Sarah Posner

Mike Huckabee‘s campaign website has a new video up, fresh from the campaign bus. In it, some usual suspects make pitches to potential caucus-goers: Chuck Norris, former South Carolina governor David Beasley, Huckabee’s wife Janet (along with her three dogs), and Ken Eldred, author of the book God at Work (which apparently shows how “biblical […]

I’m not in the habit of making predictions — I’ve spent too much time listening to self-styled biblical prophesiers over the past couple of years — but a few observations about I’m not in the habit of making predictions — I’ve spent too much time listening to self-styled biblical prophesiers over the past couple of […]

Last week, Robert Novak wrote about why some of the architects of the 1970’s-era conservative takeover of the Southern Baptist Convention don’t like Mike Huckabee. Although some of them have enthusiastically endorsed their fellow SBC; preacher, one notable exception is Paul Pressler, who endorsed Fred Thompson. According to Novak, Pressler’s objection is his concern that […]

Just a few weeks ago Just a few weeks ago Mike Huckabee was touting how his campaign is “not about high-paid consultants” but about “ordinary people who’ve come from as far away as Oregon and Florida to get to Iowa, many of whom are coming up there from Southern states where they’re having to buy […]

On CNN yesterday, Mike Huckabee said he had apologized to Mitt Romney for his “innocent” question about whether Mormons believe Jesus and Satan were brothers: Speaking with CNN Wednesday, Huckabee expressed disbelief that the comment has caused an uproar. “We were having a conversation over several hours, the conversation was about religion and he was […]

The Romney campaign is angry about The Romney campaign is angry about Mike Huckabee‘s musing in the Chavets piece, “Don’t Mormons believe that Jesus and the devil are brothers?” Many evangelicals, as I alluded to in this week’s FundamentaList, believe that such a heretical filial relationship is a bedrock of the Mormon faith. Romney hasn’t […]

Like Like Addie, I found a number of fascinating tidbits in the forthcoming Zev Chavets profile of Mike Huckabee, among them that his thinking on foreign policy (to the extent he has done much thinking, it seems) has been influenced by Thomas Friedman and Frank Gaffney. When asked about his lack of foreign policy experience, […]