Posted on 11/29/2007 11:31:52 PM PST by FocusNexus
At the Values Voter Summit in Washington in October, Southern Baptist ex-preacher Mike Huckabee made headlines by imploring evangelical voters to stay true to their Bible-believing faith rather than sell their souls for the good of the Republican Party. What he meant, of course, was that they should back true-believer Huckabee, despite his long odds in the race for the White House, over impure candidates such as Rudy Giuliani, Mitt Romney and Fred Thompson.
"Let me say that it's important that people sing from their hearts and don't merely lip-sync the lyrics to our songs," Huckabee told the crowd, referring to the presidential contenders. "I think it's important that the language of Zion is a mother tongue and not a recently acquired second language." The speech was a hit, but in the weeks since, most A-list Christian right leaders and organizations have shrugged off his advice.
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Huckabee is a Bible totin’ Nanny Stater socialist.
“Huckabee is a Bible totin’ Nanny Stater socialist.”
This other article I just posted makes that point, but it seems “true evangelicals” don’t care.
Understanding Huckabee and Social Conservatives
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1932665/posts
“Not only do many Evangelicals not truly embrace the more libertarian aspects of conservative thought, they outright disagree:
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Thus, Evangelicals in that strain of thought don’t necessarily have a problem with Mike Huckabee’s fondness for big government if they share the same values he seeks to impose (his support of a national ban on smoking in public places being perhaps the most overt). They likewise are less likely to blanch at Huckabee’s sometimes embrace of less conservative domestic policies, including higher taxes.
Consequently, observers left thinking Huckabee voters might be easily dismayed by his nanny-state tendencies or some of his other domestic policy ideas outside of conservative orthodoxy are likely to be proven wrong. Such issues may hurt Huckabee a bit with Evangelicals currently backing him, but his ethical problems in Arkansas are likely to me more of a problem for him with that crowd if someone like the Club for Growth can find a way to use that weakness effectively.”
sounds like wishful thinking on someones part..
Don’t get fooled again: don’t trust anybody who don’t like French Fries at McDonalds, especially after the Packers lost to The Cowgirls. Now THAT’S America...
http://images.usatoday.com/money/industries/food/photos/mcdonalds-fries.jpg
Don’t trust him.
Problem w Huckabee is that he wants to render on to Caesar what should be rendered to God.
I have not heard whether Mr. Huckabee won't be left behind, so he needs to make sure his VEEP plans on staying to the end. /s
From the CNN debate:
...It accomplished two things that we knew we wanted to do, and that is, number one, bring people from illegal status to legal status.
AMNESTY
I seem to remember that quite a few freepers were thrilled with Mike Huckabee when he played (at two??) Freeper Inauguration Balls. Somebody must have trusted him back then.
Don’t care about what? There seems to be a major disconnect from the non-evangelicals who think the religious vote should be taken but not heard. No, I am not impressed by what the Club for Growth sometimes stands for, especially in this instance, when a Huckabee political opponent in Arkansas DONATED $125,000 to them just before this report was released.
If you don’t like Huckabee’s stance on immigration, that is fair game; he has already stated he will allow that to cost him the nomination but he believes that sealing the borders is still the first thing to do. As for raising taxes, he has also proven a great deal of them were improve his STATE’S roads and schools. The STATES should be funding these things, don’t you think?
In the end, we still need a candidate who can pull the base and grab the middle. We all thought that would be Thompson; it hasn’t happened. I like Mike Huckabee’s frankness, I like his willingness to fight, and I agree for the most part with his stand on a lot of issues, including immigration. Oh-uh, guess that means I don’t care - about gun rights, Supreme Court nominees, homosexual marriage, human rights, consistent positions, and a return to state’s rights. I should probably go vote for Hillary, right?
Back then he was answering calls for tax increases with the voluntary tongue-in-cheek “Tax Me More Fund” and opposing restaurant smoking bans on the basis of private property rights. In other words, he used to be fairly conservative.
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