Former Arkansas Governor Mike Huckabee entered Thurs. night’s first presidential debate of the 2016 race in fourth position in the aggregate of national polls.
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“The military is not a social experiment, the objective of the military is to kill people and break things”, Huckabee said. The goal is to protect America.
“I’m not sure how paying for transgender surgery – for soldiers, sailors, airmen, Marines – makes our country safer”, he said.
HRC President Chad Griffin was quick to respond, tweeting, “Mike Huckabee is fundamentally wrong”.
In his closing statement, Huckabee teed it up like this: “It seems like this election has been a whole lot about a person who’s very high in the polls, but doesn’t have a clue about how to govern”.
The United States, Huckabee said, has “forgotten why we have a military, the objective of it”. He’s also a committed defender of traditional marriage, and has signed a pledge in opposition to the current case in the Supreme Court. “And let me go further”. “I was going to say to the host, ‘Hey guys”. I believe that every single human being is entitled to the protection of our laws, whether they can vote or not.
“And I think future generations will look back at this history of our country and call us barbarians for murdering millions of babies who we never gave them a chance to live”, Rubio warned. “And of course, I’m talking about Hillary Clinton”.
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“I have evolved in many issues over the years and you know who else has?”
