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Mike Huckabee is an impressive guy. As long as we don't find out that he fathered 3 children out of wedlock, or visited a gay massage parlor while visiting in Denver, I very well may have found my candidate!

I've decided that in order to be a better follower of Christ, I can no longer call myself an evangelical, as apparently that means I am just member of an easily manipulated member of a political voting bloc.

Huckabee seems like a nice guy, but what about the fact Huckabee has consistently understated his role in the parole of rapist Wayne DuMond, who had been convicted in the 1984 rape of a distant cousin of former President Clinton. See article from the not so liberal Fox News, www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,313384,00.html. The Fox News article mentions Huckabee says the parole board was made up entirely of Democrats appointed by Clinton and Tucker. It doesn't mention that Huckabee reappointed board member Railey Steele days before he voted with three other members to set DuMond free. DuMond was later convicted of killing a woman in Missouri and died in 2005.

One truism of the Wall Street Journal's report...no one is listening to the national leadership. Look at CT's own poll - 70%+ said that Robertson's endorsements have no affect on their election choices.

Huckabee has problems. I don't think he is a national candidate, and the Repubs will be shooting themselves in the foot if they let the leftstream media choose their candidates. Huckabee's record in Arkansas was very troubled, and he is not a fiscal conservative.

Thompson has a consistent conservative record and national recognition. His sense of humor will reveal Mrs. Clinton's veneer of respectability.

At last we have a candidate we can support and appreciate...I was beginning to think we would have to vote for the lesser of evils...they would be right on one issue, wrong on the other...Pray for God's leadership and blessing upon us and our leaders. Mr. Huckabee, please be what we think you are...a Christian who won't compromise, but has love and compassion along with His leadership skills.

I think it it terribly important that we not be seduced again into political relationships that are really not of God, but of the seeking of temporal power. Also, I personally do not want to be used again as a device to put and keep in power those who support the policies of greed, and whose lives are rather spectacularly hypocritical - the Florida congressman, the Louisiana Senator, Larry Craig of Idaho, Newt Gingrich (delivering divorce papers to his wife in the hospital with cancer, for pity's sakes!), the Bob Neys, the Abramhoffs, on and on these last years - to name but a few. All these people were part of a political machine that told us what we wanted to hear and used us.

Do we really think that Republicans in West Palm Beach or the Hamptons are interested in our views? They just want our votes - and I guarantee, they laugh at us. We deserve it. We have been stupid. But I'm sure there is a special place in hell for those who use people seeking to be faithful in order to enrich theirselves and degrade our country.

We need to keep our minds and lives on the message of Christ, not on politicians. Using God for politics is the road to perdition - always has been, all around the world.

If Huckabee is the best most qualified applicant for the job, I'll vote for him. I like him. But that will be harder to do if he panders, even to us.

Don't vote for a candidate simply because he's an evangelical. Unfortunatley, Huckebee can't beat Hilary Clinton, especially when the media begins to draw parallels between him and another evangelical, George W. Bush, who unfortunately hasn't done as good of a job as I thought he would.

We don't need a preacher president, especially not a anti-science preacher like Huckabee.

Wayne Cook, "let's hope Huckabee is a Christian who won't compromise?" Well I hate to break it to you, but good politics is all about compromise, and the best leaders have always had to compromise in order to govern well. Bush's stubborness has gotten this country into a terrible mess--a $4 trillion conundrum that my grandchildren and I will still be paying for, not to mention Iraq. The latest item is the loss of revenue from the change in the alternative minimum tax that Democrats wanted to offset with a tax on hedge fund billionaires, but Bush and the Republicans wouldn't budge. So instead the working- and middle classes will be paying off the billions in debt for years to come, and we'll be more in the red to China (no pun intended) and Japan at the end of it. Way to go conservatives!!

I can't imagine myself voting for Huckabee. His highly dubious innocence at what his "Christian Leader" commercials mean, his eyebrow raising method of getting himself supplementary pay (mostly from the tobacco industry, if memory serves) when he was Lt. Gov., and his pathetic, condescending bigotry when it comes to gay people...being affable, with a few good ideas, and witty isn't enough. I would like an affable and witty President with good ideas, but not in the Huckabee mold. He doesn't have a good moral compass to guide his rhetoric. Instead, he appeals to an authority instead of morality.

Why do people confuse piety with morality?

As some Islamic scholar more or less put it: The morality you bring to the reading of the text, is what you need to extract morality from the text. Good advice for Islamics and their text, Good advice for Christians and our text...and essentially a nice restating of the Golden Rule applied to reading in general.

Huckabee seems to bring a sense of superiority into reading the Bible. He's one of God's glorious, supernatural, born again race (As I think Kenneth Copeland put it), and when he picks up his Bible, he sees it as the ultimate authority to which all must bow before. Those who don't, must be persuaded to do so, or someday, God will smite them and send them to the Hell they richly deserve...for keeping the integrity of their beliefs?

Consequently, since he reads the text through a filter of superiority, that's what he extracts from the text...A Christian Leader for America...God demands conservative Christian male superiority, conservative Christian male hegemony, in and over all things.

Having gone to college in the Bible Belt and having experienced that...I think not.

Huckabee: (1) dissembled about his role in release of a rapist who raped and murdered after his release; (2) ignored direct pleas from the raper's victims in order to score political points; (3) doesn't believe in evolution; (4) has publicly stated that he believes Christ supported the death penalty; (5) recommended rounding up AIDS victims and putting them into quarantine camps; (6) has publicly equated homosexuality with bestiality and pedophilia; (7) has publicly taken the position that women should be subservient to men.

Gosh, now let me try to figure out his chances of becoming the next President of the United States. Hmm, I think the answer is "zero."

I frankly can see nothing Christian nor Presidential in his beliefs, nor can I picture the majority of citizens voting him into the White House. We're just completing eight years of an anti-science, pseudo-Christian Presidency, so we know exactly what a Huckabee Presidency would look like. If you like what Bush has done with and to the nation, you'll love the Huckabee followup act.

Thanks.

mp

Huckabee is another Christian Zionist, a contradiction in terms, like 'Blessed are the Pharisees'. Ron Paul is the only alternative for Christians who want to get away from the disastrous phoney-Christian 'blessed are the warmakers' oilistic Zionist Bush dynasty.

Elect your officials, by all means, personally or strictly in your own names! But who authorized evangelicals to cast their votes en masse in the name of Jesus Christ, who testified that He was not authorized Himself to have any say in the least of secular affairs? (Luke 12:14)