"It doesn't embarrass me one bit to let you know that I believe Adam and Eve were real people," - Mike Huckabee, 1990.
"I hope we answer the alarm clock and take this nation back for Christ."-- Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee (R), quoted by the Arkansas Democrat Gazette on June 8, 1998, on "why he left pastoring for politics."
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"Mike Huckabee promises us a foreign policy that will make sure that America repeatedly bursts into flame for all of eternity," - Daniel Larison.
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I feel homosexuality is an aberrant, unnatural, and sinful lifestyle, and we now know it can pose a dangerous public health risk," Mike Huckabee in a questionnaire for The Associated Press in 1992
"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.... 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." - AP 1992 questionaire
"In a quick check of Republican reaction after the AP story broke, some conservatives said they viewed Huckabee’s answers as a blunt statement of views held by many in his Southern Baptist flock, and an antidote to the waffling that pervades politics.
So it may turn out that his more damaging answer was not the one about his view of homosexuality but rather his foray into federal policy – quarantining AIDS patients and cutting funding for research. - Politico.com coverage of the above comments....
From Newsweek: Republican state Rep. Jeremy Hutchinson says Huckabee has an explosive temper. He recalls one heated conversation with Huckabee about a health bill Hutchinson didn't want to support. Huckabee began screaming at him, and banged his fists on his desk so hard that "trinkets started falling off." ...
Jim Hendren, the state's Senate minority whip, says he gave up trying to debate issues with Huckabee. "It was like you became the enemy," he says. "There wasn't ever a negotiation. It was, 'It's going to be my way or else'."....
"A wife is to submit herself graciously to the servant leadership of her husband even as the church willingly submits to the headship of Christ." - text of a Southern Baptist Convention full-page ad in USA Today in 1998 that Mike Huckabee signed
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On the Drummond case:
Huckabee supported the release of Dumond from prison, backed by fervent anti-Clinton activists. According to several parole board members, he even lobbied the board on Dumond's behalf. The frighteningly prescient warnings of Dumond's victims were seemingly left ignored.
....For nearly a decade, conservative activists in Arkansas had painted Dumond as a tragic victim of Bill Clinton's power-hungry machinations. Ashley Stevens, Dumond's rape victim, was Clinton's distant cousin. Within Republican circles, the logic was that if they were to regain political power, it would be through lashing out against rulings like Dumond's.
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