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Huckabee Scolds the Tea Party Groups: ‘Politics Is Not Theology’
Mediaite ^ | December 14, 2013 | Noah Rothman

Posted on 12/15/2013 4:46:32 AM PST by 2ndDivisionVet

Former Arkansas Governor and Fox News Channel host Mike Huckabee weighed in on the escalating feud between establishment Republican politicians and conservative activist groups on Saturday. Asked for his thoughts on House Speaker John Boehner’s (R-OH) admonition of the idealized purism advocated by some outside groups, Huckabee sympathized with Boehner saying that governing is more difficult than activism and “politics is not theology.”

Huckabee began by saying that Boehner was not scolding the tea party movement but conservative groups that capitalize on that movement. He added that some of those groups appear to have an “all or nothing mindset” and that this mentality more often results in getting “nothing.”

“When the movement becomes, sort of, focused in a handful of groups that are raising funds to attack Republicans and the criteria for being attacked is the difference you might have in the tactic of the party, not the philosophy of the party, I think that is what Boehner and the others are really reacting to,” Huckabee continued.

“Governing is tough,” he continued. “Politics is not theology. It’s easy to be pure when you are talking about theology.”

Watch the clip below via Fox News Channel:

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TOPICS: Arkansas; Ohio; Issues; Parties; U.S. Congress
KEYWORDS: arkansas; astroturf; boehner; finos; gop; huckabee; johnboehner; mikehuckabee; teaparty; tpino
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

He’s slitting his own throat. Let him.


21 posted on 12/15/2013 5:23:19 AM PST by Arthur McGowan
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
Huckabee Scolds the Tea Party Groups: ‘Politics Is Not Theology’

Poor old Huck...desperately seeking relevance. Go polish up your halo, Huck and leave the hard stuff to the adults.

22 posted on 12/15/2013 5:24:55 AM PST by GoldenPup
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

“. He added that some of those groups appear to have an “all or nothing mindset” and that this mentality more often results in getting “nothing.”

My recent choices have been restricted to more socialism or nothing. Under that circumstance, I choose nothing.


23 posted on 12/15/2013 5:25:34 AM PST by lowbridge
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Huckabee should be in prison as an accessory to murder TWICE!

This…man a role model?

Ptuh!


24 posted on 12/15/2013 5:27:42 AM PST by onedoug
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
Gee...and I always thought principles were NON-negotiable. I guess I should be glad Huckster cleared that up.
25 posted on 12/15/2013 5:31:05 AM PST by voicereason (The RNC is the "One-night stand" you wish you could forget.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

The United States is not a carcass to be colligially divided between the good yotes and the bad yotes.


26 posted on 12/15/2013 5:31:23 AM PST by Theophilus (Not merely prolife, but prolific)
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To: tacticalogic

Rick Warren ain’t all that hot with his Chrislam /Dianetics theology either.


27 posted on 12/15/2013 5:31:59 AM PST by noprogs (Borders, Language, Culture)
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To: Phinneous

I always knew that Huckabee was a poser. He’s a rino just like the rest of them.


28 posted on 12/15/2013 5:32:15 AM PST by 3Fingas (Sons and Daughters for Freedom and Rededicaton to the Principles of the U.S. Constitution...)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
Huckabee began by saying that Boehner was not scolding the tea party movement but conservative groups that capitalize on that movement.

There is a problem with conservative groups supporting the TEA Party?

29 posted on 12/15/2013 5:33:14 AM PST by Zuben Elgenubi (NOPe to GOPe)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

No one asked you, Gomer, so stuff it.


30 posted on 12/15/2013 5:33:45 AM PST by chris37 (Heartless.)
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To: noprogs
Rick Warren ain’t all that hot with his Chrislam /Dianetics theology either.

He had a lot of people here fooled back during the Clinton administration.

31 posted on 12/15/2013 5:37:42 AM PST by tacticalogic
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To: tacticalogic

...and W’s ......and Obama’s.....and Hillary’s to come.


32 posted on 12/15/2013 5:42:49 AM PST by noprogs (Borders, Language, Culture)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

At the very heart of self-governance is the ability to, first, be able to govern...the self. Bringing one’s desires, passions, thoughts, tendencies, weaknesses under control. In creating such a form of government, the Founders understood this. As many of them were either christian or well aware of the biblical understanding of this concept, they were also aware that this is not [totally] possible (our natures are tainted by sin) and that in order for a people to be self-governing, they would have to be God-relying. They would be a people willing to humble themselves under the mighty hand of God that, in due time, they would be exalted. They would at least need to be conscious of the correctness of the biblical view of human nature. Sadly, this is not the case any longer.

Apart from a christian perspective of this...apart from a biblical understanding of the propensities of the flesh and its tendencies toward sin, self-governance is impossible. The target (self-control/self-governance) will shift and shift some more until SELF is in charge (and not under control). So, yes, split hairs about the separation of church and state. Divorce religion from politics. Ignore the understanding that those early fathers set in motion at our nation’s founding. But once, done, do not wonder why we are the way we are.


33 posted on 12/15/2013 5:45:43 AM PST by MarDav
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To: Lazamataz

I wouldn’t call him classic RINO…I’d call him a pro life liberal…..and a popesque economic populist idiot.


34 posted on 12/15/2013 5:49:05 AM PST by C. Edmund Wright (Tokyo Rove is more than a name, it's a GREAT WEBSITE)
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To: lowbridge

And the irony is, Huckster only won votes in 2008 of the “all or nothing” folks on a couple of issues…..and now he’s out criticizing the “all or nothingz” crowd because those issues of liberty and freedom and smaller government aren’t his pet issues?

What a less than brilliant tool this man is.


35 posted on 12/15/2013 5:51:29 AM PST by C. Edmund Wright (Tokyo Rove is more than a name, it's a GREAT WEBSITE)
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To: AdmSmith; AnonymousConservative; Berosus; bigheadfred; Bockscar; cardinal4; ColdOne; ...

Thanks 2ndDivisionVet.


36 posted on 12/15/2013 6:03:01 AM PST by SunkenCiv (http://www.freerepublic.com/~mestamachine/)
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“When the movement becomes, sort of, focused in a handful of groups that are raising funds to attack Republicans and the criteria for being attacked is the difference you might have in the tactic of the party, not the philosophy of the party, I think that is what Boehner and the others are really reacting to,” Huckabee continued.


37 posted on 12/15/2013 6:04:39 AM PST by SunkenCiv (http://www.freerepublic.com/~mestamachine/)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
‘Politics Is Not Theology’

Well governor, if you listen to 0bama, Reid, Pelosi, and others in the democRAT party, you would rightly conclude that politics is a religion.

5.56mm

38 posted on 12/15/2013 6:07:38 AM PST by M Kehoe
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Politics is hard...Whine whine whine!

Politics is so hard because politicians like Huck and the GOPe are so soft...

We need real leadership, Cruz 2016!


39 posted on 12/15/2013 6:08:47 AM PST by PoloSec ( Believe the Gospel: how that Christ died for our sins, was buried and rose again)
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To: tacticalogic
Rick Warren didn't fool me.....

I was never one of his 'followers'......

40 posted on 12/15/2013 6:11:14 AM PST by Guenevere
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