Even though God-o-Meter reported last week on some second-tier Christain Right endorsements for Mike Huckabee, it is somewhat scandalous that he’s failed to seal up more of the movement’s A-list. What’s a former Baptist preacher who’s rising in the Iowa polls gotta do to get some love from the values crowd? A day after God-o-Meter quoted Tony Perkins as more bullish on Mitt Romney than Huckabee comes a Christian Science Monitor report that Perkins and fellow evangelical activist Gary Bauer were poo-pooing Huckabee at yesterday’s weekly Monitor breakfast for political reporters:
While Governor Huckabee is very good on all the social issues, he has not seemed to find solid footing on the issue of the threat internationally from radical Islam,” Perkins said.
“In a major foreign-policy address a couple of weeks ago that did not get much attention … in the middle of the speech [Huckabee] went after the Bush administration on not aggressively negotiating enough with Iran and suggested that the administration needs to offer economic incentives for Iran to change its policy,” Bauer said. “That just struck me as a very naive approach.
So let God-o-Meter get this straight: Washington’s premiere Christian Right forces are arrayed against Giuliani and are cooling to Huckabee. After Fred Thompson failed to impress lots of social conservatives bigwigs, might all Romney’s lobbying of evangelicals begin paying off soon?
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posted October 12, 2007 at 10:09 am
He has payed them off, those christian leaders betrayed there faith…
posted October 12, 2007 at 10:54 am
Perkins and his crowd are just proving what the Left has said about them – their Christianity is not even skin deep. They betray Christ with every word out of their mouths and display a criminal lack of understanding of what true “pro-life” means: that life is of value to God and only He has the authority to end it. They are war-mongers and hate-mongers who will (and have) sell their souls to the highest bidder. I am appalled that they are given power to speak for Christ when they so blatently disregard His teachings. It just shows how shallow they are – they will support a non-Christian (by their definition), if he will agree to dance to their tune.
posted October 13, 2007 at 3:38 pm
Romney increasingly impresses me as being the best-qualified candidate — he’s brilliant, he’s capable, and he is honorable. Plus, his track record in office proves, despite all the claims by his detractors, that he is a true social conservative. He gets it. I hope that we voters will get it in time to save the country from the socialist agenda of Hillary.
posted October 14, 2007 at 8:48 pm
KATIE ANGEL–Given your belief that Christian Right activists “display a criminal lack of understanding of what true ‘pro-life’ means,” it would be interesting get your taike on Huckabee. The former Arkansas governor has made a point of saying that the pro-life positions translate into robust support for certain government programs.
This from his campaign web site: “To me, life doesn’t begin at conception and end at birth. Every child deserves a quality education, first-rate health care, decent housing in a safe neighborhood, and clean air and drinking water.”