Presidential aspirant and former governor of
Arkansas Mike Huckabee joined Breitbart’s editor-in-chief Alexander Marlow in
an interview on Saturday.
Appearing on Breitbart News Saturday, the governor demonstrated his
keen ability to articulate conservative principles and values—a likely reason
why he enjoys the highest favorability ratings of all GOP candidates running
for president in 2016.
Governor Huckabee didn’t pull any punches when talking about
Obama’s Iran nuclear deal: “This president’s foreign policy is the most
feckless in American history. It is so naive that he would trust the
Iranians. By doing so, he will take the Israelis and march them to the
door of the oven. This is the most idiotic thing, this Iran deal. It should be
rejected by both Democrats and Republicans in Congress and by the American
people. I read the whole deal. We gave away the whole store. It’s got to be
stopped.”
Modestly, Huckabee acknowledges that his high favorability rating
is good news. “People don’t vote for someone they don’t like. So I just
got a make sure I don’t start doing stuff that make people stop liking me,” he
chuckled.
Marlow, who hosts the program airing on Sirius XM Patriot radio
channel 125 on Saturday mornings, asked Huckabee, “What are conservatives
fighting for in this race?”
Huckabee answered that he believes the biggest mistake
conservatives make is they speak like they are talking “to an assemblage of
people in the corporate board room on Wall Street.” Instead, he explained that
conservatives need to convey a simple message of “conservatism, limited
government, more local government, lower taxes, and less regulation to people
who sweat through their clothes everyday and have to lift heavy things to make
a living.”
Huckabee added that when “We fail to communicate to working men
and women of this country, they don’t connect with us. Ineveitably we lose.”
Marlow asked the governor what is his concept of American values.
Huckabee replied that American values can be summed up in the language of the
Declaration of Independence. “We hold these truths to be self-evident, all of
us are created equal, we are endowed by our Creator with certain unalienable
rights: life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.”
To the governor, our values boil down to everybody
plays by the same rules in America. “We are a nation of law—not emotions, not
men, not money, not power—but a nation of law,” he clarified. “Our worth and
our value comes from a higher source, God. Not the government, but from God.”
Huckabee informed that from this fundamental value all other values
emanate.
Marlow changed the topic to the ongoing Planned Parenthood
scandal. He asked the governor what he thinks about the American government
funding the largest abortion provider in the nation, recently exposed for
allegedly selling baby body parts and fetal tissue.
The 59-year-old author and former Fox News host said that he has
formally called for the immediate end to government funding of Planned
Parenthood. Unfortunately that may be difficult. Huckabee pointed out that
“Democrats get a lot of money from the pro-abortionists.”
The amenable statesman recounted that he has called for
the defunding of Planned Parenthood for years. “The fact that they are getting
between $500-540 million of taxpayer money is really a disgrace,” he asserted. “It is disgusting to fund an organization like Planned Parenthood
that chops up babies and sells the parts like parts to a Buick.”
America needs to “come to grips with a 42-year nightmare of taking
babies from their mother’s womb. This needs to come to an end,” insists
Huckabee.
The country needs to be “civilized,” Huckabee contends. He told Breitbart News Saturdaylisteners that if he were president, it would be his job to
make sure the government was protecting innocent human life, not destroying it
and selling it for a profit.
When asked by Breitbart’s EIC how he would handle massive illegal
immigration, the governor responded that the first thing he would do is seal
the border. He compared the crisis to a broken pipe in your kitchen. “When
water is everywhere, the first thing you have to do is stop the leak.”
The governor said that a major part of the
illegal immigration problem is “Big Business makes sure that nothing ever gets
done.” He argued that the best way to take away advantages of being an illegal
immigrant is to institute a consumption tax. The illegals and the cartel
drug dealers don’t pay the kind of taxes that most working Americans have to
pay.
“They don’t report their income and the employer’s are not paying
the employer tax,” Huckabee complained. “If you take away this financial
advantage, you are going to see Americans going back to work.”
Why such an uproar to his remarks?
Obama's policies are leading Israel to 'the door
of the oven'. To
be incinerated in an Iranian nuclear attack. Of course,
Israel will never let that happen.
So why the uproar when the statement is
true?
Jonathan Rosenblum said this two years ago:
