Awesome: Man that believes in Creationism surges among GOP Candidates
Seriously, I have a big shit eating grin on my face as I even type this. How freaking amusing is this? Mike Huckabee, a man that doesn’t believe in evolution, supports CREATIONISM and the death penalty, is against abortion and is the most conservative among the remaining morons is surging in the polls. Even though the remaining pathetic power hungry Evangelicals that aren’t under indictment haven’t supported him.
Gosh, he must feel just like Jesus did.
I hope he wins, we need a real Christian running the country. Think about it. the only problem with the Neo Conservate movement is that we just haven’t had the right guy yet
Tags: 2008 Presidential, Politics
Huckabee is prime moron. He actually said that undocumented aliens are coming to the US because the abortions in the US have left us w/ a shortage of workers.
You guys don’t get it. He’s a nice guy. That’s what the guys on the other side want, a guy they would like to have a beer with. Sure he’s crazy, but he seems so nice…
Der Heil Huckabee….
Ron Paul Quotes –
“First President Bush said the New World Order was in tune– and that’s what they were working for. The U.N. is part of that government. They’re working very significantly right now for a North American Union. That’s why there’s a lot of people in Washington right now who don’t care too much about our borders. They have a philosophic belief that national sovereignty is not important. It is also the reason I’ve made the strong suggestion that the U.S. need not be in the U.N. for national security.”
“War is never economically beneficial except for those in position to profit from war expenditures.”
“The obligations of our representatives in Washington are to protect our liberty, not coddle the world, precipitating no-win wars, while bringing bankruptcy and economic turmoil to our people.”
“Cliches about supporting the troops are designed to distract from failed policies, policies promoted by powerful special interests that benefit from war, anything to steer the discussion away from the real reasons the war in Iraq will not end anytime soon.”
“The large majority of Americans are sick and tired of being overtaxed and despise the income tax and the inheritance tax. The majority of Americans know government programs fail to achieve their goals and waste huge sums of money.”
“We don’t get our rights because we’re gays or women or minorities. We get our rights from our creator as individuals. So every individual should be treated the same way. If there is homosexual behavior in the military that is disruptive, it should be dealt with. But if there’s heterosexual sexual behavior that is disruptive, it should be dealt with. So it isn’t the issue of homosexuality. It’s the concept and the understanding of individual rights.”
“The much-vaunted Senate “compromise” on immigration is a compromise alright: a compromise of our laws, a compromise of our sovereignty, and a compromise of the Second Amendment. That anyone in Washington believes this is a credible approach to solving our immigration crisis suggests just how out of touch our political elites really are.”
“At the close of the Constitutional Convention in Philadelphia on September 18, 1787, a Mrs. Powell anxiously awaited the results, and as Benjamin Franklin emerged from the long task now finished, she asked him directly: ‘Well, Doctor, what have we got, a republic or a monarchy?’ Franklin replied, “A republic, if you can keep it.”
“I believe that when we overdo our military aggressiveness, it actually weakens our national defense. I mean, we stood up to the Soviets. They had 40,000 nuclear weapons. Now we’re fretting day in and day and night about third-world countries that have no army, navy or air force.”
“Failure of government programs prompts more determined efforts, while the loss of liberty is ignored or rationalized away. Whether it’s the war against poverty, drugs, terrorism, or the current Hitler of the day, an appeal to patriotism is used to convince the people that a little sacrifice of liberty, here and there, is a small price to pay. The results, though, are frightening and will soon become even more so.”
“Finally, there is a compelling moral argument against war in Iraq. Military force is justified only in self-defense; naked aggression is the province of dictators and rogue states. This is the danger of a new “preemptive first strike” doctrine.”
Pretty much every one except the hard-core right evangelicals have left the party. They have nowhere else to go. So now, the GOP is a bunch of Huckabee’s. Of course he’s winning.
At first, I have to admit, I thought Huckabees was a restaurant, with Adams Ribs as a featured entree.
dis makes my point: The Republicans are imploding at both national and state levels if Ron Paul and Mike Huckabee are the two biggest stories (with apologies to Ron for putting them in the same sentence).
Given that the Republicans throughout the 1990s-early 200s was a marriage of libertarian fiscal conservatives and evangelical “wingnut” conservatives (as donviti would say), if there is nobody left at home except the evangelicals, then where are the Libertarians to go?
