Mike Huckabee is BuzzFlash.com's GOP Hypocrite of the Week

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Mike Huckabee

Welcome back to the BuzzFlash GOP Hypocrite of the Week.

Just how hypocritical is the engaging, "authentic" Mike Huckabee? Oh, let us count the ways.

Today, we'll just focus on one: the faith issue.

On Huckabee's campaign Web site, he has an "issues" section on "faith and politics," in which he appears to make a claim for a tolerance of all faiths under the Constitution:

The First Amendment requires that expressions of faith be neither prohibited nor preferred. We should not banish religion from the public square, but should guarantee access to all voices and views. We should share and debate our faith, but never seek to impose it. When discussing faith and politics, we should honor the "candid" in candidate -- I have much more respect for an honest atheist than a disingenuous believer.

Take special note of the sentence: "We should share and debate our faith, but never seek to impose it."

Well, just before the Michigan primary, Huckabee told supporters:

"[Some of my opponents] do not want to change the Constitution, but I believe it's a lot easier to change the Constitution than it would be to change the word of the living God, and that's what we need to do is to amend the Constitution so it's in God's standards rather than try to change God's standards"

Maybe we're just a tad cynical, but that pledge to change the Constitution according to what Mike Huckabee perceives to be "God's standards" -- which are not the same "standards" as viewed by Americans of our other Christian denominations and faiths -- well, that seems like a whole lot of imposing one denominational faith as seen through the eyes of one man on the entire nation.

We venture to say that Mike Huckabee is being -- despite his likable personality as a holy man/populist -- hypocritical, to say the least, when it comes the issue of "imposing" his faith on us.

As far as we are concerned at BuzzFlash, Huckabee -- who counts the loathsome Dick Morris as a key behind-the-scenes advisor -- might be a guy we would like comforting us when we are ill, but we certainly don't want him jamming fundamentalist Baptist Gospel down our throats with a smile.

Can a man who claims that he is a vessel of God and Christ be a hypocrite? You bet, just take a look at Mike -- and that is why he merits being chosen as the BuzzFlash GOP Hypocrite of the Week.

Remember our motto: So many Republican hypocrites, so little time.

Catch up with you soon.

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This is the second HOTW Award for Mike Huckabee. He also won the award on December 7, 2007.

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