Perhaps. He does not come across that way to me, but then again, I suffered through part of his governorship in Arkansas.
And I still think he looks like a pudgy, wall-eyed Jim Nabors.
So yeah, I am certainly reserving judgment. But case in point: I just saw clips from a "town hall" meeting with Huckabee in Michigan. Someone asked him about where he stands on abortion. His nswer was really carefully tuned to send the best message to his social conservative base and not put off liberals. In fact, he echoed what socially progressive Christians have been saying for a while, now which is that all human life is sacred from conception all the way to death. He added that this comprehensive viewpoint makes him "pro-life", not anti-abortion.Yeah, that is just the thing I don't like about him.
Now how could anyone argue with a position like that. Who is "anti-life". The problem is that no one asked him the tough question that follow from that, which are:
If you are pro-life as you have defined:
- where do you stand on capital punishment?
- would you permit an abortion if the pregnancy was endangering the mother's life?
- do you place the sanctity of life of a 12 cell embryo above its possibility of contributing stem cells towards curing life threatening diseases?
- is there such a thing as a "just war"?