God-o-Meter has noticed a serious question about Huckabee gaining steam, not so much from his Republican rivals but from the news media and–gleefully–from the Democratic Party: in the general election, would Huck stand a chance in must-win purple states like Ohio and Florida? Howard Fineman raises those question in this week’s Newsweek:
…[I]n Washington and the savvier precincts of elsewhere (Nashville, for example), Republicans and their secular conservatives allies are distraught at the thought of Huckabee as the GOP’s 2008 presidential nominee. They couch their fears in terms of secular issues: his spending record as governor, his advocacy of a national sales tax, his confusion about the location of Pakistan. Privately, however, what worries the insiders is that Blue and Purple America will run shrieking from a fellow—no matter how media-savvy and just-plain-folks he seems to be—who does not believe in the science of evolution but who does believe that the Bible is pretty close to literally true.
Does that explain why the Democratic National Committee has not issued a single anti-Huckabee press release in the last three months, while assailing Mitt Romney, John McCain, and Rudy Giuliani? What strikes God-o-Meter as ironic about this is that Huckabee is the one Republican campaigning as a nice guy uniter, vowing to abandon the “horizontal politics” of left and right for the vertical politics that “lift all of us up.”
So would Huckabee’s preacher years and hard right beliefs on social/theological issues scare off purple state voters in November? Or would his folksy populism and uniter talk give him broader appeal, particularly in a matchup against a divisive Democrat like Hillary Clinton?
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posted January 7, 2008 at 12:56 am
The morning line would handicap it as Huck beats Hill but ends up as gum on the bottom of Obama’s shoe.
posted February 6, 2008 at 11:34 pm
You think you know. But your own heart deceives you.
posted February 7, 2008 at 9:44 pm
Why doesn’t anyone ever talk about the science of CREATION. Creation has just as much science to back it up as the “goo to the zoo to you” theory does, if not more. Simply put, people don’t want to acknowledge the existence of a creator because then they would have to hold themselves accountable to his standards.
posted February 7, 2008 at 10:45 pm
Mike Huckabee is the strongest candidate on issues, has a great ability to show them. He is willing to investigate Great ideas and show them off even if they are not politicly correct. The only one that is for smaller Government other than Ron Paul. He would crush Hillary or Obama, if the Democrats could stop screaming and actually listen to what these people are saying. I believe Mike has the makings of being the best president our country has ever had. I am an atheist and I like Mike, as well as a lot of Democrat friends of mine. If your candidate is not for The Fair Tax he or she is illiterate or corrupt..
posted February 9, 2008 at 11:29 pm
besides ALL HAVE SINNED and come short of the grace and glory of GOD, and even if they ‘get saved’ they will continue to sin. Sinning does not have to be Murder, Rape, Robbery, Lying, Swearing, or backtalking to your Momma…Sinning is also breathing in foul air and polluting your lungs. Or Looking the wrong way and not paying attention until someone or something gets your attention…or forgetting to comb your hair….
Under the bible…there is absolutely no possible way to NOT SIN once you get out of bed in the morning. NONE! Even when you go to sleep and dream….you may be commiting sin and GOD would hold you accountable for it.
The only way to not sin is BE DEAD! Dead People Cannot Sin! They cannot do…anything but lie there in their casket.
THAT IS WHY YOU NEED JESUS as Your Lord to COVER UP YOUR SIN. This is how God worked it out for you to get to heaven.
You could be as pious as you want, as religious as you want (or believe you need to be…) as prayerful as you feel you must be…. BUT YOU CANNOT GET TO HEAVEN WITHOUT JESUS! PERIOD! JESUS IS YOUR TICKET IN!
BUT HERE’s the Biggie…JESUS HAS GOTTA KNOW YOU FIRST.
And I think THAT is where many people segregate themselves away from each other…..they dont think Jesus knows the other guy…they believe HE knows themselves personally, but not the OTHER guy….
perhaps because maybe they did something or said something or held an opinion that was at least to them Beholding WRONG or POLITICALLY INCORRRECT….
and they figure THAT OTHER GUY better get with it….
and all the while Jesus is looking at THEM, thinking THEY better get with it…..