Friday, December 14, 2007
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Why Liberals Fear Huckabee
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Posted by:
Matt Lewis at
8:48 AM
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Liberal Washington Post columnist Eugene Robinson has an attack op-ed up today on Mike Huckabee. Based on my reading, it seems Robinson dislikes Huckabee because he believes Huckabee really means the things he says.
Robinson is less worried about Rudy Giuliani, because:
... Giuliani, when pressed, admits to harboring fairly cosmopolitan and enlightened views on domestic issues such as abortion, immigration and gun control.
... And he's not afraid of Mitt Romney, because:
... Romney's pandering still hasn't managed to dispel the notion that, beneath the rhetoric, he's probably a pretty reasonable guy.
So Robinson dislikes Huckabee because he thinks that, unlike Rudy and Romney, Huckabee might actually govern -- not just campaign -- as a conservative?
Here's the money quote:
Much is made, and rightly so, of Huckabee's vocation as a Baptist minister and his promise that his actions as president would be in accord with his fundamentalist beliefs. "My faith is my life -- it defines me. I don't separate my faith from my personal and professional lives," he says on his campaign Web site.
Somebody go check Jefferson's grave; he's spinning again.
The more secular liberals bash Huckabee, the better he will do.
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You don't get it... the VAST majority of America is Christian...and Huck has the best chance! Don't you realize every time the left attacks Huckabee for his "piety" and they try to make him appear stupid, it is terribly insulting to the vast majority of America...how hard is this to understand? The left's plan will backfire and lead to a landslide victory for Huckabee! Besides the fact that Huck is the most like Ronald Reagan out of all the rep. candidates..imagine hitlery rotten clinton standing next to him at a debate...she will look like the spawn of satan and completely phony compared to him..a drastic contrast and obvious choice. Don't kid yourselves into thinking the dems will nominate anyone other than the Hildebeast herself. EVERY major "conservative" pundits and major media is trying to prevent a Huckabee nomination...but they will prove to have no say and lose their audience's drastically. |
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Fear Huck Sin as a viable candidate against a slew of decent Dems? He's running way behind any of our frontrunners, so short of stealing the vote {not such a stretch for the GOP}, he's a loser.
But let's look at this from the outside chance that votes stolen/supreme court meddling prevails and Huck DOES win in 08. We'll have a religious zealot with no foreign policy know-how or care-much, who comes packed with all sorts of extraneous, odious baggage
SUCH AS:
Politicizing the sentence of a known rapist to the point that he allowed the man to go free, in an effort to stomp on Clinton. The rapist then goes on to rape and kill two other women.
Suggested that Aids victims be quarantined - even after it was known that Aids isn't casually transmitted. Humanitarian, he's not.
Knows NOTHING about foreign policy, and seems to merely parrot the most unpopular, reviled president in our history's stance on staying the mistake. Not a good sign for much hoped for change.
Has a son, David, who killed a stray dog while in boy scout camp (you can't make this stuff up). Originally it was reported that he just shot the dog because he thought it was "sick" - but it came out eventually by witnesses and his own testimony that he hung the dog, cut it open and tortured it to death. Nice, huh? Predictably, Huck called the reporting of this incident "politicizing". Now we hear the Huckster's loony kid tried to board a plane with a glock in his carry on bag. Does stupid and scary not fall far from the tree? |
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Why would Democrats fear someone like Huckabee whose supporters are never going to vote for a democrat anyway?
The Democrats fear Rudy and to a lesser extent Romney because they have moderate populist positions on many issues, have proven track records of beating Democrats in their own backyard and that puts independents and blue states in play.
If conservatives think that Huckabee is the 2nd coming of Reagan they are mistaken-- we live in a very different time now -- There's no disasterous democratic Presidency like Carter's to follow. And also, Reagan, as former gov of California...like Rudy and Romney knew how to win against Democrats.
We've had 8 years of a GOP President, and overall Bush has done a fine job. But while I support the war and support my President -- not finding WMD's in Iraq, that we were absolutely certain we would find, is one of the epic blunders in history. Thankfully, things seemed to have turned around in the war due to the "surge". But with Bush's popularity hovering around 32%, the GOP has an uphill battle to retake the Presidency.
Also, most of the time, Bush got to work with a GOP Congress that might have talked conservative but hypocritically acted like big spending democrats. Couple that with the problems in Iraq and all the ethical problems -- and that is why us Republicans are in the minority.
And Huckabee was a big spending Republican in Arkanasas. A red state that presumably most of the population would have supported him in cutting taxes. So where's the appeal for that?
So the idea that this nation is ready to embrace a a big governemnt, social "conservative" like Huckabee is fallacy that could doom the GOP to a Hillary or Obama presidency.
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Matt Lewis wrote,
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"The more secular liberals bash Huckabee, the better he will do."
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Matt, I realize the prospect of having a Southern Baptist preacher in the White House is exciting to you.
But a presidential nominee will have to solicit votes in states outside of the Bible Belt.
The Dhimmicrats may fear Elmer Gantry in the White House, but they prefer to run against him because they know they can beat him.
Jeff McAwesome said it best when he wrote;
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"Perhaps Liberals fear a Huckabee presidency, but they are salivating at the prospect of a Huckabee nomination."
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Not only has Huckabee been getting a pass from the MSM, he has gotten a pass to the head of the line by the DNC (Democratic National Committee). Consider that they have posted 90+ negative press releases on Romney, 70+ on Giuliani, and 4 on teacher's pet, Mike Huckabee. ONLY FOUR! And the last one was in March! Nothing at all has been released on him since his mini-boom in the polls. NOTHING! Liberals don't fear Huck, they are campaigning for him! (I have heard several reports of this being litterally true...) If Huck takes down Mitt, Howard Dean and company will let out a scream that will make his last one look like a yawn. So, gentle reader who may be inclined to support Huckabee, I ask you sincerely to reconsider. A vote for Huck is a vote for Hillary or Obama. |
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Well, I am afraid of Huck! He's the worst person running, and I'll never vote for him - not after all his sleazy campaign moves.
