Huckabee's Christmas ad - fabulous, or fascism? I wouldn't characterize it as Ron Paul did today on Fox News - video here. But I didn't like the ad in the political sense. It's certainly not an issue for me to have a religious candidate. But I also think many Americans get turned off when someone wears it so obviously on their sleeve. It makes me wonder what Huckabee is trying to distract people from, maybe the fact that's he's a know nothing when it comes to so many weighty issues.
Evangelicals will love it. But they're only one voting block. It's things like this that make Huckabee unelectable nationally.
80% + of the American people are people of faith of one kind or another. The media types have fell into the clutches of the Atheist when them make fun of this ad. For Paul, the bible warns of people like him, so beware of false prophets. A socialist/communist, anti-Christian, we 'do not' need anywhere near the white house. As a fact the idiots that elected him to congress should recall him.
Posted by: Scrapiron | Tuesday, December 18, 2007 at 10:07 AM
I do not see any sinister move here by the Huckster outside of his Christmas message - which, if taken at face value, is a message of a somewhat religious man appealing to a holiday which has common appeal to the majority of Americans: even the wider majority of "lapsed" persons who do not "practice" their faith (i.e. backslidden or "secular" Christians).
I think that the only folks who will really be offended by the *content* of the ad will be strict secularist-separationists who thrive on ACLU lawsuits, and the fringe "strong atheist" activist lobby of the Richard Dawkins/Rational Response Squad ilk who would see us under a Marxist regime of aggressive anti-faith ... and especially anti-christian repression.
Posted by: seekeronos | Tuesday, December 18, 2007 at 12:54 PM
I think the point Paul made was to beware the false prophet. Frankly, there is little you can say about Huckabee that's off limits, he's claiming that it takes a theocrat to defeat theocratic terrorists, and that makes the traction he's getting awfully scary.
Posted by: chris matthews | Tuesday, December 18, 2007 at 06:45 PM
For the record, from a right-wing conservative fundamentalist Christian (Independent Bible-Believing Baptist, to be exact) - that is, me:
Theocracy has no place in our government. The only time that a theocracy has and will exist in the future have been the following cases...
Posted by: seekeronos | Tuesday, December 18, 2007 at 10:55 PM
a. When God Himself lead the Twelve tribes of Israel through the wilderness in the form of a cloud by day, and a pillar of fire by night, and subsequently during the conquest of Canaan up to the time of the Judges, and possibly up to the establishment of the Kingship (coronation of King Saul).
b. When the Lord Jesus Christ comes to set up His divine kingdom over the earth, and every knee bows to Him and confesses Him as Lord to the glory of God the Father, from whence He shall rule for a 1000 years.
That is not to say that God-fearing men should not seek office, but that they should not seek to subvert their office in ways which are not only unscriptural, but also unconstitutional.
Posted by: seekeronos | Tuesday, December 18, 2007 at 10:56 PM
Last time I checked the Constitution, there was no prohibition on mentioning Jesus in a political ad. Last time I checked the Bible, there wasn't one there either.
If Ron Paul wants to see a fascist, he might start by looking in the mirror.
Posted by: Shayne White | Wednesday, December 19, 2007 at 12:55 PM