Beating up on Mike Huckabee for his tax and spending ways, conservative columnist Robert Novak says what God-o-Meter has been thinking for some time: Huckabee is emblematic of a new evangelical politics that doesn’t square with the Republican orthodoxy as well as it used to. Here’s the key graph: The rise of evangelical Christians as…

With just weeks to go before the ’08 primary season is officially under way, Mitt Romney is ratcheting up his Rudy-bashing on family values. This morning’s Washington Post has the story, but you can go straight to the source by checking over these press releases issued in quick succession y the Romney campaign last night:…

Does it strike anyone other than God-o-Meter as ironic that the Republican candidate most at odds with religious conservatives has a strict moral sensibility shaped by a serious Catholic upbringing? This week’s Newsweek profile of Rudy Giuliani makes a few references to the role that 16 years of Catholic schooling played in informing Giuliani’s authoritarian…

God-o-Meter has said it before. But it may have more political punch coming from Family Research Council president Tony Perkins, one of the most influential religious conservatives in Washington. In an op-ed in today’s Politico, Perkins notes that there’s a glaring disconnect between Rudy Giuliani’s pro-choice stance and his strategy of assuaging social conservatives by…

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