Huckabee tells CPAC: ‘We are all Catholics now!’

Maybe They are confused as well RevKen... =)

Yeah confused. Let's just say they are confused, it is much more polite than telling the truth that they are hypocrites.

LOL! When yer right...yer right, my friend. These same MEN would like to repeal Women's Rights, sending thousands of women back to the kitchen table abortionists, imposing THEIR religious beliefs on US. Like Gloria Steinham said, "If MEN had every other baby, abortion would be a sacrament."

Which reminds me of another quote---from Malvina Reynolds (who wrote many of the great protest songs of the 70's). In one song she says,
"A child, before it's born, is sacred, but if one of them should die in the streets of Calcutta, no one would cry but his mom. And aint that just like a woman?"

These same Republicans who so cherish the life of an embryo, dont want to give his mom foodstamps to feed it with, once it's born. "Hypocasy" is a VERY nice word for that.

Well said! 100% correct!

Insanity is the heart and "soul" of the wrong-winger, party and people.

Fair Enough RevKen... =)

Both Catholic & Protestant deny parts of the Bible book of Revelation so here's the Plan Man. Get em all holding hands then show em a big wagon. #2 roll it down a hill thru the doors of a burning barn.

Solved that!

"Maybe it's time for the CC to step out of the 12th century and join the rest of us here in the 21st."

The strength and beauty of the Catholic Church is precisely because it DOESN'T do that.

Right. The "strength and beauty" of the CC is what, exactly? The folks who brought you the Inquisition, the burning of a million women as "witches"? Is that the "beauty" part or the "strength" part? The same folks who "edited" the gospels, deciding which would be included in the Bible and which would be left out? The same folks who decided it would serve their purposes better to remove any reference to JC's marital status and reduced his wife, a high-born educated woman who could read and write (rare, in those days) to a hooker? Since reading non-Catholic material is discouraged, you may not know that then as well as now, NO Jew could be a Rabbi without being married.- The same folks who took a vote five hundred years AFTER JC's death to decide whether he was the "son of God" or a mortal man? At that same time, Islam had appeared and the ONE thing that guaranteed a "Our Guy is better than YOUR guy" was to make JC the LITERAL "son of God", while all the Muslims could call their guy was "a Prophet". This "one-up-manship" set the future and was political, not spiritual in nature... Look how well that worked out--Christians and Muslims have been killing each other in the name of God for 1500 years now as a result.

The Holy Roman Church aquired their strength AND their power by getting the inside track on EVERYBODY's business, from the King right down to the the lowliest peasant thru the clever means of the Confessional. He who knows everybody's dirty little secrets has ALL the power. And the most clever hustle of all--all you have to do to be OK with God is CONFESS your sins-- please.

That the Church has done it's bit for the poor is the LEAST they could do, in view of the fact they have created poverty for millions of people by their stand on birth control, their opposition to science and stubborn refusal to change with a changing world.
The Catholic Church is slowly dying and not a minute too soon. The history of the Church is long, corrupt and bloody.

I GET the "strength" part, LOL. Yeppers....strong enough to control the thinking of millions for centuries is no small accomplishment. But....where's the "beauty"?

You sir for a proclaimed atheist are so not showing those colors in any of your posts... point to ponder.

No, the Republican Party is going back to its roots. It is becoming Conservative, and that will be its strength. It still has a way to go and must become much more Conservative in order to bring America back.

I hear you. However, there is no such thing as "going back". It cant be done--time is experienced by us humans as linear, going ever forward, never backward. Progress is forward. Regress is backward and to fantacise returning to some past "Good Ole Days" is exactly that---a fantasy. Look around you. This is a time of great and tremendous social change, not only in America, but globally. Look at the number of nations who have stood up, en masse this past year to say, "We've had enough and wont take this crap any longer.". Look right here in the USA at the Occupy Wall Street movement. There is a GLOBAL revolution going on against the "old days" and the old regimes. Nobody but the Republicans cling to the "old days" and they fear this Change. In the words of Bob Dylan, "Please get out of the New World if you cant lend a hand....for the Times, they are a'changin'"
The Times, are, indeed changing and the days of the rich, the corporations and the banks owning our leaders and devouring the Middle Class are numbered and dwindling. We will NOT "go back".

