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Mike Huckabee Pledges to Criminalize Abortion Even if It Leads to Riots in the StreetsRepublican presidential candidate Mike Huckabee is watching his poll numbers drop as Donald Trumps continue to rise, so now hes going all-out to be the most extreme Republican on the subject of abortion, hoping to capture the evangelical audience that thinks this is a winning issue. In a recent video conference with a group of far right loons, Huckabee staked out his position by vowing to criminalize abortion by executive order even if it leads to riots in the streets.
He sounds almost gleeful at the prospect.
Huckabee vowed that he will criminalize abortion, no matter the consequences: I think that the bolder and more important and more urgent position is to invoke the constitutional rights of the unborn, recognizing them as persons, expecting lawsuits, expecting extraordinary pushback, and goodness, perhaps riots in the streets.
I think that we have tinkered around the edges so long that we failed to go back to the original purpose of the Bill of Rights and we have simply not applied it, Huckabee said. Frankly, I dont know of any of us who are pro-lifers who would argue, well that is really not a person, so the question is: Do we believe that the unborn child is a person? If we do, then we ought to act like that is a person and give them the protections that they are due under the Constitution.
Read more at http://littlegreenfootballs.com/article/45000_Mike_Huckabee_Pledges_to_Criminalize_Abortion_Even_if_It_Leads_to_Riots_in_the_Streets#XP384tBHQddAL6up.99
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Hey Mike....
Great story.
What about the born, Mike? Where are your protections there? Where is your assistance to the poor starving children? Why do you leave them in poverty and scoff at them? They need to pull themselves up by their bootstraps. You and your party take any needed assistance away from them.
Some say both parties are the same, I say they are wrong and could not possibly be true Democrats.
RKP5637
(67,104 posts)MADem
(135,425 posts)of their caucuses in 2008.
He was riding high back then, with dreams of the Presidency dancing in his head.
UGH.
sheshe2
(83,740 posts)riversedge
(70,186 posts)Gloria
(17,663 posts)Last edited Thu Sep 3, 2015, 09:26 AM - Edit history (1)
All thd GOP jerks have gotten more and more frenzied.
Women need to really wake up...so much damage at the state level already.
I want to see Clinton really focus on this sort of thing...
Plucketeer
(12,882 posts)They can SEE the Righting on the walls and they're doubling down on their extreme leanings. Huckadunce is repulsive to me primarily because of his religious bullshit - but every one of them in the whole damned crowd has the potential to provoke vomiting.
Chemisse
(30,809 posts)He was presenting himself as affable, funny, easygoing guy.
Then he began to reveal his extremism, and he didn't seem so easygoing anymore, and nothing about him was funny ever again.
Lizzie Poppet
(10,164 posts)Riots in the streets will be just the beginning if you manage to pull that off.
LuvNewcastle
(16,844 posts)I think of him as our Ayatollah.
niyad
(113,259 posts)DesertFlower
(11,649 posts)she's a republican. back in '08 she said she liked huckabee. he seemed like a nice guy. this from a woman who had 3 abortions and has 2 daughters of child bearing age.
even educated people can be stupid.
thank goodness both her daughters are dems.
libdem4life
(13,877 posts)niyad
(113,259 posts)bloodshed and life-altering moments you are wishing for everyone else.
smirkymonkey
(63,221 posts)BlancheSplanchnik
(20,219 posts)What about the born, Mike? Where are your protections there? Where is your assistance to the poor starving children? Why do you leave them in poverty and scoff at them? They need to pull themselves up by their bootstraps. You and your party take any needed assistance away from them.
sheshe2
(83,740 posts)BlancheSplanchnik
(20,219 posts)BeanMusical
(4,389 posts)Kick and R.
Demeter
(85,373 posts)Maybe he'll pay handsomely....and then, if he's potent, you can sock him for child support!
WHEN CRABS ROAR
(3,813 posts)You call that presidential material.
Shandris
(3,447 posts)...finally. I've mentioned that I love reading them for giggles, but after seeing the lunacy pushed by the Republican Party this year, I think the one about the LHC accidentally destroying the world in 2012 but shunting everyone off to different, alternate universes might just have a chance at being true, cuz this sure ain't the world I grew up in.
And I grew up as a fundie!
(Obviously I'm not serious! )
herding cats
(19,564 posts)I doubt he even believes his BS anymore. He's just keeping his name in the press as much as he can by being the freak he is. It's how he earns his quick cash. He keeps the religious zealots in the RW in a frenzy by spoon feeding them this type of foolishness. Then he writes some totally inane book on how the RW Christians are given Gods blessing to hate, and cashes in on that too.
It's a sick cycle of manipulation. The strange thing is it harms the GOP on a national level, but it helps them in specific stronghold states. They may shake their heads in public when pressed on such questions, but they rejoice in private at statements such as this.
passiveporcupine
(8,175 posts)for conservative votes, because he knows that's all he's got.
sheshe2
(83,740 posts)And that is all the GOP has left. Gawd help us they take office again. We will all die a very painful death.
