Posted on 02/14/2008 2:39:10 AM PST by Kurt Evans
... Many Republicans think that, come what may, things will come out the way Providence intends. Daniel Webster said "miracles do not cluster," but Webster did not anticipate Mike Huckabee, whose campaign manager is, evidently, God. Two months ago, Huckabee said he rose in Iowa because of divine intervention (the power that propelled him there was not "human" but the one that fed the multitudes with two fish and five loaves). On Saturday, as he was winning the caucuses in Kansas, where many Republicans think Darwin should go back to Missouri where he came from, Huckabee said that the arithmetic is daunting (he must win almost all the remaining delegates to stop McCain) but he shall persevere:
"I know people say that the math doesn't work out. Folks, I didn't major in math. I majored in miracles, and I still believe in those, too."
Although some of his supporters defend him against the accusation of sincerity, it is not unfair to assume that Huckabee, who has made his piety integral to his politics, means what he says. There is appealing clarity, but also a whiff of lunacy or charlatanry, in the theory that the Author of the Universe is writing his campaign story. "The world," wrote the poet Gerard Manley Hopkins, "is charged with the grandeur of God." The world, perhaps, but the Republican delegate scramble?
Maybe Huckabee hopes that his credentials as a potential running mate for McCain will be strengthened if he achieves a (strictly speaking) providential victory in the Texas primary. McCain might, however, prefer a vice president who is less directly guided by Providence. And McCain will not long be amused by Huckabee continuing to offer himself as a vessel into which conservatives pour their disapproval of the inevitable...
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Part of me would like God to make Governor Huckabee president just to cut George Will down to size:
http://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1934903/posts
“The longer I live, the more convincing proofs I see of this truth: that God governs the affairs of man [Romans 8:28]. And if a sparrow cannot fall to the ground without His notice [Matthew 10:29], is it probable that an empire can rise without His aid? We have been assured in the Sacred Writings that except the Lord build the house, they labor in vain that build it [Psalms 127:1]. I firmly believe this. I also believe that, without His concurring aid, we shall succeed in this political building no better than the builders of Babel [Genesis 11:1-9].”
—Benjamin Franklin, arguing the need for prayer at the Constitutional Convention
Things always come out the way Providence intends - we may not like it but it happens.
Who really cares what George Will thinks? He managed to portray Kansans as flat-earth, mouth-breathers with turgid vocabulary and little else. I am not sure that he realizes he comes off as some self-aggrandizing, heathen-android, but he does. He wants us to fall in line with the new and improved, Zen Xanax McCain (Now with 30% fewer tantrums). He is part of the Conservative intelligentsia and he knows what is best for us.
The Huckster needs to mind his words and not give those like Will, opportunities to ridicule. He should have learned his lesson with the whole “is the devil a brother” question. He is not part of a “protected class” and the sooner he realizes that, the better off he will be. It is acceptable to come off with ignorant, hillbilly, hee-haw, evangelical snipes, but most everything else is off the table.
When Mormons vote for Romney and blacks for Obama in numbers in the 90 percentile range it is no big deal. Yet when another group does not vote for them in the numbers they “felt” they should have, well, that, is obviously, bigotry. I am not a big fan of the Huckster at all. If however, he is staying in this race to stop McCain and not get himself notoriety or a position in a future administration; I may have to flex my opinion a bit. We shall see, and for now, Go Huckster :)
There is always room for Providential intervention. We just need to cooperate. It looks to me like Huckabee is making himself available. I, for one, am glad he is persevering.
He will never be McCain’s VP, no matter what he does.
McCain will pick someone from within his little blueblood black book.
The early President’s commonly stated that the creation of our nation was divinely directed, and very regularly prayed for divine direction in their leadership.
It’s interesting how that is used to attack Huckabee. He’s attackable (did I invent a word) on so many fronts, it’s telling that his faith is the one that receives the overwhelming majority of the focus.
I think they just have trouble containing their hostility towards anyone who asserts he views things through the lens of faith.
I agree 100%. If your faith isn’t absolutely private (at which point it ceases to be religious or at least Christian) then you are viewed as extreme and attacked.
It’s surprising and sad that our country has reversed itself on this idea.
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