Originally published on the CGS blog on October 21, 2007.
Few things are guaranteed in this life. Off the top of my head: Death, taxes, Yankees in pinstripes, and Cliff Kincaid railing against black helicopter-flying, baby blue beret-wearing, UN-supporting, liberal globalists.
Let me just say that I enjoy reading Cliff’s fantastic stories of diminished US sovereignty, increasingly powerful yet malfeasant international institutions, with a splash of cult-like Reagan worship. It makes for entertaining reading. In fact, his prose is comforting like a glass of warm (curdled) milk or a well-worn (smallpox-infused) blanket. But at least now I know WHO, and not just WHAT, truly gets his motor running.Because only a man with a healthy “policy crush” can sport such a masculine goatee.
Who is Cliff’s crushee crush you ask? None other than…drum roll, please…Capitol Offense bassist and GOP presidential hopeful MIKE HUCKABEE! And in case you didn’t already know, Capitol Offense rocks!
I can see why Cliff is enamored by the American-flag-strapped former governor, but let’s allow Cliff to make the case himself.
Presidential candidate Mike Huckabee has seized on an issue?U.S. sovereignty?that could not only win him the Republican nomination for president but propel him into the White House.
The conventional wisdom is that the former Arkansas governor is starting to get traction because of his views on social issues. While that is undoubtedly a factor, it is also the case that Huckabee for several weeks has been hitting hard on the issue of restoring American sovereignty and resisting the advance of United Nations-led global government. Meantime, Rudy Giuliani, Fred Thompson, John McCain, and Mitt Romney have been tiptoeing around the issue, refusing to address or confront the problem that is on the minds of millions of Americans?the decline of America as a sovereign nation and the growing power of international institutions and foreign judges over our lives and destiny as a nation.
The Family Research Council’s recent ‘values voters’ event in Washington, D.C. received extensive coverage. But Huckabee’s strong denunciation of the U.N.’s Law of the Sea Treaty, which is now up for Senate ratification, was generally ignored in the press coverage. He not only attacked the treaty and its provision for an international tribunal to judge America’s conduct on the high seas, but he urged the impeachment of any federal judge who recognized international law above the U.S. Constitution.
“Any federal judge who uses some international law as a precedent to make a court decision ought to be impeached,” he said to strong applause.
