{"id":367,"date":"2008-02-19T23:12:34","date_gmt":"2008-02-19T23:12:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/godometer\/2008\/02\/whats-huck-thinking.html"},"modified":"2008-02-19T23:12:34","modified_gmt":"2008-02-19T23:12:34","slug":"whats-huck-thinking","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/godometer\/2008\/02\/whats-huck-thinking.html","title":{"rendered":"What&#8217;s Huck Thinking?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"yoest3.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/wp-media.beliefnet.com\/sites\/211\/import\/yoest3.jpg\" width=\"321\" \/>God-o-Meter caught up the other day with Charmaine Yoest, the Family Research Council VP of communications who left her post last year to <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/godometer\/2007\/12\/family-research-council-staffe.html\">become a senior advisor to Mike Huckabee<\/a>. Yoest returned to FRC last month, when Huckabee\u2019s cash flow got too tight, but she had this interesting insight in what keeps Huckabee going in the face of very long odds:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>It fits with a worldview that sees life as being dependent on God\u2019s will&#8230; and a Christian following God\u2019s will means taking the next step that\u2019s in front of you. That\u2019s where I think he\u2019s coming from to a large degree. It\u2019s entirely consistent to say, \u201cI\u2019m goiong to play that out\u2014it\u2019s not over till it\u2019s over.\u201d<br \/>\nI don\u2019t understand why you guys in the media aren\u2019t more interested in the brokered convention path. There\u2019s a route to a brokered convention. It may not be pretty, but it\u2019s possible.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><!--more--><br \/>\n9<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>God-o-Meter caught up the other day with Charmaine Yoest, the Family Research Council VP of communications who left her post last year to become a senior advisor to Mike Huckabee. 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