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Wednesday, November 19, 2008
Douglas MacKinnon :: Townhall.com Columnist
Huckabee Was the Inspiration for the Twisted Character in My Novel
by Douglas MacKinnon
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            On the last day of 2007, this “man of God” decided to hold a news conference to unveil a nasty and negative ad aimed at former Governor Romney.  An unsavory ad that was devised and filmed by Huckabee in the midst of the Christmas holiday.  But wait.  As Huckabee got to the podium to announce the ad campaign, he had a Machiavellian change of heart.  “No,” he decided basically on the spot.  The ad would not run.  Of course, his change of heart had nothing to do with being “Christian” at Christmas-time and everything to do with trying to get the media to do his dirty work for him and run the ad for free.

       During that same primary campaign, there were reports that Huckabee told a Pastor that God speaks to him.  In recounting all of this to an Evangelical friend of mine, the friend responded, “The tiny man who runs Iran and wants to wipe the United States and Israel off the face of the earth, also says God speaks to him.  No Christian should use the Lord as a cheap campaign gimmick.”

            From that conversation sprung the Huckabee-like character in my novel.  What if an ultra-religious former governor became president and twisted the Christian faith to fit his own demented needs?  How would our nation and the Christian faith react to such blasphemy?

            Should he want to read a fictionalized defense of Christianity and religion, I’d be honored to send Mike Huckabee a signed copy of my novel.  Hopefully, he won’t blame Mitt Romney for the hauntingly familiar character.
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Douglas MacKinnon is a former White House and Pentagon official and author of the forthcoming novel, The Apocalypse Directive.

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Reply # 1
Date: Nov 28, 2008 - 8:51 PM EST
Just some facts
I was witness to the multi-million dollar smear campaign that Mitt Romney threw at Huckabee in Iowa. While most people on this board did not have their television and radio interupted with non-stop lies and dirty ads by Mitt Romeny, I did. It made me disgusted, and was one of the key things that fueled the Huckabee win - Iowans hate negative campaigns. Huckabee is still openly being called a bigot, a snake-oil salesman, and having his personal character assulted by the pro-Romney wing of the party. I can understand why he would be a bit upset with Romney.

Mike Huckabee did speak out against the mormon church during his time as a minister. To put it into context, Huckabee was a minister, and openly fought against what he believed a cult that leads people away from Christ. He would not have been living up to his calling to not do this. I would suppose that he would also take issue with the hindu, muslim, and budhist relgions as well.

In Iowa, Romney was both trying to call Huckabee a bigot because of his past actions against the mormon church, but at the same time distance himself from that same church. Huckabee may have gone overboard with his "brother" comment, but I have no idea how the man did not come completely unglued due to what Romney was doing. I can forgive him a little bad blood.
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Date: Nov 25, 2008 - 9:51 PM EST
America is suffering
America is suffering unlawful deception from the Alinsky group.
Group u$urp$ power on January 20th—the constitution violated.
The United States Supreme Court alone can relieve this outrage.

example: Bogus Selective Service System FOIA Registration?
http://www.debbieschlussel.com/archives/2008/11/exclusive_d id_n.html
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