Whoopsie.
From the brilliant minds of TPM:
“Nobody’s going to find some YouTube moments of me saying something radically different than what I’m saying today,” Mike Huckabee has said. But what about these quotes from his Senate run?
Good Question.
Here’s another gem of a quote from Mike Huckabee’s 1992 run for the Senate, in addition to his call for quarantining AIDS patients. As the world was settling into the post-Gulf War sanctions regime, he opposed taking any further military action against Saddam Hussein — and he phrased it in the most isolationist of terms.
In a candidate questionnaire from the Associated Press, one of the questions was whether the U.S. should kill Hussein. Huck’s response: “The U.S. should not kill Saddam Hussein or anyone else.”
Just imagine the outrage from the hard right if Ron Paul, for example, were to have said the same thing.