Huckabee on Christ Ad Brouhaha: ‘Paul is Dead’

What really matters to me is celebrating the yule time, the ending of the annual dark times and greeting the annual coming of the light as the solstice passes. Huh? Huckabee is only interested in Christians? Wow, I guess the Jews, Muslims, Wiccans, Buddhists and other faiths are out of luck, huh? Wouldn’t it be nice to have a president who thinks of everyone, instead of his own, self-centered point of view? We have Bush. Huckabee is just Bush Part 2. I don’t know about everyone else, but I’ve had my fill of a president who puts HIS faith ahead of the rest of the citizens of this country.

No more Bible thumping,dark ages evengelical Presidents ever! America knows Bible thumping in the White House is a disaster waiting.Never again!

Fatesrider: Point well made, I guess if you are not a Christian it would be easy to be offended. However, a person cannot embrace all religions and remain true to their own. And I would much rather have a person that is honest and true to themselves and what they are/believe than a fake or a hypocrit. If you are a Buddhist, you invoke Buddha; if you are a Christian or a Jew, you invoke God and the prophets; additionally Christians invoke Jesus. So, either find a candidate that is not a Christian, or deal with them expressing well wishes, epiteths, etc. in the name of God or Jesus.
A person’s religion is a part of that person, they can no more remove that part of themselves and keep it out of their daily life and work than they can remove their heart and stay alive.

Better a Christian President than a Muslim one, that’s for sure…OOPS, did I say too much? Oh wait…Obama comes from a bloodline of Muslims…my bad. I’m sure Al Qaeda would love that one! Maybe we can all join hands then and sing “Kumbaya” too! No we can’t…its a Christian song…or how about “I’d like to teach the world to sing”…Yeah, just like those old Coca Cola commercials in the 70′s.
Frankly all this political correctness is driving me nuts. Christians are the majority in this country, and if our president/candidates wants to wish us a merry Christmas than let them! Everyone else can just turn the channel and get over it. We are a Christian majority nation, and anyone else not liking that can move back to wherever their faith is the majority.

npborn: He was a good govenor of Arkansas. I know…that’s the same thing people said about Clinton, but I didn’t live here when Clinton was govenor, so I don’t know. I have however lived here while Huckabee was govenor and I liked the way he handled himself, the position and the state as a whole.

And by the way, since we are throwing political correctness out the window….Merry Christmas everybody!

At least this political candidate has voiced his religous preference on the matter of Christmas. It seems like everyone is avoiding the C word like it’s attached to a deadly disease. My question is how do you celebrate Christmas if you don’t believe in Jesus? Christmas, after all, is the celebration of Jesus’ birth. If you don’t believe in Jesus you shouldn’t be celebrating Christmas.

Why not do a festivus messagE? That way everyone is included.

Faith in politics…..This is why we need
RON PAUL…..Huckabee gets me sick!!!! I
hear he dosen’t even have a THEOLOGICAL
degree!!!!!! WHAT A LIAR…..

Rather than a THEOLOGICAL degree how about a real degree like and ENGINEERING degree.

The hard right is still PO’d that the republicans duped them into voting for them in 04′ by pandering to their homophobic, self-centered, self-important fears. To this day, I can’t tell if Bush really was smarter than they are or just too inept to fully follow through with anything that his big mouth started… which really makes me scared that these people can vote. Christmas is a crock developed by large corporations to help them look good on their balance sheets at the end of the year. It has nothing to do with family and friends, goodness and happiness. Everyone I’ve seen in the past three weeks is a miserable SOB including me since I’m broke (there goes the gift-giving part of it) and my friends feel that getting together is something we can do anytime (there goes the friends and family thing) and I don’t believe what religion has tried to cram down my throat for the past 45 years!! Go back to work and get out of debt This is the best thing you can do for yourself and anyone else you know!

Actually, the fact that Huckabee has gained so much momentum recently is a perfect example of America’s lack of critical thinking. He is an evangelical compassionate conservative in the mold of GW Bush. He is in favor of taxing, spending and providing benefits for illegal aliens, as well as a national smoking ban, regulating people’s lives.
However many in the heartland are willing to look past his obvious deficiencies because of his religion and some snazzy ads with Chuck Norris, along with some Dick Morris-brand triangulation.
The people of Iowa need to examine each candidate’s positions and not vote only on which candidate is the nicest or how warm and fuzzy they make you feel.
Do we really want another pre-emptive warmonging christian who supports torture as the leader of the free world? If not, then Ron Paul is the only Christian that walks the talk, does not flip-flop and has a 20 year history of supporting the constitution and the rule of law.

Alex H.: I haven’t done my homework, but from my grandmother’s teachings many years ago, I believe that is a basic Southern Baptist conviction that a wife must submit. I do not adhere to that concept or denomination, but I do not think that makes them neanderthals. Huckabee did not inflict his religious beliefs into the governing of Arkansas, I lived here all the time he was govenor and not once was this an issue. So what makes you think he would do so as President of the US?

Robert A. Heinlein predicted that the last election in the US would be 2012, when we would elect a bible thumping fundamentalist. There was no election in 2016.

Who’s Robert Heinlein?

You people for Ron Paul keep talking about how he keeps a clear separation of church & state and how badly we need him as president. His campaign office recently marched in our small town CHRISTmas parade, handing out campaign cards and asking for votes. So…where’s your separation now? That was a disgusting display. I had not made up my mind one way or the other about him, was still considering and reading, but that did it for me…he will not get a vote from me. He and his campaign offices are hypocrits and I can’t stand that.

A canidates religion or lack of one even will not make a difference to me. I am concerned about issues and the canidates solutions. Who is best for this country at the present time. I don’t care about if the canidate is rich or poor, man or woman, black or white, what religion they are. I want to hear about solutions to the nation’s problems. What each canidate wants to accomplish for America.

Have you seen/read Huckabee’s supporters being interviewed? Their support is the same only phrase rife with cliches about “being a true Christian”… all style, ZERO substance. The future is in great peril considering how many of these pigeonholed-minded people there are.
No wonder why Americans are falling so rapidly behind in math and science… apparently analytical thinking is second to playing the Jesus card.
How about this “candidate” talk about something real for a change: a level-headed foreign policy, tax reform, education reform, global warming, energy, infrastructure, etc. Man or woman, Christian, Jew, Muslim, Buddhist, Hindu, or whatever, who cares so long as they have the best policy.

