Pic Of The Moment: Mike Huckabee Threatens GOP Split Over Gay Marriage

[EarlG]

Mike Huckabee: Evangelicals Will 'Take a Walk' if GOP Supports Marriage Equality - VIDEO

Huckabee Hints at 2016 Presidential Run

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[marble falls]

1. Riiigggghhhhhhhtttt ..... run don't walk.

[riverbendviewgal]

2. Yes get walking

it will be like walking the plank into the big deep ocean...never to surface or be of any importance...bye bye...

[JEB]

19. A long walk

on a short pier.

[Squinch]

3. Snort! That'll teach us Democrats!!!

[Cirque du So-What]

4. Well...

BYE!

[pizzadave]

34. OMG!

Laughed so filpping loud at this.

Well done.

[BlueManFan]

5. And Where Does This Buffoon

think the Bible thumpers are going to walk to? Huckabee is such a piece of shit. God must thrilled to have Huck as a standard bearer for Christ!

[RKP5637]

40. Do it HUCK, make Jesus proud !!! n/t

[Left Coast2020]

62. Oh Please!! Break the GOP into tiny little pieces!!

Just Do It!!

[nxylas]

56. Him, as a third party candidate

We can hope, anyway. If nothing else, it'll be interesting to see how the Freepers continue to peddle their "GOP lost because they weren't conservative enough" narrative once Huckabee crashes and burns, as he inevitably will.

[sheshe2]

6. Buh bye, Mike...nt

[SDjack]

7. Jump! Jump! Jump! nt

[liberal N proud]

8. It is fun watching them eat their own.

[Swede Atlanta]

9. I welcome that....

it would lay bare the Xtian GOP from true conservatives. That can play one of two ways. Either the vast majority of voters go with the GOP (and their lies) of they are split between the extreme Tali-Christian beliefs and the rest of the GOP or they are unified under the GOP.

Either way, demographics predict a demise of the GOP brand, as currently constituted. It will die a slow, withering death...the one I wished for was it Reagan, Bush or?????

[William769]

10. Promises, promises.

[corkhead]

11. a split between the religous zealots and the greedy bastards - bring it on

[Initech]

12. Values voters = American Taliban

I'm tired of them - hopefully SCOTUS tears down DOMA and they become more and more irrelevant with each election.

The worst thing the Republican party ever did was give rise to the "Southern Strategy" and allow southern evangelicals to gain power and political office. It hasn't led to anything good and I'm glad their reign of terror is over.

[get the red out]

26. the Southern Strategy

has almost destroyed this country IMO. I'm glad they are turning on each other, it had to happen eventually, the money behind the GOP won't fall in line behind their hateful "values" if they don't see anything to be gained. The American Taliban has been used, they are so stupid it's take years and years for them to start to see it.

[Initech]

29. The Bush administration was the proverbial bubble getting too big.

And the bloated policies that this administration passed, and the religious bigotry that followed 9/11 caused it to burst. And the Tea Party is the direct result of 8 years of their horseshit. All the in fighting that's going on in the GOP right now is a direct result of the Southern Strategy getting too big for it's own good.

[Arkana]

13. Please please please please please please please...

if there is a benevolent God, he will make this happen. Like YESTERDAY.

[AtheistCrusader]

14. Grumpy Cat responds...

[patrice]

51. ++!!

[Fuddnik]

15. Split Dude!

Don't let the door hit you in your fundie ass on the way out. In fact, I hope it does. And leaves a mark.

[Bucky]

16. This is the same shitty "God likes me better than you" extremism that led to the Civil War

[RKP5637]

41. Taliban Huck! n/t

[titanicdave]

17. Oh My.....

Hey Mikey.........he doesn't like it.........bye bye Mikey

[BlueManFan]

18. Having Two Brain Cells to rub together Means Clearly I'm not A Rethuglican....

but I wonder......If the political arm of the republican party might be more interested in governing if the jesus freaks in the religious wing left the party. Since Ralph Reed and Jerry Falwell co-opted republicans, they have had to "dance with the devil"-every pun intended and kow-tow to these social neanderthals. While I salivate at the prospect of a republican party that consumes itself in a holy war, I think the country would be better off if these pseudo-Christians would fuck off.

[RKP5637]

42. Now I see why they had the lion pits! n/t

[lark]

20. Nice as it sounds, won't ever happen.

Religious zealots are strongly right wing, not just on social issues but on every issue. If we're lucky, some of them might just not vote, but I wouldn't even count on that, much as I'd like to.

[MADem]

24. They've stayed home before....they will again. And they may come out for the Dems, too!

For a long time, fundies didn't vote--they left all that to "God's will."

The GOP successfully motivated them--and other religious groups-- with Reganesque "moral majority" appeals, and they've been on the GOP team ever since...but before that, religious people could actually be motivated towards a very liberal POV by "social justice" issues (the Berrigan brothers, and other Jesuits, for example, during the Vietnam war, to say nothing of MLK and other influential black pastors--you can't get more liberal than those guys).

Religious people have been on the "liberal" team before--and with the right marketing, they could be again. These foolish 'no one's business' faux wedges that the GOP keep trying to shove at people and demand they get upset about them (abortion, equality, e.g.) just don't have the same shock value appeal that they did when they were first brought forward into the national conversation...but poverty, hunger, illness--all those things that actually were discussed in the Bible and are still a problem both here at home and around the world--are still with us.

