Byron York on the GOP’s “Huckicide” December 19, 2007
Posted by Zack in DC , trackbackMy buddy Byron York at the National Review seems to be one of the only Republican pundits to be comfortable with Huckabee’s populist appeal:
Mike Huckabee was on the “Today” show this morning. Meredith Viera asked him to react to Rich’s remark that nominating Huckabee would be suicide for the Republican party. Huckabee began with his standard line about how he is not part of the “Wall Street-to-Washington axis, this corridor of power.” “They don’t control me,” Huckabee said. “I’m not one of theirs. I’m not one of those guys that just owe my soul to the people on Wall Street. I’m not a wholly-owned subsidiary of them. I don’t live in the circles of power in Washington. I really do come right up from the people.”
Fine. Then Huckabee got into what is really the basis of his appeal for many voters. He’s tapping into that new sort of evangelicalism, that Rick Warren-style worldview that David Brooks and others have been writing about for a few years now. It is real, it is different from older-style evangelicalism, as well as from economic or national-security conservatism, and Huckabee has his finger on it.
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