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By Myrhaf from Myrhaf,cross-posted by MetaBlog

How bad is Huckabee? Salon.com has a piece called Huckabee: God wants us to fight global warming.

A conservative
Republican
and devout Christian, Huckabee believes he has a biblical responsibility to protect God's planet from climate change, even though he's not convinced that climate change is largely human-caused. But mandatory limits on greenhouse-gas emissions make him squeamish.

If he has a biblical responsiblility to protect God's planet from climate change, even though he's not convinced that climate change is largely human-caused, then isn't he trying to protect the planet from the climate changes caused by God? Even by his own mystical standard, his position is incoherent.

But that last sentence in the quote, about him being squeamish on limits on greenhouse-gas emissions, is probably enough to persuade pragmatist Republicans that he is okay. After all, he's not an extremist!

Huckabee is currently running second behind Romney in Iowa. In New Hampshire, however, he is a distant fifth, behind even Ron Paul. It will be interesting to see if the best candidate, Giuliani, survives the early states, which do not favor him.

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  • 7 years later...

Huckabee's latest comment is that, as president, he may defy the Supreme Court by insisting that a fetus is a human being and that he can protect their rights under the 5th and 14th amendment. he says he could send troops into states to enforce it.

 

The mind boggles at a candidate for president promising to do something like that. 

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He's in the class of the most scary.  Because of what he says, but more so, because of what he says in the context of what it can be reduced to in specific policy ideas - the things he doesn't say, but believes.

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He's in the class of the most scary.  Because of what he says, but more so, because of what he says in the context of what it can be reduced to in specific policy ideas - the things he doesn't say, but believes.

I submit to you that he's in the class of least scary...because he has the least power, and the least chance to get any.

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