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News & ArtsTuesday, January 13, 2009
Politics Huckabee v. Coulter
Posted by Dan Savage on Tue, Jan 13, 2009 at 9:53 AM
In case you missed it, here's Ann Coulter on Mike Huckabee's show. They argue about whether or not Huckabee is "pro-gay, pro-sodomy." He insists that he isn't, she insists that he is. Or was.
Once upon a time the GOP was the party of fiscal prudence and containing communism and strong national defense. Now the GOP is the party of keeping my boyfriend's tongue out of my mouth. Hatin' on homos—it's all the GOP has anymore. It's a platform, I guess, but one wonders if freaking out about gay sex is a big enough issue to sustain a national political party. Here's hoping it isn't.
Think Progress notes that Huckebee tried to get an anti-sodomy law passed when he was governor of Arkansas. It's unclear whether the law would've banned heterosexual sodomy. Raw Story has a longer write-up and more video—including Huckabee asking Coulter to look him in the eye and tell him he's stupid. What a party.
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Under Lawrence bans on all sodomy (including heterosexual sodomy) are just as unconstitutional as bans that fall solely on 'mos
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At this point they're just sniping at each other, killing time waiting for the next big move by some elected liberal they can attack. They're working from the left's playbook of the last, oh, eight years.
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When I first saw Coulter years ago, I thought she was a tranny. Living in Seattle will do that to you.
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Is it just me or is Mike Huckabee the first talk show host to be influenced by Colbert? The way he says "not one of them" almost sounds like an impression. Huckabee may be a social and fiscal conservative, but apparently he's also a post-post-modernist.
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Nope, they are no longer a national party. Strictly regional.
So, what I'm really interested in is whether the Democratic party splits in two, or some other party rises in either the center or on the left. You can sort of see the Greens or the Libs doing that, except they're both made up of narcissists who can't help but stab one another in the back at every turn. Seems like a national party needs to be built on people who can work together, which suggests it will be made up of former Democrats, not those too stubborn to have been Democrats the first place.
So, what I'm really interested in is whether the Democratic party splits in two, or some other party rises in either the center or on the left. You can sort of see the Greens or the Libs doing that, except they're both made up of narcissists who can't help but stab one another in the back at every turn. Seems like a national party needs to be built on people who can work together, which suggests it will be made up of former Democrats, not those too stubborn to have been Democrats the first place.
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AC: YOU like sodomy!
MH: No, YOU like sodomy!
AC: No, YOU like sodomy!
MH: No, YOU like sodomy!
AC: No, I like sodomy!
Mh: No, *I* like sodomy!
AC: I knew it.
MH: No, YOU like sodomy!
AC: No, YOU like sodomy!
MH: No, YOU like sodomy!
AC: No, I like sodomy!
Mh: No, *I* like sodomy!
AC: I knew it.
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MH: "I am not pro-sodomy, scout's honor"
Hmmm... Sodomy. Scouts.
There's a secret in there somewhere.
Hmmm... Sodomy. Scouts.
There's a secret in there somewhere.
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I'm not going to watch the video. Is Huckabee asking Coulter to fuck him in the ass, or vice versa?
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Now you know why some children act like monsters. They're being raised by simple minded morons like these two.
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Ah, this fictional 20th-century golden age of the republican party when they were something other than union-busting scum...if I wanted to read Andrew Sullivan I'd go read Andrew Sullivan. Keep that garbage out of here ffs.
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@ 20 Absolutely right. And really when have their been ANY good Republican presidents with the exception of Lincoln and maybe Teddy Roosevelt? Since southern conservatives can never accept Lincoln as one of theirs since he went and free the slaves (mean old Lincoln!) and they probably regard Teddy Roosevelt as a socialist tree-hugger (since he was a republican progressive who had the audacity to try and preserve American wilderness and suggest that maybe it isn't okay for companies to make children work 12 hours a day for pennies)they fall back on their "golden-boy" Reagan. What a douche he was. George W. may have driven our country into the ground, but it was the so-called Reagan Revolution with its 'trickle-down' economics and 'moral majority' that started the engine. Everytime I hear the revisionists talk about the "great" Ronald Reagan it makes me want to puke.
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