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thoughts on Romney

lots of thoughts on the web today about Romney’s speech at Texas A&M last night.

Thought these were the most interesting…

Mitt Romney took to the microphone the other day to make his stand for religous freedom, unsubtley likening himself to JFK and calling upon the names of Sam Adams, and of course Jesus.

But his speech sounded not a cry for the religious freedom envisioned by the Founders. It was far from an endorsment of America’s cherished pluralism.

It was instead a shameless bid for the endorsement of the Christian Right. Using Jesus’ name, he pitched himself to the Christian Right, assuring them that he was Christian too.

In short, he wrapped himself in the old flag of the worst of civil religion which calls for the Christianizing of the body politic rather than the freedom of religious belief and expression in the public square.

Huckabee takes the heat

Looks like Romney couldn’t sit quiet knowing someone was snapping at his heals.
From Time Magazine:

That’s why there was special signficance, an arrival of sorts, to Mitt Romney’s seemingly offhand observation Friday in an Iowa Public Television interview that Mike Huckabee had supported “special tuition breaks to the children of illegal immigrants.” It marked the first time that the GOP frontrunner in Iowa had ever singled out Huckabee for an attack.

Gov. Mike Huckabee passed Romney for the first time in a national poll on Friday.
Time reports that while Huckabee is feeling the heat, it’s a good thing.

“I must be doing well,” Huckabee said Saturday morning, when I told him what Romney had said. The former Arkansas Governor had not known about the swipe. Huckabee had spent Friday night, as he put it, “rocking the stage” with his band Capitol Offense before an estimated 650 people at the fabled Surf Ballroom in Clear Lake, Iowa, which was the last place Buddy Holly had played before he died in a plane crash in 1959. On Saturday, Huckabee was to try his hand at pheasant hunting, a popular Iowa sport, which he considered an apt metaphor. “You never put the crosshairs on a dead carcass,” Huckabee said. “Somebody sees me as a real wall mount, and that’s a good thing.”

Read the full story.

Post debate reaction

The GOP held another value voter debate last night. From the NPR report this morning, it sounded like Romney, McCain, Giuliani and Thompson simply fought each other over who was the most conservative among them. There were several mentions about Ronald Reagan’s 11th Commandment, “Thou shalt not talk poorly about another Republican.” And along with those mentions was the fact that Gov. Mike Huckabee chose not to get involved in the petty bickering.
NPR also made reference to the fact that Huckabee is now becoming a real contender for the top GOP spot, citing his 2nd place in the Iowa straw poll as well as 2nd place in a Florida straw poll over the weekend.
As soon as the audio is up online I’ll post a link to the story. Listen to the full story from NPR.
Here’s more reaction about the debate:
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