Posted on 05/05/2015 10:03:07 AM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
Former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee will be entering a very different Republican primary field when he announces his candidacy Tuesday, one that will likely bring up the debate over where libertarians stand in the Republican party, while also facing more competition for social conservative voters than eight years ago.
“Huckabee does have name recognition having been on Fox News all this time,” Tim Hagle, a political science professor at the University of Iowa, told TheBlaze. “At the same time, after he won the caucuses here in 2008, there was a lot of concern that he wasn’t as conservative as some thought.”(continued)
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No you didn’t answer me.
You must me more confident than most Christians to be attacking Huckabee’s faith in public like this.
So the simple answer was yes, you are condemning him in public as a fake Christian.
Quite a public witnessing to be taking.
How many hands tall is your high horse?
I think you are the one who should be answering that question, it is you saying something that takes some kind of boldness to be saying, although the word really isn’t boldness.
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Go Mike Huckabee!
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Well, you were almost right.
Go AWAY Mike Huckabee!
How much do you think Jeb is paying Huckabee to enter the race?
Cue the James Dobson endorsement in 3...2...1.
Yeah we all know about that, but your attack on his Christian faith is something else.
As a libertarian, I want to live my life free of government coercion as long as my actions do not harm anyone else. My view of Evangelicals in the social conservative faction is that they believe that scripture is literally the word of the one God and their interpretation of it should apply to everyone. They would use the coercive force of government to make that happen.
Not quite as restrictive as the Talliban, but I prefer my individual liberty over what they are selling. It is why the First Amendment prohibits the government from establishing religion. I don’t think ole Huck has gotten the message on that one.
By their fruits shall ye know them.
It doesn't piss off liberals at all. He's a non-viable candidate with no chance at the GOP nomination, so he performs a useful function by splitting the socially conservative vote away from viable alternatives to Jeb.
Having said that, there's also a chance that Huckabee's economic liberalism will win over some RINO votes too. If that's the case, his net impact may be close to zero.
In regards to his faith yes, and your determined public witness against him.
When freerepublic endorsed Huckabee, one thing that was not in question was his faith, which was called “genuine”.
“Now Governor Huckabee. Could this be the good vs evil? He’s a Baptist minister. A genuine 100% pro-God, pro-life, pro-family, pro-gun, Southern Christian social conservative!
And that would be my reason no. 1 to support Huckabee. He has the trust and backing of the Christian evangelicals and the support of the Bible Belt. You cannot win the presidency without the South, and I believe the pro-God, pro-life, pro-family, pro-gun, pro-America Mike Huckabee is the most likely of the three GOP hopefuls to carry the South. And that’s a pretty darn good reason!”
There is an upside to Huckabee's candidacy. Yes, he may take some of the social conservative/evangelical vote away from Cruz, which is what the RNC is hoping. However, Huckabee also styles himself as a pro-welfare state, George W. Bush-style "compassionate conservative," which will win over some fiscally liberal Republicans who might otherwise vote for Jeb. Or at least we can hope.
Peddle those fish to someone buying month-old seafood. Not buying it. Sure, he knows the right words and Bible verses to mouth, but his actions speak louder than words. He’s a big government statist, an amnesty supporter, soft on crime, a combination of Jimmy Swaggert and Boss Hogg, talks poor but lives in a Florida mansion and flies on private jets, etc.
That is correct interpretation of Huckabee candidacy. He will steal lots of Cruz voters who consider themselves evangelical Christians. He is a big government person, so I see him as opposite of Rand Paul who is the most small government person among candidates running.
Whenever a candidate is too shrill about his religious beliefs, and makes his religion center stage of his campaign, it’s often hard to tell who is a fanatical true believer vs. a pious fraud. As far as I’m concerned, it doesn’t matter very much since neither a Grand Inquisitor nor an Elmer Gantry is likely to make a good President.
Like I said, when freerepublic endorsed him, his Christianity was not questioned and in fact was praised as 100% genuine, only you have whatever it takes to bear that false witness against faith.
Why don’t you just stay with criticizing his politics?
FreeRepublic.com NEVER endorsed Huckabee.
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