"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.”................................
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!
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....
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.
The man was practically a Communist when he served as governor. Who would want him?
Unfortunately, the evangelicals in my area (Ohio Valley) support Huckster because he was a preacher. Sigh.
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.
Huckabee made his showing against Romney and McCain, that isn’t the situation today.