Mike Huckabee on politics, Christianity, Israel

[mycophobia]

Prodigal Son
Is the wayward Republican Mike Huckabee now his party’s best hope?
by Ariel Levy

Sun was bouncing off the miles of Jerusalem stone and the black hats of the Hasidim on the afternoon when Mike Huckabee went to visit the Wailing Wall, earlier this year. Huckabee-the former governor of Arkansas, the host of a Fox News show, and, according to

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[seth0et0holth]

“Honey, our little girl surprised me today,” Pat Boone said into the microphone one night at dinner at the David Citadel Hotel, in Jerusalem. He was doing a sort of soliloquy to music in the middle of his song “Thanks for Just Being You.” “She said, ‘Daddy, I know I’m gonna grow up to be a wife and a mommy some day.’ She said, ‘I know what a mommy is, but what’s a wife, really?’ ” And Boone explained: “A wife is the one that feeds and waters and cleans up after that family pet she didn’t want.” There was a wave of knowing murmurs from the believers. “A patient soul that picks up my dirty socks and underwear and handkerchiefs and washes them and puts them back in the drawer so she can do the whole thing again, next week. . . . A good wife is simply a gift from God.”FUCK YOU

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[doe_witch]

Preach. Seriously.

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[seth0et0holth]

It really pisses me the fuck off, because hell, some peeps in the secular scene have more respect for actual groupies than these guys have for their wives. Power corrupts, and absolute power corrupts absolutely

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[doe_witch]

I have to admit, I didn't see BDSM coming into the conversation but it's pretty obvious to me in retrospect, especially as a non-lifestyle practitioner. Basically, in any case, I agree with all this.

[layweed]

Great gobs of text!

[mycophobia]

i know, sorry, the article is super long. it is well worth reading though.

[nothingmuch]

When he was governor of Arkansas, Huckabee blocked Medicaid funding for an abortion that a retarded teen-ager wanted to have after she was raped by her stepfather.

Oh yeah, that's the kind of healthy, natural, Godly family creation the US needs, not those sick gay couples with their consensual sex and planned, wanted parenthood.

/sarcasm (in case anyone can't tell)

[mycophobia]

that part seriously made me go D: WTF

[nothingmuch]

I will never understand right-wing "Christian" morality. Never ever ever ever.

[calidreamin08]

if that doesn't make you wanna punch something...

[storminmay]

Ew. No.

GTFO ALREADY.

D:

[karrixftw]

Holy fucking text! Wow, hahaha. I actually ended up reading it all, and while a majority of it (like the, "there’s really no such thing as a Palestinian,” thing, and this, "When he was governor of Arkansas, Huckabee blocked Medicaid funding for an abortion that a retarded teen-ager wanted to have after she was raped by her stepfather," and the overall ignorance and generally disgusting comments he made about gays not being good parents) made me cringe so much, I appreciated like .01% of it.

Also, I have something to say about this: “If there are a certain number of kids from single-parent homes who aren’t going to school and don’t have health care, you can say that’s not government’s job,” Huckabee told me. “Well, sweet and fine! But you know what? If the kid’s sitting outside the door of the hospital choking with asthma, do I sit there and say, ‘Oh, I’m sorry, I don’t think, philosophically, government should get involved’? I’d much rather the kid get help than I sit around and say I’m so pure in my ideology.” So, you'd put aside