{"id":2493,"date":"2008-04-14T09:41:16","date_gmt":"2008-04-14T09:41:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/principles\/2008\/04\/14\/questions-for-mike-huckabee\/"},"modified":"2008-04-14T09:41:16","modified_gmt":"2008-04-14T09:41:16","slug":"questions-for-mike-huckabee","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/2008\/04\/14\/questions-for-mike-huckabee\/","title":{"rendered":"Questions for Mike Huckabee?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Republican Presidential candidate Mike Huckabee <a href=\"http:\/\/www.union.edu\/N\/DS\/s.php?s=7774\">will be speaking at Union tonight<\/a>. This has provoked the predictable huffy reaction from the usual suspects, but I expect it will be an interesting event, and certainly better than David Horowitz or Pat Buchanan, who I&#8217;m told were the first two suggestions of the students pushing to invite a conservative speaker.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m not sure if he&#8217;ll do a Q&amp;A period after the talk, but if he does, I&#8217;m tempted to try to ask a question. My inclination would be something about the Republican governor (Alabama? Mississippi?) a few years ago who realized that his Christian principles required him to aid the poor, and actually pushed for a tax on the rich to fund social services, against tremendous opposition from his own party. The same tension between conservative Christians and the Tax Cuts Uber Alles crowd was a factor in Huckabee&#8217;s failed bid for the nomination, so I&#8217;d be interested in hearing what he thinks.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m open to better suggestions, though. If you have a not obviously insulting question that you&#8217;d like to hear Mike Huckabee answer, leave it in the comments, and if I like any of the suggestions, I&#8217;ll see if I can get it asked.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Republican Presidential candidate Mike Huckabee will be speaking at Union tonight. This has provoked the predictable huffy reaction from the usual suspects, but I expect it will be an interesting event, and certainly better than David Horowitz or Pat Buchanan, who I&#8217;m told were the first two suggestions of the students pushing to invite a&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/2008\/04\/14\/questions-for-mike-huckabee\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Questions for Mike Huckabee?<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"1","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2493","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2493","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2493"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2493\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2493"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2493"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2493"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}