Brownback and Huckabee trading barbs over whose religion is better is like watching clowns whacking each other with big fish, but slightly less entertaining.
[A] pitched battle has broken out involving two lesser-known candidates who are trading accusations of religious bigotry and hypocrisy. The battle has become the most heated and personal rivalry in the Republican field.
The current tensions stem from an e-mail message sent to two Brownback supporters by Rev. Tim Rude, the pastor of an evangelical church in Walnut Creek, Iowa. In the message, Mr. Rude, a Huckabee volunteer, compared the religious backgrounds of Mr. Huckabee, a Baptist pastor, and Mr. Brownback, who is Roman Catholic.
“I know Senator Brownback converted to Roman Catholicism in 2002,” Mr. Rude wrote. “Frankly, as a recovering Catholic myself, that is all I need to know about his discernment when compared to the Governor’s.”
While it’s refreshing to see the term ‘recovering Catholic’ in print, I’ll just put something out there that I’ve been thinking for a while: Insane people hate competing insanities. I mean, both Huckabee and Brownback put their hands up as evolution deniers in a debate. They’re both religious nutters. Why can’t they get along?
13 August 2007 at 5:25 pm
I wish they would fight even more. Unfortunately, when it comes to people like us the villagers are still able to form a mob and burn us at the stake.