Ann Coulter Mike Huckabee: Coulter's Finest Moment with Mike Huckabee

Ann Coulter had one of her finest moments on Huckabee this weekend. She was apparently invited on to discuss one thing, and was then hit with her past comment saying Huckabee was a "liberal Christian." Whatever the 'one thing' Ann was prepared to discuss, Huck said they would get back to it, but Ann's time ran out and instead they 'got' to an interview with Ariana Huffington.

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Ann Coulter

Coulter was not prepared to defend herself, but nevertheless did with so with pithy gusto. Huckabee didn't like being called a "liberal," and Ann continually pointed out that she actually called him a "Christian liberal. He still didn't like it.

I have a sometimes-paraphrased, sometimes-exactly-quoted, kinda-sorta transcript below the video. There are parts of the video I did not include. If the video disappears, I'll still have some this very interesting conversation on record. And for the 'record,' I agree with Ann. I believe that Huckabee is mostly fiscally conservative, but far too socially liberal and it bleeds into his fiscal conservatism. And I still haven't forgiven him and McCain for their joint venture to knock Mitt Romney out of the 2008 presidential race. Having said all that, I like Huckabee, but I am hoping he will not run for president in 2012.

Mike Huckabee and Ann Coulter: Liberal Christians

To get things started, he read her quote from September 1, 2010:

All liberals are atheists. Only the ones who have to stand for election even bother pretending to believe in God...There's only one true Christian liberal in the country and that's Mike Huckabee.

COULTER: this was not meant as an insult. I was thinking of all the alleged Christian advisers in the Obama administration - the Jim Wallace-types. The liberal view of charity is 'raise taxes' and give it to the poor. This is the Pharisees out of the Bible. Charity is not giving their own money.

(there is some discussion of abortion tucked in here also)

COULTER: So I began thinking what if you were a genuine Christian but had some crazy liberal views with things that are not directly Christian - what would that look like, and I thought of you.

HUCKABEE: What were my "crazy views?"

COULTER responds that he was very soft on illegal immigration.

HUCKABEE immediately says he does not believe in amnesty, and says 'you don't punish the children the children of illegals.'

COULTER: "this is exactly what I mean." Pointing to Huckabee: "This is a liberal Christian." I'm sure that is what liberals said to us 30 years ago in saying we have to start subsidizing illegitimacy.

HUCKABEE: My economic heart tells me that if I had a kid who was a valedictorian whose parents were illegal, it will be better if he gets his education. Wouldn't you rather he become a doctor and pay taxes, rather than picking tomatoes?

COULTER: One million Mexicans across the border in Mexico think, 'if I can just get to America and get my kid educated, we will be legal.'

There's more but you have to watch the video for the full show.

Mike Huckabee Michelle Obama: Huckabee interviews Michelle Obama on Childhood Obesity

Michelle Obama will appear on Mike Huckabee to talk about childhood obesity. It is estimated at 17% of America's children are obese. The segment will air Saturday, February 20th.

 

Malia and Sasha Obama with Dad, Barack Obama

The First Lady said her daughter's pediatrician recently advised her to pay attention to her own daughter's body mass indexes (BMI). (Check out this quick site to compute your own BMI)

...the family's pediatrician, she said, kept a close eye on trends in African-American children and "warned that he was concerned that something was getting off-balance."

Here is how the FLOTUS went about changing the problems in her own family:

No more weekday TV. More attention to portion sizes. Low-fat milk. Water bottles in the lunch boxes. Grapes on the breakfast table. Apple slices at lunch. Colorful vegetables on the dinner table.

The positive results showed at the next pediatrician's appointment, and the doctor was amazed:

It was so significant that the next time we visited our pediatrician, he was amazed. He looked over the girls' charts and he said, 'What on earth are you doing?'"

Huckabee has been a prominent voice in the battle against weight loss. He lost over 100 pounds and wrote the book Stop Digging your Grave with a Knife and Fork: A 12 Step Program. He believes the government should not try to regulate our eating habits.

Tea Parties Love Palin - Split on 2012 Nominations

The overwhelming consensus among Tea Party goers is, they love Sarah Palin but haven't made up their minds about a Republican nominee. That's exactly where I am. For the most part, I like what Palin is doing. She is a strong voice and we need her out there, whether we agree with her all the time or not. By the time we get closer to the end of 2010, we'll know a lot more about Sarah's idea of conservatism.

Mentioned in this article by Tea Partiers are the usuals: Huckabee, Romney, Gingrich, Fred Thompson, Palin and even Scott Brown and Dick Cheney. In my perfect world, Dick Cheney is my pick. Since that is not going to happen, I hope we have others looking at the future of this country and planning to put their ideas on the table.

GOP Can you hear us now? GOP Poll Unchanged: GOP get the message: Get Conservative!

A Rasmussen poll still maintains that the GOP has lost touch with their base. The GOP doesn't get the message - "Get Conservative," and they still are not hearing us. See a video below - Glenn Beck says it well.

Rep. Marsha Blackburn Gets the Message

The telephone survey finds that "73% of Republicans believe their congresscritters have lost touch with GOP voters." After all the tea parties, three-fourths of Republicans believe they have no voice and no support for conservatism. The depressing news is, the same poll in April 2009 had the same findings. Nothing is changing.

I do not have a congressional problem in my state, but I see it everywhere across the map. The best example I can think of is the GOP-announced support and funding of Florida's Governor Charlie Crist for Florida's U.S. Senate seat, against a clear conservative, which Crist is not, over Marco Rubio. Very early on the GOP declared they were behind Crist, nevermind that he has a slobbering love affair with Barack Obama.

Polls are everywhere, asking who we want as our nominee in 2013. I never know which box to check. Duncan Hunter, Tom Tancredo and Marsha Blackburn are not on any polls - and few governors are promising. It is depressing!

* Romney doesn't have the fire to be an energetic candidate, although he is a conservative.

* Mike Huckabee is gaining in popularity but he falls off the wrong edge of conservative a bit too often. I admit that he seems to be getting more conservative on his television show.

* Newt and Sarah are now bookmongers.

* Newt's political mind is truly awesome until he wants to sell a book with John Kerry or his wife. He has a right to a life as an author, but he forges far too many friendships with hardline Liberals. A Gingrich presidency would be the same "good ol boy" networks of keeping each other in the House and Senate that we've see for so many years.

* Palin's announced Oprah appearance confirms my feeling that she doesn't have the maturity to be in the Oval Office. After Oprah REFUSED to let Sarah on her show during the elections, Oprah exhibits her wiliness by now inviting Sarah on, and Oprah won this one for Barack. I still have hopes that Palin will be a powerful conservative voice. We won't know until her book, Going Rogue comes out.

Rick Moran at American Thinker says this:

The scattershot strategy employed by national Republicans, as well as their inability to unite to block some of Obama's more radical agenda items has most of the rest of the party thinking they are not representing their interests.

I continue to give not a dime to the GOP. I support my local candidate because they are doing the hard lifting, and I support some others around the country when I can. I have nothing for the traitorous GOP.





 Glenn Beck on Lindsay Graham - GOP Unchanged (video)