Posted on 05/17/2007 5:44:10 PM PDT by Jim Robinson
Washington, DC (LifeNews.com) -- Should he fail to capture the Republican nomination for president next year, former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee says he's not sure if he could serve as a running mate with a pro-abortion GOP presidential candidate. Huckabee didn't name Rudy Giuliani specifically but appeared to be referring to the former New York City mayor.
Huckabee made his comments in a press conference with reporters on Wednesday as he campaigned in South Carolina following the second GOP debate.
He said he would have serious reservations about joining a ticket with an abortion advocate.
"This is an issue to me that is very critical," he said, according to an AP report.
It's one of the reasons that I got into politics because I believe the manner in which we treat innocent life and the matter in which we respect human life, at whatever stage is an incredibly powerful statement about who we are as a people," Huckabee explained.
Huckabee also questioned the notion that a politician can be "personally opposed" to abortion yet support legalized abortions as a public policy.
"The sanctity of life is not just some peripheral political position," Huckabee said. "It comes to the very heart of who we are as a culture, and I think that's shared by many people here in South Carolina."
Huckabee has been strongly pro-life and signed bills that seek to limit the number of abortions.
In 2005, Huckabee signed a bill into law that would require abortion facilities to obtain the approval of a parent or legal guardian before an abortion can be scheduled for a teenager.
Huckabee also signed a bill in 2003 authorizing the sale of Choose Life license plates. Twenty-five dollars from the plate proceeds goes to the Choose Life Adoption Assistance Program Fund and are distributed to organizations that help pregnant women and promote adoption such a pregnancy centers or adoption agencies.
The former governor also addressed biotech issues as well.
In March 2003 Huckabee signed a ban on human cloning. Under the Arkansas law, human cloning would be considered a felony, punishable with prison sentences as long as ten years and fines as high as $10,000.
That’s what the man said. We need him to play at the Free Republic Fred Thompson and or Duncan Hunter Inaugural Ball anyway.
I like Mike Huckabee. He’s a successful Southern Governor, a socially conservative Baptist preacher, and he stands right on my number-one issue—national survival, both military and prenatal. He wants to kill terrorists, not babies. He also shows some shades of fiscal conservatism, albeit with some “compassionate” strains like Bush. But when compared to the leading candidates Senator McCain (RINO-DC but occasionally visits AZ), Mayor Giuliani (pro-death RINO-NY), and Mitt Romney (R wannabe-MA).
I like your sense of humor.
Huckabee supports ILLEGALS! He can certainly count me out no matter who he thinks he is going to run with!
For a damn good reason. ILLEGAL IMMIGRATION!!!
Mike Huckabee is great on abortion and gun rights and he can give a good speech. But he is a big-government lover. Don’t be fooled by his Baptist-preacher style speeches; Huckabee is a nanny-stater at its finest.
You forgot to add that he has an icecubes chance in hell of winning the nomination.
Sorry wish it was otherwise but thems the facts.
Who does have a chance? I see Republicans not particularly enthused with the media-anointed triumvirate of McCain, Giuliani, and Romney. I wouldn’t be surprised if none of them gets the nomination. Who’s left? In the recent polls I’ve seen, only Mike Huckabee, Ron Paul, and Tom Tancredo placed (>1%). Fred Thompson and Newt Gingrich take a significant portion of the poll, but neither man has declared his candidacy. What if neither ever does? Their share of the vote will go somewhere—and probably not to any member of the media-anointed triumvirate.
I don’t like McCain because of his lengthy Senatorial record and associated personality disorder. I’ve rejected Giuliani as unacceptably pro-death. And I don’t trust Romney the “conservative” or find him particularly electable. I’m searching for a candidate whom I can support, and I suspect that many members of the conservative Republican base share my sentiments.
Ok Ok I know it’s early (at least people keep saying that) but when I look at the polls and the money he’s raised...It ain’t gonna happen.
As for McCain! My mother has a better chance than him...and she’s been dead for ten years.
"The God who gave us life, gave us liberty at the same time: the hand of force may destroy, but cannot disjoin them." - Thomas Jefferson
Our constitution of government and law was premised upon this basic idea of Creator-endowed life and liberty.
Not until that underlying premise had been sufficiently erased from our nation's textbooks and delegitimized in our public discourse was it possible for politicians and judges to consider laws to "legalize" the human "taking" of a life, whether before it emerges from the womb, or when it is in the advanced stage of disease or old age.
Eliminate the correlative ideas of a Creator of immortal life and the fact (as recognized by our Founders) that it is not humanly possible to "disjoin" that life from its liberty to exist, and the nation becomes a place where persons can be discarded merely because they are perceived threats to the independence of other persons or "burdens" to society.
The "hand of force" takes many forms, but it is always a tyrannical hand, whether wielded by a common criminal, a King, an Emperor, a Congress, a judge, or by a physician whose appropriate role is to heal and save life.
Oh, for men and women who can articulate the idea underlying our liberty!
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