Huckabee Won't "Recant" His Call For AIDS Quarantine

This morning on Fox News Sunday, former governor Mike Huckabee acknowledged that he previously advocated quarantining AIDS patients, but said he would not "recant" from that position.

In 1992, Huckabee wrote, "If the federal government is truly serious about doing something with the AIDS virus, we need to take steps that would isolate the carriers of this plague."

This morning, Huckabee first tried to deny his comments. "Chris, I didn't say that we should quarantine," he said. In fact, he said we "need[ed]" to isolate AIDS patients.

Pressed repeatedly by host Chris Wallace, however, Huckabee relented. "That is exactly what I said. I don't run from it, I don't recant from it. Would I say it a little differently today? Sure, in light of 15 years of additional knowledge and understanding, I would."

Watch the video from Fox News Sunday:

Comments

[ResidentChimp]

Would anyone be willing to do the math and demonstrate how much lower the incidence would be today if Aids carriers were quaranteened? Millions of infectees could have been avoided. Do they count at all? These are the kind of tough issues that Liberals are unwilling to face.

[rh654]

AIDS? While it is incredible that people still get it - after all in the United States it is a disease that is almost 100% completely under the control of people as to whether or not they get it.

Let's get him to discuss to illnesses and diseases that people have far less control over whether or not they get it...

[robotfog]

huckabee looks seriously demented. I can't place my finger on it. Something's not right.

[JackNasty]

Finally James Dobson has a candidate he can support.

[Dehrenstein]

Isn't screamingly obvious that he's a closet queen?

[Steamboater]

Son of a bitch. Huckabee can drop dead for all I care.

[loki]

He also said on SPin Beck that HE wants to change it so Churches can participate in anything they want, including politics without having to worry about losing tax exemption.

[kyoput]

"And the Pharisees gathered round Jesus and exclaimed 'Why does he sit with the sick and the sinners?' And Jesus, hearing them, answered 'Who is it that needs healing? The well and the good? No I come for the sick and the sinful."

Would Jesus ever quarantine AIDS patients? I really f**king doubt it.

[drricklippin]

The media microscope is finally on this affable but dangerous man. His affability makes his all the more dangerous.

But his fundamentalist insanity is finally getting full coverage which I hope will be his end.

If it is not and the Americn voters elect such a rigid theocrat it is OUR end.

Dr. Rick Lippin
http://medicalcrises.blogspot.com

[Trittydi]

Homophobic bigot.
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[isis]

One of the bloggers linked to his site has a noose

http://www.michiganredneck.blogspot.com/

[isis]

Kind of a dumb idea given the incubation period of the virus. But he doesn't let facts get in his way.

[Bernique]

A mule. A mule is what the "ricans" want for a president. After getting a "war monger" for president. We're doomed.

[Mort]

Huck sounds like the idiots who refused to let Ryan White go to school. Good 'ol antisocial hysteria based on lack of understanding.

[lanefiller]

Anyone interested in what Huckabee is really like face to face should
try
this funny (but it actually happened) column:
http://goupstate.us/index.php/lanefiller/2007/11/02/title_14