{"id":194,"date":"2011-03-16T17:41:56","date_gmt":"2011-03-16T17:41:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/religionandpubliclife\/2011\/03\/the-story-is-huckabee-against-romney.html"},"modified":"2011-03-16T17:41:56","modified_gmt":"2011-03-16T17:41:56","slug":"the-story-is-huckabee-against-romney","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/religionandpubliclife\/2011\/03\/the-story-is-huckabee-against-romney.html","title":{"rendered":"The story is Huckabee against Romney"},"content":{"rendered":"

According to the latest WaPo\/ABC poll<\/a>, Mike Huckabee is the top choice for the 2012 GOP presidential nomination. Mitt Romney is a close second. The Post<\/i>‘s
\nlede this morning is that Sarah Palin’s numbers among Republicans are
\nheading south, which is a good story. But I’ve yet to see Beltway
\npolitical scribes giving Huck serious attention this time around, much
\nless talk about the prospects of a two-man race between Huck and Mitt. The
\nCW is that it’s got to be someone else, since both Huck and Mitt are
\n2008 stories. <\/p>\n

To the contrary, I’d say the story at this point is the candidate of the
\nevangelical base against the candidate of the GOP establishment. The wedge between them? Sharia. Huck has been one of the loudest voices<\/a> in the GOP anti-Islam chorus<\/a>.
\nMitt, a member of a minority faith that suffered profoundly at the
\nhands of American Protestant bigots, has studiously stayed away from
\nMuslim bashing–and, indeed, has drawn some right-wing flak<\/a> for it. Huckabee’s played the religion card against Romney before<\/a>. Don’t be surprised if he does it again. As in: “Governor, do you support proposed legislation<\/a> in Georgia, South Carolina, Tennessee, Texas, Wyoming, etc. to ban Sharia law?”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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