One day this week he got raked over the coals (again) by the evangelicals in the Washington Times, and by the Wall Street Journal for this state’s universal health-care program. That gave every Huckabee-worshiping blogger the chance to (again) run the photo of Mitt signing the bill at Faneuil Hall, cracking up in laughter with Ted Kennedy and Sal DiMasi.
Or this? (WashTimes, Tuesday, July 29)
"McCain and Romney would be like oil and water," said evangelical novelist Tim LaHaye, who supported Mr. Huckabee. "We aren't against Mormonism, but Romney is not a thoroughgoing evangelical
No religious test there. Is McQueeq an evangelical?
Or this? (WashTimes, Tuesday, July 29)
Mr. Huckabee, an ordained Southern Baptist minister, was the favorite of evangelical voters .... well-placed Christian conservatives say that although many evangelical leaders could accept [Romney] ..... Mr. Huckabee's supporters tend to be "rabid" in their views against Mr. Romney because of his faith: They do not regard Mormonism as a Christian denomination.
No religious test there, either.
And finally from the Monomaniacal Single Issue anti-Abortion wing of the Religionist Party comes Schlafly with her "social conservative" and "Values Voter" proposals for more liberty, smaller government, and lower taxes:
(WashTimes, Tuesday, July 29) Longtime social-conservative leaders such as Phyllis Schlafly, Phil Burress, Donald P. Hodel and Mathew Staver said earlier this month that they can rally their voters around Mr. McCain largely on the issues of abortion and the judiciary [aka, abortion], as long as they are confident that the vice-presidential candidate is pro-life [aka abortion]."
The GOP deserves to lose everything from listening to these yo-yos.