Right's Religious Fight Is Navel Gazing Nonsense

Last time I looked nearly every major Evangelical leader has endorsed someone other than Governor Huckabee. And the dissatisfaction with many candidates that has, for now, driven some number of voters to Huckabee because he happened to have the best debate performance at a time when people started to look in, exists as much within the, for lack of a better term, secular Republican establishment, as it does among Iowa's Republican voters.

I'm a Methodist, believe strongly in secular government, and I'd vote for a Huckabee, or former Baptist minister in a minute were his politics in line with my own. Not a single vote has as yet been cast by anyone and to read or listen to the alleged top-tier of the Right-side pundits, you'd think a religious war had broken out on the Right.

It is because Romney, Rudy, Fred and McCain have political flaws that so many voters were available for Huckabee to temporarily scoop up with some rather good but mostly glib political rhetoric. For a couple weeks we've been looking at polls based upon an electorate that hasn't even had time to understand the overall politics of Huckabee, particularly his record. When all is said and done, the usual group of GOP voters will rally around a candidate best qualified to govern this nation. And his religion will have damned little to do with it. That goes for the majority of Evangelical voters, just as it goes for everyone else.

And certain Right-side talking and writing heads that need to talk or write to make a living should stop the intra-party navel gazing, find something better to write and talk about - or perhaps even just simply shut up. Let the process, particularly the education of the American voter of every faith as regards Huckabee's politics, play out. And we will all end up rallying around the best candidate that, as Independent Americans and/or Republicans, we have chosen in the end.

For decades, the Right hasn't done too bad at picking candidates when the people, not the establishment annointed them - as when they all but appointed the Honorable Senator Dole in a year when it likely didn't matter. And I've seen no reason, aside from some silly snap shot polls, to believe we'll do any worse this time out.

Now I'll shut up. And I would hope some of the folks addicted to over-analyzing everything, will at least consider putting a sock in it, too.

Comments

[richard_223]

Romney has flaws!!! So it ain't so. Don't you know that Hewitt says he is a man with a plan, and the plan is going exactly on plan?

[jj]

I like what the blog Six Meat Buffet had to say about the NR endorcement of Mitt.

"Standing athwart history yelling....ah fu.. it! We're gay for Mitt, by the Editors".

"If I had a subscription, It would be getting canceled about now."

"By endoring a pro-illegals, pro-abortions blow dry with the principles of a weather vane, National review has gambled away what last bit of conservative street cred they had."

"Bill Buckley should be rolling in his grave".

I couldn't have said it better myself.

[pettyfog]

NAVEL !!!!!!

Unless, we are looking out from some beach.

Naval is pertaining to seagoing forces, navel is bellybutton.

[nichevo]

Good heavens, isn't poor Mr. Buckley alive?