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An open letter to Huckabee Supporters in behalf of Ron Paul

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An Open Letter to Huckabee
Supporters in Behalf of Ron Paul

 

 

It’s true.

I admit it. It seems I’m a
recovering Huckaholic.

I attended a “Huckabee for
President” campaign rally in St. John’s Michigan last Friday Night. Please
don’t hold it against me as it was Huckabee who invaded my space and not the
case of my going out of my way to swoon over his rock star–like status. My son
was competing in a home-school basketball game and the Huckabee campaign
decided that the venue would be a great photo op and rally site. Now, I could
have decided to just miss the game since it was being converted into an
“All ignorant Jesus lovers vote for me” rally but since I am an
assistant coach for Anthony’s team I thought I would grin and bear it.

However, since I was forced to be
there I do have an observation about those gathered, an observation about
Huckabee and a sociological observation regarding social behavior towards those
who refuse to drink the kool-aid and who scream loudly that others shouldn’t
drink the kool-aid.

First concerning the gathered
lemming; I must say it was as if I was transported to a Tom Jones concert of 40
years ago. You know … the type where all the women would throw their
undergarments on the stage along with their hotel room keys in hopes that Tom
would pick them. The swooning was surreal. Before Huckabee arrived their were
announcements on the PA about how the Huckabee staffers were nervous that the
crowd would swarm him and pleas that people would show their Christian behavior
by letting the candidate approach them and encouragement not to mob the
candidate. The people in charge of the campaign kept giving us minute by minute
updates on the coming of Huckabee. “Governor Huckabee is 10 minutes out.
Governor Huckabee is 5 minutes out. Governor Huckabee is 2 minute out.”
And on and on it went. The last time I’ve seen a person tracked this closely
with this much excitement was Santa Clause on Christmas Eve. Every time an
update was given the 500 souls in the gymnasium would swoon like teenage girls
being asked out on their first date. Then we had practice cheering runs.
“Let me hear what kind of noise you’re going to make when future President
Huckabee shows up.” Louis XVI would have been so fortunate to have such an
adoring people as these Huckabee groupies. These people were wetting their
pants over getting to be in the same room with a guy that makes Tricky Dick and
Slick Willie look like amateurs.

And then when Huckabee arrived it
was more of the same. The Huckster’s speech was boiler plate political vapid.
There was no there “there.” My 18-year-old daughter characterized it
as “bushwah.” And yet people were screaming their lungs out as if
Huckabee was serving as the prophet of Allah making pronouncements revealing
Allah’s will.

To be honest I was ashamed of
myself. Ashamed because despite all my skepticism and cynicism I had
underestimated the ability of those who call themselves Christians to be
totally deluded. Those 500 people present, most of whom no doubt would label
themselves “Christian” have no idea who Mike Huckabee is or what
policy he has pursued, and further have no desire to know. It is enough for
them that Mike says he is the “Jesus candidate.” I used to think that
these people were being manipulated by their Pastors but having spoken to a few
Huckabee Pastor types I realize that the fog in the pew is because of the mist
in the pulpit. In short, their Pastors are just as deluded as the rank and
file. Somehow a lemming avalanche for Huckabee got started and once the
avalanche begins no amount of reasoning will thwart its kinetic energy.

I know this because I got snowed
over by the avalanche. When it was announced that Huckabee was going to be in
St. Johns and when I realized it was the home-schooling organization that I am
loosely a part of that was pushing it I sent an e-mail out to those in the
home-schooling group simply explaining some of the liberal and statist
tendencies of Mike Huckabee and providing links for people to look closer at
this wolf in sheep’s clothing. Given the response I received you would have
thought that I had committed blasphemy by touching the Lord’s anointed.

So here is the summary of the first
observation. People, including Christians, so desperately want heroes that they
will turn off rational thought once they decide, for whatever reason, that some
person is going to be that hero. Secondly, the Christian community is no
different from the non-Christian community when it comes to shallowness,
practicing thought by emotion, and sheer unmitigated gullibility.

The observation about Huckabee is
that he is slick the same way that Clinton was slick except that he has added a
Jesus coating to his slickness. This is my chief reason for disliking Huckabee.
It is my estimation that he is cynically using Jesus to get elected. Let’s face
it, if it weren’t for Huckabee’s ministerial ties and willingness to invoke
Jesus at every turn he would be running neck and neck with Duncan Hunter and be
easily dismissed as a center-left moderate Republican (what they call a Social
Democrat in Europe). Recently, I am blaming him less and less for this and
increasingly I am blaming the “Christian community” for being such
willing naifs. Huckabee’s “I am the Bible’s candidate” spiel came out
again in the few minutes that he spoke where he appealed to people to help him
slay the giants he was facing in the Michigan primary the way that David slew
Goliath. This was just more identity politics and more red meat for the Jesus
people.

Here is the summary of the second
observation. Huckabee will ride this “I love Jesus” train as far as
he can. What is unfortunate about it is that he is getting away with what so
many ministers in our churches get away with and that is constantly having
Jesus on their lips while preaching a theology that is not particularly
Christian. The goods are out there on Huckabee in terms of his leftist, statist
and non-Christian agenda but Christians just don’t care because it is enough to
invoke Jesus.

My final observation is sociological
and has reference to the way people treat those who are unwilling to drink the
kool-aid. During the 36 hours when all this was unfolding I was told it was
inappropriate for me to e-mail people to warn them about Huckabee. My son was
told by someone that they “felt sorry for him that he had the father he
had,” and the most benign look I seem to get now is one that is quizzical
as if somebody is looking at a hunchback cannibal with the remnants of dinner
still wedged between his teeth. Like the human body, a community protects
itself by attacking foreign elements that it perceives does not belong there.
Much of the Christian community has decided that Huckabee is the man and woe
unto those who suggest that a vote for Huckabee is a vote which is, in reality,
precisely against their best interest.

So yes… I attended a Huckabee rally.

And my worst fears were realized.

January 21, 2008

Pastor Bret McAtee [send him mail]
writes on www.ironink.org
and is from Charlotte, Michigan where he dwells with his perfect wife, dazzling
children and where he prays daily for Reformation in the West.

 

80 thoughts on “An open letter to Huckabee Supporters in behalf of Ron Paul”

  1. Wow, as a pastor, you speak a lot of hatred in your article. As I am in Arkansas, and lived under Huckabee’s governorship, I am also a supporter of his candidacy for president. People are saying all kinds of bad things about Mike Huckabee, even his own party hates him. It reminds me of Jesus being hated by his own people and put to death. If that Mexican Consulate office in Little Rock is illegal, why isn’t the FBI, investigating Huckabee, Beebe, etc. I don’t think you’ve been informed 100% of what it is all about. I see your title indicates you support Ron Paul? Do you pray to Ron Paul too? Because you are just as far out there as the rest of his wacky supporters!

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