Mike Huckabee Threatens To Leave The GOP Over Gay Marriage

[MarcATL]

So what do the USMB Republicans think about Huckabee's latest threat?

RWW News Mike Huckabee Threatens To Leave The GOP Over Gay Marriage - YouTube

Big loss or good riddance?

 

[Disir]

Good riddance.

 

[Dot Com]

This means something because he's a Fox employee like the rest of the Repub Presidential candidates.

 

[Antares]

Seeya Mike.

 

[Steven_R]

There is not a word in the English language that adequately describes how little I care about Mike Huckabee's opinions on any matter.

 

[mdk]

Bye Felicia!

 

[Antares]

Take McCain with you, and McConnell and Graham.....

 

[Luddly Neddite]

Mike Huckabee Threatens To Leave The GOP Over Gay Marriage

And go where?

Who would notice?

 

[Luddly Neddite]

Take McCain with you, and McConnell and Graham.....

Don't start.

That list is way too long for just one thread.

 

[rightwinger]

Republicans show why they are being bypassed by a society they no longer understand

Gay marriage is here, It is an accepted practice with most Americans. Even most Republican voters. In spite of gloom and doom predictions from the Huckabees of the country, we have not collapsed into a den of sin

Continued blocking of gay marriage stamps republicans as mean, stubborn and out of touch

 

[g5000]

So what do the USMB Republicans think about Huckabee's latest threat?

RWW News Mike Huckabee Threatens To Leave The GOP Over Gay Marriage - YouTube

Big loss or good riddance?

I admire the man for sticking to his religious principles, but when he starts demanding others also live by his principles, then he is playing with fire.

This obsession with social issues has probably been the most injurious to the Republican Party. When you couple that with the GOP's utter capitulation of its fiscal and anti big government principles when it held all the power, then you really don't have much of a party left. All you have is a pack of malcontents and whiners.

Therefore, Huckabee's departure would be far less noteworthy than he thinks it would.

 

[rightwinger]

Where would Huckabee go?

 

[Antares]

Arkansas.

 

[g5000]

Where would Huckabee go?

In his mind, he would form a third party of similarly minded malcontents and whiners.

 

[rightwinger]

Republicans need to be as far away as they can from this issue by 2016

In two years, Gay marriage will be the law of the land. Continued fighting by Republicans will stamp them as an archaic party fighting to preserve past hatreds

 

[rightwinger]

HQUOTE="g5000, post: 9934739, member: 34052"]

Where would Huckabee go?

In his mind, he would form a third party of similarly minded malcontents and whiners.[/QUOTE]

God Hates Fags Party?

 

[toxicmedia]

So what do the USMB Republicans think about Huckabee's latest threat?

RWW News Mike Huckabee Threatens To Leave The GOP Over Gay Marriage - YouTube

Big loss or good riddance?

I'm sick of these righties not keeping their threats.

Rush Limbaugh never moved to Costa Rica like he promised.

Ted Nugent is neither dead, nor in jail.

I bet Huck won't keep his promise either

 

[Statistikhengst]

So what do the USMB Republicans think about Huckabee's latest threat?

RWW News Mike Huckabee Threatens To Leave The GOP Over Gay Marriage - YouTube

Big loss or good riddance?

I am gonna go out on a limb and say that if this issue threatens the GOP as much as Mike Huckabee says, then I can see the formation of a "Christian Party" completely separate of the Republican Party. I really could see such a movement forming. And you know, this great Union of ours is a truly free country, if individuals like former Gov. Huckabee want to do this, they should.

The "Moral Majority" (Fallwell) piggybacked itself onto the GOP in 1980 and helped to propel Ronald Reagan to his first landslide win, and from that moment on, the mixture of religion and politics in the Republican Party changed. I am not saying that is good, bad or different. I am saying that a change happened, and we are seeing the results of that now in the 21st century.

The funny thing about Mike Huckabee (who ran an impressive primary campaign on a shoestring budget and did far better on Super Tuesday 2008 than most people thought he would) is that the Right criticized him, even called him a socialist for his Christian stance on immigration.

I'm not saying that one man's snit is going to tear a big national party apart, but we are seeing more and more signs of division within the GOP.

Sure, there are also divisions within the Democratic Party, but what Righties have not realized is that those division, once we learned from the mistakes of 1972 and 1984, often hold us together more than people realize. Not so with Conservatives/Republicans.

One more thing: Huckabee really reminds me that there really, truly are people out there who believe that anything "gay" is so evil, so despicable, that they would abandon a political movement if even the slightest amount of compromise were to happen. Those are people who only see black/white in a world full of greyish tones.

 

[g5000]

If the Holy Book you follow has the Son of God telling you that "love one another" is the greatest commandment, but also has God smiting the shit out of homosexuals, that creates a special kind of turmoil in your heart and soul that will not give you much rest.

I don't buy the "hate the sin, love the sinner" bullshit the anti-gay bunch claims to live by. Their behavior utterly destroys that claim. They have no love for gays. At all.

 

[Steven_R]

Good. Let Huckabee get the Bible Bangers out of the Republican party. Once the Rs go back to being Goldwater Republicans and only worry about smaller government and money, they might start making headway with the American people. Abortion and gay marriage and evolution are done deals and constantly trying to decide what goes on in one's bedroom and classrooms just turns voters away. The sooner the GOP realizes that, the better off they will be.

Getting in bed with the Religious Right was the worse mistake the GOP ever made.