“A winter festival was traditionally the most popular festival of the year in many cultures. Reasons included less agricultural work needing to be done during the winter, as well as people expecting longer days and shorter nights after the winter solstice in the Northern Hemisphere. In part, the Christmas celebration was created by the early Church in order to entice pagan Romans to convert to Christianity without losing their own winter celebrations. Certain prominent gods and goddesses of other religions in the region had their birthdays celebrated on December 25, including Ishtar, Sol Invictus and Mithras.”
But remember. . .it’s all about ‘Jesus’

HAPPY FESTIVUS to the Best of US!

Hah, it really cracks me up how much more frightened of imaginary Christians in America the Left is than they are of actual declared and active fascist Islamists all over the world.
These moonbats attacking Huckabee for invoking the name of Christ would never think to attack a Muslim for invoking the name of Mohammed.
Whether that is from fear of reprisal, or from insane partisan ideology, I’ll leave that up to the reader to decide.
But the effect is all to obviously real when you read things like “Just what America needs, it’s own crazy militant brand of religion” because a Christian candidate makes a reference to Jesus Christ.
I am purely agnostic, but at least I am sane.

Why is it that Christians continue to refuse that Christmas has nothing whatsoever to do with Christ. I find it amazing that people don’t realize that once again the church bastardized several pre-exising pagan and Roman celebrations and put them into a Christian context and literally created a holiday to celebrate their lord. Wouldn’t actually lend more credence to the holiday if you actually celebrated the birth of Christ at the actual birth of Christ? Oh wait, no one really knows when that is. Here’s another one, look up the history of Easter. Pagan goddess Eostre sound familiar to anyone? Didn’t think so. The rabbit, Eostres symbol. What do the Christians think? That’s when Christ was arisen. Wrong again.

I forgot to mention – Ron Paul was asked about his opinion of the Huckabee ad in a Foxnews interview. In fact he was ambushed; he did not have a chance to prepare and rehearse his answer. Ron just spoke honestly and with integrity from the heart. He calls it like he sees it, and I agree with his assessment.
Judge for yourself.

I’d like to ask Greg what connection he sees between state & church by looking for votes in his “small” town’s parade?

No one is missing the point that Huckabee is warm, humorous and has good ads. The fact that he’s affable is what scares me. The fact that people are stupid enough to vote for him based on those reasons is why.
And I’m not more afraid of Christian fascists in America than I am Islamic Fascists anywhere. I’m just afraid that the amount it would take to make the Christian fascists just as dangerous is very little.

I don’t understand why people are so afraid of people that have faith. What I fear much more is electing a President who has no faith, no beliefs, no core principles, nothing to stand for… just another political hack who would sell us all out for the sake of popularity and a historic legacy.
The reason why we are in such dire times at present is not because of George W. Bush’s faith in God, but because of the excesses and the loose moral and ethical standards of a one BJ Clinton and his ilk.

Mike Huckabee is typical of all self-righteous fundamentalist Christians – He CLAIMS his POLITICAL ad is simply a sweet, innocent “Christmas Card” to Americans. If that was the truth, then why is he only playing it in the 3 caucus states? Why not the entire country? When he replies that he has not crossed the line between religion and politics he proves himself insincere and basically dishonest. Hardly “Christian Values” and not my idea of a good Christian man. I am Roman Catholic. Can you even imagine one of our greatest presidents, John F. Kennedy sending out such an obviously political ad? One that is basically manipulative in its very nature? No Way. But then again, President Kennedy was intelligent. Huckabee is clearly “Bush Part II”. If Jesus DID run for office, he NEVER would have endorsed Huckabee’s political ad campaign. Here’s to the TRUE meaning of Christmas; it aint about politics. It’s about Peace.

Paul is dead? Sorry but by every indicator, his campaign is just getting started.

CosmicConservative: Agnostic or not, you make a very good point. If any of the candidates were Jewish and invoked the name of God or the prophets, what would all these people who like to bash Christianity do? They’d have to bash the Jewish religion as well. I don’t really care what religion a candidate is, or if they are agnostic even (which, btw, can be a truly good way to live), as long as they remain true to what they say they are and believe. That is a sign of a solid individual, not one that is willing to let their own personal beliefs slide or set on the back burner for the sake of gaining a few votes.

beargulch:
In case you hadn’t noticed, Mike Huckabee has been the Governor of Arkansas for years, and so far it shows no signs of becoming a fascist Christian stronghold. You demonstrate exactly the sort of insane partisan moonbattery I am talking about. You casually and callously assert that Christians in this country are teetering on the verge of fascism when the evidence to the contrary is totally overwhelming to anyone with an actual functioning cerebral cortex.
This knee-jerk anti-Christian reaction of the Left is as frightening to me, an actual practicing agnostic, as any Christian activity on the Right. If anyone in this country is demonstrating fascist tendencies of thought-control and persecution of people who think differently, it is the Left with their constant attacks on Christians, the great majority of whom are kind, decent and thoughtful people.

cbeargal:
Who’s Robert Heinlein?
Personally, I think this is part of the problem. As the rest of the world has moved towards a more progressive social agenda, and becomes more educated, this has not been the case here in the US. Robert Heinlein was one of the most prolific and intelligent science-fiction authors in the US in the 20th century. The fact that someone had to ask who he was – didn’t even bother to look it up for herself – says a lot.
Sure, the majority of people in this country are Christian. But there seems to be a misunderstanding of what our country was founded upon. While we were founded on Judeo-Christian principals and the Hammurabi Code, there is a BIG reason why the Constitution actively seperates church and state. We do not rule religiously.
There’s a reason that someone like Huckbee scares some of us (and I’m a lifelong registered Republican.) We don’t buy into his brand of religious belief, and don’t want it shoved down our throats. And then people wonder why we support Giuliani.

HelluvaEngineer “analytical thinking is second to playing the Jesus card…Man or woman, Christian, Jew, Muslim, Buddhist, Hindu, or whatever, who cares so long as they have the best policy.”
It sounds like you do care.

Ah, again, and it’s not even a joke. A riddle, perhaps…time to educate yourself! And love others as you seem to love yourself. Merry Christmas!

Huckalie wants it both ways, he wants to bash other faiths but cry foul when someone calls him on it; he wants to appeal to a narrow fundamentalist base while at the same time trying to broaden his appeal; he claims he didn’t have any influence in the pardon of killers but then he wrote letters to the parole board asking for their release; he got jobs for big donors but then claims it’s a political smear, he ran an unethical administration in AR but then blames the accusations on a vast left-wing conspiracy. Anyone gullible enough to not see his crass pandering to their beliefs deserves to be bamboozled by Huckalie. If you think Bushie was bad wait until you get this retrograde reactionary in office. But then again Huckalie has so many skeletons in his closet that if the Republicans are stupid enough to nominate him they’ll be committing Huckaside.

