Posted on 12/20/2007 5:37:55 AM PST by 2ndDivisionVet
Neither is this one.
I suspect that Huckabee is touting the Fair Tax purely as a campaign gimmick to burnish his ostensible conservative "cred". I doubt if in an interview with someone who is genuinely knowledgable about it that he could give a coherent explanation and analysis of it.
You aint a Baptist unless there is a split.
Who else is associated as Baptist? I have a great number of Baptist relatives and many more friends and the majority are Clintons supporters. NO I am not kidding!!!
Huckabee can't even get his own co-religionists behind him?
Uh-oh? What? Hillary can't even get all her own co-Methodists behind her?
Let's see these threads & media articles give equal time to all the faithful splits across the board...
Some other "so-called" Southern Baptists who received votes from church-going folks who didn't do their homework:
James Earl Carter
Albert Gore
Willard
Congress is not going to pass the Fair Tax or any other significant tax reform any time soon. The current system allows them to make beneficial adjustments to the tax code for major patrons and voting blocks.
Sure, Novak doesn't understand evangelicals. I do think it is news, given the image of evangelicals choosing a candidate and voting somewhat as a block (as done since 1976), that there is such a split.
Frankly, on the surface, I am surprised. Given Huckabee's record and stances, probably I am not surprised so much. If there is any surprise, it is why conservatives, including many of my close friends, would even consider him.
That would explain a Baptist supporting Hillary.
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