The AP reports on this story about Huck in 1992. 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.
Quarantine, Mike? What were you thinking? Just where would you have transferred these people? Somewhere in the Ozarks?
Perhaps that idea was politically popular in Arkansas in the early '90s. Perhaps he was excessively influenced by his religious training/background.
"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 wrote.
How about isolating all others with an STD, Governor Huck?
"It is difficult to understand the public policy towards AIDS. It is the first time in the history of civilization in which the carriers of a genuine plague have not been isolated from the general population, and in which this deadly disease for which there is no cure is being treated as a civil rights issue instead of the true health crisis it represents."
What kind of research did Huck do relative to this topic? Certainly not the type that Mitt engages in. Mitt loves to "bathe in the data," remember?
Discover the facts before making official pronouncements, Mike!
It's one thing to be morally opposed to the behavior most commonly associated with HIV transmission. I'm all for that. But to suggest isolation? That's way out there!
Huckabee did not return messages left with his campaign.
Neither would I after saying such ridiculous and embarrassing statements.
When Huckabee wrote his answers in 1992, it was common knowledge that AIDS could not be spread by casual contact. In late 1991, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said there were 195,718 AIDS patients in the country and that 126,159 people had died from the syndrome.
Mike needs to get to know the facts before he follows his instincts (or whatever caused him to make these statments).
Everyone else who cared to investigated the transmission of HIV knew the virus was not passed by casual contact. In other words, no need for isolation of HIV+ or AIDS patients. How did you miss that, Mike?
Since becoming a presidential candidate this year, Huckabee has supported increased
federal funding for AIDS research through the National Institutes of Health.
Sounds like a flip-flop to me.
This is another chapter in the getting-to-know-Mike-Huckabee series. So far, it's not a very good read.
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Thanks for a very good post on this subject. I've read two other Pro-Mitt blogs that brought this up and they ended up hitting Huckabee for believing that homosexuality is a sin!!
If I remember correctly, the problems were with the titles of the posts, not the posts themselves. This leads me to believe that they personally hold Christian beliefs, but feel the need, probably unconsciously, to bow down to the liberal orthodoxy that reigns supreme in this country. This is doubly terrible as these good people represent both Mitt Romney AND conservative Christian values, but at times undermine both.
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