Comments on: Huckabee ‘92: Isolate AIDS patients; Update: Huck issues statement

By: 4d28c9ae6c21

4d28c9ae6c21 — Thu, 15 May 2008 05:50:05 +0000

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By: sinsing

sinsing — Tue, 11 Dec 2007 16:04:09 +0000

I don’t agree with Huckabee on all things but he was spot-on about isolating those who carry a virus, which has spread a disease that has become a deadly epidemic throughout the world.

According to the CDC, June 2007 revision: “In the United States, HIV infection and AIDS have had a tremendous effect on men who have sex with men (MSM). MSM accounted for 71% of all HIV infections among male adults and adolescents in 2005…

Political correctness is killing us.

By: Hot Air » Blog Archive » Huckabee tries to outdo Perino on Cuba; Video: Mitt hits Huck on immigration in new ad

Mon, 10 Dec 2007 23:36:33 +0000

[...] matters that it might be worth compiling them and putting them in their own entry. Revisit the AIDS post for a few. He thought the new NIE was four years old; he thought ICE was still known as INS; he [...]

By: dogsoldier

dogsoldier — Mon, 10 Dec 2007 17:33:26 +0000

300,000 (last time i checked the numbers) improbably infected with AIDS make the case for quarrantine more effectively than any words I could hope to muster AND trump anything the anti quarrantine folks have to say.

Trying to compare this issue to Guns, tobacco and anything else is comparing apples and oranges. Guns are probably the closest, but guns can’t mutate into an aerobic death dealing plauge, AIDS can.

By: hollygolightly

hollygolightly — Mon, 10 Dec 2007 17:08:54 +0000

How many of you guys are in favor of closing down the tobacco industry? It would save a lot of lives.

Allahpundit on December 8, 2007 at 4:21 PM

Maybe we should just not allow the production of cars that go over the speed limit too?

By: MarkB

MarkB — Mon, 10 Dec 2007 16:48:31 +0000

my analogy works anyway.

paul006 on December 8, 2007 at 5:03 PM
Your analogy was right on target.

FloatingRock on December 8, 2007 at 5:17 PM

Sorry this analogy comes no where close to working!!!

By: MarkB

MarkB — Mon, 10 Dec 2007 16:39:08 +0000

versus launching a public education campaign to use condoms and clean needles, why go with the former?
Allahpundit on December 8, 2007 at 4:21 PM

Why would one be in favor of government intervention? They made their decisions let them enjoy the consequences of it.

By: EricPWJohnson

EricPWJohnson — Mon, 10 Dec 2007 03:22:02 +0000

And the monkey flips the switch…….

I wonder how much more the country can take of the 3% of voters in Iowa picking our national leaders…

Carter, Bush I, Clinton, Bush II, Huckaee? OBAMA!!!!

Think of the ones who were picked and lost

Dukakis, MONDALE, Gore, Kerry….

And great men who were passed over for idiots

Ford, Dole

And people wonder why America isn’t respected anymore

By: Anti-Idiotarian Rottweiler » So What’s With This Huckabee Clown?

Anti-Idiotarian Rottweiler » So What’s With This Huckabee Clown? — Mon, 10 Dec 2007 00:35:22 +0000

[...] all in favor of sending AIDS victims to the camps, or at least he used to be until somebody noticed. Now he’s claiming that nobody knew back in [...]

By: Ryan Gandy

Ryan Gandy — Sun, 09 Dec 2007 20:14:15 +0000

pedestrian on December 8, 2007 at 6:24 PM

Behind every stereotype there is some degree of truth. This – and I’ve known homosexuals (very good friends of my family) who can attest to it, plus which done my own research – is no exception.

By: Hot Air » Blog Archive » Video: Huckabee on AIDS, Mormonism, and immigration

Sun, 09 Dec 2007 18:47:42 +0000

[...] of this plague.” Then he references the Bergalis case from 1991; see my last update to yesterday’s post for why that’s disingenuous. It was an outlier and known to be so at the [...]

By: Iblis

Iblis — Sun, 09 Dec 2007 18:39:43 +0000

Alot of lives would have been saved if the first AIDS patients had been quarantined instead of allowed to roam free. Hell alot of lives would have been saved if they had done partner histories of AIDS patients, and notified people of their risk of exposure. But the gays privacy was sacroscant.
Advocates framed quarantining as imprisonment and as a form of bigotry. Who wants to imprison an innocent person? Who wants to be called a bigot? So people were allowed to die so no one’s feelings were hurt.
With crackerjack policy making like that, we deserve a health care system where costs spiral out of control.

By: dedalus

dedalus — Sun, 09 Dec 2007 18:24:35 +0000

Why is AIDS even an issue? It’s not even in the top ten killer diseases. If it were not for the gay agenda, we would even be talking about it.

It’s a costly disease in the number of productive years it takes away, since it young people contract it. Funding for research often tracks the marketing done. That is why breast cancer gets more dollars than lung cancer.

