BAD FOR NATIONAL SECURITY
Threatening "fight" and "no compromise" to protect their self-described faith-based "values", Republicans stirred up millions of Americans in ways that, no doubt, caused great concern around the world, to a family of nations whose efforts to get along peacefully and to broker workable compromises are decried as "multiculturalist" appeasement.
Casting the entire set of world events as U.S.-versus-Them, Godless them, is broadly deleterious to the Hope of peace, based on the willingness and ability of peoples to settle conflict by non-violent means.
THE HERETIC HUCKABEE
What? Too far with that? Isn't that what they imply about "Godless" liberals? Why can't I relate to them in the terms that they want to relate to me? No? Well, consider how much he says that is not scriptural.
Like most candidates, he calls for a religious-based "right to life", which typically is taken to imply an inviolate right that starts at conception. There is no scriptural evidence that life starts at conception. It is misleading to suggest so. The notion that an inviolate right exists is debatable.
Finally, Huckabee rightly counsels voters not to confuse "G-o-d" with "G-O-P", but fails to explain why value voters ought not, therefore, to run a third-party candidate or invite non-GOP candidates to speak to their misled flock.
ANTI-INTELLECTUALISM
The insults to the judiciary are worthy of the Taliban. There are too many from among the candidates to list, perhaps.
The systematic, concerted, well-funded attack on the courts, up to an including calls for impeachment of judges who write opinions that one finds disagreeable, is profoundly disturbing, as it undermines the rule of law in the Nation, directly and also by confusing Justice with the rule-of-most-popular.
Most of the candidates must know that Roe-v.-Wade is not the current state of the law, yet they compromise their integrity by calling for "the repeal of Roe-v.-Wade", anyway.
CHRISTIAN SUPREMACISTS UNITE
Candidate Tancredo reminded the
