News Flash: Huckabee Not In Touch With Reality or Scary Shit, This Guy

I am a bit late on catching up with the news lately and so I am also late to comment on the downright scary notion that a significant part of the American population supports Mike Huckabee, and not in reference to his need for anti-psychotics. If the guy that lives out of the grocery cart by my local supermarket spouted the things that this guys does, he would be written off as delusional and added to a group of people most commonly lead by the guy dragging the 9' long cross on his back in front of the Tear For Fears concert I attended in 1986.

But I live in Southern California and although we have our own kind of delusional episodes, most of us understand that God does not in fact have a telephone and a local directory.

And if God did have a phone, would he call Mike Huckabee? No, really.

From a Republican Governors Association Dinner in 2004:


I know this is old, but really, this is important. Sure, sure, we could say he was just being funny and making a point that the Right is better and God probably loves those people more because they hate women, they believe in forced pregnancy, and they believe gay people are Satan's minions, blah, blah, blah, and playing to the crowd but don't you know that somewhere, deep down in Mike Huckabees tiny little shriveled smoky heart, he believes that God does talk to him?

And this typical sense of patriarchal entitlement that seems to be rampant with these folks is the most frightening.

Faiz quotes in his piece some key information from Matt Taibbi of Rolling Stone Magazine.

As Matt Taibbi wrote in Rolling Stone, Huckabee's religious zealotry has potentially serious consequences:

This God stuff isn't just talk with Huck. One of his first acts as governor was to block Medicaid from funding an abortion for a mentally retarded teen-ager who had been raped by her stepfather -- an act in direct violation of federal law, which requires states to pay for abortions in cases of rape. "The state didn't fund a single such abortion while Huckabee was governor," says Dr. William Harrison of the Fayetteville Women's Clinic. "Zero."

As president, Huck would support a constitutional amendment banning abortion and would give science a back seat to religion. "Science changes with every generation and with new discoveries, and God doesn't," he says. "So I'll stick with God if the two are in conflict." Huckabee's well-documented disdain for science was reflected in the performance of the Arkansas school system when he was governor; one independent survey gave the state an F for its science standards in schools, a grade that among other things reflected Huckabee's hostility toward the teaching of evolution.

Doesn't Huck know that cellphones were developed using S-C-I-E-N-C-E?

Mike Huckabee is starting to put me in mind of Bill Napoli of South Dakota.



Via Think Progress via AlterNet