Huckabilly/BatesPerkins '08?

Huckabee Hound, still denying evolution & a lot of other science as well, keeps trying to weasel out of his 1992 questionnaire answers by saying "it was 1992."

Huckabee said his statements reflected the state of knowledge about AIDS at the time, even though the U.S. surgeon general had by then reported that the disease could not be spread through casual contact. [...] "I would tell them that we've come a long way in research and treatment, and I certainly never would want to say anything that would be hurtful to them or anybody else," he said at a morning news conference in Council Bluffs. Huckabee said he "would have great regret and anxiety if I thought my comments were hurtful or in any way added to the already incredible pain that families have felt, regardless of how they contracted AIDS."

("Even if they contracted AIDS from dirty, aberrant, unnatural sinful homo sex, posing a dangerous public risk, I wouldn't want to be hurtful. Much.") No, he'd never want to make hurtful comments, certainly nothing like:

AIDS patients should be isolated from the public and [...] homosexuality was an “aberrant, unnatural and sinful lifestyle” that posed a “dangerous public risk.”

Again from the LAT:

Prominent conservative Tony Perkins, president of the Family Research Council, took to the Internet and the airwaves in recent days to defend Huckabee. Perkins said the candidate was being asked about long-ago statements about AIDS, homosexuality and morality because of his faith, and he predicted that more conservative religious voters would rally to Huckabee's side if the criticism continued. "I predict that Bible-believing Christians will step over policy differences they have with Mike Huckabee to stand by and support a candidate who is being attacked because he believes, as they do, that their Christian faith should actually impact the way they live," Perkins wrote in his Internet newsletter.

Mr. Perkins, perhaps better described as a prominent douche-bag, wants to have it both ways, as do Huck & Mittens. "Don't you dare question my superstitionsfaith, it's private & personal, but I'm a god-fearing Xtian, my Xtian faith will actually impact the way I live, so vote for me 'cause I'm an ordained Babtiss minister." If their firmly held superstitions (and these people are supposed to have consistent, long term, never changing beliefs & "first principles," it's part of their "character") can be dismissed as "long-ago statements" that shouldn't concern anyone, what does this say about the "character" of these bible thumpers? And if your superstitions will "inform" your presidency:

I will also offer perspectives on how my own faith would inform my Presidency, if I were elected[,]

how can we not examine your "faith?" The two biggest god-squadders in the Republican race to the sacrifice (excepting Alan Keyes, whom we may get around to later) are Romney the Mormon & Huckabilly the Babtiss. We note that the full official name of the Mormons is The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Latter-day means they believe we are living in the "end times." (It's much easier to suck the sheep into your cult if you have them scared that Jeebus is about to call them home & they'd better be ready. Added bonus: You can sell them shit so they'll be ready for the tribulations!) Huck-a-buck, as a Babtiss, probably believes the whole Book of Revelations thing. These two are the ones w/ the least foreign policy knowledge or experience. Do you want them making decisions based on bringing about the apocalypse? "Will this speed up Gawd's holy plan to destroy the earth?" "How can we get all the Jews to move back to Israel, setting the stage for Jesus Christ's return to Missouri or upstate New York or Jerusalem?" "It says here that Allah is the Arabian Moon God, who's really the devil. I was praying last night, & Gawd told me to kill every Muslim on the planet, or I won't be getting into heaven. Call Halliburton & Blackwater, tell 'em to turn the electricity & gas on in the camps." America shouldn't be asking any questions about anyone's Bible-based faith. That would just be wrong. We must take it on faith that these clowns spilling out of the car are good loving Xtians, no matter how absurd or potentially dangerous their beliefs may be. Mustn't we? Bonus notes: Chris "Tweety" Matthews, whose Hardball (he wishes) program is usually in the background as we type, has been harping on the "Don't you dare question anybody's faith" thing at least since Mittens' "Faith in America" speech. "Tweety" is a cradle Catholic, fully indoctrinated by a completely Catholic education, & likes to mention "transubstantiation" & "exorcism" as two Catholic thingies that could be looked at as silly, if any one looked. Is Chris afraid the spotlight may be turned on his cult soon? We know he's afraid to ask the really hard questions, if he won't bring up the issues of what someone's religion may mean to their presidency, especially for Middle East policy. He also harps on Mittens' father George's presidential campaign 40 yrs. ago, and incredulously states that no one brought up Mormonism then, w/o mentioning that George Romney pretty much sabotaged his own primary campaign by admitting that he was "brainwashed" by U. S. military press relations people on a tour of Vietnam. If that hadn't happened, & the elder Romney had posed serious opposition to Richard Nixon & his staff of dirty tricksters, is there any question that Romney's religion would have become an issue? Matthews also conveniently forgets that in 1968 evangelicals & fundamentalists were not very involved in politics, especially nationally. Then, as a reaction to progress made in the '60s, the tee vee preachers realized they could amass more money & power by reversing the "not in this world" tradition of the bible believing buffoons & getting them involved in politics, polarizing this country to a degree not seen since the War Between the States. Now virtually every Republican candidate whines about faith, virtue, Judeo-Christian values, prayer in the schools, "this is a Christian nation," secularists will make your children gay & take Santa out of the Malls, ad nauseum. And the usual gang of political preachers/influence peddlers are whispering very loudly about Mittens' Mormonism, & how they may not be able to vote for him. Probably more an attempt to gain more power & influence than a real threat, but we see the results: candidates' superstitions are fair game. Apparently Chris Matthews, seasoned political observerwould be political horse-race caller, can't see this. Piling on the Huckabee mess, we'd like to point out that while Dukakis was slimed & smeared for having supported a Massachusetts wknd. furlough program that allowed a convict serving a life sentence to commit armed robbery & rape while furloughed. The Huckmeister, on the other hand, seems to have actively intervened w/ the Arkansas parole board in the case of a convicted rapist who claimed to have "found God" (What, was He missing? We didn't see an Amber Alert.) while in stir, & who was thought (by early sufferers of Clinton Derangement Syndrome) to have been sentenced harshly because the victim was a distant cousin of then-Gov. Clinton, & her father was a contributor to Clinton. Full scoop from the NYT. So, Dukakis supported a program that, unfortunately, allowed a killer back on the streets, where he committed armed robbery & rape. Huckabee involved himself directly in an already politicized case, resulting in the parole of a convicted rapist (who had also been involved in the murder of a fellow soldier in Oklahoma, but escaped a severe sentence by going the state's evidence route against his two fellow murderers) who killed a mother of three in a suburb of Kansas City while on parole. DuMond, who died in prison in 2005, was also suspected in the murder of another woman in the K. C. area. While on bail in the Arkansas rape case,

Mr. DuMond said men forced his way into his home and castrated him, but the authorities said they thought he might have castrated himself in a play for sympathy.

Yep, that's stability plus. But all you have to do is "find God," & get a bunch of Xtian evangelicals to put pressure on the Babtiss minister/governor, & you're out to kill again. Is there any sign of how religious faith, & prejudice for those of that faith, might have a bearing on someone's presidential fitness? See also the LAT. And a 2001 story (Had those glibertarian assholes already taken it over then?) from the Village Voice (We'll bet they're sorry about it now.) that is rather sympathetic to DuMond, and paints Clinton as Lucifer incarnate. Well, not completely off there.