{"id":1557,"date":"2007-12-17T16:25:51","date_gmt":"2007-12-17T16:25:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/voxnova\/2007\/12\/17\/the-huckabee-factor\/"},"modified":"2007-12-17T16:25:51","modified_gmt":"2007-12-17T16:25:51","slug":"the-huckabee-factor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/voxnova\/2007\/12\/17\/the-huckabee-factor\/","title":{"rendered":"The Huckabee Factor"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<\/head>

For me at least, Mike Huckabee is probably the least objectionable of the Republican candidates. Given that Huckabee is on record calling for the quarantining of AIDS patients, this only highlights the extremely poor quality of his fellow Republican candidates. But is the Republican establishment, founded as it is on support for big business and the military, ready for somebody like Huckabee? In other words, would a Huckabee candidacy expose the shallowness of the official support for \u201csocial conservatism\u201d in these circles?<\/p>\n

<\/p>\n

And there is indeed a great deal of growing discontent with Huckabee, over at the National Review among other places (is it because he is not a zealous torture supporter?) Over to Kevin Drum<\/a>:<\/p>\n

\u201cAs with blogosphere conservatives, mainstream conservatives are mostly urban sophisticates with a libertarian bent, not rural evangelicals with a social conservative bent. They\u2019re happy to talk up NASCAR and pickup trucks in public, but in real life they mostly couldn\u2019t care less about either. Ditto for opposing abortion and the odd bit of gay bashing via proxy. But when it comes to Ten Commandments monuments and end times eschatology, they shiver inside just like any mainstream liberal. The only difference is that usually they keep their shivering to themselves because they want to keep everyone in the big tent happy.<\/p>\n

But then along comes Huckabee, and guess what? He\u2019s the real deal. Not a guy like George Bush or Ronald Reagan, who talks a soothing game to the snake handlers but then turns around and spends his actual political capital on tax cuts, foreign wars, and deregulating big corporations. Huckabee, it turns out, isn\u2019t just giving lip service to evangelicals, he actually believes all that stuff\u2026.. I think this brand of yahooism puts off mainstream urban conservatives every bit as much as it does mainstream urban liberals. They\u2019re afraid that this time, it\u2019s not just a line of patter to keep the yokels in line.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Drum has a point.<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