You are making up stuff. Nobody wants to go back because it cannot be done, of course. The great Ronald Reagan had the right idea: Remember the Founding principles and move forward.

If we do not have solid principles - Leftists have the principles of "we care" - we have nothing. And these principles must be enduring. Conservatives have them. And we are prepared to enter the global marketplace and not clamor for a REGRESSION into socialism. Left-wingers want socialism, and it is a regression to a brutal and primitive past.

{Look at the number of nations who have stood up, en masse this past year to say, "We've had enough and wont take this crap any longer."}

I hope that you are referring to the Middle East where there is a resurgence of something very dangerous. Ask the Coptic Christians in Egypt.

{Look right here in the USA at the Occupy Wall Street movement.}

It is nonsense. Spoiled brats fornicating and destroying property for no purpose. Anarchy, rape, filth, destruction of property, obscenities in the streets, and even murders and suicides. Degenerates.

Beautifully said! 100% correct. The lunatic-right wants to hide back in some black&white (in more then 1 sense) "father knows best" era world (that never really was as they think it was in their rose-colored glasses lunatic memories).

First you say "No, the Republican Party is going back to its roots"

Then you say "Nobody wants to go back..."

just can't stop contradicting yourself can you?

"I hope that you are referring to the Middle East" You don't pay any attention do you, protests through out the world, the mid east(not a proper name or higher thought doesn't deserve capitolisation) is just a very small portion of the turmoil around our planet. Take of the glasses of myopia and get to looking.

How are things on YOUR planet? Clearly, you dont live on mine.
The OWM is the single MOST important event since the Civil Rights Movement. We WON that one...as we also WON equal rights for women, not to mention ending the Viet Nam war---ALL BY PROTEST.

Im sure you're pulling my leg....right? Nobody could possibly watch CURRENT TV and NOT know "what the point" of the OWM is. You didnt just....wander in here by accident, did you? Got lost on your way to the FOX NEWS site, maybe?

"It is nonsense. Spoiled brats fornicating and destroying property for no purpose. Anarchy, rape, filth, destruction of property, obscenities in the streets, and even murders and suicides. Degenerates."

Just come out and admit that your afraid of OWS because of what they represent, the peasants standing up to the aristocracry, a change in the world brought about by the people for their own good and not yours.

Lets break this down shall we?

"Yes, I posted that song. It is you Left-wingers who refuse to see. There is a proliferation of Conservative think tanks, FOX has broken records, and talk radio is listened to by tens of millions every day. The Tea Party has changed the composition of the House"

1. Your over use of "left winger" is an obvious ploy to redirect attention, probably because you have no conception of the ideas they discuss.
2. Lots of conservative think tanks, wanna know why? Because they are loosing this battle for control and oppression and need every hand on deck to find a way around this.
3. Fox has broken records, many of those for most falsified or rhetorical commentaries.
4. Talk radio is listened to by millions, but not all talk radio is GOP controled or oriented. Hell, "Coast to Coast" has several millions listeners, but you don't here us screaming ghosts have taken my alien to the next dimension for some universal spirit! Your points so far in this post are irrelevant to the reality the rest of us live in.
5. Tea Party changed the composition of the house, yeah they did and I hope your ready for it to take a MAJOR swing in a diametrically opposed direction very soon, like in 9 months.

Oh you poor thing! How old are you? Im 62. I was THERE. I KNOW my Dylan. The song is directed to all the Mr.Jones out there who believe as YOU do. At the time it was written, the HIPPY movement had taken over America. The "straights" (The Mr. Joneses, like you) were confused, disoriented and terrified by us. Dylan was not only "one of us", he was one of our LEADERS in radical thought, a REBEL. He is speaking to YOU when he says, "Something's happening here and you dont know what it is...."
Jesus, you poor thing. What was "happening here" at that time was that HE and WE were standing up against our Eisenhower parent's generation, against sexual repression, against the entire industrial/military complex, against segregation, against the War, against politicians against every stick-up-the-ass Conservative Republican out there screwing up OUR world. You know, the people THEN who were just like YOU are NOW.

