The conventional wisdom is that Mike Huckabee is a Real Nice Guy, and his soft-spoken manner gives superficial credence to this assertion, and yet, like so much of the press corps groupthink that evolves over the course of a presidential campaign, it is a lot of malarkey: aside from his demagogic appeal to naked emotion over logic and facts in his contretemps with Ron Paul at the New Hampshire debate, Huckabee apparently leaves the dirtier smears to his local accomplices, according to the Nashua, New Hampshire Telegraph:
 “‘That guy (Paul) is the most un-American person in this country as far as I’m concerned,’’ said Hudson Republican Sen. Robert Clegg, a big Huckabee backer.”
Au contraire, Senor Clegg, methinks you are the rightful bearer of that title: the Most Un-American Person in This Country Award is yours hands down.
This kind of crap has got to stop: there will be a discussion of the war, and the foreign policy of this country, not only in the general election but in the primaries, too, and if that is “un-American” by comrade Clegg’s standards, then that’s just too damned bad, now, isn’t it? To call Ron Paul “un-American” because he opposes the Iraq war, and invokes a long Republican tradition of anti-interventionism in opposing our crazed foreign policy, is typical of the red-state fascist drivel that passes for Republicanism these days — but, you’ll notice, it isn’t working. No one believes that the Good Doctor, a man who swears by the Constitution and is arguably the most conservative member of Congress, is an anti-American subversive — not even, I’d be willing to bet, Gov. Huckabee.
Mike Huckabee is said to be a Real Nice Guy, at least that’s what the national press corps is telling us, and so now he faces a crucial test in the Nice-ness department: he ought to disavow Glegg’s mean-spirited smear, and acknowledge that Rep. Paul is as patriotic in his dissent as he, Huckabee, is sincere in his insistence that we must stay the course.
How about it, Governor? Or is the nice-ness angle just another of the Huckster‘s scams, like the “fair tax“?
Oh, and here’s Senator Clegg’s contact information, just in case you want to give him a piece of your mind:
Senate Office:
Statehouse
107 N. Main St., Room 124
Concord, N.H. 03301
(603) 271-8630
robert.clegg@leg.state.nh.us
Home:
39 Trigate Road
Hudson, N.H. 03051-5120
(603) 880-6193
And tell him Justin Raimondo sent you ….
UPDATE: And it isn’t like Clegg, New Hamsphire Senate majority leader, is just another rank-and-file Huckabee supporter: he traveled with Huckabee throughout Iowa, and has acted as a spokesman for the campaign. Clegg smearing Paul as “un-American” is like Huckabee saying the same thing.