General
Jesus Freaks Need Not Apply
The New York-Washington Corridor of Conservative IntelligentsiaTM bristles at the idea that a back water social conservative from Arkansas has excited the base in a way the others haven’t. We were, after all, suppose to go for Romney or Rudy. They told us so.I don’t want to defend Mike Huckabee. He’s not my candidate. I don’t yet see any major reasons to trust him on fiscal issues (though he did say he wants to kill the corporate income tax). But it’s a sad day in the conservative movement when the conservative intelligentsia has sustained harsher words for a socially conservative Governor than a serial adulterer who has said this year that the government should provide assistance to poor women wanting abortions.
There are attacks to be made on Huckabee. But I think most of those who are making them are only helping Huckabee because the snideness of their tone overshadows the accuracy of their attacks.
Best post I’ve seen all day and it perfectly nails what bothers me about the tone and content of the Huckabee attacks and why they will not have the intended effect.
UPDATE
Brain Shavings responds:
We socially conservative Christians tend to be fiscally conservative too, and we’re foreign policy hawks more often than not. We’re not anti-science; we see the universe as an amazing creation that runs under scientific principles put in place by a rational God. We simply refuse to ignore the evidence of God’s work out of some misguided and mechanistic worldview that rigs the philosophical debate against the possibility of the supernatural. The secular conservatives disagree, which is fine. I can tolerate that, in the truly classical sense of the term.
But let’s be blunt: there are a lot more of us conservative “Jesus freaks” than there are metropolitan secular conservatives. If they persist in flinging poo at their own allies, we’ll politely take the hint and leave them to their lonely fits of pique atop their ivory towers. Of course, they’ll have no luck with advancing our shared values of smaller government and a strong national defense. Ronald Reagan understood this. Fred Thompson and Mitt Romney seem to get it. But for some reason far too many Rudy McRomney backers have either forgotten that lesson or perhaps never learned it to begin with.
UPDATE
Right-wing Christians now plague GOP
Plague!?
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Secular conservatives’ circular firing squad…
Dave at NixGuy.com tipped me to a timely post by Erick Erickson at RedState. The gist of it is a lament over secular conservatives’ increasingly harsh criticism of Mike Huckabee apparently for his faith rather than for his muddled thinking on policy m…