Has Mike Huckabee Drunk the Special Radical Christian Conservative Koolaid???
Mike Huckabee makes a completely false statement at the Republican debate Sunday night, but nobody calls him on it, perhaps because the false statement reflects the Radical Christian fantasy view of history. Fantasies and pandering are all that’s left of the Republican Party.
Evidently Mike Huckabee said on Sunday, during the debate by the Republican candidates for President, that “most” of the signers of the Decrlaration of Independence were “clergymen.” As Politifact and Josh Marshall point out, that number is actually 1 in 56. Yeah, he got the number completely and utterly wrong. But I’m wondering if he really believes that the signers of our Declaration of Independence were mostly clergymen. Has Mike Huckabee so swallowed the Radical Right Wing Christian Cleric line that he can’t even tell propaganda from fact anymore? It’s beginning to appear as such. Knock one more candidate out of the race for reason that he has no firm attachment to reality.
As to the other candidates, Romney and Paul and Giuliani and McCain, not one of them called Huckabee on his outrageous statement. I’d put that under the pandering label. They all, especially Paul, likely knew that Huckabee’s statement was completely false, but they let it slide lest they offend the whack job wing of the Republican Party.
Republicans, pandering to idiots 24/7.
Don’t have a stat for the signers of the Declaration, Steven, but here’s an interesting quote about the signers of the Constitution from the main page of Signs-of-the-Times (note the date which I’ve bolded):
“QUOTE OF THE DAY
The convention which framed the Constitution of the United States was composed of fifty-five members. A majority were lawyers-not one farmer, mechanic or laborer. Forty owned Revolutionary Scrip. Fourteen were land speculators. Twenty-four were money-lenders. Eleven were merchants. Fifteen were slave-holders. They made a Constitution to protect the rights of property and not the rights of man. This great and powerful force-the accumulated wealth of the United States-has taken over all the functions of Government, Congress, the issue of money, and banking and the army and navy in order to have a band of mercenaries to do their bidding and protect their stolen property. (Senator Richard Pettigrew - Triumphant Plutocracy 1922)”