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This post could possibly be considered the “Weekly Evil Wrap Up”, but we’re not going to be that blanket with our consideration of the current crop of Republican candidates.  We’ll leave that impression up to you.

Rudy Giuliani, who in some places is the front runner, and in some places is close behind- was a guest on MSNBC’s Meet The Press recently, and here’s just a smattering of the Q and A that took place:

Mr. Giuliani was dismissive when asked about the work his law firm, Bracewell/Giuliani, has done on behalf of Citgo Petroleum Corporation of Houston, the American subsidiary of Venezuela’s state-owned oil company, Petroleos de Venezuela S.A. (PDVSA).

Hugo Chávez, the socialist leader of Venezuela who derides President Bush as a genocidal murderer, controls the state company.

Ok, so, you know, that’s just like, you know, business.

His personal life was also touched upon, when Mr. Giuliani, the former mayor of New York who was twice divorced, was questioned about the decision to provide security to his then-girlfriend, now wife, Judith Nathan, at taxpayer expense.

By “then-girlfriend” I believe they mean “mistress”

…(H)is defense of his decision to drop out of the Iraq Study Group.

Mr. Giuliani missed several early meetings, and on those days instead gave speeches for which he was paid millions of dollars.

He said it was because he was considering running for Prez, and didn’t want that to taint the findings.  That’s probably a half-truth.  My guess- he was running for Prez, and knew he’d need the money for campaigning.  Of course, with the $ he made from Chavez, and what his security firm is making off of the gov’t of Qatar (a U.S. ally suspected of harboring Khalid Sheik Mohammed, the mastermind of the 9/11 attacks) he’d probably had enough to have made a few meetings.  Especially, you know, as the guy who’s so tough on terror and all.

Mitt Romney, aka “Is he that Mormon guy?” (btw… yes he is) is also listed as high up in the rankings, and keeping a high profile giving what many considered to be his “JFK speech about Catholisism” only, in this case, about being Mormon.  But how did it work?  Well it depends on who you ask.  Maureen Dowd of the New York Times had this to say:

The problem with Mitt is not his religion; it is his overeager policy shape-shifting. He did not give a brave speech, but a pandering one. Disguised as a courageous, Kennedyesque statement of principle, the talk was really just an attempt to compete with the evolution-disdaining, religion-baiting Huckabee and get Baptists to concede that Mormons are Christians.

Jon Krakauer author of “Under the Banner of Heaven,” a best seller about the Mormon faith agreed with Dowd’s assessment.

“J.F.K.’s speech was to reassure Americans that he wasn’t a religious fanatic,” Mr. Krakauer agreed. “Mitt’s was to tell evangelical Christians, ‘I’m a religious fanatic just like you.’”

Last but not least- we have Mike Huckabee, who in 1992 suggested all AIDS patients be quarantined from the general population, and now has been asked to explain where he stands on the issue in 2007:

“If the federal government is truly serious about doing something with the AIDS virus, we need to take steps that would isolate the carriers of this plague,” he wrote. “It is the first time in the history of civilization in which the carriers of a genuine plague have not been isolated from the general population, and in which this deadly disease for which there is no cure is being treated as a civil rights issue instead of the true health crisis it represents.” (Huckabee in ‘92)

“Fifteen years ago, the AIDS crisis was just that, a crisis,” he said. “There was still a great deal of, I think, uncertainty about just how widespread AIDS was, how it could be transmitted. So we know more now than we did in 1992, all of us do — hopefully.” (Huckabee ‘07)

Though, here’s something funny to think about-

Four years before Huckabee’s statement, however, President Ronald Reagan’s surgeon general, C. Everett Koop, sent out a brochure about AIDS to American homes in which Koop wrote, “No matter what you may have heard, the AIDS virus is hard to get and is easily avoided. You won’t just catch AIDS like a cold or flu because the virus is a different type. The AIDS virus is transmitted through sexual intercourse, the sharing of drug needles or to babies of infected mothers before or during birth.”

And two years before, in 1990, President George H. W. Bush had signed the Ryan White HIV/AIDS program into law to care for those suffering from the disease. The bill had passed the Senate 95-4.

Ok, so Huckabee wasn’t prone to researching top issues in the early 90s when he was running for Senate, what does that have to do with now you ask?

Two days after the Des Moines Register proclaimed him first in its Iowa poll, the former Baptist minister was unable to answer any questions about the recent National Intelligence Estimate that concluded Iran had suspended its nuclear program. More than a day after the NIE had been released, Huckabee not only hadn’t read it, he hadnt even heard about it.

In Columbus, Ohio, Friday, former Sen. Fred Thompson, R-Tenn., slammed his GOP rival.

“Not only is Iran the major long-term threat to our country, the nuclear program is the most important part of the Iran consideration,” Thompson said. “For a presidential candidate not to know that and not to keep up with that is very surprising.”

Ouch, ok.  Well, at least he’s still got Chuck Norris to patrol our borders.  Oh, one more thing, how’s Huckabee feel about homosexuals?

In that same 1992 questionnaire, Huckabee wrote that “homosexuality is an aberrant, unnatural, and sinful lifestyle, and we now know it can pose a dangerous public health risk.”

Saturday in North Carolina, Huckabee stood his ground and said he believed that homosexuality is sinful and is not normal behavior; that it “is outside the boundaries of man/woman relationship and its tradition of marriage.”

As far as it being a health risk, as he believed in the 1992 survey, he backed off just a bit.

“There are lots of obvious changes in what we understand about transmission today that we didn’t understand in 1992,” he said.

In other words- I’m not going to come out and tell you what I think about gays being carriers of disease.

Thank you Sirs, that will be quite enough from the lot of you.

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