Sarah Posner

Although most observers viewed Mike Huckabee as John McCain‘s errand boy in siphoning evangelical votes away from Mitt Romney, Huckabee emerged from Super Tuesday as McCain’s foremost prospect for a running mate. While Huckabee is still behind both McCain and Romney in the delegate count, he came out looking more viable than Romney because of […]

That from the lips of televangelist and Mike Huckabee pal Kenneth Copeland, describing his response to Sen. Charles Grassley’s investigation into his use of non-profit donor funds for his family’s personal use, and to fund for-profit enterprises run by the Copeland family. Copeland was shown Tuesday night on CBS News making that statement to his […]

As I reported last week, according to former Bush adviser Doug Wead, a person attending televangelist and Grassley target Kenneth Copeland’s invitation-only ministers’ conference last week reported that Copeland “reconvened” the group as a “private meeting” and raised some emergency campaign funds for Mike Huckabee. IRS rules prevent tax-exempt organizations from using their resources to […]

For anyone interested in learning a little more about what’s inside the pages of my new book, God’s Profits, about prosperity televangelists and the Republican Party, you can check it out via radio and on the web this weekend. I’ll be a guest on the Air America program Ring of Fire, and, if you missed […]

Update to my post from yesterday:This morning I received an e-mail from Wead, who advised me that his source, “usually reliable, called back to say ‘yikes.’” Turns out Copeland pulled in only (only!) $111,000 in cash for Huckabee, with about a million in pledged donations. Wead has also updated his own post. –Sarah Posner

In this fascinating Michael Brendan Dougherty piece on Mike Huckabee in the American Conservative, Daugherty maintains that Huckabee could emerge as a new evangelical leader less beholden to that establishment than Pat Robertson, James Dobson, and the now-deceased Jerry Falwell and D. James Kennedy. They allowed themselves to be played by the establishment, whereas Huckabee, […]

In a speech to the Florida Renewal Project Monday night, which in an unprecedented move was live streamed on the American Family Association’s Web site, Mike Huckabee compared America to Nazi Germany. He first implored the audience to renew their “commitment to Christ” and “to our nation, to its heritage, as well as to its […]