{"id":115,"date":"2008-02-05T22:35:47","date_gmt":"2008-02-05T22:35:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/castingstones\/2008\/02\/why-didnt-conservatives-back-h.html"},"modified":"2008-02-05T22:35:47","modified_gmt":"2008-02-05T22:35:47","slug":"why-didnt-conservatives-back-h","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/castingstones\/2008\/02\/why-didnt-conservatives-back-h.html","title":{"rendered":"Why Didn&#8217;t Conservatives Back Huck Instead of Mitt?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Given how well Huckabee has done tonight, I cant help but wonder: all the conservatives who hate John McCain, why did they rally around Romney, who&#8217;s not conservative, instead of Huckabee, who is?  Part of the answer is that the conservative media elites really do seem to care about lower taxes more than abortion.<br \/>\nMcCain just barely eeked out a victory in Missouri over Huckabee.  Would that have been different if the conservative media establishment hadn&#8217;t shunned Huckabee?<br \/>\nDoesn&#8217;t this provide evidence for the theory that Republican elites use the value voters but when push comes to shove they care much more about economics than social issues?   Given the strength Huckabee is showing without any support,  what would have happened if they&#8217;d rallied around him instead of Romney?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Given how well Huckabee has done tonight, I cant help but wonder: all the conservatives who hate John McCain, why did they rally around Romney, who&#8217;s not conservative, instead of Huckabee, who is? Part of the answer is that the conservative media elites really do seem to care about lower taxes more than abortion. McCain&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":49,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-115","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v23.9 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Why Didn&#039;t Conservatives Back Huck Instead of Mitt? - Casting Stones<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/castingstones\/2008\/02\/why-didnt-conservatives-back-h.html\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Why Didn&#039;t Conservatives Back Huck Instead of Mitt? - Casting Stones\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Given how well Huckabee has done tonight, I cant help but wonder: all the conservatives who hate John McCain, why did they rally around Romney, who&#8217;s not conservative, instead of Huckabee, who is? 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