"I didn't major in math, I majored in miracles"

[Pangloss]

"I didn't major in math, I majored in miracles"

 

So said Mike Huckabee over the weekend.

 

http://www.time.com/time/politics/article/0,8599,1711811,00.html

 

I know it's a bit out of context, but none of their statements are ever truly out of context during an election campaign, and this one was certainly aimed in the direction of a specific political group.

 

(sigh)

[ecoli]

a social progressive populist with the face of a preacher... God help us all (pun intended).

 

The conservatives are so angsty over McCain, I'm afraid they just throw their support behind him. I heard Monica Crowley do that tonight, on the radio.

[john5746]

As Bill Maher observed, the republicans don't like any of the candidates. They want a myth - their idea of Reagan. He increased taxes, pulled out of Beirut and granted amnesty to immigrants. They wouldn't want a real Reagan either. They deserve to lost, but it will irritate me to no end that they will try to put the blame on McCain. Bush, the republican congress and the voter split is the problem.

[Daecon]

So how many miracles has he performed then?

 

Is his University Achievement Record available for public scrutiny?

[Sisyphus]

As far as I know, there's only one institution that officially grants authenticity to miracles, and that's the Catholic church. Maybe the Mormons do too. Since Huckabee is neither Catholic nor Mormon, he can't produce any documentation! This is Bush's National Guard service all over again.

[YT2095]

pah, Miracles are Nothing, I demand to see the Impossible!

[Pangloss]

On a more positive/upbeat note, ABC News ran a story last night about the CHILDREN of Christian evangelicals and how they're all talking about the government helping the poor, universal healthcare, and amnesty for illegal aliens already in the country. The number of under-25 evangelicals who consider themselves Republicans has dropped from 55% in 2004 to 40% in 2007. (Note that I don't think that means they're switching allegiance, I think it means that they're less inclined to adhere to their parents' point of view.)

 

And they're VERY excited about Obama.

 

Of course, they don't typically vote in the numbers or percentages that their parents do, but it's a sign of movement in the right direction. (No, the right direction is not left.)

[Sisyphus]

That's interesting and surprising that we're seeing signs of de-alignment from a voting bloc that only a couple of years ago was considered as entrenched as they come. In retrospect, however, it does make perfect sense. Evangelicals obviously are very socially conservative on the whole, but other aspects of Republican ideology, like Reaganomics or hawkish foreign policy, are seriously dissonant with Christian rhetoric. It's been too easy to forget recently that we've already had an evangelical President, and that was Jimmy Carter.