The DNC is not worried about Huck, and Clinton and Obama are probably laughing their heads off right now.
I hope the GOP does not commit stupidity/suicide and vote for the Huckster. |
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Just ask yourself why has the DNC released 99 negative attacks on Romney and 4 on Huckabee?
Huckabee is more of the same and that's bad in a change election. The liberals want Huckabee as the candidate to say the republicans don't care about change because they nominated Bush on steroids.
Robinson is a hack who is always on Hardball gushing over Huckabee just like all the liberals do. |
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From Robinson's article:
"In the debate Wednesday, for example, he answered a question about education with an eloquent, and apparently learned, disquisition on left-brain and right-brain thinking and the need to teach art and music so that going to school isn't just a boring grind. That sounds great, until you recall that it's in the boring, grind-it-out subjects where American students are lagging. Did he mean that our schools should teach less math and science? Or was it just a bunch of words designed to convey a certain sophistication in his thinking?"
My daughter is one of 30 students in the freshman class of her college chosen for an honors program. What do those students do when they aren't studying? They 'jam'.
28 of the 30 play some kind of musical instrument or have voice training.
Coincidence that the brightest students are also musical? Maybe. Or maybe Huckabee is on to something. Maybe, just maybe, the right brain is important to the development of the brain in general.
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His view of government is far too close to that of the old Post-millenial progressives who envisioned noble mankind using the power of government to create a Kingdom of Heaven on Earth. (And that absolutely scares me. (Almost all of the Democratic candidates scare me for the same reason.)
The last thing we need is a man with expansive ideas of government trying to use the enhanced executive power Bush will leave behind to do good. Or as a far better writer cautioned:
“Of all tyrannies, a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It would be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber baron's cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated; but those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end for they do so with the approval of their own conscience.”
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NOOOOOO! Why Eugene, Whyyyyy?!!! (Who cares what this guy says? (By the way, who IS Eugene Robinson?) |
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I must say Huck does look Presidential in a lot of photos/interviews, particularly that one. Romney and Giuliani do as well, but Huck is quite photogenic. |
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Matt. Rudy and McCain have dropped their best opportunity to contrast their strengths to Mike Huckabee. It proves to me just how bad this calculus of "non-aggression" is. |
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"Based on my reading, it seems Robinson dislikes Huckabee because he believes Huckabee really means the things he says."
Huh? Robinson dislikes Huckabee because he really believes in the liberal agenda he espouses?
Why would a liberal mind that?
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The man at the heart of the movement to abolish the British slave trade (and consequently the abolition of slavery in other places around the world) in the late 17, early 1800's, faced the same kind of condescending attacks Huckabee receives:
"In the thick of the battle for abolition, one of its many dediated opponents, Lord Melbourne, was outraged that Wilberforce dared inflict his Christian values about slavery and human equality on British Society.
"Things have come to a pretty pass," he famously thundered, "when one should permit one's religion to invade public life.""
(Eric Metaxas, NYC, September 2006 from the Introduction to "Amazing Grace, William Wilberforce and the Heroic Campaign to End Slavery")
What were the British politicos so upset about? They feared the abolition of slavery would be an economic disaster for England (and for many of them personally).
It is important to note than Wilberforce was an evangelical Christian. Wilborforce and his co-laborers in the abolition movement won the minds and hearts of the people long before he won over the establishment movers and shakers.
Could Huckabee be doing the same thing? |
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I think you've hit the nail on the head here. And the voice of Reason is right, too. There seems to be as many political conservatives just as afraid of an authentic Christian. In the article today where Rick Lowry compares Huckabee to Dean, this same idea floats to the surface.
"The GOP’s social conservatism inarguably has been an enormous benefit to the party throughout the past 30 years, winning over conservative Democrats and lower-income voters who otherwise might not find the Republican limited-government message appealing. That said, nominating a Southern Baptist pastor running on his religiosity would be rather overdoing it. Social conservatism has to be part of the Republican message, but it can’t be the message in its entirety."
People don't seem to understand that Huckabee's 'religiousity' isn't about political expediency, it is his identity. And I contened that is not a bad thing.
Charles Loring Brace (founder of the Children's Aid Society, 1853) stated that "The Central figure in the world’s charity is Christ. An eloquent rationalistic writer – Mr. Lecky – speaking of the Christian efforts in early ages in behalf of exposed children and against infanticide, says:
“Whatever mistakes may be been made, the entire movement I have traced displays an anxiety not only for the life, but for the moral well-being, of the castaways of society, such as the most humane nations of antiquity had never reached. The minute and scrupulous care for human life and human virtue in the humblest forms, in the slave, the gladiator, the savage, or the infant, was indeed wholly foreign to the genius of Paganism. It was produced by the Christian doctrine of the inestimable value of each immortal soul.
“It is the distinguishing and transcendent characteristic of every society into which the spirit of Christianity has passed.”
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Huckabee has got too much baggage. And he lost me when he brought up "the mormon thing". I hope the GOP isn't dumb enough to nominate him. He won't fly with the general public.
It will guarantee a democrat in the White House in '08. |
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Perhaps Liberals fear a Huckabee presidency, but they are salivating at the prospect of a Huckabee nomination. They know that it would take nothing to defeat him, and their candidate would skip right to the inaguration. |
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...realizing the truth that he is conservative, not liberal. It is the conservatives that are most afraid of Huck. |
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