Slog - Comments on Huckabee: I Was Against Counting All the Votes Before I Was For Counting All the Votes http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/02/huckabee_i_was_against_counting_all_the Remember 2000? The nation's Republican governors contended today that the Gore campaign was ''brutally abusing'' the good name of Florida's top election official and seriously threatening the foundations of American democracy by continuing to challenge the results of the state's presidential balloting. [...] Ms. Harris is the top election official in Florida, and she has contended, and ruled, since the first round of ballot-counting was completed that Governor Bush appeared to be the winner, pending a count of some late-arriving absentee ballots. That contention has been the basis of much of the legal action questioning the results of the balloting.... Copyright 2008 Mon, 11 Feb 2008 15:27:29 -0800 Tue, 12 Feb 2008 13:15:13 -0800 http://www.movabletype.org/?v=3.34 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss Comment by Will in Seattle Hypocrisy, thy name is Republican.

]]> Will in Seattle http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/02/huckabee_i_was_against_counting_all_the#c934479 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/02/huckabee_i_was_against_counting_all_the#c934479 2008 Mon, 11 Feb 2008 15:44:56 -0800 Comment by Bub When presented with this fact from 2000, Gov. Huckabee simply said, "Y'all got me there," and then rested his chin on his left hand as muted trumpets played a descending chromatic scale.

]]> Bub http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/02/huckabee_i_was_against_counting_all_the#c934570 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/02/huckabee_i_was_against_counting_all_the#c934570 2008 Mon, 11 Feb 2008 16:57:33 -0800 Comment by COMTE Capt. Renault: "I am shocked, SHOCKED to find that gambling is going on in here!"

Croupier: "Here are your winnings, sir."

Capt. Renault: "Oh, thank you very much."

]]> COMTE http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/02/huckabee_i_was_against_counting_all_the#c934611 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/02/huckabee_i_was_against_counting_all_the#c934611 2008 Mon, 11 Feb 2008 17:21:26 -0800 Comment by Greg Irony rules.

]]> Greg http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/02/huckabee_i_was_against_counting_all_the#c934668 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/02/huckabee_i_was_against_counting_all_the#c934668 2008 Mon, 11 Feb 2008 17:49:50 -0800 Comment by mattymatt But wait -- wasn't the point of the Florida recount that the Democrats only wanted CERTAIN districts recounted? I seem to recall that one Republican argument was, "Gore is being selective; he doesn't want all the votes checked, only the ones likely to go to him."

So I guess the only sure thing is that all politicians are sneaks, regardless of party.

]]> mattymatt http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/02/huckabee_i_was_against_counting_all_the#c934700 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/02/huckabee_i_was_against_counting_all_the#c934700 2008 Mon, 11 Feb 2008 18:20:14 -0800 Comment by Wowza @5 - No, that actual point is that Huckabee is a batshit lunatic douche. Don't drift from the main topic.

]]> Wowza http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/02/huckabee_i_was_against_counting_all_the#c934711 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/02/huckabee_i_was_against_counting_all_the#c934711 2008 Mon, 11 Feb 2008 18:25:38 -0800 Comment by Mr. Joshua "Counting" is not "Re-Counting."

]]> Mr. Joshua http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/02/huckabee_i_was_against_counting_all_the#c934912 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/02/huckabee_i_was_against_counting_all_the#c934912 2008 Tue, 12 Feb 2008 00:44:15 -0800 Comment by ru shur IIRC, Florida law didn't allow Gore to ask for a statewide recount.

]]> ru shur http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/02/huckabee_i_was_against_counting_all_the#c935105 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/02/huckabee_i_was_against_counting_all_the#c935105 2008 Tue, 12 Feb 2008 11:08:46 -0800 Comment by -B- Exactly what I was thinking the other day.
He is a hypocrite.

]]> -B- http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/02/huckabee_i_was_against_counting_all_the#c935348 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/02/huckabee_i_was_against_counting_all_the#c935348 2008 Tue, 12 Feb 2008 13:15:13 -0800