"perhaps the biggest story in politics right now, Mike Huckabee"
Posted on 12/09/2007 10:05:54 AM PST by dano1
WALLACE: As you rise in the polls, I don't have to tell you that your past is becoming more of an issue.
It now turns out that when you ran for the Senate back in 1992, you called for quarantining AIDS patients, you opposed increased federal funding to find a cure, and you also said that homosexuality was a, quote, "sinful lifestyle that could pose a dangerous health risk."
Do you stand by any of that now, Governor?
HUCKABEE: Chris, I didn't say that we should quarantine. I said it was the first time in public health protocols that when we had an infectious disease and we didn't really know just how extensive and how dramatic it could be and the impact of it, that we didn't isolate the carrier.
Now, the headlines yesterday started saying that I called for quarantines, which if you'll go back and read my comments, I did not.
I had simply made the point, and I still believe this today, that in the late '80s and early '90s, when we didn't know as much as we do now about AIDS, we were acting more out of political correctness than we were about the normal public health protocols that we would have acted — as we have recently, for example, with avian flu, which — I spent hours and hours, and months, in fact, as a governor dealing ...
WALLACE: But, Governor, forgive me. I don't think that's right. All the way back in 1985, this wasn't political correctness. The Centers for Disease Control back in '85, seven years before you made your statement, said that AIDS could not be spread by casual contact.
HUCKABEE: There was also the case of Kimberly Bergalis, who testified before Congress in 1991. She had contracted AIDS from her dentist.
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"perhaps the biggest story in politics right now, Mike Huckabee"
"Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached." - Manuel II Palelologus
Enjoy it while it lasts.
Monica Crowley on the McLaughlin report proclaimed that Huckabee would be gone by February and compared him to 2008’s version of Howard Dean.
Who cares? Damn sure its not me:-()
As we parse over everything , every Republican has ever said...
Do any of the Democrat candidates even HAVE a past?
or all puff?
I repeat...to me it looks like Romney/Thompson.
You’d have to be pretty darn naive to believe his flip-flop on illegal immigration. Then again, I suspect his supporters know the Road to Ames conversion of the Man from La Raza is a fraud. He seems to attract the open-borders types who see through the feigned conversion.
Willard has spent his last round. And is headed down and out. The man spent millions and has had his clock cleaned by clintoon JR(aka Huckster) from Arkansas.
Congressman Billybob
"Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached." - Manuel II Palelologus
If any one of the Democrats wrote a letter to a rapist and future murdered "It is my desire that you be released from prison" I would think the MSM, every talk show host and all FR Posters would be attacking him on that issue.
Agree that no one has caught fire...and it’s too late for a true conservative to do so....for some reason Duncan Hunter just hasn’t been able to mount an effective campaign and true conservatives such as Rick Santorum, Mitch McConnell, Sen Sessions,Mike Pence or even John Cornyn chose not to make a run.
It’s a shame, because with a true conservative Hillary and company would be very beatable...but with a RINO or a republican flip-flopping late arriver to the conservative philosophy I fear we will have the Clintons back at 1600!
I’m kinda surprised you posted this dano as he was pretty embarrassing.
The entire reason that Dane/Dano1 is pushing the Huckster 24-7 is because the Huckster is the biggest open borders Quisling on the Republican side.
(Just as Dane has always been the biggest one on FR.)
If the Huckster is nominated, the issue of illegal immigration will be nullified in the general election. This area is the greatest 'rat weakness, which is why both Dane/Dano1 and the MSM are pushing the Huckster so hard.
Fortunately, the Huckster has a long record as a Quisling, that he can't escape with a bogus election year "conversion."
Legality of Huckabee's Mexican consulate deal questioned
Critics say Arkansas citizens, businesses financed office to draw illegal workers
November 1, 2007 - By Jerome R. Corsi - WorldNetDaily.com
Financial inducements arranged by former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee to establish a Mexican consular office in Little Rock may have violated state law, according to an Arkansas attorney. As WND reported yesterday, critics in Arkansas charge Huckabee, who lately has enjoyed a surge in his bid for the Republican presidential nomination, worked with some of the state's most prominent and politically powerful businesses to establish the consulate as a magnet for drawing illegal immigrants to the state to accept low-paying jobs. Huckabee, in an interview with WND, strongly denied the allegations.
