Mike Huckabee Won't Rule Out Using FBI, Troops To Prevent Abortions

[DonViejo]

Source: TPM

Republican presidential candidate and former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee is not above using the full reach of the executive branch to prevent women from getting abortions, according to multiple statements at campaign stops in Iowa.

Huckabee left the door open when asked whether he would use federal troops or the FBI to stop abortions if elected, the Huffington Post reported on Friday.

"I will not pretend there is nothing we can do to stop this," he said at Pizza Ranch in Jefferson, Iowa, citing the 14th Amendment, which guarantees equal protection to all citizens.

In Rockwell City, Iowa, Huckabee affirmed his position. "All American citizens should be protected," he said.


Read more: http://talkingpointsmemo.com/livewire/huckabee-abortion-prevention-troops-fbi

[misterhighwasted]

1. Gestapoesque. Heil Huckabee

Off the rails...

[Angry Dragon]

2. a very sick man

[BlueJazz]

3. I CAN NOT believe what the man said. I'm sitting in my chair with my mind in a state of shock.

[CanonRay]

7. I'm not shocked at all

he's a Christian Domionist (just like Ted Cruz) and they want to run the country as a Christian Theocracy, including using all the power of the state to coerce non-believers. Just like Iran, the country he allegedly hates.

[BlueJazz]

12. Yep, I guess I learned something today. I knew he was not-all-there but thought he ...

...was (at least) halfway sane.

[Stargazer09]

4. He makes me very angry

And sick to my stomach. How can anyone with a conscience support that creature?

[Malraiders]

5. I am just amazed at the nonsense thes RW Loons will spew to

impress their base.

Like they are trying to show us that their party is off the wall crazy.

[AllFieldsRequired]

6. Mike and just about the ENTIRE tea party are praying the Democratic party self destructs

with the endless attacks of Hillary and eventually Bernie so they can orchestrate the end of not just abortion but ALL birth control.

Disobeying will result in the death penalty, they really want that, I hope you ALL understand that this is WHAT IS AT STAKE this election.

Do you ALL get that?

[geretogo]

8. This terrorist needs to join the Taliban in Afghanistan . I 'll bet his wife wears a Berca . He is

a very sick and dangerous man .

[Warpy]

9. This is what it means to be religiously insane

50 years ago, his family would have been worried enough to get him committed. Thanks to the overly narrow interpretation of "danger to oneself or others," he's at liberty to run for office and be elected by people who think he's going to cut their taxes and punish sluts.

Odd how these lunatics never consider women to be American citizens, worthy of any sort of protection. They won't be happy until we are officially "natural slaves," devoid of any sort of rights or civil protection.

[world wide wally]

10. Ignore him,

Maybe he'll go away.
He is just trying to grab headlines away from the Donald

[tomm2thumbs]

16. God already did

he decided not to give him his share of brains

[niyad]

41. sadly, we cannot ignore him, because he is representative of

a group that so clearly hates women that they will go to any lengths to control them.

in case you are not aware, this is mild compared to what some of these woman-hating gestational slaver dominionists have been saying for years (things like the death penalty for any woman who has an abortion, along with the doctor who performs it).

so, no, we do not ignore the ravings of the religiously, woman-hating insane, because they are champing at the bit to do exactly what they are saying.

[world wide wally]

43. Of course you are right.

I just hate to give in to his cries for attention. Fortunately he is pretty much powerless to effect anything. Let's keep it that way and let him and his buddy, Ted Nugent, go play together somewhere

[Cryptoad]

11. Lets see

there are records of abortions being performed as far back as recorded history,,, and he's going to be one to stop them,,,,,,,,, What a Man!

[turbinetree]

13. And then he said what about other humans .............

when it comes to sexual orientation--------------how's that equal protection there Huckster---got anymore snake oil from the clown car your number what in the car 15 of 17-----------yeah

[dawnie51]

14. That's what this abortion crap is all about....

shaming women for having the audacity to have sex. Making sure a woman pays and pays big, slut shaming, condemned to a life of poverty or worse, because she had sex. These people sicken me.

[calimary]

15. This from another one of those "I hate big government" schmucks.

But they obviously don't mind big government at all - if they can shove it up a woman's vagina or station it in her gynecologist's office.

Seems to me it's time to look into other ways to make sure a woman who needs an abortion can get one. Offshore maybe? A boat lift to something in international waters? An "underground railroad" to undisclosed safe clinics? Something that's beyond the reach of these misogynists and bedroom busybodies.

[aint_no_life_nowhere]

17. So he's having fantasies about opening fire on women with major firepower

Maybe the news of the guy who shot the women in the movie theater got his blood up.

