It seems that Harrogate's position is that a religious theocracy would be a better place so long as it is a peaceful place.
Yet, in populism, whether it is economic or social, one finds no true friend of fundamental rights, only the desires of a lustful majority.
Huckabee's pandering allowed him little room but to shun his prior experiences with immigration to join the Xenophobic portions this country. To get the nomination, one may need to purify the country, not the soul.
Yet, while I may not share the neoconversative view in regards to the march of the flag, I do not believe that either McCain of Rudy would possess the public support to march the flag. This makes your dovish criteria obsolete.
Accordingly, I would prefer to rule out the candidate that would turn political questions into religious questions. Religious questions require anti-democratic and authoritarian answers; in the world view of a literalist, consensus is not desirable, only the strict interpretation of an arcane book. While you disdain the arrogance of the Bush administration, you prefer the candidate with the arrogance (and blasphemy) that one knows the meaning of the Bible and God's standards.
Good Grief!!!!
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"It seems that Harrogate's position is that a religious theocracy would be a better place so long as it is a peaceful place"
That's a bastardization of Harrogate's Huckabee post. And, by the way, a hystercial post in its own right--the suggestion that a Huckabee election translates into America becoming a Theocracy.
"Huckabee's pandering allowed him little room but to shun his prior experiences with immigration to join the Xenophobic portions this country."
There is something to this, of course. But in the end nothing will come of it. K Street will make sure there is nothing along the order of deportation, no matter how much red meat the Xenophobes demand.
"I do not believe that either McCain of Rudy would possess the public support to march the flag. This makes your dovish criteria obsolete."
Your BELIEF that the public would not back McCain, Giuliani, the Mormon, or Fred! in marching the flag makes nothing obsolete.
Perhaps you have forgotten the Absolute ease with which the current Administration pursued a policy that has wrought more death than anyone can count.
In the beginning of your post you wrote, "so long as it is a peaceful place." That seemed more than a little patronizing, almost something Tony Snow or David Frum would write.
There is ACTUAL MASS DEATH, on an international scale, that has come about as a result of American foreign policy.
"Accordingly, I would prefer to rule out the candidate that would turn political questions into religious questions. Religious questions require anti-democratic and authoritarian answers; in the world view of a literalist, consensus is not desirable, only the strict interpretation of an arcane book."
Total agreement here. Although last time Harrogate checked they weren't burning witches in Arkansas. Nor were they jailing homosexuals. Nor had they banned the teaching of evolution in their dramatically improved public schools, to which the schoolchildren travelled on their dramatically improved public roads.
On the other hand they do have near Universal Health Care in Arkansas.
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