Huckabee Defends AIDS Statement

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Mike Huckabee is turning out to be everything I feared Fred Thompson would be: wrong about everything, but sounds reasonable enough to appeal to mainstream America. I watched Huckabee's interview on FOX "News" Sunday, and find him to be just as much a bobber and weaver as any other politician.

For all the (tedious) talk about religion this campaign season, and the focus on Huckabee's cred as a Christian--he's just as bad as the rest. He will not answer a question about his past statements directly an honestly. In this case, he is not changing his story as much as he is sugar-coating it.

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Huckabee stands by AIDS statement

GOP presidential hopeful Mike Huckabee said Sunday that he stands by the statement he made 15 years ago that AIDS patients should have been isolated.

"I didn't say that we should quarantine," Huckabee said in an interview with Fox News, "I simply made the point, and I still believe this today, that in the late '80s and early '90's, when we didn't know as much as we do now about AIDS, we were acting more out of political correctness than ... normal health protocols."

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