Huckabee is all that is wrong in American Politics
Apr 22, 2015 8:59:42 GMT -6
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Post by Deleted on Apr 22, 2015 8:59:42 GMT -6
Is everyone familiar with who Mike Huckabee is? I don't need to even ask our Arkansas folks...as they had to endure the man as a sitting Governor.
He's moving toward a 2016 run, with the rest of the pack.
Okay, he isn't a Republican. His politics happen to run with the Republican party.....but he's no more a Republican to think of that way than Obama is a Democrat.
Obama is a radical, extreme progressive.
Huckabee is an ordained Southern Baptist Minister.
NEITHER are what this nation needs in even a joking way, IMO!
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Wow.. Really?? As folks likely know, I'm not Christian but I most closely identify with Christians to look at any of the organized religions. I'm also as conservative as Dirty Harry on a bad day, in most areas of life (Not all...but that is another topic). So, I default to a position which ought to be friendly and accepting of Huckabee ....and I still say he is the LAST thing this nation needs or could endure.
I think we DO need a conservative lean, if not a dedicated conservative mindset. The last years of progressiveness went TOO far and a correction for balance is needed. Better it come under control by design, than a rash snap back, as society can tend to do at times.
Having said that? Roughly 50% of the voting public is Liberal/Progressive. Roughly 50% of the voting public is Conservative. This varies GREATLY in state by state looking, but as a national figure to generally look at? The last several elections have held true for a 49/51 split vote, or close enough to it for the difference to hold little distinction.
Into that mess....a full Baptist Minister ..SOUTHERN Baptist at that....wants to try for the gold ring? Ummm... NO!
To better see the issues specific to this question? I found an article that says it all, without meaning to say anything of the sort.
Why yes...they have had a rough history, and not THAT far in the past, either. Not by a long shot in some areas (barefoot, pregnant and asking for another ..is how some in positions of influence there tend to think of womenfolk, as one example)
Even at a meeting about Racial inequality within a denomination almost founded with it as a value, they can't seem to get the other side to engage ..or even understand why?
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Perhaps some words from another former President and farmer from the 'old Deep South' would be helpful?
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Now you may say to yourself ....Self? Rabbits gone kooky! Not EVERY Priest bears the burden of Church policy overall, eh? So why should this Minister have the baggage of the Southern Baptists as a whole? Well......there IS a reason that is somewhat specific to this man and this example.
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He was no 'mere' minister with a flock, among the greater Church. He was a leader of it, and in a top position of what we'd assume would be policy forming and overall management.
Add to Huckabee's record that he's been a talking head on Fox News Network for a good long time now, and I think we have the making for one of the most polarizing and unfit candidates for the top job to come down the pike in recent history. (Obama was and is incapable, IMO....but I didn't call him Unfit. He's proven that over time....but Huck is outright Unfit, to my thinking)
* He was also a pretty lousy Governor, and I recall some happiness down south of the state line, when he was no longer occupying their Gov. Mansion.
Make Huckabee some rather forgotten Cabinet post...at most...or maybe make a White House Chaplain position (Each house of Congress has one..why not?) President tho?
For what? A U.S. Theology just coming from the opposite direction of other theologies in the world today?
Oh..please...NO!
He's moving toward a 2016 run, with the rest of the pack.
Mike Huckabee has been staffing up for his likely presidential campaign, before an expected announcement in Hope, Arkansas, on May 5.
Sources familiar with the internal planning tell POLITICO that the Republican has decided on senior staff and their roles for a potential 2016 campaig
Sources familiar with the internal planning tell POLITICO that the Republican has decided on senior staff and their roles for a potential 2016 campaig
Okay, he isn't a Republican. His politics happen to run with the Republican party.....but he's no more a Republican to think of that way than Obama is a Democrat.
Obama is a radical, extreme progressive.
Huckabee is an ordained Southern Baptist Minister.
NEITHER are what this nation needs in even a joking way, IMO!
Huckabee, a Southern Baptist minister, will be back in Iowa this Saturday for the Faith & Freedom Conference, organized by Ralph Reed. He spoke at the New Hampshire GOP conference in Nashua this past weekend.
Since January, he has made more than 30 stops promoting his new book “God, Guns, Grits, and Gravy.”
Since January, he has made more than 30 stops promoting his new book “God, Guns, Grits, and Gravy.”
