Slog - Comments on Mike Huckabee's Compassionate Conservatism http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/12/mike_huckabees_compassionate_conservatis Mike Huckabee once advocated isolating AIDS patients from the general public, opposed increased federal funding in the search for a cure and said homosexuality could "pose a dangerous public health risk." As a candidate for a U.S. Senate seat in 1992, Huckabee answered 229 questions submitted to him by The Associated Press. Besides a quarantine, Huckabee suggested that Hollywood celebrities fund AIDS research from their own pockets, rather than federal health agencies. "If the federal government is truly serious about doing something with the AIDS virus, we need to take steps that would isolate the carriers of this plague," Huckabee... Copyright 2008 Sat, 08 Dec 2007 10:46:46 -0800 Mon, 10 Dec 2007 01:22:23 -0800 http://www.movabletype.org/?v=3.34 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss Comment by Mr. Poe I love it whenever Drudge kind of lets the world know he's gay.

]]> Mr. Poe http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/12/mike_huckabees_compassionate_conservatis#c868860 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/12/mike_huckabees_compassionate_conservatis#c868860 2008 Sat, 08 Dec 2007 10:59:21 -0800 Comment by Peter Drudge is still online in 2007? Why?

]]> Peter http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/12/mike_huckabees_compassionate_conservatis#c868862 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/12/mike_huckabees_compassionate_conservatis#c868862 2008 Sat, 08 Dec 2007 11:03:26 -0800 Comment by Big Sven But what about gay rapists? Does Huckabee have compassion for those?

]]> Big Sven http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/12/mike_huckabees_compassionate_conservatis#c868863 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/12/mike_huckabees_compassionate_conservatis#c868863 2008 Sat, 08 Dec 2007 11:09:18 -0800 Comment by Wolf I was just coming here to see if this was posted. Here's NPR's story.

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=17045509

Scary old troll.

]]> Wolf http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/12/mike_huckabees_compassionate_conservatis#c868872 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/12/mike_huckabees_compassionate_conservatis#c868872 2008 Sat, 08 Dec 2007 11:22:52 -0800 Comment by Laura it's sad that all these millions of years latter people are still ignorant on the issues of HIV/AIDS. and of course its the politicans! not suprised!

]]> Laura http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/12/mike_huckabees_compassionate_conservatis#c868876 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/12/mike_huckabees_compassionate_conservatis#c868876 2008 Sat, 08 Dec 2007 11:36:26 -0800 Comment by vooodooo84 Who wants to bet this story helps him in the primaries?

]]> vooodooo84 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/12/mike_huckabees_compassionate_conservatis#c868884 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/12/mike_huckabees_compassionate_conservatis#c868884 2008 Sat, 08 Dec 2007 12:00:08 -0800 Comment by Tbone I wonder how people would react if instead of gays, Huckabee had suggested isolating fat people from the general population?

]]> Tbone http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/12/mike_huckabees_compassionate_conservatis#c868885 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/12/mike_huckabees_compassionate_conservatis#c868885 2008 Sat, 08 Dec 2007 12:02:49 -0800 Comment by JasonC i'm sure the wingnuts will blame the liberal media for digging through huckabee's fifteen year old trashpile, despite drudge (red font, no less! he doesn't break out the red for just anyone). i also wouldn't be surprised if he's got a lot more than this nice piece of hatred sitting in his garbage. bigots like him don't cover their tracks very well.

off topic, but dan, have you seen this yet? nice stocking stuffer.

]]> JasonC http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/12/mike_huckabees_compassionate_conservatis#c868886 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/12/mike_huckabees_compassionate_conservatis#c868886 2008 Sat, 08 Dec 2007 12:03:27 -0800 Comment by JMR I love it whenever Drudge kind of lets the world know he's gay.

Come on, he's not gay, he was nearly married a few years ago (but to a guy or a gal?)

]]> JMR http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/12/mike_huckabees_compassionate_conservatis#c868896 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/12/mike_huckabees_compassionate_conservatis#c868896 2008 Sat, 08 Dec 2007 12:26:46 -0800 Comment by Mr. Poe Everyone knows Matt Drudge is gay. Where have you been?

]]> Mr. Poe http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/12/mike_huckabees_compassionate_conservatis#c868946 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/12/mike_huckabees_compassionate_conservatis#c868946 2008 Sat, 08 Dec 2007 14:16:32 -0800 Comment by Donovan Uhm... #7:

Fat people /are/ the "general population". It's America. Home of the fries.

]]> Donovan http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/12/mike_huckabees_compassionate_conservatis#c869049 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/12/mike_huckabees_compassionate_conservatis#c869049 2008 Sat, 08 Dec 2007 17:38:46 -0800 Comment by JMR Everyone knows Matt Drudge is gay. Where have you been?

I listened to his radio show every weekend for the 8 or so years it was on, and never heard a shred of evidence that he was gay... well, he did often open the show by saying that his show was "the last word in weekend talk, eat your heart out, Wolf Blitzer" but that doesn't sound gay at all.

]]> JMR http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/12/mike_huckabees_compassionate_conservatis#c869084 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/12/mike_huckabees_compassionate_conservatis#c869084 2008 Sat, 08 Dec 2007 19:04:25 -0800 Comment by catalina vel-duray I always thought that the idea of quarantining people with HIV was the brainchild of some deeply closeted conservatives.

I suspect the theory is that if you can get "those people" out of the general population, you can continue to have furtive, unsafe sex with anonymous strangers, because you don't have to worry about contracting HIV.

Yes, that's dumb. But so was Reaganomics.

]]> catalina vel-duray http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/12/mike_huckabees_compassionate_conservatis#c869177 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/12/mike_huckabees_compassionate_conservatis#c869177 2008 Sun, 09 Dec 2007 08:51:29 -0800 Comment by thegayrecluse What's almost more sickening than Huckabee is fag-friendly Frank Rich's op-ed piece today in The Times in which he blows off the whole AIDS thing and describes Huckabee's campaign as "uplifting" and "Christian." Fuck Frank Rich!!! Dan, you should write more for The Times!

http://thegayrecluse.com/2007/12/09/on-mike-huckabee-barack-obama-and-frank-richs-decision-to-sell-us-his-largest-and-heretofore-most-devoted-constituency-down-the-river/

]]> thegayrecluse http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/12/mike_huckabees_compassionate_conservatis#c869309 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/12/mike_huckabees_compassionate_conservatis#c869309 2008 Sun, 09 Dec 2007 16:54:04 -0800 Comment by Will in Seattle Heck, most beltway people know GWB is gay, but you MSM types cover it up, just because he's closeted.

]]> Will in Seattle http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/12/mike_huckabees_compassionate_conservatis#c869771 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/12/mike_huckabees_compassionate_conservatis#c869771 2008 Mon, 10 Dec 2007 01:22:23 -0800