We Catholics customarily vote for Protestants, and a pro-death position and marital troubles ironically render the only nominally Catholic candidate (Rudolph William Louis Giuliani) completely unacceptable. Other than the ridiculous antiwar Ronald Ernest Paul, the remaining candidates are mediocre but not unacceptable. Huckabee sounds as good or better than the rest of them.
No. I'm supporting Rudy.
Huck may have an evangelical Problem. Some major Evangelicals have put a bad light on Evangelicals..
Jim Bakker, Jimmy Swaggart, etc.
**Does Huckabee make Catholics uncomfortable?**
I would say, off the record, “Yes.”
I’m Anglican and he makes me uncomfortable. He is at the bottom of my vote list.
If Huckabee doesn’t have Catholic problem now I would wager he will if gets the nomination and the rats start searching his pastoral record. Take for example his Mormon problem. By repeatedly refusing to answer the question of whether Mormons are Christians, Huckabee has by default indicated that he either doesn’t think so or doesn’t want to aggravate his hardcore supporters who don’t think so. At least that’s the obvious interpretation, but that strategy alenates Mormons who though a small minority, vote 90% GOP and make a crucial part of the electorare in a half a dozen states. So why wouldn’t Huck, being the politician that he is just pander a little and make a statement something to the effect of “My demonination doesn’t recognize Mormons to be Christian in their doctrine, or ordinances, but in as much as any man follows Jesus Christ I would leave it to God to decide who is a Christian” A nice answer that shows tolerance (loved by the media), reassures his evangelical base that he does not personally consider Mormons a Christian denomination, and says to Mormons - look I think your kooky like every other Christian church does but I am not going to insult you or say your bad people. It’s a WIN-WIN-WIN statement, the kind pandering politicians from Arkansas are famous for. so why didn’t he say it? Here’s my speculation - and I emphasize SPECULATIOn, I haven’t read or seen anything documenting this - Mike Huckabee has preached thousands of sermons. he’s taughts hundreds of classes, led dozens of retreats and seminars. The teaching that Mormons (and Jehovah Witnesses, Adventists, scientologist, etc etc ) are cults and not Christian is pretty standard teaching for a Baptist minister. Somewhere out there is recording, a transcript, a grainy VHS tape from 1982 that has preacher Huckabee teaching from the pulpit that Mormons are non-Christian cult. He knows it’s in ihis past so he cannot contradict himslef now and risk a series of attack adds pointing out his hyposrisy. My fear for the electability of Huck is that the same Baptist preached may also have railed against the “Papist” Catholics a time or two, and if that tape or sermon exists you can bet that Hillary will have it all over the news in October.
Do Catholics make Huckabee uncomfortable?
Huck has a conservative problem. He isn’t one.
Huck, an evangelical Christian tax-and-spend soft-on-crime RINO, would and should be running behind Duncan Hunter, a true evangelical Christian conservative. Maybe its the MSM. May its his rhetorical skills, he has a Clintonesque way. But I think anyone not under the spell of “He’s one of us so let’s vote for him”, can recognize from his record - he’s NOT a conservative.
For example:
I believe in Christian mercy, but Huck thoroughly abused his pardon authority as Governor, releasing *a dozen* of convicted killers and *hundreds* of convicted felons. A record out of line with former Governors, with neighboring states, and with common sense.
http://www.arkansasleader.com/frontstories/st_08_11_04/huckabee8.html
Other governors use their clemency power only rarely, while Huckabee has made it routine. As we’ve told you before, he has issued more than 700 pardons and commutations during his eight years in office – more than 137 this year alone – and more than his three predecessors combined.
___ Here are the figures for neighboring states since 1996, when Huckabee took office (and keep in mind the population of these states is nearly 20 times ours):
___ >> Louisiana – 213.
___ >> Mississippi – 24.
___ >> Missouri – 79.
___ >> Oklahoma – 178.
___ >> Tennessee – 32.
___ >> Texas – 98 (in-cludes 36 inmates released because they were convicted on drug charges with planted evidence).
___ Total: 624 vs. Huckabee’s 703.
___ Governors in neighboring states almost never grant killers clemency, while Huckabee has commuted the sentences of a dozen murderers.
They are taking their own holier than jesus approach that they and only they are the way and are railroading anyone else who gets in the way in an untactful and brutal way...and are doing so particularly regarding religion.
Catholics know what its like and call it for what it is. Its wrong to do that to a Catholic. Its wrong to do that to a Jew, and its wrong to do that to a Latter day Saint.
I will vote against the competition amongst churches every single time.
There is no way I will support huck in the general election and there is no way I will empower those people who support huck for the exact reasons mentioned above.
Maybe it is the company he keeps.
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I think in the broadest sense, Catholics and Evangelicals are united, became so more in the 1990s and it has become cemented in this millenium with feelings that agree, from moral issues to the cinema with “The Passion.”
I think, back in the day, political events could have gone in two different directions, Evangelical anti-Catholicism or towards a kinder, gentler nation. I believe the latter occurred.
They aren’t even strange bedfellows any more.
9 out of 10 catholics are not even practicing catholics. They are catholic only by family tradition. Catholics are liberal in a lot of their views especially with helping the illegal aliens. Who cares that Mitt carried the catholic districts. The practicing Catholics tend to be conservative enough though. Go Huck GO!
Huck's real problem is that the New York Republican Power players are more opposed to him than anybody else.
Yes, as do most Protestant fundamentalists.
Catholics are used to voting for Presidents who don’t share their faith. We haven’t had many Catholics, and the ones who do run aren’t very “Catholic” at all!!
Anyway, I think the faith issue isn’t nearly as important as the candidate’s stand on issues, and I think Catholics in general are very savvy about the issues.
I just hate to see so many Catholics continue to vote DemonRAT! Hopefully with Pope Benedict at the helm and the move toward more traditional liturgy more and more Catholics will discover our Faith completely and fully and those with “issues” with the Church will move to where they belong—Protestant denominations!
Giuliani has the Catholic problem.