It’s hard to believe but Mike Huckabee just keeps getting worse and worse. Now he’s going around telling people that doctors who perform abortions should be punished.
Abortion, you will recall, is legal and is the woman’s decision. At least that’s the way it is in my America, the one where Jesus stays out of the Oval Office.
In the NBC interview, Huckabee, a longtime opponent of legalized abortion, said he does not believe that women should be punished for undergoing the procedure, but that doctors might need to face sanctions.
“I don’t know that you’d put him in prison, but there’s something to me untoward about a person who has committed himself to healing people and to making people alive who would take money to take an innocent life and to make that life dead,” Huckabee said.
Is it me, or is he starting to sound like Bush? “Making people alive?” “Make that life dead?”
Huckabee went on to reassure people that he won’t let his personal religious views control his governing.
Those skeptical of the role of faith in his presidency, he said, should look at his record in Arkansas.
Funny you should mention that.
Huckabee’s record in Arkansas points to a combination of strong-arm tactics, like having the man who prosecuted his son for torturing and killing a stray dog fired, and pressuring the parole board to release Wayne Dumond after he raped a girl, admitted taking part in the beating and killing of a man with a clawfoot hammer, and boasted of slaughtering an entire village during his Vietnam service. Why did the Huckster do this? Because Dumond claimed he’d been born again in prison.
Dumond raped and killed the mother of a teenager right after that but hey, Jesus loved the recently deceased (in prison, thank you) murderer and to Huck, that’s all that matters. And that’s the problem, says columnist Froma Harrop.
Huckabee has put pastoral credentials high on his list of qualifications to be president. They suggest high morals and, for many religious conservatives, a Christian perspective. But as the DuMond fiasco shows, faith-based decision-making may not produce the kind of conclusions one wants from a political leader…
The release of a violent offender based on his tale of religious conversion (or in this case, a fellow Baptist minister’s claim of such) — rather than on available evidence — is inexcusable…
Religion, like other aspects of upbringing and education, colors a candidate’s world view. There’s nothing wrong with that, as long as it isn’t used to cut corners in making important judgments.
Yet on Huckabee’s web site, he says he does just that.
My faith is my life – it defines me. My faith doesn’t influence my decisions, it drives them.
That’s dangerous, Harrop says.
In the end, a con conned Huckabee with a carefully tailored religious appeal. That does not build confidence in the candidate’s ability to navigate a complex planet full of complicated people.
Of course speaking of the planet, Huckaberry recently demonstrated a stunning (for a presidential candidate) ignorance of geography when he placed Afghanistan on Pakistan’s eastern border. This guy really is reminding me of Bush.
Look at those eyes; that is one sick f*ck