Mike Huckabee Plans To Run For President To Fight The 'Secular Theocracy'

[big_dog]

Source: Right Wing Watch-1 hour ago

Former Arkansas Governor Mike Huckabee was the guest this morning on Reverend James Robison's "Life Today" television program, and declared that he is thinking about running for president in order to fight what Robison called the "secular theocracy" that is destroying Christian liberty in America. "We've divorced ourselves from an understanding that we cannot survive as a republic if we do not become once again a God-centered nation that understands that our laws do not come from man, they come from God," he said. "It is the natural law of God."

After insisting that he is not intending to create his own theocracy, Robison piped up to declare that "we have a theocracy right now; it is a secular theocracy" and Huckabee readily agreed. "That's it!" Huckabee said. "It is a humanistic, secular, atheistic, and even antagonistic toward Christian faith, and that's what we need to understand. Our basic fundamental rights are being robbed from us, taken from us piece by piece."

Later, Huckabee asked for the audience to pray that God's hand will be upon as he decides whether to run for president.

"The only thing worse than not being elected president would be to be elected president without God's blessing," he said. "I can't think of a worse place in the world to be than in the Oval Office without God's hand upon you. I'd rather not get near the place."


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[NoJusticeNoPeace]

1. If I could have one wish come true, well two, the second one would be this asshole getting

the gop nomination

[big_dog]

5. Huckster is getting out front with this book tour and bringing the 2016 GOP wingnut lunacy early!

Michelle Bachmann, Sanitorium or Palin can't be far behind with a loony new book or show

[Scarsdale]

26. Exactly

Just read that he had a Pac that paid his relatives over $400,000 to work for him!! How are these Pacs legal? $carah Payme has one and her entire family lives off it, none of them has a job. Tax free money, what a scam.

[big_dog]

55. i think I heard $carah Pay-me has got a new show coming out soon

its the new 'testing the waters' for 2016, a reality show

[Jim Lane]

56. I disagree. He's far from the weakest opponent we might get.

Huckabee, as the nominee, would have a better chance of winning than would Christie, Cruz, Jindal, or Paul.

[DeltaLitProf]

57. This Huck is not the 2008 Huck

In the years since his defeat in 2008 Huck has grown fatter, angrier and lost a lot of touch with reality and developed a fairly keen bitterness about how he's been mocked as his crazy has grown and grown. He'll be an easy mop-up job for the more establishment Republicans in the primary. No way he makes it to the general.

[Kelvin Mace]

2. And I want to campaign on against

metaphorical literalism and axiomatic paradoxes.

[oberliner]

3. What a buffoon!

"The only thing worse than not being elected president would be to be elected president without God's blessing..."

Amazing that this can be said with a straight face in this day and age.

[Roy Rolling]

4. Propaganda 101

1. Set up straw man "Secular Theocracy"
2. Make yourself the victim
3. Run for office to solve the problem you created
4. Get idiots to vote for you


Sadly, there are too many in the #4 step that will gladly serve the cause

[Trillo]

9. Don't forget, #1 is an oxymoron. NT

[Elmer S. E. Dump]

24. Secular Theocracy, like Huckabee, is an OxyMORON!!

[KingCharlemagne]

37. It's mindless psycho-babble, partially alluding back to the 1980s campaigns against

'secular humanism.' The RWNJs managed to turn 'secular' into a proxy for 'atheistic' and some of that lexicographical rape persists to this day.

[Elmer S. E. Dump]

39. An Atheistc Theocracy is just as OXYmoronish.

The RWNJ's sure do have a lot of book lernin!!

[Monk06]

59. Just like the religion of atheism, preborn child, pro life, free market capitalism, virgin birth.

The Republicans prefer to appeal to those who are ignorant to the rules of language and proud of it.

You could improve the government of any country by having its people taught and commit to memory this text
by the age of 10years. This is what should be at the core of any Core Curriculum in a fair and democratic society.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sophistical_Refutations

[PatSeg]

29. And write a very short book

with no real substance as well! If you're lucky you might get your own talk show!

[yurbud]

38. it's an impressive feat to be the victim when your religion is the majority and every president has

claimed to belong to it.

[workinclasszero]

43. No doubt eh?

They got to keep the fear and victimhood alive though, just like fox "news". It keeps the sheep voting for the 1%ers

[Fred Sanders]

41. 5. Make numerous appearances only on Fox and RW media and religious Christian extremist media.

Then have Fox and CN pump it out into the mainstream media.

[workinclasszero]

44. Yeah and hawk the latest book/screed every other sentence as well /nt

[Agnosticsherbet]

6. One would hope that the first thing his campaign does is buy him a fucking dictionary.

and the second thing would be to hire a consultant to treat his runaway cognitive dissonance.

After that, go ahead and hitch your wagon to the Republican Clown Car.

[Agnosticsherbet]

7. This reminds me of Bush's "Compassionate Conservative."

We will see who recognizes the difference between Angel Food Cake and a Cow Pattie.

[Populist_Prole]

8. Why the weasel words Huck(ster)?

Just say what you really mean: You want to run on the platform that the US should be a christian theocracy. Just say it.

