Hmmmmm...you mean like some FReepers' setting their own bar on a candidate's conservative purity in order to fit their small-minded views?
Isn't the GOP a pluralistic political party too? Or, is it only for the far RIGHT?
Get REAL...we can't win elections by ourselves. And as the creep toward socialism picks up steam, we can't take the time to make protest statements with our ballots.
Whether Huckabee's in the midst of his 15 minutes or not remains to be seen, but I get seconds of mirth watching Malkin et al, get incensed over Gilchrist's endorsment.
The Republican party can’t win elections without evangelicals. But we can’t win with only evangelicals, either, and Huckabee seems hell-bent on turning off everyone who doesn’t subscribe to his own particular brand of Christianity. If he wants to take down Romney, and I have to wonder why he’s bothering since he’s so far up in the polls, turning off 5 million potential Mormon voters by dissing their religion isn’t the way to do it.
Huckabee is articulate and glib, but too many of the ideas that trip so lightly off his tongue are assinine, to put it nicely. He needs to learn judicious discernment, or to put it more colorfully, when to speak and when to STFU.
What would be the point (i.e., the benefit gained) of voting for a candidate whose public policy positions are repugnant to me?