{"id":137,"date":"2007-11-29T17:06:55","date_gmt":"2007-11-29T17:06:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/godometer\/2007\/11\/jerry-falwell-jr-endorses-huck.html"},"modified":"2007-11-29T17:06:55","modified_gmt":"2007-11-29T17:06:55","slug":"jerry-falwell-jr-endorses-huck","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/godometer\/2007\/11\/jerry-falwell-jr-endorses-huck.html","title":{"rendered":"Jerry Falwell Jr. Endorses Huckabee"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"falwelljr.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/wp-media.beliefnet.com\/sites\/211\/import\/falwelljr.jpg\" width=\"86\" \/>Mike Huckabee continues to  rack up Christian Right endorsements. The latest comes from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mikehuckabee.com\/index.cfm?FuseAction=Newsroom.PressRelease&amp;ID=397\">Jerry Falwell, Jr.<\/a>.<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/firstread.msnbc.msn.com\/archive\/2007\/11\/28\/485329.aspx\">MNSBC&#8217;s First Read<\/a> has the details, including this:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Falwell was not expecting to endorse Huckabee today, but when put on the spot, he did. \u201cHe\u2019s my choice, yes,\u201d Falwell said to cheers from students and a smile from Huckabee. While Falwell called Huckabee his \u201cclose friend,\u201d he also said Thompson would have been good choice.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>On the one hand, God-o-Meter recognizes that Falwell is a household name, adding to impression that Huckabee has overcome viability doubts among evangelical cultural leaders. And with his <a href=\"http:\/\/online.wsj.com\/article\/SB119630469605907462.html?mod=googlenews_wsj\">dramatic surge in the Iowa polls<\/a>, why not. But God-o-Meter also thinks it important to point out that many of the real organizational players in the Christian Right, like Focus on the Family&#8217;s James Dobson and the Family Research Council&#8217;s Tony Perkins, haven&#8217;t jumped on board yet. Until that happens, GOM won&#8217;t be fully convinced that the powerful infrastructure of the modern Christian right is truly behind the man from Hope.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><br \/>\n10<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mike Huckabee continues to rack up Christian Right endorsements. The latest comes from Jerry Falwell, Jr.. MNSBC&#8217;s First Read has the details, including this: Falwell was not expecting to endorse Huckabee today, but when put on the spot, he did. \u201cHe\u2019s my choice, yes,\u201d Falwell said to cheers from students and a smile from Huckabee.&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":50,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-137","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mike-huckabee"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v23.9 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Jerry Falwell Jr. Endorses Huckabee - God-O-Meter<\/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\/godometer\/2007\/11\/jerry-falwell-jr-endorses-huck.html\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Jerry Falwell Jr. Endorses Huckabee - God-O-Meter\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Mike Huckabee continues to rack up Christian Right endorsements. 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