Now that Mike Huckabee will be ambassador to Israel, it’s worth noting that three years before Huckabee was elected Lt. Gov of Arkansas in 1993, this guy (Ralph Forbes) got 46% of the GOP primary vote for that same office.
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Thought of Huckabee last week with the stupid squirrel and how he wrote a book about eating roadkill but that might have been another fat southern stereotype.
No, he thinks y'all are going to convert, like other unbelievers.
IIRC, he's Pre-Tribulation, so if you don't, you'll get Left Behind to deal with world war, and might get eaten by The Beast, but you still get to convert after.
Trump would rather make this place hell right now.
In a 3-way primary race for Arkansas GOP Lt. Gov in 1990, an avowed Nazi got 46% of the vote. This article from The Nation noted with some alarm that the national GOP had yet to take a public stand in regard to the coming runoff election.
The Nazi ultimately lost 86-14 in the runoff. Ralph Forbes passed away 4 years ago. Interestingly, his obituary did not mention his lifelong advocacy for a whites only America governed by the tenets of National Socialism. https://www.humphreyfuneral.com/obituaries/ralph-forbes
National Socialism isn't at all like Socialist Socialism,
but they thought naming themselves that in contrast to International Socialism would be a good marketing ploy, basically.
And "Nazi" was also a nickname for Ignatius, a common Bubba-equivalent dumb farmer name stereotype
This is the house Forbes rented in Glendale, Ca and which served as the headquarters of the Nazi Party in Southern California in the early 1960s. Note the "keep the Christ in Christmas" display out front.
Not sure, I'd have to go back and check the original source. I'm fairly certain it was in Glendale, which if memory serves was also the stomping ground of William Potter Gale.
I think this became the headquarters for Joseph Tommasi’s NSWPP LA chapter, who founded the NSLF after Matt Kerr made him turn the building over to him — and where Tommasi was later killed
In 1993 and 1994 Mike Huckabee spoke at a meeting of the Council of Conservative Citizens, the direct descendant of the White Citizens Councils which was a click or two to the left of Ralph Forbes. Note alt-right hero Jared Taylor.
Huckabee will be the ambassador because... he would like to usher in "Armageddon" to fulfill his sect's interpretation of Revelation, I guess? Will he bring a nice lectern with him?
Even the Arkansas GOP repudiated Forbes prior to the runoff, which was won decisively by a Black man! Democrats won the 1990 races for Gov (a guy named Clinton) and LG handily. Sure, Forbes found some support in AR but it was mostly a Blue state then, and he was clearly a fringe candidate.
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IIRC, he's Pre-Tribulation, so if you don't, you'll get Left Behind to deal with world war, and might get eaten by The Beast, but you still get to convert after.
Trump would rather make this place hell right now.
Weren't the conservative Yahoos screaming about Obama being a socialist?
Or am I asking for too much internal consistency from these assholes.
but they thought naming themselves that in contrast to International Socialism would be a good marketing ploy, basically.
And "Nazi" was also a nickname for Ignatius, a common Bubba-equivalent dumb farmer name stereotype
https://www.cnn.com/2015/05/22/politics/josh-duggar-molestation-2016-conservatives/index.html
I bet Netanyahu is loving that...