{"id":7494,"date":"2006-05-24T09:40:01","date_gmt":"2006-05-24T13:40:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thecarpetbaggerreport.com\/?p=7494"},"modified":"2006-05-24T09:40:01","modified_gmt":"2006-05-24T13:40:01","slug":"mike-huckabee-the-preacherpolitician-hybrid","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/mike-huckabee-the-preacherpolitician-hybrid\/","title":{"rendered":"Mike Huckabee, the preacher\/politician hybrid"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Arkansas Gov. [tag]Mike Huckabee[\/tag] (R) doesn&#8217;t hide the fact that he&#8217;s seriously planning to seek the GOP presidential nomination in &#8217;08, and as part of his effort to boost his profile, [tag]Huckabee[\/tag] sat down with the WaPo&#8217;s Chris Cillizza recently to talk about his priorities. <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.washingtonpost.com\/thefix\/2006\/05\/insider_interview_mike_huckabe.html\">One remark<\/a> in particular stood out.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>[W]hen it gets down to it, what animates Huckabee most is his faith, and it&#8217;s his background as an [tag]evangelical Christian[\/tag] from the South that could very well distinguish him from the rest of the GOP pack.<\/p>\n<p>Asked whether he considers himself to be more &#8220;[tag]preacher[\/tag]&#8221; or &#8220;[tag]politician[\/tag],&#8221; Huckabee insisted that it is impossible to separate the two. &#8220;I would say that my [tag]faith[\/tag] has everything to do with my politics,&#8221; he explained.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Now, it&#8217;s worth noting that Huckabee segued from this comment to note that his faith leads him to take some relatively moderate positions (on immigration) and some hard-line conservative positions (on abortion rights). For that matter, it&#8217;s fair to say that many liberals can just as easily say that their faith shapes their values and religion influences political positions.<\/p>\n<p>But as a rule, when it comes to presidential candidates, isn&#8217;t it a little troubling when a presidential candidate finds it &#8220;impossible&#8221; to separate the preacher\/politician line?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Arkansas Gov. [tag]Mike Huckabee[\/tag] (R) doesn&#8217;t hide the fact that he&#8217;s seriously planning to seek the GOP presidential nomination in &#8217;08, and as part of his effort to boost his profile, [tag]Huckabee[\/tag] sat down with the WaPo&#8217;s Chris Cillizza recently to talk about his priorities. One remark in particular stood out. [W]hen it gets down [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[617],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7494","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7494","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=7494"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7494\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7494"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7494"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7494"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}