Aww….you End-of-the-Worlders have NO sense of humor.
Jesus does. Apparently he created YOU.
Go have a latte and wait fer the RAPTURE, fools.

yawn!

mike g: Okay, you and I have the same faith, but you really do need to do your homework. December 25th is the day Constantine set aside as a rememberance of the birth of Christ, it is not his actual birthday. What the other poster said about December 25th being a pagon holiday is true…Constantine chose that day of the year to celebrate the birth of Christ in order to draw pagons to the church. It has been determined that Jesus was more than likely born during the late summer or early fall of the year, not at the end of it. Most know that Constantine was not a Christian but wanted the Christians’ money and wanted the warring between religions to stop, which was why he held the meeting at Nicea and attempted to bring all faiths under one umbrella. He himself was not baptized until he was on his death-bed.

It is so hard to understand how the so-called “Tolerant” of this country ars so INTOLERANT when it comes to Jesus Christ. Why are they so afraid of the name of Jesus? Why do attack Christmas?
Are they really afraid that Christians might stand up and take a stand against their immorality? Are these “intolerants” so filled with hate that they cannot accept the fact the Jesus loves them enough to die for them? Can’t they just accept a little love in their lives and lighten up just a littl?
Frankly, I didnt see the ad as a “political” ad but simply a “Merry Christmas” message from Gov. Huckabee. Shame on you unhappy souls. And BTW, Please have a MERRY CHRISTMAS.

Shouldn’t we all be much more concerned with the economy and war and loss of civil liberties and corruption in washington…..
I don’t care for a Theocracy based on superstition, I want a president (Ron Paul) who is smart, studies economics and has real solutions.
Huckabee is an sharp man who is a great speaker but that isn’t a reason to vote for him. He adopts half baked ideas from 3rd parties with their own agendas. Fair tax is a Fraud, His “tough” immigration plan is so unrealistic it will never happen. (I think that’s the plan)

Isn’t it wonderful. A man wishes you a Merry Christmas and you want to hang him for his religion. At least you know where he stands. Isn’t that better than not knowing what someone’s faith system is?
And while we are on the subject, to everyone that keeps demanding that religion stop being emphasized, I say to you, Stop ramming your atheism down my throat. Let me worship my God, and you can worship your brain, and we’ll all be happy. Fair compromise?

Whay can’t he just have said Merry Christmas and left it at that? It’s the difference between a candidate who happens to be Christian, and wanting to be a Christian President.

Screw his religion. Exactly what was that snake-baiting thing Baptists do?
Could someone describe that facinating, Christ-like ritual? Is that IN the Bible? I mean for MORE than that ONE line in….Luke, I/m guessing.

If Mr. Huckabee is thinking only of Christians then he is wrong. Everyone has the right to believe what they want to. I’m hoping he’s not doing that, but just stating his own beliefs. Innocent until proven guilty!

I can’t believe some of the comments here.
Do these people really expect a candidate to conform to everyones religion or way of thinking? Whatever happened to being dedicated to one’s own beliefs? Huckabee may be a christian, and he may celebrate Christmas and Christianity. That doesn’t mean he can’t respect other peoples faith and beliefs.

It looks like he’s actually being put up on the cross. He’s Christ himself! His campaign dude said it was a window pane, Crazy Huck-a-buck says it was a bookshelf.
Stupid people should be leaders.

he is a lying jerk – said he was a theology grad – he never graduated, did one year and that’s it… no more liars in the white house – ron paul has the longest running honest profile of anyone running… vote paul, no matter what party you’re in – parties don’t mean anything anymore – it’s the person…

Maybe Huckabee would be as good as president as he was a father. He covered up the fact that his “boy scout” son hung a dog with his friend at “boy scout” camp. Nice touch. Then after pappa paid off some chumps, they dismissed the investigation and sonny made Eagle Scout. Way to go dad. Now sonny got arrested a few months back for have a gun in the airport. It was just a mistake though. He does have a nice mug shot. Whoooa daddy. Must have stopped preaching at the family dinner table when you took up politics. Scary stuff pastor..

I think I detect some people who are frightened of eternity. Christ died for us and if you place your faith in him you can have eternal life in heaven too. I’m not a fan of Huckabee, but I would certainly prefer a President who recognizes that God is in control. If you are not a believer then that is ok, I pray you will someday accept Christ, but please be tolerant of the majority of this country and of the traditions and values this country was founded upon.

This is so sad…
Huckabee puts a Christmas card on TV and it rattles the left-wingers.
Regardless of what the detractors say, Christmas IS an observance of Christ’s birth. Doesn’t matter if the date was contrived by later church or whatever. It is what it is. And who’s the loon who says that Easter is a festival of Oestrus? Huh. Go study something instead of spouting knowledge that someone fed you as a child.
The bible, while not saying “ON August 15th…” or whatever does give enough clues to fix the date of Christmas and Easter to within a month.
Yes, Christmas is several months off from reality because of the reorganization of the calendar some 1600 years ago. But, Mr/Mrs Smarty, I’m sure you already knew that.
And easter was celebrated right after passover; just as it is today.
Duh.
Where is your tolerance folks? You left wingers preach about it but can’t seem to practice it.

Huckabee is going to make a wonderfull president! A good Christian is what this country needs. May God bless him .

Thing no one seems to get is that the Muslims, not sure about Jews, also believe that Jesus was born of the virgin Mary so don’t think they are offended in the least by this commercial. Some of y’all ought to study comparative religions rather than bash each other out of ignorance for a change.

Ron Paul? I saw him interviewed and I liked some of what I heard him say, particularly about limiting government powers in individuals lives. Thats probably why so many potheads are sending him cash. Then he was asked about the war on terror and he looked bewildered like he didn’t understand the question. After his answer it was clear that he has no knowledge of geopolitics and would be dangerous for this country. I was stunned that he was so out of touch with reality.

Bla bla bla bla bla, shame on him for telling us what he believes in, bla bla bla.

I keep reading religious people claiming that Christians form a majority in America. That is FALSE. They may enjoy a plurality, depending on how you define Christian, but they are not a majority.
In other words, the bigots who tell others to leave the country should themselves find another country….one where folks aren’t embarrassed by the injection of religion into politics. I’d suggest Iran….or perhaps Saudi Arabia.

