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does he want to bring back Prohibition too?

perhaps, when it comes to smoking, he does.

for the sake of the gods, will somebody please send MH a copy of the Tenth Amendment.

i will say this for MH,

on his campaign website (mikehuckabee.com) is a photo during the commercial shoot

at least MH is comfortable with his age spot, whereas HE-MAN Chuck is ... not so much

apparently, the sob does believe in EVOLUTION (his opinion sure has evolved quickly)

for last year, Huckabee was saying this:

John Hawkins: Switching gears again, do you think we should overturn Roe v. Wade?

Mike Huckabee: It would please me because I think Roe v. Wade is based on a real stretch of Constitutional application -- that somehow there is a greater privacy issue in the abortion concern -- than there is a human life issue -- and that the federal government should be making that decision as opposed to states making that decision.

So, I've never felt that it was a legitimate manner in which to address this and, first of all, it should be left to the states, the 10th Amendment, but secondly, to somehow believe that the taking of an innocent, unborn human life is about privacy and not about that unborn life is ludicrous.

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Magnolia Man observes:

I just finished watching the Hunkster (that's not a spelling error- with Chuck Norris
with the lead TV commercial for the Bro. he is now the HUNKster candidate) on
Fox. I'm saddened that because Bill Clinton got away with boasts about
"balanced budgets every year" in the 1992 race , that Bro.
can now do the same thing. The Clinton campaign cannot touch that one..
The Revenue Stabilization Law is every candidate's ace in the hole- or crazy
aunt in the attic.

the ad is, to me, rather funny

as there is not enough self-deprecating humour in politics

but i do expect the beltway media to focus on it, instead of Huckabee's flip-flop
because, after all, what "news" is there about a pol changing his position on an issue
during a campaign?

"Rather funny"? It's ridiculous. Who wrote that? It sounds more like an endorsement for "Chuck". He "tells America how it's going to be"? Puh-leeze.

Remember that a lot of those who are publicly blathering on about the RIGHT TO LIFE are as quick as the rest of us to point the Lexus towards the nearest abortion clinic when their daughters or mistresses come up with a bun in the oven. So if the majority of American are in favor of legalized abortion, you can be the real numbers are bigger than that.

Of course taking a pro-life stand with a midget TV tough guy will make it possible to gather love offerings at little fundamental churches for the rest of his life. And our healthy Huck is fighting to live as long as he can because it's nearly impossible, even for someone like him to panhandle from the grave. Long live the Huckster!

I thought the ad was classy, inspired even. Keep it up Rev, Gov. you might just make it to the big office riding on a modified nascar limo.

Oh, and who is Chuck Norris?

Can't visualize old brain dead & mechanized Chuck'ie Boy doing anything but beating the crap out of some milk toasted Texas, make believe, crook. But suppose Horny Mike has to take anything he can get.

Like pro-football karate is a violent contact sport and easy for one to receive too many blows to the head -- probably what happened to OJ!

I love it. I do not love Huckabee as a candidate (in fact, my vote lies with the other party this go around) but I think the commercial is great. That kind of fun self-deprecating humor is a rarity and this "relatable" piece is exactly what makes people like Mike (without regard to his politics). It is not all that different form Hillary's Soprano's spoof, which deserves the same recognition for is creativity, humor and ability to relate to "real" people and not just to political wonks. In fact, it is probably only political wonks who are going to find a problem with it.

I'd like to respond to widj's thought that "Remember that a lot of those who are publicly blathering on about the RIGHT TO LIFE are as quick as the rest of us to point the Lexus towards the nearest abortion clinic when their daughters or mistresses come up with a bun in the oven. So if the majority of American are in favor of legalized abortion, you can be the real numbers are bigger than that."

