Clearly Club For Growth is not in Huckabee’s camp. They’d be happiest with Rudy (I say that because Steve Forbes is one of his big fans) but can handle Romney or Thompson, too.
I think Huckabee could be a liberal in a disguise and I think his activities within the Southern Baptist ministry are worth closer inspection. He left the ministry at a time that conservatives who believed in Biblical inerrancy plus a strong pro-life, pro-family stance were taking over.
Why did Huckabee “get out of the ministry” and move towards politics?
Its not the government’s job to be pushing an anti-smoking anti-obesity agenda, either. This is nanny state control stuff.
He can talk Oprah and move a populist audience of Arkansans or Oklahomans (Reagan Democrats) but what’s he going to do as president?
I’m wary and a little scared of that, too.
Dr. Rogers was the father of the conservative movement in the Souther Baptist Convention, and would under no circumstance have had a liberal speaking at Bellevue Baptist Church.