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"Huckabee told Meredith Vieira earlier this week: “There’s a sense in which all these years the evangelicals have been treated very kindly by the Republican party. They wanted us to be a part of it, and then one day, one of us actually runs and they say, ‘Oh, my gosh! Now they’re serious.’”"

I don't know about every evangelical, but I certainly thought of George Bush as being "one of us". And I don't remember the party being put off by that.

In fact, I haven't seen the party being put off by Huckabee being "one of us". I see them being put off by his attacks on the President, and his insistance that he's the only real pick for evangelicals, simply BECAUSE he is one.

I'd prefer a strong christian, or at least a man of faith who practices their faith, but I don't pick my candidate simply because they belong to my church, or have the same hair color I do either.