Huckabee Gets The Falwell Anointment
Posted on November 28, 2007
If you haven’t heard yet, Mike Huckabee is surging in the polls and the evangelicals are flocking to him.
Forty-eight percent (48%) of Evangelical Christians support Hucakbee. That’s more than all the other candidates combined. Romney attracts 16% of the Evangelical vote.
When you add the fact that he is a minister and very pro-life it isn’t surprising that so many find this candidate attractive. And now that he has been annointed by the Falwells and possibly Rev. Rick Warren he may just be the chosen one for the evangelical side of our tent. That is a powerful place to be.
I’m not convinced this is the right man for President however. I’m uncomfortable with his nannystatism, tax hikes, and big government ideas. I just don’t favor things like National Smoking Bans, and trans fat bans. I don’t need the government telling me what flavor of ice cream I can and can’t have until I eat my dinner.
Right now, I’m just not comfortable with Huckabee. I know we could do much worse, but I personally think there are better choices still on the table. I’m not saying I won’t rally behind him if he gets the nomination. I’m just expressing some of the things that makes me uncomfortable about him.
I could go into more detail, but I don’t have to. Slublog does it for me, and very well.
I do not believe Mike Huckabee is a good candidate for president. This is not a statement against his faith - on theological matters, I’m sure we’d agree on quite a bit. However, I would have a very hard time voting for him in the general election.
There are three major areas in which I disagree with Huckabee. I do not like his fiscal record, do not agree with his view of government power and disagree with his political temperament.
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If he’s elected he’ll just be another George W. Bush, without the tax cuts (he’s even expressed some explicit anti-rich sentiment). Personally, I’m tired of having socially conservative Democrats masquerading as Republicans.
I am an evangelical and I view Rick Warren as nothing less than a false teacher and Huckabee as a repackaged, ordained Bill Clinton. The Washington Post’s labeling of evangelicals some years back as “easily led” seems to have been almost prophetic. Huckabee claims he is pro-life, but he is also (based on his RECORD — not his easily
-forgotten campaign promises) pro-tax, pro-illegal immigration, pro-Big Government. Anyone who favors FEDERAL legislation banning smoking in the workplace is an anti-tobacco fanatic. Many liberals are anti-tobacco; many great saints smoked. Admit it, people — there is NOTHING in the Scriptures condemning tobacco any more than there are passages condemning Pepsi-Cola. Can tobacco (or Pepsi) be abused? Certainly. Is this a problem the Big Government can cure with legislation and anti-smoking police? To ask such a question is to answer it.
I could probably vote for him in the general election. It is actually Congress that passes legislation and apportions spending and the most the President does is push it through. I am more concerned about the types of judges he would appoint and what legislation he would choose to veto. I find him light on crime. He gets the evangelical support because many of them agree with him.