Mike Huckabee and Religion

Jesus Thieves Convene for McCain

Robert S. McElvaine | Posted 07.06.2008 | Politics

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Many of the nation's leading Jesus Thieves convened in Denver last Tuesday to work towards uniting behind the candidacy McCain, a man who used to have the courage to denounce such charlatans.

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What's Next for Mike Huckabee?

Jim Wallis | Posted 03.06.2008 | Politics

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While Huckabee is a consistent social conservative, he is suspect by the party's economic conservatives who, of course, don't support spending any money on overcoming poverty.

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What Do JFK and Huckabee Have in Common?

Suzanne O'Malley | Posted 02.07.2008 | Politics

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Who would be dumb enough to invoke "Almighty God" in line two of a nationally-televised address?

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Mike Huckabee Amps Up The Theocratic Rhetoric

Lou Dubose | Posted 01.23.2008 | Home

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Mike Huckabee often mixes religion with politics. But the former Arkansas governor jumped the shark on the eve of the Michigan primary, when he told a crowd of cheering (and faithful) supporters that the Constitution needs a religious fix.

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Is Huckabee Rapture Ready? And Why Did He Free A Born-Again Rapist? A Confidant Speaks

Max Blumenthal | Posted 01.14.2008 | Politics

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Arkansas-based Baptist minister Jay Cole sees Huckabee in wondrous terms, but questions whether a spiritually bankrupt nation like the United States deserves such a godly leader.

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REM's Stipe Calls Huckabee "Charming"

Reuters via Yahoo | Posted 01.07.2008 | Entertainment

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It's the end of the world as we know it, just like the R.E.M. song goes. The band's singer, Michael Stipe, says he finds philosophical foe Mike Hucka...

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They Still Deliver My Mail on Yom Kippur

Tom Gregory | Posted 12.20.2007 | Politics

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America needs to be a progressive country that reasons rather than prays, looks to science rather than God, and listens to the Constitution rather than crackpots.

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Huck = Harriet Miers?

The Atlantic | Marc Ambinder | Posted 12.19.2007 | Politics

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A conservative counter-revolution is breaking out in the talk radio universe and on prominent conservative blogs. The same forces that joined to forc...

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Huckabee's Christmas Ad, Ron Paul Fires Back

HuffingtonPost.com | Will Thomas | Posted 12.18.2007 | Politics

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Mike Huckabee is bringing his Christmas cheer, and his Baptist minister roots, to Iowans this election season. His recent ad, "What Really Matters," ...

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'Huckabee Panic': Conservatives Threaten To Back Hillary Over Huck

Carpetbagger Report | Steve Benen | Posted 12.17.2007 | Politics

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Following up on the extensive discussion over the weekend about the conservative establishment's aversion to Mike Huckabee's presidential campaign, An...

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Huckstered

August J. Pollak | Posted 12.17.2007 | Politics

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Despite decades of pandering to the clown belt, Washington insiders are perplexed over the appeal of a certain squirting flower-decked politician.

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Is Huckabee the Antichrist?

Marty Kaplan | Posted 12.16.2007 | Politics

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A flyer was found on windshields in several church parking lots in Iowa on Sunday, asking: is Mike Huckabee the Anti-Christ? The major GOP campaigns have all denied authorship.

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The Changing Politics of Evangelicals

Tony Campolo | Posted 12.13.2007 | Politics

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Younger evangelicals may not necessarily vote Democratic, but they certainly are no longer safely in the pocket of the Republican Party.

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Huckabee Apologizes To Romney For Mormon Bashing

CNN | Alex Mooney | Posted 12.12.2007 | Politics

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Republican Mike Huckabee told CNN Wednesday he personally apologized to rival Mitt Romney for comments he made in an upcoming New York Times Magazine ...

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Huckabee Flashback: "Take This Nation Back For Christ"

Political Wire | Taegan Goddard | Posted 12.10.2007 | Politics

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"I hope we answer the alarm clock and take this nation back for Christ." -- Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee (R), quoted by the Arkansas Democrat Gazette ...

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Huckabee Claimed Jesus 'On The Cross' Supported The Death Penalty

Thinkprogress.org | Amanda | Posted 12.01.2007 | Politics

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Huckabee dodged the question that time. But in 1997, Huckabee claimed that Jesus would have agreed with him on supporting the death penalty. Shortly b...

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