Thursday, December 20, 2007
Time For the Christian Right to Rise Up
“Beware of him that is slow to anger; for when it is long coming, it is the stronger when it comes..."
Take a good look at that quote. In it, you'll see what is happening within the Republican party right now. It has become clear to Christian conservatives that the GOP "establishment" has been using them. Not only that, it has become clear that the GOP establishment has taken them very much for granted -- scorned them, in fact.
And they aren't happy about it.
Mike Huckabee is a Southern Governor with a long track record of success and a demonstrated ability to unify and work effectively across party lines. He also happens to be an Authentic Christian Conservative -- a former Baptist minister, in fact. He is also a highly skilled communicator.
He is, in short, the perfect candidate. One would have expected the Republican establishment to get behind him -- and one would certainly have expected Christian leaders to get behind him.
But that didn't happen. The establishment got behind Giuliani (pro-choice, anti-gun and pro-gay marriage) and Romney (a blatant, pandering flip-flopper on abortion) and the so-called "Christian leaders," shockingly, followed dutifully along.
Why? RedState's Erick Erickson sums it up quite accurately: "The other day I said all the attacks on Huckabee come across as so anti-evangelical, so anti-southern, and so anti-social conservative...the establishment New York-Washington Corridor of Mainstream Intelligentsia and parts of the New York-Washington Corridor of Conservative Intelligentsia attack his Christmas ad...Seriously? ... the criticism lodged at [Huckabee] reveals...that while many in the establishment right want evangelicals in the coalition, they just really don't want them in leadership positions...."
Governor Huckabee understands this, saying to CBN's David Brody recently: "There is a level of elitism that has existed, the chattering class if you will, who lives in that corridor between Washington and Wall Street...they were polite to us. They were more than happy for us to come to the rallies and stand in lines for hours to cheer on the candidates...But when they got elected, behind closed doors, they would laugh at us and speak with scorn and derision that we were...'the easily led.' [The elites said] 'it's okay if you guys get a seat on the bus, but don't ever think about telling us where the bus is going to go'."
Well, as it turns out the so-called "Christian leaders" ARE easily led...lining up to endorse the establishment's chosen pro-choice, weak family values candidates like sheep.
But, while failed by their so-called "leaders," the average Christian conservative has now taken a stand. No more are they willing to be "easily led" and privately scorned by the very people whom they have worked so hard to elect, only to have the issues most dear to them be jettisoned.
Folks, the Christian conservatives have been slow to anger. Read that quote at the top of this post again.
I believe STRONGLY that Mike Huckabee is destined to win the nomination and ultimately the election. I've believed it since 1996 and I've blogged about it since 2005.
He has ALREADY become THE most powerful social conservative in America. The old guard of so-called "Christian leaders" are gone and, being only 52 years old, he's going to be around for a long, long time.
The "establishment" is about to be told where the bus is going - and Mike Huckabee is driving it.
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-Francis Quarles, Poet, 1592 -1644
Take a good look at that quote. In it, you'll see what is happening within the Republican party right now. It has become clear to Christian conservatives that the GOP "establishment" has been using them. Not only that, it has become clear that the GOP establishment has taken them very much for granted -- scorned them, in fact.
And they aren't happy about it.
Mike Huckabee is a Southern Governor with a long track record of success and a demonstrated ability to unify and work effectively across party lines. He also happens to be an Authentic Christian Conservative -- a former Baptist minister, in fact. He is also a highly skilled communicator.
He is, in short, the perfect candidate. One would have expected the Republican establishment to get behind him -- and one would certainly have expected Christian leaders to get behind him.
But that didn't happen. The establishment got behind Giuliani (pro-choice, anti-gun and pro-gay marriage) and Romney (a blatant, pandering flip-flopper on abortion) and the so-called "Christian leaders," shockingly, followed dutifully along.
Why? RedState's Erick Erickson sums it up quite accurately: "The other day I said all the attacks on Huckabee come across as so anti-evangelical, so anti-southern, and so anti-social conservative...the establishment New York-Washington Corridor of Mainstream Intelligentsia and parts of the New York-Washington Corridor of Conservative Intelligentsia attack his Christmas ad...Seriously? ... the criticism lodged at [Huckabee] reveals...that while many in the establishment right want evangelicals in the coalition, they just really don't want them in leadership positions...."
Governor Huckabee understands this, saying to CBN's David Brody recently: "There is a level of elitism that has existed, the chattering class if you will, who lives in that corridor between Washington and Wall Street...they were polite to us. They were more than happy for us to come to the rallies and stand in lines for hours to cheer on the candidates...But when they got elected, behind closed doors, they would laugh at us and speak with scorn and derision that we were...'the easily led.' [The elites said] 'it's okay if you guys get a seat on the bus, but don't ever think about telling us where the bus is going to go'."
Well, as it turns out the so-called "Christian leaders" ARE easily led...lining up to endorse the establishment's chosen pro-choice, weak family values candidates like sheep.
But, while failed by their so-called "leaders," the average Christian conservative has now taken a stand. No more are they willing to be "easily led" and privately scorned by the very people whom they have worked so hard to elect, only to have the issues most dear to them be jettisoned.
Folks, the Christian conservatives have been slow to anger. Read that quote at the top of this post again.
I believe STRONGLY that Mike Huckabee is destined to win the nomination and ultimately the election. I've believed it since 1996 and I've blogged about it since 2005.
He has ALREADY become THE most powerful social conservative in America. The old guard of so-called "Christian leaders" are gone and, being only 52 years old, he's going to be around for a long, long time.
The "establishment" is about to be told where the bus is going - and Mike Huckabee is driving it.
