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Huckabee Was [not] Ready for Stem-Cell Question(Huck's hypocrisy; Thompson pounces)
Wash Wire/ Wall treet Journal ^ | 12/22/2007 | Laura Meckler

Posted on 12/22/2007 8:36:47 PM PST by Brices Crossroads

Mike Huckabee was prepared when a voter asked him today about embryonic stem-cell research. He pulled from his pocket a photo of a girl, given to him by a woman at a campaign event.

“This little girl was born from a frozen embryo, frozen for four years, two-cell embryo,” he said. She “became this precious little girl.” He said the girl’s mother told him, “When you think about embryos and stem cells just remember my daughter.” [Mike Huckabee] Huckabee

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Huckabee praised President Bush for blocking federal funding for research that destroys embryos, saying he rightfully stood up to pressure to cave. {snip}

He added that “now science has proved that he’s right,” noting that recent research suggests that other forms of stem-cell research may hold just as much promise.

In his swing through eastern Iowa this week, Huckabee has hit the “sanctity of life” issue forcefully. He has equated the rights of the unborn to the rights of all humans and said that because abortion is a moral issue, not a political issue, it’s not OK simply to overturn Roe vs. Wade. In that case, abortion will still be legal in states that choose to allow it.

“That’s the logic of the Civil War. Some states see slavery is right. Others can say it’s wrong. I don’t think that’s where we want to be as a country,” he said. “If abortion isn’t wrong then nothing is wrong.”

His staunch opposition to abortion — as well as his strict stand against same-sex marriage — have fueled his rise among evangelical Christians in Iowa...

5:10 p.m. UPDATE: Fred Thompson’s campaign noted Huckabee’s comments and emailed WashWire to note that in March 2007 Huckabee took a $35,000 honorarium from Novo Nordisk, a company involved in stem cell research.

(Excerpt) Read more at blogs.wsj.com ...


TOPICS: News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; US: Iowa
KEYWORDS: fred; fredthompson; huckabee; mikehuckabee; prolife; stemcells
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To: unspun

Tell me how you plan to burst the federalism bubble. The only way to do so is to overthrow the Constitution of the United States. Since I am sure you do not advocate this, the question becaomes how to achieve the goal within the Republican form of government under which we now live. It is not aht federalism has failed, but that activist judges and courts have dispensed with it. Abortion on demand was not foisted on the United States by adherence to federalist principles but by their abandonment via judicial activism. The President’s only power to correct this and other judicial abuses lies in his power to shape the federal judiciary.

I have far greater confidence in Fred Thompson’s ability to rectify the imperial judiciary under which we now live than I do Huckabee. Huckabee’s judicial picks do not inspire confidence. See the post below.

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1940006/posts


41 posted on 12/23/2007 11:05:17 AM PST by Brices Crossroads
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To: Brices Crossroads
Tell me how you plan to burst the federalism bubble. The only way to do so is to overthrow the Constitution of the United States. Since I am sure you do not advocate this,

The idealistic bubble of federalism has already been broken to smithereens by Roe/Doe and has been cracked down the middle about Marriage, for their respective subjects.

The solution is obvious. Get whatever we can done, however we rightly can and as soon as we can, amend the Constitution as with slavery.

The framers of the Constitution knew at the time that there would be cases in the future where implicit rights and/or definitions would need to be clarified and they gave us the means to do so.

42 posted on 12/23/2007 3:02:40 PM PST by unspun (God save us from egos -- especially our own.)
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To: unspun

And amending the Constitution requires the states’ involvement, 38 of them. That is federalism, my friend, whether you care to admit it or not.


43 posted on 12/23/2007 4:33:39 PM PST by Brices Crossroads
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To: skinkinthegrass; Brices Crossroads

I think that if Huckabee gets the GOP nomination, the Dems will win by a landslide comparable to Nixon’s and Reagan’s of 1972 and 1984 respectively.


44 posted on 12/23/2007 10:03:00 PM PST by no dems (FRED THOMPSON: The only Conservative running who can beat Hillary or Obama.)
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To: no dems

...agree w/ an RINO/CINO heading the ticket.


45 posted on 12/24/2007 8:24:08 AM PST by skinkinthegrass (just b/c your paranoid, doesn't mean they're NOT out to get you....Run, FRed, Run. :^)
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To: Brices Crossroads
And amending the Constitution requires the states’ involvement, 38 of them. That is federalism, my friend, whether you care to admit it or not.

I admit it freely. That builds a new structure of proper federalism (in these cases, as it pertains to Human Life and to Marriage) where previously the protective bubble has been burst.

Now here, oddly -- and very unfortunately -- is where Fred Thompson's version of federalism fails. It fails to do what is proscribed to do, to reorient the nation on its Declaration underpinnings.

46 posted on 12/24/2007 6:33:43 PM PST by unspun (God save us from egos -- especially our own.)
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