Easy there! I live here again. Iowa was all about Huckabee for the values voters. He was just meant to block Romney from winning, and give cover for McCain. Say what you want, but Romney is way more conservative and a team player than McCain has ever been and would have been a much better candidate. With him at the top, and Palin as VP, I bet they would have won.
To win elections, we need to stress conservative principles in governing and lead by example, and do a little less preaching. I absolutely think our faith should guide us, but campaigning on it turns a lot of moderates off.
“He was just meant to block Romney from winning, and give cover for McCain. Say what you want, but Romney is way more conservative and a team player than McCain has ever been and would have been a much better candidate. With him at the top, and Palin as VP, I bet they would have won.”
This is all true IMHO.
OTOH, the 36% that voted for Huckabee scored very high on “I have to vote for someone who shares my religious values”. The Iowa caucus was all about the religious voters going for the ‘good Christian’ Huckabee over that scary rich Mormon. I knew full well the CLusterhuck would deliver the nomination to McCain (if he won NH, which he did), but the Iowa voters were too caught in their own bubble to notice.
(And please, dont bring up the Romney is a RINO stuff, because we ALL know that Huckster was even more liberal than Romney on fiscal, defense, education, tax and spend, and other matters. Neither was perfect. Romney lost not other that but over the mormon thingee.)
Truly a sad day for the GOP, and it is perhaps God’s comeuppance that such an act of prejudice gave the first black man with a muslim name in the White House. Maybe a message to US???
MAYBE NEXT TIME we’ll be a wee bit more open-minded about the Mormon thing ... ya THINK??!?