Mike Huckabee on Meet the Press, part 2

Last week, in part 1, I talked about the Huckster’s compromising position on abortion.

I actually agreed with some other things Friar Huck said in that interview. He said that he would be in favor of using military force in Pakistan to capture or kill Osama Bin Laden. He said that he would try not to turn it into a war with whole nation of Pakistan. I think it is refreshing to hear a candidate say something like this with all the hateful rhetoric out there. I want the President to be someone who will pursue justice while minimizing the loss of innocent life, and avoid overthrowing governments and costly nation building.

However, Huckaberry Fin still believes in this war in Iraq which has unnecessarily cost thousands of innocent lives.

As I pointed out last week, he talks out of both sides of his mouth on abortion.

Huckabee raised his hand when the question was asked “Who does not believe in evolution?” But later he said that he did not know "how or when God created".

Huckabee has said, “I am a 10th amendment candidate.” But he believes in the “No Child Left Behind” program which oversteps the authority of the federal government and pours money into a system that teaches evolution as fact.

This is all reminiscent of Bush in the 2000 campaign saying that he did not believe in “nation building”.

Bush also said in the 2000 campaign that he was pro-life, but at the same time he said would chose the most qualified judges and not use abortion as a “litmus test”. I believed him, so I didn’t vote for him. He spoke out against taking innocent life for the purpose of saving others (in reference to funding embryonic stem cell research), but yet he believes that abortion should be legal in cases of rape and incest.

Bush also said that he was against gay marriage, but then appointed a homosexual to an office for AIDS policy and got cozy with the Log Cabin Republicans.

We should learn a lesson from all of this.

The main blogger, Gregjaye, pointed out that Huckabee is making some bold statements against homosexuality.

Can we really believe him?

Notice that Friar Huck did not say anything about being against civil unions, anti-discrimination laws based on sexual orientation, and didn’t say that he would never appoint a homosexual to an office.

I heard that Huckabee refused to answer a question about whether Christians were the only ones going to heaven. He is both morally and financially bankrupt.

Why not vote for a man who supports the returning our government to its constitutional roots and comes right out says what he believes without any hypocrisy. (I am speaking of Ron Paul, of course.)

For six, nearly consecutive years, we had a Repuplican President, a Republican Congress, and the majority of the Supreme Court Justices were appointed by Republican Presidents (it was and still is six to three, in fact). And yet abortion remained legal, and the amount of taxpayers' dollars that went into Klanned Parenthood actually increased during that time. More money was spent by the federal government during those six years than all previous administrations combined!

What good is it, my brothers, if someone says he has faith but does not have works? Can that faith save him? If a brother or sister is poorly clothed and lacking in daily food, and one of you says to them, "Go in peace, be warmed and filled," without giving them the things needed for the body, what good is that?

James 2:14-16 (ESV)

Please don't elect another Bush clone!