The Huckabubble

Huckabee? Is The GOP Serious?

excerpts from a Sun-Times column written today by Steve Huntley

"Only a Republican Party hell-bent on political suicide would nominate Mike Huckabee as its standard-bearer in next year's presidential sweepstakes..."

"A Huckabee nomination would all but guarantee the GOP an election debacle of the magnitude of Barry Goldwater's 1964 loss -- but without establishing a foundation for the future as Goldwater's candidacy did..."

"For starters, Huckabee carries religiosity into politics far beyond acceptable boundaries for most traditional Republicans..."

"But Huckabee brazenly campaigns in Iowa as the candidate offering "Christian leadership." How would we feel about a politician touting "Jewish leadership" or "Muslim leadership"? Huckabee is injecting religion into politics to the detriment of both. And he's hitting below the belt by playing an evangelical card against Mitt Romney's Mormonism. Dirty politics from an ordained minister."

"Social conservatives energized by Huckabee's bid for the GOP nomination might take note of news reports about how he avoids religion in his campaigning in New Hampshire. Voters there are more fiscally conservative and not swayed by a former preacher glibly joking that Jesus is too smart to run for office."

Mike Huckabee as Cultural Warrior and Uniter (we heard that before)

During the last debate Mike Huckabee was quoted saying

"We are right now a very polarized country, and that polarized country has led to a paralyzed government...We've got to be the united people of the United States."

But some of Huckabee's past statements show how little Huckabee cares about uniting anyone who doesn't have his views.

-in 1998 he is quoted saying "I hope we...take this nation back for Christ"

-in 1992 he was quoted saying that people with the AIDS should be quarantined

-in 1998 he endorsed an ad affirming the Baptist teaching that a "wife is to submit herself graciously to the servant leadership of her husband"

-Huckabee also declared that people who do not believe in God tend to be immoral and to engage in "destructive behavior."

Huckabee also penned a book called Kids Who Kill: Confronting Our Culture of Violence in response to the Jonesboro Arkansas school shooting, which occurred on March 24, 1998 while Huckabee was governor of the state. It was hardly the book needed to mend the state after such a tragedy, in it Huckabee proceeded to blame everything for the school shooting stating that they were the cause of

"a society in decline, a decline marked (and caused) by abortion, pornography, media violence, out-of-wedlock sex, divorce, drug use, and, of course, homosexuality."

Some direct quotes from the book are...

"Abortion, environmentalism, AIDS, pornography, drug abuse, and homosexual activism have fragmented and polarized our communities."

How environmentalism is linked to the other issues he mentioned was never explained. Further in the book he wrote...

"It is now difficult to keep track of the vast array of publicly endorsed and institutionally supported aberrations—from homosexuality and pedophilia to sadomasochism and necrophilia."

What public endorses pedophilia, sadomasochism, and necrophilia was also never mentioned by Huckabee.

Huckabee sounds like another George W. Bush style "uniter"...the last thing this country needs.

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