PoliZine » 5 Reasons to be Very Afraid of Mike Huckabee
PoliZine » 5 Reasons to be Very Afraid of Mike Huckabee
You might think that anyone who coaxes an endorsement out of Chuck Norris is nothing short of the greatest world leader of all time. In fact, if the only information you had to go on was the funny and entertaining ad above, you might be tempted to support Mike Huckabee.
Don’t let the Chuck Norris affiliation fool you, though - Huckabee is a total whack job. Why? Glad you asked! Here are five reasons not to heart Huckabee.
1. Animal rights may not exactly be a hot presidential issue for most Americans, but can you really trust a man who thinks it’s no big deal when his son lynches a homeless dog, and then tries to cover it up?
2. Huckabee says that he will turn America into an all-singing, all-dancing, all-Christian non-stop thrill ride if he is President. Except without the singing and dancing. In 1998, while explaining why he quit his job as a pastor to become a politician, he said:
“I hope we answer the alarm clock and take this nation back for Christ.”
He also sincerely hopes that all of you Jewish, Muslim, atheist, Hindu, Buddhist, and Pagan voters move to Canada.
3. This whole disaster:
“Well, what I’m simply saying, we’ve changed the Constitution 27 times in 221 years. But the Ten Commandments are still the Ten Commandments. We haven’t added or subtracted any of them, and that’s my point, is that the Constitution was created with the understanding that it could be changed, we could make changes.”
This great article very succinctly explains why this entire statement is a fallacy: there are actually several versions of the Ten Commandments, and they are rarely agreed on.
4. He believes that women should submit gracefully to the leadership of their husbands. Granted, it was nearly ten years ago…but when questioned about it recently, Huckabee’s camp wasn’t in any hurry to distance him from the full-page USA Today ad encouraging women to be submissive to the wishes of their husbands.
5. He (seemingly sincerely) believes that God has chosen him to be the next president. Sound familiar? For all we know, he could be one of the top guys behind the craziest website in the world.