Good grief. I must have fallen down the rabbit hole. I cant even believe you could listen to that song and think "Mr. Jones" was the Hippies, LOL.
Seriously now....you didnt really think Bob Dylan....of all people...was a Republican? The same guy who wrote "The Lonesome Death of Hattie Carol"? and "Oxford Town"? and "Maggie's Farm"?

And the sadly funny part is....you STILL dont know what's going on, do you,Mishima Jones?

Correctomundo! Im old enough to remember quite well those TV shows. "Father Knows Best", "Make Room for Daddy", " "Leave it to Beaver" and so on. They all had smart, business-men fathers and stay-at-home moms who always wore their pearls while mopping the kitchen. The women always deferred to their husbands "greater wisdom" , "Whatever you say, dear...."
It is kinda interesting that more recent sitcoms generally show a smart woman running things despite her moronic husband's stupid mishaps. ("Tool Time", "Bewitched" and so on. Nowadays, there seems to be equality, with TV men being only SLIGHTLY more ditzy than the women. I guess that's progress.

"Roseanne" was my personal fave--a working class couple who shared the load and managed to have a functional family despite hardships."All In the Family", of course, went ALL the way Out There, LOL poking fun at ALL the Archie Bunker Republicans trying desperately to hold on to their "Good Old Days" despite the changing times.

Of course Archie Bunker's "good old days" WERE good---IF you happened to be a White heterosexual Male, especially of the Republican persuasian. For women, minorities, Gays....not so much.

Absolutely 100% correct, you stated it better then I!

YOU TELL 'EM, BABY!

Kind words! I got to thinking last night....I wonder how many right-wingers used to watch "ALL In the Family" and actually thought Archie was the ONE sane, normal, intelligent, clear-seeing person in a family of pinko-commie wing nius?
That made me laugh!
Actually, I sometimes felt Archie was channeling my own dad.

I'm sometimes surprised they in their ignorance haven't elevated Archie Bunker as some kind of sainted figure like they have their precious paranoid-dementia-ridden holy-saint-reagan-the-mad.

Made me laugh AGAIN! Yeah...Archie The Hero is right UP there with Bob Dylan, LOL, calling all us HIPPY COMMIES on the carpet.
Mam...that KILLED me, seriously. Im STILL laughing over THAT one.

One thing for sure...we DO live in interesting times.

{ they drared to think.}

They "drared?" To "think?"

LOL

"LOL"? What's funny? Sir Isaac Newton, Copernicus, Nostradamus, to name just a few, lived in terror they would be imprisoned or put to death for their knowledge. You dont seem to know much about your church or it's history of persecuting Thinkers. I guess that's not too surprising.

Oh no, you're the typo police now too?

One MORE example of the hypocrasy they've shown....and shown...and shown....

That's because they want masses of cannon fodder for the wars they are hankering after.

AMEN! Im a proud Pagan and damn right I should be allowed to use the sacred plants Mother Earth has provided us as doorways into Spirit. Mushrooms, marijuana, peyote, are just a few of Nature's holy sacraments. The Magical and Healing herbs have been cast aside in favor of pharmaceuticals. Good grief. Women LIKE Me were burned at the stake for four hundred years by the fucking Catholics even tho MY religion pre-dates Christianity by 10,000 years. Where is MY religious freedom? Im a gifted Tarot reader, but Im afraid to practice since I moved to a small southern town smack in the middle of the Baptist Bible Belt. I literally fear the locals might burn a cross in my yard if they thought Im a "witch"....let alone grow a few MJ plants on my deck.

You're absolutely right--nobody has been more "blessed" by our government than the Catholic Church. If you happen to be a Pagan, a Rastafarian or a practicioner of Vo-Dan, Macumba or Santeria and need to kill a goat or a chicken....or smoke some herb...well, not so "blessed". In fact, you may get to spend the night in jail.

Now, understand that I am of IRISH descent, not African. So, sacrificing chickens or goats is not part of my practice. However, if I were of African descent and wanted to, the Law would frown upon my choice, calling it "barberic". I find that funny in view of the Christian sacrament, in which they are told that the wine IS the blood of Christ as the wafer IS the body. Eating bodies and drinking blood is NOT "barbaric"? Not to even mention the widespread practice of circumcision? Damn...drink JC's blood, eat his body and whack the tip off your baby's penis but DONT smoke that evil weed!

aint that weird? It's TOO expensive to fix the bridges that are crumbling all over America....but spending billions on a pointless war is fine.

