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.
That seems to be the double-bind we find oursevles in. The choice seems to be between candidates who aren't socially conservative enough for evangelicals, or a candidate who is evangelical and socially conservative on a few key issues but practically a liberal on everything else. It's a bit depressing.