A Stitch in Haste

Two updates:

ITEM: Former Arkansas governor Mike Huckabee on — get this — religious tolerance —

Q: How do you fight a worldwide religious war without turning it into a 21st century crusade?

Huckabee: I think you have to be very careful that we don't think that our goal is to take our religion and impose it on somebody else.

This from a man who is not only a member but actually a cleric in what arguably is the single most intolerant, theocratic sect of Christianity: the Southern Baptists. This is a man who is unapologetic in his anti-gay bigotry and who will not explicitly renounce his faith's decree that Mormonism is a cult.

One more passage from the interview, on how faith influences his decisions:

It totally drives it. It makes everything click for me.

So every decision — every single one — that President Huckabee would make will be dictated by his religion — his dogmatic, theocratic, non-inclusive religion.

Generic monotheistic deity help us.

More thoughts from Dorf on Law.

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ITEM: Poor Mitt Romney. Besides making no inroads with his fellow bigots among the aforementioned Southern Baptists (and how can he prevail as the "social conservative" candidate without them?), he can't even score points with his fellow not-quite-Christians —

Republican Mitt Romney's choice of a museum honoring auto pioneer Henry Ford as the site of his presidential announcement was strongly criticized Monday by Jewish Democrats, who noted Ford's history of anti-Semitism.

The former Massachusetts governor, who is scheduled to formally launch his presidential candidacy from the Henry Ford Museum in Detroit on Tuesday, was taken to task by The National Jewish Democratic Council.
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[The NJDC executive director] said Romney's "embrace of Henry Ford and association of Ford's legacy with his presidential campaign raises serious questions about either the sincerity of Romney's words or his understanding of basic American history."

Okay, these were Jewish Democrats, with an agenda, so one can hardly expect them to embrace Romney regardless of what he does. And how many Americans know anything about Henry Ford — or anti-Semitism, for that matter — let alone "Henry Ford's anti-Semitism"?

Still, if Romney can't appeal to radical Christians, and can't appeal to radical non-Christians, and repulses moderates, then who exactly is left?