I don’t know anyone in America who is a more effective communicator [than David Barton.] I just wish that every single young person in America would be able to be under his tutelage and understand something about who we really are as a nation. I almost wish that there would be something like a simultaneous telecast and all Americans would be forced, forced — at gun point no less — to listen to every David Barton message. And I think our country would be better for it. I wish it’d happen.That's right. Huckabee wants every American to be forced to undergo Christianist re-education.
What a small government Republican Huckabee is. Who, other than the government, would be the ones to force me to sit through Huckabee's idea of re-education?
Huckabee must be a closeted admirer of Chairman Mao, for what Huckabee apparently seeks is nothing short of a far-right version of the Cultural Revolution, complete with re-education camps. When fascism comes to this country, it will be wrapped in the American flag and carrying a cross, much as Sinclair Lewis prophesied.
This Barton guy is such a great communicator that you have to be forced at gunpoint to listen to him. That is on the same level as Newtie's secular theocracy.
ReplyDeleteHow do I apply for the Left Handed Whopper concession at the next CPAC?
And not just Jews, but anyone who is not a radical Fundamentalist Protestant! Even our deist Founding Fathers would be subject to forcible "re-education" under that lunatic's plan....
ReplyDeleteUmmm. Mr Family Values Huckabee has some weird family values. His Son. As A Camp Counselor. Tortured and Killed a Dog.
ReplyDeletehttp://crooksandliars.com/2007/12/16/huckabee-squashed-charges-against-his-son-for-stoning-hanging-dog
Now I'll admit that kids think of some pretty out-there things to do, also that bad kids can come from good people. But. You have to wonder how far this apple was from the tree and what the tree is really like. And as I learned growing up in the South, the louder someone professes righteousness, generally the more skeletons in the closet.
Sounds a lot like the Taliban don't it.
ReplyDeleteIt do, indeed
ReplyDeleteWhat is not funny is this: For those that have been observant the religious right have wanted and promoted this for the last 20+ years. We are starting to see their wished for inroads thanks to the sheeple.
ReplyDeleteEck!
Let me guess, he is a christian reconstructionist...
ReplyDeleteI think that his approach to campaigning and his tone and delivery makes him the most dangerous ...he is likeable
Mikey's against big *secular* government, not big church government.
ReplyDelete& the irony is that 50 years ago fundies were soiling their shorts & insisting that if JFK was elected the U.S. would be turned into a Catholic theocracy. Apparently a textbook case of projection.
Over at MOther Jones, we learn that:
ReplyDelete"In February, Mother Jones wrote to the office of Arkansas Gov. Mike Beebe seeking access to a variety of records concerning his predecessor's tenure, including Huckabee's travel records, calendars, call logs, and emails. Beebe's chief legal counsel, Tim Gauger, replied in a letter that "former Governor Huckabee did not leave behind any hard-copies of the types of documents you seek. Moreover, at that time, all of the computers used by former Governor Huckabee and his staff had already been removed from the office and, as we understand it, the hard-drives in those computers had already been 'cleaned' and physically destroyed."
That's one way to make sure you don't have a past...