Posted on 12/13/2007 9:29:41 AM PST by Grig
If his sermons are released, Huckabee will be annhilated.
That doesn’t matter to me really, unless it becomes something that he tries to infiltrate into my everyday life.
What bothers me about Huckabee is the fact that he’s liberal on just about every issue outside of gays, abortion, and guns.
Huckabee would never rise to any position of prominence in the Arkansas Baptist State Convention, let alone retain it for two years, if he deviated from the Word of God.
Do I really see Mother Jones articles being posted on Free Republic without a barf alert? Break out the Birkenstocks, power to the people, and bring back the summer of love!
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“If his sermons are released, Huckabee will be annhilated.”
That may very well be the ace Hillary has up her sleeve. Can you imagine article after article of Pastor Huckabee’s preaching cherry picked and taken out of context? They’ll be able to make him sound like the biggest idiot who ever drew breath, I’m sure.
He has no chance in the general. By the time Hillary gets done slicing and dicing him, coupled with the fact that he just threw away the votes of millions of Mormons, who, by the way, vote Republican in higher percentages than even evangelical Christians do, he has no chance. None. Republicans better wise up if they want to win this election.
Wow, this is too rich. Huckabee being criticized for his religious beliefs!!
But Huckabee criticizes Romney’s religious beliefs and is called a bigot! !
The PC folk are going to twist themselves in knots.
Romney spoke a number of times too as a religious leader. People forget that he was a Stake President, a religious leader over probably 1,500 to 2,000 people. He also served as an LDS Bishop. He’s got a number of talks (or sermons) that I would welcome to be released. I think the Romney campaign could really do some damage to the Huckabee campaign by releasing some of those talks that Romney gave in stake conference (I’m sure he’s got paper copies somewhere as there won’t be any video or audio recording of them) or other church meetings. Huckabee would look bad if he released his sermons or if he continued to refuse to release them. I’m certain he voiced some inflammatory things while Romney’s talks are going to be more than acceptable to just about any Republican that reads them.
I don’t want the primary to be a contest between LDS and Southern Baptists. Focusing on their records as Governor would be more productive.
Kind of a reach.....
Not that I give a wit about Huckabee...as I happen to think he's as big a problem as Romney.
And I'm not talking about R E L I G I O N.
I'm talking about their policies........
Good point.
It’s just a gold mine for opposition research. They’ll try to take a sentence or paragraph out of context (actually strike the “try” . . . they will take a sentence out of context surely) . . . and it will be an unfair attack.
While I may not agree with the huckster on many issue’s, when he stands up for what is right, that is good. In all honesty how can someone these days be ignorant about how the AIDS virus is spread? Leftist rubbish.
It would be a fascinating comparison, especially a blind comparison, but I won’t be holding my breath. The only relevance I can see in it would be in seeing if MH is saying one thing from the pulpit and another on the campaign trail.
I believe that was a deliberate calculation by Huckabee or his advisers. The Mormons count about 13 million members and that is a worldwide figure. The Southern Baptists alone claim about 16 million in the U.S. I’ve read that Christian Evangelicals number about 40 million but that may be low.
Huckabee was quoted: “Don’t Mormons,” he asked in an innocent voice, “believe that Jesus and the devil are brothers?”
Huckabee is parlaying the power of religious bigotry into votes. Most politicians, of either party, will sell their soul for power. That includes politicians posing as preachers.
Live by the sword, die by the sword.
In Huck’s case, his sword is religion.
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