That could hurt him in the deep south.
Perhaps that’s why my Pro-Choice Liberal Democrat friend is so supportive of him. He doesn’t seem to care about the Constitution or Federalism.
By his (il)logic, why isn’t all murder a Federal crime?
Does he really not understand the American system, or does he just not care?
Huckabee’s a loser. This is all sour grapes because the NRLC didn’t endorse him. He’s going to need more than Chuck Norris for him to win.
The Man for Hope just may cut into some of Romney’s lead in Iowa...... Here’s Hope....
45 days and we’ll see how the caucus goers rate the participants from 1 - 100.
Why does the Huckster have an obsession with inserting racial bigotry when addressing controversial issues ?
Oppose Amnesty = Racist
Federalism = Slavery
This is getting old , fast .
LLS
Hey Huck how about alcohol?
States already have lost too many rights to the Feds. Evidence shows, on social issues especially, that they do a fine job one one thing - not doing anything.
I disagree with Huckabee. Roe v. Wade should never have made it to the Supreme Court because it belonged at the state level. We cannot have it both ways. (except maybe in the case of partial birth abortion, which is horrendous)
“For those of us for whom this is a moral question, you can’t simply have 50 different versions of what’s right,”
I agree that abortion is morally wrong, but there’s a lot of jurisdictions in the USA that do not agree. Federalism works. I like Fred Thompson, and don’t like Mike Huckabee. But if Mike is the nominee of the party, he’s still better than any Democrat!
Shaking up the Republican primary abortion-style
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1927483/posts
Explains why Fred got the National Right To Life Committee endorsement.
He leaves out what day he will sign amnesty.
Mike Huckabee:
“Roe v. Wade is based on a real stretch of Constitutional application--that somehow there is a greater privacy issue in the abortion concern--than there is a human life issue--and that the federal government should be making that decision as opposed to states making that decision. So, I've never felt that it was a legitimate manner in which to address this and, first of all, it should be left to the states, the 10th Amendment, but secondly, to somehow believe that the taking of an innocent, unborn human life is about privacy and not about that unborn life is ludicrous.”
“Huckabee Says Abortion Not for States”
Huckleberry don’t need to sell me on his views on abortion. He does have work to do on illegal aliens/border issues and taxes.
I’ve recently changed my stance from nominal Huckabee supportr back to “undecided.” However, on this issue, I’m pretty much fully in agreement with Huckabee. As I’ve said before, as long as the 14th Amendment remains in effect, calling abortion a state issue is iffy at best, and I personally think his slavery comparison is spot-on.
He is taking this point of view because it will make Thomson look bad, he hopes. Thompson is right, states should decide, otherwise we will be back to a huge federal government, and what we need is for the states to take back their powers.
While I certainly wouldn’t oppose a federal law against abortion, don’t we have 50 different state laws against homicide? They’re all against it, no?
Thompson’s take on things isn’t 100% what I’d like, but as of today and his remarks on Schiavo, I can live with the difference.
Moreover, let’s say a federal law comes to President Thompson’s desk. Can you see him vetoing it because it doesn’t correspond perfectly to his federalist principles? Maybe you can. I don’t know. But I’m not sorry I voted for GWB and he’s disappointed me bigtime on several occasions.
His Supreme Ct nominees are not among those!
Thompson would get to nominate two, maybe more judges. You know they’ll be as pro-life as he can get through the process. The road isn’t always expressway straight, but with him we’ll get where we want to go.
Whereas Huckabee, like Romney, like Giuliani...I just don’t trust these people.
“The 60-second spot stars actor Chuck Norris, .....”
60 seconds? I can stand that much easier than one hour of Walker Texas Ranger.