Indeed but many here have taken the opportunity to allow their own personal bias(s) against Southern Protestants to take on new life in their disdain for Huckster
hell, there are folks who just dismiss the whole state of Arkansas...
it’s the old it’s ok to bash Southern Christians thing here....
and the ignorance...many non Southerners here think Evangelicals are by default right wing and the same as Fundies and Charismatics....so ill informed
I personally don't have any bias against Southern Protestants, but I can readily admit that the floating cross ad really, really creeped me out. Can you imagine if Romney had tried to pull that off?
I supported Fred until the attacks came on Huck. If you compare the two’s proposed platforms they are very similar. There records are different, but apples and oranges..you can’t compare a Senator to a Governor. You will find lots of self-proclaimed Christians here, but true devotion scares them. The difference between southern Fred and southern Huck is that everyone understands that fred is acting, Huck is the real deal.
LET'S GET 'EM - LOL!
Most of my family is from Arkansas. The single consistent thing they continue to repeat is don't vote for anyone from Arkansas. My mom used to work in the state house when she was a PYT in the 50's. She said it was like a constant track event where you had to continually run away from all the lechers. She left after an exceptionally short time of this, disgusted.
Malvern, Little Rock, Hot Springs, Ouachita...I'm from Memphis myself, though. Good folks all over up there.
I haven’t seen that at FR. I’ve seen Huckabee attacked for his fiscal liberalism and discussion of whether it’s a good idea to have a Preacher President. That’s a valid question. Can you imagine what the discussion would be if it was a former priest, instead of a former Southern Baptist preacher? I really don’t remember that much being made about Bush’s Christianity prior to the ‘04 election. What I do remember is voting against Kerry mainly because he is a one-world globalist in the Soros Open Society mold with beliefs and values that don’t jibe with his religion. What I do remember is some pundit saying that exit polls showed that those voting for Bush and against Kerry were “values voters.” The left picked up on that immediately and began a campaign to infiltrate the evangelicals and shift as many as possible from the right to the center and to just left of center if they could push them that far. Their stategy paid off.
Huckabee is not trustworthy to this particular conservative. If I can’t trust him to hold the line against the trend toward socialism, then I don’t want him as POTUS. We see what has happened to other socialist nations with overtly PC policies toward ethnic separatists. Some of those countries are in semi-panic mode now and attempting to turn themselves around. I don’t think we want to go forward in the direction they are now realizing has been a mistake. And that’s where Huckabee would take us.
What we are seeing now is not just atheists railing about the possibility of a theocracy, we are seeing Christian sect set upon Christian sect. Do we want 5 years of this? Frankly, I don’t want another 5 minutes of it. I feel like I’m reliving the late 1700s/early 1800s. Huckabee’s candidacy brought that back. He is being touted as a uniter, when, in fact, his run is divisive and unhealthy for America.