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Mike Huckabee Would Vote For A Mormon ‘In A Heartbeat’: ‘It Is Not A Disqualifier’

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Mike Huckabee‘s faith made up a significant part of his political identity during his 2008 Republican Presidential bid, and as such Huckabee came out this morning to defend the open airing of faith by other Republican candidates this time around. Speaking to the Fox & Friends crew this morning, Huckabee said he appreciated Texas Gov. Rick Perry‘s openness with his faith, but didn’t see it as a way of “other”-ing the Mormon candidates in the field, Mitt Romney and Jon Huntsman.

“I want to know what a candidate believes,” Huckabee explained, arguing that electing a religious candidate is not the problem but “the greatest risk is to elect someone who is not honest.” He cited as extremely important “for a candidate to say, ‘here is my value system,’” and appreciated that Perry was open about this. This in turn led to the Fox & Friends hosts asking about a certain concern many had about Perry’s displays of faith: that they were intended to make his co-frontrunner, Mitt Romney‘s faith that much more unpalatable. “I think that’s an unfair comparison that people would make,” Huckabee replied about the evangelical/Mormon divide. While not mentioning Romney by name, he did say that “some of the great public servants of our day have been Mormon,” that “Jon Huntsman is a good friend of mine,” and that he, Sen. Orrin Hatch, and other Mormon leaders were so good “I’d vote for them in a heartbeat.” At least for Huckabee, one of the most prominent voices on the religious right, being a member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints, he clarified, was “not a disqualifier.”

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  • Anonymous

    Just short of satan, almost anyone is better than the idiot clown that’s in the White House right now.

  • Anonymous

    I am a Christian Conservative Independent. My faith is important to me and I will confirm I am pro-life and anti-gay marriage. I also believe we should not let anymore Muslims into this country and that we should make the environment anti-illegal immigrant. I would vote for a Mormon American, Muslim American, Mexican American or atheist American if they have the right political stands. Its not about race or your religion, its about what I believe to be right for this country.

  • Re-Elect Obama 2012

    Kill everyone who has religious views that are different than your own.  Deuteronomy 17:2-7

  • Anonymous

    But being a Muslim is a disqualifier. And Barack Obama….well, he’s got a Muslim name.

    If you think all of the controversy over “ground zero” mosques and islam in general, nearly a decade after 9/11, is purely coincidental…well, you’re probably an idiot.

    It’s just the classic GOP Southern Strategy in 21st century form. Can’t call him a nlgger anymore, but maybe he’s a Muslim, and they attacked us on 9/11.

  • Anonymous

    Huckabee is a liar. Look, I’m no Romney fan, but Huckabee staying in the race in 2008 is the reason we wound up with McCain. Huckabee knew he had no chance, but he made sure that Romney had no chance, either, by staying in and taking evangelical votes away from him. Huck is a scum, a liar, and it’s quite clear that he puts his religion above the good of the country.

  • Anonymous

    Spoken like a true racist. But then, progressivism has the racist market cornered.

  • Anonymous

    Spoken like a true racist. But then, progressivism has the racist market cornered.

  • Anonymous

    We’ve got a moron in the White House now……adding that other ‘ m ‘ would be a vast improvement. 

  • Anonymous

    Isn’t it too early to start that drinking game? It probably starts to hurt after a while having to keep pulling the race card out of your ass.

  • L_Salazar

    Being a Mormon is NOT a disqualifier for me or anyone I know!

  • Valkyrie101

    You are on the right track, BMG, but you need to add and “i”. Finally it is revealed that Obama the “moron” is really, “Moroni”, Mitt’s Angelic host.

  • Valkyrie101

    No way I believe Huck on this. Of course just before you send out the dogs, you usually offer pre-emptive disclaimers.  Expect Mitt to start getting the Obama treatment on his religion. If I were a candidate at the next debate, I would ask Mitt if he has a bomb shelter.

  • Valkyrie101

    No way I believe Huck on this. Of course just before you send out the dogs, you usually offer pre-emptive disclaimers.  Expect Mitt to start getting the Obama treatment on his religion. If I were a candidate at the next debate, I would ask Mitt if he has a bomb shelter.

