The Discerning Texan
All that is necessary for evil to triumph, is for good men to do nothing.
-- Edmund Burke
-- Edmund Burke
Wednesday, December 26, 2007
Huckabee Wanted 25K to speak in Churches
The hits just keep on coming from that "man of the cloth", Mike Huckabee... Funny, though, I always thought that the idea was for preachers to move the people to give money to Churches, not to hit the Churches up for big bucks, just for the "privilege" of having a preacher-turned-politician solicit votes, brandishing his all-too-convenient theology and little else of any value.
Seems to me that this is exactly what the Founders were trying to avoid--but Social Conservatives in Iowa and elsewhere seem to be buying right into it. Never mind that Huckabee's positions and recent statements indicate that his core beliefs when it comes to governing are light years apart from positions that Social Conservatives have taken for years. I have no problem with a religious man being my President. I think Presidents Bush and Reagan are excellent examples of men of faith who have governed admirably. I just have a problem with this particular man. Because I think he will do and say anything to get power--and in that he is no different than Hillary Clinton.
What a weird turn of events this Huckabee phenomenon has been; let us hope it dies a quick death, a la the Howard Dean "swoon" of 2004.
Seems to me that this is exactly what the Founders were trying to avoid--but Social Conservatives in Iowa and elsewhere seem to be buying right into it. Never mind that Huckabee's positions and recent statements indicate that his core beliefs when it comes to governing are light years apart from positions that Social Conservatives have taken for years. I have no problem with a religious man being my President. I think Presidents Bush and Reagan are excellent examples of men of faith who have governed admirably. I just have a problem with this particular man. Because I think he will do and say anything to get power--and in that he is no different than Hillary Clinton.
What a weird turn of events this Huckabee phenomenon has been; let us hope it dies a quick death, a la the Howard Dean "swoon" of 2004.