For me at least, Mike Huckabee is probably the least objectionable of the Republican candidates. Given that Huckabee is on record calling for the quarantining of AIDS patients, this only highlights the extremely poor quality of his fellow Republican candidates. But is the Republican establishment, founded as it is on support for big business and […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2951,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[148,32,13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1557","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-election","category-mornings-minion","category-politics"],"yoast_head":"\nThe Huckabee Factor<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"For me at least, Mike Huckabee is probably the least objectionable of the Republican candidates. Given that Huckabee is on record calling for the\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/voxnova\/2007\/12\/17\/the-huckabee-factor\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"The Huckabee Factor\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"For me at least, Mike Huckabee is probably the least objectionable of the Republican candidates. Given that Huckabee is on record calling for the\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/voxnova\/2007\/12\/17\/the-huckabee-factor\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Vox Nova\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2007-12-17T16:25:51+00:00\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"Morning's Minion\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"Morning's Minion\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"2 minutes\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/voxnova\/2007\/12\/17\/the-huckabee-factor\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/voxnova\/2007\/12\/17\/the-huckabee-factor\/\",\"name\":\"The Huckabee Factor\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/voxnova\/#website\"},\"datePublished\":\"2007-12-17T16:25:51+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2007-12-17T16:25:51+00:00\",\"author\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/voxnova\/#\/schema\/person\/caa8f54d8795279e3d624af1a1e3896b\"},\"description\":\"For me at least, Mike Huckabee is probably the least objectionable of the Republican candidates. Given that Huckabee is on record calling for the\",\"breadcrumb\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/voxnova\/2007\/12\/17\/the-huckabee-factor\/#breadcrumb\"},\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"ReadAction\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/voxnova\/2007\/12\/17\/the-huckabee-factor\/\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"BreadcrumbList\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/voxnova\/2007\/12\/17\/the-huckabee-factor\/#breadcrumb\",\"itemListElement\":[{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":1,\"name\":\"Home\",\"item\":\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/voxnova\/\"},{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":2,\"name\":\"The Huckabee Factor\"}]},{\"@type\":\"WebSite\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/voxnova\/#website\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/voxnova\/\",\"name\":\"Vox Nova\",\"description\":\"\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"SearchAction\",\"target\":{\"@type\":\"EntryPoint\",\"urlTemplate\":\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/voxnova\/?s={search_term_string}\"},\"query-input\":\"required name=search_term_string\"}],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\"},{\"@type\":\"Person\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/voxnova\/#\/schema\/person\/caa8f54d8795279e3d624af1a1e3896b\",\"name\":\"Morning's Minion\",\"image\":{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/voxnova\/#\/schema\/person\/image\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/9f3d4fca1a145ca12be552894fd38793?s=96&d=identicon&r=g\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/9f3d4fca1a145ca12be552894fd38793?s=96&d=identicon&r=g\",\"caption\":\"Morning's Minion\"},\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/voxnova\/author\/morningsminion\/\"}]}<\/script>\n<!-- \/ Yoast SEO plugin. -->","yoast_head_json":{"title":"The Huckabee Factor","description":"For me at least, Mike Huckabee is probably the least objectionable of the Republican candidates. Given that Huckabee is on record calling for the","robots":{"index":"index","follow":"follow","max-snippet":"max-snippet:-1","max-image-preview":"max-image-preview:large","max-video-preview":"max-video-preview:-1"},"canonical":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/voxnova\/2007\/12\/17\/the-huckabee-factor\/","og_locale":"en_US","og_type":"article","og_title":"The Huckabee Factor","og_description":"For me at least, Mike Huckabee is probably the least objectionable of the Republican candidates. Given that Huckabee is on record calling for the","og_url":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/voxnova\/2007\/12\/17\/the-huckabee-factor\/","og_site_name":"Vox Nova","article_published_time":"2007-12-17T16:25:51+00:00","author":"Morning's Minion","twitter_card":"summary_large_image","twitter_misc":{"Written by":"Morning's Minion","Est. reading time":"2 minutes"},"schema":{"@context":"https:\/\/schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/voxnova\/2007\/12\/17\/the-huckabee-factor\/","url":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/voxnova\/2007\/12\/17\/the-huckabee-factor\/","name":"The Huckabee Factor","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/voxnova\/#website"},"datePublished":"2007-12-17T16:25:51+00:00","dateModified":"2007-12-17T16:25:51+00:00","author":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/voxnova\/#\/schema\/person\/caa8f54d8795279e3d624af1a1e3896b"},"description":"For me at least, Mike Huckabee is probably the least objectionable of the Republican candidates. Given that Huckabee is on record calling for the","breadcrumb":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/voxnova\/2007\/12\/17\/the-huckabee-factor\/#breadcrumb"},"inLanguage":"en-US","potentialAction":[{"@type":"ReadAction","target":["https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/voxnova\/2007\/12\/17\/the-huckabee-factor\/"]}]},{"@type":"BreadcrumbList","@id":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/voxnova\/2007\/12\/17\/the-huckabee-factor\/#breadcrumb","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"name":"Home","item":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/voxnova\/"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"name":"The Huckabee Factor"}]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/voxnova\/#website","url":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/voxnova\/","name":"Vox Nova","description":"","potentialAction":[{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/voxnova\/?s={search_term_string}"},"query-input":"required name=search_term_string"}],"inLanguage":"en-US"},{"@type":"Person","@id":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/voxnova\/#\/schema\/person\/caa8f54d8795279e3d624af1a1e3896b","name":"Morning's Minion","image":{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/voxnova\/#\/schema\/person\/image\/","url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/9f3d4fca1a145ca12be552894fd38793?s=96&d=identicon&r=g","contentUrl":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/9f3d4fca1a145ca12be552894fd38793?s=96&d=identicon&r=g","caption":"Morning's Minion"},"url":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/voxnova\/author\/morningsminion\/"}]}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/voxnova\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1557","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/voxnova\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/voxnova\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/voxnova\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2951"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/voxnova\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1557"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/voxnova\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1557\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/voxnova\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1557"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/voxnova\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1557"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/voxnova\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1557"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}