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To: Xenalyte

It was in response to this:

Mike Huckabee is bringing his Christmas cheer, and his Baptist minister roots, to Iowans this election season. His recent ad, “What Really Matters,” features the former governor offering citizens a Merry Christmas.

This isn’t your ordinary Happy Holidays event. Huckabee lets loose the Christian spirit, saying “what really matters is the celebration of the birth of Jesus Christ.” The ad also features a bookshelf in the background that appears to some like a “floating cross.” The ad is a not-too-subtle play to Iowa value voters, who cringe at what they view as an increasingly secularized holiday.

Asked about the ad today, Ron Paul decried Huckabee’s religious iconography with his own veiled reference on Fox and Friends:

“It reminds me of what Sinclair Lewis once said. He says, ‘when fascism comes to this country, it will be wrapped in the flag, carrying a cross.’ Now I don’t know whether that’s a fair assessment or not, but you wonder about using a cross, like he is the only Christian or implying that subtly. So, I don’t think I would ever use anything like that.”


211 posted on 12/19/2007 6:17:35 AM PST by mylife (The Roar Of The Masses Could Be Farts)
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To: mylife

If you see a connection, good for you, I guess.

Like I said, to 98% of Americans, “Paul is dead” means McCartney.


212 posted on 12/19/2007 6:21:29 AM PST by Xenalyte (Can you count, suckas? I say the future is ours . . . if you can count.)
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