I remember that last time he ran for President, it came up that he had prominently advocated, in the 90s, for the quarantine of people with AIDS. He's also equated homosexuality with bestiality, called for a federal ban on abortion, called for a faith-based interpretation of the Constitution, etc. Fairly standard right wing religious stuff. The quarantine of people with AIDS though is the one that has always stuck with me as being particularly cruel.
But he does certainly come off as a nice guy. And I think he probably is a nice guy in a lot of ways. I think Santorum is too. Nixon was mean. Folks like Santorum and Huckabee aren't mean, they are just doing the Lord's Work (tm) in a fashion meant to cause large swaths of America to be undermined and turn us into something close to a theocracy. Judah On Wed, Mar 14, 2012 at 9:06 PM, Dana <[email protected]> wrote: > > really? I had him pegged as kind of a nice guy. Not a lot of thought went > into that, so I'm not doubting you, but if you have an example or two handy > I'd appreciate it. > > thanks > D > > On Wed, Mar 14, 2012 at 8:34 PM, Jerry Milo Johnson <[email protected]>wrote: > >> >> I would put Huckabee pretty far out on the crazy religious nutbag limb >> standing pretty close to Santorum. >> >> He got pretty hateful and vengeful and evangelistic following his loss in >> the last election. >> >> I remember it seemed to me at the time that the smiling guy was a mask, >> with an intensely bitter man behind that mask. >> >> Especially on his show. >> >> On Wed, Mar 14, 2012 at 11:23 PM, Judah McAuley <[email protected] >> >wrote: >> >> > >> > I was just ruminating further on who Romney might pick as VP and I'm >> > starting to wonder about Huckabee. He's personable (I remember seeing >> > him on The Daily Show and was impressed by how he handled himself) and >> > while he is fairly moderate, his status as minister serves to placate >> > the religious right. Not the most exciting ticket in the world, but >> > who could possibly make a Romney ticket exciting? >> > >> > I also read an interesting bit today discussing a dark horse candidate >> > for VP that might actually energize the ticket: Gov. Luis Fortuño of >> > Puerto Rico. He endorsed Romey, he's working to push Puerto Rico >> > toward statehood, Romney is in favor of statehood and it might >> > represent a huge step toward bridging the gap with Hispanic voters. >> > Romney can claim a stake in the ground on an issue that he's not yet >> > flip flopped on 3 times already and try to appear genuine. >> > >> > I don't think that Romney is actually that bold and I think he'll >> > choose a totally boring VP candidate that continues to mire his >> > campaign in pit of apathy, but it's interesting to think what might >> > happen if he took a truly bold step. >> > >> > >> >> >> > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Order the Adobe Coldfusion Anthology now! http://www.amazon.com/Adobe-Coldfusion-Anthology/dp/1430272155/?tag=houseoffusion Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/message.cfm/messageid:348584 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/unsubscribe.cfm
