{"id":9624,"date":"2015-10-14T10:45:29","date_gmt":"2015-10-14T15:45:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/admin.patheos.com\/blogs\/frenchrevolution\/?p=9624"},"modified":"2015-10-14T10:45:29","modified_gmt":"2015-10-14T15:45:29","slug":"mike-huckabees-desperate-twitter-game-last-night","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/frenchrevolution\/2015\/10\/14\/mike-huckabees-desperate-twitter-game-last-night\/","title":{"rendered":"Mike Huckabee&#8217;s Desperate Twitter Game Last Night"},"content":{"rendered":"<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><head><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><\/head><body><div class=\"getty embed image\" style=\"background-color: #fff; display: inline-block; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue',Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif; color: #a7a7a7; font-size: 11px; width: 100%; max-width: 594px;\">\n<div style=\"overflow: hidden; position: relative; height: 0; padding: 66.666667% 0 0 0; width: 100%;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" style=\"display: inline-block; position: absolute; top: 0; left: 0; width: 100%; height: 100%;\" src=\"\/\/embed.gettyimages.com\/embed\/481251132?et=jDXpeXaAQzZBLvFjEwpDNw&amp;viewMoreLink=off&amp;sig=6ZFbJiz8-ubsuwh79FfOhLcaA5cy8SmvZqb-zQufDKg=&amp;caption=true\" width=\"594\" height=\"396\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<div style=\"padding: 0; margin: 0 0 0 10px; text-align: left;\"><a style=\"color: #a7a7a7; text-decoration: none; font-weight: normal !important; border: none; display: inline-block;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.gettyimages.com\/detail\/481251132\" target=\"_blank\" class=\" decorated-link\" rel=\"nofollow\">View image<\/a> | <a style=\"color: #a7a7a7; text-decoration: none; font-weight: normal !important; border: none; display: inline-block;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.gettyimages.com\" target=\"_blank\" class=\" decorated-link\" rel=\"nofollow\">gettyimages.com<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>For most Republicans, the real action during the painfully boring Democrat debate was on Twitter. \u00a0Donald Trump famously live-tweeted the whole thing, but some may have missed Mike Huckabee\u2019s grating and desperate attempt to insert himself into the national conversation.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>He started out by appealing to Trump himself (probably hoping for a much-needed retweet).<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"color: #222222;\">@RealDonaldTrump \u2013 Any last-minute hairstyle advice for @BernieSanders before he takes the stage @ #DemDebate?<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>It got weirder from there:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"color: #222222;\">@BernieSander\u2019s socialist math is as solid and sound as El Chapo\u2019s prison security<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><span style=\"color: #222222;\"> and<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"color: #222222;\">Putin\u2019s rolling the @BarackObama\/@HillaryClinton foreign policy like Chinese tanks in Tiananmen Square.<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Salon points out that <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/GovMikeHuckabee\/status\/654110402138128384\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Huckabee somehow managed to retweet himself<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>But the worst moment?<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"color: #222222;\">I trust @BernieSanders with my tax dollars like\u00a0<\/span><a style=\"color: #ff0000;\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/GovMikeHuckabee\/status\/654114071336189952\" target=\"_blank\" class=\" decorated-link\" rel=\"nofollow\">I trust a North Korean chef with my labrador!<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><span style=\"color: #222222;\">Sigh.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #222222;\">Salon, no fan of Donald Trump, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.salon.com\/2015\/10\/14\/huckabee_goes_full_trump_and_flops_his_desperate_debate_night_twitter_strategy_was_a_disaster\/\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">points out that<\/a> \u201c<\/span>at least [Huckabee\u2019s] proven there\u2019s something even worse than being Donald Trump. 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