Associated Press has published an enlightening story about the handwringing by the Religious Rights' political kingmakers now that Fred Thompson has entered the race for president.
As a recent article in The Daily Mail reveals, Fred Thompson is not exactly a poster boy for the Religious Right's platform for family values.
Despite Thompson's moral limitations, Richard Land, Director of the Southern Baptist Convention's political action arm, has been pushing him while slighting Mike Huckabee -- whose personal morality has been beyond reproach. Ethics Daily has even noticed that Baptist Press, the propaganda arm for the SBC, has also given Huckabee short shrift in the denomination's coverage of presidential politics.
A quote in the AP story discloses the ultimate value that is driving America's self-described "values voters:"
Tim Wildmon, president of the Tupelo, Miss.-based American Family Association, said that while he likes Huckabee, Thompson's better name recognition and fundraising potential is a strong draw for evangelicals.Apparently, every value can be sacrificed except one -- winning.
"This is a dilemma a lot of people have," Wildmon said. "They want to support the candidate that most reflects their values. "But at the same time, you have to balance that against finding someone who can actually win."
3 comments:
So, Mike Huckabee who is a Southern Baptist minister, along with being a heck of a nice guy, gets no press?
Isn't that a bit of political prostitution going on here?
That depends on who you think is the pimp.
Thompson's being spoken about as Reagan light, but he's just a Dubbya clone with a smoother dilivery. Well he at least can pronounce words correctly. But how stupid is the guy who uncovered the Oval office tapes which brought down Nixon's Presidency and brought them to light thinking they would help Nixon? He was Nixon's spy on the committee and couldn't even do that right!
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