The Huckster

David Sixbey and James Willis (both former SAU history faculty--one I drink coffe with, the other I shoot pool with...depending on the time of the day), alerted me to the appearance of a letter of Tom Forgey's (yet another retitred SAU history faculty member..he's also a former Arkansas lawmaker and Deputy Sheriff) in the most recent issue of Arkansas Times. It made me smile, so I thought I would pass it along...

The Huckster

After listening to Bro. Huckabee's declaration that he is not running for vice president because he always runs "for the gold, and not the silver" I am reminded of his race for lieutenant governor (Silver? Bronze? )

As an opportunist he prevailed, barely. And the rest is history.

If the Republicans are goofy enough to try an unnatural coupling of the Bro. with Giuliani (a New York-Arkansas axis) they ought to look at what happened in 1928 when the Democrats tried that with Al Smith (New York) and Joe T. Robinson Arkansas.)

The Bro. should slip quietly into retirement, oiling his arsenal of guns — a Weatherby rifle, a Browning shotgun, a Barelli duck gun and his most beloved, a rusty 20-gauge shotgun (guess which one he paid for).

Tom Forgey
Magnolia

see the original at:

http://www.arktimes.com/Articles/ArticleViewer.aspx?ArticleID=1f8ba15c-dba7-4954-ab84-4551ae7b7db9