Ethics Daily is reporting that Presidential candidate Mike Huckabee says the leadership of the Religious Right is "more intoxicated with power than principle." Huckabee's complaint follows repeated refusals by them to endorse his candidacy.
Huckabees complaints ring hollow to anyone familiar with his participation in the fundamentalist takeover of the Southern Baptist Convention. Unprincipled character assassinations, lies, and dirty tricks were the stock-in-trade of those who took over the SBC and made it a power center within a broader right-wing movement to takeover the local, state and federal government.
The Religious Right has been more intoxicated with power than principle from the very beginning. Huckabee, very much an insider and leader within that movement, has known that from the outset.
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Unfortunately, Bruce, far too many "conservative evangelicals" of Huckabee's stripe use the term "Religious Right" ONLY to refer to the Falwell/Dobson types and their quest for political power. He would claim that the SBC takeover had nothing to do with the RR, but was simply a "conservative resurgence" in purging evil liberals.
I agree with you that this is a distortion (and Huckabee's refusal to go to the New Baptist Covenant because of Jimmy Carter's presence shows the distortion nicely), but that blind spot allows him to think he's being consistent--to miss his own hypocrisy.
One also has to wonder at the timing of this critique: Would he have made it if the RR supported his candidacy as we all expected? Is this critique not actually a complaint that the RR is cynically supporting Romney or Guiliani, etc. rather than one of their own???
I suspect Huckabee is angling for a slot as the Vice-Presidential sop to the "Christian" right.
Bruce,
I find it amazing that you continue to be the revisionist historian that you are with a straight face.
Are you actually saying that all the leaders of the Conservative Resurgence used "unprincipled character assassinations, lies, and dirty tricks?" I would call that slander. It would be the same if I said that everyone that pulled out of the SBC after the Conservative Resurgence was a flaming liberal.
You are as obsessed about the Religious Right as Bill Clinton is with pretty women. By the way, how are we doing in taking over the government?
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