The smart political tactician will take those elements and run with them--and capture the fundy flag, as it were.

[RKP5637]

43. And the flock is easy to manage ... just feed them the right words and thump the bible. Exactly!

"The smart political tactician will take those elements and run with them--and capture the fundy flag, as it were."

[MADem]

45. If they feed them the words that talk about feeding the hungry and

clothing the naked and sheltering the homeless and caring for the sick, then maybe they could do some good in this world.

I look at these religious texts from all faith groups, and that's the kind of stuff that resonates across the spectrum--the prophets, be they Jesus-Isa or Muhamad or Name Your Favorite, all sounded like "damn socialists" to me! Wish more people would take those lessons, instead of the "Thou Shalt Nots" to heart!

[RKP5637]

48. +++ 1,000,000 +++ It just needs a major paradigm shift ... Really sharp dem. politicians

could pull this off, I think. Frankly, I could live in some futuristic society wherein the concept of $$$$ was gone and cooperation meant survival and ALL were equal.

[Liberalagogo]

21. Please proceed, JACKASS n/t

[Gormy Cuss]

22. Huckabee would be doing the GOP a favor.

There are lots of GOPers who are tired of being held hostage by the evangelical wing of the party.

[TeamPooka]

23. Preacher and public idiot Mike Huckabee says gay marriage is like lowering a basketball hoop

from 10 feet tall down to 6 feet.
No Mike, the correct analogy is that gay marriage let's everyone on the court to play the game.

[mountain grammy]

25. Split in two, jump off the cliff, whatever! It's in God's hands, right Mike?

[DonCoquixote]

27. Evangelicals may take a walk?

From your lips to Hell's ears Mike. Then the GOP can be eve LESS relavent, granted, there still will be a right wing, but Bill and Hillary will be running that side of the fence.

[formercia]

28. Calling King Solomon!!

Your assistance is requested by the GOP!!

[Smilo]

30. Go for it

please.

[Hubert Flottz]

31. Take a HIKE Mikey and don't let the door hit you in your...

Dick Cheney.

BOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO HOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO HOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO HOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!

Let the great gnarling and gnashing begin in pubbyworld.

[louis-t]

32. Buh.....

bye.

[florida08]

33. better think on it Huck

"Every kingdom divided against itself is laid waste, and no city or house divided against itself will stand" 'Do not put the Lord your God to the test.'

[Amimnoch]

35. Sounds like a great idea to me. They should do it.

[Blue Owl]

36. Huckabee is a genius -- a GENIUS, I tell you...

C'mon Mike, show the world what a split GOP would look like...

[durablend]

37. K THX BYE n/t

[RKP5637]

38. So, many of these evangelist types are fond of saying LGBT is less than 2% of the

population and don't deserve a damn thing. So, he wants to split the party over less than 2% of the population getting some civil rights. If LGBT is less than 2% of the population (according to these twerps) WTF is the big deal. This, shows how easily they are controlled and how stupid they are if this can cause them to split the party. Be my guest, DO IT!!! DO IT!!! DO IT!!!

[nonoyes]

39. Let's have 10,000 DU members all write in to Huck

And tell him we're with him, we will all "leave the Republican Party"!

That should get this idea moving. Huck will think he's got support for his idea.

Then he'll leave the Republican Party, start a third party, a few million righties will join him, and we Dems will win elections from now on.

[Jim Lane]

44. Let's just hope Huckabee never heard the name "Ralph Nader".

Go for it, Huck! If the GOP backs marriage equality then there'll be no real difference between the two major parties, so it's time for a stand on principle!

[existentialist]

46. The alliance between evangelicals and Wall Street always was a shotgun marriage.

If they now fully come to understand that they really have nothing in common, well its about time.

Now if they could just manage to wake up to a few other realities . . .

[Monk06]

47. Huckleberry is such a tease !!

[patrice]

49. Repubs might just take him up on that since they're probably mad at Evangelical End Timers

who may have had a role in dragging this country into a lying war for Bush anyway.

[oldandhappy]

50. Bye

[Thinkingabout]

52. Let us never allow Huckabee to forget the Democrats do not feel the way he does about gays

So he should not seek to run to the Democrat party, we don't want you, stay away.

[Historic NY]

53. Appalachian Trail....where GOP infidelity roams.

[Cha]

54. Go For IT Saint Huckster.. I freaking

dare you.

[DFW]

55. Look out for the God Squad!

Their votes are made for walking
And that's just what they'll do
One of these their votes
Are gonna walk right out on you......

[Javaman]

57. while I would applaud any split of the republic party (wink)...

I seriously doubt that mr huckabee has that kind of voice or alleged power to exact any kind of "split".

If there is a split of any kind, it will be him and his hand full of narrow dopes left at the station.

[toby jo]

58. Uh oh, how will they manage with all that brain power gone - they're

providing so fucking much enlightenment to the clan.

[leeroysphitz]

59. A long, lonely walk into the sunset and good fucking riddance. n/t

[nakocal]

60. Huckabee not a Christian

Mike Huckabee and his ilk do NOT support any of the actual teachings of Jesus. They are NOT Christians.

[caledesi]

61. Very good Earl!

The Founders Fathers were smart. They knew this could happen. That's why they included separation of church and state. Oh yeah!