Posted under Election 2008 & Mike Huckabee
This is the kind of reasoned analysis we need more of. Not “Oh my word, Huckabee mentioned the word Jesus” hysteria.
All of this alarms neoconservatives like Charles Krauthammer, who detects in Christian conservatives’ reluctance to back the chameleon-like Romney the dread specter of bias against Romney’s Mormon faith. He doesn’t deign to mention Romney’s socially left-wing gubernatorial record and past campaigns, instead asserting that the Romney trails Huckabee “because about 40 percent of the Republican caucus voters in 2000 were self-described ‘Christian conservatives’—twice the number of those in New Hampshire, for example—and, for many of them, Mormonism is a Christian heresy.†Before Mormons or anybody else rushes to embrace Krauthammer as a paragon of religious tolerance, however, one should consider whether the Washington Postcolumnist doesn’t think that denominational commitments of all kinds are a distraction from the one true faith: the Church of America. Says Krautie, “The God of the Founders, the God on the coinage, the God for whom Lincoln proclaimed Thanksgiving day is the ineffable, ecumenical, nonsectarian Providence of the American civil religion whose relation to this blessed land is without appeal to any particular testament or ritual.†(Krauthammer isn’t endorsing secularism here: he’s conscripting religious sentiment, stripped of theological content, into the service of Proposition Nationalism. But that’s a subject for another day.)
Authentic (paleo) conservatives need to criticize Huckabee for all the right reasons without siding with Krauthammer style historical revisionists in the service of some benign civil religion and a buck naked public square. McCarthy hits the right note here.
roho on 20 Dec 2007 at 1:46 am #
I will just get to the point sence I don’t make a living as a writer.(Nobody would be stupid enough to pay someone that can’t spell.) The “K” Club has problems with any candidate that failed to make his pilgimage to the “7th Herzliya Conference” back in January 2007 for the interview and acceptance process.(Prior to the launch of the Debates.)
5 Candidates showed up in Israel to bow before the Likud Party and ask for their “Financial Blessings”…….Edwards, Gingrich(Backed Out), Romney, Guiliani, and McCain…………………How dare Huckabee impose his “Second Tier” concepts on World Gurus of the highest Neocon order!!…………..They could not conceive that ANYBODY would rise from the second tier with them controling the MSM, while screaming “But, what if Hillary get’s elected?”
The Huckabilly is a fraud, but it is somewhat entertaining to watch him con the “Masters of the Con”!………………..In the next debate, the 3 “Chosen Ones” will be playing ruthless with him simultaneously.
Patroon on 20 Dec 2007 at 3:54 am #
Agreed. There are religious reasons to oppose Huckabee.