GOP '08 Candidate Huckabee Insanely Compares Abortion to the Holocaust

Posted by GottaLaff at 5:15 PM on October 20, 2007.

GottaLaff: Holy mother of idiots, just stop.

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This post, written by GottaLaff, originalyl appeared on Cliff Schecter's Brave New Films Blog

I'm speechless (and for me, that's saying something):

Speaking before a gathering of Christian conservative voters, GOP presidential hopeful Mike Huckabee said legalized abortion in the United States was a holocaust.

Not the best analogy, Mike. "Offended" doesn't even begin to describe what I'm feeling.

"Sometimes we talk about why we're importing so many people in our workforce," the former Arkansas governor said. "It might be for the last 35 years, we have aborted more than a million people who would have been in our workforce had we not had the holocaust of liberalized abortion under a flawed Supreme Court ruling in 1973."

Mike Hack-abee, I don't know where to begin. To equate the right to choose and all the circumstances under which that might be necessary, to a holocaust...and all its implications? That's beyond wrong.

And to reason (if one can call it that) that immigrants are taking jobs as a result of abortions?

And even giving that line of "thinking" (and I use the word loosely), you'd have to believe that every single "aborted person" (as in "we have aborted more than a million people") would have taken a job that is now assigned to an "imported person" (as in "importing so many people in our workforce"). Holy mother of idiots, just stop.

This whole mind-boggling stance is an abortion of logic in and of itself.

I'm sputtering. Someone in Comments take it from here.

Tagged as: abortion, religious right, election08, holocaust, republican party, huckabee

