Huckabee Sticks By His AIDS Story
Mike Huckabee’s nothing if not a man of conviction.
Despite the international outrage over his AIDS quarantine comments, the Republican presidential candidate told Fox News’ Chris Wallace that he refuses to “recant” his offensive statements. The Southern Baptist also attempts to clarify, saying,
I didn’t say that we should quarantine. I said it was the first time in public health protocols that when we had an infectious disease and we didn’t really know just how extensive and how dramatic it could be and the impact of it, that we didn’t isolate the carrier.
Isolation? Quarantine? Why get bogged down by semantics? The fact of the matter is that Huckabee seems to think that further stigma, fear and ignorance are the best tools in this protracted battled.
Wallace reminds Huckabee that his 1992 comments came seven years after the CDC concluded that HIV cannot be transmitted via casual contact. Sensing that his image could actually be tarnished, Huckabee tries to balance his conservatism with compassion by mentioning that fact that he has known people with HIV, including a homo! Said homo’s dead now, of course.
Howsabout we “isolate” the fundies in little camps out west somewhere, where they can be all holy and pure and better’n everybody without the risk of spreading their infectious disease. Or maybe just make sure Huckabee gets isolated back in Arkansas.
As such as asshole that he is. At least he didn’t try and weisel out of it. His current comments sounds almost reasonable to the undereducated mind. Too bad we have so many undereducated minds when it comes to HIV. God help us all.
by the late ’80s we knew as much about AIDS transmission as we do now. Not an iota has changed. And a dentist poking around someone’s mouth, which is bleeding, is hardly “casual contact.”
Keep digging that hole, Mike.