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.
Ed Rollings had the nerve to compare Huckabee to Reagan! He said how Reagan was talked about how he didn’t have any foreign policy experience or wasn’t electable. Mike Huckabee, you are no Ronald Reagan!
“Ed Rollings had the nerve to compare Huckabee to Reagan! He said how Reagan was talked about how he didn’t have any foreign policy experience or wasn’t electable. Mike Huckabee, you are no Ronald Reagan!”
That’s what he said last night on Lou Dobbs when Dobbs was giving him the business rather badly.
Hi Friends, I thought you might be interested in reading this transcript of a conversation between Glen Beck and Mike Huckabee, along with Glen’s comments about their surprise meeting. In my opiion it is quite telling of Mike Huckabee who is supposed to be “Christian like”.
http://www.glennbeck.com/news/12142007a.shtml
That was a headline in a morning newspaper and that statement alone will cause him to lose support by many, including me.
it may have the same affect on him as did Clinton’s making a major point of Barrack Obama’s drug use, then denying she know anything about it, on her.
if Repubs take issue with his above remarks, I wonder who he will fire??
I saw part of the glenn beck interview? I guess I missed the inflamatory parts?
Agreed. I have not met Murphy but I have met Rollins. He worked for the Bruce Benson campaign here. Rollins was not very impressive and the advice he gave was either not taken or horrible. Benson lost and Rollins marches on.
I had not heard that. Huckabee is nothing like Ronald Reagan other than having been a governor.
No, but it was powerfully impressive and convincing evidence of his executive skills and brilliance in organizing people and budgeting money to turn a fiscal and ethical disaster into a highly profitable squeaky-clean success. He even refused to take a salary; turned it all back to the Olympics.
What has Huckabee accomplished in a similar vein that is even remotely comparable?
Huckabee was gifted in turning on the spigot to get special gifts and favors for himself and his family. He even wrangled Wendy's hambugers at half price!
“That’s what he said last night on Lou Dobbs when Dobbs was giving him the business rather badly.”
I wish I had seen that.
What's not to agree with here?
Mike Huckabee’s Speech on Foreign Policy
The Council on Foreign Relations | September 28, 2007 | Mike Huckabee
Posted on 12/13/2007 2:36:39 AM EST by 2ndDivisionVet
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1938775/posts
Huckabee Critiques Bush in Foreign Affairs Piece
[Mod sez: the Huckster is going all Ron Paul on ya]
The Washington Post | 12/14/2007 | Michael Abramowitz
Posted on 12/14/2007 6:20:04 PM EST by dano1
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1939664/posts
Scratch Huckabee
The Illinois Review | December 15, 2007 | Mark Rhoads
Posted on 12/15/2007 4:38:17 AM EST by 2ndDivisionVet
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/1939819/posts
America’s Priorities in the War on Terror
(”Bush admin...arrogant bunker mentality”)
Foreign Affairs | 15 Dec 2007 | Michael D. Huckabee
Posted on 12/15/2007 5:54:07 PM EST by Mr Rogers
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/1940069/posts
Huckabee: America’s Priorities in the War on Terror
(”Bush admin...arrogant bunker mentality”)
Foreign Affairs via Real Clear Politics | December 15, 2007 | Mike Huckabee
Posted on 12/15/2007 9:49:28 PM EST by FocusNexus
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1940130/posts
Confused & Concerned About Huckabee
( Victor Davis Hanson is rightly confused about ....
Flopping Aces | December 15, 2007 at 2:22 PM | Curt
Posted on 12/16/2007 1:16:21 AM EST by Ernest_at_the_Beach
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1940174/posts
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