Its sad that so many evangelicals support Huckabee because it is bad strategy since the fiscal conservatives won’t support him. However, I totally understand why they don’t like Thompson. Thompson basically took it forgranted that he had our support and then continually went out of his way to lose our support. First, he said that he didn’t go to much much or want to talk about his faith, then he said that he didn’t support the marriage amendment, then instead of trying to patch thing up with Dobson he said that he didn’t care to talk to him and didn’t march to anyone’s drum, then he refused to take a position on the Terri Schievo case, then he stated that he would not support the Human Life Amendment or legislation under the 14th Amendment to ban abortion, and finally he stated that he thought the Schievo case should have been left to the state courts (which killed her by depriving her of water) and said that he was upset that some people (us social conservatives) had “made a political football” out of the case. So, at the end of the day is it any surprise we don’t like Fred. He could hardly have done a better job of offending and alianating us if that was his goal.
That was an excellent summary of the problem Fred has with a good number of social conservatives.