My Fellow Evangelicals Blow It By Supporting Mike Huckabee

North Star Writers Group ^ | January 8, 2008 | Dan Calabrese

[Invisigoth]

Secular America looks at the rise of Mike Huckabee and fears the growing influence of evangelical Christians in the political process.

This evangelical Christian columnist fears it too, for exactly the opposite reason.

Huckabee’s win in the Iowa caucuses, and his sudden viability as a candidate for the Republican presidential nomination, owes to one thing and one thing only. Large numbers of evangelical voters are looking for someone to represent their values, and Huckabee is the only candidate who seems to do so.

[Vigilanteman]

Huckabee wouldn’t be a bad candidate. Except for his being a nanny-stater, illegal alien pusher, tax hiker, populist class-warfare baiter, religious bigot and foreign policy neophyte who almost makes Obama look thoughtful by comparison. Other than that, he’s a great candidate.

[Titus Quinctius Cincinnatus]

Exactly. My fellow Christians who are supporting Huckabee need to wake up and smell the coffee. Huck is a socialist. He's a nanny-stater. He's exactly the kind of guy who is going to grow government to the point where it will be more and more intrusive into YOUR daily lives. If we ever get to the point where the government starts telling Christians what they can and can't believe, can't have services at such-and-such a place, can't have more than X in a service, etc. (and these are happening NOW in Canada - google Brampton), it's going to be JUST AS MUCH BECAUSE OF PEOPLE LIKE HUCKABEE as it is the fault of the God-hating Dims.

WAKE UP PEOPLE!

[dforest]

This is the best post I have read yet, about the Huck campaign.

Some of it I have been saying for days around here.

This guy has just hit the nail on the head in this thoughtful article!

[hocndoc]

Great editorial! Thanks for posting it.

[cinives]

There are perhaps more churchgoing leftists than this nation realizes.

One has only to look at the current state of the Episcopalian church to understand that.

[flowerplough]

Like Jimmeh Cahta, Slick Willy, and Jerry Falwell, Huck’s a Baptist from southern environs. Haven’t met many of them, but haven’t been able to trust many of the ones I’ve met.

[Soliton]

From the same author:"It reminded us that there are evil bastards who will kill us if they get the chance, and we need to kill them first. Rudy Giuliani does us all a service by reminding us of this. Anyone who thinks it’s not a worthy subject, or is just sick of hearing it, needs a jolt back to reality."

He may be an evangelical writer, but he is not an evangelical. He is in the Tank for Rudy

[mmichaels1970]

To have a conservative evangelical promoting a liberal agenda in many areas is troubling enough. For him to win the Republican nomination would mean that no major political party would thereafter be standing up as proudly for free markets, limited government, school choice, sound immigration policy and a realistic, tough foreign policy. No wonder liberals and the mainstream media love this fine man. With him, they hope for a twofer: He would dilute the conservatism of the Republican Party and deliver values voters to the cause of liberalism – something the disingenuous Democratic overtures to "values voters" has never been able to accomplish.
- David Limbaugh - WorldNetDaily

[chatham]

You have identified the Huckster very nicely.

Thankyou very much.

[dforest]

Come on, it doesn’t really matter. I can’t stand Rooty or Huck.

This article is right on about how the Huck campaign will destroy the party, and the cause of the evangelicals.

[Jibaholic]

Another secularized evangelical. Apparantly these pundits get tired of secular elites snickering at them when they defend biblical inerrancy. Easier to kowtow to the secular world and be a "reasonable" evangelical than an ignorant fundy. Man cannot serve two masters, for he will come to love one and hate the other. Even Jesus didn’t cut the thieves down from their crosses. He just offered them a place in Heaven.

I guess he reads an Alexandrian Text manuscript. They helpfully removed the story of the adulteress to make Christianity go down easier for the gnostic heretics in Egypt. Not unlike this guy.

Do I like Huckabee's economics? No. But I'm glad that he is a pinko. It leads to what economists call honest signalling. It shows that us evangelicals will not tolerate being ignored by the secular Republican elites. Us evangelicals are taking over the party, you can join us or the Democrats. I don't care much either way.

[Just mythoughts]

I have yet one time to hear Huckabee the preacher/politician hold up that standard of Christ the Ten Commandments. In fact his own words are the total opposite.

There are reasons why this nation historically speaking, as far back as history has been recorded, is the most blessed nation ever. Now just how long does Huckabee plan on being around? Doesn’t he have his ticket all ready to get out of here when the ‘bad’ stuff starts happening?

[Bosco]

Falwell's politics were conservative. Huckabee's politics are populist/liberal.

Big difference.

[syriacus]

I wonder if we'll ever see, a Lib as glib as Huckabee.

His words contradict his actions too often.

Makes me wonder what he was like as a pastor.

[nhoward14]

It is now clear that many so-called “evangelical Christians” are not conservatives at all. They are only “conservative” in that they don’t agree with the kind of nanny state the liberals are running, and they are trying anything they can to implement the nanny state they want with their rules. Huckabee is giving them their chance. The fact that all you need to do is add legalizing abortion to Huck’s record and he is the perfect socialist flies right over their head.

[tortdog]

>Worse, he seems to see his position of authority as a mechanism to impulsively apply his evangelical agenda. With more than 1,000 pardons issued during his tenure as governor, with beneficiaries including 13 murderers (one of whom went on to kill again), Huckabee acts as though his seat in the state house is license to bestow a Christ-like gift of grace to anyone he chooses.

Bingo. To get a pardon/clemency from Huckabee, just parade your faith in front of him, declare your allegiance to Christ, and he’ll let you walk. He allows his religious beliefs to blind him.

Clue: Christ says to forgive everyone. That’s a PERSONAL requirement. But Christ never did get rid of the legal penalties imposed by the state. You can’t just dole out mercy at the expense of justice.

[ishabibble]

I agree. Excellent examination of the facts.

[roses of sharon]

We are at war in two theaters, our guys are in a sandbox, right now, this very minute, surrounded by headchoppers with nukes.

And Americans are dangerously addicted to government, literally and emotionally.

We must elect a CIC, and a wartime President, who can CUT government. It is imperative.

[diverteach]

From what I see it looks like the evangelicals are transfixed on the “Pastor” part and have stopped looking at the man any further.

I’m one evangelical who’s NOT buying it. I think I could almost vote for Rue Paul before voting for the Huckster.