Posted on 01/12/2008 11:57:40 AM PST by mngran2
Much of the national leadership of the Christian conservative movement has turned a cold shoulder to the Republican presidential campaign of Mike Huckabee, wary of his populist approach to economic issues and his criticism of the Bush administration’s foreign policy. But that has only fired up Brett and Alex Harris.
The Harris brothers, 19-year-old evangelical authors and speakers who grew up steeped in the conservative Christian movement, are the creators of Huck’s Army, an online network that has connected 12,000 Huckabee campaign volunteers, including several hundred in Michigan, which votes Tuesday, and South Carolina, which votes Saturday.
They say they like Mr. Huckabee for the same reason many of their elders do not: “He reaches outside the normal Republican box,” Brett Harris said in an interview from his home near Portland, Ore.
The brothers fell for Mr. Huckabee last August when they saw him draw applause on “The Daily Show With Jon Stewart” for explaining that he believed in a Christian obligation to care for prenatal “life” and also education, health care, jobs and other aspects of “life.” “It is a new kind of evangelical conservative position,” Brett Harris said. Alex Harris added, “And we are not going to have to be embarrassed about him.”
Mr. Huckabee, who was a Southern Baptist minister before serving as governor of Arkansas, is the only candidate in the presidential race who identifies himself as an evangelical. But instead of uniting conservative Christians, his candidacy is threatening to drive a wedge into the movement, potentially dividing its best-known national leaders from part of their base and upending assumptions that have held the right wing together for the last 30 years.
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The RELIGOUS LEFT are endorsing this hypocrite.
The “old guard” knows the difference between Biblical teachings and humanism posing as Christianity and being financed via socialism.
Ahhh, isn’t that sweet. Just 19 and they know it all. Here’s a pat on the head.
“It is a new kind of evangelical conservative position,” Brett Harris said. “
Allow me to correct that: It is a new kind of evangelical LIBERAL position.
There thats better.
Young and stupid. Is it surprising they don’t know the difference between a conservative and a liberal? We need to work to change that or else the ideas of reform and smaller government will never be realized as people like Huckabee win and push programs for the sake of public charity. We can thank GWB for the rise of the Huckabee Monster.
I guess in today’s culture maturity and discernment are considered “Old Guard”.
I think the “old guard” partly has themselves to blame... they should have coalesced around Fred Thompson while they had the chance.
Instead, Pat Robertson and others decided to endorse Rudy, and no self-respecting Christian conservative could think of voting for somebody with Rudy’s values.
Let the freaks on both sides form there own parties. I will never vote for anyone ever again , that views the world through the prism of scripture . I don’t care which ones.
If you don’t believe the danger Huckabee represents read this:
“Mr. Huckabee’s candidacy could signal “the fall of the old ‘religious right’ and the emergence of a true populist movement which crosses the old, tired lines and labels,” a Catholic Online column recently said.”
Huckabee represents a clear invasion of the Religious right by the religious left. If the core of the religious right ever falls to religious and political populism of Democrats then the Republican party is over.
Jesus never said steal from your brother to feed the poor. We need to continue to raise the alarm.
The HuckaChrist has arisen!
Huckabee is the Wally Cox of presidential candidates.
He projects weakness. His demeanor is frumpy and slovenly.
Am I petty? Yep.
But I really want a US President who projects strength, poise, and confidence.
Huckabee has that jutting-jaw thing going when he speaks, and although I know that sounds dumb, it drives me nuts.
Same with his eye stare and hair thing.
There’s been a lot of over-reaction to Mike Huckabee’s rise. He ins’t my first choice, and I’d rather have someone else as the nominee (preferably Fred Thompson). But he isn’t THAT bad.
From the old guard,
I am not going to waste one cent of my money on a political party that even pretends to like one of the Ozark Yokums. Nor will I vote for senator, congressman, governor, even dog-catcher from a party that has so lost its vision or soul.
May it rot in the lower warmer regions.
Caddis
Great.
The same maroons who helped elect Carter because he was a “deacon and taught Sunday school in his Baptist church” are going to help try and elect Elmer Gantry.
Great, just friggin’ great.
Excuse me but there is no organization to drive a wedge into. We tend to agree because we have the same worldview, but it has never been planned or constructed. The problem is the candidates are all so different this year. So who you go with depends on which issues you feel are most important. Some in the Thompson team want to make this a war between Christians and it just should not be that. We do not owe it to each other to vote the same. At church we are to be unified around one truth. In the voting booth it is every man for himself. If it divides us as Christians then our priorities are all wrong.
You mean like the two liberal Harris boys? Jimmy Carter Republicans all.
He’s not bad...for a lying, greedy, corrupt opportunist.
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