Posted on 01/24/2008 4:54:34 PM PST by unspun
In 1984 at Immanuel Baptist, he preached about leading a revival where worshippers rejoiced as prominent members of the community _ an attorney, a businessman _ accepted Jesus. He said he was heartbroken that people overlooked a young mentally retarded woman who also came forward.
"She always came alone and left alone. And to all outward appearances, nobody really cared," he said. "But God made a very big announcement that night. Although she may sit in that pew by herself, he loved her."
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But his big-tent approach has left him vulnerable to detractors _ in Southern Baptist and GOP circles _ who say he's not conservative enough. Facing those critics has provided some of his toughest political lessons, making him a resilient campaigner.
In 1989, for instance, national Southern Baptist leaders wanted the next president of the Arkansas Baptists to sign on to their fierce purge of any moderate or liberal thinking in seminaries and churches. They backed the Rev. Ronnie Floyd, now of Springdale.
Arkansas Baptists felt they were plenty conservative and didn't want to be told who should lead them. They recruited Huckabee to run against Floyd. Huckabee said he was no moderate; he just didn't want the "political machine" of the Southern Baptist Convention telling him or any Baptist how they should act, said the Rev. Don Moore of Little Rock, who was executive director of the Arkansas Baptist Convention for 13 years.
Huckabee won, and now Floyd is endorsing the former governor in the Republican presidential race.
"A president has to be the president of all the people," Floyd said, "and I believe he can do that."
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Yes, someone opened a window and let some light and fresh air into the electoral season media.
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Exactly! He spoke the truth.......
He's a liberal......
Wow, that will win a democrat’s vote. Huckles was done before he started. Fred is done too...Duncan, Tanko, Keyes, Kitty too. D’s have their own set of problems. Why discuss the loser’s and the one’s out of the race? Toast is toast.
sounds like hucka
public relations piece
dumped into the media.
More free press for Huckabee.
I should start charging Huck $10 every time I mention his name...even if it’s negative. At $10 bucks a pop, his campaign will be out of money by sunrise. Then we can move on and have candidates who believe in limited government left.
Good luck with that.
We’ve become a nation of glad handing, bleeding heart “prayers” -— while the barbarians are within and at the gates..
I’m beginning to think Americans have become too “civilized” to survive....
I can’t help wondering - if during the Roman Coliseum battles to the death between Lions and Christians, how frequently the Christians won?
Not too often!
This should tell a lot of Christians much about the man that set aside his "God-called" duty to preach the Gospel and pastor Jesus' flock of believers for the glam, power, prestige, and influence of the worldly choice of becoming a career politician. It should tell Christians a lot about the Huckster, indeed.
Gotta hand it to the bitter Fredheads, they sure know how to spit in the face of fellow conservatives. The current buzzwords is that a "brokered convention" will get their guy Fred on the ticket. Evidentially they haven't figured out that Fred's eight delegates would need to gain support from the "Precious Willard", "McQueeg" and "Socialist Huckster" delegates to do that.
So apprently their plan here is to keep insulting fellow conservatives as idiots and demonizing anyone not named "Fred Thompson" as a treasonous RINO. That will surely help their cause. I'm sure those "socialist Huckabee" supporters at the convention will just LOVE the idea of casting their votes for people who have nothing but contempt and hatred for them.
They just don't get it, do they?
I miss the ol' glory days of FR. While most of us were for Forbes/Keyes in 2000, we didn't rant and rave that the other 10 Republican seeking the nomination were all leftist scumbags.
It’s a shame he doesn’t have the money and resources to hang in long enough to win the nomination.
Romney will buy the GOP nomination.
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