End of Faith

Huckabee sounds like a normal talking person to me on the news, the debates, and in the ads.
What do people think Christmas is all about anyway?
I was amazed he quoted Martin Luther in one of the early debates. I thought to myself here is a man with a sense of history.
He has my vote – for good or bad.

uh….it’s a bookshelf people! Actually, I thought it was a window. Either way, get over it!

I really hope the Republicans do nominate Huckabee. That way they will guarantee a Democratic victory. Does anyone here really believe he has a chance?

These Christ haters appear with the exact same posts on hundreds of websites..good thing my tax dollars are paying for their welfare and foodstamps so they have the free time to do all this tolerant posting.

I think all this is kinda funny. I’m pretty much a non-god-believing christian leaning freak. ;) How many of you non-believers are celebrating Christmas? In our house, we know the story of Jesus, but we aren’t religious about it all. One thing to think about, we live in a Democracy, which means majority rules, right? Christians are the majority in the US, no? Heck, we elected Bush and he didn’t HAVE the popular majority vote. We do what he says (like it or not.) Why cares if this ad mentioned Jesus. There are much bigger problems to deal with. $3 gas, war, poverty, idiots who put kids in jail for carrying a steak knife to lunch, corruption… gimme a break.

JayBee the answer is simple. Christians have always and probably will always be the most persecuted out of all the religions. This if not anything gives me more faith in Christ! Why would so many hate it if it weren’t true?
As far as Huckabee goes I’m all about his stand-up-for-Christ attitude. It’s about time someone in the political realm was so open about Christ. And whether or not he becomes president doesn’t matter, just think of how many gentiles might hear of the glory that is Christ our Lord.
Praise God!!

Nowhere in the New Testament does our Lord & Savior mention, imply or direct us to set aside a particular day to commemorate His birth. This Christmas thing has been over the top for many years now and “Christians” better get ready for Judgement day that He definitely warns us about many times.
Ex-Governor Mike Huckabee is a religious salesman selling his candidacy to whomever is gullible enough to buy it. It wouldn’t surprise me if he doesn’t have Easter commercials in the works. The man is shameful and irreverent!

I suppose one could say “CHRISTmas day” is for CHRISTians to celebrate the birth of Christ – but for the REST of us, we are stuck with that being the name of the holiday – and most of us are fine with that, but don’t you DARE tell me that this holiday season is only for those who celebrate Jesus’s birth. The holiday season is as important to me and my family as it is to yours, and the Christian ARROGANCE I read in forums like this is EXACTLY why I shudder to think of a President Huckabee. And as for those who compare him to Bush – I never sensed this “Christ ONLY” sentiment from Dubya.
Granted – he made a few boneheaded comments years ago about “real” religions, but as he grew politically, I never witnessed that again.

Governor H – I don’t care about your faith one way or another. But don’t try to dismiss it as “That was a book shelf behind me, a book shelf,”. NOTHING, I repeat, NOTHING, in political ads is accidental.

Mark my words, if “Huckabee or “Magic” Romney is the Republican nominee for president, the party will be faced with a landslide defeat so large they will think they must have ran Mike Dukakis on the ticket. The DNC has more dirt on these two than you can imagine, it will make the Swift Boat veterans disclosures look like a “come to Jesus” meeting.

Very well said Ted!

“He was a good guy in Arkansas” He was a” etc. etc. etc.
It takes more than that to be president. The guy failed miserably with immigration issues and letting killers and rapists go. That’s just naming a few. Stop thinking he would be great because he has religion. I have religion in my life too, but it doesn’t make me qualified for president.
he simply would not advance this country with the serious issues at hand.

Wake up people children with 6th grade educations know
the the Constition clearly states a seperation of church & state.
I would love for whoever posted the gem above to show me where in the constitution of the United States of America he found this written or even implied. Perhaps he has not made it to 7th grade yet!

Santa – I am old enough to remember the same thing said of Ronald Reagan. Merry Christmas dirt-farmers!

Liar! You big fat liar! Liar Liar, pants on fire, is it clear that I don’t believe him? Why can’t you be a good Christian and just tell the truth?!? I am a God fearing, Republican, but this hypocrisy of lying right to our faces when you clearly got busted is beyond just being a sleazy politician!

If you’re not a Christian then just shut up already.
Go practice whatever you want and just leave Christians alone.

Ron Paul released a Christmas video to supporters before Huckabee, as often Huckabee follows suit to everything Paul says and does.
Does this mean Paul is more Christian than Huckabee? At least Paul doesn’t have to pander to get support.

God is the Reason for the Season! It is so sad that so many people have such hate and disdain in their souls. Find Christ and you will find peace and love for others. It would be a blessing if it really mattered the faith of our country’s leader, however this country is a democratic country and the president is not the end all, be all. He is only a figure head for this country. We have a government made up of many that speak for the people. Why do you want to try to blame one man for the voices of many?! At least he is not hiding who he is and what he believes. What you see is what you get! Don’t hate that which you do not understand. It is a shame the miscommunication that occurs in this country. GOD BLESS ALL! And GOD BLESS OUR TROOPS!

Can you say SOLSTICE? Alot of people celebrated this time of year before the Europeans ilk came to the United States and claimed December 25 as their own. The reason people hate Christians is they are hypocrites and always in your face. Ask the Native Americans about how kind and compassionate the Christians were when they killed them if they didnt become Christians. This is the hyprocrisy of the Christians in America – a country founded on religious persectution of non Christians. THis is why Huckabee is dangerous – he is an extremist.

“Linda | Dec 18, 2007 4:42:15 PM
Isn’t it wonderful. A man wishes you a Merry Christmas and you want to hang him for his religion. At least you know where he stands. Isn’t that better than not knowing what someone’s faith system is?
And while we are on the subject, to everyone that keeps demanding that religion stop being emphasized, I say to you, Stop ramming your atheism down my throat. Let me worship my God, and you can worship your brain, and we’ll all be happy. Fair compromise?”
You’re missing the point completely…those who do not have God in their lives don’t want you to either! To them it’s not really about some religious zealots cramming “Religions” down their throats…not really. If that were true, they’d be up in arms about the Muslim religious advocates (often referred to as Muslim Extemists) effort to eradicate all humans who don’t convert to Islam…

Matt H: Really, you remember the same things being said about Reagan as they are saying about “Hick” Huckabee and “Magic” Romney in terms of dirt?
Your recollection is nice but it is not accurate. From what I recall, Reagan never engaged in:
1. Shady business deals that personally enriched him at the expense of stockholders.
2. Unlawfully took furniture from the governor’s mansion (i.e. stealing).
3. Petitioned for convicted rapists and murderers to be released on parole because they had found Jesus (didn’t know He was lost).
I can go on. If I can fnd this stuff, you can bet the DNC has more.
Also, Reagan was running against Jimmy Carter, a pacifist. Either “Hick” Huckabee or “Magic” Romney won’t have such a luxury in the general election.
Happy Yuletide to you as well as Winter Solstic, since those were the holidays that Christmas seems to rip off.

