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Jonah's channelling the argument of From Billy Graham to Sarah Palin: Evangelicals and the Betrayal of American Conservatism, a book that came out a few years back and blamed Evangelicals for not being Burkean conservatives (or was it free market conservatives -- I'm not sure now). The author argued that "the evangelical temperament is inherently progressive."

If so, it's part of the facts of life. Burkean conservatives are pretty rare in America, and free market purists are nowhere near a majority. If you want to get anything done in politics you have to work with people who don't agree with you about everything. Once in a while, they may actually be right about something, maybe even more right than oneself.

But Huck is too much yesterday's guy. He won't have much of a following among people who actually follow politics. A lot of people don't follow politics though.

[donna]

Get the Feds out of it and then states, counties and cities can chose the social programs they want to support. People from other states can do it differently.

But, nothing will remove the need for God in our culture and if the GOP-E continues on joining with the Democrats to try to ditch God, they will collapse the country.

A Huckabee presidency would back off that day of collapse.