The new front runner in Iowa for the GOP is now Mike Huckabee, the sensational baptist minister turned politician and weight-loss guru. Now that he is on top (at least in the Buckeye state) the spotlight is now on the man. Huffington Post slammed him last week for trying to pardon a rapist and now there is a statement from fifteen years ago where he wanted to isolate AIDS patients. Some may say people change in fifteen years, but Mike stood up for what he said just recently.
From RawStory:
GOP presidential hopeful Mike Huckabee said Sunday that he stands by the statement he made 15 years ago that AIDS patients should have been isolated."I didn't say that we should quarantine," Huckabee said in an interview with Fox News, "I simply made the point, and I still believe this today, that in the late '80s and early '90's, when we didn't know as much as we do now about AIDS, we were acting more out of political correctness than ... normal health protocols."
When, Chris Wallace reminded Huckabee that The Centers for Disease Control announced that AIDS could not be spread by casual contact seven years before Huckabee made the statement, Huckabee referred to the case of Kimberly Bergalis, who claimed to contract AIDS from her dentist[...].
Huckabee failed to address other past issues that Wallace raised, such as the fact that he opposed increased federal funding to find a cure for AIDS, and that he called homosexuality a "sinful lifestyle that posed a dangerous health risk."
Well now that Leprosy is mostly eliminated, maybe the island of Molokai could rent out some space to AIDS victims under President Huckabee. With views like that, how does anyone see a Republican coming out on top by next November.
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