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Yeah, Mike.... [Report this comment] Posted by: JoshuaLudd on Oct 20, 2007 7:47 PM Current rating: 5 [1 = poor; 5 = excellent] .. it surely has NOTHING to do with the fact that wages are stagnant and these folks are often taking jobs that are horrible yet pay next to nothing... you know.. like Tyson Chicken in Arkansas. Then, of course, there are the high tech jobs that we don't have folks to do because we don't have any schools to train for some jobs.. and because we have allowed predatory lending practices on student loans for so long.. and because Bush made sure anyone who has ever had a drug conviction can't get federal aid to go to school. Nope... its all just the abortions. [« Reply to this comment] [Post a new comment »] [Rate this comment: 1 - 2 - 3 - 4 - 5] Selective Abortion [Report this comment] Posted by: AlexLawyer on Oct 20, 2007 7:55 PM Current rating: 4 [1 = poor; 5 = excellent] Yes, we have aborted more than a million people in Iraq, for no good reason, unlawfully and with the enthusiastic and continued support of Mr Huckabee and most of his colleagues on both sides of the aisle. Real people with lives, jobs or studies and families who loved and grieve for them. No tears, even of the crocodilian variety, from Mr Huckabee for them, however. Is it their brown skin or their Muslim religion? [« Reply to this comment] [Post a new comment »] [Rate this comment: 1 - 2 - 3 - 4 - 5] » RE: Selective Abortion Posted by: blitzmesser And the base is... [Report this comment] Posted by: tgabriel on Oct 20, 2007 7:58 PM Current rating: 4 [1 = poor; 5 = excellent] what, 25% of the electorate? Huckabee in all his splendor is desperately hoping somehow the citizens of this nation will forget the butt-rape he and his compatriots in the repuke party have committed to the real values we hold dear over the last couple of decades. The idiotic drivel coming from this bunch of clowns never fails to amaze. One of shrub's morons had to have come up with this pathetic attempt to energize the criminal, traitorous right. I know many of the people to which he is speaking. The flies buzzing around their heads and the tobacco juice stains on their chins mark them as dullards who think Huckabee's ranting and raving is right on spot. The good part is the other 75% of the voting public - the real patriotic part - is not amused. A cautionary note: Do not think for a minute the repukes will not prevail in the next election if the progressive, liberal, and moderate voters do not follow up with what they know is the right thing to do in November, '08. [« Reply to this comment] [Post a new comment »] [Rate this comment: 1 - 2 - 3 - 4 - 5] DEMS NEED TO CO-OPT THE PHRASE "PRO-LIFE" [Report this comment] Posted by: drricklippin on Oct 21, 2007 7:03 AM Current rating: 3 [1 = poor; 5 = excellent] I have been livid for at least 20 years that the anti-abortion zealots grabbed the phrase "pro-life" Except for unborn fetuses (not babies) they are anything but! With the Iraq war death count marching on daily, the Darfur disaster, etc as well as the very "life" of our planet earth in peril it is time for the Dems to take a run at retaking that "pro-life" phrase. Another great word and concept is BIOPHILIA=Love of life (google it) Dr. Rick Lippin http://medicalcrises.blogspot.com [« Reply to this comment] [Post a new comment »] [Rate this comment: 1 - 2 - 3 - 4 - 5] He might be onto something... [Report this comment] Posted by: deejayvee on Oct 21, 2007 5:21 PM Current rating: 4 [1 = poor; 5 = excellent] ... just not what he thinks. I actually heard something similar from a friend the other day, although the conclusion was different enough to be interesting. He pointed out the correlation between easily accesible abortions that became available in the 60's & 70's, and the almost universal reduction in the crime rate in the West from the early 90's onwards. True? I have no idea. But it's an interesting notion. Guys like Guliani might go on about being tough on crime, but may be, just may be, Progressive ideas like the Pro-Choice movement are actually doing more to help. :) [« Reply to this comment] [Post a new comment »] [Rate this comment: 1 - 2 - 3 - 4 - 5] Give Life a Chance [Report this comment] Posted by: clawjack on Oct 22, 2007 7:02 AM Current rating: 1 [1 = poor; 5 = excellent] I'm worried that by decriminalising abortion the Social Security Shortfall that people have been predicting for the past 30 years is going to occur because we have lost more than 35 million people who would have been paying into the system. If the product of conception is not human then what is it? Theocracy is not the only voice which cautions against liquidating a whole generation of people. People should be responsible for the choices they make particularly having sex. I hardly think our society has become less violent in the past four decades but moreso. How could Bush and Company get away with the preemptive warfare justificiation even as they mouth pro-life slogans. A more compassionate and welcoming society will not come about by condoning violence in the womb, in the schools or in the Pentagon. [« Reply to this comment] [Post a new comment »] [Rate this comment: 1 - 2 - 3 - 4 - 5] » Give me a break Posted by: zipper696 » RE: Give Life a Chance Posted by: mjglow The numbers are always different [Report this comment] Posted by: warrior woman on Oct 22, 2007 11:30 AM Current rating: Not yet rated [1 = poor; 5 = excellent] When quoting numbers of abortions, one has to wonder what the correct sum is of the procedure. In this piece we see 1 million, above comments are 35 million. I have also heard my rightwingnut legislator tout 40 million, however, these high numbers just don't work for me mathematically. For example: 300 million people in the US today. We've doubled our population since the 1950's which translates to the population being approx. 150 million in the 50's. If you say 50% of the population is women and of that number (75 million) 1/3 are of childbearing age, 25 million today, not in the 60'2, 70's, 80's or 90's, that would be an enormous percentage of women having an abortion over their lifetime. In fact, it would have to work out to every woman having an abortion multiple times during their life. THe numbers just don't work. [« Reply to this comment] [Post a new comment »] [Rate this comment: 1 - 2 - 3 - 4 - 5] Far be it from me......... [Report this comment] Posted by: tap17x on Oct 22, 2007 1:18 PM Current rating: Not yet rated [1 = poor; 5 = excellent] ...........to distort names, but Hickabilly is a perfect Refucklican. [« Reply to this comment] [Post a new comment »] [Rate this comment: 1 - 2 - 3 - 4 - 5] Huckabee Insanely Compares Abortion to the Holocaust [Report this comment] Posted by: turkeybut on Oct 22, 2007 4:40 PM Current rating: Not yet rated [1 = poor; 5 = excellent] This man want to tell Americans what they can do and can't do. He is one of the worst kind of evangelicals, a southern baptist minister. They believe the man has a right to spank their wife for disobeying them. He is one that thinks all white men are inferior to anyone and they should control the world. I am white and I disagree completely. Southern Baptist is why we have lost so many rights in America. Freedom to do as you please is a right of all people as long as it doesn't include corruption. [« Reply to this comment] [Post a new comment »] [Rate this comment: 1 - 2 - 3 - 4 - 5] » er...are you sure you meant to say... Posted by: zipper696 This guy is a crazy Sunday school teacher.. [Report this comment] Posted by: blitzmesser on Oct 22, 2007 8:35 PM Current rating: Not yet rated [1 = poor; 5 = excellent] One look at that face and you know the guy is crazy and a religious fanatic. [« Reply to this comment] [Post a new comment »] [Rate this comment: 1 - 2 - 3 - 4 - 5] Nice on the Outside, Pure Evil on the Inside [Report this comment] Posted by: bravegirl68 on Oct 23, 2007 10:20 AM Current rating: Not yet rated [1 = poor; 5 = excellent] What scares me about this guy is that he comes across as such an aw-shucks kind of guy, like your nicest uncle. I've seen him on TV interviews and I admit to liking him as a human being. But whoa, is he catering to the Religious Right with comments like these (the only way he'll have a shot at the presidency once Fred Thompson slips into a coma and Rudy implodes....) We've got to keep on this guy. He's slithering his way up the ranks. [« Reply to this comment] [Post a new comment »] [Rate this comment: 1 - 2 - 3 - 4 - 5] » RE: Nice on the Outside, Pure Evil on the Inside Posted by: Vik

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