Huckabee screws up, joins all the other candidates
Posted by Moonage on 12 Dec 2007 | Tagged as: 2008 Presidential Race
I read this first thing this morning:
I have real issues with this for several reasons.
First of all, what does this have to do with being President of the United States of America? Even if Mormons did believe something like this, what does it have to do with anything? It’s irrelevant in this arena. There is no reason whatsoever Huckabee should even be answering this question. I would have just told the reporter to ask a Mormon and stick to issues that are relevant to the job.
Second, Huckabee’s perceived to be the frontrunner in several key states at this time. The very last thing he needs to be doing is taking chances on issues that have nothing to do with the race. Especially issues he’s obviously clueless about. I can’t believe that with his experience in politics he doesn’t know when to keep his mouth shut.
Third, I am a Republican who’s tired of religious interests kidnapping my party as much or moreso than I’m sure a lot of Democrats are tired of ultra-liberals kidnapping theirs. I have to feel that a moderate politician would run away with this race. Huckabee pandering to religious elements turns me off. If he convinces me one more time that his religion qualifies him to publicly display his ignorance or affect his image, I’m voting for someone else. As flawed as Rudy is, he looks a lot more appealing to me once again.
Fourth, and utmost, intermingling religion into politics in my opinion has polarized politics in the US moreso than any other single issue. The Founding Fathers knew it would and did everything they could to keep it from happening. Neither party as respected their intent as Democrats have made an issue of Republicans’ faith as much as Republicans have made it an issue to wear it on their sleeves. This is not an issue that has anything to do with managing the affairs of our government and needs to stop. I know it won’t anytime soon, but when people start rejecting candidates that overtly allow their religion to be an issue, it will definitely stem the tide. I like a candidate of faith, it shows they have moral values. What I don’t like is when the faith becomes the issue and not their ability to lead. Huckabee has now fallen into that category. As much as people have tried, Romney has done a good job in my opinion of not falling into the same trap. Oddly enough, on the Democrat side, I think Hillary has fallen into this trap, but it was so transparent and insincere, no one paid any attention to it. That was a good thing, it’s not been an issue since, which is fine with me.
I really could care less what Huckabee knows or doesn’t know about the Mormon faith. I know practically nothing about it and have no interest whatsoever in knowing any more than I do. It has no impact whatsoever on my daily life. That’s not a slap at Mormonism, I know equally little about quite a few religions and too much about others that I wish I didn’t. What I do care about is who leads my country. This slip by Huckabee telling us more than we need to know tells me that as a leader, he might do the same thing in a different arena. That’s bad. Very bad.
I’m definitely keeping my eye on Huckabee, and not for a good reason.
And before you Ron Paul get nutty on me, he’s too liberal for me with penchant for wackiness that I think makes him completely unviable as President.
Quite frankly, I don’t like the campaign Romney’s run either. It’s too reliant on his own resources. To me in order to run the country effectively, you have to prove you can run a national campaign first.
I’ve never taken Thompson seriously. I do like the messages he’s delivered. However, his campaign generally is more interesting than he is. I don’t want a soap opera in the White House. Rudy sorta falls into this category as well.
Before you Democrats get too excited reading all this, your candidates are equally uninspiring and more annoying. The Democrats just can’t help lurching to the left on a national level. This killed Kerry and Gore, and might do so to the primary winner.
That of course leaves Cynthia McKinney with the independents. ROFL! Is she actually a Green Candidate yet? Is she still pandering to the radical Islamists? Does she still blame everything on the Jews? Is she still jack-slapping anyone who gets in her way? Bottom line, if the Greens do allow her to run, they no longer exist as a political entity. Not that they were ever viable in the first place. ( Nader did what he did on cult of personality, not the Green Party organization. )Â
This has been a disappointing race to me so far. Not so much that the candidates aren’t as good as any other year, but because it’s so not-different than usual. Sure, we’ve got a Black candidate and a powerful female candidate. But, given those uniquely different backgrounds of those candidates, the issues and flaws of the candidates are exactly the same as they ever were.
Count me still undecided and leaning to one of the above, only by default.
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on 17 Dec 2007 at 9:07 am 1.StormWarning’s Counterterrorism » A Candidate’s Religion Should Mean Nothing said …
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