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Mike Huckabee and the Continuing Influence of Evangelicals
New York Times ^ | May 5, 2015 | Nate Cohen

Posted on 05/05/2015 4:19:15 AM PDT by Cincinatus' Wife

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March 9, 2015 - Sarah Posner: Evangelicals Looking for Walker to “Do Nothing” in 2016 Election

"Should he run for president, Walker may very well turn out to be the 2016 cycle’s evangelical favorite—not because he ticks off a laundry list of culture war talking points, pledges fealty to a “Christian nation,” or because he’s made a show of praying publicly to curry political favor. Although by no means universal, some conservative evangelicals—those who eschew the fever swamps of talk radio, yet share the same political stances of the religious right—are weary of the old style of campaigning. They’re turned off by the culture war red meat, the dutiful but insincere orations of piety.

Emphasizing that ours is a “Christian nation” and pushing “hot button issues” as a style of campaigning has been detrimental to evangelicals, said Mary Jo Sharp, who teaches apologetics at Houston Baptist University and analyzes political campaigns as part of a class she teaches there. “It’s very difficult to hear” that kind of rhetoric, she said. “Christians are not supposed to be the dividers.”

Over the course of his political career in Wisconsin, Walker “hasn’t presented as any kind of culture warrior,” said Hunter Baker, Associate Professor of Political Science at Union University, a Southern Baptist school in Jackson, Tennessee. “One of the worst things that ever happened with conservative Christians,” said Baker, was that they “give in to a tribal impulse,” by questioning “are we getting the respect we perceive we once had, are we losing ground, we need to mobilize, we need to increase our force.” That, he added, “is a losing strategy. It gives people the sense you’re working from resentment.”................................

1 posted on 05/05/2015 4:19:15 AM PDT by Cincinatus' Wife
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To: Cincinatus' Wife

Huckabee is running for one reason: to thwart conservatives!

Remember last year when he made endorsements in both North and South Carolina to split the conservative vote so the Establishment candidate won!

He’s a shyster, pure and simple!


2 posted on 05/05/2015 4:21:17 AM PDT by cotton1706 (ThisRepublic.net)
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To: Cincinatus' Wife

you gotta love it when a liberal tries to write about conservative voters - thinking the “fever swamp of talk radio” is mostly about cultural and social issues. What maroons these faux elites are....


3 posted on 05/05/2015 4:27:01 AM PDT by C. Edmund Wright (www.FireKarlRove.com NOW)
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To: cotton1706

He’s in it to spit the early gop primary proportional vote and aid Jeb going into Florida (winner take all).


4 posted on 05/05/2015 4:38:07 AM PDT by Cincinatus' Wife
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To: Cincinatus' Wife

So the New York Times thinks that Mike Huckabee is still the voice of Evangelicals in the Republican primaries. I’d say they were laughably out of touch with conservative politics but at least this is better than the normal MSM stories about Christian voters being stupid, easily-led zombies who will vote however the preacher tells them to vote.


5 posted on 05/05/2015 4:46:38 AM PDT by Opinionated Blowhard ("When the people find they can vote themselves money, that will herald the end of the republic.")
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To: C. Edmund Wright

You’re absolutely right. If these leftists actually listened to conservative talk radio versus blindly attacking it on ideological grounds, they’d know social and cultural issues don’t come up very often.


6 posted on 05/05/2015 4:53:13 AM PDT by CitizenUSA (Proverbs 14:34 Righteousness exalts a nation, but sin is a disgrace to any people.)
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To: Cincinatus' Wife

The man was practically a Communist when he served as governor. Who would want him?


7 posted on 05/05/2015 4:54:53 AM PDT by alstewartfan (It's the superannuation of a love affair that never quite got started. Al Stewart "Pictures in Wine")
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To: CitizenUSA

EXACTLY - low information commentators and journalists talking to low information voters....


8 posted on 05/05/2015 4:56:21 AM PDT by C. Edmund Wright (www.FireKarlRove.com NOW)
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To: alstewartfan

Yes Huckabee is a communist as his record shows. But Huckabee is also a con man who is fooling conservatives into thinking he is also a conservative


9 posted on 05/05/2015 4:58:06 AM PDT by Democrat_media (Obama illegally got his FCC gestapo to impose SOROS' regulations on Internet)
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To: Cincinatus' Wife
He’s in it to spit the early gop primary proportional vote and aid Jeb going into Florida (winner take all).