I have lived in Arkansas all my life. Huckabee’s big problem is going to be that he has been very talented in the past at finding obscure loopholes in the law that allow him to line his pockets with public money. The man is a first-class swindler, in a state full of swindlers.
As for the religion/politics thing, I could care less what somebody’s religious beliefs are. I also feel that a person’s religious beliefs are a personal thing best kept to themselves, so therefore I am immediately suspicious when somebody starts throwing their religion in my face every chance they get. I want to know what he’s gonna do about education, terrorism, the national deficit, etc. Those issues have nothing to do with religion. I also want to see him swear to uphold and defend the first 10 Admendments to the Constitution, ESPECIALLY the 1st Amendment.
I agree with Ron Paul, Facism will show up wrapped in the Flag and carrying a Cross. I’m gonna have to look a little harder at Ron Paul due to that remark. I’m sick of all the flag-waving holier-than-thou idiots in this country. If you want to live in a religious theocracy, move to Iran. We are in trouble as a Nation and we all need to pay attention to the real issues.
Happy Holidays, Everyone!

For unto us a child is born.

First off it wasn’t a cross, it looked like a window pane, and it looked more like it was accidentally in there. Since he was referencing his reason for the season as being the birth of the Christ (which isn’t true), then if he intended to have a cross there, then why not have a real Cross there?

TxnByrth: You obviously miss the point of what secularists want. We do not want your religious values legislated to us. If you find solace being governed by an Iron Age book of fantastical stories, that is fine. But if your faith is so weak that you need the law to enforce a religious proscription on the sale of alcohol, for example, that is overstepping bounds. That would be much akin to secularists removing the tax-exempt status on Churches.
There is an easy way to compromise. Get God out of government in anything but the symbolic “In God We Trust” kind of ways as Jefferson espoused as a Deist. Everybody has a slightly different vision of God. This way if you want to personally observe your Iron Age proscriptions as a governing of your personal actions, that is fine but it does not tread on anybody else’s liberty.

Huckabee:
Ignore my horrendous track record and have a wonderful Christmas with your family. Nice approach.
Don’t look at the man behind the curtain.

Vote for me I am the REAL Christian wink wink.Will make a great televangelist..I dont buy it..

To the person who said they could not vote for someone that didn’t believe in evolution, a question for you. Do you normally put such an issue at the top of your list? Does the belief in evolution outweigh the executive experience needed to run a country? Does a belief in one form of creation outweigh the belief of another?
Just so my point isn’t missed, “evolution” – meaning Macro Evolution in the way it is being discussed here – is an unproven theory provided as one explanation of how everything began. Creationism is another unproven theory. Neither can currently be tested nor observed. So, we have to take both in a matter of “faith,” a concept that is more spiritual than religious. So, to put faith in one form of unproven theory over the faith of another unproven theory is a bit silly, when neither are actually issues when it comes to the job at hand.
I hope this helps you reassess your priorities in choosing a candidate.

Huckabee is definitely an extremist. I am a conservative, but not a Christian. Huckabee’s record goes against what he says he stands for on his web site. I haven’t made up my mind who I am going to vote for yet, but, it won’t be him. Happy 12th night, everyone.

What would Jesus think of the Huckster?

Hucky may talk about the Lord what is obvious is that he sold his soul to the New World Order Council of Foreign Relations hiring their leader to manage his campaign. Greed and avarice are the fast track to “other place”

That’s right your “Evolution” is unproven too.
I’m still going to pray for the Salvation of your soul.
Yes, We need a real Christian extremist for president.

Common Sense: Please do not try to compose straw man arguments about evolution being an unproven theory. There is more scientific evidence to back up Darwinian Evolution than there is to back up Creationism. You obviously believe in the fruits of science since you have a computer with which to post on this bord. God didn’t create that, rational thought and science created that.
The litmus test is in believing in facts and verfiable proof over faith in an executive position. Otherwise your faith may lead you to believe that Iraq had an active nuclear weapons programme or that the Iraqi people would all great us with flowers for invading their country and trying to set up Chalahbi in a puppet government.
I think most people in the US will choose facts over faith. They have seen what happens you put faith over facts since 2001 and it is not pretty.

Huck DOES have degree in communication and extensive experience in television. He most certainly was aware of the effects used in this professionally done piece. He is prostituting his faith and and as a christian I am ashamed of him. His horrible record speaks for itself and the neochristians are totally deceived and haven’t had enough of Bush.

I’m an atheist but I enjoy the celebration of Christmas and Easter for what they stand for. I have no problem with the majority of citizens celebration these Christian holidays. Others may differ.

What a bunch of “Bah Humbugs”! Its a GREAT ad! Think of all the money he spent to send us all a Christmas card instead of dumping on somebody like “Moneybags” does all the time. Huckabee is no Scrooge. This is the best campaign ad ever. LOVE the “paul is dead comment”! Made me laugh my head off. We need this guy.

What ever happened to the separation of church and state? Our constitution is sacred to me, Thomas Jefferson was so right, and Huckabee and his like scare me. I voted for Gore, and I will vote for Hillary, — i may never vote as a Republican again, until this party realizes that they cannot cloak themselves as a “Christian” and bamboozle the American public. Some of us still think and read…

Merry Christmas JB69!! And happy birthday, whenever that may be!!

How is this a story, if it was a cross, who cares? If it wasn’t, who cares? This man has every right to put a cross in his ads, or talk about Christ all he wants. If you don’t like it, don’t vote for him. I don’t think those intolerant few who don’t think this man should be allowed to express his faith in public were ever planning on voting for him in the first place so thats not a big deal. This whole thing puts Huck in a more negative light for me, if that were possible, because he won’t even admit its a cross. I think hes doing so because it is seen as a “negative” to speak openly and publicly about your faith, which is a major problem. And instead of standing up to that nonsense he is bending his knee to it. I remember reading an article that the Dems were holding fire on Huck, seeing an easy win in the election if hes nominated, and if this , religious intolerance mongering, is all they got, this will be easier than I thought.

