Steve, thanks for the welcome! I look forward to arguing politics during this campaign season. And yeah, it would make sense for them to support Huckabee if they were only concerned about the social issues but the group also includes fiscal conservatives who can’t support Huckabee. As to the demise of the religious right, I…

First of all, welcome, everyone, to our new mix-it-up, thrash-it-out politics blog. Like most of you, I’m fascinated by what is going on among conservative Christians and politics these days. I am not, however, surprised by the rift between members in the pews and those in leadership. Two reasons. Reason number one is that evangelicals,…

David, as thrilled as I was to see Bobby Jindal win as governor in my home state last weekend, I strongly caution against reading the victory as any kind of bellwether for how the 2008 vote may go for the GOP nationally. Both Jindal and the political climate in which he ran were singular. Louisiana…

“The Huckabee issue” may prove to be the final undoing of the increasingly old, tottering, out-of-touch, self-appointed evangelical mullahs. It begins with the mullahs. Keep in mind that it is this group of men – Dobson, Land, Perkins, Bauer, etc. – that demanded blind and slavish loyalty among their followers to President Bush from 1999…

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