The Council for National Policy, a secretive and influential right-wing political coalition, recently met to discuss who the Religious Right should support for President in 2008. David Kirkpatrick at the New York Times has published what he could learn about their secret deliberations.
Kirkpatrick leaves the impression that these leaders, which include many of the takeover leaders of the Southern Baptist Convention, are undecided about who they will support. I suspect that their loyalties are divided between Brownback and Huckabee.
Huckabee has been posturing as a moderate, centrist candidate. The fact that Huckabee is firmly connected with the fundamentalist takeover of the SBC and that Tom Delay has already endorsed him on CNN, should give ample indication of who can be expected to emerge as their most blessed candidate.
Mike Huckabee has been invited to speak at the New Baptist Covenant meeting that former U.S. President's Jimmy Carter and Bill Clinton helped publicize. Southern Baptists have loudly criticized this religious meeting to celebrate Baptist unity as being a covert rally to elect Hillary Clinton as President. Hillary has not been invited to speak. She's not a Baptist. The meeting will not be a political rally for either party. It will be a religious celebration.
Huckabee has been invited to speak because he is a Baptist preacher. If Huckabee does not participate, it will not be for lack of an invitation.
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