Well, our fellow Southern Baptist, Mike Huckabee, is hanging in there. You have to admire the guy's spunk. But despite all he's accomplished in this election, he still isn't being taken seriously by the media. After Huckabee won five states on Super Tuesday, I heard Chris Matthews ask Tim Russert, "Can this guy's act go anywhere but the Bible belt?" To which Russert replied, "Yeah, the Damascus Road." Then they both laughed hysterically... Real funny, boys. Here's some other random political thoughts...
1) I've said this before, but the media talks about evangelicals like we're some other kind of life form. Any win Huckabee gets is automatically disqualified because "it was just the evangelicals who voted for him." Am I missing something? Are we lesser citizens or something? Do we only count as half a vote? Why does it matter? The bottom line is that Huckabee carried the deep south, which just happens to be the base of the Republican party. Based on that alone, he's earned the right to be taken seriously.
2) Why does no one mention that all the Super Tuesday states that went for Romney (save his home state of Massachusetts) have significant Mormon populations?
3) The media continues to say, "Huckabee really cost Romney a lot of votes on Super Tuesday!" Since Huckabee outgained Romney on Super Tuesday, shoudn't they be saying that Romney cost Huckabee a lot of votes?
As you will see on my "recent reads" list, I just finished Huckabee's book Character Makes A Difference. (A Christmas present from one of my church members.) It was a good book, and very easy to read. I did not know until I read the book that Huckabee was president of the Arkansas Baptist Convention at 27 years old! He also pastored a 2,500 member church at age 35. Here's a few of the better lines from the book...
On the Southern Baptist Convention... "[It was] some of the most intense hardball politics I have ever seen. Some of it was far more brutal than secualr politics, in part because in secular politics you expect deception and backstabbing; whereas in church politics the common belief is that people are going to behave like Jesus."
On legalism... "One of the few things I detest more than liberalism is legalism. I think both are cancers to the Christian faith..."
On being a good steward... "As a pastor, I knew there were widows in our church who were tithing on their social security checks. Whenever I spent money from the church budget, I needed to think I could look those women in the eyes and say, "I think we spent that money wisely. We have taken good care of what you have entrusted to us."
On 9/11 & Hurricane Katrina... "We smugly pride ourselves on being so 'advanced' and 'civilized' compared to many Third World countries. We believe we are hundreds of years ahead of them. But really, we are just a day away from joining them."
New topic... My wife says Levi William Hall will be here soon. Pray.
1) I've said this before, but the media talks about evangelicals like we're some other kind of life form. Any win Huckabee gets is automatically disqualified because "it was just the evangelicals who voted for him." Am I missing something? Are we lesser citizens or something? Do we only count as half a vote? Why does it matter? The bottom line is that Huckabee carried the deep south, which just happens to be the base of the Republican party. Based on that alone, he's earned the right to be taken seriously.
2) Why does no one mention that all the Super Tuesday states that went for Romney (save his home state of Massachusetts) have significant Mormon populations?
3) The media continues to say, "Huckabee really cost Romney a lot of votes on Super Tuesday!" Since Huckabee outgained Romney on Super Tuesday, shoudn't they be saying that Romney cost Huckabee a lot of votes?
As you will see on my "recent reads" list, I just finished Huckabee's book Character Makes A Difference. (A Christmas present from one of my church members.) It was a good book, and very easy to read. I did not know until I read the book that Huckabee was president of the Arkansas Baptist Convention at 27 years old! He also pastored a 2,500 member church at age 35. Here's a few of the better lines from the book...
On the Southern Baptist Convention... "[It was] some of the most intense hardball politics I have ever seen. Some of it was far more brutal than secualr politics, in part because in secular politics you expect deception and backstabbing; whereas in church politics the common belief is that people are going to behave like Jesus."
On legalism... "One of the few things I detest more than liberalism is legalism. I think both are cancers to the Christian faith..."
On being a good steward... "As a pastor, I knew there were widows in our church who were tithing on their social security checks. Whenever I spent money from the church budget, I needed to think I could look those women in the eyes and say, "I think we spent that money wisely. We have taken good care of what you have entrusted to us."
On 9/11 & Hurricane Katrina... "We smugly pride ourselves on being so 'advanced' and 'civilized' compared to many Third World countries. We believe we are hundreds of years ahead of them. But really, we are just a day away from joining them."
New topic... My wife says Levi William Hall will be here soon. Pray.