[PSPS]

18. DU should be more like Fox

Huckabee will never be president (see Maurice Clemmons.) Yet we must be bombarded with the latest insane ramblings of him and others who are only in this for the money -- shaking the thumper tree to see what falls down. In short, it doesn't matter one whit what this bozo says any more than the mental patient rambling at passers-by on the street.

So, I propose that DU adopt at least a form of the Fox rules: If you're not in the top 5, you don't get any exposure in LBN. (In Fox's case, of course, they do this to squeeze more national ad buys out of the hopeless campaigns.)

(My proposal is tongue-in-cheek ... sort of.)

[wolfie001]

19. He's mainstreamed stupidity in the Replug Party

Jackass

[olddad56]

20. just another washed up wanna be politician.

[bucolic_frolic]

21. My - and YOUR - Bedroom Wall

will contain a picture of Jesus and J. Edgar Hoover

and Mike Huckabee too!

All watching over the procreation business.

Honey, let's get one in the oven for Mike!!

[jmowreader]

36. You know who else required a picture of himself in every bedroom?

That's right, sports fans: The Reverend Sun Myung Moon, founder of the Unification Church (aka "The Moonies&quot , issued every newly married Moonie couple a portrait of the esteemed preacher and required them to set it on the nightstand so it could watch them have sex.

I wonder if they realize that after Nicolae Ceaucescu passed Decree 770, which criminalized both abortion and birth control in Romania, Romanian couples who couldn't get smuggled contraceptives, didn't know a good back-alley abortionist, and couldn't learn to like oral sex and anal sex just gave up sex entirely.

[nwduke]

22. Get out and vote people

Not just this snake oil salesman, but the rest of the GOP religious zealots. Don't let these fanatics gain control of the U.S.

[CTyankee]

23. Women are going to go for this big time...

geez...

I won't even go into the definition of an American "citizen" -- "born or naturalized into the United States..."

[Mnemosyne]

24. He wants 'A Handmaid's Tale' world, sick fuck. nt

[LiberalElite]

25. How is a fetus an American citizen

without having been born here yet, much less having a name?

[CTyankee]

37. Yes, where the Constitution does speak about citizens it is "natural born."

It seems to me that I've been in this argument before...

[LiberalElite]

39. Probably many times eom

[DinahMoeHum]

26. Ever hear of "Posse Comitatus", Huckster?

Sheesh, is he mental or what?

[Initech]

27. So he cites the 14th amendment to guarantee equal rights to all citizens.

But wants to take the full power of the executive branch and the FBI to stop a sector of the population from doing something he doesn't like. Contradictory statement is contradictory.

[Walk away]

28. This poor boob will say anything to get in the Top 10 for the Faux debates!

[LiberalElite]

40. They should have a separate Top 10

for the most ridiculous right-wing off-the-rails I'll say ANYTHING statements. This could be the consolation prize.

http://www.turbosquid.com/3d-models/wing-nut-wingnut-3d-max/735114

[restorefreedom]

29. what is he at about 2% ?

he faded out pretty quickly last time, and he doesn't have a chance this time. Or maybe I should say he doesn't have a prayer this time. He's probably just laying the groundwork for his next TV or radio show.

[RKP5637]

30. This guy Huck is unwrapping right off his rocker! n/t

[Thor_MN]

31. Might as well say that he would use Ewoks and captured At-Ats...

Just as likely as what he said...

[IcyPeas]

32. Troops? seriously? taliban troops?

[SoapBox]

33. Whoa...what a Domestic Terrorist.

Fuck'n nuts.

[Adenoid_Hynkel]

34. Knowing Huck, he'll put a child molester in charge of the operation

Seeing as how all his friends fit that description

[BigDemVoter]

35. STUPID, FUCKING IDIOT. . .

THIS alone should disqualify him from EVER seeking any kind of office, even one that would require that he clean dog shit from the streets. I am so goddamned sick of hearing EVERY idiotic thing he says. The media should just ignore whatever flies out of his stupid pie hole. He is an idiot, and he has NO business having any of his diatribes published or broadcast.

On edit-- Oh yes, his son tortured and KILLED a poor dog, and Fuckabee made up all kinds of excuses. Individuals who torture and kill animals are just one step away from doing the same with humans. Disgusting. Those pieces of shit should NEVER be on the air or quoted in newspapers EVER

[Novara]

38. I'm trying to picture how this would possibly work

What, the National Guard comes swooping in en masse when a woman goes to a clinic? The FBI is going to take their eye off domestic terrorists like him in order to get inside a woman's womb? How's that gonna work?

The efforts to control women's bodies are to keep women unable to be powerful. Keep women tied down with children so that they aren't a threat in business or politics. Of course the women will be responsible for all these unwanted babies, right?

I hate these motherfuckers so goddamn much.

[niyad]

42. but, we are told that there is NO war on women!! what in the

HELL do they think this is????