What I truly enjoy, is that the left, who is all for equality and differences b/w people, automatically shut that down when an EX-preacher runs for office or says the word God in a campaign. It is a good thing people of today on the left, didnt live 30, 40, 50 or even 100 years ago. The progressive liberals of those times, threw the word God around like a sake of potatoes.

Now if you utter the word God, you are a zealot, bigot, racist, neo-con, lunatic, etc. My how times have changed.

I don't think that the problem with Huckabee is that he believes in God or is even a preacher. It is the fact that he evidently believes that his religious beliefs should have an influence on the lives of those who do not share his beliefs. As soon as I read his statement that he believed that the constitution was more malleable than the word of god, and that we should "bend" the constitution to the word of god he immediately lost any support I may have had for him, regardless of the fact that he supports the fair tax.

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Ayn Rand, Anthem.

Three months ago you were calling Fred Thompson a "f**gott".

You're endorsements are worthless.


Mike Hukabee's plan for a flat tax wold be a disaster for a country already in debt. Changing the constitution to suit Mike Huckabee is tantamount to insanity.


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Please explain in your own words why you want Huckabee now? I hate to tell you but he stands NO chance but would be curious as to why you support him.
Why don't you support McCain? Once again in your own words please.

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Huckabee is nearly as bad as McCain. He's the social conservatives version of Rudy Giuliani. A guy that appeals to only a portion of the base and is a heretic to the rest of the base. Mike Huckabee is great if all you care about is abortion and same sex marriage. If on the other hand fiscal or national security matters are important to you then he's worthless.

By coming out for Huckabee, the polar opposite of Giuliani, you are demonstrating that you have zero comprehension of what you're talking about OR you have no principals when it comes to picking candidates.

I love this. We can't have a religious litmus test for our leaders, excepting Baptists.


That actually sounds like a reasonable leadership, though I think that there are probably better candidates for those "other" positions outside of those running for office.

It seems like all your endorsed candidates drop out dead of the race. Few of your Threads endorsed Thompson, and he dropped out dead of the race. Then you switched to Romney, and you guess right--- he also dropped out. Now, you are endorsing Huckabee? Well, we'll see....

Or it could be that he said he wants to amend the constitution to match his view of the will of god, citing it easier to change the constitution than to change his gods will.

Sounds more like a theocracy than a republic dedicated to the freedom of religion.

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Caltex and FRY are dead on. The issue is not his belief in God. Obama believes in God, yet I am supporting him. What Obama does not do, however, is suggest that the "word of God" takes precedence over the Constitution and that it should be bent as such.

The idea of a Huckabee presidency is truly worrying. I would rather see McCain nominated any day of the week.

I love seeing religious people claim some sort of victimization in this regard, when it is a dead certainty in my opinion that any candidate who stated boldly "No, I don't believe in the Bible, nor God" would really lose much of his/her chance of becoming President at the drop of a hat.

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Oddly enough, no. I would say you are wrong on all accounts here. Each and every one of the candidates have touted their faith repeatedly, as so much of the country has it in one form or another. I would say you are making one of the most hideous assumptions over that one. Also, Huckabee was not attacked over his having a belief, it was how his beliefs affect his politics that bothers me. To be fair he is not promoting the ten commandments or anything severe, but one quick look at what he argues for is not anything we need. Abolishing the income tax in favor of a heftier sales tax would be the worst decision in...well...since the last president's decision to invade Iraq. I agree also with emptypepsi in that anyone who stated what I believe would not last more than a heartbeat in the election, ergo everyone in the presidency has faith at one level or another...so maybe it's a different kind of Christian faith, it fundamentally remains the same, albeit not to the same degree.

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