Former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee (R) on Saturday clarified that he never called for President Obama to be impeached.
Last week, he told Iowa radio host Steve Deace that Obama “has done plenty of things worthy of impeachment.”
But during an interview with Iowa reporters on Saturday, Huckabee said that impeachable offenses don’t necessarily mean a president should be impeached.
“Let me be very clear. I never said he should be impeached. In fact I was explicitly clear,” he said, according to the Des Moines Register. “As often is the case, only half of what I said got quoted. I was asked the specific question: Had he committed impeachable offenses. And I said yes.”
“But he’s not going to be impeached, and he shouldn’t be,” Huckabee continued. “Impeachment ought to be something that would be used in the rarest and most unusual of circumstances.”
The only impeachable offense Obama ever committed was believing that the GOP would operate in good faith.
That was foolish of him, I agree, but its no high crime or misdemeanor.
Nothing this President has done is even remotely in the realm of impeachment. Nothing.
The republican base just sees impeachment as the answer when they lose the White House. Its part of a bigger pattern of showing their disdain for the concept of elections.
And Huckabee is trying to be far too cute with this. Its just another take on the approach their pundits and leaders are using. “I never said we were going to impeach him. But since I just brought up that subject, lets discuss it”
If he’s committed impeachable offenses, why shouldn’t be be impeached?
It’s also “candidate suppression.”
It’s like saying “If you beat us, we will make your life fucking miserable, even going nuclear when it’s clearly not necessary and has no chance of succeeding. We’ll do it just to sap your time and energy.”
Interesting that the “crazy” are now saying impeachment shouldn’t be an option, even if they think Obama has committed impeachable offenses.
I think he and Cruz are too late. They have already revved up their base.