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| McCain and Huckabee were friendly rivals in this year's Republican competition, sharing contempt for Mitt Romney. Indeed, McCain would not be where he is today had Huckabee not mobilized born-again voters to upset Romney in the Iowa caucuses. All of Romney's efforts to overtake McCain in conservative Southern state primaries were stifled by Huckabee's success in those contests. Huckabee quickly endorsed McCain once he clinched the nomination. They bonded publicly in Little Rock on April 24 during McCain's tour. Nevertheless, the word is that some evangelicals dispute Huckabee's support. One experienced, credible activist in Christian politics who would not let his name be used told me that Huckabee, in personal conversation with him, had embraced the concept that an Obama presidency might be what the American people deserve. That fits what has largely been a fringe position among evangelicals: that the pain of an Obama presidency is in keeping with the Bible's prophecy. According to this activist, at the heart of the let-Obama-win movement is longtime Virginia conservative leader Michael Farris -- the nation's leading home-school advocate, who is now chancellor of Patrick Henry College (in Purcellville, Va.) for home-schooled students. Best known politically as the losing Republican candidate for lieutenant governor of Virginia in 1993, Farris is regarded as one of the hardest-edged Christian politicians. He is reported in evangelical circles to promote the biblical justification for an Obama plague-like presidency. |
| QUOTE (Basil @ May 14 2008, 01:52 PM) |
| We don't have to do anything to usher in the end as prophesied--it will occur as God wills it to occur. Attitudes like that my help it come to pass, though. I have been amazed that a candidate who's name rhymes with "Osama," was raised Muslim, attended some extremist Islamist school in Indonesia as a child, and has a very liberal voting record in his short tenure in congress is a viable candidate in the presidential race. |
| QUOTE (GutterRat @ May 22 2008, 07:12 PM) | ||
I can't believe any of these jokers are a viable candidate. The other two (Hillary & McCain) are just more of the same crap we've had to deal w/ in the Clinton/Bush era. At this point I have no clue who to vote for. Not even sure I will vote. |
| QUOTE (hope4today @ May 23 2008, 03:37 AM) | ||||
We don't have that choice here unless you're prepared to pay a fine. Voting is compulsory. |