Thoughtless for the Day

Our story so far: When socially conservative Republicans (also known as "the simple folk") discovered that Rudy Giuliani was banging his mistress on the tax payers' dime, Mitt Romeny wears magical Mormon underpants, and Fred Thompson lived up to the promise of being another Ronald Reagan only in that he's a driveling old fart, they turned to Mike "Young Earth" Huckabee (oddly, a social conservative with a rather progressive economic policy). Of course, moving to the front of the pack also means that every half-assed comment you've made since you learned to talk will come back to haunt you.

As it turns out, back in 1992, Mike Huckabee suggested that AID victims be quarantined. Apart form the obvious Civil rights issues carting away the entire first three rows at a Cher concert to a deserted island might raise, there's also a glaring logistical problem: Shipping everybody with AIDS off to Molokai, just might make people with AIDS a little reluctant to get treatment. Mike defended his statement by saying:

"I had simply made the point -- and I still believe this today -- that in the late '80s and early '90s, when we didn't know as much as we do now about AIDS, we were acting more out of political correctness than we were about the normal public health protocols that we would have acted."

By that "logic" you could make a point for quarantining all Fundamentalists. Seriously, we don't know what sort of neurological ailment makes Fundies think the world is 6,000 years old and dinosaurs were the ballast Noah's Ark, or actually give a shit whether or not the two guys down the street get married. We don't even know if it's contagious. All we do know about the disease is that it affects Fundamentalists' hand/eye coordination, causing them to fly planes into buildings.