If Huckabee fizzles, his followers will be looking for another prolife evangelical to fill the void. Hunter fits that bill, no one else in the race is evangelical.
The GOP doesn’t get it. They need to let this faction find a home. The amount of invective aimed at evangelicals is surprising, but then everyone wants their votes.
Huckabee has surged because he won a couple of debates and he’s got evangelical support. If a quick rise can happen to the liberal pro-life evangelical Huckster, it can happen to the conservative pro-life evangelical Hunter.
Prolife evangelicals will be very comfortable in Hunter’s camp, since he’s a prolife evangelical staunch conservative.
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On Poll Results and the End of Conservatism
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(Do yourself a favor and set aside the rhetoric of Rush Limbaugh and Laura Ingraham. Spend some time doing the research for yourself at Huckabee’s website and watch video of Huckabee on sites like youtube answering the accusations directly.)
I do respect Rush, Laura, and other pundits you are telling us to dismiss. They have a brand and reputation to protect, and therefore rarely take a huge position on something without doing a lot of due diligence.
Huckabee is socially conservative (which I like), but wants to use the government as a tool to advance his preferences (I don’t like that - we already have a “compassionate conservative” in the White House, and we saw what happened to spending). On foreign policy, he’s a dove (an ignorant one at that), on free trade he’s a dove, and on immigration he’s a Democrat. Beside what the conservative pundits have been saying about him, I’ll give him credit for not trying to pass himself for something he isn’t. He did not respond to Fred Thompson’s criticism of his record, and his own chief advisor said that the Reagan coalition is dead. I’m sorry, but we need all three legs of that coalition to win. If he wins the Presidency anyway, it would be a disaster to the Republican party, and to Christians (his failures would discredit us).
I think the only people who could unite the Reagan coalition are Fred Thomson and Duncan Hunter. I don’t think Duncan has a prayer, so I hope Fred starts doing better. Make no mistake, evangelicals are a huge part of the Reagan coalition, and I wouldn’t be voting in the primaries for anyone who turns them off. However, I wouldn’t vote for someone who doesn’t believe in supply-side economics, as it’s proved that it’s the only sort of economics that actually works and helps provide prosperity.
Huckabee is no "Evangelical". He is a Jimmy Carter, "Liberation Theology"-style Christian. He has called those who oppose illlegal immigration racists. He believes in nanny state Federal control of the people without the States having a say. He is even hiring homosexual Republican activists to advise his campaign. He and his wife are liars and charlatans and phonies, who cite Jesus in every sentence but are unworthy of his example, as they practice deceit and immorality masquerading as "public service". I feel sorry for the simpletons who are taken in by this false prophet. For they are truly lost.
It sounds like you’re saying that the ONLY option for the GOP is to run an Evangelical, each and every time. That sounds REAL “inclusive.”
NOT.
I have only recently had time to get back to Free Republic and check out discussions about the candidates. (This is my first post in many months.)
At first, I was very interested and supportive of Huckabee. But lately I have found that the way his faith informs his political views is somewhat disappointing.
Members of Free Republic should have recognized by now that of all the candidates running, only one has a record that is truly conservative across-the-board.
He is my first choice now. I hope he can come from behind. Evangelicals need to take a look, because he is everything Huckabee is in that arena and more.
Plus he is conservative on other issues.
Huckabee is right on some of the most important social and moral issues, And I will vote for him against any Democrat.
However, he is now my number three pick after Hunter then Thompson.
Thompson has not had a strong enough record on social / moral issues in my opinion, but he is not running to be a legislator. I doubt he would veto any Republican bills or constitutional amendments that were pro family or pro life.
My choices are Hunter, Thompson, Huckabee, and I might be able to vote for Romney over a Dem. I don’t think I could vote for Gulianni even against Obama or Clinton... but I would at least think about voting. I would probably look for a third-party or write-in candidate in that case.
If Huckabee had not run, Evangelicals would have jumped behind Hunter and he would be a front-runner right now.
It is not too late to support the best candidate.
Time for folks to now take a good, solid hard look at DUNCAN HUNTER.
He would satisfy a LOT of factions in the GOP I am convinced.