Mike Huckabee says abortion will lead to euthanizing old folks to keep the bills down

[hue]

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2014/03/13/1284457/-Mike-Huckabee-says-abortion-will-lead-to-euthanizing-old-folks-to-keep-the-bills-down

This fellow really ought to run for president someday. Listening to him is like sticking your head two feet into the fever swamp mud and leaving it there.

If Americans don’t protect the unborn, they won’t protect people at the end of life either, Mike Huckabee said Wednesday night at a Washington gala sponsored by the anti-abortion group Susan B. Anthony List.

The former Arkansas governor and one-time presidential candidate said women typically cite hardship or inconvenience as their reason for getting an abortion — the same reasons that he said could be used to justify ending the lives of the elderly.

“If we teach the generation coming after us that it’s okay to terminate a human life because it represents a financial hardship or social disruption, what are we telling them?” Huckabee asked.

Mind you, this is coming from Mike Huckabee, spokesman for that swath of the Republican base that thinks it should be reasonable to terminate a human life because it represents a financial hardship to their insurance company. They've got a bit of a spotty record on most of the rest of the whole keeping-people-alive front as well—see subsections food, heat, shelter and sub-subsection water supply.

[shenmue]

1. People like him

make me want to move to another country.

[pangaia]

2. People like him make me remember to vote!

[bigwillq]

15. So move

We'll continue to fight the good fight without you.

[SummerSnow]

3. Look, more death panel spew. Their bullshit is enough to kill you

[louis-t]

4. Right, Uncle Huckabuck, better that people work until they're 80

then drop dead.

Dumbass.

[blkmusclmachine]

5. Huckster sez whut?!?!

[sakabatou]

6. *eyeroll*

[oldandhappy]

7. WOW

He used to be kind of interesting, but not now.

[sendero]

8. As long as he is first...

.... I could be ok with that

[Sunlei]

10. republicans don't have much of a decent reputation anymore.

[Sunlei]

9. republicans would rather hand people guns to 'terminate' themselves on their dime.

what republican would vote to spend money on 'euthanizing' medicine?

[whistler162]

11. I thought that was what happened when people jaywalked!

go figure.

[Thinkingabout]

12. What do you do with a "minister" who has worn out his welcome in a pulpit, you put them in

Politics and talk shows.

[Rosa Luxemburg]

13. My cat is more intelligent than Huckabee!

[Tom Ripley]

14. Does he mean that America won't take care of you after you are dead?

That's the only way his unborn and its opposite analogy works.

[Johonny]

16. Last time I checked he wanted to cut grandma's social security, little Billy's food

and have no minimum wage for the job mom and dad cant find so his empathy for other people is in question to "worry" about the safety of anyone's life.