Huckabee is an ignorant redneck who is thought by some journalists and many conservatives, for reasons entirely unclear to me, to be charming. Until very recently (and, amazing, still in some cases) Bush was regarded in the same way. Despite his occasional appearance of humilty and decency, Huck is an extremist.

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Wonder how his views would change should he or one of his family members become ill with HIV/AIDS? All of these Huck-types think they are somehow immune to the risks of the world because they believe in God. Ha! What a joke. Most of these extremists are so because they are hiding some really deep-seated identity problems or worse. All of these worthless creeps who wish to impose their values on the rest of us (values, by the way they don't even adhere to behind close doors) need to be shipped to their own special island where they can conform/reform each other all they want and discuss gloom and doom and the nastiness of hell all they want. Huck and company, please go away and leave the rest of us to democracy and tolerance.

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As a gay American why all this hype? What he said in the past abt. AIDS patients, persons infected, etc... was the standard at the time. He did nothing wrong in commenting ("that for a disease that no one really knew enough about" ) on how the society or gov't should handle a disease that had a lot of people at ill ease. In the gay community we did not know for sure how it was transmitted tho most gay folks probably had a better handle on the truth then the outside world, we still had our own fears of how IT was getting around. I lost enough friends that for me it was better to quit certain practices, avoid certain others until the truth was known. What would one have the gov't or society do when an unknown method of transmission comes along? WE will face that problem again at some point in the future and do we isolate people or let them run wild? Huck was only a man of his times as we were and the same will be true when SARS or "bird flu" or ebola or some other disease comes along. WE will have to decide as the country did with TB when, where, and to what degree "isolation" is the answer. Fortune shined on us and it proved out to be "SEX" was the transmission route but what if IT had been sneezing, breathing in and out within 3 feet of some one, or a physical touch as is the case with the new bug now running rampant in many hospitals and school houses. Do we now "isolate" all these kids who play sports and touch each other? Do we now "isolate" all persons entering a hospital until we do a culture test on their belly button or nose and get the results back? Do we "isolate" all school children and workers in every case where it pops up? What if it turned out to be a case or many cases of "flesh eating bact."? DO YOU want folk running wild in your city, town, office if there is a bug going around for which no one how it is truly passed around? Would YOU not be demanding some "isolation" as a proper form of action in these your NOW times? So as a gay person get off Huck's back, he was only one voice among many who wanted us locked away! He was no worse then many others, even some in the gay community held the same idea and would go to great lengths to avoid an hiv-aids person!!! PS> remember IT could be you who starts the next great disease cause IF YOU don't wash your hands in soap & hot water for at least two singings (40 seconds) of "Happy Birthday to You" and YOU exit the rest room or bath room without doing so, they YOU should be "isolated" and re-educated until your brain get it.....YOU who don't wash after using restrooms are a great danger to the rest of us cause who knows what germ, bact., virsus you have on your hand(s) and every thing you touch for the next hour! So "isolation" is not a bad choice for those of you who pass bugs around now and who can't think of your fellow citizens health!!! Oh and I forgot, if you sneeze in the office or home and don't cover your face, cough in public, don't cover and then come to me or my desk or phone or office or handle food, then YOU need to be "isolated" too and I will be the first one to join the cry!!!! PS2> when I run for president 20 yrs. from now, be sure to bring this up, I called for "isolation" until proof is found not to isolate you!!!!!

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The really sad fact is that it was Reagan's homophobia and the conservative modus operandi of putting profit ahead of people's health that infected so many thousands of people during the early stages of the AIDS epidemic in the 1980's. The Reagan Whitehouse (and really the American public) failed to take action by giving the CDC and NIH research funds to investigate this emerging epidemic. And several religious leaders even said publicly that the "gay plague" was god's vengeance for an immoral lifestyle.

When the CDC discovered that AIDS was being transmitted through the blood supply- they recommended that blood products be heat treated to render the products safer. Elizabeth Dole- then president of American Red Cross- and other blood product companies made the decision not to heat treat blood products because "it would be too expensive". Their collective decisions were death sentences for thousands of people like Ryan White- who as a hemophiliac- required clotting factors made from donated blood. To the best of my knowledge no one individual was tried in any criminal court in this country for this crime. There were criminal trials in Japan and France.

Senator E. Dole just recently voted against the children's health bill (SCHIP) because the proposed cigarette tax would adversely affect her state's tobacco industry.

http://dole.senate.gov/
index.cfm?FuseAction=Topics.Detail&Topic_id=70

"I strongly support reauthorizing and responsibly expanding the State Children’s Health Insurance Program so that all eligible children in North Carolina are covered. Unfortunately, the funding mechanism for this bill – a 156 percent tobacco tax hike – lands squarely on the shoulders of North Carolina workers and manufacturers, and that’s not fair to our state.

More than 255,000 people in our state rely on tobacco for their livelihood. Under this plan, North Carolina stands to lose at least $540 million in decreased manufacturing, nearly $16 million in farm production and as many as 1,800 farm jobs. I cannot support a $35 billion tax increase that disproportionately harms North Carolina jobs."

"".......and that’s not fair to our state.""

My father died from lung cancer two years ago tomorrow.

Big tobacco lost a loyal customer.

We lost a loving father and grandfather.

profit before people.

Some things simply don't change.

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Huckabee probably carries a few racist notions in the dark closets of his mind, but I hope the Republicans choose him over racists Giuliani or Romney.

Romney really has to explain how he personally felt about black people prior to 1978 when his church decided to stop denigrating African Americans or refusing them membership in their church.

Julie Annie is a vicious racist, a philanderer, a practicer of incest having been married to his own cousin and a terrible role model as a parent. He has placed his former mistress over his own children. Shee, too is not a good parental role model. Her daughter ran away from home when the mother began dating Julie Annie. How can the American people look up to him as the President of the nation when his own children do not like his behavior and he has no qualms about publicly humiliating his wife.

Boy, the Republican voters went coo-coo over the Monica Lewinsky affair, but you don't hear s single word from them about Julie Annie whose behavior is ten times worse than Clinton's ever was.

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Hee hee haw haw, it is Howdy Huckabee time. You know I am a big fan of the Hollywood loser Ronnie (I can't remember a dam thing) Regan. Why he told me just last week that Aids was a homosexual disease and they were be punished by god himself. Oh, hold on a moment I got a call on my telephone; who is it; god, is that really you god? Shazam! Hey god I was just talking about your righteous punishment against them there homos; you know queers; fagots; girly boys. Well I was just saying how your punishment is justified because them people are committing a sin. Just like them jews and well; you know blacks and muslism and hindus, and all them other not like us white people. You agree, well thanks for calling god. I love god because well he loves me and all the other white christian bigots. You what, I think I will run for president someday and turn this country into a "christian nation" like we should be!

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Once again I say, "Ol Huck really WAS kicked in the head by Chuck Noris."

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Huckabee has demonstrated his ignorance in many ways, but to say we didn't know how HIV was transmitted in 1992 is an outright lie. I was doing AIDS education with health teachers in SC from 1990 with accurate information about how the virus was transmitted. There were still lots of myths flying around, but the main information about transmission was well known by 1992.

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there IS still a difference between Republicans and Democrats and ANY DEMOCRAT would be better than a Republican president.

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