Tuesday, April 5, 2011

Funny you should mention that, Mike...

When two guys sit around in a stuffy barn wiring stuff together all day, they get to talking about weird stuff.

GC Guy wanted to know why, since I'm pathologically and passionately negative on the whole subject of government, I don't have anything against religionists - even of the most enthusiastically evangelical stripe.

I answered something like this: "People who show up uninvited on your doorstep can be annoying, no doubt about it. And yeah, their message sort of boils down to a threat, that I've got to get right with god or he'll kill me. But the difference between them and a government agent is that they're willing to leave the violence up to god - they don't bring it themselves. To their way of thinking, they're really just trying to be helpful."

Then I come home and see this. Here's perennial presidential candidate Mike Huckabee saying, “I almost wish that there would be, like, a simultaneous telecast, and all Americans would be forced–forced at gunpoint no less–to listen to every David Barton message, and I think our country would be better for it. I wish it’d happen.”

Uh huh. Rotsa Ruck with that 2012 thing, Mike. Maybe it depends on what the meaning of "almost wish" is.

6 comments:

Anonymous said...

I notice that a lot of the YouTube commenters tried to justify Huckabee's uber-creepy remark as a joke.

Yeah, the audience chuckled. But ick. It's no joke at all that Huckabee has a "Christian or else" philosophy. What a creepazoid!

Anonymous said...

TPTB have gone out of their way to supply the voting sheep with the most ridiculous people to fill the office of CEO of Amerika Corp.

I have a belief in a creator, but that's my belief. I could care less what someone else believes. If you are my friend I have your back. Plain and simple. I will resist all evil that wants to intrude into my liberty.

What part of freedom/liberty do these people not get? Dumb question I guess, as we already know.

Chuckelberry is just what he is, a buffoon.

F42

Anonymous said...

Good for you, F42. I have even had Christians tell me it's impossible for me to love freedom if I don't believe in their god.

I doubt that those believers would have my back, ever. I sure as hell wouldn't want to live in Mike Huckabee's theocracy.

You're right. The political choices have been bad as long as I can remember, but they're worse than ever right now. Nothing but buffoons, poltroons and utter warmongering incompetants.

Anonymous said...

Here's perennial presidential candidate Mike Huckabee saying, “I almost wish that there would be, like, a simultaneous telecast, and all Americans would be forced–forced at gunpoint no less–to listen to every David Barton message, and I think our country would be better for it. I wish it’d happen.”

And I say ...
Who the double dipped ice cream cone is David Barton ?
NO wait a minute ... He must be some kind of religion salesman and I have lived this long with no apparent side effects so I don't want to chance it ... Don't tell me.

There is a pretty interesting conversation over at TMM about Religion vs Freedom.
Personally I have gotten along fine without any religion for over 20 years and even then I was into Zen and Taoism and such things.
I just don't feel the need at all.

Just sayin' ....

Stay Safe,

gooch

Tam said...

Ah, Governor Cornpone...

Politically, he's just a sort of Anti-Abortion version of Bill Clinton.

Vagabond said...

Roman Catholic anarchist, here. I've got your back. I appreciate your intellectual integrity.