Arkansas attorney Chip Sexton provided WND a written legal brief arguing the state government's sublease to Mexico of office space for the consulate was illegal under Arkansas law. Sexton contended the deal raised questions about the appropriateness of private citizens and corporations in Arkansas providing financial incentives for the government of Mexico to locate a consulate office in Little Rock.
"This arrangement to bring a Mexican consulate to Little Rock and the manner in which it occurred amounts to a 'consul-gate,'" Sexton told WND. "I'm an Arkansas citizen, why doesn't the state lease me some property and furniture for $1 per year?"
Robert Trevino, commissioner of Arkansas Rehabilitation Services, told WND he and Huckabee helped arrange state and private financial support to induce Mexico to establish the consulate as a business development "quid pro quo."
Trevino signed on July 7, 2006, a "Facilities Use Agreement" with Mexican consular officials to rent state government office space for $1 a year on the second floor of the Arkansas Rehabilitation Services building at 26 Corporate Hills in Little Rock. Sexton points to Arkansas law, which appears to prohibit state agencies, including Arkansas Rehabilitation Services, from sub-leasing government space.
Ark. Code Ann. § 22-2-114(C)(i) provides: "After July 1, 1975, no state agency shall enter into or renew or otherwise negotiate a lease between itself as lessor or lessee and a nongovernmental or other government lessor or lessee."
"Even more offensive, there was nothing in the lease or other agreements that would have prevented the Mexican consulate from providing legal assistance to illegal aliens," Sexton told WND. "We have information that the Mexican consulate operating out of the Arkansas Rehabilitation Facility was providing legal assistance even to Mexican illegal aliens who were accused of committing violent crimes in Arkansas."
Trevino emphasized: "It never was our intent to get involved in the immigration issue or to aid illegal immigration, that's a federal issue. Our interest and emphasis was and is strictly business development." He pointed to the many Arkansas companies, including Wal-Mart and Tyson Foods, that "do a good deal of business in Mexico," "So the more we can facilitate better trade with that country for our companies located here in Arkansas, we have a duty to do that as officials," he said.
Arkansas attorney Sexton disagreed, insisting, "This whole scheme to get a Mexican consulate to locate in Little Rock appears to be nothing more than a veiled invitation for illegal immigrants to come to Arkansas to work for the Arkansas corporations who want cheap labor." "The package is enhanced by social welfare benefits provided by the state of Arkansas and financing assistance to support the Mexican consulate's presence in the state," Sexton said.
Trevino confirmed he was state director of the League of United Latin American Citizens, also known as LULAC, an activist group strongly advocating for rights of Hispanic immigrants in the U.S., when on Oct. 3, 2003, he accompanied Huckabee in a state airplane to visit Fox in Mexico. In 2003, Trevino was Huckabee's economic development policy adviser. In October 2005, Trevino was appointed by Huckabee to his current position as commissioner of Arkansas Rehabilitation Services.
Huckster is through. He can twist and turn his AIDS comments. He can twist and turn his immigration stand. Two weeks from now, he’ll be back in single digits and be nothing more than a bad memory when the election is held. This guy has no morals, no beliefs.
“I repeat...to me it looks like Romney/Thompson.”
Thompson would never be anyone’s VP. Thompson entered the race to be president, not for any other reason. IMO he has no desire to be involved in politics unless he can have a direct effect on the situation. He cannot do that as VP. Thus, he will not be someone’s VP.
I can see Huckabee as being someone else’s VP. However, I don’t think that Romney is the type that Huckabee would VP for.
I think that Huckabee will win in Iowa. However, now that Thompson is finally campaigning there, I believe he will pull votes from both Huckabee and Romney - but mainly from Romney. So, although I think Huckabee will win there, I think Thompson will come very close to tying him. I think that Romney will be a distant third place.
LOL... this statement is a parody of a freeper isn't it?
“I think that Huckabee will win in Iowa. However, now that Thompson is finally campaigning there, I believe he will pull votes from both Huckabee and Romney - but mainly from Romney. So, although I think Huckabee will win there, I think Thompson will come very close to tying him. I think that Romney will be a distant third place.’
If it happens this way, Thompson will be perceived as the winner and will immediately become the alternative to Huckabee. Romney will evaporate. Under this scenario, Thompson would likely dispatch Huckabee in the South Carolina primary and then in Florida.
The fear of Huck among fiscal cons and WOT conservatives would make Rudy irrelevant. They would coalesce around Thompson to save the GOP from a crashing defeat in November of 2008.
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