Do you really believe that? I cannot buy into such. That may be the net effect, but it's hard for me to accept that is his intention. (And, to be clear - Huckabee makes my skin crawl.)

10 posted on 05/05/2015 4:59:12 AM PDT by don-o (He will not share His glory and He will NOT be mocked! Blessed be the name of the Lord forever!)
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To: Cincinatus' Wife
“Christians are not supposed to be the dividers.”

Do not think that I came to send peace upon earth: I came not to send peace, but the sword. For I came to set a man at variance against his father, and the daughter against her mother, and the daughter in law against her mother in law. --Some famous Christian


11 posted on 05/05/2015 4:59:23 AM PDT by Dr. Sivana (There is no salvation in politics)
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To: don-o
He’s in it to spit the early gop primary proportional vote and aid Jeb going into Florida (winner take all).

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Do you really believe that? I cannot buy into such.


Agreed. The reason there are so many candidates, is that many want to be part of the Veepstakes, where it might actually HURT to be a top-tier candidate. After all, John Edwards wasn't Obama's running-mate, fifth-place single digit Joe Biden was. He played nice and took votes from HRC and Edwards, and is no threat to steal the spotlight.
12 posted on 05/05/2015 5:02:38 AM PDT by Dr. Sivana (There is no salvation in politics)
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To: Cincinatus' Wife

I forgot to incude you in post #11.


13 posted on 05/05/2015 5:03:28 AM PDT by Dr. Sivana (There is no salvation in politics)
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To: cotton1706

[to thwart conservatives!]

I believe, it goes a lot further than just Huckelberry, I believe, the GOPe is so worried about true Conservatives getting a foothold, they are encouraging and perhaps are funding ALL the RINO’s in their party to squash any and all Conservatives.

That,in my opinion, is why the small r republicans is so large and it’s being perpetuated by all the media, including the much over lauded Fox network.

Just tag them The Charge of The GOPe Rino’s.


14 posted on 05/05/2015 5:05:48 AM PDT by RetSignman (Obama is the walking, talking middle finger in the face of America)
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To: Democrat_media

He’s a Christian, so all Christians are obligated to vote for him...

/s (tagged “sarcasm” because it’s a board requirement, but you all should be able to recognize it. It was positively dripping off this post.)


15 posted on 05/05/2015 5:11:22 AM PDT by CitizenUSA (Proverbs 14:34 Righteousness exalts a nation, but sin is a disgrace to any people.)
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To: don-o

Do you think Huckabee believes he can win? I don’t think he does. So, since Bush is the GOP-e pick, how does Huckabee splitting the evangelical vote help or hurt Bush? Going in Huckabee must know that he’ll pull votes away from other non-Bushes, essentially diluting any strength an anti-Bush candidate would have racking up delegates being proportionally awarded - then coming out of Fla, Bush could have a large delegate count with “winner take all” primaries being moved up by 2 weeks (basically, proportional primary dates have been cut in half, from a month to 2 weeks).


16 posted on 05/05/2015 5:14:22 AM PDT by Cincinatus' Wife
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To: cotton1706

Well said!!! The huckster is as sleazy as the Clintons.....a real scumbag.


17 posted on 05/05/2015 5:14:24 AM PDT by rrrod (at home in Medellin Colombia)
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To: Cincinatus' Wife

Unfortunately, the evangelicals in my area (Ohio Valley) support Huckster because he was a preacher. Sigh.


18 posted on 05/05/2015 5:19:28 AM PDT by goodwithagun (My gun has killed fewer people than Ted Kennedy's car.)
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To: Cincinatus' Wife
This article is clearly designed to somehow aggravate the GOP. We have the NY Slimes pumping Mike Hucksterbee as the alternative to specifically named Scott Walker...clearly because they fear Scott Walker.

Now there will be some of the "I'm voting Huckersterbee because he's a Christian!" in the GOP, because he pulled that one trick pony, Jedi mind trick, over on the one single issue crowd some years back. However, there has been some time since then and the political landscape is different.

19 posted on 05/05/2015 5:46:01 AM PDT by KC_Conspirator
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To: Cincinatus' Wife

Huckabee made his showing against Romney and McCain, that isn’t the situation today.


20 posted on 05/05/2015 7:12:07 AM PDT by ansel12
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