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Mike Huckabee on the founders at Sunday’s GOP/Fox News debate:

“When our founding fathers put their signatures on the Declaration of Independence, those 56 brave people, most of whom, by the way, were clergymen, they said that we have certain inalienable rights given to us by our creator.”

Really, Mike? Not so much (see link above):

Only one of the 56 was an active clergyman, and that was John Witherspoon. Witherspoon was a Presbyterian minister and president of the College of New Jersey (now Princeton University).

A few more of the signers were former clergymen, though it’s a little unclear just how many…. We’d like to give Huckabee every benefit of the doubt, but even if you consider former clergymen among the signers the best you could come up with is four. Out of 56. That’s not “most,” that’s Pants-on-Fire wrong.

I think I’ve said before that despite Huckabee’s politics being totally, diametrically opposed to most of mine, he seems like a likable guy. Yeah well, that impression is fading. As the late Senator Daniel Patrick Moynihan (D-NY) once said, “You are entitled to your own opinion, but you are not entitled to your own facts.”

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