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It is up to Fred Thompson and the other Republican candidates to expose Huckabees true record, one of them must close the sale.

We’ll see, but most of Huck’s support is coming from the evangelicals who aren’t likely to be phased by this sort of thing.

Evangelicals are not part of the ignorant unwashed masses incapable of making decisions on the whole man. At this point in time on Christian issues Huckabee is making the right sounds, Fred and others need only assure Evangelicals they care about the same issues.

In keeping silent about evil, in burying it deep within us, so that it appears nowhere on the surface, we are implanting it, and it will rise up a thousandfold in the future.
Alexander Solzhenitsyn. The Gulag Archipelago

I imagine Huckabee’s answer seemed a lot less radical in 1992 in an Arkansas context. If you read the histories of early AIDS in the United States(Randy Shilt’s book, for example) you’ll see one of the big public policy errors was the inability or unwillingness to address the AIDS crisis as a public health crisis. Bath houses stayed open, etc.

And you know how you were unhappy with Hoeven’s (staff) answers to your questions last month? This story shows you why politicians tend to answer questionnaires and the like in weasely fashions. If you’re honest, sooner or later, honest answers will be used against you. Lots of groups on both sides—but mostly the left - prepare questionnaires for sole purpose of “gotcha.”

A gutsy politician would say, no, I’m not filling out your forms, ANY forms.

To be blunt, AIDS is a behavioral disease.

Yes, but that’s also true of heart disease, emphysema, lung cancer, diabetes, liver failure and vehicular trauma, among other things.

I’ll gladly join you in calling for an end to federally-funded research into cures for behaviorally-induced illness, provided we apply the prohibition across the board.

Of course, we shall have to inform your readers who smoke, drink, eat high-fat diets, or read blogs in lieu of exercising that there may not be a cure for the diseases likely to ail them.

Lol, does this hurt Huckabee in the primaries?

Well, he definitely loses the gay vote, but other than that, no.  Most evangelicals believe exactly as he does, that homosexuality is a sin and the Bible says as much.

I think this hurts him zero, but in this weird election cycle, you never know.

The BEST part of all this from Romney’s standpoint is that he gets to play underdog in Iowa and a “come-from-behind” win will actually have some ‘gravitas’ instead than winning by 20 because he ‘bought’ the state.

With a month left, the press, which bores easily, really have run out of nice things to say about Huckabee.  All they have left is to dish some dirt to keep things interesting.

Huckabee gets the bullseye instead of Romney.  Who knows, his surge may be just what Romney needs.  Like I said, in this weird campaign cycle, we’ll just have to wait and see.

The one thing I do know is that NOBODY and I mean NO-BODY is talking about Giuliani AT ALL.

People are making a big deal about Thompson going ALL IN in Iowa.  Well averaging about 10 points in the polls there, he has little chance to win.  However, he can play spoiler to Huckabee by beating him up 24/7 and only Romney benefits.

We’ll see.  It should be quite a show.

“there should be federal legislation pushing employers encourage healthier lifestyles among their employees”

This translated means that you won’t be able to get a job unless you live up to what the Feds decide is an acceptable lifestyle. They’ll be handing out tax credits to those employers who establish a work force that tows the line.

Geeze. The road to serfdom is a viral one. When did it become the business of the Feds through the employers to get into the middle of our lifestyles? The objective is for the Feds and the employers to replace the church and the family. Sound familiar?

My favorite part is where Tax Hike Mike said, in his November statement, that he would double President Bush’s AIDS spending from 15 billion to 30 billion. I thought conservatives were supposed to believe in cutting expenses.

Thompson can do damage to Huckabee in the south too. In fact, he’s probably in the best position to do that since he is also from a southern state.

Finally! A point of intelligence from Democrat Huck.

Una Salus Victus Nullam Sperare Salutem

Huck’s already lost my vote on issues like his being soft on immigration and being a tax-and-spender, but on this issue Huck is spot-on. 

Good on him, I say, but I’d still prefer a Thompson / Tancredo / Hunter ticket.

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Have none of you read about Typhoid Mary?

Before the transmission vectors were well understood, HIV/AIDS had the potential to become a pandemic.  Had the HIV virus ever developed an airborne vector (see Bubonic and Neumonic Plague), the consequences would have been dire for humanity.  A strict quarantine implemented once reliable testing was available would have either stopped or severely reduced the spread of HIV/AIDS, saving thousands of lives.

Should a repeat of the Spanish Influenza (based on something akin to Ebola or HN51 Asian Bird Flu in terms of lethality and via an airborne vector from human to human) arise, strict quarantine and mandatory inoculation (assuming such an inoculation can be created in time) would be the only means of arresting the spread of the disease.  Failure to stop the spread would result in a 20-50% die off of the productive populations of modern nations and a nearly universal die off in less developed nations.

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Ceterum censeo Parthia esse delendam
Latin: “Furthermore, Parthia (Persia aka modern day Iran) should be destroyed.”