I am guilty, as charged, at least to a version of your first sentence. Though it wasn't in a lexus. I was in college, 20 y.o, thinking I knew everything. There are a lot of gals who were like me out there. I thought I'd be disowned, tossed out of school, etc. Thought the guy would leave me, I'd be homeless, penniless, diploma-less and with a baby to raise. Yet, I thought I was a "good Catholic." That was 30 years ago. I don't "publicly blather about RTL" but it did take me almost 25 years to stop denying what I'd done and to try to deal with it, to forgive myself. I couldn't blame it on my strict fearsome parents anymore. It was my choice, even though I knew it was wrong at the time, yet desperation can drive any one of us to do things that just aren't right, either for others or for ourselves. Not an excuse, just an explanation and an understanding...As they say, there but for the grace of God...

I only ask you to consider that there are tons of us out here, silently hoping folks who speak like this won't find out who we are, that we did this, and that we now regret it 100,000%, because we're afraid we'll be condemned and ostracized by folks, both on the prolife side as well as on the prochoice side. We'd prefer not to be condemned, even though we feel we deserve to be. We're harder on ourselves than any human being will ever be. We would never point the car in the direction of an abortion clinic again, for ourselves or our kin. Please, I'm just asking you to consider any lurkers here who would feel condemned by such words. Yes, I was a hypocrite. Yes, I screwed up. That does not mean I would do it again or that I haven't sought forgiveness and continue to seek it the rest of my life. It's a self-inflicted wound, a grief I can never outlive, the denial of the daughter I will never know.

I was luckier than many women though. I found some help for that grief when it finally crashed through. Lots of women don't tell a soul and carry alone the pain they caused.

The "real numbers really are bigger than that." In a study done in 2000, 78% of National Abortion Rights Action League's membership was female, while 63% of National Right to Life Committee's was female. 32% of NARAL's women members admitted having had an abortion. Only 3% of NRLC women had had an abortion. NARAL had a total membership of 156,000; NRLC, 12 million. 32% of 78% of 156,000 gives 39,000 such members, while 3% of 63% of 12 million yields 226,800 women who have had abortions.

226,800 post-abortive women in NRLC. 39,000 in NARAL. Among post-abortive women who have become active and public in either abortion or life issues, six times more of us regret our abortions than don't.

For every one of me--able to "talk publicly" about this--I've met or conversed with dozens more who regretted but had to keep quiet. I've had grandmothers come up to me after hearing me talk and cry on my shoulder for allowing them to finally tell someone and unburden their hearts from the pain of their illegal abortions 50+ years ago. So you can just imagine how many more post-abortive women who remain silent there are.

The point I guess I'm trying respectfully to make is: That woman crying on my shoulder because she couldn't tell her husband or kids, could have been your grandmother. Or your mother. Or your wife.

"The majority of Americans who favor legal abortions, with various limits, will remember."

Well, that may have been changing actually. I know polls are only as good as the questions' phrasing, but there has been a shift in recent years.

For example, a 2003 poll discussed by Washington Times, (hope it's ok to put a link to it here, http://www.kaisernetwork.org/daily_reports/print_report.cfm?DR_ID=15542&dr_cat=2 ) asked folks, "Are you in favor of restoring legal protection for unborn children?" 69% of the adults said they were in favor of legal protection, with 44 percent in strong agreement of such action. Only 25 percent opposed it. 66% favored Supreme Court nominees "who would uphold laws that restore legal protection to unborn children." 28% didn't favor such nominees.

Another one relates simply to whether abortion is in fact good for women who have them. 61% of 1,001 Americans felt that "abortion is almost always a bad thing for a woman." 23% agreed with "It is almost always a good thing." 16% undecided or no answer. 64% said they personally knew someone who'd had an abortion, and of that 64%, 55% said that "From [their] observation, it was generally a negative experience," while only 40% said they felt it was "a generally positive experience." That was a Wirthlin Worldwide September 24-27, 2004 poll.

My point is only that it may very well not be a "majority of Americans who favor legal abortions, with various limits."

The post-abortive (and regretting) women's movement alone is perhaps in the hundreds of thousands of women now. We wouldn't choose abortion again even if our lives depended on it. That's all I have ever heard from a woman who regrets.