The bullshit camouflage you erect as running against some supposed theocracy is chutzpah beyond the beyond. Crafty but sloppy.

Or is he really really that bull-witted to believe that ANY system that's not a christian theocracy is actually a secular theocracy of some other kind? That's a classic case of circular logic.

[Gamecock Lefty]

10. I Apologize for Making Huckabee Run for Prez!

I’m glad non-believers like me are the reason Huckabee is considering a run for the presidency. And here I thought God was leading him?

Please, Huckabee, run! Hillary will have you for breakfast, lunch and supper!!!

[dembotoz]

11. he looks so happy he could beat a dog--literally

[LynneSin]

15. Or maybe do a jam session with a pedophile

The choices are endless for Huckabee.

[rocktivity]

12. ...By replacing it with a NON-secular theocracy?

This nation's founding fathers --not a founding heavenly father -- are the ones who said that America should be secular!

And it's not God's hands that will get you elected, but voters' fingers.


rocktivity

[CJCRANE]

13. "A God-Centered nation"...but ruled by whose God?

Does he want Wahhabi Sharia Law?

Catholic Biblical Law?

Dharmic Law?

First we have to figure out exactly which God is writing these laws and which schism is interpreting them.

[workinclasszero]

45. Well of course there will have to be mass stonings,

burning at the stakes, hangings etc to determine what is the real "God's law" first you understand?

[LynneSin]

14. I am a Christian and I find this man offensive

This is not the teaching of Jesus that Huckabee wants to push on us but Paul doctorine - convert everyone or else. I don't need a government to tell me how to practice my faith, my faith is personal. I don't want a Government telling me how to pray or how to live my life or creating Sharia-type laws from a portion of the Bible that not only did Jesus disregard as important laws to follow but he himself disregarded many of them. (When the disciples asked him what the most important laws were Jesus said to 'Love one Another' - I think we can all live by that law).

Our Founding Fathers specifically created a Constitution that was to be FREE of Government interference over religion. Remember many of these original settlers came from European nations where if you were a follower of the wrong form of religion you could be branded a heretic and burned at the stake. When rulers changed so did the religion of choice. The Founding Fathers wanted to prevent that from happening in the new land they were creating.

Huckabee may call himself a 'Christian' but he's nothing more than a charlatan trying to control the masses over a 2000 year old book he misuses.

[workinclasszero]

47. I am a Christian and I find this man offensive

Same here.

And yes this country was made to get away from heretics like Huckabee and all these money grubbing Dominionists/ Christian Reconstructionism/"Christian" fascists that are running rampant in the American church these days.

They want a dictatorship and they are trying very hard to make it come about in this country.

[louis-t]

16. We'd rather you not get near the place either.

Asshole.

[mfcorey1]

17. Does this repetative campaigning generate a lot of personal money for him? What

happens to unused campaign contributions?

[jehop61]

18. Rules are fairly lax

and I'm convinced these fringe candidates run every cycle to earn money for themselves. Tighten up the roles, and these folks will go away.

[PatSeg]

31. Exactly

Sell books, go on a lecture tour, appear on talk shows, and if lucky get a show of your own. They are just carnival grifters, making a buck any way they can. God forbid they might get elected and have to actually work.

[workinclasszero]

48. Totally agree

Its all drumming up money and I'm pretty sure huckster is hawking a new book too.

But these fascist idiots scare me just the same.

[PatSeg]

53. God, Guns, Grits, and Gravy!!!

Ha, ha, ha, the title is longer than the book. All his books are very short and superficial, just a way to make some cash. His 2006 book, "Quit Digging Your Grave With a Knife and Fork" was only 176 pages. Evidently his 12 step program didn't work, as he's put all that weight and more back on (FOX must be fattening).

Newt Gingrich does the same time, shallow books and videos - take some time off to run for president and get some publicity, then back to conning the suckers.

[Hoppy]

36. Unused money goes to his relatives.

WhatsamatterU? Don't you read the news?

[winter is coming]

19. Putting the moron in oxymoron. n/t

[Ferd Berfel]

20. 'Secular Theocracy'

He hurt my brain

[PSPS]

21. Maurice Clemmons.

First, the legacy of Maurice Clemmons will scuttle any campaign, although Huck will certainly be able to make some money off of his gullible "supporters" in the meantime. It's no accident that he's making the rounds on the "give me money for gawd" Gantry circuit.

Second, anyone who announces this early would never make it.

[workinclasszero]

49. Huckster wants to be the first clown car rider

to fleece the suckers.

He who gets in first, gets the most $$$

[asiliveandbreathe]

22. huck=antagonistic

Hey Huck - I want to HEAR god giving you his blessing....

[gregcrawford]

23. Wow. Where do you start?

Well, firstly, "Secular Theocracy" is a contradiction in terms, but these simple-minded fucks probably can't spell "contradiction," let alone define it.

And I believe the Constitution specifically forbids the establishment of a state religion, so that blows the whole "Christian Nation" bullshit out of the water.