You anti-Christian fanatics are truly frightening. Jesus is a real person who lived a real life. On Christmas day we celebrate his birthday just like we celebrate Martin Luther King’s birthday or Washington’s.

NPBORN: I agree with some things you said, but also disagree with others.
First, I agree with you that it’s better to have a Christian President, and I think it’s good that Huckabee made the ad, It’s great, that is what Christmas is about, regardless of whether that was the actual date of the birth of Christ, the point is we are celebrating the Savior of the world, that grace entered this fallen world.
However, it is not enough to profess to be a Christian, as Jesus himself said in Matthew 7:21. If Christians acted like Christians and were good witnesses of Him, I think eventually all this anti-christian comments would end, but we continue to act worse than others.
Here you are slandering Obama when everyone knows that Obama is a not Muslim, no matter how many of his relatives before him might have been Muslim, that is a smear tactic that has been used, most recently by Hillary’s campaign; and Paul also said in 1 Corinthians 6:10 among other things that no slanderers will enter the Kingdom of God.
It’s great that you are a Christian, but if you are going to profess to be a Christian on a public comment board, please also ACT like one, AND STOP DEFAMING THE NAME OF CHRIST.

“Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech,…”
Seems to me that those calling for the rejection of religious statements in a campaign are opposed the First Amendment.
These few words do not call for the separation of church and state, just that congrees shall not establish a particular State religion. They also allow the free practice of one’s religion. Nothing prohibits the practice of religion in the public square, government buildings, private work places, or on public properties.
And, yes I know the Supreme court ruled against this line of thinking. They have been wrong in the past. Remember history when it upheld slavery?

All he is doing is wishing people a Merry Christmas! Wishing the public a Merry Christmas is not a zero-sum game. If you wish someone Merry Christmas doesn’t mean that they want to take away anything from anyone else to do so. By the way, the last time I checked Christmas still began with Christ.

ENGINEERING degree????
lIKE THE ONES THAT DESIGN DRUG STORE ROOFS?

As a christian I know how things work with christianism and Huckabee definately meant that cross to be there. For him to deny it is as bad as a lie.
Also, Huckabee should be denounced by every christian in America for his “paul is dead” comments. This is a disgrace not only on our country but a disgrace to the religion of christianity. Huckabee is not a true christian, he is using it as a tool to further his career.

From my perspective, this ad is innocuous enough that it will not be influencing my vote one way or the other. It’s Huck’s campaign money and the ad is legal. So, if he chooses to spend it this way then I’m O.K. with that. If you don’t like his style or stances on issues then find someone else you can support. I know I will.

Let’s get some of this straight.
Huckabee has a theology degree, It’s a B.A. and on top of that degree he also has 50 or so additional masters level hours in theology
He has often said that he doesn’t know how old the earth is and the idea that he insists on a 6000 year old earth is just a lie.
Most Christians objections to modern evolutionary theory isn’t over the science, its over the underlying metaphysic which wants to demand that science has now “proven” that God does not exist.
Finally, All Christians are to submit to one another. Servanthood and selflessness are central to the faith and to Biblical model of family. Husbands are called to submit to the needs of their families and wives. Men are called to love their wives in the same sacrificial way that Christ loved the church – and we should remember that he died for her. Wives are called to submit to their husbands servant-hearted leadership in the home. Christ following is never about power or control over another person and those who read this into the marriage statement that Huckabee has signed don’t understand the context or faith.

Celebrations of the winter solstice are just that. Do it your way and respect other’s way. BTW I don’t celebrate Christmas, I’m not gonna bankrupt myself because the stars are in a certain alignment.

Huckabee was not talking about the Beatle Paul.
He was talking about Ron Paul. He knows Ron Paul can beat him. Huckabee’s since of humor is SICK. His dog hanging son must take after him.
I hope for not simply my own families sake, but for this country’s sake, that Ron Paul wins in 2008. Thank God Ron Paul is above Huckabee’s childish stuff he does from one day to the next. Using Jesus to get voters is so disgusting. There are no words…

What kind of sick Huckster would even joke about something like that. He should be thrown in jail for making staements like that.

Looking at a couple of comments… I wonder about America. When one, even a presidential candidate, expresses certain aspects of their faith, they are not excluding or hating or thinking bad about people of other faiths. They are just expressing personal thoughts about their faith (in this case Christianity – in this season where the birth of the head of the church is celebrated widely in the world – even in Bethlehem, Israel) to members of their own faith and to those others who would receive the greeting.
“Others” need to “get over it”. Focus on your own faith and enjoy and embrace it. Mike Huckabee or any other Christian who wishes you greetings in the name of the Savior, Jesus Christ is wishing you happiness….totally separate from the duties and responsibilities he might discharge having taken a solemn oath to the constitution and the responsibility to protect the nation against all enemies foreign and domestic. Aren’t people smart enough to make these distinctions? God Bless America.

Paul is dead huh? Why did huckabee use this example in alluding to something that had been said that turned out to be false. He could have used a number of different references to prove his point but he decided to choose “Paul is dead” when his rebuttal is toward someone whose name is in fact Ron Paul. Coincidence? I hope so. Cause if Ron Paul winds up dead…that “joke” ain’t so funny any more. It was inappropriate for Huckabee to use this particular reference in the context. No dispute.

When did wishing a Merry Christmas to someone become militant religion? Our own taliban? My question is – when did this country become so polarized that we offended by a holiday greeting? When people send you Christmas cards, do you take them out on the lawn nd set fire to them in protest? This is absolutely ridiculous.

i feel really sorry for those of you who are offended by or ashamed of the name of christ. for those of you i wish to remind you that the day soon comes when every knee shall bow and every tongue shall confess that jesus christ is lord. and as for you who think arkansas is a backwoods place, i invite you to visit us sometime. at least here we are not ashamed to believe and give room to and respect to those who don’t believe the same way we do.

I’m not ashamed of the name Christ but I sure am offended at what the “good christians” have turned it into. You invoke the word of god and christ to spread your vitrole and hate for anyone and anything who doesn’t live by your so-called morals. At the same time never invoking your beliefs on your own. Your day will come and ye shall all be in good company in hell….

What do you think of corruption? Here look at this cross. What do you think of personal liberties? Ohh look at me wave the flag. How will you stop corporations from swindling money from people? Have I told you about my compassionate nature? No one will come to you saying I am here to fool you all because I believe in Satan and hate Christ. Anyone who goes for symbols over substance is using a feel good short-cut approach. It always scores points. There’s a lot of sophisticated research that has gone into all of this. Continue to believe in stuff that makes for easy feel-good. It is you who will suffer. Here, have another red Coke can and feel closer to Santa.

