Posted on 02/04/2008 8:20:41 PM PST by JRochelle
Such love from their religion... Are they biased against Huckabee for some reason?
You should donate your head to the Utah Eccles Institute of Human Genetics to study your anomaly. /sarc
this really isn’t a religious debate but whether I, as a Jew who does not believe Jesus is compatible with my faith, would vote for someone that does. I probably would because I am voting for a president for America, not a president for the Jews.
Well, the reason I asked for differentiation, in regard to your statement -
"when you can name one admiral or general that supports Romney, please tell me as I’d really love to know."
is that anyone serving in the military, most particularly an "admiral or general", is prohibited from endorsing any political candidate.
I suspect you know that but thought others might not, therefore...
I have a whole lot in common with the people of Utah, except for not being able to vote for mccain.
I believe Huck did exploit the mormon thing.
Freedom of religion as long as you are Baptist.
This evangelical isn’t a fan of Shucksabee either.
“The whole line that Huckabee should drop out in order to stop McCain is stupid.”
It sure is.
Huckabee is McCain’s poodle now, and the only person to say whether huckabee stays or goes is the man pulling the leash!!!
yes but you could still ask them in private, right?
Bullcrap. Utah politics have a long history of backlashing against candidate or causes which are overtly religious regardless if it is favorable to Mormons or not.
Look at the banning alcohol vote in the early 19th century..
Look at Bill Orton against Karl Snow. Karl Snow overplayed his Mormon religousity and it backfired against and the voters went with Bill Orton the democrat.
The list is quite long.
If one is quiet about the religion issue or plays it gently it goes well. But, if it is anything more than that then the voters go against you in a hurry.
Mike Huckabee plays his religion card too hard and that has polarized the voters against him.
“If the Methodists or the Greek Orthodox church held their convention next to a Baptist center, would the Baptists see it as “as an insulting stab directed at the very heart of the church”? I don’t think so.”
Depends on if the Methodists/Greek orthodox *also* had speakers and literature calling the Baptists an unChristian dangerous cult that was pulling people away from true faith, and calling on conversion to ‘save’ people. *That* would get anyone peeved, although all reports are the LDS faithful kept their cool.
it works both ways though. You can’t win the general election with only utah and a few other small states
“although all reports are the LDS faithful kept their cool.”
They should, since the LDS purposefully disfellowships with all non-Mormon denominations, it would be pretty disingenuous of them to complain when other groups do the same to them in return.
“One the one hand, Huckabee supporters are bigots.
Yet on the other, they would switch to Mitt if Huckabee would drop out.
Which is it?”
The bigot supporters will keep flocking to the most egregious RINO they can find so long as its not a mormon.
The non-bigot Huck supporters are just befuddled and confused, thinking a soft-on-crime tax-and-spend populist is ‘conservative’ because he’s prolife and wears his christianity on his sleeve.
“Mitt should be depending on other candidates to help him win.”
Yeah, just like Mccain is - letting the conservative vote get split so he can win the nomination ... yikes!
No argument here. You gotta reach out.
“A folksy Minister “
“That folksy politician won two elections for lieutenant governor and continued to win elections to serve another 10 or 11 years as governor.”
... running on a platform to expand Govt healthcare spending - the ArKids program, and implementing numerous tax increases.
better a convert than a traitor - Another Conservative for Mitt!
I’m not confused. pro-life is more important. that is what we are fighting for...I have, ever since I first identified myself as a Republican.
What is that supposed to mean?
“If we listened to McCain in 2005, we’d still have control of congress.”
If we listened to McCain in 2007, we’d have lost control of the COUNTRY via amnesty for 20 million. A MUCH BIGGER ISSUE!
And no, I dont think McCain the backseat driver deserves especial credit for agreeing with Bush on the surge, so did Rudy, so did Mitt, so did others.
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