[UPDATE: You simply must read the Freeper reaction (after the jump), even they think Huck’s insane.]
This man doesn't need to be anywhere near the White House. His Christian Reconstructionism slip shows again, this time in Michigan.
"[Some of my opponents] do not want to change the Constitution, but I believe it's a lot easier to change the constitution than it would be to change the word of the living God, and that's what we need to do is to amend the Constitution so it's in God's standards rather than try to change God's standards," Huckabee said, referring to the need for a constitutional human life amendment and an amendment defining marriage as between a man and a woman.
Huckabee often refers to the need to amend the constitution on these grounds, but he has never so specifically called for the Constitution to be brought within "God's standards," which are themselves debated amongst religious scholars. As a closing statement he asked the room of nearly 500 supporters to "pray and then work hard, and in that order," to help him secure a victory in Tuesday's GOP primary.
The rapist/murderer-releasing Baptist minister-without-a-theology-degree is one of the most disturbing candidates in the clown car because he's popular with the press, charming people enough to be distracted from his frightening fundamentalism.
Jon Perr of Perrspectives had this to say:
In case there was any remaining doubt, that astounding statement eviscerated Huckabee's pretense of upholding the separation of church and state. In December, Governor Huckabee offered this charade on Meet the Press, words which obviously are no longer operative:
"The key issue of real faith is that it never can be forced on someone. And never would I want to use the government institutions to impose mine or anybody else's faith or to restrict."
As it turns out, using the institutions of government to impose his faith is exactly what Mike Huckabee has in mind. Quick to denounce sharia law and "Islamofascism," Huckabee is seems quite eager to embrace a Christian version of God's law here at home.
This latest clarion call for Christ is just the latest example of the extremism of Mike Huckabee that Perrspectives previously detailed here and here. But it highlights yet again why this extremely talented campaigner and gifted orator scares, well, the bejesus out of the Republican establishment. (The National Review's Rich Lowry called a Huckabee nomination "act of suicide by his party." No matter what happens in the Michigan and South Carolina contests, the former minister may have just guaranteed that the GOP nominating process is about to become "Anyone But Huckabee."
UPDATE: For most of the Freepi, this was the final straw for Huck. Even they think he’s batsh*t crazy.
[This first one’s for the ages…emphasis added]
The liberals love this kind of stuff. The left wing blogs can use his comments out of context to imply conservatives want a theocracy. Huck is a really a moron.
No matter how he phrases it, Huckabee surely knows that his desire to amend the Constitution to reflect practices, beliefs he calls God’s Standards violates the separation of Church and State and that being unconstitutional has zero chance of ever getting out of the gate. So why does he even bother to make such foolish statements?
Because he continues to undertake a maximal effort to dupe evengelicals into voting for him. He’s the Manchurian Candidate. I wonder if he like Slick, is, not only another man from Hope, but also, is taking ChiCOM money?
This one statement, ONE STATEMENT, will be the downfall of Huckabee if he gets the nod. And it will also be the downfall of Christianity in the United States, as well as all Christians. As if Christians already didn’t have stereotypes to fight against.
The man from Hope promises false hope. To make such a promise as he does is ludicrous. For people to buy into it is alarming.
Nope, I’m fighting, because I know Huckabee does not represent me as a Christian. And I certainly want nothing to do with his charlatan ways.
“I think this guy is Hillary’s big plant designed to make Christians look really, really bad.”
It’s working.
No matter how he phrases it, Huckabee surely knows that his desire to amend the Constitution to reflect practices, beliefs he calls God’s Standards violates the separation of Church and State and that being unconstitutional has zero chance of ever getting out of the gate. So why does he even bother to make such foolish statements?
Nonsense. Huckabee shouldn’t be the nominee of our party but that doesn’t give you license to spout crap. Huckabees motivations for amendming the Constitution are not unconstituional. It’s called freedom of religion.
It does sound as if Huckabee wants to establish a theocracy. That is sufficient reason to oppose his candidacy. We do not want to establish a theocracy, no matter which religion is in charge. The inevitable result of establishing a theocracy is the establishment of an unholy inquisition. I call it unholy, because it not really concerned with serving God, it is simply a way to extort money out of people. An inquisition is also a delight for sick, sadistic bastards, because it gives them a legally sanctioned way to indulge in torture.
I do, though, believe that Huck is some kind of dumb thing that rhymes with his abbreviation for suggesting it in his typical pandering way. That in itself is an abuse of religion for his own personal and political gain.
“[Some of my opponents] do not want to change the Constitution
Just the ones who… you know, actually respect the Constitution. Time to say good-bye to this clown.
Nothing wrong with THE CONSTITUTION, Huck, leave it alone! Compared to the minds that drafted THE CONSTITUTION, Huck, you are a cretin, or a craven politician, oops, did I just say something redundant?
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The question Huckabee doesn’t want to answer is his corporate ties, I’ll bet. He’s playing populist on tv.
Welcome to Gilead…
The subversion of every founding principle of this country would be complete. I’m sure the founding fathers would be SO pleased…
One scary part is having to agree with Rich Lowry.
must shower now…..
Ah, whoops, that was a REGULAR whistle.
Huckabillybee is about as frightening as it gets.
My worry is that the average voter is a bible thumping dumbass . . . jus remember what they “elected” the last two times.
That man is terrifying. I hope this gets broadcast everywhere so regular Republicans can see exactly how much of a nutjob he really is.
Also, waldteufel, totally agreed. I hate to think of the American people as being that dumb, but I think it’s a mistake to underestimate Huckabee’s potential to gain votes.
I first saw this via rawstory, and Scarborough could only call Huckabee’s position “interesting.”