Lying, manipulative con artists like Huckabee and Robison enrage me. They are no different than any other religious fanatics that twist and distort Scripture to justify their own malignant acts.

I think it was H.L. Mencken who said something like, "Religion is the greatest fomentor of hatred and intolerance in the history of humanity."

"I'm not prejudiced. I despise all religions equally."

- Me

[sinkingfeeling]

25. Somebody, please buy Huck a dictionary! Those two are mutally exclusive!

sec·u·lar
/ˈsekyələr/

adjective

1.

denoting attitudes, activities, or other things that have no religious or spiritual basis.
"secular buildings"

synonyms: nonreligious, areligious, lay, temporal, worldly, earthly, profane; formallaic
"secular music"

2.

Christian Church
(of clergy) not subject to or bound by religious rule; not belonging to or living in a monastic or other order.

the·oc·ra·cy
/THēˈäkrəsē/

noun: theocracy; plural noun: theocracies

a system of government in which priests rule in the name of God or a god.

[Sunlei]

27. Huck. loves the media stage to present his view of a more religious usa with a hairshirt President

"I can't think of a worse place in the world to be than in the Oval Office without God's hand upon you. I'd rather not get near the place."

Fear the oval office Mr. Huckabee, it is surrounded by those Corp. devils

[Art_from_Ark]

58. I can think of lots of worse places to be

Raqqa, Syria and Mosul, Iraq, for starters

[muntrv]

30. In other words, Huckabee will fight nothing, since those 2 words cancel out each other.

[lunasun]

32. A president by divine right? Thought that shit went out after the enlightenment around these parts

His' unenlightened ' fans are all for it ! Should get a new grift as religion is not trending so good in this country currently esp. his twisted form of it

Go hug a puppy Huck + take your son raised with ' good ' (WM) music with you too!

But if Mike Huckabee makes it to Pennsylvania Avenue, should we expect Michael Vick to sleep in the Lincoln bedroom?
David Huckabee “admitted to catching a stray dog during their summer session at Camp Pioneer in Hatfield, AR, and hanging the dog by his neck, slitting his throat and stoning him to death”

Huckabee’s eldest and tubbiest son, David, would have made Vick proud when he was 18 and fired from his Boy Scout counseling job for torturing and killing a stray dog. David most recently made headlines when he was arrested for forgetting about the Glock pistol in his bag at the Little Rock airport.

Humanism they make want to check that out ,,,but no it is evil and must be defeated
Humanism is a philosophical and ethical stance that emphasizes the value and agency of human beings, individually and collectively, and generally prefers critical thinking and evidence (rationalism, empiricism) over established doctrine or faith

[djean111]

33. My sister said Huckabee did announce he is running this morning, on The View.

I told her the coming GOP debates should be comedy gold.

[A Simple Game]

34. An elected President without god's blessing?

Gee Huckleberry, would I be stupid for thinking that if god wanted America to be a Christian Country that he would bless whoever won the Presidency? And maybe even the Senators and Representatives too.

How about just showing his face and telling us that he wants us to all be Christians?

Then again maybe your Christian god is one of the lesser gods and not the all powerful one. Do you want to talk about world peace or any of those other problems Huck? If you have the right god it must be his nap time because (s)he isn't answering very many prayers.

Huckster, you might actually get along with your god but if your Jesus showed up you wouldn't like it very much because you don't agree with much of what he said.

[riverbendviewgal]

35. Jon Stewart is going to be happy

and we will have a lot of laughs, thanks Huck

[LibertyLover]

40. Oh, the good old

we are being persecuted by those whom we persecute. The GOP and the Right-wing Christians have made that their mantra.

[workinclasszero]

42. These fu**in theocratic fascists like Hucksters

have no damn idea how this country was formed or the beliefs of the founders either!

Fuc*** idiots!

America was formed to get away from dangerous religious idiots like Huckabee and his ilk and I say that as a christian!

If these dark age jackasses had their way in this country they would be stoning gays to death and burning at the stake anyone who disagrees with them in any way because "god" told them to!

[hatrack]

46. "Secular Theocracy" - see also "Virgin Slut", "Dry Water", "Black Whitewash", "Gentle Beheading"

Pompous, feckless, irritating fucking CLOWN.

[Bartlet]

50. Well he's got the

religious nutjob vote sewn up, I mean who doesn't want to turn this country into an ISIS like theocracy.

[Initech]

51. We have this thing called the "First Amendment", Mike....

And this amendment clearly states that Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion. If you are feeling oppressed by freedom of religion, go live in a country that respects your beliefs. I believe that we are fighting two of them right now.

[VanillaRhapsody]

52. He needs to run to a dictionary to find out what Theocracy means...

[daleo]

54. Secular theocracy

Talk about projection.

[Adenoid_Hynkel]

60. Disgraced televangelist Jim Bakker yesterday, this guy today

Huck loves to hang with the loons

[DeSwiss]

61. ....

[brooklynite]

62. Nothing in the STORY says he "plans to run"...

...right now, he's on a book-selling tour. All the story says is that he's thinking about it.

[sendero]

63. What a delusional little goober...

... that man is.

Good luck goober.