Thanks passiveporcupine.
passiveporcupine
(8,175 posts)sheshe2
(83,740 posts)Thank you.
passiveporcupine
(8,175 posts)We are both women and have the same issues at heart, as well as other issues. Women tend to be more perceptive and more empathetic about things, and you and I are both all of those things.
sheshe2
(83,740 posts)flamingdem
(39,313 posts)Hillary, this is going to be easy..
sheshe2
(83,740 posts)Huck is one of the smarter ones.
Hi, fd~
Solly Mack
(90,762 posts)Because I happen to have a mean streak that borders on the creatively cruel.
Hekate
(90,643 posts)madinmaryland
(64,931 posts)PatrickforO
(14,570 posts)hate.
Huckleberry is a horrible human being.
world wide wally
(21,740 posts)and between them, they decided this is a good idea.
Marie Marie
(9,999 posts)The title of your post speaks for me and says it all.
WIProgressive88
(314 posts)boneheaded comments and figured he wanted back in on the action too.
George II
(67,782 posts)JackInGreen
(2,975 posts)I don't think I've ever harbored more disgust for anyone but Falwell and Robertson. The man's a nauseating pos and I'll happily grave dance when he passes.
Anymore and I'll get banned.
Stonepounder
(4,033 posts)The SCOTUS has ruled that abortion is a civil right. An Executive Order criminalizing it would be immediately found to be unconstitutional by even the most conservative SCOTUS. So, does he plan to pull a Kim Davis and defy the Supreme Court? Guess he doesn't care about 'a nation of laws'. But then, what do you expect? He doesn't want to be President, he wants to be Dictator for Life.
Rex
(65,616 posts)GOOD friend of the shamed Duggar seed.
His friend Special Texas Forces Jade 15 monitor General Norris.
These horrible people.
Fuckabee.
Yallow
(1,926 posts)He pooped in his pants for a whole month before his draft physical.
He was too busy sticking his member into jailbait to go off to 'Nam.
Rex
(65,616 posts)Huckabee has a certain group he runs around with, all creepier than shit.
Yallow
(1,926 posts)Once that baby drops, the sooner it starves to death the better
in a Republican's mind.
And allowing it to see a doctor?
Not on your life.
That might cost $$ they need for their pills.
God I Hate Republicans
AtheistCrusader
(33,982 posts)Hell, half of them are. It's not a political campaign at all.
freshwest
(53,661 posts)By Seattle Times staff - November 30, 2009
The man sought for questioning in the execution of four Lakewood police officers was granted clemency in 2000 by former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee and released on bail just six days ago on a child rape charge in Washington state...
Nine years ago, then-Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee granted clemency to Clemmons, commuting his lengthy prison sentence over the protests of prosecutors.
This is the day Ive been dreading for a long time, Larry Jegley, prosecuting attorney for Arkansas Pulaski County said tonight when informed that Clemmons was being sought for questioning in connection with the killings.
Clemmons criminal history includes at least five felony convictions in Arkansas and at least eight felony charges in Washington. The record also stands out for the number of times he has been released from custody despite questions about the danger he posed.
http://www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news/maurice-clemmons-man-wanted-for-questioning-has-troubling-criminal-history/
Huckabee Helped Set Rapist Free Who Later Killed Missouri Woman
By MARK SCHONE - Nov. 30, 2009
Says Clemmons was going to be serving 95 years. That case may have been different and he needed clememcy... but the Lakewood ambush was over child rape...
And isn't Huckabee a pal of Josh Duggar?
Well, read more at the link:
http://abcnews.go.com/Blotter/mike-huckabee-clemency-freed-maurice-clemmons-washington-cop-shooter-suspect/story?id=9207095
And this the guy whose son killed that dog - as far as him being gleeful for killing the weak and the helpless, the rotten apple didn't fall far from that tree.
Good God, even the Pope has ordered priests to forgive women who had abortions because they faced 'a moral ordeal.' But not Huckabee. He wants to see blood shed.
OTOH, Huckabee is just saying what all the rest of the GOP candidates would like to say, and he's going for broke with it. The ID of the GOP is showing. And it ain't pretty.
steve2470
(37,457 posts)countless women getting back-alley abortions again and many dying from it!!
Fuck you Huckabee! You would set society back centuries.
3catwoman3
(23,973 posts)...on how to explain why frozen embryos are not the same as people/citizens. He puts is thusly (probable slight paraphrase):
If you have a frozen embryo, it can be thawed, placed in a woman's uterus, and if all goes well, a healthy baby will be born. Can you take 1 minute old newborn baby, freeze him/her, thaw him/her, and end up with a healthy baby? Nope.
treestar
(82,383 posts)how? No way around Roe v. Wade.
GoCubsGo
(32,079 posts)And, his nutbag fan club won't even blink an eye at his hypocrisy.
lordsummerisle
(4,651 posts)Which is arguably why he's in the race at all.