Huckabee
Huck Meets the Constitution
By Mark Silk — January 16, 2008
I’m afraid this is must-see TV. Reactions all over the place, but this, from National Review‘s Lisa Schiffren, is of particular note. What about rendering unto Ceaser that which is Ceaser’s, and unto God that which is God’s? Mike Huckabee is going to force those of us who have wanted more religion in the town […]
Southern Schism
By rvineis — January 14, 2008
As South Carolina nears its 15 minutes of fame this Saturday, Politico’s David Paul Kuhn highlighted conservatives’ tensions in the palmetto state. Likely republicans voters are struggling to decide whether Mike Huckabee’s religious conservatism eclipses John McCain’s strength on defense. Interviewing a married couple, Paul Kuhn showed the ideological divisions that have characterized the GOP […]
Muslims and Jews?
By Mark Silk — January 14, 2008
The Republican campaign story in today’s Greenville News leads with Huckabee denying his campaign is about religion after preaching at two services at a North Spartanburg megachurch. Distinguishing what he may believe about who gets into heaven from whom he can work with here on earth he pointed to his own campaign. He said he […]
Catholic anti-Huck
By Mark Silk — January 13, 2008
And speaking of guilt by association, here’s an email obtained by the Atlantic‘s Marc Ambinder, apparently circulating among Michigan Republicans, tarring Huckabee with being anti-Catholic.
Getting Our Huckabearings
By Mark Silk — January 13, 2008
The Greenberg Center’s gimlet-eyed associate director, Andrew Walsh, has noted a certain fuzziness in this blog’s picture of Mike Huckabee, and we’re not the only ones having trouble getting our bearings when it comes to the former Arkansas gov. Part of the problem is that Huck is rather a work in progress as a national […]
Huck Looks to SC
By rvineis — January 10, 2008
AP’s Eric Gorski maps out Huckabee’s road to victory with evangelicals in South Carolina here.
Huckabee and Catholics
By johngreen — January 10, 2008
Klinkner’s map about the Huckabee vote and Catholics counties in Iowa is pretty interesting. It fits well with what we know about the Huckabee vote from survey data. It may tell us more about the Huckabee campaign than anything else. He won a very large majority of Iowa counties, tapping into the “Protestant majority” in […]
Verticality Redux
By Mark Silk — January 8, 2008
Good explainer of Huckabee’s use of “vertical” by Daniel Radosh on Huffpost. As I said earlier, nothing to get all in a wad about.
Civility’s Ordeal
By Mark Silk — January 8, 2008
In making a case for Huckabee’s electability, Tim Lee writes: I think a lot of members of the liberal (and libertarian) secular elite have a weird blind spot when it comes to religion and religious rhetoric in politics. They tend to find sincere religious sentiments so alien that anyone who is conversant with the language […]
Fume
By Mark Silk — January 8, 2008
Limbaugh sputters about Huck, and the evangelical outpost takes exception.
Calling all Religious
By Mark Silk — January 7, 2008
Lisa Lerer’s piece, “Religious voters flock to Huckabee,” in yesterday’s Politico looks at the faith-based support for Huckabee in New Hampshire going beyond the evangelical. The problem is that, by the demographics, there isn’t all that much available to him. But I’d add a caveat. My information is that Huck has spent a lot more […]
Reprise
By Mark Silk — January 7, 2008
Ah, yes. In his maiden New York Times column, Bill Kristol is making the case for Huckabee. This should be taken as recognition by the “foreign policy” wing of the GOP coalition, aka the neocon wing, that they can live with Huck. And why not? He’s as close to orthodox on America abroad as they […]
Verticality
By Mark Silk — January 6, 2008
Check out David Domke’s disquisition on Huckabee’s use of “horizontal” and “vertical” in discussing the kind of politics he’s interested in promoting. There does seem to be some evangelical-speak at work here, and to the extent that it’s familiar language to evangelicals, it counts for something. But the claim that this is coded language seems […]
CW
By Mark Silk — January 6, 2008
From the latest Newsweek, Howard Fineman’s take on Huckabee’s religion, and why GOP insiders are freaking out. It’s the conventional wisdom, but well spun, and the CW is not always wrong.
Republican Reformation
By rvineis — January 4, 2008
In the second half of David Brooks column, he asserts that Huckabee’s win last night could foreshadow a fundamental change in the party. While unlikely that Huckabee will make it to the convention, Brooks feels that Huckabee breathed new life into the Religious Right. Brooks: ” A conservatism that recognizes stable families as the foundation […]