As we have been told God is telling bush to go around the world invading countries like Hitler did and kill millions of innocent women and children for his friends sickly profits..(his buddy from general dynamics made $$200 million last year..and our soldiers who volunteered to join our once great military have been ignored by him and the press….wake up fellow citizens and get your heads out of the sand…

God was introduced not because of faith, but because research into sheeple reaction showed they would lick it up and feel good about it. So science now works in mysterious ways. It is used to see how people can be fooled to maximize benefits for those who couldn’t care less about anything else.

maybe he should try standing up for all americans of regardless of FAITH, if any ? (what MYTH he does or does not believe does not a president make !)

hey do you read much or can you only process so little at once that you didn’t understand what I wrote? Better read it again and tell me where I said one word regarding the ad at all. I was addressing what an earlier poster was referring to as people hating the word Christ. Was this also too much for you to understand at one time?

Hi folks,
The Christmas follies of politicians are relatively benign. The ONLY issue is this – do you choose to live as a free, individual, self-responsible man or woman
OR – do you choose to be a servant of the fiction called government, and be taken care of by this fictional creation.
If you listen closely you will only hear one man saying that you, the man or woman in this land, are responsible for yourself, that you, the man or woman in this land, must not have your private property taken from you to be used by others for their purposes.
Public money is suddenly every political hacks dream (including the unelected hack in the black house). It’s a big gift bag for their personal agendas – in fact it technically belongs to the men and woman of America – not foreign countries, not special groups at all.
Think, don’t just react. Do you truly believe you are responsible for your own life – or do you believe in some in-between state where someone else is even partly responsible for you?
Really listen to hear who is saying you have to live your own life rather than look to some fictional leader.
JohnJ

Google Origins of Christmas and Origins of easter.You will be surprised. Jesus was not born in December he was born in the fall.And in the beginning of America the colonist’s did not celebrate Christmas.It was recognized as a pagan celebration celebrating god.And they knew it offended god.It is the birthday of Amen-Rah (notice the word Amen?)Do some research and you will see the big con that gets us to celebrate Satan’s holidays.Seriously if you do not believe me google it for your selfs.Mike Huckabee is owned by the prince of lies and jesus Christ and this bag of deification have little in common.

This is pandering. I am so sick of people picking and chosing what parts of a religion they would like to flaunt! These Republican candidates are all “good Christians” when it comes to the abortion issues but what about fighting wars? Torture? Helping the poor through universal healthcare? Stewards of our God-created Earth? Where are they!? Conveniently changing the subject to flag-burning.

To the above poster, I think you could say I’m a “Liberal”, and I have no problem whatsoever with your religion. Is it a problem for you if I don’t believe the same things you believe in terms of religion? I sincerely hope not.
Please refrain from such sweeping generalizations about Liberals, and I’ll gladly do the same with regards to Conservatives (or Christians or whatever group you identify yourself as).

Mike: Hey, noR hasn’t bombed anyone yet, but he has slapped a lot of babys on the behind. I’d rather vote for someone who brings life into the world than one who takes life from the world.

the president of all MYTHS or even no MYTH. not just the one MYTH !

I would doubt that Jesus would do anything other than wretch concerning the corruption of politics, religion, business,& education of your fairy tale world of manufactured reality.
Revelation 18. The merchants of the earth were great men who decieved all the nations of the earth with their sorceries.

To all of you who applaud Huckster for showing a cross, I think you are missing a very important point: the presidency of the united states has nothing to do with religion. It is one thing for Huckster to be a christian and to be honest and forthright about his beliefs when asked, it is quite another thing for him to harp upon his religion in television ads or to suggest that his religion is what makes him fit to lead us. Religious belief does not give one the necessary skills to deal with our economic problems and our current constitutional crisis. Just think about that fact, the next president could be the one who decides whether YOU, PERSONALLY, are prosperous or destitute, if you want that person to be a constitutional scholar and a recognized economic expert, with specific plans about how we can fix our current problems, vote for “he who must not be named (RP)”. If you want that person to be a preacher, vote for Huckster. Just realize that your choice will most likely have a huge impact on your wallet and your family’s welfare in the near future.

I personally believe there is NOTHING wrong with anyone wishing ‘Merry Christmas’, and I would be disappointed in any president who was afraid to say it.
That being said, I am Christian, yet I do not belong to a ‘Let’s hate and kill everyone who doesn’t subscribe to our snake-charming, speaking-in-tongues, healing-for-dollars-on-tv’ cult.
These Radical pseduo-Christians do not belong in government. As it is, our current president claims to be Christian, yet belongs to a group who worships Lucifer as their Lord.

He reminds me of the Dainetic sect.
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THANK YOU! That’s what was pulling at me.

Huckabee is a fraud and a fake. Look at his DISHONEST face. christians will believe in anything and it will be religion and greed that will in the end collaspe this country!

Jesus is NOT the reason for the season. For one: “Christmas” was originally a pagan celebration. Christians just took the pagan celbrations and attached Jesus to them. Secondly: Jesus wasn’t born in December.
I have no problem with the Christmas celebration nor Jesus himself, but please: quit trying to insist that “Jesus is the reason for the season”. Be honest, Christians….that includes you too, Mike Huckabee.

The problem with the ad is not that it’s religion-based, it’s that he’s duping people into thinking that he actually cares about Christianity. Do you remember when the good doctor and Huckabee squared off in the debate way back, with Huckabee backing the unjust, unChristian war? Huckster was put in his place, but he insisted that honor is more important than the families who have lost their children. Let’s not forget all of the innocents that died on our hands. Yes, “our” hands, as in “our” tax dollars. We funded it and approved with our votes.
Huckabee can say all he wants about what he believes in, but in the end, he’s just another neocon and clearly, he’s conning a good number of you.

Christ was not born in December!he was born sometime in April. You can see a glaring fault with the belief in the Dec. birth of Christ. The shepards are not outside in the winter darkness. It is too cold.Other research confirms.
Yes I am a born again Christian

Whomever you vote for, just make sure it’s not Ron Paul. All he can think about is what’s good for America. Who can trust a person like that?

The Religious Reich do not want to understand the world around them. They vacillate between anger and intense fear at the thought. They basically seem to only want to fall behind whatever Alpha-male/father-daddy figure and give up their freedoms and choices to that person.
Then because it threatens them that OTHER people have freedoms and choices, they seek to remove those as well, which is why I always refer to them as, “the Reich.”
I am sick of these ultra-right Reich people who are way into weird-ville and want all of us to march to their goose-step.

