Huckabee Breaks Godwin’s Law, Lights it on Fire, Kicks it a Few Times
Mike Huckabee, who is now flat broke, has pretty much abandoned any semblance of running for the secular Presidency and is instead more or less explicitly running on a platform solely devoted to Christianizing America. It’s sort of bizarre to watch actually, and it’s starting to get easier to gloss over as his chances for the nomination fade, but given that he’s still a VP shortlister, a potential 2012 frontrunner, and a guy who is at the very least using his run to garner an enormous amount of political influence, it’s probably worth it to continue noting his sometimes disconcerting sometimes downright frightening mish-mash of “national greatness” conservativism with explicitly religious line-in-the-sand “final conflict” call to arms.
This one is not only downright bizarre, but almost Premilleniumist. To wit, some remarks he made Monday:
In a speech to the Florida Renewal Project Monday night, which in an unprecedented move was live streamed on the American Family Association’s Web site, Mike Huckabee compared America to Nazi Germany. He first implored the audience to renew their “commitment to Christ” and “to our nation, to its heritage, as well as to its future,” adding “do we expect the seculars to do it? Do we expect the unbelievers to lead us, and if so, how will they lead us and where?” He then engaged in an extended description of his visit to the Israeli Holocaust Memorial Yad Vashem with his 11- year-old daughter, who asked, “why didn’t somebody do something?” Huckabee, who has called abortion a “holocaust,” then issued a dire warning:
… I pray that no father ever stands over the shoulder of his own daughter and after her witnessing the decline and the fall of a great nation, writes, and sees her write these words, “why didn’t somebody do something?” You see, I believe the reason we’re here is because we are the somebodies. And we’re to do the something and if we don’t, who will? And if we don’t act now, when will it happen, and will it be too late? You leave this conference with this haunting question, and pray that no one would ever ask of you or of me, why didn’t somebody do something.
You heard that right. An active and viable candidate for the Presidency saying “Do we expect the unbelievers to lead us?”.
*shudder*
H/t: The Right’s Field
Nobody ever expects the Spanish Inquisition!
Comment by James — 1/25/2008 @ 5:09 pm
Not that it in any way nullifies your point, Brad, but he’s been trotting out the bit with his daughter at Yad Vashem at least since the Iowa Straw Poll. It’s one of the core elements of his stump speech.
Comment by Rojas — 1/25/2008 @ 8:10 pm
It might be useful to point out to both the Huckster and his daughter that a great many of the people who didn’t do anything to obviate the need for Yad Vashem, as well as those who were directly or tacitly responsible for tragedy it memorializes, were in fact Christians. I’m just saying.
Comment by James — 1/25/2008 @ 8:21 pm