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But if he says homosexuality is on a continuum with necrophilia (as Mother Jones is claiming today), do I get to criticize that? Or am I being insensitive to fundamentalist claims?

Allahpundit on December 18, 2007 at 5:07 PM
WTF? Did he really say that?

Bad Candy on December 18, 2007 at 5:11 PM

Whether he said it, it is true, according to fundamental doctrine. Same with extra-marital sex.

Some things about being a Christian are hard for non-Christians to understand. Another thing that is hard to understand is that we know what world we live in, and will not try to turn the USA into a Puritan land. We know that is up to society as a whole to do.

For the record, I am supporting Duncan Hunter, who is also a fundamentalist Baptist. Then, Fred, then Huck, and even Ron Paul. However, if Frudy Rudy gets the nomination, I’m not voting Republican for the President. I’ll vote 3rd party.

Arkansas had an ethics law against giving gifts to public figures. There was an exception for wedding gifts. So what do the Huckabees do? They have a phony reaffirmation of marriage ceremony and then claim that the ethics rule does not apply to them

Then it turns out that his son got caught in a Mike Vick type of crime. So what happens? The kid somehow escapes prosecution and the State Police Commander is removed from office by one MIke Huckabee. All coincidence?

Larraby on December 19, 2007 at 8:53 AM

The man is a total putz.

Huckover

It’s disgusting and inaccurate to compare any large American movement to the Taliban. I can’t think of any group in American history that was so misgynist as the Taliban; not even the creepy FLDS polygamists.

Sometimes I feel like I might as well go to the Kos and read over there. I expect to be insulted for my faith by the liberals over there. Comments have much more sting when coming from fellow conservatives.

Jodella on December 19, 2007 at 4:17 PM

Bear in mind that it may not actually be your fellow conservatives who are saying those things–not everybody that posts here is conservative, whether they think they are or not. And some are just obnoxious, or don’t have two brain cells to rub together. Anybody who’d seriously make the Taliban comparison is either an idiot or is blinded by hatred of religion. And I say that as someone who isn’t religious myself.

I’m about as socially liberal as anyone voting (R) can be, but even the so-cons don’t seem to have much good to say about Huck.

Huckabee’s candidacy seems to be built on the fact he’s a minister and pretty much nothing else. I think evangelicals are smarter than this, and the Huvkabubble will burst by mid-Jan.

This would pose no problem if the Republicans could dispense with the vote of Christian fundamentalists, but it cannot hope to win the indispensable states in the South without them.

That grammar is awful. What is the antecedent of it?

Or is he deliberately referring to Republicans as it, as in, “It puts the lotion on, or it gets the hose again”?

Then along came Jones The High Reverend Huckster.

MB4 on December 18, 2007 at 7:38 PM

Pastor Holiday Inn Express.

I would be delighted to vote for an evangelical Christian, if he or she were a conservative with a decent grasp of foreign policy. Sadly, Huck just doesn’t qualify. And I’m furious that he’s using Christianity to try to cover that up.

I would also ask you to understand that, for those of us who live here, it’s a very personal matter. Three recent national embarrassments are enough. We ‘natives’ of the Tri-State area (TN/MS/AR) tried so hard to warn you about Bill and Hill and Al. Nobody listened when we tried the polite approach. So, this time, we’re screaming bloody murder! Sorry if it’s offensive, but that seems to be the only way to get people’s attention. Fred Thompson is a man of intelligence and integrity. Mike Huckabee is just a Southern Baptist preacher who is in so far over his head he’d drown within 6 months of election — and take the rest of the country down with him.

I revere the Judeo-Christian heritage of this great nation. But, hey, I think Christopher Hitchens’ voice needs to be heard. It’s an eloquent one. He may be loud and obnoxious at times — but every time I read one of his (uncensored) rants against religion, I can’t help but think what an extraordinary country we live in! I can’t prove it, of course, but I sincerely believe that Mike Huckabee wants to silence such voices. Not a big believer in religious ‘dissonance’, our Mikey.

On religion, Mike Huckabee wants uniformity. I want diversity. On language, Mike Huckabee wants diversity. I demand uniformity. Forgetting all his (un)ethical baggage and his dadgum ignorance, those two points create an unbreachable divide.

Oops — there I go getting petty again. But how can you help it when you’re discussing a snakeoil salesman from Hope, Arkansas, who has the audacity to think he should be the Leader of the Free World??

The Paul is dead line was a good way to diffuse the ridiculous “floating cross” meme that was made out of a bookshelf background.

I don’t know. Be against his policies and don’t support his bid for the nomination. But don’t be petty and destructive.