Wow.. Really?? As folks likely know, I'm not Christian but I most closely identify with Christians to look at any of the organized religions. I'm also as conservative as Dirty Harry on a bad day, in most areas of life (Not all...but that is another topic). So, I default to a position which ought to be friendly and accepting of Huckabee ....and I still say he is the LAST thing this nation needs or could endure.
I think we DO need a conservative lean, if not a dedicated conservative mindset. The last years of progressiveness went TOO far and a correction for balance is needed. Better it come under control by design, than a rash snap back, as society can tend to do at times.
Having said that? Roughly 50% of the voting public is Liberal/Progressive. Roughly 50% of the voting public is Conservative. This varies GREATLY in state by state looking, but as a national figure to generally look at? The last several elections have held true for a 49/51 split vote, or close enough to it for the difference to hold little distinction.
Into that mess....a full Baptist Minister ..SOUTHERN Baptist at that....wants to try for the gold ring? Ummm... NO!
To better see the issues specific to this question? I found an article that says it all, without meaning to say anything of the sort.
During the first half-hour of the conference Thursday (March 26), the Southern Baptist Convention’s top ethics czar acknowledged that the denomination’s heritage included preaching family values while splitting up the families of black slaves.
Why yes...they have had a rough history, and not THAT far in the past, either. Not by a long shot in some areas (barefoot, pregnant and asking for another ..is how some in positions of influence there tend to think of womenfolk, as one example)
Even at a meeting about Racial inequality within a denomination almost founded with it as a value, they can't seem to get the other side to engage ..or even understand why?
But demonstrating the difficult task of getting blacks and whites to worship together, fewer than a fifth of the nearly 550 attendees at The Gospel and Racial Reconciliation summit were black — even with powerhouse names such as African-American pastor Tony Evans on the agenda.
Perhaps some words from another former President and farmer from the 'old Deep South' would be helpful?
Former President Jimmy Carter recently gave a striking example of what he says is one particular way women are ill-treated by an influential group in this country.
"As you may or may not know, the Southern Baptist Convention back now about 13 years ago in Orlando, voted that women were inferior and had to be subservient to their husbands, and ordained that a woman could not be a deacon or a pastor or a chaplain or even a teacher in a classroom in some seminaries where men are in the classroom, boys are in the classroom," Carter said in an interview with Time magazine. "So my wife and I withdrew from the Southern Baptist Convention primarily because of that."
"As you may or may not know, the Southern Baptist Convention back now about 13 years ago in Orlando, voted that women were inferior and had to be subservient to their husbands, and ordained that a woman could not be a deacon or a pastor or a chaplain or even a teacher in a classroom in some seminaries where men are in the classroom, boys are in the classroom," Carter said in an interview with Time magazine. "So my wife and I withdrew from the Southern Baptist Convention primarily because of that."
Now you may say to yourself ....Self? Rabbits gone kooky! Not EVERY Priest bears the burden of Church policy overall, eh? So why should this Minister have the baggage of the Southern Baptists as a whole? Well......there IS a reason that is somewhat specific to this man and this example.
Huckabee returned to Arkansas in 1979 to serve as a congregational pastor and, in 1989, became the head of the 490,000-member Baptist State Convention. From this power base, he ran for the Senate against the incumbent Dale Bumpers in 1992. During the campaign, he advocated separating people with HIV/AIDS from the general population, telling the Associated Press that ??we need to take steps that would isolate the carriers of this plague.?? Huckabee suffered a resounding defeat.
He was no 'mere' minister with a flock, among the greater Church. He was a leader of it, and in a top position of what we'd assume would be policy forming and overall management.
Add to Huckabee's record that he's been a talking head on Fox News Network for a good long time now, and I think we have the making for one of the most polarizing and unfit candidates for the top job to come down the pike in recent history. (Obama was and is incapable, IMO....but I didn't call him Unfit. He's proven that over time....but Huck is outright Unfit, to my thinking)
* He was also a pretty lousy Governor, and I recall some happiness down south of the state line, when he was no longer occupying their Gov. Mansion.
Make Huckabee some rather forgotten Cabinet post...at most...or maybe make a White House Chaplain position (Each house of Congress has one..why not?) President tho?
For what? A U.S. Theology just coming from the opposite direction of other theologies in the world today?Oh..please...NO!
