Huckabee, Who Once Called Romney’s Church a ‘Satanic Cult,’ Now Puts Out Ad That Says, Vote for Mitt Or You Will Go to Hell

In 2007, when he was running against Mitt Romney in the Republican primaries, Mike Huckabee, the evangelical Baptist preacher and former governor of Arkansas, suggested that Mormonism was a “satanic cult,” based on an assertion that it is part of the cult’s dogma that Jesus and Satan were brothers.

Now Huckabee is out with a pro-Romney ad that warns voters that if they do not vote for Romney, they are bound for hell.

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Christian Racist on Huckabee Cruise: ‘We Didn’t Like Seeing [Obama] Get Elected Because of His Race’

Mike Huckabee, the Baptist preacher, Fox News host and former governor of Arkansas, hosted 250 true believers on a cruise to Alaska. Adam Haslett, a writer for Prospect, went along to report on the trip. His report includes this encounter with two of Huckabee’s Christianist followers:

Maggie Benedict and Jinx Drda from suburban St Louis were also greatly disappointed to hear Huckabee had bowed out of the presidential race. They’ve always voted but it wasn’t until Obama’s victory that they became more active in politics.

“It’s the first time I’ve felt the president wasn’t a true American,” Maggie says. “And that he wants to become a dictator. We didn’t like seeing him get elected because of his race.”

Huckabee Is the One Distorting the Facts of Single Motherhood

Fundamentalist Republican candidate for president Mike Huckabee said, “Most single moms are very poor, uneducated, can’t get a job, and if it weren’t for government assistance, their kids would be starving to death and would not get health care.”

Facts:

  • 79.5% of custodial single mothers are employed
  • 27% of custodial single mothers and their children live in poverty; the other 73% do not
  • 22% receive Medicaid; 78% do not
  • 23.5% receive food stamps; 76.5% do not
  • 12% receive some form of public housing or rent subsidy; 88% do not

Huckabee Hypocrisy: Unctuously Forgave Palin’s Underage, Unwed Pregnant Daughter in 2008

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Mike Huckabee, the ordained Southern Baptist preacher, former governor of Arkansas, Fox News host and father of a cold-blooded dog-killing former Boy Scout counselor, spent this week first lying about Pres. Obama’s family background, then attempting to walk back the first lie with more lies.

On Friday, he created yet more controversy by casting judgment on Oscar-winner Natalie Portman, 29, because of her out-of-wedlock pregnancy:

HUCKABEE in 2011: One of the most troubling things is that people see a Natalie Portman or some other Hollywood starlet that boasts of, hey look, we’re having children, we’re not married, but we’re having children and they’re doing just fine.

There aren’t really a lot of single moms out there that are making millions of dollars each year by being in a movie.

I think it gives a distorted image that not everybody hires nannies and caretakers and nurses. Most single moms are very poor, uneducated, can’t get a job, and if it weren’t for government assistance, their kids would be starving to death and would not get health care.

Got that? Presumably liberal Hollywood actresses who get pregnant of wedlock, even though they are engaged to marry the baby’s father, as Portman is, are a corrupting influence on America’s youth.

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Huckabee Signals GOP Will Repeal Ban Revoking Insurance Because of Pre-Existing Conditions

Here we have it, ladies and gentlemen, the GOP’s longstanding “compassionate conservatism” is over. Keep in mind, this cruel, heartless man is an ordained Southern Baptist preacher — and he said this at supposed conservative values convention:

According to Republican Presidential hopeful Mike Huckabee, that’s exactly right. People with pre-existing conditions, he explains are like houses that have already burned down.

“It sounds so good, and it’s such a warm message to say we’re not gonna deny anyone from a preexisting condition,” Huckabee explained at the Value Voters Summit today. “Look, I think that sounds terrific, but I want to ask you something from a common sense perspective. Suppose we applied that principle [to] our property insurance. And you can call your insurance agent and say, “I’d like to buy some insurance for my house.” He’d say, “Tell me about your house.” “Well sir, it burned down yesterday, but I’d like to insure it today.” And he’ll say “I’m sorry, but we can’t insure it after it’s already burned.” Well, no preexisting conditions.”

The ‘Ick Factor,’ And Why Huckabee Will Never Be President

Left: Huckabee family several years ago, Mike and Janet Huckabee more recently
Left: Huckabee family several years ago, Mike and Janet Huckabee more recently

The New Yorker has profile of Mike Huckabee up that explores the possibility that he may be the Republicans’ “best hope” to take on Pres. Obama in 2012. If he is, there’s at least one quote from the interview on social issues that will likely turn off reasonable independent voters (and any of the few remaining Republicans who are rational) down the road:

I asked him to explain his rationale for opposing gay rights. “I do believe that God created male and female and intended for marriage to be the relationship of the two opposite sexes,” he said. “Male and female are biologically compatible to have a relationship. We can get into the ick factor, but the fact is two men in a relationship, two women in a relationship, biologically, that doesn’t work the same.” [Emphasis added.]

“Ick” is in the mind of the beholder. For example — and with apologies in advance if you are eating as you read this, dear reader — but imagine just for a second, Huckabee and his wife Janet belly to belly making the beast with two backs, doing the nasty and hiding the salami — fill in your own euphemism, just so long as your imaginary Huckabees are doing it missionary style.

See? Ick. Who wants to think of these two bruisers having sex? No one. And yet, Mike Huckabee — a supposedly serious Republican candidate for president in 2012 — rests the foundation of his justification for the use of constitutional amendments in 45 states and federal laws like the Defense of Marriage Act to restrict millions of Americans’ civil right to marry a picture in his puerile mind of what these people do in bed.

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