I read the thread. Huckabee knows his views better than anyone else knows them.
Not even if a life-long native Arkansan who's experienced and suffered the Huckster's non-conservative governorship 1st hand and who's hobnobbed with him in social events and whose wife knew him from college days, told you otherwise, nor if I provide a list of Mike's past political actions for one to read and consider? You're just going to decide about him based soley on what this politician says?
http://www.crooksandliars.com/2007/10/23/1-out-of-56-is-not-most/
At the GOP debate the other night, Mike Huckabee made an odd claim.
“When our founding fathers put their signatures on the Declaration of Independence, those 56 brave people, most of whom, by the way, were clergymen, they said that we have certain inalienable rights given to us by our creator.”
“Most” of the signers were clergy? Is that true? Actually, no.
Only one of the 56 was an active clergyman, and that was John Witherspoon. Witherspoon was a Presbyterian minister and president of the College of New Jersey (now Princeton University).
A few more of the signers were former clergymen, though it’s a little unclear just how many…. We’d like to give Huckabee every benefit of the doubt, but even if you consider former clergymen among the signers the best you could come up with is four. Out of 56. That’s not “most,” that’s Pants-on-Fire wrong.
It’s a common problem at the Republican debates — why let facts get in the way of a perfectly good soundbite?
Last year's, this week's, or next year's? The man spins like a weather vane in a tornado.