Slog - Comments on They Like Mike http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/01/they_like_mike So Huckabee was here and gone--and the room filled up--but idiotic me didn't think to take a picture of Huckabee while he was speaking. I was too caught up in... gee... the triumph and the will of the moment, I guess. Huckabee was charming and self-effacing and the crowd was worshipful and quick to clap for the Man From Hope 2.0. The loudest applause lines? Banning gay marriage, passing the Human Life Amendment, and supporting our troops with medical care and services they need once they get back from Iraq. Let's dwell on who isn't doing enough to ban... Copyright 2008 Tue, 15 Jan 2008 14:31:50 -0800 Wed, 16 Jan 2008 15:35:01 -0800 http://www.movabletype.org/?v=3.34 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss Comment by moral majority You suppose this crowd is familiar with "cognitive dissonance?"

Yeah, me neither.

]]> moral majority http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/01/they_like_mike#c899535 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/01/they_like_mike#c899535 2008 Tue, 15 Jan 2008 14:38:22 -0800 Comment by Cato the Younger Younger Hillary vs. Huckabee? I keep playing that out in my head and keep finding Huckabee winning. Why? America is just that stupid.

]]> Cato the Younger Younger http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/01/they_like_mike#c899540 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/01/they_like_mike#c899540 2008 Tue, 15 Jan 2008 14:41:21 -0800 Comment by Will in Seattle Why don't they all enlist their kids and move to Iraq? I hear they need more Christians there, since most have been run out of the country ...

]]> Will in Seattle http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/01/they_like_mike#c899541 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/01/they_like_mike#c899541 2008 Tue, 15 Jan 2008 14:41:52 -0800 Comment by Jiberish hmmm, more toms need to meet more dans

]]> Jiberish http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/01/they_like_mike#c899545 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/01/they_like_mike#c899545 2008 Tue, 15 Jan 2008 14:43:10 -0800 Comment by Michael Hmmm. Dan Savage runs into Jake Tapper. That's HOT.

]]> Michael http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/01/they_like_mike#c899551 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/01/they_like_mike#c899551 2008 Tue, 15 Jan 2008 14:49:12 -0800 Comment by Original Andrew


I suppose they're all fiercely pro-life, pro-war and pro-death penalty. That’ll all work out nicely with their Human Life Amendment; it makes perfect sense if you're completely insane.

Seriously, is this level of cognitive dissonance recognized as a mental disorder?

]]> Original Andrew http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/01/they_like_mike#c899555 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/01/they_like_mike#c899555 2008 Tue, 15 Jan 2008 14:54:27 -0800 Comment by OR Matt Why do I feel like I'm on the loosing end of a culture war?

]]> OR Matt http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/01/they_like_mike#c899556 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/01/they_like_mike#c899556 2008 Tue, 15 Jan 2008 14:58:20 -0800 Comment by M @2.. I am scared that you might be right. That is the worst case scenario. My mentally disordered family back in SC would probably vote for Obama or Edwards, but NEVER Hillary. And of all the stinking GOPs they love Huckabee. Cognitive Dissonance reigns.

]]> M http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/01/they_like_mike#c899558 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/01/they_like_mike#c899558 2008 Tue, 15 Jan 2008 15:00:01 -0800 Comment by OR Matt I believe Repblican culture is this romantic ideology more than a philosophy for a system of government. It's this belief that all humans can live in this homogenous world where all things tabboo really just don't exist. They don't understand population density, and really the true dynamics of how people behave ... especially when they don't have a lot of space. They also believe in a world where we live and die in a small town and marry our high school sweethearts.

]]> OR Matt http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/01/they_like_mike#c899561 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/01/they_like_mike#c899561 2008 Tue, 15 Jan 2008 15:02:59 -0800 Comment by Mike of Renton @6

The way they rationalize it (or at least the way I did back when I was a stupid kid) is that you shouldn't kill someone until they prove that they deserve it.

]]> Mike of Renton http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/01/they_like_mike#c899564 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/01/they_like_mike#c899564 2008 Tue, 15 Jan 2008 15:08:05 -0800 Comment by Fifty-Two-Eighty Mr. Peabody, set the Wayback Machine to 1952....

]]> Fifty-Two-Eighty http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/01/they_like_mike#c899566 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/01/they_like_mike#c899566 2008 Tue, 15 Jan 2008 15:09:06 -0800 Comment by OR Matt As far as the death penalty goes I have no strong opinions for it or against it ... at least in principle. Does that make me unamerican?

How it is actually applied I do take issue with it ... it's more of a senseless beaurocracy in persuit of some archaic ideal than form of punishment. Especially when you can pretty much pay your way out of it.

]]> OR Matt http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/01/they_like_mike#c899571 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/01/they_like_mike#c899571 2008 Tue, 15 Jan 2008 15:15:06 -0800 Comment by Will in Seattle @10 - so how does that explain why Dick Cheney is still around?

