Some Evangelical voters are so fixated on social issues that they ignore everything else. Hence Huckabee’s support.
Why are they not happy with a guy like Fred, who voted pro-life and supports a Roe V. Wade overturn? Yeah, he says the HLA isn’t a priority, and the reason being it won’t pass, he’s right. But he’s certainly in no way a THREAT to Christian values...
Now don’t get me wrong, lack of a conservative social issues stance is one major reason I DON’T support Rudy...but I think some take it TOO far.
Cue Huckabee - a straight up crusader on the life issue, and for that, I give him Kudos...but the guy is a miserable failure on most other issues. Don’t Evangelicals still have to pay taxes and get sick of government meddling? Do they not care about the INVASION of illegal immigrants with no desire to become American in culture or values?
To my Evangelical FRiends...this is NOT meant as a broad brush. I know that many, perhaps even most, Evangelical conservative voters do not do this, but enough of them do that I have to note that it exists and is disturbing. I use this as a call to educate your friends and neighbors and church friends that may think the way I described above as to why socialism and nanny-statism ultimately threatens our nation and way of life.
As I’ve said, whenever asking a conservative politician the power to enact a social policy, we must ask if we’d give Hillary or Obama that same power.
I got a good friend who just is pretty shallow intellectually when it comes to these things. He is in the politics business, but he’s not very good at it. Its not a wonder he is finding it hard to get a new job on a campaign.
(For the record, I am supporting the winner vs. Hildebeast.)
Mind you, he actually thinks Hillary in that sense is better than Romney. And he wonders why he gets turned down during interviews for campaign jobs.
I agree with you.
I see where they are succeeding in banning soft drinks and traditional snacks from schools. There’s a move afoot to do that by law, anyhow. Then also to regulate exactly what can and cannot be offered to students nationwide as food and drink during school meals. The give as reason that kids are obese, unhealthy, yada yada yada.
The problem is, next they will ban these items from stores or in other settings or else tax them to death. Health plans will be forced to impose restrictions on the very details of peoples lives. Whether gov’t or private plans.
The people will lose their freedoms and maybe never get them back again.
It’s very scary. And it starts with a foot in the door with people falling prey to a nanny stater like Huckabee. THe Dems are known for this, now we’ve got the fastest rising Repub candidate being known for it, too.
Unaccepable!
Unaccep(t)able!
My nightmare is Huck as President, with a Rat-controlled Congress trying to “right all of the social wrongs of the Bush Administration”. He’d sign anything they passed, all in the name of looking cooperative.
Rockin’ good analysis, there, RockinRight.
Huckabee the bumblebee as our next great leader? hahahahahaha