{"id":13890,"date":"2007-12-11T16:50:22","date_gmt":"2007-12-11T21:50:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thecarpetbaggerreport.com\/archives\/13890.html"},"modified":"2007-12-11T16:50:22","modified_gmt":"2007-12-11T21:50:22","slug":"huckabee-endorsed-statement-urging-wives-to-graciously-submit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/huckabee-endorsed-statement-urging-wives-to-graciously-submit\/","title":{"rendered":"Huckabee endorsed statement urging wives to ‘graciously submit’"},"content":{"rendered":"

If Mike Huckabee’s other odd beliefs<\/a> about religion, science, and culture weren’t quite enough to bring his campaign into doubt, maybe this will<\/a>.<\/p>\n

In August of 1998, Huckabee was one of 131 signatories to a full page USA Today Ad which declared: “I affirm the statement on the family issued by the 1998 Southern Baptist Convention.” What was in the family statement from the SBC? “A wife is to submit herself graciously to the servant leadership of her husband even as the church willingly submits to the headship of Christ.”<\/p>\n

The ad wasn’t just a blanket, “we support the SBC statement,” but rather highlighted details. The ad Huckabee signed specifically said of the SBC family statement: “You are right because you called wives to graciously submit to their husband’s sacrificial leadership.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Andrew Sullivan added<\/a>, “The group did not<\/a> back away from the ad after a media firestorm. It seems to me that Huckabee should be asked if he still stands by that. And if he thinks it applies to Senator Clinton.”<\/p>\n

It’s hard to say how far-right Republican primary voters will respond to these kinds of revelations. I’d like to think items like these will hurt Huckabee, even among conservatives, but time will tell.<\/p>\n

Either way, it gets back to a point I mentioned the other day — Huckabee’s easy skate to the GOP’s top-tier is a double-edged sword. On the one hand, he’s been able to quietly sneak up on his rivals, who’ve been going after one another and leaving Huckabee alone. On the other hand, now that the race has reached crunch time, and Huckabee is a credible challenger for the nomination, all of the scrutiny comes at once, and the former governor has to be able to keep up.<\/p>\n

But he can’t. Huckabee has a small staff, he’s woefully unprepared for questions like these, and he’s struggling badly. With each passing day, crazy things like this come up, and neither Huckabee nor his aides can explain them away.<\/p>\n

If the Republican establishment wasn’t worried before, it should be now.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

If Mike Huckabee’s other odd beliefs about religion, science, and culture weren’t quite enough to bring his campaign into doubt, maybe this will. In August of 1998, Huckabee was one of 131 signatories to a full page USA Today Ad which declared: “I affirm the statement on the family issued by the 1998 Southern Baptist […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[617],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13890","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13890","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13890"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13890\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13890"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13890"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13890"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}