Republican presidential candidate Mike Huckabee is an unabashed advocate for an American theocracy. He doesn't bother couching it in roundabout language; he is running his campaign on the notion that his religion is right, and that if you make him president he will make it your religion too, and he'll
use all the power of the government to do it. Think Taliban-controlled Afghanistan, but with more strip malls.
Or think Paraguay.
GOP presidential candidate Mike Huckabee supports Paraguay's decision to deny an abortion to a 10-year-old rape victim, he revealed in an interview Sunday.
In an appearance on CNN's "State of the Union," the former Arkansas governor argued that the Paraguayan government's refusal to allow an abortion for the now-11-year-old, who gave birth last week after being raped by her stepfather, prevented a second tragedy.
A child who gave birth
via cesarean, some news reports seem hesitant to add, a complication perhaps due to the physiology of a 75-pound, 11-year-old girl being not conducive to childbirth.
Of course he would be the one to come out as being for the Paraguay government's refusal. Of course.
Huckabee was at one point in his career considered serious presidential material; we should thank our stars that this time around there are a dozen other equally extreme-in-their-own-ways candidates to split the vote and make him an also-ran. But Mike Huckabee is the evidence that yes, there are plenty of people in America who would happily toss aside our notions of democracy if it meant putting their particular version of God in charge of us all. And if that means sending federal troops to make sure you abide by the edicts of their God and not your own, so be it.