While out on the stump for VA’s Republican gubernatorial candidate Bob McDonnell, former Gov. Mike Huckabee made an hysterical joke to the laughing assembled crowd of Republicans, instructing them to “Do the lord’s work” by not letting voters to the polls if they don’t plan to vote for McDonnell.
Of course, it was just a joke. Who in the Republican Party would ever do such a thing in this country?!
Well, other than the guy in the video on the right, Paul Weyrich, one of the founding fathers of the modern Republican vote suppression movement, who, until he recently died, was a regular, legendary consultant to the nation’s top Republicans, and also another hysterically funny Republican Baptist just like Huckabee.
McDonnell’s Democratic opponent in the VA race, former DNC chair Terry McAuliffe, wasn’t laughing. He sent a letter to supporters describing Huckabee’s comment as “no joking matter,” noting: “People died for the right to vote in this country, and we have to protect it.” Rachel Weiner has the full letter tonight at HuffPo.
Beyond that, we’ll spare you the photographs of the who-knows-how-many African-Americans who not only were kept from voting in this nation by others just “doing the right thing” and “the lord’s work,” but who were strung up in trees by their necks in order to keep them from voting and to send the hilarious message to others that they’d best not be let out of their “driveways” come Election Day. We’d go on, but it’s all just so funny, we can’t even keep typing.
Least he loves igloos 🙂
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K45UtvpGV_M
Yeah old Mike is an affable feller…or is that F-U-able? I can’t tell sometimes with the shit that comes out of his beak.
His Chuck Norris campaign shtick was funny as hell tho.
Pastor Huck uses the Lord for Political Gain ~
As I recall, the Democrats who trashed cars that Republicans were using to drive people to the polls a few elections ago did not get indulgent chuckles, much less guffaws, from their colleagues. I have yet to hear similar responses from Republicans with respect to the New Hampshire phone jamming (except from the guy who went to prison for doing it) or the misinformation about when to vote or various other hilarious stunts over the years.
When the Republicans started yammering about the Democrats that they “hated America” when they questioned Bush’s policies, I knew that it was one of those psychological projection behaviors. This proves it without a doubt.
There is nothing more unAmerican than vote suppression.
Jesus tells him to lie and to encourage his followers to commit crimes.
It’s all God’s will – they can loot the nation and commit treason, war crimes, and crimes against humanity because that is what it says in the bible.
Beware of false prophets/profits.
Don’t be fooled by Huckabee’s comment. He has learned from the pulpit that it’s easy to lie in devious ways in order to get what you want from a “congregation” (or people – they’re all the same.) It’s called the power of suggestion and it’s a very useful tool in the hands of a trained con man. And Huckabee is one of the best..