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Chuck asked in Politics & GovernmentPolitics · 1 decade ago

Is anyone else freaked out by Mike Huckabee?

Seriously, the last thing needed in the White House is to go further to the right and start outlawing more immoral things. I for one am concerned about the Republicans' willingness to invade our privacy in the name of public safety, and I think a lunatic like him could make make things even worse.

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  • 1 decade ago
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    Lunatic is the correct word for that weirdo.

    Installing a Minister, Preacher, Priest, Rabbi, or any other person of the cloth should never, ever be in the White House in any capacity. The influence of their religious beliefs weighs to heavy on their decision making process. We are so darned far to the right now that it will take years to get back to even center. Bush has installed Supreme Court Justices that will make decisions based solely on their religious beliefs. Tell me that Religion in extreme isn't dangerous!!

  • Jen
    Lv 7
    1 decade ago

    Huckabee is the most congenial candidate with an admirable sense of humor. But if our Founding Fathers could be brought back to life during this campaign, they would probably rather be quickly buried again due to Huckabee's theocratic view and his belief that the Constitution should be rewritten to reflect God's law and the Ten Commandments. Our Founders would respond by inquiring exactly whose God and which Commandments? The majority of the Founders were either Deists or agnostics (no evangelicals in this crowd), they would cringe at the thought of damaging our secular government with the same type infringements for which they fought so gallantly in the 1700's to establish our extraordinary democracy.

  • 1 decade ago

    Oh so you say, Well prepare your self for a shock. Huckabee

    name is an all American name . Mr obama name is Muslim ,think about it for a while, it May just sink in Americans wants an American president.,all that glitters is not gold. .So ,if you don't like Huckabee,then try McCain on for size.

    I personally know some that will be voting, Yes, and they are just as racist as the other side. For the name only of the president. Surprised? I wasn't really. Two can play the same game, where we like it or not. That reality. This this is no longer a President race, But a popularity contest, one does what one must do..Sorry to be the bearer of bad news.

  • 1 decade ago

    You speak of 'invading your privacy' what do you think the Democrats have done to you? You have to have a 'law' to give you the 'right' to kill innocent babies in your womb! They take your money and tell you how you should spend it, believing you are not smart enough to make those decisions on your own. They invade your critical thinking and cause you to be 'dependent' on them, after all, they know better than you! You've traded your freedoms for laws - your commonsense for loose morals. Talk about an invasion! Just remember, my friend, 'what you sow you reap'___

  • ?
    Lv 7
    1 decade ago

    With this Congress? Get real and learn how our government works.

    What we do need is a President who has demonstrated leadership ability. Huckabee cleaned up Arkansas after the Clintons and it is all there for you to see if you check out his record instead of listening to all the smear.

  • Anonymous
    1 decade ago

    Mike H gets in because Carter was a sick Baptist and Clinton was a sick Governor of Arkansas. Huckleberries plays his bass, right up his nose, after pulling his head out of dead Ronald Reagan's butt.

    Play AIN'T NUTHIN BUT A (hound dog), one time.

  • 1 decade ago

    I missed the memo that said it's A-OK to make disparaging and often erroneous statements about Mormons. Apparently, they are fair game. Sure, these are hypersensitive times, when name-calling or perceived bias against any group will get you the Don Imus treatment, but you get a free shot with Mormons. You can say what you want about them with impunity.

    If you denigrate a racial group, you're racist.

    If you denigrate women, you're sexist.

    If you denigrate Mormons, you're hip.

    No one would openly suggest that you shouldn't vote for Hillary Clinton because a woman can't lead the country, especially an ornery one.

    Nobody would dare say that you shouldn't vote for Barack Hussein Obama because he's black, or of Muslim descent, or because he has a name that sounds like a terrorist. One Clinton worker even apologized for alluding to Obama's use of drugs as a youth, so apparently it's wrong to disparage former drug users, too.

    But nobody is shy about saying you shouldn't vote for Romney simply because he's a Mormon. It doesn't even register on the PC-O-Meter.

    Just like that, 6 million Americans have been virtually disqualified from running for president. They've been rendered second-class citizens. They're foreigners living in America. They face a glass ceiling.

    How un-American is that?

    It would be one thing if most of those who oppose Romney did so because they disagreed with his politics or character. But Romney is one of the few candidates who has no character issues, a 'squeaky clean' man who has a distinguished record of accomplishments, success and service, with no divorces, no affairs, no scandal. The only thing opponents can say about him is that he belongs to a church they don't understand.

    A Harvard law professor called Romney the most qualified of all the candidates and 'the perfect candidate for this moment in time.' But there is his Mormonism, he noted.

    Even the self-styled PC chief of police, Al Sharpton, once jumped in on the action, saying, 'As for the one Mormon running for office, those who really believe in God will defeat him anyways.'

    Mormons don't believe in God?

    For his penance, all Sharpton had to do was endure a family home evening in Utah.

    It's open season on Mormons. A few days ago, Miami Herald columnist Dan Le Batard stated on ESPN and in the newspaper that part of the reason fired coach Cam Cameron failed was because he got stuck with a Mormon quarterback — not a rookie quarterback (which he is) but a Mormon quarterback.

    'And you'll have a hard time finding a leader anywhere in sports who was as unlucky this year as Cameron,' Le Batard said, noting that because of injuries, Cameron was forced to play 'a United Nations huddle of a Mormon quarterback, Mexican receiver, Samoan fullback and some guy named Lekekekkkkerkker.'

    Now Mormons are foreigners?

    Ignorance makes no difference. You can say Mormons have four wives or that they aren't Christian, and no one cares.

    Imagine the uproar if Le Batard had written that the Dolphins suffered because they had to play a black quarterback for part of the season? Or a Catholic?

    The Salt Lake Tribune has had a field day for more than a week since learning that Mike Leavitt and some of his like-minded cohorts met early in the morning to discuss Mormon theology and governance while he was Utah's governor. What if it had been a Bible study?

    Nobody seems to mind when former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee says his religion 'defines me.' Or when Obama says his church guides 'my own values and my own beliefs.'

    People worry that Romney will take his orders from his church leaders. They don't worry that Obama will take orders from his church, whose '10-point vision' includes two references to its 'non-negotiable commitment to Africa,' with no mention of America. Oh, and the church statement begins by noting on the Trinity United Church of Christ Web site, 'We are a congregation which is Unashamedly Black.'

    It's a different set of rules for some out there. You can print newspaper cartoons disparaging Mormons. You can harass their families as they walk to their biannual conference with all sorts of foul language. When someone commits a crime, you can note the criminal's religion, but only if he's Mormon. You can make them a one-liner on Leno. Good luck reconciling all this with the paranoid political correctness that's so in vogue.

    Meanwhile, the most politically correct presidential election field ever assembled — a woman, a black, a Mormon, a Baptist, etc. — has gone politically incorrect, but only when it comes to you know who.

    Source(s): By Doug Robinson Deseret Morning News Published: January 8, 2008
  • Anonymous
    1 decade ago

    It bothers you that he is against stealing our money to dole out to the lazy class? Or is it just his belief in God that bothers you? Or is it his support for the bill of rights and the constitution that gets your undies in a bunch? Tell us about it. We would love to hear your fears.

  • DAR
    Lv 7
    1 decade ago

    Not as much as I am freaked out by McCain. However, I voted for Ron Paul.

  • 1 decade ago

    Well, I'm freaked out for anyone to go any more left and do immoral things like stem cell research and abortion and cloning.

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