Do you remember the good ol’ days of Arkansas political scandals?
Trooper Gate and allegations of Bill Clinton roaming the state in an El Camino with a padded truck bed liner or something equally lewd relating to his efforts to troll for women with taxpayer resources. The general idea was that Clinton used State troopers to help him round up women, as opposed to Giuliani who used New York’s finest to drive his women around.
And according to one of the Arkansas state troopers involved in the suddenly tame-seeming Troopergate scandal, Clinton can answer an even harder one: When is fooling around on your wife permissible under the Ten Commandments? He told me, the trooper recalled in the American Spectator, that he had researched the subject in the Bible and oral sex was not adultery.
An old scandal surrounding Huckabee’s son surfaced over the weekend. I came across it first on a blog called Phillybits, Phillybits: If Mike Huckabee And Michael Vick Had A Child… , I later saw it picked up by all the major news organizations. The first part of the story is that Huckabee’s son killed a dog that wandered into a Boy Scout Camp. He originally claimed that the dog seemed dangerous and that he put it down or shot it.
It was later revealed that Huckabee and a camp counselor cohort, strung the dog up and hanged it from a tree. This story coming out just a few days after Michael Vick was sentenced to 23 months in prison.
Now all of that being recycled from an event that happened over a decade ago smells like a political hatchet job, until you peel the onion back another layer and learn that Huckabee the candidate as opposed to Huckabee the dog killer fired the head of the State troopers, who now states that Huckabee fired him 7 months after he was asked by Huckabee to fix things.
Abuse of Power
It’s one thing to have a kid in the family that does something sick and twisted. I mean after all Reagan, Bush and Bush all had issues like that with episodes with their own kids acting up in ways that didn’t help politics.
However, it’s a lot different when the chief executive attempts to get their progeny out of trouble with the law utilizing their power directly. That’s scandalous and should not be encouraged. In fact in many ways it smacks of more of the same from Republicans. Bush has led Republicans down a rabbit hole of doing a long list of unspeakable things over the last few years and then worked to cover it up. I suspect that Americans and even Republicans do not really want another Commander in Chief that abuses their power to cover their mistakes or cover the mistakes of the people close to them.