Excellent, well-balanced insights. Unlike what most of these rabid FReepers are spewing.
***There does seem to be a lot of antichristian sentiment. They seem to forget that this is a socon website.
From the front page of Free Republic:
Statement by the founder of Free Republic
As a conservative site, Free Republic is pro-God, pro-life, pro-family, pro-Constitution, pro-Bill of Rights, pro-gun, pro-limited government, pro-private property rights, pro-limited taxes, pro-capitalism, pro-national defense, pro-freedom, and-pro America. We oppose all forms of liberalism, socialism, fascism, pacifism, totalitarianism, anarchism, government enforced atheism, abortionism, feminism, homosexualism, racism, wacko environmentalism, judicial activism, etc. .... We are not connected to or funded by any political party, news agency, or any other entity. .... We aggressively defend our God-given and first amendment guaranteed rights to free speech, free press, free religion, and freedom of association, as well as our constitutional right to control the use and content of our own personal private property. Despite the wailing of the liberal trolls and other doom & gloom naysayers, we feel no compelling need to allow them a platform to promote their repugnant and obnoxious propaganda from our forum. Free Republic is not a liberal debating society. We are conservative activists dedicated to defending our rights, defending our constitution, defending our republic and defending our traditional American way of life.
The statement you quoted by the founder of Free Republic sounds pretty good to me, but apparently the folks who voted for Huckabee didn’t read that very carefully. They allowed the fact that he is an Evangelical Christian to push their vote in Huckabee’s direction despite the fact that he is Big Government Populist who is weak on matters of immigration, national security and crime.
So THAT is why I am angry, because any Evangelical who voted for Huckabee is ignoring 95% of his record and supporting him just because he shares their religious devotion.