22 December 2007

The Republican Party begins to attack itself

Here's the problem that I see will make the Republicans lose the 2008 election.

Religion.

Now the Republicans have always been religious, look at the love they still have for Ronald Regan. But today's seeker to the White House, the scary evangelical Mike Huckabee and even scarier Mormon Mitt Romney, probably would think Ronnie was not religious enough.

But I always thought that in truth, the Republicans just pimped themselves out to them, and not actually come from the more appalling side of religion.

Or as Arianna Huffington said: "They want their base to be a kind of electoral cicada: wake up every four years, vote, and then go underground and shut-up."

So while Huckabee seems now to be the front runner for the Republican nomination, its seems even some conservatives are a bit in a tizzy. Even the conservative magazine the National Review's Rich Lowry seems a bit disturbed by Huckabee's frontrunner status, by saying that Huckabee is an "under-vetted former governor who is manifestly unprepared to be president of the United States."

Nice to see the conservatives attacking their own party once in a while, even if Huckabee stands on the same hallow grounds as King George: anti-choice, born-again, against gay-marriage, and seemly gets political advice directly from God.


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