Huckabee Tells CPAC: Abortions are Responsible for Bad Economy

[the_gabih]

At the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC), as all of the major Republican candidates (except Ron Paul, who won last year’s CPAC straw poll) lined up to out-conservative each other later today the President of Citizens United introduced Mike Huckabee to the audience. The Conference meets annually to discuss conservative issues and in

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[anolinde]

Citing the bible to ridicule everything from health insurance coverage to paying income tax, the crowd seemed to enthusiastically agree with Mike Huckabee’s view that our government should be dictated by their religious beliefs, and to not do so is a violation of their first amendment rights.

Yeah... That's not what the first amendment's about.

[layweed]

Everyone knows they're exempt from the First Amendment. It only applies to scary Muslin Sharia Law.

[missmurchison]

Yeah, if they spent a tenth of the time they've spent complaining about the contraceptive requirement defending the right of Muslims to build mosques with no more interference than a zoning commission would give a Christian church, I might have been inclined to listen to them.

Hell, if the Catholic bishops had shown a hundredth of this concern for the well-being of sexual abuse victims....no, not going to go there. It's not good for my blood pressure.

[kaowolfie]

Please please tell me you deliberately said Muslin and not Muslim, because LOL.

[layweed]

It's some really old meme where someone used "muslin" instead of "muslim".

ETA: I think this may have been the start of it, but the original story is gone. http://wonkette.com/402743/typical-florida-person-creates-years-best-campaign-sign

[kaowolfie]

hah. I think I've always mentally autocorrected it and never noticed. Go me and my sometimes inadequate observational skills!

[kyakki]

...what if I want to hail satin, tho?