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Huckabee: Republicans who denounced Todd Akin ‘are not rational’

Fox News host and former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee urged his fans to support Rep. Todd Akin (R-MO), who recently said it was impossible for a victim of “legitimate rape” to become pregnant. “The Party’s leaders have for reasons that aren’t rational, left [Akin] behind on the political battlefield, wounded…

Akin apologizes: ‘I was talking about forcible rape’

The Republican Senate candidate from Missouri on Monday said he had made “serious mistakes” by claiming that women could not get pregnant from “legitimate rape.” In his first interview since telling KTVI-TV that “the female body has ways to try to shut that whole thing down,” Todd Akin expressed his…

LISTEN LIVE: Akin speaks to Huckabee following rape remarks

Republican Senate candidate Todd Akin (MO) is expected to speak to conservative radio host Mike Huckabee following remarks where he claimed that women could not get pregnant through “legitimate” rape. Listen to this live audio from KVOI, broadcast Aug. 20, 2012.…

Huckabee battles ‘militant homosexuals’ with ‘Chick-fil-A Appreciation Day’

Fox News host Mike Huckabee is so outraged that The Muppets and “militant homosexuals” are attacking Christian restaurant chain Chick-fil-A for their stance on LGBT rights that he has calling for “Chick-fil-A Appreciation Day” on August 1. “I have been incensed at the vitriolic assaults on the Chick Fil-A company…

Huckabee: Boy Scouts’ LGBT ban is ‘right decision’ to prevent sex crimes

Fox News host Mike Huckabee on Wednesday said that the Boy Scouts of America’s policy of discriminating against LGBT Americans was the “right decision” to protect young boys from being molested. After a two-year review, Boy Scouts spokesperson Deron Smith on Tuesday announced that the discriminatory rule was “absolutely the…

Huckabee worries EPA could say Baptists use ‘too much water’ for baptisms

Fox News host Mike Huckabee, who is an ordained Southern Baptist Minister, recently warned that President Barack Obama’s Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) could force his religion to begin using less water to baptize believers. During a Tuesday evening interview with Family Research Council President Tony Perkins, Huckabee worried that if…

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

Former Republican presidential candidate Mike Huckabee on Friday said that President Barack Obama had turned evangelicals into Catholics by requiring private health insurance plans to cover contraception for women. Speaking at the Conservative Political Action Conference, Huckabee gave “a great big thank you to President Obama.” “You have done more…

Bachmann: I don’t hate Muslims, ‘I love the American people’

Republican presidential candidate Michele Bachmann on Saturday denied that she “hates Muslims.” In an interview with NBC’s Jay Leno Friday, Rep. Ron Paul (R-TX) claimed that Bachmann “doesn’t like Muslims.” “She hates Muslims,” Paul said. “She hates them. She wants to go get them.” Fox News host Mike Huckabee told…

Rep. Steve King blasts Rick Perry for ‘stepping on’ Ames Straw Poll

Republican Rep. Steve King of Iowa took issue with Texas Gov. Rick Perry “strategic” decision to announce his presidency on the same day as the Ames Straw Poll, wondering if the governor thinks Iowans are “a bunch of country bumpkins?” “Rick Perry has strategically decided he’s going to try to…

Which GOP superstars are attending Glenn Beck’s Jerusalem rally?

Soon-to-be-former Fox News host Glenn Beck is in the process of planning his upcoming rally in Israel, and according to one report, the guest list will be an unholy mash-up of conservative notables. The August 24 rally “to restore courage” (sequel to last summer’s “rally to restore honor” Beck threw…

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