{"id":7702,"date":"2012-08-25T16:29:54","date_gmt":"2012-08-25T16:29:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/?p=7702"},"modified":"2012-08-25T16:29:54","modified_gmt":"2012-08-25T16:29:54","slug":"huck-rides-in","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/huck-rides-in\/","title":{"rendered":"Huck Rides In"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/Huckabee-Akin.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/Huckabee-Akin-300x220.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"Huckabee &amp; Akin\" width=\"300\" height=\"220\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-7740\" srcset=\"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/Huckabee-Akin-300x220.jpg 300w, https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/Huckabee-Akin.jpg 386w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>One clown rushes to the assistance of another.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com\/2012\/08\/24\/huckabee-rallies-missouri-pastors-to-akins-side-attacks-gop-establishment\/\">Via CNN:<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Tampa, Florida (CNN) \u2013 Mike Huckabee participated in a conference call Friday night with hundreds of Baptist pastors and Christian talk radio hosts in Missouri that was organized to coordinate a robust defense of Rep. Todd Akin as he faces pressure from Washington Republicans to drop his Senate bid against Democrat Claire McCaskill\u2026<\/p>\n<p>Speaking harshly about establishment Republicans who have tried to force Akin from the Missouri race, Huckabee at one point compared the National Republican Senatorial Committee to &#8220;union goons&#8221; who &#8220;kneecap&#8221; their enemies.<\/p>\n<p>The former Arkansas governor said party bosses were &#8220;opening up rounds and rounds&#8221; of ammunition on Akin and &#8220;then running over with tanks and trucks and leaving him to be ravaged by the other side.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis is unprecedented, to see to this orchestrated attempt to humiliate and devastate a fellow Republican,\u201d Huckabee said of Akin, who has deep ties to the Christian conservative movement. Akin spent Thursday in Florida meeting with evangelical leaders and evaluating his political future.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>All we need now is Santorum. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One clown rushes to the assistance of another. Via CNN: Tampa, Florida (CNN) \u2013 Mike Huckabee participated in a conference call Friday night with hundreds of Baptist pastors and Christian talk radio hosts in Missouri that was organized to coordinate &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/huck-rides-in\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":64,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false},"categories":[15],"tags":[740,777,280,629,958],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7702"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/64"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7702"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7702\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7741,"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7702\/revisions\/7741"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7702"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7702"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7702"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}