This is precious. Mike Huckabee complains that evangelicals aren’t supporting his campaign because, Damn!, if elected he would implement policies which put their ministries out of business.
“A lot of them, quite frankly, I think they’re scared to death that if a guy like me got elected, I would actually do what I said I would do, and that is, I would focus on the personhood of every individual.
We would abolish abortion based on the Fifth and 14th Amendment. We would ignore the Supreme Court’s same-sex marriage decision.” Huckabee said that, as a result of his presidency, evangelical organizations would no longer be able to galvanize their supporters and fundraise. “A lot of these organizations wouldn’t have the ability to do urgent fundraising because if we slay the dragon, what dragon do they continue to fight?
And so, for many of them, it could be a real detriment to their organization’s abilities to gin up their supporters and raise the contributions, and I know that sounds cynical but, Todd, it’s just, it is what it is,” Huckabee said.
Uh-huh. Like, who knew that religion is a predatory goddamn racket and the evangelical right are their witless pigeons?
This is a Southern Baptist pastor, a former governor of Arkansas, a winner of a couple primaries 2-election cycles ago, a current presidential candidate, and a former FOX News talk-show host; in this particular, I’m willing to take him at his word.