Huckabee Names Jesus Running Mate for Vice President
In a bold move that could dramatically alter the playing field of the 2008 G.O.P. presidential race, former Arkansas Governor Mike Huckabee today named Jesus Christ as his vice-presidential running mate.
Governor Huckabee has made an increasing number of comments about his relationship with Jesus in recent debates, but few Republican insiders expected him to announce that he was anointing Christ as his vice-presidential pick.
“This could be huge for Huckabee,” said Stenson Partridge, a veteran G.O.P. consultant. “Among Republican voters, Jesus Christ is even more popular than Ronald Reagan.”
The Reverend Pat Robertson, a supporter of former New York mayor Rudolph Giuliani, said he was “blindsided” by the news of Huckabee’s decision: “I talked to Jesus last night and He didn’t mention anything about it.”
At a raucous Huckabee rally in Davenport, Iowa today, supporters of the former Arkansas governor could be seen holding signs reading “HUCKABEE/CHRIST ’08.”
It is “highly unorthodox” for a presidential candidate to select a vice presidential running mate who is a prominent figure in the Holy Bible, says Davis Logsdon, dean of the School of Divinity at the University of Minnesota.
But according to Mr. Logsdon, if the Huckabee-Christ ticket makes it all the way to the White House, it could be historic in more ways than one: “If Huckabee is elected and then something happens to him while in office, we would be looking at our first Jewish president.”
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Comment by Dugg— 2007/12/03 @ 08:35 AM — (Reply)
About that 'about' box over to the right:
'[1] The Conservative agenda makes sense. [2] The liberal agenda is fraudulent and insincere deceit. [3] Flying carpets are the only positive contributions to the world by Arabs. [4] Hillary will rob the country blind.'
Yes, yes, NO, and yes. Leaving aside the militant ignorance of the remark, I find it curious that some forms of racism can be quite unthinkable but others become positively fashionable. Unless the speaker also happens to be an open member of the Ku Klux Klan, the comment is necessarily -- if unconciously -- hypocritical.
I don't agree with the theses of liberalism. However, I also resent seeing the conservative banner hijacked by aggressively uninformed and blatantly bigoted yahoos.
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