Huckabee Participates In GOP Debate
By: Matt Turner
Updated: June 5, 2007
Former Arkansas Governor Mike Huckabee and nine other republican presidential candidates faced off Tuesday in the third GOP debate. Yet again, Huckabee was asked about his beliefs regarding evolution. He responded by saying, "I'm not planning on writing the curriculum for an eighth grade science book, I'm asking to be the president of the united states. But you've raised the question so let me answer it. In the beginning, God created the heavens and the earth. To me it's pretty simple. A person either believes that God created this process or believes that it's an accident and it just happened all on its own. And the basic question was an unfair question because it simply asked us in this simplistic manner whether or not if we believed, in my view, if there was is a God or not. Well let me be very clear, I believe there is a God".
Huckabee was then asked about gays in the military and said, "You don't punish people for their attitudes. You punish them if their behavior creates a problem and it's already covered by the uniform code of military conduct".
The former governor also addressed other issues and distanced himself from the president when asked about the party's downfall. "The republican party as a whole deserved to get beat. We've lost credibility, the way we bungled Katrina and the fact that there was corruption unchecked in Washington.", Huckabee said.
As for immigration reform, Huckabee said, "What we need to do is to have a border that's sealed and the same kind of process that we have to go through if we go into a stadium. We go in one at a time and we have a ticket. That's the only thing i think Americans are asking us for, a sane, sensible system."
Huckabee was then asked about gays in the military and said, "You don't punish people for their attitudes. You punish them if their behavior creates a problem and it's already covered by the uniform code of military conduct".
The former governor also addressed other issues and distanced himself from the president when asked about the party's downfall. "The republican party as a whole deserved to get beat. We've lost credibility, the way we bungled Katrina and the fact that there was corruption unchecked in Washington.", Huckabee said.
As for immigration reform, Huckabee said, "What we need to do is to have a border that's sealed and the same kind of process that we have to go through if we go into a stadium. We go in one at a time and we have a ticket. That's the only thing i think Americans are asking us for, a sane, sensible system."
