His Faith Defines Him, … Well, Not Exactly
Honestly, I can understand Huckabee refusing to release his sermons to the media. But there are two real issues here. None of the other candidates can get away from speeches and such they’ve made in business or elsewhere. And if Huckabee wants to tout himself as a Christian Leader in his ads and claim his faith defines him as a candidate, the decision to keep his sermons private doesn’t quite wash. In the form of one of Allah’s sometimes notorious exit questions: What would Jesus do?
Now that he has his moment in the political spotlight, former Arkansas governor Mike Huckabee does not want his days at the pulpit to be scrutinized.
On a serious note, when did the GOP get so pathetic?? When all you can field is a backwoods bible-thumper, a cult member, a lisping philanderer and a part time senior citizen – it’s pretty bad.
“Neither do men light a lamp, and put it under the bushel, but on the stand; and it shineth unto all that are in the house.”
– Matthew 5:15
We demand that Supreme Court candidates produce every word they ever wrote, no matter how young and immature they were at the time and then hold them accountable for those words. We scrutinize every speech a candidate has made in the past and the media spend inordinate amounts of time trying to play gotcha with no context explaining the times or circumstances. Why should Huck be given a pass on his sermons, which are as much a part of his record as anything he wrote in the political sphere?
When I was a child, our pastor extolled Eisenhower every Sunday. I’m not sure I really understood who Ike was back then, but I knew it was a good thing to say “I like Ike,” because Dr. Stanton said so.
Hey Bob, let’s play equal time. On the other side you have a bitch, a baby, and a sissy boy, all socialists to one degree or another. And stop calling the 4th largest denomination in this country a cult. It is ignorant and offensive to millions of Americans.
A cult, liberalism is.
Hey, no one can question the influence that you ‘saintly’ Scientologists have in America. Tom Cruise and the entire state of Utah can attest to that. The thought of a Latter Day Branch Davidian with fancy hair seriously running for president is laughable though.
A branch Davidian? A Scientologist? Doesn’t it embarrass you to look so stupid in front of the whole world?
Oh silly me, you are too ignorant to know how really stooopid you are. Pitiful and pathetic come to mind.
Its pitiful that you people fork over 10% to a cult founded by a con man named L Ron Hubbard in Palmyra, NY.
Since you brought it up, L Ron was born in Tilden, Nebraska and did a wonderful thing for the state. He moved.
What the heck does L. Ron Hubbard have to do with the LDS church?
People:
Bob is a TROLL. He says stupid and insulting things to get yer goat.
And it looks like he has succeeded.
There is a 99% chance that he knows exactly what sects and cults discussed here are headed by which leaders.
That said, folks – here are your choices:
DEMOCRATS:
Socialists and communards, the whole lot of them. They are the rocketsled to the demise of this nation as a great power, if not threatening the continued existence of this nation at all.
REPUBLICANS:
Rudy G. – Closet homosexual and totalitarian demagogue who will shred our constitution nearly as ably as Hillary or Bill would have, given the chance… and subject us to all manner of incursions of our liberties and is fundamentally, a thug in a fancy suit.
Mitt R. – A machined candidate who at present, would probably be the better of the three evils (Rudy, Huck, and Mitt) who are positioned at the top of most polls. However, the caveats of choosing this man lie in his “faith”, of which we have no guarantee (despite a beautiful, Kennedine speech delivered with an abundance of serpentine lubrication) that certain tenets of that faith won’t subject him to some degree of influence from that same faith’s leadership. Moreover, his unusual reversals cannot be reliably seen as some sort of a latter-day epiphany that came about on their own timing, due to the closeness of his “revelation” on the eve of his candidacy. In other words, he lacks consistency, except for his consistent liberal stances as Governor of Massachusetts.
M. Huckabee – Almost if by design, has walked into the second (or third place, dep. on the poll) and might be able to grab the brass ring… although rumours of a gentleman’s agreement with Rudy G. as well as his horrifyingly woeful lack of knowledge on numerous issues might sink his socialist boat. Oh, and he means well, but he’d be better off as a German-style Christian Socialist, who places do-gooder social programs that work well enough for churches, but not in the world’s leading free-market, capitalist, representative republic.
Ron Paul – Completely. Utterly. Totally. Unelectable. May yet run independently and spoil the (R) vote out of Nader-esque spite.
Tancredo/Hunter/McCain – Very, very long shot candidates. Tanc. has made himself nearly unelectable by snubbing the Hispanic vote, Hunter, on paper, looks like the sound sort of conservative AND Christian man who could lead this nation, but lacks the money and traction to rise above the 1% mark… and McCain, who refuses to kindly go away, remains marginally viable, enough to pull votes away from a consistent conservative, as well as a few votes from the Top Three.
Which leaves me for the guy I’ve been shamelessly plugging the last few days:
Fred Thompson. He may not be the model Christian – he may not be the PowerPoint mage with all the charts and business plans, and he might appear laid back to the point of seeming lethargic – but when compared to all the other donkeys in this pitiful horse race… he is head and shoulders above the herd, and has consistently, repeatedly, and unshakeably stood for the same values he has had from his youth, and the same as he had during his tenure as US Senator from Tennessee.
Please people… we need to back the guy with the plan and the proven record… the True Conservative.
Not the pretty-looking imitations, charlatans, and outright monsters in sheep’s clothes.
May God help us to choose wisely, and may He bless and preserve this Republic!
“backwoods bible-thumper, a cult member, a lisping philanderer and a part time senior citizen” or “a bitch, a baby, and a sissy boy”. while i might change those comments a tad, there’s truth in both. 2008 is gonna suck.
I’ll go for the “part-time senior citizen”, as that seems to be the best case out of rest of these unworthies.