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Mike Huckabee Posts Archive
SUBMITTED BY: Kyle Mantyla, Tuesday 08/30/2011, 2:01pm
As we noted last week, Rick Perry spent some time this weekend at James Leininger's ranch in Texas meeting with a bevy of Religious Right leaders and activists.
According to Time, there was some 300 such leaders in attendance and Rick Scarborough, though he refuses to confirm that he was actually in attendance, appears quite smitten with the Texas Governor:
Last weekend, Rick Perry privately met some 300 conservative evangelical leaders at long-time supporter Jim Leininger’s home near Fredricksburg, Texas. And on Monday afternoon, reported-attendee and evangelical leader Rick... MORE >
SUBMITTED BY: Brian Tashman, Wednesday 08/24/2011, 3:34pm
A campaign spearheaded by LGBT rights and women’s rights groups Change.org and AllOut.org, encouraging companies to drop their ties to the Charity Give Back Group (formerly the Christian Values Network), unsurprisingly has the Religious Right up in arms. The CGBG “operates a sort of online mall, donating a portion of each purchase to religious nonprofits,” Michelle Goldberg explains. “Among them are conservative organizations like Focus on the Family, The Family Research Council, Promise Keepers, and a number of anti-abortion crisis pregnancy centers.”
The... MORE >
SUBMITTED BY: Kyle Mantyla, Monday 08/15/2011, 1:09pm
During last week's Republican presidential debate, Michele Bachmann was asked by Washington Examiner’s Byron York about her past statement that she ended up studying tax law even though she "hates taxes" and never had a desire for it" but did so because wives "are to be submissive to your husband" and so she "was going to be faithful to what I felt God was calling me to do through my husband."
In her response and since, Bachmann has been trying to claim that being "submissive" merely means that she and her husband "respect each... MORE >
SUBMITTED BY: Kyle Mantyla, Monday 08/08/2011, 2:06pm
As we have said time and time and time again, David Barton may be a lot of things, but he is not a historian.
Of course, that has not stopping people like Mike Huckabee from routinely hailing Barton as "the single best historian in America today."
So I imagine it will come as quite a surprise to the Religious Right to learn that Barton does not consider himself to be a historian, as he explained on an episode of "Face to Face" with Oral Roberts University President Mark Rutland:
Barton: I really kind of do a whole lot of all of it, but I don't consider myself a... MORE >
SUBMITTED BY: Brian Tashman, Friday 08/05/2011, 3:04pm
Republican leaders including Michele Bachmann, Newt Gingrich, Mike Huckabee and Rick Perry like to trumpet the work of pseudo-historian David Barton despite his long record of blatant dishonesty and anti-gay bigotry. Back in January, Barton and WallBuilders Live co-host Rick Green denied the existence of bullying against LGBT youth and said that anti-bullying laws represented “homosexual indoctrination.” On today’s program, Barton continued to press his extreme views that students are becoming gay because of “indoctrination,” citing a discredited far-right... MORE >
SUBMITTED BY: Brian Tashman, Tuesday 08/02/2011, 1:33pm
OnThe 700 Club with Pat Robertson today, former Arkansas governor Mike Huckabee said that he decided against running for president partly because the Republican base is too “unrealistic.” Robertson, who endorsed Rudy Giuliani in 2008, asked Huckabee if he passed on a second presidential campaign in order to pursue his new career as a Fox News commentator and the head of a line of conservative history videos, which he was promoting on the show.
Huckabee responded, “I felt like the atmosphere right now is so toxic and part of it is that I think that many people in my party,... MORE >
SUBMITTED BY: Kyle Mantyla, Thursday 07/21/2011, 5:33pm
Things are not looking good for Rick Perry, since only one other governor (Sam Brownback) looks like he will be attending his prayer rally. On a related note, the ACLU wants to know if public tax dollars are being used in any way in putting on Perry's prayer event. Never forget that Mike Huckabee has a long memory ... and can be very petty. Jesse Lee Peterson says the NAACP is a "political pawn of the liberal-elite, white, racist Democratic Party and not really for the people." Which is hilarious if you know anything about Jesse Lee Peterson... MORE >
SUBMITTED BY: Kyle Mantyla, Wednesday 07/06/2011, 2:19pm
In 2009, Janet Porter of Faith 2 Action organized a right-wing conference in St. Louis called "How To Take Back America" that was co-sponsored by the likes of WorldNetDaily, The American Family Association, Vision America, Liberty Counsel, and WallBuilders. The keynote speakers at the conference were Mike Huckabee and Rep. Michele Bachmann.
The line-up at this conference was so radical that we put together a report on the participants which gave special attention to the truly fringe views espouse by Porter:
It is probably impossible to overstate the extremism and lunacy... MORE >