  • Anonymous

    You want to bar all Muslims from even coming into the country.  Doesn’t matter who you are, man, woman, or child, or what your politics are; if you’re Muslim you can’t even vacation here because Ajolily doesn’t want anymore of you allowed in the country.  You won’t allow anymore Muslims’ into the country but you would vote for one of them already here?  The only thing I believe about your post is that you don’t want anymore Muslims’ here.

  • Michelle

    Yes because heaven forbid you take some personal responsibility and be prepared for an emergency.  The fact that you mock someone for that says more about you than them. 

  • Valkyrie101

    I figured him for the anti-Christ. Wasn’t that the Drudge headline?

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Steven-Tyler/100001071466947 Steven Tyler

    Leave it to an Obama supporter to use “kill”.
    And they wonder why the black race still hasn’t figured how to save themselves from self-destructive and unproductive lives post slavery unlike the chinese. Can you name a successful city or region anywhere in the world with a majority of blacks that isn’t a shithole?   Answer: No

  • Valkyrie101

    Didn’t mean to get you started, Michelle. I just think it is strange that someone who believes that the meltdown of the American culture must happen before the return of Christ, has a bomb shelter. Too me, that’s too much like you believe the meltdown is imminent. And I’m cool with anyone who wants to prepare for that. Just, I want to know if a presidential candidate has done so.

  • Nature Freak

    I doubt Huckabee would have said the same thing about a Muslin.

    Islam is beyond the pale.

  • Anonymous

    Well it is just like you to deliberately misinterpret my comment but you are right in that I wrote it in such a way you could twist it that way. I don’t believe that Islam is compatible with our values as a country. They do not believe in the freedoms we want for each other. For example while we do espouse freedom of religion they do not. While we value equality for our women they do not. While we welcome people who want to become American they want to come here and force us to recognize their laws instead of ours. No you know I meant immigration and not vacationing. I believe that immigration from Muslim countries should be halted until they prove they can honor our ways. You are right that denying every Muslim is not feasible or desired but the world is being overrun and overtaken by them and it is not desirable. Look to France and other European countries for an example. Until Muslims understand that when they immigrate it is understood that they embrace the country and values of that country they go to not the country they come from.

  • B W

    It’s sad that a lot of Democrats/Republicans would not vote for a Mormon/Muslim Presidential candidate, respectively. I don’t care if a candidate is an open homosexual atheist, as long as he/she promotes free markets, capitalism, a non-interventionist foreign policy, liberty, freedom and supports the right to life, I’d vote for that person in a heartbeat.

  • Anonymous

    Why are Mormon stories like a dog whistle for you? It’s not as though you were molested by your bishop. I’ve read some of your anti-Mormon rants, and it’s clear that you’re one of those idiots who knows nothing of the LDS church, but thinks you do. You’re like one of those guys at a four way stop, waving people through and getting mad, and are too stupid to even realize that you’re the moron, not them. You don’t know squat, and you’re stepping out like a cabbage.

  • B W

    And neither is being a Muslim, an atheist, or a homosexual, too. I just want a constitutional conservative as President, not a “Decider” and not “The One.”

  • Nature Freak

    “I also believe we should not let anymore Muslims into this country”?

    So how do you determine if someone is really a Muslim? What is a “Muslim” as there are related faiths that are similar and different as well (for example in Syria). Muslims disagree on the definition themselves.

    DNA test? Lie Detector Test? Ethnic origin?

    Should Americans visiting America or that do live here and worship the Islamic faith be tattooed with their religious identity (just in case)? Should American passports have our religion on them? Our drivers licenses? Can’t be to careful.

    Where does one draw the line?

    Perhaps “Christian Conservatives” should be banned from entering the country. They seem to cause a lot of trouble here in the United States. Maybe they should be tattooed with the words “I am a bigot and a hater” so I can avoid them in my life.

  • Anonymous

    huckabee discusses fabric?

  • Anonymous

    harry reid is a mormon  bwahahaha!

    if all those libpussies in mass. voted for romney, he can win nationwide.

  • B W

    Hahaha, too easy…

  • Nature Freak

    So I made a typo. It was not intentional.

    Jesus Christ!

  • Anonymous

    awww does your peepee hurt? only batshit crazy whack jobs like yourself get bent. grow some balls pussy…

  • Nature Freak

    This is a funny clip regarding Mike Huckabee from the 2008 election.

    Red State Update: Huckabee? F**k Me!

