Posted on 01/09/2009 6:16:23 PM PST by rabscuttle385
BY BOB BERNICK, JR.
The Deseret News
Former GOP presidential candidate Mike Huckabee says he loves Mormons and believes they make the most effective public servants in America.
"Utah doesn't need to think there is a problem with me," Huckabee told the KSL Radio Doug Wright show Friday morning.
Huckabee has received some criticism in Utah for comments he has made about fellow former GOP presidential candidate Mitt Romney, a member of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, and about some of the church's religious beliefs.
Romney received 90 percent of the vote in Utah's Republican Party presidential primary just over a year ago.
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I make it a point to change FOX about 5 minutes before his show ever comes on, I don’t want the nielsen ratings to accidentally count me as a viewer if I’m tuned in from the prior show when his show starts.
How come they don’t call him a “failed” candidate
Agreed! This is the ass who gave us McCain by splitting the Iowa vote.
“Huckabee says he has not said anything unkind about Mormons”
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He obviously does not post on FR, then...
Long story short. “I really don’t agree that Mormonism is a cult like so many of my Christian breathern, Vote for me!”
I grew up hearing funny tales about a late great aunt, who insisted upon getting nicely dressed and made up to watch television. She didn’t want “that man” to see her in her housecoat.
But, alas, Ed Sullivan couldn’t see her through the tv , and Nielsen can’t tell what you’re watching, unless you’ve signed up.
Yet another musically inclined slick talking former governor of Arkansas...
>>>Agreed! This is the ass who gave us McCain by splitting the Iowa vote.
How dare he take Mitt’s votes through trickery! Mitt bought
and paid for those votes and Huck stole them!
How right you are. And given the fact the war wasn't an issue in November, but the economy was, Romney's business acumen would have served him very, very well in the debates with Obama. I don't know if he could have won given everything else, but it might have been closer. Plus, Romney wouldn't have been stupid enough to accept public financing - assuring that Obama wouldn't have outspent him almost three to one. The Huckster didn't do the GOP with his candidacy.
I find it somewhat amusing that Huckabee often trashed Romney for being rich yet when Huckabee is speaking in churches he seems to want to buddy up to rich people especially if they tithe to his campaign(s).
I’d like to ask Huckabee this question: This week the CDC reported that Mormons in Utah has the lowest teen pregnancy rate in America. While Evangelicals in MS has the highest teen birth rate. Do Evangelicals have have any moral authority to criticize Mormons?
I have a theory that DTV, DISH and cable report the numbers, just like magic. Am I wrong?
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Who criticized Mormons for their teen pregnancy rate?
Below is from Krauthammer’s article on the subject. Huck sucks. yuck.
Huckabee has exploited Romney’s Mormonism with an egregious subtlety. Huckabee is running a very effective ad in Iowa about religion. “Faith doesn’t just influence me,” he says on camera, “it really defines me.” The ad then hails him as a “Christian leader.”
Forget the implications of the idea that being a “Christian leader” is some special qualification for the presidency of a country whose Constitution (Article VI) explicitly rejects any religious test for office. Just imagine that Huckabee were running one-on-one in Iowa against Joe Lieberman. (It’s a thought experiment. Stay with me.) If he had run the same ad in those circumstances, it would have raised an outcry. The subtext — who’s the Christian in this race? — would have been too obvious to ignore, the appeal to bigotry too clear.
Well, Huckabee is running against Romney (the other GOP candidates are non-factors in Iowa) and he knows that many Christian conservatives, particularly those who have an affinity with Huckabee’s highly paraded evangelical Christianity, consider Romney’s faith a decidedly non-Christian cult.
Huckabee has been asked about this view that Mormonism is a cult. He dodges and dances. “If I’m invited to be the president of a theological school, that’ll be a perfectly appropriate question,” he says, “but to be the president of the United States, I don’t know that that’s going to be the most important issue that I’ll be facing when I’m sworn in.”
Hmmm. So it is an issue, Huckabee avers. But not a very important one. And he’s not going to pronounce upon it. Nice straddle, leaving the question unanswered and still open — the kind of maneuver one comes to expect from slick former governors of Arkansas lusting for the presidency.
And by Huckabee’s own logic, since he is not running for head of a theological college, what is he doing proclaiming himself a “Christian leader” in an ad promoting himself for president? Answer: Having the issue every which way. Seeming to take the high road of tolerance by refusing to declare Mormonism a cult, indeed declaring himself above the issue — yet clearly playing to that prejudice by leaving the question ambiguous, while making sure everyone knows that he, for one, is a “Christian leader.”
The God of the Founders, the God on the coinage, the God for whom Lincoln proclaimed Thanksgiving Day is the ineffable, ecumenical, nonsectarian Providence of the American civil religion whose relation to this blessed land is without appeal to any particular testament or ritual. Every mention of God in every inaugural address in American history refers to the deity in this kind of all-embracing, universal, nondenominational way. (The one exception: William Henry Harrison. He caught cold delivering that inaugural address. Thirty-one days later, he was dead. Draw your own conclusion.) I suspect that neither Jefferson’s Providence nor Washington’s Great Author nor Lincoln’s Almighty would look kindly on the exploitation of religious differences for political gain. It is un-American. It is unfortunate that Romney has had to justify himself in response.
Great post. Very well said.
I asked Huckabee, who describes himself as the only Republican candidate with a degree in theology, if he considered Mormonism a cult or a religion. ‘‘I think it’s a religion,’’ he said. ‘‘I really don’t know much about it.’’
I was about to jot down this piece of boilerplate when Huckabee surprised me with a question of his own: ‘‘Don’t Mormons,’’ he asked in an innocent voice, ‘‘believe that Jesus and the devil are brothers?’’
Oh no, Utah, Huckabee loves Mormons.
This is why I don't trust Huckabee.
That said, he's a populist RINO who thinks that more government is the answer. There's no one more irritating than a reformed x, where x="drunkard" or "smoker" or "lardass," u.s.w.
That particular reformed lardass singlehandedly sabotaged Mitt Romney's bid in favor of McCain.
McCain, Huckabee, Giuliani, Graham, and that closeted homo in Florida need to join up with the last few honorable Democrats like Joe Lieberman and Zell Miller and clean up the party they belong in.
Maybe then we can get back to real debate, real choice, real hope.
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