Mike Huckabee is rapidly becoming the king of overblown rhetoric. I think we'd have to go back to the days of George Wallace to find anything quite as bombastic as what he's saying in this primary season.
Today's "Keep Huckabee Relevant" headline is a giant pander to the forced birth advocates in our Heartland.
Republican presidential candidate Mike Huckabee indicated Thursday that if elected, he wouldn’t rule out employing federal troops or the Federal Bureau of Investigation to stop abortion from taking place in the United States.
Though the U.S. Supreme Court ruled against bans on abortion, Huckabee said past presidents have defied Supreme Court rulings.
The comments came at two public speaking stops on a tour of Iowa.
In response to a question from the audience at the Pizza Ranch in Jefferson, Iowa, Huckabee said he would “invoke the 5th and 14th amendments for the protection of every human being.”
Both amendments contain due process protections against depriving people of life without due process of law.
“Would that be a huge controversy?” the former Arkansas governor asked. “Yes.”
But he argued that scientific advancements have now verified that unborn babies are human beings — information he said wasn’t necessarily available when the Supreme Court issued its 1973 Roe v. Wade decision.
“I will not pretend there is nothing we can do to stop this,” Huckabee said at the event, where a Topeka Capital-Journal correspondent was present.
At his next stop, in Rockwell City, Huckabee answered follow-up questions from the correspondent, saying: “All American citizens should be protected.”
Asked by another reporter how he would stop abortion, and whether this would mean using the FBI or federal forces to accomplish this, Huckabee replied: “We’ll see if I get to be president.”
They will stop at nothing to force women to give birth to babies, but when it comes to helping those babies thrive, there's no solution. Money to force birth, money for war. Money for poor people? Not so much.have you counted him out yet??? he and they do not care the abortion rants are to appeal to the evangelical right wing of the party and nothing more and they too ought to be ashamed tooting that horn then abandoning and refusing help or religious comfort and support the republican agenda of denial even to themselves.
i don't believe he has the right to do that and whether congress would let him but it's a good sound byte and he stirs to pot that's what charlatan preacher wannabe kings do.