We can’t even call batshittery what it is because the fundi-fucks might get offended.
Fine, offend the fuckwits. They’re batshit insane and rotten human beings. How’s that?
I was afraid of Huckabee before it was cool.
I don’t think Scarborough counts as “we”.
His answers are so perfectly asinine, every time he gives one of his bullshit explanations for why he said something ridiculous or sexist or homophobic or scientific-method-denialist, the entire Republican debate crowd just eats it up and applauds. He is well-practiced at spewing religious bullshit.
This one (paraphrased) was my favorite:
MODERATOR: Governor Huckabee, do you believe the Bible is the literal word of God?
HUCK: I live my life according to Christ’s teachings. I believe there are some parts of the Bible we don’t take literally, because we don’t understand all of the Bible, because it’s the word of an infinite God, and it’s impossible to understand God. But yes, the Bible is the word of God.
I’ve said it before, I’ll say it again: Isn’t it a remarkable coincidence how people who say they know what God wants invariably agree with Him?
Uh, since the bible has extensive sections on the proper treatment of slaves, does this mean Huckabee wants to call “Backsies!” on that whole 13th ammendment thing?
I can’t wait to see the second and third-day stories as all the Huckabists in the Village start contorting themselves into claiming this is a perfectly reasonable position.
Why are you guys burying Huckabee now when the best thing that could posssibly happen would be for him to win the nomination?
Hey check out the Freeper reaction (I updated the post). They are drop kicking Huck hard.
Margalis,
Where I came from, they would vote him in BECAUSE of the Reconstructionist part.
Where I live now, he’s popular because of it, and because he also believes in the “helping the poor” parts of the Bible.
This makes the neocons denounce him as a socialist, but the people know who got their kids medical coverage after they started working and didn’t have medicaid anymore.
Dear God, does anyone actually say “ChiCOM” anymore? I thought we just started calling them “China” around the time the Bush administration made our economy dependent on selling them billions of dollars in Treasury securities.
As if Christians already didn’t have stereotypes to fight against.
Somebody call the WAHHHHmbulance!
Christians: the most stereotyped group in America today.
:rolls eyes:
I’m proud that in the Michigan Primary I jumped to the republican side and cast my ballot for Mike Huckabee. The only man that would be unelectable even if he were the only candidate. In a race like that I’d predict that Daffy Duck or Mickey Mouse would win hands down.
be nice, dammit.
Why are you guys burying Huckabee now when the best thing that could posssibly happen would be for him to win the nomination?
Let’s hope there’s not a Huckabee choice in the general. Simply put, after the past several years I don’t trust my fellow citizens.
It is so rare that I agree with any Freeper on anything that I may mark this day in my calendar.
I love that their first thoughts are that this guy must be somebody else’s evil fake–either Hillary or the Chinese. Nope, he’s YOUR LOONY, kids!
Ok, this makes my mind pop. Wow this is crazy. Can you get any more overtly theocratic?
I love this quote. Yes, freedom of religion encompasses imposing that religion on everybody. Brilliant. How do theocrats figure out the tough questions like spoon and fork operation or say, walking?Now what’s wrong with torture, freepie?
Damn. I mean, damn. That’s so awful even those gibbering simpletons are appalled.
I’ll tell you one thing, if Elmer fucking Gantry here wins the election I’m expatriating to Mars.
Let’s hope there’s not a Huckabee choice in the general. Simply put, after the past several years I don’t trust my fellow citizens.
It’s funny. I start out being all angered about Huckabee and his desire to tear down the wall between church and state. But then, I start to think about the other Republican candidates, and frankly I am not sure that Huckabee is actually worse than Romney, who wants “Double Guantanomo”, or McCain, who wants to stay in Iraq for another century, according to his own statements.
I must admit, however, that trying to create the Christian version of Sharia law in the US could create Constitutional problems that are beyond what we have seen yet. There are a lot of things in modern US society that go completely against what is in the Christian Bible, even the New Testament. Take Divorce, for instance. According to Christ in Matthew 5:31, Divorce is unacceptable for Christians. Trying to make Divorce illegal in the US sounds to me like a way to throw our society into chaos.
I love the way Freepers have spent years calling abortion mass murder and gay marriage a threat to the very fabric of society, but as soon as someone proposes to actually do something about it, they turn on him.
I think they’re saner than we give them credit for. They don’t actually believe all this god/gays crap nearly as much as they’re spoiled children - the kind we all knew in middle or high school - who are just doing it to piss off the nerds (us.)
A big problem is that people like him aren’t actually trying to rewrite the Constitution to reflect all the Biblical strictures and prohibitions - they’ll be quite selective.
Divorce, pork, shellfish, haircuts, mixed-field planting, working on weekends (whichever day counts as Sabbath) - they’ll all stay. They aren’t dumb enough to try to reinstate slavery, and they sure won’t push for polygamy.
But they’ll go after abortion, out gay people, contraception and the like. And they’ll claim that they are following the Bible and not cherry-picking their own prejudices.
Scary.
Why are you guys burying Huckabee now when the best thing that could posssibly happen would be for him to win the nomination?
I still maintain Ron Paul would be the perfect candidate to run against. Almost as easily beatable as Huckabee but Paul at least brings something - end of Iraq and drug wars for starters - to the table as well as batshit nuttery. Huck just brings the crazy.
mcc:
Gold.
He looks like a real freak in that picture. Huckabee wants to have adulterers, homosexuals and rape victims stoned to death. He also wants to make alcohol and music videos illegal, and make women 2nd class citizens and to take all girls out of school.
Oops, my bad, that’s another ‘religion’.
Hey, anybody but the PIAPS!
if you’re MAD
punish your country
VOTE for Hillary
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