Dec 10 2007
Romney does his best Kennedy; Huckabee dances in place
Mitt Romney gave his much awaited speech this past week, and the mainstream media seems to love it, sort of. Well they liked it the first time when it was by JFK. Romney made a point to say to his listeners that he was just a regular Joe American and his religion was not important. Also he stated that America was founded as a Christian nation, and that people of secular (i.e. - agnostics and atheists) were wrong. Hey Mitt, when you decided to try and mirror a great president maybe you should actually listen to what he said. The general premise of Romney’s speech is not surprising, it is a gigantic pander to the religious right in this country. Romney knows that he cannot be honest and say that agnostics and atheist are just as welcome in this country as anyone else, because he is base will crucify him (pun intended). That my friends, is the saddest part of what has become politics in America. The inability to be intellectually honest to your own base. Sad.
Huckabee is surging! Just off his stylish victory over the plethora of loser who are now representing the republican party, he is sitting in the number one spot. Of course, with the title comes the spoils. Unfortunately, the spoils in a primary race are generally nothing you want. He now is being put under a microscope over he past record in Arkansas, as he should. Huckabee the fun loving politician who seems to have all the right things going for him has a closet filled with a few rather large skeletons. The main carcass looming over his Cinderella story is the one of a serial rapist he let go, and who of course raped and killed two women after being released. Letting him go is not the issue, doing it for purely political purposes is another. In a word, disgusting. This story isn’t really hitting mainstream news like I would have liked, but time will tell. The other story that is making some headlines is that fact that Huckabee made several statements that he was in favor of a quarantine of AIDS patiences in the early 90s. Huckabee was questioned on this by Chris Wallace this week and he danced around it with semantics at first and then stood by his statements. The statement to begin with is quite ridiculous, but as a evangelical preacher I am not surprised. I think Huckabee has a real chance to walk away with Iowa without breaking a sweat. However, once people start to see him for what he really is things will change. A candidate who does not believe in evolution will have a hard time getting the final vote from Americans come November ‘08. Until then keep dancing Huckabee, we are just waiting to see if you get tired before we do.