Letters to the Editor
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No Points for Doing the Right Thing
While Mike Huckabee's outlook on the environment is certainly admirable, and from a strictly Christian perspective it is dead-on (which does make most of his Republican running mates look like chumps), saying the right words, regardless of the motivation, and even doing the right thing ought not get anyone a gold star, and certainly not this guy, who on other issues goes totally wrong because of his professed Christian beliefs.
No, I don't care that he considers himself a Christian. Most of our Presidents have at least been professing Christians, even though many of them wound up betraying the best we might expect from Christian motivation. So would Huckabee. We've been reeled in by a "regular guy" before, and I'm not buying Huckabee based on this one coincidental -- if it is even sincere -- attitude, when his being a Christian seems to have been, alternately, a perversion and an arrangement of convenience.
If Huckabee is really the earth-loving guy he claims to be, let him work in the trenches with the rest of us. It's great, but it's not nearly enough cause to put him in the White House.
As an aside, his story about the standoff with the Philistines in the Great Outdoors doesn't ring true. It may be, but the way he relates it comes off hollow and self-serving.
Nope, if he really wants to help save the planet, for reasons spiritual, practical or otherwise, the line forms over there. And it doesn't necessarily lead to the Oval Office. In fact, in this case, God forbid.