A Son’s Past Deeds Come Back To Bite Huckabee

So much for Huckabee's integrity. I hope Chuck Norris has a special roundhouse kick for animal abusers.

The apple never falls far from the tree. Huckabee is a neo-con skunk, vote Ron Paul.

Thought there might be some interesting ideas expressed but after about 6 or 8 duplicate comments(must be stutterers), I think I'll just sign off and go back to the TV.Those comments are not near good enough to merit back to back appearances.

JFK was a Christian (Catholic) president. Look what violent crime was committed against him in the South (Dallas) in the heart of the so-called Christian Bible Belt. I hear people in certain circles cheered when he was shot and pronounced dead. So I guess hanging a dog by a so-called Christian living in Arkansas in the 1990s is just fine as long as that so-called Christian is 1) the son of a right-wing, Xtian Politician; and 2) the right kind of Christian - a fundamentalist Xtian. He's not a Catholic, nor a liberal, so I doubt this incident will hurt Huckabee; hell, it'll probably gain him sympathy from his like-minded constitutents down here... Didn't we allow Saddam to hang? So what's one little dawg, strung up and hung at a Xtian Boy Scout camp? Wasn't it just about 40 - 50 years ago we used to have segregation and the KKK hanging other human beings right here in our own nation? I doubt this will hurt Huckabee. Most people don't even know the history of the US past about 10 years ago .

Has anyone thought about young Huckaby - he may need psychiatric help. When teenagers commit such violent crimes against animals, it's often a sign of severe disturbance and an indicator that the individual may develop a proclivity to torture and murder human beings upon full maturity. Oh, I forgot, that's what Republicans are supporting these days in Iraq. I rest my case.

Sheesh. Is this the best dirt Romney's thugs could dig up?

jpr9954: As an ex-Scoutmaster, I agree. The thing that must be remembered is that getting an Eagle today isn't like getting an Eagle 30 years ago. That's why I quit. It's run like the school system used to be in the 70's-80's, just pass them on regardless. People expect you to award their kids rank and badges for doing little to nothing. I'm not saying all are that way, but when it's seen and condoned by Officers running the districts and other Troops, that makes them just as guilty. It just diminishes the accomplishments of the honest folks that follow the guidelines. Bou Qui used to be a very honorable District, but it just shows the sign of the times.

jpr9954: As an ex-Scoutmaster, I agree. The thing that must be remembered is that getting an Eagle today isn't like getting an Eagle 30 years ago. That's why I quit. It's run like the school system used to be in the 70's-80's, just pass them on regardless. People expect you to award their kids rank and badges for doing little to nothing. I'm not saying all are that way, but when it's seen and condoned by Officers running the districts and other Troops, that makes them just as guilty. It just diminishes the accomplishments of the honest folks that follow the guidelines. Bou Qui used to be a very honorable District, but it just shows the sign of the times.

If all people have on Mike Huckabee is a stupid act of a 17 year old bot at camp to smear Huckabee, then Huckabee has my vote. ALL the other "presidential hopefuls" have a lot more to explain than a stupid decision a son makes at camp. I can not believe that Newsweek would give pen and paper to such a story. Mike has my vote.

If Mike Huckabee had made it clear to first his son and then to others later involved that his child's actions were at best inappropriate (assuming he truly believed that he was putting a suffering animal out of its misery ... which I highly doubt) and at worse absolutely heinous and had cooperated with Bailey for an investigation and taken appropriate action with his son (as in some serious therapy and community service working at an animal shelter or an emergency vet's office) THEN I wouldn't hold it against him.

But sweeping this under the rug and not making a prime example out of his own son ... shame on you Mike Huckabee! You had the chance to take a terrible incident and turn it into a positive by demonstrating that animal cruelty will not be tolerated and then leading by example in demonstrating a compassionate and effective way (therapy and community service designed to instill compassion for all living beings) to deal with people who commit this terrible crime.

You setting an example could have helped people who were either too ashamed of what their child did or did not take an incident seriously enough to seek help for their child.

Even the despicable Michael Vick was man enough to show up at PETA headquarters not once but three times to take an 8-hour course in empathy and animal protection and to be shown the error of his ways.

If Huckabee used his small powerful position to either protect his son or break the law, imagine what he might do with the most powerful position is the country.
Just a little something to think about.

David Huckabee is a potential thorn in the side of Mike Huckabee. Mike Huckabee should have dealt sternly with David's heinous hanging of a stray dog that "might have had mange." Did the younger Huckabee call Animal Control? The dog should have been picked up, impounded, and dealt with appropriately. Mike Huckabee used his powers to save his child's neck. Some Eagle Scout that boy is!!!

David Huckabee seems to be a loose cannon and a potential thorn in his father's side.

I don't blame Huckabee for protecting his son. I would have done the same and then gotten him psychological help. And then when I got caught for interfering, I would accept responsibility. It doesn't appear that he did either.

If you look around the net for a more graphic description of the torture and execution of this animal by a 17-year-old boy, look for Kinky Friedman's Animal Welfare page. Isikoff doesn't really get the whole nasty event. It's Michael Vick country. It's kind of amusing that supporters or Huckabee call this small potatoes, when a former Arkansas governor drew unending fire for buying some real estate and losing money on it and these same people couldn't stop the wild theories and the intimations of villainy.
And Ted Kennedy did make a run at the Democratic nomination in 1980, and it became apparent he couldn't go on because of the questions arising from Chappaquiddick.

Since when is hanging an animal considered a humane way of putting an animal out of its misery?
By the way psychologists and sociologists consider violence against animals a warning sign about an individual's potential for violence against humans ( a la Jeffrey Dahmer and Ted Bundy).