Oh, how rich (in all manner of idiot hypocrisy). Imagine, an organ of the MSM calling a Christian media pioneer "Kingmaker."
The key is that he comes with “with a populist economic message.”
I.e., he’ll spend other people’s money the way we like.
Also, the media is pragmatic. If you want Rudy to win the nomination, you need to split the social conservative vote in as many ways as possible. If Rudy tops out around 30-35%, and McCain can draw on 10-15% as a war hero, then the remaining 50-60% of the vote needs a 3 way split - Mitt, Fred & the Huckster. If that 50-60% starts to solidify around one candidate, Rudy is toast.
It also is worth remembering the Media is predominately New York - and New Yorkers would probably be content as long as someone from New York won. You just can’t trust an outsider...
Even B. Graham toadied up to clinton. I lost all respect for the guy.
Michael Gerson served as President George W. Bush’s chief speechwriter from 2001 until June 2006, and as a senior policy advisor from 2000 through June 2006.
Many many people do not realize the role of Robertson’s Regent University in filling vacant lawyer slots in the GWB administration.
The “Civil Rights Commission” is choc a bloc with Regent Grads.
It is funny how the OSM is bending over backwards telling themselves that “Younger christians are not interested in the Religious Right issues” ie Abortion gay rights (to marry) etc.
Yet the offer no proof of there position, similarly, the Religious Right crack up remains to be seen de facto.
“Isn’t it funny how the media is almost universal in their admiration and praise of Mike Huckabee? Why is that, do you think? “
Because by hyping Mike Huckabee, it takes votes away from Thompson, who is one of Giuliani’s main rivals. If you notice, every time Huckabee goes up a point or two in the polls, Thompson’s numbers go down.
Huckabee is a vote splitter and is being pushed in the media because he is the most able to split votes form Thompson and Romney in order to protect Giuliani.
Robertson tossed in with Giuliani because he has that gold mine interest in libera. It is simply a matter of the gold rule, gold makes the rules and robertson needs to protect his gold.
The other candidates must not have the same commitment to Robertson’s gold mine interests.
Pat Robertson’s endorsement of Rudy means that Pat Robertson is willing to sacrifice his principles for politics.
And/Or Pat Robertson is a closet Liberal. Then if that was the case, then Pat is hiding is true agenda, which is hypocritical and unchristian.
Although it’s from Newsweak, I’m afraid this article is basically correct. Many evangelicals are politically naive and trusting. They do not have the philosophical dread of government most conservatives do. All the Republican candidates are claiming to be pro-life now, except Rudy, and he claims he will appoint “strict constructionist” judges. Naive and unsophisticated people fall for that kind of sophistry. So the evangelical vote is indeed fragmented. In fact, so is the conservative vote. Just look at the people here on FR who tout Rudy, Romney, Huckabee, and other non-conservatives.
“One effect has been to deprive former Arkansas governor (and former pastor) Mike Huckabee of support. He is the natural candidate of religious conservatives—strongly pro-life, pro-family, but also with a populist economic message.”
Natural candidate? I think not.
Huckabee is preachy and fits too closely the stereotype of the “Relgious Right”. He’s also rather liberal on most issues besides abortion. We can do better.
“Isn’t it funny how the media is almost universal in their admiration and praise of Mike Huckabee? “
Huckabee AND Rudy......two empty suits in search of a clue : )
Echo...echo...echo....
I think that Juliannie is the only Republican who does not have a chance to win against Hillerbeast. He has already proved that in his run for the NYSenate.
Well, there were lots of surprises in this piece for me, starting with the revelation that Gerson served as W’s speechwriter for a long long time....because this piece has Liberal spin written all over it, as far as I’m concerned. True, nobody, especially at this point, figures GW Bush for any kind of conservative, but the Liberal spin for me is this conceit that there are any real “Kingmakers” for Republican candidates and if there are, they are always going to be designated by the Liberal
MSM as being people like Robertson, Billy Graham, etc., in other words, these oddball, eccentric, “too-religious”, too “non-secular”, too out of the mainstream of “real” wised-up, hipper America. So this entire piece seems to be a pretty strenuous exercise is continuing to advance the notion that both the Evangelicals are not really Evangelicals and candidates like Giuliani are not really the moderate, socially “progressive” Republicans they pretend to be.
