{"id":20,"date":"2010-06-23T11:10:04","date_gmt":"2010-06-23T11:10:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/religionandpubliclife\/2010\/06\/jews-for-huckabee.html"},"modified":"2010-06-23T11:10:04","modified_gmt":"2010-06-23T11:10:04","slug":"jews-for-huckabee","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/religionandpubliclife\/2010\/06\/jews-for-huckabee.html","title":{"rendered":"Jews for Huckabee?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Would Jewish conservatives embrace Mike Huckabee as the GOP presidential
\nnominee in 2012? Zev Chafets–whose book, A
\nMatch Made in Heaven<\/i><\/a>, deals with Jewish-Evangelical support for
\nIsrael–suggests as much in Ariel Levy’s profile
\nof Huckabee<\/a> in the current New Yorker<\/i>: “There’s a lot of
\nJewish money on the right that’s got to go someplace,
\nespecially if Obama continues to be perceived as unfriendly to Israel.”
\nI’m skeptical.<\/p>\n

From what I can gather, if Jewish Republicans are lining up behind
\nanyone at this early date, it’s Mitt Romney. He strikes them as a
\nserious guy, a businessman, and he also hails from a religious minority.
\nAs for Huckabee, while they like him personally–many people do–his
\nevangelical roots and base of support give them the willies. <\/p>\n

The Huckster does some whining to Levy about being pigeon-holed as The
\nEvangelical in the field:<\/p>\n

\n“I’m not one-dimensional,” he told me. “I was the governor of Arkansas
\nfor ten years! The lieutenant-governor for three! To say that I stepped
\nout of a pulpit last Sunday and said, ‘Hey, I think I’ll be President!’
\nNo, I’ve paid my dues.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Dues he’s paid, but he was also present at the creation of the religious
\nright, and his social agenda hasn’t varied since. Nor was he averse to
\nplaying the religion card against his rivals–especially Romney–during
\nthe 2008 primary season.  <\/p>\n

So far as Jewish conservatives are concerned, it’s one thing to
\ncelebrate the Christian Zionism of American evangelicals. It’s quite
\nanother to help one of them into the White House. Israel isn’t the key
\nto conservative Jewish money; no serious Republican candidate these days
\nis going to be anything less than an enthusiastic supporter. Separation
\nof church and state–government-sponsored prayer, the teaching of
\nevolution, faith-based social services, religion in the
\nmilitary,etc.–is where the rubber hits the road. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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