Could Hillary Clinton wipe the floor with Mike Huckabee in the election?

Question

"Hillary Clinton will commit $50 billion for global HIV/AIDS by 2013, which will help ensure universal access to treatment, prevention and care. Hillary will double the number of people receiving AIDS treatments through U.S. programs.

She will also work to strengthen partnerships with faith-based groups and other non-governmental organizations that have been a critical in helping to address HIV around the world."

http://www.hillaryclinton.com/news/release/view/?id=4437

Republican presidential hopeful Mike Huckabee refused to retract a statement he made in 1992 calling for the isolation of AIDS patients. Responding to an Associated Press questionnaire, Huckabee said steps should be taken to "isolate the carriers of this plague" during his failed run for a U.S. Senate seat from Arkansas in 1992.
Huckabee did not explain how individuals with HIV would have been isolated.
http://www.cnn.com/2007/POLITICS/12/10/huckabee.aids/index.html

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention concluded in 1985 that AIDS was not transmitted by casual contact. But Huckabee said at the time, "there were other concerns being voiced by public health officials."

During his Senate run, Huckabee also told the AP in the questionnaire that he found homosexuality to be "an aberrant, unnatural and sinful lifestyle."

http://www.cnn.com/2007/POLITICS/12/10/huckabee.aids/index.html

steelegrave - yeah, that part bothers me too... as a Democrat, I wish she would keep the focus on the USA.

Answer 1

I assume Huckabee has never had the support of people with AIDS so Hillary can have that enormous voting demographic.

Global AIDS. Is she running for President of the Globe now?

Why is my hard earned tax money going to fight a disease in Africa?

Answer 2

How is Hillary going to pay for all this? Oh yea, She's going to tax the rich. Of course, as a small business owner, I know that I will be footing the bill way more than any rich business owner. I'm afraid that if she gets in her tax increases to fund all of her socialist programs will put me out of business. I have just opened and would like the chance to become successful instead of being taxed out of the market.
Huckabee was looking at AIDS as a disease similar to tuberculosis, which we would isolate for. What he said is that he wouldn't retract his statement based on the information that was available when the statement was made. He wouldn't make that statement today because there is more information available today then there was in the early '90's.

Answer 3

If Huckabee wins the nomination, the Republican are sunk, in my opinion. He may play well in the south and the midwest, but the Northeast is not going to vote for a preacher with a funny name. Sorry, but I don't see it happening. If hillary is the nominee, which we don't know yet, but if she is, the Northeast states are going to decide the election this time.

Answer 4

I think Hillary Clinton could wipe the floor with anyone, but

I also think anyone could wipe the floor with Huckabee. Americans are tired of theocracy and want to return to our liberal, secular foundations.

Answer 5

Actually any Democrat could beat that evangelical nut Huckabee. He would be the Republican party's version of McGovern.

Answer 6

Not if Mike Huckabee gets the nod from diebold.

Answer 7

No, she could wipe the floors for Huckabee though. She would make a great maid, since she knows the property pretty well.

Answer 8

She has a far better chance against a "theocrat" than someone like Rudy in my opinion.

Answer 9

Huckabee is strange.
Hilliary made promises she never carried out 15 years ago. So now she will?
Both are losers.

Answer 10

One small issue should decide the election? How petty.