Posted on 11/25/2007 10:26:20 AM PST by pissant
The Huckster is a chameleon PING
Try and spin this, robot
Huckster is a real piece of work!
It appears that Fred’s position is a bit more popular than DBM would have us believe.
Makes it sound like Huckabee’s grasping desperately at Thompsons coattails.
Amazingly dense move, politically. For many of us, a strong pro-life position was the one thing he had going for him.
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He can’t. No more than he can spin this from May 17, 2006 in the Washington Times:
Mr. Huckabee said he approved of virtually everything in the Monday night speech on immigration by Mr. Bush, including his National Guard and guest-worker initiatives, even though that agreement put Mr. Huckabee at odds, he said, with some fellow conservative Republicans.
“I do believe some of it is driven by racism or nativism,” he said of the opposition within his party to Mr. Bush’s view that illegal aliens should not be deported but rather fined and eventually allowed U.S. citizenship.
“It’s not amnesty to make people pay for breaking the law,” Mr. Huckabee said.
http://www.highbeam.com/doc/1G1-145938811.html
He’s currently just below Rudy on my list of favorites.
It appears Huckabee’s criticisms of Fred’s positions are phony, since he apparently thought the same until the Road to Des Moines popped up.
Popular or not, it's just plain wrong...an abrogation of the founding principle of America, as found in the Declaration of Independence, the Preamble to the Constitution, the Fifth and the Fourteenth Amendments, and the Reagan pro-life platform.
States' rights do not trump unalienable rights.
I just don't agree that any government has a right to take innocent human life -- or to allow its citizens to freely do so. But if others can, then give me the right to abort the Presidential candidates I find inconvenient. Fair is fair. Not only are they inconvenient, but they threaten to take my money by force and call it "compassion."
I consider myself strongly pro-life, but I have no problem with this position.
The states define murder and most other crimes. Where in the Constitution is an exception made for abortion? Finding anti-abortion language in the Constitution requires almost as great a stretch as Roe v. Wade.
I support a pro-life constitutional amendment in theory, while recognizing that its utter impossibility of passage makes focusing on it a poor choice of priorities.
A federal law or judicial decision against abortion would be a violation of federalism, just as Roe was.
but, but, but....that is a lie pissant....his website says so.
To believe that, you must agree with Blackmun, the author of Roe vs. Wade, that un unborn child is not a person.
This is the Jerry Ford position, not the Ronald Reagan position.
Or. maybe the other way around!
The only candidates on my list that fall below Rudy are Paul and Romney, in that order. Huckabee is just one above Thompson for me, because of the marriage issue.
So, which other unalienable rights can the states alienate?
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