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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every 4 years, both parties trot out their gaggle of circus freaks & drooling idiots, from which we're supposed to choose a president. they go up onstage and speak in tongues, hump the moderator's leg, or bite the head off a live chicken - and then we vote for what we hope will be the least harmful/dangerous one.
after the election, we tell ourselves that "next time will be better because it's *impossible* to dredge up bigger idiots than these clowns", and we'll have better choices.
and we're always wrong. election after election, they just get worse and worse. huckabee's no more a conservative than bush is. i gather you've seen the video of him addressing the Ark. legislature? "ANY tax increase you decide on is fine with me! i'll sign this one! i'll sign that one! just get one on my desk!"
charlie brown said it best: "*sigh*"
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