Consistent Conservative (60 sec)

Our rights come from god, I'm with you on that part. But our rights also shouldn't be determined by wealthy snobs, the union busting industry, big agra-usiness, CEOs or any other economic royalist who doesn't know what it's like to hold a bill until payday because it won't clear yet, or to worry if you can afford to take your children to the doctor, or have to give a family member an IOU instead of a birthday present. The wealthy should never confuse themselves with god.

ROMNEY. What more can I say. He is one that truly wants to secure our borders. He wants to see that the laws are to be followed and that there is no rights given to those WHO CROSS OUR BORDERS ILLEGALLY. BY ENFORCING

Huckabee rejected tightening border security until he started taking heat for it in the primaries. (But it was less of an about-face than John McCain.)

Huckabee believes in using government force to fix people's bad habits. (Albeit less forcefully than Mohammed.)

For these and other reasons, I am opposed to Mike Huckabee getting the G.O.P. nomination. (But I'm less opposed to him getting nominated than, say, Teddy Kennedy.)

Huckabee is a big-government nanny-state evangelical. (Albeit less than Jimmy Carter.)

Huckabee opposes Constitutional strict-constructionism in favor of seeing it as a "living document." (Albeit less than Ruth Bader Ginsburg.)

Huckabee was big on pardoning hardened criminals after they'd been convicted by a jury of their peers. (Albeit less egregiously than Michael Dukakis.)

Huckabee made a whole lot of money in borderline unethical ways while governor of Arkansas. (Albeit less so than Bill Clinton.)

Huckabee believes in campaigning for Democrats to the detriment of GOP candidates in Arkansas. (But I'll grant he's less of a R.I.N.O. than Arlen Specter.)

Huckabee believes that the way to fix the problems of families is for the government to get involved in those problems. (Albeit somewhat less than Hillary Clinton and her "village.")

Have you never heard of the Declaration of Independence?
You know, the line that reads:

"We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness."

Now, I will admit is doesn't actually say "God", but what do you think they meant by "Creator" anyway?

Hard to reply in 500 characters, but here's the gist: Jefferson's draft, not Congress' final version, of the Declaration states explicitly that our rights derive from our nature, not God. Montesquieu says it in The Spirit of the Laws, as does Locke in his Second Treatise on Civil Government. Madison and Jefferson's writings concur. A supreme being may or may not have created us, but our equality and rights derive specifically from the *nature* of our existence, i.e. our humanity and autonomy.