Posted on 12/15/2007 6:00:23 AM PST by dano1
Mike Huckabee's record-setting rise to the top of the GOP field may only be eclipsed by his record-setting fall to the bottom after revelations of his views on gay and lesbian Americans and people with HIV and AIDS.
During Huckabee's 1992 Senate race in Arkansas he had this to say about homosexuality: "I feel homosexuality is an aberrant, unnatural, and sinful lifestyle, and we now know it can pose a dangerous public health risk…"
This might have been understandable in 1992, but he actually stood by those remarks today in justifying his comments.
Plenty of ammunition
This by itself would be enough to hurt him even within the Republican Party that at least most Republicans disagree with this notion now. However, he couldn't stop there.
During the same time in 1992 he basically advocated for banishing people with HIV and AIDS to remote islands when he said:
"If the federal government is truly serious about doing something with the AIDS virus, we need to take steps that would isolate the carriers of this plague. It is difficult to understand the public policy towards AIDS. It is the first time in the history of civilization in which the carriers of a genuine plague have not been isolated from the general population, and in which this deadly disease for which there is no cure is being treated as a civil rights issue instead of the true health crisis it represents."
Again, this would not have been that surprising coming out of the mouths of most right-wingers in the late 1980s, but this was said in 1992 by someone running for the U.S. Senate.
By 1992 the Surgeon General had said three years earlier that AIDS could not be contracted by casual contact. President George Bush (the 1st) gave a compelling speech the year before about treating AIDS patients with compassion, dignity and privacy and clearly emphasizing that discriminating against people with AIDS was absolutely wrong.
Terrible stuff here
Even more abhorrent is that Huckabee actually stood by these remarks today as well. He claims he may have phrased it differently if he was saying it today, but basically claims that he believes what he said.
This is a man who claims to be a Christian candidate (a whole other issue in itself). The Christian teachings I learned would have never stood for this, and I know Jesus wouldn't have said such things.
Enjoy the top Mike, I wouldn't imagine it will last very long.
LOL! You’re killing me!!
LLS
Translation: I went to sunday school until 2nd grade. I haven't opened the bible since then, but I'm completely and confidently able to tell christians how they should believe.
” basically advocated for banishing people with HIV and AIDS to remote islands “ -not too bad an idea. I know some others I’d like to banish there as well-lol
Huckabee Sees WH 'Bunker Mentality'
CONCORD, N.H. (AP) - Mike Huckabee, who has joked about his lack of foreign policy experience, is criticizing the Bush administration's efforts, denouncing a go-it-alone "arrogant bunker mentality" and questioning decisions on Iraq.
Huckabee, the former Arkansas governor now running for the Republican presidential nomination, lays out a policy plan that is long on optimism but short on details in the January-February issue of the journal Foreign Affairs, which is published by the Council on Foreign Relations. A copy of his article was released Friday.
"American foreign policy needs to change its tone and attitude, open up, and reach out," Huckabee said. "The Bush administration's arrogant bunker mentality has been counterproductive at home and abroad. My administration will recognize that the United States' main fight today does not pit us against the world but pits the world against the terrorists."
He said this year's troop increase under Bush has resulted in significant but tenuous gains, and he said—much as Bush has—that he would not withdraw troops from Iraq any faster than Gen. David Petraeus, the top U.S. commander there, recommends. The military has now slowly begun to reverse the troop increase.
Jesus would have told us to love the sinner and hate the sin. He then would have told the sinner to “Go and sin no more”. He would not have told him to just be him self.
Is the Huckabee campaign so confident, that they have told dano1 to actually start posting the articles that expose the Huckaster for the whack job that he is.
Maybe we are witnessing the birth of dano2!
Huckabee hired Ed Rollings which almost guarantees his demise.
If you didn’t know this stuff was coming from Huckabee, you would swear it was Obama or Howard Dean spouting these DNC talking points.
Jesus loved the lepers, but there is no record of him living with any of them. I prefer not to live with HIV. You can if you want to, but I do not want to live like that.
The MSM have been given their marching orders, her scum bad machine is fearful of Thompson.
Does Huck have a brother? I enjoyed the antics of Billy Carter.
I wonder if the Carter kids ever got braces?
Hillary has Carter teeth.
Huckleberry will be going down soon enough, but it won’t be for saying less-than-worshipful things about the liberals’ favorite pet.
This is an example of an attack that helps the attackee...
Bingo. Precisamundo.
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