I know this post is going to ruffle some friendly feathers, but I have had it. I have had it with Mike Huckabee and his shadow liberal campaign. The man is not a conservative, he is a populist liberal who will say anything to get elected. He is now invoking conspiracy theories which I know some on the right have postulated about(Hat tip to Newsbusters):Speaking at a news conference in Oklahoma, Republican presidential candidate Mike Huckabee floated the idea that the reason the vast majority of America's conservative talk radio hosts aren't endorsing him or John McCain is because Mitt Romney's investment firm owns a significant share of Clear Channel Communications, the nation's largest radio syndication company.
"Some suggest that the fact that Bain Capital owns a major stake in Clear Channel is on Sean's network, maybe there's a correlation. I don't know."
The Sean he was referring to had to be none other than Sean Hannity, America's number-two talk radio host behind Rush Limbaugh.
OK, have looked into some of this. Bain Capital does not own a major stake in Clear Channel, not yet. Bain Capital and Thomas Lee Partners have entered into a deal to purchase Clear Channel and take it private, but it hasn't been approved. It requires a bunch of approval. It hasn't been done. And furthermore, Sean Hannity is not a contractual partner with Clear Channel anyway. Clear Channel, some of their stations carry Sean's show. There's nothing accurate about this. They're trying to trash Romney by saying he's secretly buying Clear Channel, and Clear Channel is the partner of Rush Limbaugh, and that means that there's an unholy alliance between Romney and Rush Limbaugh. Well, Romney's not with Bain Capital, Bain Capital does not own Clear Channel yet, has nothing to say about how Clear Channel is running itself, and Hannity is nowhere to be found in the equation in any form, other than his show is carried on some Clear Channel radio stations.
And then we have liberal Mike talking class envy, a liberal move. Here is the transcript to this video:
A lot of the Wall Street Republicans who don't really like the Wal-Mart Republicans, and that's who I represent. I represent rank-and-file people that aren't the powerful. They may not be the swells that go to the nice cocktail parties, but there are a whole lot of people in this party that if they get abandoned and they get left out, it's going to be real hard for Republicans to win this fall. And I think people ought to be thinking very seriously about dumping a lot of the folks that gave the Republicans their victories, that people who hammer in the yard signs, the people who go out there and work for the candidates. They may not write the biggest checks, but they have in many ways the biggest role to play because they're the foot soldiers in this whole process.
Huckabee seeks to destroy the Reagan coalition even more than McCain might. He is not a Republican and definately not a conservative.
