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swearing is not important enough to be talking about. The fact that we are
talking about it means that Huckabee is not presidential material. My
grandmother, a Methodist minister's daughter born in 1898 who grew up in Rifle,
Colorado, swore like a sailor, smoked, drank and taught me how to play poker
when I was an 8 year old kid. As far as I know, none of this was a threat to
the Republic.
The crises the country faces are big
expensive government at home and war overseas. Social issues are irrelevant to
our national survival. Worse emphasizing social issues costs us votes. Some of
the most conservative gun nuts I know are gay. Generally they vote Republican,
but they don't vote for social conservatives. Huckabee has nothing to offer on
anything that's important either to the economy or foreign policy. Therefore,
he should go back to work as a TV personality. In his spare time he should
watch Free to Choose TV and learn some economics.
As an Air Force veteran, I am
familiar with a concept called target servicing. Basically, you shoot first at
the most threatening targets. To me, the most threatening targets are Iran with
nuclear weapons, Jihadist terrorists and economic collapse brought on by
overspending. None of these is a social issue.
Huckabee’s view of the family is
nice but perhaps reverses cause and effect. The reason for the collapse of the
family is a welfare system that subsidizes family collapse. It pays more if
daddy ain't in the house. It pays more if nobody works. Once work requirements
were added, the welfare expense went down. If we restructure entitlements and
quit subsidizing idleness, we'll get less of it as well as prevent economic
collapse.
I don’t see how gay couples threaten
the family structure at all. All my gay
friends seem to want is middle class respectability and the rights and privileges
granted to married couples. If anything,
their desire for admittance to the structure of marriage shows their admiration
of it, not any desire to tear it down.