What Kind of People Support Mike Huckabee?
“I have not been super-active in politics over the years, and so I am not current with all the issues and position papers,” said Pete Kottra, 43, who helps his wife, Jeannie, 40, home-school their four children. “But with Mike Huckabee, I know he’s a Christian. So I know he sees the world the way I see it.”
Behold the political elites of Iowa:
- Iraq? Dunno…
- National sales tax? Dunno…
- Nanny state? Dunno…
- Christian? Check!
Splendid.
Note also the irony in the term “sees the world the way I see it” — which for these yokels means not seeing evolution and not seeing gays as human beings and not seeing the difference between a church and a school or a church and a courthouse. For them, it’s precisely about a desperate need not to see.
Meanwhile, I was of course not shocked — not shocked! — to learn that Christian homeschoolers (who perhaps more than anyone put the “radical” in “radical social conservative”) are coming out in droves to support Huckabee:
Conservative Christians are said to represent the vast majority of the parents of the 1.1 million children estimated by the federal Department of Education in 2003 as home-schooled in the United States.
Remember, these theocrats do not homeschool in order to provide a better education. They homeschool in order to provide a redacted education. And in a decade or two, as these home-(un)schooled kids start to move off the farm and into the Twenty-First Century, this nation will find itself having to deal with a multitude of rural conservative-spawned illiterates to complement its multitude of inner-city liberal-spawned illiterates.
But at least the rural conservative-spawned illiterates will know that the Earth is 6,000 years old, that eating shrimp is an abomination, and that Jesus spoke English.
(Previously: What Kind of People Support Mitt Romney?)
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Thus the beauty of the Republic and not full-fledged democracy.
Despite what the elite media asserts, homeschoolers are not united behind Huckabee. Michael Farris of the Home School Legal Defense Association does not speak even for all Christian homeschoolers, much less the entire homeschooling community. There are many homeschoolers who are unhappy with Huckabee's big government leanings and prefer a more libertarian candidate like Dr. Ron Paul.
What kind of allegedly "pro homeschool" candidate increases government regulations on homeschooling and also earns an endorsement from the National Education Association? Yet Huckabee has done both…
While I admit some bias toward home schooling on social grounds, I don't know of any proof that home schooled students are at any competitive disadvantage with their public and private schooled counterparts.
I don't think you have much to worry about with Huckabee; he's a one-trick pony who has an in with the fundamentalists, but no game elsewhere. You have to go beyond your radical base, conservative or liberal, to get elected. Conservative christians loved Reagan, for instance, but he had a broader base than just bible pounders.
In fairness to Kip's "allegedly" bigoted viewpoint, I'm willing to bet dollars to donuts that people who voluntarily align themselves with anecdotes (Christians) are vastly more individualist, and as such, vastly more isolationist than those of us who have "learned" to accept "empathy" as our savior. And keep in mind that religion, all religion, is a learned behavior. Humans aren't born knowing what a "bible" is.