Did anyone else notice how quickly the Hucksters disowned the Evangelical support as what made their victory? That's more classic Ed Rollins for you. As soon as he finishes using someone or some group, he just completely drops them. Then starts talking negatively about them. Just wait.
I hope the Evangelicals in Iowa who voted for Huck don't feel used, they really are good people. In the 1000 or so calls I made, I only once had the displeasure of speaking with an evangelical man (calling him an Evangelical Christian would be an insult to Christians) that I will only say I wish his number didn't make it to our call list.
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I just posted this over at NYforMitt and will repost it here:
Yellow, I totally agree with you. This was and is a religious war for Huckabee & his supporters: the fundamentalist evangelical Christians vs. the Mormons.
I used to be a religious-right, black and white sort of fundamentalist evangelical - like the ones that voted for Huckabee.
I graduated from a fundamentalist evangelical Bible College where Walter Martin came for one week to talk about his book, "Kingdom of the Cults." I used to think that Mormonism was a cult, and I think I know where they are coming from.
They see Huckabee as Christ’s candidate. He is the one that will save our nation from it’s wayward ways and sins and bring this nation back to Christ. Just like Huckabee preached. This is his promise to them.
Any — I mean - ANY attack against Huckabee is perceived by his followers as an attack against Christianity and Christians -- and just energizes them even more to support him.
Just read their posts and you will know what I mean. So the more Huckabee and his “cross” commercial were attacked, the more the ARMY of GOD banded together to vote for God’s man.
Nothing else mattered. Nothing.
It’s pretty scary, actually, that a group of people can be so blinded to all the other important issues in our country (illegal immigration, taxes, crime, national security) and vote for one man on basically one issue.
But if you think people can’t be fooled by a con man, just look at history.
Look at all the people that drank Jim Jone’s Koolaid. And even by saying that, I’m sure I am going to be perceived as persecuting Huckabee and his Army. They just don’t get it. They won’t get it.
They are rallied behind God! And God's David!
I don’t think the Iowan Evangelicals that voted for Romney are stupid, but I do think they “stupidized” themselves so they could justify voting for Huckabee.
When practically the whole conservative movement comes out against your guy, and there are hard facts about his incredibly liberal history of governing Arkansas and his incredibly poor ethics, you have to literally stick your fingers in your ears and shut your eyes and yell really loud, “I DON’T HEAR YOU!!!!!”
There are a lot of things that bother me about Huckabee (soft on crime, tax hiker, soft on illegal immigration, etc.), but the thing that really did it for me is that he is a chronic liar and he is unethical.
Where am I wrong on this??
P.S. By the way, I still consider myself to be a born-again Christian, but no longer a right-wing, hard-core fundamentalist. I also no longer believe that Mormonism is some dangerous cult anymore than Christianity is a dangerous cult.
Now, the Moonies, Jim Jones' church, David Koresh -- those are examples of dangerous cults.
But any group formed around a set of tenets/beliefs can technically be called a cult. It's just that Mike Huckabee is not only using class warfare, but religious warfare to promote himself.
And there is one thing I disagree with Yellow on - I do NOT think Mike Huckabee is a good man.
I think he is a devious, evil, self-serving man who will do or say anything to make money and promote himself.
He's the kind of man who gives real Christians a very bad name.
Like the bumper sticker said: "God, save me from your people!"
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