Odd that he doesn't mention that, No???

well said.

You people and your worship of your senile-paranoid-dementia-riddled saint, just too much. He obviously was mad with paranoid dementia when dragon-lady wifie was whispering policy in his ears, and it only went downhill. It is so telling of the mentality of the right-wingers that they so worship a literally demented paranoid lunatic. It explains so much.

You think that the great Ronald Reagan showed symptoms of that dreaded disease while president, don't you? That is a sure sign of a brainwashed Left-winger. That Left-winger parrots what he has been taught to parrot, without understanding. Go ahead and declare it clearly, why don't you?

Notice how these same people always LOATHE Clinton, tho? Even tho the budget was balanced, had a surplus, in fact....and everybody who wanted a job had one?
Of course, Clinton got a BJ and we all know Ronnie hadnt had one in years. Maybe never.

"brainwashed"? oh yeah....sorta like Catholics.

I wonder why he was talking, he is no where near a GOP candidate... Odd... =)

He's a preacher, he has a show on fox, and he's a heartless bastard, all of which makes him a rock star at any GOP gathering. Glenn Beck spoke there a couple of years ago for God's sake.

For God's Sake??? Did he (God) ever get back to him or thank him for Filling in for him??? =)

God confers regularly with Beck and justifies everything he says and does (according to Beck).

Man... I thought he only talked to Michele, what is there a ticket line like at the Motor Vehicles??? Now serving "Unit number 2607".... =)

That is their belief but if they actually had to take the test, they would fail.

Driving or God test??? =)

Both, they are too stupid for either.

All of these folks would sell their souls for a few bucks or possibly for headlines. I think the latter is why he is constantly in the headlines. He probably thinks he'll be considered for veep by one of the trolls running for Prez .Heaven forbid he ever gets any power.

Oh... Ok... =)

That makes sense faye59, lets do our best to see their is never a GOP led White House...

Both!

Thanks OlBlue, that was my guess but I was not sure... =)

I agree and I HOPE he wont even talk about it any further. He ended his comment on the perfect note, saying birth control is a woman's right. The presidential wannabes (Larry, Moe and Curly) will keep kicking it around since they no longer have the economy to complain about, of course, but if Obama refuses to comment further, the only real damage they can do is to themselves.

Hmmm, I need to Brush up on this, Thanks for mentioning.... =)

That would really make my Day warman1138... =)

Hey! Condoms cost almost 50 cents each! Gotta have the GOVERNMENT pay for it!

Will Do!!! =)

ABC store??? The only place I have seen them stores was on Oahu, do they have them here as well???

Yep - pretty common in the south, you know - where everybody hates government control - except when it comes to anything you want to do.

Do you mean the ABC stores that are similar to 7/11???

Not to mention Papal infallibility or intercessory prayer to saints...yeah. I'm sure this bond will last.

That unfortunately leaves the likelihood of falsifying their religion, because in the end most Republicans and GOP members tend to be Pro-Christan, something that violates Freedom of Religion to a specific point, and I know Gingrich and his "War on Christianity" means they want no "Freedom of Religion" and "Freedom of Culture", that would be their point.

Well, technically the Inquisition was part of the Reformation.

Oh, good point, though I'm not sure how many Catholics still actually believe in the infallibility of the Pope anymore.

Yup it's hide the sausage, while many cannot afford any... =(

Yep...

Well that is because someone of my Facebook told me that it is some form of maing the United States a "1 Religion Only",

Well Washington State where I live has around 11 different Religions around the Region to choose in terms of having "Freedom of Choice", "Freedom of Culture" and "Freedom of Religion",

And so Far Republicans/GOP feel most of them think of it as the Devil Worship, reason for the US needs to be a Christan only Nation.

I don't think I understood what you said. I am not the brightest bulb in the box, so that's not surprising. But, we are not a religious nation and never have been...not Christian, not Jewish, not Muslim, not Hindu, not Budhist etc etc. That is pure bullshit that is pushed by wing-nut right wing losers who can't see that this country gains its power from diversity not exclusivity.