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...Congress - with Russ Feingold on campaign-finance reform and Ted Kennedy on immigration reform - that a majority of Republicans have opposed. He voted against President Bush's tax cuts in 2001 and '03, each time citing the need for fiscal restraint. And during his 2000 campaign, he labeled Pat Robertson and the Rev. Jerry Falwell "agents of intolerance...
Huckabee's campaign is like The Chronicles of Narnia or VeggieTales cartoons: a Christian crossover product. For Old Guard evangelical leaders, not getting pop culture used to be a badge of honor; think Jerry Falwell's outing of Teletubby Tinky Winky or Pat Robertson's listing immoral TV as one reason for the Sept. 11 attacks. But Huckabee doesn't just engage with pop culture. He soaks...
...reporters followed. Sure, he was polling well in Iowa, went the buzz, but that's where all the evangelicals live. He had no real campaign operation to back him up. He was considered a flash in the pan. He was a curiosity. He wasn't going anywhere. Remember Pat Robertson in 1988? It was just a matter of time...
...being sidelined in the Republican contest by the coming fight between Romney and John McCain in New Hampshire on January 8, which will likely carry over to the Michigan primary on January 15. A second place finish for Huckabee also raises the unflattering specter of another evangelical minister, Pat Robertson, who placed a surprise second in the Iowa Republican caucus in 1988, only to have his presidential campaign peter out soon after...
...Many conservative evangelicals loved the bellicose rhetoric, but moderates were offended, and national news media responded with increased scrutiny of the campaign's religious politics. Bush immediately compounded matters by speaking to a national meeting of conservative religious leaders that included Robertson, Buchanan, Phyllis Schlafly, and Jerry Falwell. There Bush declared that the Democratic Party platform had "left out three simple letters, G-O-D" - a remark that prompted the New York Times to editorialize that Bush had "crossed a line" by "questioning the religious convictions of his opponents...