Huckabee continues to use his faith as a weapon against those who question not his faith, but his political populism — much of which he shares with secular progressives. ... But he cannot win either the nomination or presidency with the narrow focus of his appeal. This is why I find Mike Huckabee's tactics and candidacy so deplorable.
Unlike Grover Norquist's commandment that "Thou Shalt Cut Taxes for the Top 1%," Huckster's economic policies are Biblically based, as you can see in the Acts of the Apostles, chapters 4 and 5. Levin is afraid that the Huckster will expose the fraud behind the claims of people like Falwell and Robertson and that would mean the end of Rove's Coalition.
Levin's piece has also divided the wingnuts. Ron Coleman at RightWingNews writes of Levin's piece "This is just such utter gobbledygook I don't know what to do with it." but Rick Moran at Rightwing Nuthouse thinks Levin is correct:
For myself, I could care less if the evangelical social cons threw a tantrum and walked out of the party and the movement. ... If they want to promote a candidate whose ideas about a nanny state include a “Christian government” watching over us as opposed to a secular one, let them try that out on the electorate.
I have made my feelings known about Huckabee on this blog. I believe him to be a shady operator who, as Levin points out, uses religion as a club against his opponents while setting himself up to be a “superior Christian” to the other candidates. The mindless enthusiasm for this “populist” only shows that the religious right is not ready or worthy to lead any party that purports to represent a polyglot collection of neocons, Main Street, Traditional, and economic conservatives.
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