Huckabee applauds Jamie Lynn Spears for choosing life

[Kurt_and_Hunter]

(That's Britney Spears pregnant 16 year old sister, for those with a life)

No link, just a statement read on MSNBC.

It is always sort of thrilling to see a true amateur campaign.

[LostinVA]

1. Well, she did meet the boy at church

[TwilightZone]

2. Did he applaud her for choosing to have pre-marital sex?

Curious statement by Huckabee.

[Kurt_and_Hunter]

4. He's a genuine loose cannon.

[MaineDem]

25. Very odd

Best to not go near it, I would say.

Why address it at all? Ewwww

[TwilightZone]

30. It does seem very strange.

It makes his priorities as a "conservative" look a little odd. She would seem to be that which they claim to abhor - a pregnant, unwed teenager.

[BootinUp]

31. Nah

this plays very well to his choir.

[annie1]

42. well that's how teenagers often get pregnant, and pro-life camp believes...

that no matter what the circumstances you need to choose "life". so i think the statement makes sense.

[harun]

3. Interesting... applauding an out of wed lock 16 year old for getting

knocked up.

[sinkingfeeling]

22. Don't forget he was governor of Arkansas. Think we rate about 3rd. in number of teenagers having

out-of-wedlock births. Also, right up there in the top 10 with domestic violence and sex acts on kids.

[sniffa]

5. i have to commend him for sticking with his beliefs

even after seeing what a disaster of a mother Britney is.

[billybob537]

6. Thats just wrong on all levels.

Theres nothing good about any of this. Waytago HUCK!!! Did the statutory rape thing ever occur to you?
Louisiana

§ 14-80

§ 14. 80. 1
Felony carnal knowledge of a juvenile is sexual intercourse with consent between (1) someone age 19 or older and someone between age 12 and 17 or (2) someone age 17 or older and someone between age 12 and 15.

Misdemeanor carnal knowledge of a juvenile is sexual intercourse with consent between someone age 17 to 19 and someone age 15 to 17 when the difference in their ages is greater than two years.

[Kurt_and_Hunter]

7. Maybe the father chose 20-to-life

[theoldman]

9. I wonder if the father will end up in prison.

[mtnsnake]

10. Huckabee pardons everyone, especially rapists. nt

[TwilightZone]

12. Ouch.

Too true.

[dugggy]

26. Huckster is fond of Rapists...they create life

so they must be OK.

[Lucinda]

13. If it occurred in Louisana, it's entirely possible that no laws were broken

http://www.cnn.com/2007/SHOWBIZ/TV/12/19/spears.statutory.rape/index.html?eref=rss_latest

[Kurt_and_Hunter]

15. I'm not in a hurry to prosecute three year age differences as statutory rape anywhere

[Lucinda]

18. Agree. But there may be some who will push this...which is why CNN posted the LA info

[Blue_In_AK]

29. It wouldn't be a broken law in Alaska either.

There is no crime if the girl is 16 or over, unless the perp is a teacher or other person in authority, in which case the age of consent is 18.

[liberal N proud]

8. Guess that abstinence thing isn't important

These brilliant snobs telling people to abstain but when you can't, choose to have that baby.

Maybe if they would have taught her and her boyfriend about condoms, then 3 lives wouldn't be effected.

[BootinUp]

11. Anything for political gain

who cares if he is sticking his nose where it don't belong.

[racaulk]

17. He's a Republican, after all. That's what they do best. nt

[AlCzervik]

14. so he's happy she has unprotected sex?

would he be applauding her if she got an std as well?

[Lucinda]

20. It could easily have been an accident. Condoms and birth control don't

always work.

[AlCzervik]

24. thats true but it also could have just been unprotected sex.

[annie1]

43. he didn't say that

[gateley]

16. God, he's so scary. nt

[bullwinkle428]

19. Huckabee never had this problem as his sons were growing up -

I'm guessing even the livestock ran for their lives in the opposite direction when they saw this dog-chokin', gun-on-a-plane-totin' charmer approach them...

[Mass]

21. How is it Huckabee problem or for the matter anybody else except her and her parents???

[JI7]

23. does he applaud she had sex before marriage

[KingFlorez]

27. Why did he feel compelled to say that?

It is in no way relevant to the Presidential Race. It's just another case of a Republican trying to stick their nose in where it doesn't belong.

[TwilightGardener]

34. Exactly--bizarre.

[loveangelc]

37. my thoughts exactly. nt

[Catherine Vincent]

28. How does he know this didn't happen before and she didn't choose life? nt

[Rockholm]

32. What an ass.

[TwilightGardener]

33. And this, ladies and gentlemen, is the circus we would be subjected to

if this guy got into the WH. God help us.

[pdxmom]

35. The fact that he would chose to even bother to issue a statement on

this shows me that it could actually be possible to dumb down the office of the President even further than we've already seen under Bush*. Can you imagine weekly statements from a President Huckabee, offering his opinions on everything posted on TMZ that week?

[indie_voter]

36. that puzzles me too. Was he asked about it? If so

why not say 'it's not of national importance, next?!'

Otherwise why even say anything at all?! Strange.

[TwilightGardener]

39. Unpresidential to even remark on it.

[krabigirl]

41. It would be like the movie Idiocracy.

[ecstatic]

38. On the other hand, wouldn't that statement silence right-wing critics? nt

[Arugula Latte]

40. Here's a shirt for the Spears baby:

[regnaD kciN]

44. BREAKING NEWS: Bill Clinton applauds Jamie Lynn Spears...

...for "bein' willin' to put out when she was 16." :evilgrin:

Seriously, although I will admit that the words "Huckabee" and "snark" seem to belong together, I don't see anything wrong with what he said. I've always pointed out that, if "pro-lifers" really walked the walk, it would be morally incumbent on them to support all human life, and that (among other things) includes supporting, with love and understanding, those who find themselves unwittingly pregnant, rather than subjecting them to moral condemnation. Otherwise, a "pro-life" message of "you shouldn't have an abortion because it's killing a baby, but if you decide to let the baby live, we'll ostracize you as a slut" is nothing but a cruel joke.

[FloridaJudy]

45. I think I just threw up in my mouth a little

:puke:

These people deserve each other. The rest of us don't.

[Vektor]

46. Well, since financial concerns are not an issue for this family...

...she has the luxury of "choosing life" without having to worry about how she'll feed or clothe this baby.

If RW "womb police" such as Huckabee and the rest of his out of touch with reality ilk want to see less termination of pregnancies, they could, for starters, put their money where their mouths are and open up their wallets to pregnant women in need.

If they aren't ready to do that, they need to put a sock in it and stop trying to police other peoples' reproductive choices.