He was lambasted for daring to say what all Christians voters take as number one in voting
Really? All Christian voters have "evangelical Christian" as their number one qualification? Good thing we didn't have that for Reagan. Or Bush 1.
nearest exit off lemming cliff to mass suicide with comments like "I don't wear my faith on my sleeve" and "Dobson is an idiot".
I didn't say Dobson was an idiot. I said he was a Machiavellian, wannabe-king-maker, sanctimonious, self-righteous prig with delusions of grandeur who got a whiff of power with Falwell deceased and Robertson off the reservation (with his Giuliani endorsement). I may have missed a few. But that's the gist. And I'll stand by every iota.
The last thing true Christians want is someone that is ashamed of them and their faith. Fred further distanced himself from conservative Christians with his abortion statements that muddied the water instead of the opposite.
Fred wasn't ashamed of his faith. He just didn't try to milk his faith for your vote. That may be difficult for some people to grasp as they believe that faith is about loud proclamations over bullhorns.
Fred further distanced himself from conservative Christians with his abortion statements that muddied the water instead of the opposite.
I wasn't confused. I do reckon Mike Huckabee had a hard time understanding them, but he's still trying to figure out where Pakistan is on the map, so no surprise.
Thus he didn't go to church and hadn't for a while and thus why he sent out some nobody to talk about 30 years ago, thus why he didn't breach the subject that is number one with Christian voters, thus so on and so forth...
He just didn't try to milk his faith for your vote. That may be difficult for some people to grasp as they believe that faith is about loud proclamations over bullhorns.
Grandstanding as you did above is quite the opposite of what most Christians want, but they certainly don't care to vote for someone that acted ashamed of them. Deal with it, just as most FR members will not vote for McCain, they know McCain is ashamed of many conservative principles. They know this because of his fruits. Fred had the opportunity to lay palm leaves down to Christian voters, instead he played the lukewarm centralist card. In a field full of centralist, with two candidates that sapped some religious voters up already that was not the wisest trick to play.
BTW... Mr. Hunter was my choice (as my tagline suggests), was it wrong for him to publicly make his profession of faith public too? Or was that bullhorning?