"Huckabee's 1992 Words Get New Attention"

[in_cog_ni_to]

Huckabee's 1992 Words Get New Attention

Republican presidential hopeful, former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee, listens...
By ANDREW DeMILLO, AP
47 minutes ago

LITTLE ROCK, Ark. —

The U.S. shouldn't try to kill Saddam Hussein in Iraq, Mike Huckabee declared when he first ran for office. No women in combat anywhere. No gays in the military. No contributions in politics to candidates more than a year before an election.

His statements are among 229 answers Huckabee offered as a 36-year-old Texarkana pastor during his first run for political office in 1992. In that unsuccessful race against Sen. Dale Bumpers, Huckabee offered himself as a social conservative and listed "moral decay" as one of the top problems facing the country.

Now that he's a front-runner for the Republican presidential nomination, he's being asked anew about some of the views and comments he expressed in the survey by The Associated Press. Over the weekend, he said he wouldn't retract answers in which he advocated isolating AIDS patients from the general public, opposed increased funding for finding a cure and said homosexuality could pose a public health risk _ though he said today he might phrase his answers "a little differently."

Some of the words in his answers to the questionnaire are indeed strong.

Asked about gays in the military, for example, he didn't just reject the idea but added: "I believe to try to legitimize that which is inherently illegitimate would be a disgraceful act of government. I feel homosexuality is an aberrant, unnatural and sinful lifestyle, and we now know it can pose a dangerous public health risk."

Earlier this year, Huckabee said, "Nobody's going to find some YouTube moments of me saying something radically different than what I'm saying today."

:rofl: Oh, REALLY? :rofl:

http://www6.comcast.net/news/articles/politics/2007/12/11/Huckabee.Survey/

[Kolesar]

1. Huckabee needs one of "bush's guys" to cloak his hate behind carefully chosen code words

I could see how these relics of antigovernment language could bite him in the ass now. Especially with younger voters.

[ayeshahaqqiqa]

2. So he's not taking political contributions now?

"No contributions a year before an election."

[shain from kane]

3. I'm thinking the well will soon dry up, after word spreads about these hateful comments.

[roguevalley]

4. don't forget him signing the ad saying that wives should submit

to the subservient leadership of their husbands.

HA!

[in_cog_ni_to]

5. I am so hoping this weirdo wins the nomination.

Just wait until people get a real whiff of this loony.