Posted on 11/19/2007 5:32:58 AM PST by the tongue
Huckabee: Abortion Not States' Call
Sunday, November 18, 2007 3:01 PM
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WASHINGTON -- Republican presidential candidate Mike Huckabee rejects letting states decide whether to allow abortions, claiming the right to life is a moral issue not subject to multiple interpretations.
"It's the logic of the Civil War," Huckabee said Sunday, comparing abortion rights to slavery. "If morality is the point here, and if it's right or wrong, not just a political question, then you can't have 50 different versions of what's right and what's wrong."
"For those of us for whom this is a moral question, you can't simply have 50 different versions of what's right," he said in a broadcast interview.
The former Arkansas governor, who has drawn within striking distance of Mitt Romney in Iowa's leadoff presidential caucuses, said he was taken aback by the National Right to Life Committee's recent endorsement of Fred Thompson, the ex-Tennessee senator.
"But my surprise was nothing compared to the surprise of people across America who had been faithful supporters of right to life," said Huckabee, who is challenging Thompson's claim that he is the most reliable candidate in the GOP field.
"Fred's never had a 100 percent record on right to life in his Senate career. The records reflect that. And he doesn't support the human life amendment which is most amazing because that's been a part of the Republican platform since 1980," Huckabee said.
In a separate interview aired Sunday, Thompson said Roe v. Wade, the landmark Supreme Court decision allowing legal abortion, should be overturned, with states allowed to decide whether to permit abortions. "We need to remember what the status was before Roe v. Wade," he said.
Huckabee also previewed his first television ad of the campaign on the program. The 60-second spot, which features actor Chuck Norris, was to begin running in Iowa on Monday.
"My plan to secure the border. Two words: Chuck. Norris," says Huckabee, who stares into the camera before it cuts away to show Norris standing beside him.
"Mike Huckabee is a lifelong hunter who'll protect our Second Amendment rights" on gun ownership, says the tough-guy actor, who takes turns addressing viewers.
"There's no chin behind Chuck Norris' beard, only another fist," Huckabee says.
"Mike Huckabee wants to put the IRS out of business," Norris adds.
"When Chuck Norris does a push-up, he isn't lifting himself up, he's pushing the earth down," Huckabee says.
"Mike's a principled, authentic conservative," says Norris.
In closing, Huckabee says: "Chuck Norris doesn't endorse. He tells America how it's going to be. I'm Mike Huckabee and I approved this message. So did Chuck."
Huckabee acknowledged that the ad probably will not change many minds.
"But what it does do is exactly what it's doing this morning," he said. "Getting a lot of attention, driving people to our Web site, giving them an opportunity to find out who is this guy that would come out with Chuck Norris in a commercial."
The Thompson campaign was quick to respond.
"With his new campaign ad featuring Chuck Norris, Mike Huckabee has confused celebrity endorsement with serious policy. What would Huckabee do to secure America's border against millions of illegal immigrants pouring into our country? According to his ad, 'Two words: Chuck Norris,' " said Thompson campaign spokesman Todd Harris.
"It's appropriate that Chuck Norris would co-star in an ad with Mike Huckabee, given Huckabee has been 'Missing in Action' on the issue of illegal immigration his entire career," Harris said, referring to one of Norris' films.
Huckabee appeared on "Fox News Sunday" and Thompson was interviewed by "This Week" on ABC.
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So Huckleberry thinks putting a bad actor on the border is going to stop illegals from sneaking across it? Or are they going to set up a big screen and show chuck Norris B movie re-runs and scare them away?
What a stupid add.
Mike Huckabee: For states’ rights before he was against states’ rights http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-gop/1927726/posts
“Huckabee rejects Constitution as viable entity”
this is a totally misleading title.
You do understand that the "3/5 clause" was there specifically to limit the power of the slave states, right? That is, it wasn't that the framers believed black folk were less human, but rather that they didn't want the electoral power of slave states to be buttressed by counting population that weren't even treated as full citizens.
