Uh, well let’s hope Huck doesn’t have that bad of a memory if he wants to be president.
The truth is, the video clip of his speech on the floor of the Arkansas legislature from 2003 was all over the internet on Monday (Drudge linked it for most of the day). More than 100,000 saw it. Huckabee went on Fox News this morning and had to know he would be asked about it. If he was confused about the context of the speech, he should have looked in up or inquired further before he responded to it on national television.
Huckabee is running from his record because he needs to paint himself as a conservative in order to have any hope of winning the nomination.
Even if this were true, it would be even more damning. Who needs an executive to order the legislative branch to follow orders of the judicial branch? It would be more efficient just to have a judicial dictatorship. Where, in our constitution or Arkansas's constitution is the judicial branch given the right to dictate laws to be made or taxes to be raised to what are supposed to be co-equal branches of government?
A governor with any backbone would ask the legislature to file articles of impeachment against any judge giving such orders for abuse of their authority. We are not a judicial oligarchy!