Evangelicals didn’t like the fact that Fred Thompson was not a frequent church goer and remarried a much younger woman. As a result, they backed the “morally pure” Huckabee.
You talking about the Huckabee who helped let out violent offenders before their time? I think that is what offended me the most aside from the lies coming out of the Romney campaign about Fred dropping out. There was a coordinated effort to cast Fred as something he wasn’t. They had no shame, they called him lazy when he was doing campaign stops back to back. I wish he hadn’t waited so long to enter the race but we can’t look back we can only look forward. Right now I’m 100% in Sarah Palin’s camp if she runs. I’ll never ever be in a Romney or Huckabee camp. They represent exactly the kind of politics that has led to the ascendancy of Obama. We need individuals that truly understand the idea of the sovereign citizen, the ideas of liberty, and understand that government is not a replacement for individual responsibility.
The "morally pure" candidate who backed the kinds of nanny state "health" laws that even the Obamacare believers know they need to sneak up on. Whenever the evangelicals forget that they can't have the kind of President who will actively push their agenda, they back candidates who could never win a general election, to the detriment of the kind of candidates who would protect their right to live as they choose, while not actively imposing it on others.
Fortunately, a bad Presidency can cause them to wise up and support the latter, which is how we got Ronald Reagan.
-Eric