« Energy-Free Huckabee | Main | Rick Perry For Huckabee »

12 Dec 2007 01:52 pm

Minutemen For Huck??

, Huckabee"> , Immigration">

Malkin is gob-smacked. Larison is slack-jawed:

I can't express to you all how little sense this makes. It's baffling, like so much else associated with Mike Huckabee lately. The only thing more bizarre would have been if Gilchrist had endorsed McCain. How does the founder of the Minutemen endorse Huckabee?  What parallel universe have we fallen into that this is happening? I mean, Gilchrist essentially has to ignore everything that the man said or did regarding immigration for the last decade. Apparently the take-away lesson is that shameless pandering works. Before much longer maybe Huckabee will land Tancredo's endorsement.

I think Larison and Malkin are missing something about the base and Huckabee: he is one of them. If shameless pandering were enough, Romney would be walking away with this. Paranoid Christianists care more about knowing that their candidate gets them than his past record on "the issues." And if he is one of them, he can be brought around, as Huckabee has on immigration. What matters is cultural and religious identity, rather than policy. Again this is a result of the sectarianization of Republican politics.

Share This

TrackBack URL for this entry:

http://www.typepad.com/services/trackback/6a00d83451c45669e200e54fa189818833

Listed below are links to weblogs that reference 'Minutemen For Huck??'

I think Andrew Sullivan has nailed ...
Excerpt: ... the truth about Mike Huckabee's appeal.Paranoid Christianists care more about knowing that their candidate gets them than his past record on "the issues." And if he is one of them, he can be brought around, as Huckabee has on immigration. What m...
Weblog: Civil Commotion
Tracked: Dec 12, 2007 2:24:53 PM