Posted on 12/22/2007 1:03:23 AM PST by goldstategop
This guy Huckabee is some kind of genius. A week ago, you had to be the Pope or the Queen to do your own big televised Christmas message. But now, since Huck climbed into his red sweater and hired George Lucas to do the notorious "floating cross" effect, every single-digit nickel 'n' dime presidential candidate is donning his gay apparel and trolling the ancient Yuletide carol. I haven't seen so much festive knitwear since "The Andy Williams Christmas Show" 1973.
Because Mike Huckabee mentioned "the birth of Christ," he liberated the equivocal tentative finger-in-the-windy candidates and enabled them to utter the dread words "Merry Christmas." (Save, that is, for Sen. Clinton, whose message ends with "Happy Holidays.") Thus, in a small way, the governor shifted the goalposts. I can't say I care for the Huckster policy-wise, but his instincts are very shrewd. There's a big demographic out there (and certainly not confined to evangelical Protestants, or even believing Christians) that's sick of the insipid generalities of the liberal establishment's offensively inoffensive pseudo-religion. By declining to defer to it and suffering no ill effects, Huck demonstrated how weedy and insubstantial it is. A lot of cultural warriors will be heartened by that.
And Huckabee's insouciance – he ad-libbed his Christmas greeting in two takes – helps explain why so many of the better-funded, supposed front-runners this campaign season are lying in the snow bank with a stunned look while the soundtrack plays "Grandma Got Run Over By A Reindeer".
On which happy note, Happy Hol … er, Merry Christmas!
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I can't say I care for the Huckster policy-wise, but his instincts are very shrewd. There's a big demographic out there (and certainly not confined to evangelical Protestants, or even believing Christians) that's sick of the insipid generalities of the liberal establishment's offensively inoffensive pseudo-religion. By declining to defer to it and suffering no ill effects, Huck demonstrated how weedy and insubstantial it is. A lot of cultural warriors will be heartened by that.
We cultural warriors think its a propitious development. "Merry Christmas, everyone!"
"Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached." - Manuel II Palelologus
Or Mike Huckabee just heard Bill O’Reilly once - “the secularization of Christmas” and all.
Merry Christmas!
Give me some money!
Save your toys for the little rich boys.....
The Club for Growth PAC may have been the first to take on Huckabee, but we now find ourselves in very good company. As Huckabee surges in the polls, many prominent actors in the conservative movement are rallying against Huckabee’s candidacy for one reason or another. With each day, the list continues to grow, and I have started keeping track:
Club for Growth PAC
National Review Editors
Wall Street Journal Editorial Board
John Fund
Jonah Goldberg
Don Lambro
Robert Novak
Tony Blankley
George Will (twice!)
Investors Business Daily Editorial Board
Richard Viguerie
Kim Strassel
Washington Times Editorial Board
Michael Barone
Rush Limbaugh
Laura Ingraham
Charles Krauthammer
Peggy Noonan
Stephen Hayes
Phyllis Schlafly
Deroy Murdock
Ryan Sager
Chuck Muth
Ann Coulter
"Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached." - Manuel II Palelologus
Huckabee has to his credit succeeded in revealing the farce that one needs to shun religion and socially conservative positions to win. I do respect that he didn’t back down from his statements on homosexuality, and he hasn’t apologized for his religious beliefs. If only he was a fiscal conservative and a law and order conservative he’d wouldn’t be half bad. I’m just not going to vote for someone like him who is clearly a “blank check” politician seeing no limits to government largess or interference in the lives of productive citizens.
A man who does not understand the principles on which this country was founded does not deserve to be President.
He won?
"Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached." - Manuel II Palelologus
I don’t know what it is about this guy, but no matter how many times people scream that he’s pro-life, I keep thinking about all those Christian socialists. This is where we really start twisting the political sides, and it’s only going to hurt the conservative values we prize.
Merry Christmas, Darkwolf. Your help this past year has meant the world to me. Thank you!
Very good analysis of Mike Huckabee...I don’t see him as Presidential material unless he were running against 1 of the 3 little D-Rats. But bless him for publicly standing by his social conservative positions as you mentioned....I have had enough of the PC crap spewed every minute of every day!
No Funny like Steyn Funny: HUCKaBING Crosby, the pioneer in whose footsteps all others scamper to play
If conservatives weren’t making a good living propping up liberalism they could be useful. Huck out of desperation hit on the Christmas thing, but if he were a clear cut leader in the polls there would be less chance of getting a Merry Christmas out of him than from the wack job Abe Foxman.
"Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached." - Manuel II Palelologus
Liberalism is today’s evil communism. It would be a memory if it weren’t for those “respectable” conservatives like that Lopez chick over at NRO propping it up. Now back to Huck if this were by design and he understands the evils that are liberalism and defies the respectables opinions he’ll win the nomination. So you might be right, but if this were just a lucky and ignorant swing at PC he’ll fade rather fast.
While that disappoints me, I still support Huckabee. As for Club for Growth itself: They’re displeased with Huckabee’s anti-free trade/anti-globalist agenda.
I’m getting kind of tired of seeing almost all of our candidates getting trashed regularly around here. As far as I’m concerned, they’re all good candidates, except for Ron Paul.
And could you link me to a source for your claim that Tony Blankley is rallying against Huckabee. This is what I’ve read from Blankley, and it’s hardly against his candidacy:
” There has been some fair criticism of Huckabee’s foreign policy statements. His use of homely schoolyard parables to explain foreign policy hit wide and short of the mark. In supporting the idea of diplomacy, he fails to point out its limitations and risks. And his sometimes-harsh assessment of American intentions is unfounded. In short, it sounds in places a little squishy and insufficiently “nuanced.”
On the other hand, he is for a rapid major increase in the size of the military. He is in favor of military action, if necessary, to deny Iran a nuclear bomb. He demands that we stay and fight and win in Iraq. And his discussion of the risk from radical Islam is as tough and realistic as I have heard. In fact, as the author of a book that was judged alarmist by some on the topic of radical Islam (”The West’s Last Chance: Will We Win the Clash of Civilizations?”), I could find little to complain about in his long discussion of the topic.
In a dangerous world such as ours, I would like to hear more (and more careful) words from Huckabee. But basically he seems to be a hawk — and thus not beyond the Republican pale (although his hawkish ways come with a perhaps-rhetorical bow to the current nervousness of needed independent and suburban Republican voters). I also would like to hear more (and more thoughtful words) than the mere GOP boilerplate we are getting from the other candidates, with the exception of McCain and sometimes of Giuliani.
I don’t have a candidate yet. I either disagree with each on important points or have doubts about the electability of each. But most of all, I fear our intraparty fury will destroy all leaders and send us off to a brokered convention — and from thence, probably to defeat. If the Democrats have their candidate by February and we are campaigning harshly until August, we surely would start in a deep hole. “
I fully agree with him.
He’s popular because he’s a social conservative who’s also an anti-globalist. And unlike anti-globalists like Buchanan and Ron Paul, Huckabee doesn’t have anti-American foreign policy views in line with communists and neo-Nazis.
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