]]> Will in Seattle http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/01/they_like_mike#c899576 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/01/they_like_mike#c899576 2008 Tue, 15 Jan 2008 15:19:56 -0800 Comment by Jack How can you not have moral outrage about killing by the state in the name of Justice?

Funny, how most of the western world, incl.Canada and Mexico have outlawed the death penalty - some now for decades.

Get outraged, it is moral corruption to kill in the name of the state and Justice.

(not to mention the many, so sorry too late, "mistakes")

]]> Jack http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/01/they_like_mike#c899578 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/01/they_like_mike#c899578 2008 Tue, 15 Jan 2008 15:20:58 -0800 Comment by Hernandez Now I've got your pro-life song stuck in my head...

]]> Hernandez http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/01/they_like_mike#c899580 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/01/they_like_mike#c899580 2008 Tue, 15 Jan 2008 15:21:46 -0800 Comment by OR Matt I can not have moral outrage because ... my mind isn't geared toward criminal justice. Justice MUST be served somehow, someway, some shape and some form, but in my mind I feel that the system or life or whatever fails the criminal long before he commits the act. I'm more morally outraged at the rates of incarceration in this country. The fact that 1 in 20 Americans is or has been incarcerated in our overcrowded prison system has created an underclass of disenfranchized Americans. Who can't vote OR CAN'T GET JOBS. I find moral outrage in the fact these fuckers preach about being able to provide and take care of yourself, get off welfare ... bash the "welfare state" welfare bad this and that and do NOTHING to give people jobs other than adhere to some mystical philosophy of trickle down economics. IF people don't have decent jobs, then we live in a welfare state ... period. At least when it comes to this Mike Huckabee talks the talk .... but he still doesn't have my vote.

]]> OR Matt http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/01/they_like_mike#c899614 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/01/they_like_mike#c899614 2008 Tue, 15 Jan 2008 15:45:56 -0800 Comment by Michigan Matt Awesome, Dan. Awesome. I LOVE this stuff. Oh, and wacky Christianist Republicans scare teh SHIT out o' me.

]]> Michigan Matt http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/01/they_like_mike#c899616 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/01/they_like_mike#c899616 2008 Tue, 15 Jan 2008 15:48:41 -0800 Comment by DaiBando Wiccan priestess. The heartiest laugh I had all day. Thanks, Dan!

]]> DaiBando http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/01/they_like_mike#c899689 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/01/they_like_mike#c899689 2008 Tue, 15 Jan 2008 17:10:23 -0800 Comment by bill Dan

You were on Maher's show with Huckabee a couple years back. And this couldn't get you a backstage pass? For shame.

]]> bill http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/01/they_like_mike#c899755 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/01/they_like_mike#c899755 2008 Tue, 15 Jan 2008 18:31:01 -0800 Comment by Julie @8 - Totally agree. My wacky, evangelical aunt and uncle in Des Moines caucused for Huckabee (and not only voted for Bush II twice, but had bumper stickers on their car that proclaimed it loud and clear -- my dad wouldn't let them park in front of our house when they came to visit a couple of years ago).

There is no way they'd vote for Hillary. "I suffer not a woman to teach, nor to usurp authority over the man, but to be in silence" and all.

As a side note, I can't help but be angry that they have a bigger say in who gets to be the next President than I do (since their only criteria is how often a candidate says the word "God").

]]> Julie http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/01/they_like_mike#c899787 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/01/they_like_mike#c899787 2008 Tue, 15 Jan 2008 19:48:35 -0800 Comment by Karlheinz Arschbomber OK, I'm iniebriated and depressed after a night out in Ballard and at the Google/Fremont open house. This election is gonna be Hillary v McCain. Which McCain will win. Please, where can I vomit?

]]> Karlheinz Arschbomber http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/01/they_like_mike#c899828 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/01/they_like_mike#c899828 2008 Tue, 15 Jan 2008 21:59:02 -0800 Comment by Dave Coffman mmmmm Jake Tapper. Just the name alone could get me divorced.

]]> Dave Coffman http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/01/they_like_mike#c899849 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/01/they_like_mike#c899849 2008 Tue, 15 Jan 2008 23:39:36 -0800 Comment by Judah I don't know. I like Christians who can do their own time: they think I'm going to hell and they're going to heaven, and that's sad, but they're more than happy to have me over to dinner and meet my damned (literally) family. In a way -- and that qualification is not just rhetorical -- it's a good illustration of the difference between "faith" which is comfortably abstract, and the moral surety of a zealot.

]]> Judah http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/01/they_like_mike#c899907 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/01/they_like_mike#c899907 2008 Wed, 16 Jan 2008 08:56:09 -0800 Comment by Darcy Aw, Dan, you could've come by Clemson University tomorrow evening to see Huck trot out his Chuck Norris/Ric Flair dog and pony show.

]]> Darcy http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/01/they_like_mike#c900328 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/01/they_like_mike#c900328 2008 Wed, 16 Jan 2008 15:35:01 -0800