Big News: A RINO Endorses a RINO

I see that the RINO world is all a-twitter that Mike Huckabee has endorsed South Dakota’s RINO Mike Rounds for U.S. Senate.

Wow, that’s big news: a RINO endorses a RINO. Might as well run with the headline: Democrat Endorses Fellow Democrat.

Mike Huckabee (Photo credit: David Ball)

Oh, I know Mike Huckabee has been busy the past five years or so, desperately trying to revise history and rehabilitate his liberal record. But some of us know the truth, despite all his conservative-sounding talk.

When Huckabee first put his name out for a presidential run back in 2007, I (not knowing anything about him) thought this might be a good thing, since one of the first things I heard was that he was a Christian and a pastor.  I quickly learned differently.

Like Mike Rounds, Huckabee is enamored with being thought of as a “nice guy.” To him, it’s more important than doing the heavy lifting of protecting the people he was elected to serve.

Mike Huckabee is a bigtime RINO–a world-class RINO that really gives “Republican” a bad name. When Huckabee was running for president in 2007, I talked to a couple of Arkansas Republican legislators on the phone, and they confirmed all that I had been reading about Huckabee–and more.

Let me give you a quick rundown and you can read the links for more details.

• Like most liberals, Huckabee looooooooves grace (the “cheap grace” that Dietrich Bonhoeffer referred to), but he isn’t so keen on the law.
• Huckabee is weak on illegal immigration
• Phyllis Schlafly says Huckabee “destroyed conservatism” in Arkansas
• Randy Minton, chairman of the Arkansas chapter of Eagle Forum, says Huckabee is a “pro-life, pro-gun liberal;” in other words, while he’s good on some issues, he’s pathetic on others
• Huckabee is pretty comfortable with tax hikes
• Huckabee has been the subject of several ethics complaints, a number of them of the “cheap redneck” variety
• Like a lot of liberals, Huckabee gets carried away with “compassion” and leaves the law and the obligation to protect the people hanging
• He sounds more like a Democrat on economic issues
• Huckabee supported taxpayer-funded benefits for illegal aliens, giving them in-state tuition breaks that many American citizens would not be eligible for
• Huckabee is soft on terrorism and dealing with America’s enemies in a firm manner, and nods with America’s foreign critics
• Huckabee is a believer in the environmentalist religion of anthropogenic global warming
• He is very friendly toward government health care schemes, having backed one for Arkansas
• Huckabee also liked the idea of drivers licenses for illegal aliens
• Huckabee is weak on protecting marriage from counterfeiting homosexual activists
• For those of you who don’t like the Council on Foreign Relations, Huckabee is cozy with it
• Huckabee courted a Mexican consulate–the kind known for issuing fake “ID cards” to illegal aliens in the United States
• Probably what is Huckabee’s worst problem is his complete and derelict lack of understanding for the nature of evil, and the duty of an elected representative to keep the people safe. This is glaringly obvious with his record-breaking propensity for releasing criminals–many of them dangerous–back onto the public. Huckabee’s clemency has resulted in the death of innocent people.

Upon receiving Huckabee’s endorsement, Rounds said, “I am deeply honored by Governor Huckabee’s endorsement…The principles he represents are very much in line with mine.”

Keep that in mind when you consider whether to support RINO Rounds.

Huckabee talked conservative once he got out of office, when he ran for president, and on his TV show. But his record says something very different…just as Mike Rounds’ record says something very different.

Several years ago, I heard Mike Huckabee and Rudy Guiliani speak at the same event. Guiliani went to the podium and acknowledged his liberal tendencies and asked conservatives if they could work with him despite them. I couldn’t…but I walked away from that event with a lot more respect for Guiliani’s honesty than I did for Huckabee after Huckabee took the podium and tried to shine me on with claims that he was and always had been some born-again conservative. I just don’t appreciate it when people treat me like I’m stupid and try to deceive me.

Ignorance is a RINOs best friend. The problems facing our nation today are way too important to be taken in by ignorance.  Learn the truth about these RINOs.

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Bob Ellis has been the owner of media company Dakota Voice, LLC since 2005. He is a 10-year U.S. Air Force veteran, a political reporter and commentator for the past decade, and has been involved in numerous election and public policy campaigns for over 20 years. He was a founding member and board member of the Tea Party groups Citizens for Liberty and the South Dakota Tea Party Alliance. He lives in Rapid City, South Dakota with his wife and two children.

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