Comments on: What Is At Stake

By: glenn

glenn — Mon, 04 Feb 2008 23:48:15 +0000

As I see it, Mike Huckabee really did Evangelicals no favors. In many ways the Evangelicals have already lost. By tapping into Anti-Mormon bias’ as part of a political campaign, which as a Mormon I thought was stupid, Evangelicals (even of the moderate variety) are going to be brushed aside as no nothing bigots. Even voting against Romney for other reasons won’t dispell the preception that their bias against Mormons had something to do with it.
For that Evangelicals must thank Huckabee and his “Jesus and Satan are brothers” crack. Which doctrinally may be correct, as we are all children of God including Christ and Satan, Christ being our Savior and only Begotten in the Flesh and Satan a fallen angel. Unfortunately the context which the crack is usually used is to scandalize Mormons. All those pastor/commentators like Frank Pastore and others don’t help the situation by defending Huckabee’s Mormon comments. They were defending the indefenceable.
The situation is now no-win so far as Evangelical is concerned. If Romney finally wins the Democrats and MSM will use Evangelicals as cover for their own Anti-Mormon attacks, using Evangelicals bias’ to express their own. I’ve seen it before in he MSM, and see no reason why it won’t happen again. If McCain wins its thanks to splintering the Conservative vote due in part to that bias. Evangelicals will end up being sidelined and branded as “hicks”. I can see Democrats denouncing Evangelicals as bigots, while dismissing both Mormon and Evangelical as being unworthy of being elected President

By: coltakashi

coltakashi — Mon, 04 Feb 2008 17:27:32 +0000

At this point in the process, Mike Huckabee is clearly not serving his fellow Evangelicals, nor others who are social conservatives. There is no possibility that he could be the nominee, nor that he could use the delegates he wins for anything other than bargaining for some personal advantage. He knows that his being on the ballot now helps only two people: John McCain, and possibly Mike Huckabee.

Does Huckabee think he will be offered the VP slot by McCain out of gratitude, and as a strategic move to secure the social conservatives in the party? That is possible. Huckabee could even be telling himself that, as VP to an older president, he could be in line for the possible passing on in office of McCain.

Other than that, if Huckabee believes he has set himself up for a national leadership role for Evangelicals, one wonders how he factors in the fact that he will be remembered by many, such as those who voted for Romney in Michigan, as the man who prevented a more socially conservative candidate than McCain being nominated and possibly elected.

By: lizzie

lizzie — Mon, 04 Feb 2008 06:42:29 +0000

I found this post to be profound and eloquent. Thank you for writing it, and for thinking so deeply on this matter. It means a lot to me, and I hope it makes sense to many undecided voters out there.

Mitt is my first choice. I find him to have great intellect, and dignity. I think he is superior to all other choices; and as some others have said, may well be the best man ever to run for office.

I find it sad, that many influential spokesmen held off on supporting Romney, till the last minute. They’ll stomach him now, it seems, now that the other candidates have dropped out. They’ll take him, now that their backs are up against a wall. Is it too late? How sad, for what might have been.

Because, Mitt was my first choice all along.