[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

[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?

[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.

[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.

[The Ghost of FReepers Past]

Another day, another host of cheap shots at voting evangelicals. Perhaps everyone should just try and take their voting rights away. Or how about this: Mind your own business, dude. Voters, even evangelical ones, get to choose the candidate they think best represents THEM. Not you. Not your group. You are not in charge of how evangelicals vote.

Evangelicals differ on who is the best candidate. Get over it. I for one give extra consideration to all the candidates who attended the Values Voter's debate. The top tier liberals all went to the homo debate. Our guys could have at least showed up. That's a big reason Huckabee gets the edge over Thompson. That, and I cannot support someone who helped bring us McCain-Feingold. It has nothing to do with Huckabee being an evangelical. But don't let facts get in the way of a good political rant, especially against evangelicals.

[LRS]

...If evangelical Christians somehow manage to put this man in the White House...

Which isn't going to happen. If the evangelicals think conservatives have been harsh in our treatment towards the Huckster, just wait until the libs start in on him (assuming he gets the nomination). The debates will resemble a scene out of "Inherit the Wind", and words like "troglodyte", "Neanderthal", "knuckle dragger", "chauvinist pig", and phrases such as "Taliban Wing of the Republican Party" and "He'll be peeking into your bedroom", will fill the airwaves. Huckster will give the left all the ammo they need to flood the polls. He will go down in defeat, and take conservatism with him...

[JohnnyZ]

He displays no depth on questions of spending, taxation, national security and energy policy.

Kind of a silly thing to write about a proponent of the Fair Tax.

[tobyhill]

What other viable options do evangelical Christians have? 3 decades of legalized murder(abortion)is enough! 3 decades of the gay agenda is enough! 3 decades of the left systematically taking the mention of Christ out of the schools is enough! 3 decades of eliminating prayer from school is enough! 3 decades of the Muzzie takeover is enough!

[Badeye]

Huckabee is Jimmy Carter all over again. And the same Evangelicals that supported the worst POTUS in my lifetime (Carter) are backing Huckabee.

No thanks.

[lexington minuteman 1775]

I am an evangelical and a Pastor, and I am not voting for Huck in the Florida primary.
I think many in the GOP are simply frustrated and are simply reaching for anyone they think will hear their concerns. I think this is a large part of the Huckabee surge. I don’t think it will be long lasting.
I think the thing that is one of my major concerns this time around is how the MSM is manipulating their candidates and agenda. And if we fall for their propaganda we will elect a President who will turn out to be a disaster for the Republic. We are at war and since no attacks have occurred since 911 we have been lulled into complacency.

[airborne]

Large numbers of evangelical voters are looking for someone to represent their values, and Huckabee is the only candidate who seems to do so.

They didn't bother to look too long or hard.

IMO, they stopped looking when they saw his religon.