Despite some successes (Montana governorship) I don’t think the natural home for us the Dems; so we’ll have to build our own.
Let me be your token evangelical wingnut here and defend the Governor.
Half of America believes in Creationism and most of the other half believes in divine design. That hardly makes him some sort of nut. God is. God was. God will be. That is truth. It doesn’t matter if you believe it or not. God created the universe for his purpose by his wisdom through his power. Now the Governor and I may not see eye to eye on how long God took to do it (I say 15 billion years, he takes a young earth point of view but what are a few zeros between friends), but we share the fundamental understanding that the God of Creation designed our universe. It did not happen by some cosmic accident.
I am not a big fan of attacking a person’s religion. It is interesting, but the policies are what matter.
Governor Huckabee and Governor Clinton both governed Arkansas. Clinton had a 90% democrat legislature. Who had the most success in reforming education, roads, budgets, and child healthcare? Huckabee. If you think Clinton was such a great President, than Huckabee would be an even better President since he did better in the same mix.
The FAIR Tax is the most innovative proposal of the campaign. He the man. What can I say?
Dave,
I like the fair tax plan but am not sure about the rest of Huckabee. He is not speaking enough.
Since I have not made up my mind, but I like what Paul says, I also like what Obama says, and I do not deny that you me, everyone gets their rights from their creator, and that those rights are unalienable, they exist prior to and before the state, I am happy with your stance. I take my religion serious enough to know that if I see someone in need and can help them, I do. But I never, let me repeat, never try to make faith stand above reason or reason sit below faith, they live together so I have free will to decide things as I see them. And when I read Gov. Huckabee’s foreign policy platform it seems to serve interests like Lockheed Martin, and the others over service people and I do not particularly appreciate that.
Also the idea that he is Governor of Arkansas does not win him any points from me.
David,
do me a favor and show me proof God exists please…
#10: George Bush Jr. was elected twice. That’s either proof of God or the Devil.
Prove to me, DV, that Andromeda Galaxy is not inhabited by 20-foot aliens!
DV go to http://www.reasons.org and let me know what you think.
Good posts Brian, btw Liberal is not an attack word. Even when I needle liberals, I don’t mean it in a nasty way. It is meant in fun. I love liberals–some of my best friends are liberals–lol.
david,
go go here for better proof
If there is a great, big SkyDad, then we’re no better than Mike Vick’s dogs…
…oh wait, there’s a made-up answer to that! It’s called free will! Awwww…how convenient. Un-baptized dead babies? Well let’s say they’re in limbo – just hanging around until the end of days. Not good enough for ya? Well, let’s change what we told you to believe! It’s just that Easy!
World religions have been changing their shit consistently for 5000 years. So the questions beg – What is really the truth? And if someone’s faith is true, wouldn’t it be right the first time?
A lot of dead brown people and women would have wished it was…..
Dave–my apologies in the sense that I did not mean to characterize all evangelicals as wingnuts; I do however think there is a wingnut evangelical part of the Republican Party. I don’t think it is necessary to attack someone’s religion to consider the implications of that religion on their public policy decisions.
And there is a huge difference between so-called “deistic” or “theistic” evolution and young-Earth creationism, far more than a few zeroes between friends. Young Earth creationism seriously holds to Biblical inerrancy, a doctrine that developed soon after the initial Protestant Reformation, and which was as much a social and political response to church hierarchies as it was a theological development. There virtually is no historical foundation for biblical inerrancy in the first 14-15 centuries of Christianity.
Biblical inerrancy when applied to the question of where the universe comes from asks us to accept the idea that God not only created the universe and the earth 10,000 years ago, but for some reason decided to create it so that it looked 13.7 billion years old, while telling us it wasn’t.
I have severe personal qualms about placing someone in control of science research expenditures, nuclear weapons, and foreign policy who believes that, because it also places the foregoing in the hands of someone who believes that history is heading toward an already decided end to be found in the Book of Revelation.
I don’t think that such a belief disqualifies one from being a governor or a senator, but I am becoming more and more uncomfortable with someone in the highest office of the land who places his personal take on faith and the universe as so above rational critique that he is willing to make it the basis of public policy in areas that can get us all blown to hell.
I had that problem with Bush; I have that problem with Huckabee; I have that problem with Americans who say they won’t vote for an atheist or a Mormon.