There are several things in your analysis that seem a bit off. It has always seemed to me that more than anything the “flip-flop” charge provided a useful cover under which the “good” Christians could reject the Mormon without the ugly spectre of bigotry. Huckabee has, throughout the campaign, seemed to zero in on Romney as a direct competitor. It’s embarassing to admit it, but here in the Bible belt hardly a day went by that someone didn’t call in to the local radio shows with some misgivings about “Mormons aren’t real Christians” or “Mormons believe this” or the repeated drumbeat of “I don’t think a Mormon can get elected.” Now that Romney is out of the picture I predict that we’ll see Huckabee fade out no later than after the next round of primaries.
I’ve always been among the first to hit back at the ridiculous warnings of “theocracy” at the hands of “Christianists”, but I do think that many in the evangelical movement purposefully had their daggers out for Romney purely for religious reasons.
