton Machine Twice


The claim by Huckleberry is that he beat the Clinton machine in both of his elections. The only problem is that's not true. He won by joining the Clinton machine. The Wall Street Journal confirms this:


Mr. Huckabee's reluctance to surround himself with conservatives was evident as governor, when he kept many agency heads appointed by Bill Clinton. Zac Wright, a spokesman for incoming Democratic Gov. Mike Beebe, was asked this year why 15 Huckabee agency heads had been retained. Most of them were "Clinton people," he replied, not "Huckabee people."


Wait! There's more!


Betsy Hagan, Arkansas director of the conservative Eagle Forum and a key backer of his early runs for office, was once "his No. 1 fan." She was bitterly disappointed with his record. "He was pro-life and pro-gun, but otherwise a liberal," she says. "Just like Bill Clinton he will charm you, but don't be surprised if he takes a completely different turn in office."Phyllis Schlafly, president of the national Eagle Forum, is even more blunt. "He destroyed the conservative movement in Arkansas, and left the Republican Party a shambles," she says.


"He has zero intellectual underpinnings in the conservative movement," says Blant Hurt, a former part owner of, and columnist for, Arkansas Business magazine. "He's hostile to free trade, hiked sales and grocery taxes, backed sales taxes on Internet purchases, and presided over state spending going up more than twice the inflation rate."


"He fought my efforts to reform the National Governors Association and always took fiscal positions to my left," said former Colorado Gov. Bill Owens.


Even in religious matters:


When conservatives took over the Southern Baptist Convention after a bitter fight in the 1980s, Mr. Huckabee sided with the ruling moderates. Paul Pressler, a former Texas judge who led the conservative Southern Baptist revolt, told me, "I know of no conservative he appointed while he headed the Arkansas Baptist Convention."


Back to the NewsMax article ...


Huckabee, ecstatic about the rising poll numbers, explained the momentum factor: “We’re the only campaign that has had one trajectory, and that’s been forward and upward… We’re the only campaign that has not had a peak and now has slipped backwards.”


Ahh, Mike, aren't you forgetting somebody??? Did you forget to inhale?


Huckabee deftly sidesteps a Newsmax comparison of his own successes with that of fellow Republican presidential hopeful Ron Paul. The Texas congressman, like Huckabee, is also doing well as an outside-the-pack candidate, getting attention and raising a lot of money online.


Oh, just IGNORE that Ron Paul guy, even if it means outright LYING to do so.


The scariest thing is that Huckabee himself agrees with the comparisons to Slick Willie:


Mike Huckabee Compares Himself to Bill Clinton


Republican presidential candidate Mike Huckabee compared his campaign Monday to that of another former Arkansas governor Bill Clinton, who was hardly a front-runner when he started his ultimately successful run for the White House.


The only difference is that Clinton didn't inhale, whereas Huckster inhaled but hasn't exhaled.