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-z2F96rCnHg

  • Anonymous

    Keep up with the latest…

    #1 MEME (6 months ago): How much voter fraud from unions, ILLEGALS, dead people, ACORN, etc. will the d-cRAT socialists use to steal another election for NO-PLAN OBOZO in Nov 2012?
    #2 MEME (4 months ago): Which lunatic-leftist will challenge the OBOZO failure in the primaries?
    #3 MEME (2 months ago): By how large a LANDSLIDE will NO-PLAN OBOZO be defeated in Nov 2012?
    #4 MEME (now) : When will the OBOZO failure read to the nation the following off his idiot-box teleprompter: “I shall not seek, and I will not accept, the nomination of my party for another term as your President.” ?

    …it just keeps getting better and better.

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_KH7XUCKFVTJNNJ5MNCVML5SZKM Mike

    Run Mike run!

  • Anonymous

    I doubt he would ever vote for a mormon. All he did was slam Romney because he was one.

  • B W

    Damn, you’ve got a bad mouth. And I thought my father cursed a lot…

  • Nature Freak

    jdubbeIlu,

    How old are you? Does your mom or dad know you are online?

    Shouldn’t you be watching LazyTown with your tween friends?

  • Omar Locke

    I love Huckabee but he is alone on this one! No REAL Christian will vote for a mormon. And lets not even talk about blacks!

    PERRY 2012!

  • http://usaintelreport.blogspot.com CIA JON

    Does Romney believe the prophet/pope of Mormonism speaks for God through him?
    Google The Mormon Proposition

  • Valkyrie101

    Its only because we like Mormons that we torment them. I was telling Mitt before that he needed to address his unorthodox beliefs, and put those in perspective for people. Because his stuff will be addressed because these guys down in Texas mean business. Mitt should go on 60 Minutes and address the matter in a casual setting with Catie Couric, before that time, if he is smart.

  • Anonymous

    your pried yourself away from making love to your cantaloupe to type this?

  • Anonymous

    More importantly, will he always remember to wear his omnipotent communication underwear, if elected President?

  • Anonymous

    “Can you name a successful city or region anywhere in the world with a majority of blacks that isn’t a shithole?”

    why so racist? 
    Abuja, Nigeria
    http://www.google.co.uk/search?q=abuja&hl=en&safe=off&rlz=1C1DSGK_enGB420GB420&prmd=imvnsu&source=lnms&tbm=isch&ei=OCN1Tq6bJI2p8QPmxMzUDQ&sa=X&oi=mode_link&ct=mode&cd=2&ved=0CBkQ_AUoAQ&biw=1366&bih=624

  • Valkyrie101

    Drudge?

  • JeffMerrillLovesHisBilldo

    Well, YEAHHOOOW!

    Because the Angel Moronic didn’t bother to introduce himself until brother Joseph Smith Jr. had sex with him on numerous occasions.

    Did I mention the Angel Moronic had a firm belief in gold and he took the gold plates with him?

    And brotha Joseph, he knew how to speak Angel speak because the Angel Moronic could NOT speak English.

    But Jeebuz baby roamed the Americas speaking native American tongues.

    And the morons, er, mormons still wonder why they are considered a cult…

  • Tim Tebow

    Can’t wait for the day when all religions are accorded the respect they deserve and are subject to rational inquiry in the public discourse. They also need to be taxed.
     

    It’s funny that Romney’s belief that Jesus flew to Arizona and fought a war against the indians is somehow ridiculous, but a virgin birth, walking on water, parting the Red Sea are completely reasonable.

  • Michelle

    You’re an uninformed moron. 

  • Anonymous

    suddenly you want to know about a candidate.  How fortuitous of you.  I agree, we should know everything about anyone holding high office.  You start….

  • Anonymous

    yep a Christian who doesn’t want anymore Muslims in this country and gonna tell gays they can’t get married!! I can only wonder how God feels about you.
     

  • Anonymous

    Well stated. The author of the Declaration of Independence shared your sentiment.

  • Anonymous

    Well stated. The author of the Declaration of Independence shared your sentiment.

  • Anonymous

    A science denying Christian, Mormon, Muslim, etc., should not be elected President of the most powerful country on Earth, period, case closed.

    This would include an openly “science denying” atheist or agnostic, also known as an infidel, as well.