Huckabee Says Abortion Not for States
Posted by dano1
On News/Activism 11/18/2007 2:10:42 PM CST · 200 replies
The Associated Press 11/18/07 WILL LESTER
I heard that. Mainly because Huck is a pro-tax Governor. Any Pro-Huckers want to comment on that? I'm voting here in Iowa in a few weeks, and I want to vote Huck, but I'm not voting for higher taxes.
Sounds like a special two-part episode of Walker: Border Patrol Ranger is in the works.
“Yes, actually. I’ve even read the 10th amendment, and understand why it was put there in the first place.”
Oh, so you PREFER haphazard standards when it comes to killing babies. UNLIKE slavery that is ILLEGAL in ANY state?
Amendment X
The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the states, are reserved to the states respectively, or to the people.
Abortion needs to be ILLEGAL in EVERY state - just like slavery.
I have NO DOUBT that our founders would NOT want abortion legal in ANY state.
It's not the media, it's Iowa caucus-goers. The last six or so polls out of Iowa show it to be a two-man race between Romney and Huckabee.
One thing should be clear, Fred Thompson has the most cogent and realistic stand on abortion of anyone running.....overturn Roe vs Wade and chip away at the foundations of abortion at the state level. Being for a constitutional amendment banning abortion is all well and good for show but Fred like many of us understands that the liklihood of it ever passing in our lifetime is practically nil.
Slavery was made illegal:
Amendment XIII
Section 1. Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude, except as a punishment for crime whereof the party shall have been duly convicted, shall exist within the United States, or any place subject to their jurisdiction.
Section 2. Congress shall have power to enforce this article by appropriate legislation.
It’s time to make abortion explicitedly ILLEGAL as well. It should be UNDERSTOOD that it MURDER should NEVER be legalized as abortion ... so it’s time to recognize abortion for what it is and make it ILLEGAL to murder an UNborn person or one about to be born.
You could not possible have read the Constitution or the Bill of Rights with the asinine answer you gave me. Or maybe you're ability to comprehend is way off.
Huckabee is 100% right on this issue, and it is one of the two most important issues facing this country.
"I wonder, have ANY of you even read the Constitution or the Bill of Rights? Or just like to turn your nose up at the documents in sheer ignorance?"
Huckabee knows as much about the Constitution as Ron Paul.
Some facts:
- The Civil War did not end slavery or grant any rights to slaves/former-slaves, the 13th, 14th & 15th Amendment to the Constitution did this.
- The 13th, 14th & 15th Amendment grant rights specifically to slaves, those born or naturalized in the US, and voters, respectively.
How do Huckaabee and you see this as applying to unborn babies?
* * Note: I morally disagree with abortion also and believe Roe v. Wade should be overturned... so don't give me an arguement on this but ONLY on the Constitution & its existing Amendments.
I am pro life, myself, but let me ask you a question. Is there a federal law that says murder is illegal? I don’t think there is, and if abortion is murder, as many believe, why must there be a federal law against just that kind of murder?
On abortion, Fred is more of an appeaser that a leader.
Mike is RIGHT on this issue.
It’s hard to believe that making SLAVERY illegal is okay but to pretend that murdering a small human being should continue, haphazardly at the “state” level. It makes NO SENSE whatsoever. Our founders would NEVER, EVER have approved of abortion nor would they want that understood to be a "right" to murder a small human being.
YOu missed his point.
His point was that SLAVERY was made ILLEGAL and NOT at the STATE level. Abortion needs to be ILLEGAL and NOT at the STATE level.
It took an amendment to the Constitution to end slavery. A similar amendment to end abortion would never make it throught the amendment process. It would only take 13 states to block it, and the Democrats control a whole lot more legislatures than that.
I think you answered my question. Your position has no basis in logic. Fred is right on this. Huckabee is wrong.
“Is there a federal law that says murder is illegal? I don’t think there is, and if abortion is murder, as many believe, why must there be a federal law against just that kind of murder?”
Yes, murder is illegal and it’s is NOT left up to the “states”. Whether an ADULT or a BABY or the unborn about to be born are MUREDERED, this should be ILLEGAL for ANY AGE of the human being. I tend to like consistency.
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