Posted on 12/15/2013 4:46:32 AM PST by 2ndDivisionVet
Former Arkansas Governor and Fox News Channel host Mike Huckabee weighed in on the escalating feud between establishment Republican politicians and conservative activist groups on Saturday. Asked for his thoughts on House Speaker John Boehner’s (R-OH) admonition of the idealized purism advocated by some outside groups, Huckabee sympathized with Boehner saying that governing is more difficult than activism and “politics is not theology.”
Huckabee began by saying that Boehner was not scolding the tea party movement but conservative groups that capitalize on that movement. He added that some of those groups appear to have an “all or nothing mindset” and that this mentality more often results in getting “nothing.”
“When the movement becomes, sort of, focused in a handful of groups that are raising funds to attack Republicans and the criteria for being attacked is the difference you might have in the tactic of the party, not the philosophy of the party, I think that is what Boehner and the others are really reacting to,” Huckabee continued.
“Governing is tough,” he continued. “Politics is not theology. It’s easy to be pure when you are talking about theology.”
Watch the clip below via Fox News Channel:
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Do you figure Santorum will throw his hat in the ring again in 2016?
Basically what I was thinking as well. This coming from a third tier (laughing stock) wannabe presidential contender.
Used by the GOP-E as a stalking horse for Christie Cream or the Jebster.
Good point. Well founded worry, I think!
He will be an unwilling and uninformed dupe…..as will his voters….for just that purpose. They will want him to really really really thump the so con issues hard to bleed some of Cruz’ support….even tho Cruz is a good so con too.
Cruz’ campaign will not focus on those issues, so the Santuckabee pharisee vote will be a useful tool…..
Huckaphony ate too much road kill.
Funny how the democrats are never at war with their theological base - global warming nuts, the homosexual lobby etc...all of them are just as “theological” as any religious organization.
I heard recently Suckabee wanted to run again in 2016.... Looks like the establishment has found their sucker RINO-crat....
>> So, Huck has gone RINO.
He’s a dick. He’s a really nice guy, but he’s still a dick.
Yes Mike, “Politics is not theology. It’s easy to be pure when you are talking about theology.”
It’s easy to say things like THAT.
But LIBERTY should be treated like theology in the affairs of men. That’s the difference between the Establishment GOP and the Tea Party movement.
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