  • Anonymous

    Treason_Detector,
    Where did Jefferson state that Religion needs to be taxed? The rest of it I do think that Jefferson would have agreed with, using his letter to the Danbury Baptists Association as a guide.

  • Anonymous

    Treason_Detector,
    Then why do fanatical Muslims see Christians as infidels?
    Where do Deists and Sceptics fall?

  • Anonymous

    Where did Jefferson state that Religion needs to be taxed? – ToddScheller

    Virginia Statute for Religious Freedom
    Draft for a Bill to Establish Religious Freedom in Virginia (1779).

    by Thomas Jefferson

    S e c t i o n   I.
    Well aware that the opinions and belief of men depend not on their own will, but follow involuntarily the evidence proposed to their minds; that Almighty God hath created the mind free, and manifested his supreme will that free it shall remain by making it altogether insusceptible of restraint; that all attempts to influence it by temporal punishments, or burthens, or by civil incapacitations, tend only to beget habits of hypocrisy and meanness, and are a departure from the plan of the holy author of our religion, who being lord both of body and mind, yet chose not to propagate it by coercions on either, as was in his Almighty power to do, but to extend it by its influence on reason alone; that the impious presumption of legislators and rulers, civil as well as ecclesiastical, who, being themselves but fallible and uninspired men, have assumed dominion over the faith of others, setting up their own opinions and modes of thinking as the only true and infallible, and as such endeavoring to impose them on others, hath established and maintained false religions over the greatest part of the world and through all time: That to compel a man to furnish contributions of money for the propagation of opinions which he disbelieves and abhors, is sinful and tyrannical; that even the forcing him to support this or that teacher of his own religious persuasion, is depriving him of the comfortable liberty of giving his contributions to the particular pastor whose morals he would make his pattern, and whose powers he feels most persuasive to righteousness; and is withdrawing from the ministry those temporary rewards, which proceeding from an approbation of their personal conduct, are an additional incitement to earnest and unremitting labours for the instruction of mankind; that our civil rights have no dependance on our religious opinions, any more than our opinions in physics or geometry; that therefore the proscribing any citizen as unworthy the public confidence by laying upon him an incapacity of being called to offices of trust and emolument, unless he profess or renounce this or that religious opinion, is depriving him injuriously of those privileges and advantages to which, in common with his fellow citizens, he has a natural right; that it tends also to corrupt the principles of that very religion it is meant to encourage, by bribing, with a monopoly of worldly honours and emoluments, those who will externally profess and conform to it; that though indeed theseare criminal who do not withstand such temptation, yet neither are those innocent who lay the bait in their way; that the opinions of men are not the object of civil government, nor under its jurisdiction; that to suffer the civil magistrate to intrude hispowers into the field of opinion and to restrain the profession or propagation of principles on supposition of their ill tendency is adangerous falacy, which at once destroys all religious liberty, because he being of course judge of that tendency will make hisopinions the rule of judgment, and approve or condemn the sentiments of others only as they shall square with or differ from his own; that it is time enough for the rightful purposes of civil government for its officers to interfere when principles break out into overt acts against peace and good order; and finally, that truth is great and will prevail if left to herself; that she is the proper and sufficient antagonist to error, and has nothing to fear from the conflict unless by human interposition disarmed of her natural weapons, free argument and debate; errors ceasing to be dangerous when it is permitted freely to contradict them.

    S e c t i o n   II.

    We the General Assembly of Virginia do enact that no man shall be compelled to frequent or support any religious worship, place, or ministry whatsoever, nor shall be enforced, restrained, molested, or burthened in his body or goods, nor shall otherwise suffer, on account of his religious opinions or belief; but that all men shall be free to profess, and by argument to maintain, their opinions in matters of religion, and that the same shall in no wise diminish, enlarge, or affect their civil capacities.

    S e c t i o n   III.

    And though we well know that this Assembly, elected by the people for the ordinary purposes of legislation only, have no power to restrain the acts of succeeding Assemblies, constituted with powers equal to our own, and that therefore to declare this act irrevocable would be of no effect in law; yet we are free to declare, and do declare, that the rights hereby asserted are of the natural rights of mankind, and that if any act shall be hereafter passed to repeal the present or to narrow its operation, such act will be an infringement of natural right.

    A tax exemption for CHURCH goes against this sentiment by Jefferson.

  • Anonymous

    If ”Deists or Sceptics” are openly denying known, established science, then they “should not be elected President of the most powerful country on Earth”, either. 

