So, once you subtract the breathless rhetoric about “surge” and “momentum” and (oh, Lord) “electability,” it’s finally admitted that the rest of the United States is a passive spectator while about half of 45 percent of 85,000 or so Republican caucus voters promote a provincial ignoramus and anti-Darwinian to the coveted status of “front-runner” or at least “contender.”
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Augh.
So this is what passes for reason in the blue states?
Let’s see:
-Huck is “provincial” which of course is just a faux sophisticated way of saying he is unfashionable. Imagine criticizing Huckabee for wearing “plaid” and you will have plumbed the complete depths of the intellectual substance of that statement.
- He’s an ignoramus. Well of course that almost goes without saying after all he’s from Arkansas, he’s a Christian and a preacher to boot, and he dissents from the opinions of the intellectually fashionable.
- anti Darwinian, ahh the shibboleth of modern american intellectual fashion. What’s amazing about this is that the people who hold to this fashion statement can, for the most part, not tell you a single true thing about it. For example what was it that Stephen Jay Gould, (Yes that Stephen Jay Gould, Harvard Prof. PBS contributor, author.) called “The trade secret of paleontology?” Why also did he feel the need to develop an alternative theory as to the origin of species?
If this is what passes for rational disputation in the blue states I guess it’s a good thing us evangelical knuckle draggers don’t leave the thinking to you professionals.
Greg Marquez
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Ummm, I believe we had a president for 8 years who was from Arkansas, Greg. Didn’t seem to stop him from getting elected. And as for Huckabee’s being Christian, I think we’ve elected quite a few, including our current President who considers himself a “born again” Christian. And he got reelected.
Also, you might want to do a little more reading about Stephen Jay Gould before you use him in your anti-Darwinian argument.
“But paleontologists have discovered several superb examples of intermediary forms and sequences, more than enough to convince any fair-minded skeptic about the reality of life’s physical genealogy.”
Stephen Jay Gould, Natural History, May 1994
Huckabee is shockingly uninformed about foreign affairs and especially considering the times we are living in, that is unconscionable in someone who thinks he should lead this country.
Greg,
Indeed. Imagine a society that expects at least some evidence for their beliefs?! Now, I’m the first ‘intellectual’ to hold that the current model of Evolution is likely wrong, or at least very, very incomplete.
However, the model that Huckabee seems to embrace has, not only 0 evidence, there appears great evidence to the contrary. So while ‘believing’ Darwin isn’t on my criteria of Must Haves for a President, understanding the difference between a religious belief and facts on the ground is quite important to me.