{"id":7,"date":"2007-10-22T18:01:55","date_gmt":"2007-10-22T18:01:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/castingstones\/2007\/10\/go-huck-go.html"},"modified":"2007-10-22T18:01:55","modified_gmt":"2007-10-22T18:01:55","slug":"go-huck-go","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/castingstones\/2007\/10\/go-huck-go.html","title":{"rendered":"Go Huck go!"},"content":{"rendered":"

Readers of my Crunchy Con blog know that I have little use for the GOP field this year, but I gotta say the more I see Mike Huckabee, the more I like and admire him. An Obama-Huckabee race in 2008 would probably be as inspiring as a Clinton-Giuliani race would be depressing. I love the way Huckabee came into the Values Voter hootenanny this past weekend and won the audience over <\/a>with nothing more powerful than his oratory. Marvelous.
\nOver on RedState, Erick Erickson, who was at the event, points out that Huckabee showed up the leadership of the Religious Right<\/a>, which really wants to settle on a candidate. Erick makes some solid points about the fracturing of the conservative coalition; I think one of the biggest stories now underway is about how the Religious Right’s traditional machers<\/i> are losing their power. They can’t control the direction of the GOP nationally, and now it looks like they can’t even control their own rank-and-file.
\nThough I anticipate a Huckabee-Jindal ticket in 2012, let the reader understand: if Chuck Norris be for Huck<\/a>, who can be agin’ him?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Readers of my Crunchy Con blog know that I have little use for the GOP field this year, but I gotta say the more I see Mike Huckabee, the more I like and admire him. An Obama-Huckabee race in 2008 would probably be as inspiring as a Clinton-Giuliani race would be depressing. 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