  • Valkyrie101

    A few years ago I would have agreed with you that a candidate’s religion is off limits, but that all ended with Obama.

  • Nature Freak

    Did you just call my girlfriend a cantaloupe?

  • Anonymous

    you call a cantaloupe “your girlfriend”…

  • Nature Freak

    Perhaps the website “Stormfront” would be more to your liking.

  • Nature Freak

    The real Steven Tyler wants his name back.

  • Tim Tebow

    That golden dude on the top of the building?!?

    Yikes!

  • Tim Tebow

    My ex is a cantaloupe.

  • Anonymous

    Muslims see Christians as “people of the book” http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/People_of_the_Book

    If they had seen Christians as infidels, they probably would have killed or forcibly converted them in the some 600 years they dominated the Med. Instead, the only religion to demand 100% adherence to its dictum with threats to kill or banish any other faitry was …..wait for it….the Christians during the Inquisition.

    Muslims call Westerners infidels now, because they do not consider them to be religious

  • Anonymous

    Well done.  Still, do what I do with this guy and ignore him.  He makes a pedant blush with his pedantry

  • Anonymous

    timb116,
    Do you know any other words? Care to take a stab at showing where Jefferson said churches should be taxed? That seems to be you patent answer when the facts are against your side.

  • Anonymous

    timb116,
    Who is being the Pendant now? Read what I wrote again. Islam does consider Jews and Christians as “people of the book.” I, however, wrote fanatical Muslims, you might know them by the names Al-Qaeda, Taliban, Islamic Jihad, and other names.
    Actually the Inquisition was one sect of Christianity, Roman Catholics.
    Yet, the Moors (Muslims) invaded Spain in 711 AD, and left Europe after the Battle of Tours where Abdul Rahman Al Ghafiqi was killed by the forces of Charles Martel, in 732 AD. It would be another 400 years before the Inquisition. The actual name is Inquisitio Haereticae Pravitatis (inquiry on heretical perversity. One of the people tried during that was Galileo Galilei, for claiming that the Earth was not the center of the Universe.

  • Anonymous

    Sometimes their slow learning and lack of critical thinking skills allows one to hone in on, and repeat your argument. Look how Todd, for instance, responded to you as if Jefferson’s “Virginia Statute for Religious Freedom” went right over his head.

    timb116,Do you know any other words? Care to take a stab at showing where Jefferson said churches should be taxed? That seems to be you patent answer when the facts are against your side.

    This allows me to hone in on, and repeat, the specific statute…

    We the General Assembly of Virginia do enact that no man shall be compelled to frequent or support any religious worship, place, or ministry whatsoever, nor shall be enforced, restrained, molested, or burthened in his body or goods, nor shall otherwise suffer, on account of his religious opinions or belief; but that all men shall be free to profess, and by argument to maintain, their opinions in matters of religion, and that the same shall in no wise diminish, enlarge, or affect their civil capacities.

  • Anonymous

    Like Gladys Knight?

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Alfred-Newman/100002534825920 Alfred Newman

    Mike, get’s further and further from his Christian roots each day, while I am sure his salvation is not in question, satan is sure using him to water down the Gospel of Christ.   I really feel sorry for Mike, money seems to have taken a position where it steers his life and comments. 

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Alfred-Newman/100002534825920 Alfred Newman

    Mike, get’s further and further from his Christian roots each day, while I am sure his salvation is not in question, satan is sure using him to water down the Gospel of Christ.   I really feel sorry for Mike, money seems to have taken a position where it steers his life and comments. 

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Debbie-Roebuck-Cummings/100000785130536 Debbie Roebuck-Cummings

    Huckabee says “the greatest risk is to elect someone who is not honest.” 

    Check out articles on PERRY’s administration doled out grants, tax breaks, contracts and appointments to hundreds of his most generous supporters and their businesses. back door deals.

    Mitt ROmney 2012

  • geriann pukatsch

    You call yoursellf God fearing.Your a joke,Clowns and not informed about the truth.
    Try watching a real news channel.Not the lying Fox channel!!!!!!!!!!
    Paid and bought by money; shame, shame.
    Let freedom ring !!!!
    God bless america and God bless the president of the united states.
    Unions are the back bone of our country.
    VOTE THE GOP OUT IN 2012.

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