AIDS, Huckabee, and William F. Buckley, Jr.

One unfortunate by-product of conservatism is the possibility that in standing athwart history yelling stop, one just might just impede genuine societal progress. Former Governor Mike Huckabee, the leading Republican Presidential candidate in Iowa, is under deserved fire for his ugly 1992 remarks that victims of AIDS should be put into isolation. Huckabee’s excuse is that he made those remarks early in our collective understanding of the disease. Unfortunately, the former Governor’s conscience is clear of the need to retract those remarks.