Former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee, who questioned former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney’s Mormon faith in a different election year, addressed the question of evangelical support for his onetime rival in his RNC address tonight.
“Of the four people on the two tickets, the only self-professed evangelical is Barack Obama, and he supports changing the definition of marriage, believes that human life is disposable and expendable at any time in the womb or even beyond the womb, and tells people of faith that they must bow their knees to the god of government and violate their faith and conscience in order to comply with what he calls health care,” Huckabee said.
“I care far less as to where Mitt Romney takes his family to church than I do about where he takes this country,” he said.
Huckabee noted that four years ago he and Romney were opponents, and are still “mutual opponents of the miserably failed experiments that have put this country in a downward spiral.”
“To those who question how once rivals can now be united, it’s simple – we have Barack Obama to thank,” he said.
Huckabee accused the president of “campaigning, blaming and aiming excuses at his predecessor, Republicans, and people in business,” and added he’s “taken all that hope right down the slope.”
“He promises us candy but gives us cavities,” the talk-show host said.
Lauding Romney’s “loyalty” to his wife, sons, country, employees, and “to his church,” Huckabee declared “with Mitt Romney and Paul Ryan we will do better.”
“My concern is not Barack Obama’s past … but for the future of my grandchildren,” he said.
Huckabee noted that four years ago he and Romney were opponents, and are still “mutual opponents of the miserably failed experiments that have put this country in a downward spiral.”
“To those who question how once rivals can now be united, it’s simple – we have Barack Obama to thank,” he said.
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I get a little fed up w this kind of mindless crap analysis. Of course Huck went after Mittens in a PRIMARY, you ignorant putz. That is politics. Once having lost and w no chance at the nomination this year Huck is doing what anybody w two brain cells to rub together does – he is supporting the candidate who is NOT Obama. A Syphilitic Camel is better for America than Obama, and Huck is smart enough to get that.
We have endured an illegal alien in the Whitehouse for the past 4 years. Our nation would have been far better served had we placed a friggin monkey in the oval office. Would’ve resulted in far less damage to our Constitutional Republic.
Huck often speaks for the SOCONS, it pains me that when one looks at the Mormon (or Jewish) faith, one finds the same god and nearly the same ethos as how one should follow in his life as most Christian faiths. Mormon is a faith that really goes out and helps the community, isn’t that good?
The axiom of the “Separation of Church & State” really means that the state should follow the ethos of mankind, but not favor one person’s faith over another.
But, John Galt, we are not talking about the same “god”. Huckabee’s God is Spirit, singular, and lives in Heaven. Romney’s “god” is flesh and bones, one of innumerable “gods’, and lives on a planet called Kolob. Not the same. Got it? Now, there is no such animal as “the ethos of mankind”. You invented that one.
If the LDS faith was of God, one would have to answer your query in the affirmative. But it is not.It rejects the commandments of our Lord, Jesus Christ, in favor of racism, polygamy, and blasphemy(contradicting the Bible)as invented by a convicted con man and adulterer, Joseph Smith Jr. In other words, those who follow the LDS lies will be damned;not a “service to the community”. A pagan polytheism is not christianity; not even close.
Well said, White Tiger, and every bit of it true. While I could never ever vote for Obama I’m not too comfortable for voting for Romney either. Will our leaders bow their heads with Romney during prayer thus giving tacit approval to a pseudo-Christianity? Would Christians vote for a Moony, a Scientologist, a Theosophist, a Buddhist, Muslim, atheist? Perhaps a conservative rejection of Romney, as painful as it would be for our country, might give us a true Christian leader next time.
I didn’t much like Huck during 2008 and haven’t seen much reason to change my opinion since. And I’m really down on him over this whole Akin debacle, for which he bears considerable responsibility. But I gotta say, he gave a very fine speech. Beautifully written, smoothly and evocatively delivered. Truly impressive.
Not a big of the Huckster or Mittens, but that was a great of putting it. I don’t care if Mitt is Mormon. I just hope that he’s an American (Obama is an Indonesian in every respect but his his passport) and Patriot (which Obama certainly is not).
Isn’t it strange that the person who leveled the worst slam at Romney’s Mormon faith when trying to derail Mitt 4 years ago now comes to his defense?
Not at all strange, Ed. Anyone who really believes that momentary mental assent to a given theological proposition will guarantee his eternal happiness notwithstanding his subsequent depraved behavior is liable to endorse almost anything.If he really believe that, he is insane. If he does not, he is a liar- and on a grand scale. So, who cares what nonsense such spew?