"Conservative" Huckabee Wants to Censor Free Speech

From The Jawa Report, Dr. Rusty Shackleford:I caught an NPR interview with Mike Huckabee on Morning Edition. You can listen to the interview here. . . . Then the interview turned to South Carolina and the news that a pro-Huckabee group is using push-polling. Here's a partial transcript:Huckabee: I personally wish that all of this was outlawed. I think that every candidates should speak for themselves, and that every thing that involves the candidate's name or another candidate's name should be authorized and approved by that candidate, otherwise it shouldn't be spoken. . . . The point is that candidates can't force these special interest 527 groups to stop. I wish we could.Wait, so not only does Huckabee want to outlaw push-polling, he also wants to require that "every thing that involves another candidates name should be authorized and approved by that candidate"? So, if I want to run an ad calling you a liberal, Mr. Huckabee, I'd have to get your approval? Isn't that the very essence of censorship?

As I tell my students, the First Amendment was not passed because the Founding Fathers were particularly concerned about your right to download porn at incredible speeds. The First Amendment was passed to protect political speech. Criticizing candidates is the fundamental reason why we have a First Amendment in the first place, and a democracy cannot function without it. Huckabee isn't a conservative, he's a nightmare.

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