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Today, ex-AlabamaArkansas Governor and failed Presidential Candidate Mike Huckabee endorsed Pat Marsh, the Republican candidate for Tennessee State House District 62 (Election day is Tuesday, Oct. 13). Tennessee Democratic Party Chairman Chip Forrester suggests that the endorser should have vetted the endorsee a little bit better:

“Mike Huckabee might be surprised to know that Pat Marsh voted either for Barack Obama or Hillary Clinton in the presidential primary last year, not for him,” Tennessee Democratic Party Chairman Chip Forrester said. “And Mr. Huckabee probably should have asked more questions of Mr. Marsh before endorsing him, given the Republican presidential candidate’s hard-line stance on certain moral issues.

“It would have been easier for Pat Marsh to clear up where he stands on the issues by debating Ty Cobb on Saturday. Instead, Mr. Marsh chose to dodge that debate and ask for an endorsement from someone who doesn’t even live in Tennessee. Mr. Marsh’s campaign is obviously falling apart.

“I’m afraid Mr. Marsh’s credibility is in need of some immediate repair after all the bad advice he has taken lately from the clueless Republican leadership in Nashville,” Forrester added.

Excellent point.

But the endorsee should have also vetted the endorser. It appears that Huckabee has a reputation for being motivated by money, lying about his faith-based credentials to further his career, and urging his fellow Christians to keep women in their place.

In early 2009, Mike Huckabee made an appearance to endorse and raise money for an Alabama GOP House candidate, Les Phillip. Phillip raised some money but “the FEC shows his campaign spent $43,611 to get Huck there and put on a good show.”

His disbursements include a $33,990 speaking fee for Huckabee, $600 for photography for the Huckabee event, $438 for a lunch with Huckabee, $6,233 for a stage rental and equipment (presumably for the Huckabee event), and a $2,350 facility rental fee (also presumably for the Huckabee event).

When Huckabee was running for President, he claimed he would be strong on terrorism because had a theology degree. Turns out, he was lying about his faith-based credentials:

After the news conference with Ed Rollins in Concord, NH, Huckabee and Rollins, his new national campaign manager, took some questions. The last question was about a Powerline blog, a conservative blog, story that he did not, in fact, have a theology degree, as he has claimed. Here is Huckabee’s response:

“I have a bachelor of arts in religion and a minor in communications in my undergraduate work. And then I have 46 hours on a master’s degree at Southwestern Theology Seminary. So, my degree as a theological degree is at the college level and then 46 hours toward a masters — three years of study of New Testament Greek, and then the rest of it, all in Seminary was theological studies, but my degree was actually in religion.”

Here’s what Huckabee said in a Christian Broadcasting Network interview:
“I’m as strong on terror as anybody. In fact I think I’m stronger than most people because I truly understand the nature of the war that we are in with Islamofascism. These are people that want to kill us. It’s a theocratic war. And I don’t know if anybody fully understands that. I’m the only guy on that stage with a theology degree. I think I understand it really well.”

And ladies, Governor Huckabee loves you, as long as you know your place.

See you at the polls!

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