“just what America needs, its own crazy, militant brand of religion.”
Please explain how a bookshelf can be used as a weapon(?) You so scared of Christians that you’ll stereotype anyone who claims the faith. Would you vote for a muslim??

That “cross” wasn’t an “accident”; my wife works in the propaganda industry doing commercials, infomercials, etc. That cross may have appeared initially unplanned, but you can bet your bottom dollar when it was reviewed it was DEFINITELY noticeable, and to say otherwise is – as Huckabee himself says – “DISINGENUOUS”. A truly honest answer would have been to admit that even if it wasn’t ‘planned’, it was enthusiastically emphasized in the final cut. Huckabee is as smooth and glib as they come, despite seeming so refreshing. Beware!

This “preacher” lies like a rug ! Of course he knew. Just like he knew he went to the Ark. parole board to personally pardon the rapist.Just as he knew those Aids remarks were hurtful,and uninformed.More “family values” from the Evangelicals.Ladies,get measured for your burka’s,let the censorship & book burning begin !

Religion has no place in politics?
Atheism, in the form of communism, a key component of communism, led to 100 million dead bodies last century.
What on earth can be more immoral than that?

How about the 50 million American Indians the Christians killed when this country was founded! We murdered them and stole there food and now celebrate Thanksgiving! How about the hundreds of thousands of people being killed in Iraq right now by Christians for the love of oil and money!

Joe13:
If you don’t believe in God, then it didn’t happen. So what is your point?
Get Real is trying to blame America for all the ills in the world, and is arguing towards moral relativism.
Well, more people were killed by men who didn’t believe in God, than by men who did believe in God. By a very significant amount. That is the point, and it’s a valid point.
But, since Atheism is a form of religion in itself, the belief in nothing, I can see why the fanatics are upset.

Hey Mike Huckabee, What Would Jesus Do?
FACT: The ethics commission fined Huckabee $1,000 for failing to report that he paid himself $14,000 from his 1992 U.S. Senate campaign and $43,000 from his 1994 lieutenant governor’s campaign.
FACT: Huckabee accepted more than 300 gifts worth at least $130,000, ranging from $3,700 cowboy boots to a $600 chainsaw.

It wasn’t my “logic” that if you don’t believe…yadda yadda yadda. It was juxtaposition. Your stuck on the existence of God, and being able to prove what can’t be proven by mortal man.
My original argument still stands. Atheism leads to more death and violence against man, by man, than by people of faith, but we are so scared by men who show they have faith.
Secular, atheist regimes, have killed more than 100 million people in the last 100 years. That is far more than the U.S. has killed in it’s entire history, yet the U.S. is always blamed for the worlds ills first. Liberals who always rail against the U.S. never mention or notice the human rights abuses, suppression or murder by far left ideologies.
Time mag just named a murder of his political opponents Man of the Year. And Bush is supposedly so horrible and suppressive.

To Joe13. God never lifted the curse from Noah. The sinful nature of Adam remains to this very day.

Colin:
So, I’ll drink a Sprite in your name.

Hi, Jim Jones!
Have you ever noticed that Chuck Norris always plays the role of a guy with five-o’clock shadow? Same thing as Karl Malden — he always plays a guy with a big nose…

Regardless of who founded the country, Mike Huckabee still has a poor record on taxes, immigration and letting out criminals to strike again. I’m a Christian and I’m not voting for him and his abysmal record. The smoke and mirrors don’t put me under his spell. Research his record. Don’t vouch for it on faith alone.

Iowa? New Hampshire? South Carolina??? Wow, that was taking a big stand for his faith (NOT!!). It was easy – all too easy – for this man to take a stand in the (predominantly Christian) states which are not going to put up much of a fuss. In fact, many repugs in these areas will in fact be turned on by this so-called ‘courage.’
Why not ALL 50 states?
The answer should be obvious – He knows that his mileage will be positively affected in certain areas, but not others.
I am a Christian, and we have a term for this type of politicking – It’s called ‘taking the Lord’s name in vain.’
There may be some who are encouraged by his so-called testimony nonetheless. I strongly advise you to consider both his motives and his methods. What is this man’s voting record on the issues you perceive to be Christian? I’ll bet most people don’t even know… basing their opinions instead on how our corporate media tells them they should ‘feel.’
Merry Christmas people… and if you’re considering this candidate based on his willingness to perform such a transparent PR stunt, then I hope Santa puts a new brain under your tree next week.
This country is in very big trouble because we were suckered by the last ‘born again’ power-hungry freak. Let’s not make the same mistake twice.

To that person ripping on Islam….guess who Obama’s cousin is?????? Cheney!

Matt, as a fellow Christian, don’t forget that Jesus didn’t come to condemn the world, but to save it. (John 3:17 for those of you following along at home.) Where’s the love and grace? Let’s get things done, people, and stop all the namecalling.
Huckabee knew he was taking a risk with this ad. If he’s willing to put his neck on the line in order to say “Merry Christmas”, I don’t see anything wrong with that. I also wouldn’t have a problem with people from other religions/belief systems who put out messages about other holidays. Freedom of religion and freedom from religion are incompatible. I hope we can all be secure enough in our beliefs to stand exposure to the beliefs of others.

Well son of a gun. A guy can’t say Merry Christmas these days without some kook calling him a fascist. What a dirty rotten shame.
And then, on top of that, there is all kinds of mud being thrown around — all baseless nonsense.
BTW, Huckabee doesn’t appeal only to Christians. He has a broad-based appeal to many different groups. As an atheist, I find Huckabee to be very refreshing. He has a solid stance on the issues, and he believes in being president for everybody.
One more thing, he is one of few candidates to familiarize himself with the FairTax. The only other candidate to do so was Gravel. I believe it is irresponsible of anyone not to get the facts about the FairTax. It’s the best, most important idea to come along in a hundred years.
Merry Christmas!

Firstly, I’m sick of the arrogance of some of you folks opposing Mike Huckabee. To assume that we support him blindly without looking into his record simply because you disagree with us is not only wrong, it’s bigoted and unAmerican.
Secondly, to be honest, I have no problem at all with Gov. Huckabee bringing his faith into the picture. If he is a serious Christian, then that faith should be a part of his life. Denying that for your sake would make him seem insincere and unwilling to stand up for what he believes in. I would expect as much from a believer of any faith. To deny what he believes would be immoral and wrong.