Should McCain pick Huckabee?
Monday June 9, 2008
Categories: Republicans
Ross Douthat chews over the pros and cons. Excerpt: If the first rule of picking a running mate is to risk as little harm to the ticket as possible, then Mike Huckabee shouldn't be John McCain's first choice for veep--or...
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Rod Dreher is an editorial columnist for the Dallas Morning News, and author of "Crunchy Cons" (Crown Forum), a nonfiction book about conservatives, most of them religious, whose faith and political convictions sometimes put them at odds with mainstream conservatives. The views expressed in this blog are his own.
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Evolution denying, the Constitution in line with Gawwwwwwwwwd, Flat Tax Huckabee? Nothing will sink McCain faster, he'll lose too many critical independents.
Does this have anything to do with one of the first posts on John McCain's campaign blog being an invitation for Hillary Clinton's voters to cross over and vote for McCain, using an ABBA video?
Much better man who refuses to fight back, or only fights back in ineffective ways, versus a paper-thin, but gifted orator. Yup, smells like 1992.
In many ways, Hillary would be the perfect vp for McCain.
In many ways, Huckabee would be the perfect VP for McCain. The fact is, conservatives will have their problems with McCain: his committing adultery with current wife Cindy when his first wife was recovering from her auto accident, his lifestyle funded by the sales of beer, his near-indictment experiences, and, ironically, his buying into the policies of the Bush White House engineered by the atheist Karl Rove. Huckabee lifts this baggage (or can at least pray for McCain). Huckabee can bring the truly Christian conservative into the the Republican party and keep them there--and isn't a flat tax mandated by the Bible? I have to come out four-square for Huckabee for VP.
heck Yeah! Huckabee knows CPR and the Heimlech maneuver. He can save McCains tired old arse in a minute, just last week he saved someone from choking to death. He know Chuck Norris ya know!
He's exactly what the GOP needs. both in jest and seriousness
"his lifestyle funded by the sales of beer..."
I don't think most conservatives would have a problem with this. I have absolutely none with it. Unfortunately, it's *bad* beer; that's my problem with it.
According to a Barna poll (from my county out here in CA) Obama currently has a comfortable lead...among evangelicals and Independents, not to mention most likely voters. This poll says most voters have already decided, and that McCain needs to win nearly everyone on the fence to pull into contention.
http://www.time-blog.com/swampland/2008/06/evangelicals_for_obama.html
I find this a little hard to believe, frankly, but if true it's a potent argument to put Huckabee on the ticket.
McCain will never get disaffected Democrats with Huckabee on the ticket. Period.
BTW, when did it become necessary to post an email to post here?
"I don't think most conservatives would have a problem with this."
Among the many conflicts between people who read the Bible literally is the appropriateness of alcohol. There is clearly a brand of relgious conservatives--many who could be found in places like Texas--who believe alcohol consumption and profiting from it as sinful behavior based on a literalist reading of the Bible.
"There is clearly a brand of relgious conservatives--many who could be found in places like Texas--who believe alcohol consumption and profiting from it as sinful behavior based on a literalist reading of the Bible."
Afraid that's not true, Daniel. The fundamentalists' opposition to alcohol comes in spite of their literalist reading of the Bible, not because of it. I know this first hand, because I was one. You can make a literalist Biblical case for voluntarily abstinence, but to do so for prohibition requires a certain amount of hermeneutical inconsistency and eisegesis.
Yes please please please put Huckabee on the ticket. Your heads wil spin from the speed with which people will run from the Republicans who would turn America into a theocracy. Or have you already forgotten that the "Constitution Must Be Changed To Conform With "God's Standards" ?
Rob G,
I, too, once "was one" like you, and you are wrong. Every single Pentecostal pastor (and Baptist ones and Salvation Army officers too) that I ever heard all denounced alcohol based on their reading of the Bible. Whether or not it is a "literalist reading" or a selectivist reading is pretty much moot. Booze is, for those "brands of religious conservatives", a big-time major "SIN". (And yes, they do tend to rank them.)
Apology in advance to all those offended by the use of caps in that word, but in this case, it cried out for it.
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