{"id":85,"date":"2008-01-03T23:11:45","date_gmt":"2008-01-03T23:11:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/castingstones\/2008\/01\/christians-voted-for-a-christi.html"},"modified":"2008-01-03T23:11:45","modified_gmt":"2008-01-03T23:11:45","slug":"christians-voted-for-a-christi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/castingstones\/2008\/01\/christians-voted-for-a-christi.html","title":{"rendered":"Christians voted for a Christian tonight"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Huckabee won because he played identity politics. He asked Christians to vote for him because he was a Christian and they did.  And I believe it was a huge mistake. Christianity has been co-opted by the Republicans too much already and this just marries the two more closely together and the two do not mix. I offer exhibit A as proof, the spokesman for Huckabee:<\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><object height=\"373\" width=\"425\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/AE6WzERoSOE&amp;rel=1&amp;border=1\"><param name=\"wmode\" value=\"transparent\"><embed src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/AE6WzERoSOE&amp;rel=1&amp;border=1\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" wmode=\"transparent\" height=\"373\" width=\"425\"><\/embed><\/object><\/div>\n<p>(<a href=\"http:\/\/hotair.com\/archives\/2008\/01\/03\/video-huckabee-chairman-ed-rollins-on-victory-and-being-blogged-in-iowa\/\">via<\/a>)<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">H<\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/www.townhall.com\/blog\/g\/13a3122e-dfd6-4d8a-81a3-bc8c6e11f550\">ere<\/a> the article they were refer to.Ed Rollins really makes a fine spokesman for a Christian leader doesn&#8217;t he?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Huckabee won because he played identity politics. He asked Christians to vote for him because he was a Christian and they did. And I believe it was a huge mistake. Christianity has been co-opted by the Republicans too much already and this just marries the two more closely together and the two do not mix.&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":114,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-85","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>Christians voted for a Christian tonight - 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\/01\/christians-voted-for-a-christi.html\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Christians voted for a Christian tonight - Casting Stones\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Huckabee won because he played identity politics. 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