Posted on 01/04/2008 5:20:42 AM PST by Nervous Tick
... Couching his policy positions in the language of faith and morality, Mr. Huckabee portrays himself as the dream candidate of the religious right...
...But one wonders whether his newfound supporters would really say that if they took a close look at his policies. With increasing frequency, Mr. Huckabee invokes his faith when advocating greater government involvement in just about every aspect of American life. In doing so, Mr. Huckabee has actually answered the prayers of the religious left...
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Evangelical Christianity (as in Rick Warren-Bill Hybels) has “evolved” into liberalism and political correctness.
A coalition based on sanctity of life and traditional marriage holding Evangelical Christians to the GOP is not going to work as well as it used to.
The racial guilt mentality that’s crept in from the Promise Keepers movement of the 1990’s could lead many evangelical Christians right into the arms of Barrack Obama.
Obama identifies with a liberal church but his calling himself “Christian” and saying things like “hope” and “working together” connects with the watered down faith of Warren and Hybels.
And the WSJ would sell their dead grandmother for the gold in her teeth.
Their problem is that there are far too few millionaires to win elections. They would love to jettison the religious conservatives from the GOP, but would never win another election...such a conundrum.
The stark fact is that if Obama wins the Democrat nomination, with his message of populism and anti-corporate greed, a sizable chunk of average-income suburban Republicans will be voting for him. Laura Ingraham noted that in her analysis of the Iowa vote on Fox last night.
Regarding Huckabee.
His approach plays right into this as well and I hate to say it but he would be the best candidate in the face of Obama (and even better with Hillary) to keep a solid evangelical vote on the GOP side.
Of course, economic conservatives and libertarians would jump ship.
But I see Huckabee as a slick politician who may somehow, someway come out a winner in a general election by sheer slickness.
I’ve seen Arlen Specter do it here in PA.
The two “winners” in Iowa were herded in like sheep by the media. They’re the deciders of who gets the nominations and they’ve got the two most liberal of each party through the first step.
Now where are those articles where Hillry minimizes Obama’s “victory?”
Lieberman is supportive of the war on terror.
Even ted kennedy is right on SOMETHING.
Huckabee is leftist on everythign else but X.
He supports a new federal entitlement program to give checks to people.
He is BEYOND cluless on foreign relations.
He supports taxation increases.
Huckabee smaks of the Walace branch of pseudo christians.
An assertion completely without proof.
real winner last night:
Dinosaur Media...not dead yet.
There are people who do follow this tendency.
Lets not fool ourselves completely.
The money players would have us believe we are electing Joe Stalin if we vote for Huckabee.
I'd trust Mike Huckabee before I'd trust the Wall Street Journal.
Where your treasure lies is where your heart lies also (to paraphrase Jesus).
Great. Now we're defining apostasy by political affiliation.
An excellent summary of Huckleberry and his ilk by Todd Wilkin.
http://www.issuesetc.org/resource/archives/wilken3.htm
Forgot to ping you 2 on this one. Pass along the ping if you want to.
Huckabee is the candidate the Left wants to face.
The Wall Street Journal isn’t going to be elected president or anything else. Huckabee could. I am not thrilled about what appears to be Huckabee’s liberal leanings towards governance nor do I wish to have his religion thrown in my face right and left.
I’m neutral on Huckabee. However, if the tools over at the WSJ are opposing him, I might just have to go from neutral to supporter. The WSJ is wrong on just about every topic imaginable.
Yes, the left does want Huckabee because he is an easy kill.
Thanks for the ping.
Huckleberry is the antidote to Romney’s Mormonism that Evangelicals seek. But their allegiance is based on little else. The more Huck is exposed to America the more his coalition will dwindle.
I suspect the GOP insiders may be happy he knocked Romney down a peg in Iowa, but that doesn’t equate to support for him. He did what they wanted him to do. Now it’s time to move on. Romney’s way too expensive in terms of ROI. Too many negatives. But he too served the purpose of putting Giuliani on the back-burner.
So, who’s left? Thompson, McCain, Paul & Hunter. Hunter has no cash and no broad support anywhere. Paul is the puppet of the left. McCain is an angry old man and too liberal on social issues. That leaves Thompson. Thompson has cash, and will work hard in South Carolina. He has to. That’s going to be the make-or-break primary for him.
My money’s been on Thompson so far, and I see no reason to change.
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