Posted on 01/03/2008 9:51:20 PM PST by xjcsa
Thanks for the report. I think you are right about the timing in relation to how the votes lined up. Even one more week might have made a huge difference., but these primary/caucus schedules just keep moving forward.
Still, that fact is really quite encouraging. Huckabee's national numbers have fallen greatly and will continue to fall in the weeks ahead. Most of that support won't flow to Romney. It's good news overall.
Thanks again for supporting Fred and for taking the time to report back to us.
Yup. Global warming, gun control and...illegal immigration.
Fred needs to talk about his values as well. I heard him on Mark Levin Wednesday night...Levin asked him direct questions about abortion and gay marriage. Fred is opposed to both, clearly and firmly.
A lot of these people wonder why there are no prayers at high school graduations any more. They’ve had their religion assaulted in the schools, the government, the media and the entertainment world...from elitist Republicans and Democrats alike.
Huckabee was a simple breath of fresh air.
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Good observations.
Always good to hear from you, NVA.
He's Jimmy Carter the Second.
God have mercy...
Way Back Then, I had a good friend, who was a diehard Carterbot. In exasperation -- reason having failed -- I blurted out that he sounded like a typical Christian Carter- (I forget the suffix).
He snapped right back at me that I sounded like a typical Christian Reagan-(same-suffix).
Argh.
We both ended up regretting the outcome -- he, because he'd been fooled, and me, because the whole country got screwed by that slimy piece of work Carter, who still plays the "holy man" card. Abolutely revolting.
As I close in on sixty years of age, I am beginning to understand why God was always griping about stuff that usually began with, "My people are..."
Some day they'll put the a picture of "the evangelical movement" next to the definition of, "Like sheep to the slaughter."
Frankly, the whole thing about being scorned for being "negative" and "cynical" (with the occasional "of little faith" tossed in for good measure) has worn really thin.
I will NOT vote for someone who will be bad for this country simply because he bears a "C" by his name. And I was a Southern Baptist Sunday School teacher!
I've earned my "C"-Man-Card -- Raised a secular "Noo Yawk" Jew. Was a radical leftist hippie freak back in the '60s. Knew Abbie Hoffman and the rest of that crowd. Became a Christian almost 40 years ago. Baptized in a then-famous AOG church in NYC. Did volunteer work at a Teen Challenge coffeehouse (the things I've seen would curl your hair, and make "The Exorcist" seem like a very tame Disney movie). Was a travelling minister. Spoke at conferences (mainstream stuff, i.e., FGBMFI affairs and so forth), TV interviews, even started a church.
But, I maxxed-out on "Churchianity" about twenty years ago, and haven't attended since then.
The evangelical/charismatic church has become a severely commercialized pop-culture parody of the "polyester christian" -- and, I'm sorry, but I just do NOT fit into that "culture"!
Sometimes I wish the Amish had "open enrollment period" days.
Obama Hussein Barack, or Mike Jimmy Carter Huckabee. That's some catch, that Catch 22.
Aaaarrrrrrggggghhhh......!!!!!
Very insightful and informative. Thanks. It makes me think Iowa and the Huckster may be a one-time deal -- that he can't expect evangelicals to dominate the polls like this anywhere else.
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