Posted on 11/19/2007 5:32:58 AM PST by the tongue
Huckabee: Abortion Not States' Call
Sunday, November 18, 2007 3:01 PM
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WASHINGTON -- Republican presidential candidate Mike Huckabee rejects letting states decide whether to allow abortions, claiming the right to life is a moral issue not subject to multiple interpretations.
"It's the logic of the Civil War," Huckabee said Sunday, comparing abortion rights to slavery. "If morality is the point here, and if it's right or wrong, not just a political question, then you can't have 50 different versions of what's right and what's wrong."
"For those of us for whom this is a moral question, you can't simply have 50 different versions of what's right," he said in a broadcast interview.
The former Arkansas governor, who has drawn within striking distance of Mitt Romney in Iowa's leadoff presidential caucuses, said he was taken aback by the National Right to Life Committee's recent endorsement of Fred Thompson, the ex-Tennessee senator.
"But my surprise was nothing compared to the surprise of people across America who had been faithful supporters of right to life," said Huckabee, who is challenging Thompson's claim that he is the most reliable candidate in the GOP field.
"Fred's never had a 100 percent record on right to life in his Senate career. The records reflect that. And he doesn't support the human life amendment which is most amazing because that's been a part of the Republican platform since 1980," Huckabee said.
In a separate interview aired Sunday, Thompson said Roe v. Wade, the landmark Supreme Court decision allowing legal abortion, should be overturned, with states allowed to decide whether to permit abortions. "We need to remember what the status was before Roe v. Wade," he said.
Huckabee also previewed his first television ad of the campaign on the program. The 60-second spot, which features actor Chuck Norris, was to begin running in Iowa on Monday.
"My plan to secure the border. Two words: Chuck. Norris," says Huckabee, who stares into the camera before it cuts away to show Norris standing beside him.
"Mike Huckabee is a lifelong hunter who'll protect our Second Amendment rights" on gun ownership, says the tough-guy actor, who takes turns addressing viewers.
"There's no chin behind Chuck Norris' beard, only another fist," Huckabee says.
"Mike Huckabee wants to put the IRS out of business," Norris adds.
"When Chuck Norris does a push-up, he isn't lifting himself up, he's pushing the earth down," Huckabee says.
"Mike's a principled, authentic conservative," says Norris.
In closing, Huckabee says: "Chuck Norris doesn't endorse. He tells America how it's going to be. I'm Mike Huckabee and I approved this message. So did Chuck."
Huckabee acknowledged that the ad probably will not change many minds.
"But what it does do is exactly what it's doing this morning," he said. "Getting a lot of attention, driving people to our Web site, giving them an opportunity to find out who is this guy that would come out with Chuck Norris in a commercial."
The Thompson campaign was quick to respond.
"With his new campaign ad featuring Chuck Norris, Mike Huckabee has confused celebrity endorsement with serious policy. What would Huckabee do to secure America's border against millions of illegal immigrants pouring into our country? According to his ad, 'Two words: Chuck Norris,' " said Thompson campaign spokesman Todd Harris.
"It's appropriate that Chuck Norris would co-star in an ad with Mike Huckabee, given Huckabee has been 'Missing in Action' on the issue of illegal immigration his entire career," Harris said, referring to one of Norris' films.
Huckabee appeared on "Fox News Sunday" and Thompson was interviewed by "This Week" on ABC.
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Huckabee can kiss my pink rosy arse.
The media is pushing this man too much!
It’s time to STOP letting the media control who gets to represent us.
Huckabee is not what he pretends to bee.
“It’s the logic of the Civil War,” Huckabee said Sunday, comparing abortion rights to slavery. “If morality is the point here, and if it’s right or wrong, not just a political question, then you can’t have 50 different versions of what’s right and what’s wrong.”
It didn’t work out with slavery legal in some states and ILLEGAL in others. The same is true of abortion. It’s WRONG in ANY state.
Finally some CONSISTENCY would be nice!
Killing babies is WRONG in ANY state.
I do have to admit that sounds pretty funny with the ‘Chuck Norris Facts’ list.
So, is Huck proposing that we wreck the country and the Constitution, again, to make sure that each and every State outlaws abortion?
“It’s the logic of the Civil War,” Huckabee said Sunday, comparing abortion rights to slavery. “If morality is the point here, and if it’s right or wrong, not just a political question, then you can’t have 50 different versions of what’s right and what’s wrong.”
It didn’t work out with slavery legal in some states and ILLEGAL in others. The same is true of abortion. It’s WRONG in ANY state.
Finally some CONSISTENCY would be nice!
Killing babies is WRONG in ANY state.
Having said that,
“Huckabee rejects Constitution as viable entity”
this is a totally misleading title.
Our Constitution is fine. Outlawing abortion fits in with our COnstition just as making slavery ILLEGAL fits in to our Constitution.
I wonder, have ANY of you even read the Constitution or the Bill of Rights? Or just like to turn your nose up at the documents in sheer ignorance?
This is a joke, right?
What Mike is stating makes perfect sense, in regard to abortion and comparing it to slavery. By the way, have you ever read the Consitution and the Bill of Rights? Ever?
“Killing babies is WRONG in ANY state.”
Amen.
It is a stain on our great nation the this is even legal
Very misleading title for such an important issue.
Yes, actually. I've even read the 10th amendment, and understand why it was put there in the first place.
Maybe just replacing the Supreme Court justices with theologians.
IMHO, the right way to address abortion at the federal level is to recognize unborn children as people. Then state laws against homicide are effective for those who kill these defenseless kids.
This is inherently how slavery was handled - the US quit pretending black folk were only 3/5ths human.
Gee, that sure is funny, Governor Mike “Open Borders for Jesus” Huckabee. Will Sergeant Carter be Secretary of Defense, Andy Taylor as FBI director and Aunt Bee cookin’ up some vittles in the white house?
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