Huck’s comments probably won’t be much of a problem for him. The treatments for HIV have decreased the mortality rate and no one takes quarantine seriously. His comments were 15 years ago.

By: Stop The ACLU » Blog Archive » Fred Thompson Placing All The Chips on Success In Iowa

Sun, 09 Dec 2007 17:54:20 +0000

[...] thinking that the recent polls we are seeing are showing effects that are about to dwindle. Many well documented gaffes and revelations on Huckabee have recently came to the surface. From his record on raising [...]

By: corona

corona — Sun, 09 Dec 2007 17:34:08 +0000

zzz

By: BobJones-77

BobJones-77 — Sun, 09 Dec 2007 15:26:07 +0000

Why is AIDS even an issue? It’s not even in the top ten killer diseases. If it were not for the gay agenda, we would even be talking about it.

There are far more pressing issues and diseases with a much higher mortality rate than AIDS. It’s a non issue in my mind.

By: Ex-tex

Ex-tex — Sun, 09 Dec 2007 14:43:57 +0000

I think we need to get Huck behind the wheel of a tank. He would look great, really.

BDavis on December 8, 2007 at 4:24 PM

One of you brilliant folks out there need to do a VIRAL AD right now and take this clown out. (the clown bein’ Huckabee not BDavis)

By: MB4

MB4 — Sun, 09 Dec 2007 09:37:19 +0000

And on the eighth day, God created The High Reverend Huckster to go forth into America and save the country from the evils of rationality.

By: pc

pc — Sun, 09 Dec 2007 09:26:25 +0000

Face it. Viruses are good. They are the agents of organic quality control. A person get’s sick with a cold virus and starts spewing the virus in all directions sending out the agent to other humans. They either accept or reject the virus, sending it to the next test subject. The benefits of natural selection are obvious. AIDS is the same thing. Cancer too. People comingle blood and don’t always cause the AIDS virus of the infected to be imprinted on the other. Instead the virus probes and if the non-infected person has a genetic weakness, they succumb. Same with cancer in my opinion. There’s a virus or a family of virii that are being passed around and if the test subject is succeptible, they get ill and die or are kept alive through science while the body attempts to die. With corn or any other crop, there’s rust or whatever virus and the corn that survives is the corn that should carry on. Same deal.

By: pc

pc — Sun, 09 Dec 2007 09:09:15 +0000

If you think hard about it, it’s really outrageous we as a society have allowed others who have a terrible affliction, one that’s spread through unprotected sexual activity, to wander freely among the rest of us, unknowing of their status. This is like condoning suicide bombing in a way. We are some strange creatures when you get right down to it.

Will this policy one day be looked back on as wrongheaded as the liberal policy of not allowing brush to be cleared from the hills of southern california? The virus could mutate into something more deadly and virulent. It could happen. Personally I don’t have a dog in this fight, only being intellectually honest about what we as a society have signed off on.

By: pc

pc — Sun, 09 Dec 2007 09:00:52 +0000

It’s politically acceptable to let people with AIDS interact freely with the general public, affliction hidden. This is in spite of the fact they could succumb to something as primal as the urge to have sex, and sex is generally an activity where safety is more often than not a subserviant concern. All because of a political decision, just like the reverse case of quarantining cigarette smokers.

there, said it better!

By: pc

pc — Sun, 09 Dec 2007 08:57:02 +0000

“How many of you guys are in favor of closing down the tobacco industry? It would save a lot of lives.

Allahpundit on December 8, 2007 at 4:21 PM”

Interesting example. From where I sit, sufferers of the tobacco illness have been effectively quarantined from the rest of us through no smoking ordinances. Some are even quarantined from their children driving in a car! To say we don’t as a society quarantine others who pose a risk, however remote (second hand smoke? I sat at my moms side all through childhood and the ashtray always held one. Whatever) is not being honest. It’s politically acceptable to let people with AIDS, people who can engage in something with as strong a biological urge as unprotected sex for god’s sake, and infect another human. But cigarettes are more of a ‘nuisance’ so sufferers of the tobacco affliction get the harsher quarantine.

/Personally I am quite please smoking has been pretty much become a quaratined activity.
//Father’s father was quarantined with TB and he died in a sanitarium
///How do you make paragraph breaks?

By: SoulGlo

SoulGlo — Sun, 09 Dec 2007 08:38:40 +0000

This guy is a real Dr. Jekyl and Mr. Hyde. One minute he’s an extreme liberal by paroling a rapist. The next minute he’s an extreme conservative by wanting to put every AIDS patient in quarantine. Will the real Mike Huckabee please stand up.

By: MB4

MB4 — Sun, 09 Dec 2007 07:24:00 +0000

Does doing what one felt was right at the time excuse virtually anything, or are there limits?

FloatingRock on December 8, 2007 at 11:47 PM

It appears that with The High Reverend Huckster any limits are on wheels.

By: Laura

Laura — Sun, 09 Dec 2007 07:04:08 +0000

Huck’s got his skis on, the boat is gassed up, and the shark is circling. Any minute now…