From the article: The timing of his decision cannot be ignored. It comes only a week after Mike Huckabee, a former Baptist pastor who a new Des Moines Register poll shows has now passed Mr. Romney for the lead among likely caucus-goers in Iowa, began airing a television ad that highlighted his identity as a “Christian leader.” Mr. Huckabee’s rise in the polls has been fueled by evangelical Christians.
Any idea what the % of the Iowa population votes in these caucuses?
Is there a huge evangelical voting block?
Thanks!
Which has lowered my opinion of them considerably. Huckabee?How superficial can they possibly get?
“From the article: The timing of his decision cannot be ignored. It comes only a week after Mike Huckabee, a former Baptist pastor who a new Des Moines Register poll shows has now passed Mr. Romney for the lead among likely caucus-goers in Iowa, began airing a television ad that highlighted his identity as a “Christian leader.” Mr. Huckabee’s rise in the polls has been fueled by evangelical Christians.”
I sincerely dread the result on so many levels if Huckster succeeds in this disgraceful campaign of beating Romney on the Christian label:
1. Huckabee is a tax-and-spend RINO, if he is helped, small govt conservatives are harmed:
http://taxhikemike.org/
2. The “Christian” label is a poor, poor substitute for the real things we need in a President: Leadership, character, executive skill, conservative convictions and vision, positive agenda.
3. Media will have a field day labelling all GOP voters as bible-thumpin’ hicks. Great. Another setup for a Democrat win in 08.
4. If Huckabee wins in IA, it’s a setup for Rudy to win the nomination, as Romney, the one candidate-who-can-beat-Rudy, needs IA and NH to shut Rudy down. And Ruday is A complete disaster for social conservatives, and bad for the party.
5. Huck doing well means Fred Thompson dead in water. A better conservative choice goes nowhere while the faux RINO populist tax-and-spender wins on his “Christian” label.
YIKES.
The Pat Robertson endorsement of Rudy comes full circle. For those idiots foolish enough to put their Mormon-fear ahead of rational thinking about candidates, it’s time those litmus-test Christian conservatives to pass a litmus test of your own:
Suppose you have this choice in Nov 2008:
A) A person who shares your values and will govern according to the needs of the nation and is a Mormon
B) A Feminist socialist who wears a cross but who’s agenda is opposed to everything you believe in and will destroy the Christian values of this nation
If you can’t make the right choice above (it’s “A”), you ought not be trying to decide our nominee. You will screw it up! (And that goes especially for Pat Robertson!)
Evangelical Christians who support an unelectable Christian candidate like the Huck are just helping hand over the nomination to a liberal RINO like Rooty or Mitt. Once the people see Huckabee for what I believe he is, an opportunist using his religious credentials to win support of evangelicals, his overall support will drop like a rock.
The "evangelical right", which includes me, should consolidate our support behind an electable conservative who believes in and supports Christian principles of government, as I believe Thompson does, to prevent an unelectable liberal RINO like Rooty or Mitt from being the GOP nominee next November. If we evangelicals continue to split our support between a half dozen or so candidates we will guarantee that the GOP nominee next year will be a liberal RINO, and that Hillary will be the next president. Fred may not be the ideal evangelical candidate, but he's light years closer to that ideal than any of the other leading candidates.
Many evangelicals have soured on Fred because he doesn't support a right to life amendment. They ignore the fact that such an amendment has zero, zilch chance of passing 2/3 of Congress, much less ratification by 3/4 of the states. The answer to overturning Roe v Wade is placing conservative originalists on the SCOTUS, not a RTL amendment that can't be passed and ratified.