re: Huckabee Plays the 'Christmas Card' on the Campaign Trail

ExposeRomney — Thu, 20 Dec 2007 17:01:06 GMT

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re: Huckabee Plays the 'Christmas Card' on the Campaign Trail

lanefiller — Thu, 20 Dec 2007 20:18:02 GMT

Anyone interested in what Huckabee is really like face to face should try this funny (but it actually happened) column:

http://goupstate.us/index.php/lanefiller/2007/11/02/title_14

re: Huckabee Plays the 'Christmas Card' on the Campaign Trail

S.Kittel — Fri, 21 Dec 2007 00:04:35 GMT

Evangelicals Wouldn’t Vote for Christ

Wait a minute… I thought the cross wasn't intentional?

I am shocked and offended at the most recent e-mail I received last night from the American Family Association. The organization made it quite clear with their bulk mailing, titled “NBC says some find bookcase and Christmas lights offensive,” that they are anything but a non-profit serving American families but rather one who thinks a religious test to gain political office is okay.

It is true that Merry Christmas, as a holiday greeting, has been exploited by those that want to make this a secular country. But excusing the method of campaigning by Gov. Huckabee is abhorrent and divisive. The AFA can’t have it both ways: saying the cross isn’t misplaced in a presidential campaign yet also calling the claims of it being a subliminal message media garbage. The only Americans who say this cross was not an intentional message are those without 20/20 vision. Gov. Huckabee has brought religion into this race so clearly that the level of foolishness the AFA and the Huckabee campaign have risen to is the same that they had hoped Americans would have when receiving their propaganda. It is insulting for the AFA and the Huck campaign to think their message is not interpreted correctly by Americans.

The AFA becomes the equivalent (on the opposite end of the spectrum) as the ACLU with this opinion. They clearly think religion belongs in politics. Many cannot help but wonder, what would they say if Huck was running against a Jew? Is the Jew a candidate that doesn't deserve your evangelical votes because he’s a non-Christian? What’s worse, is that their target, Romney, is a member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints. Need I or the church’s 10 million + members say more? For evangelicals, this American Holy War has become a religious hijacking of the 2008 presidential race.

The gathering of voters via churches (an undisputed fact by the Huck campaign) with 501(c)(3) status is already over the line. Secondly, Huck's "Christian Leader" ad implies he is the Christian candidate while others are not; then his ignorant comment about the Mormon faith came, and finally the lit, looming cross that Huck's campaign has supposedly said wasn't intentional is the cherry on the bigot sundae.

Let’s face it, to a certain, acceptable extent, religion does play a part in politics. But not when the blessed land becomes mud to sling. A candidate helping voters see who he is by disclosing their religion and doing nothing more is fine. It's expected. But the AFA, like Huckabee, apparently thinks the American people are so unwise as to not consider these messages religious stabs. Good grief.

Most importantly, if the AFA truly cares about the GOP nomination, they will not back a candidate like Huckabee. Does anyone other than Iowan evangelicals and those already supporting Huck (more evangelicals) really think he can appeal to the masses after exposing his ignorance of very key issues: the NIE, AIDS, women’s rights? Or will it be his ethics: gifts, pardons and commutations?

It is Huckacide. A nomination for Huck is a vote for Clinton, and true conservatives that value low taxes, a knowledge of foreign policy and executive experience will all remember the un-American organizations that contributed to his disastrous campaign. However, most seem to be pastors and their churches.

The other candidates blow Huck's qualifications away. But what's seemingly frightening is the fact that Iowa will not only ignore every valid reason to not vote for Huckabee, they will also ignore every valid reason to vote for the other candidates. Iowa, Evangelicals specifically, in 2008, will permanently lose its informal position as gatekeeper to the GOP nom that Falwell and many others worked so hard to solidify in the Reagan years. America will see the bigotry, and they will reject it. And some thought Bush divided…you haven’t seen anything yet.

I am cancelling my AFA membership today and will advise every one of my friends, family members and co-workers of the political agenda the AFA has; how they support a campaign that has only gained recognition through bigotry.

But the one group of people I will not share my political opinions with is those of my church.

re: Huckabee Plays the 'Christmas Card' on the Campaign Trail

TruthTeller — Fri, 28 Dec 2007 18:07:29 GMT

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