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Bradley in DC
01-06-2008, 12:22 PM
http://www.opinionjournal.com/editorial/feature.html?id=110011088

The GOP's Time for Choosing
Mike Huckabee would make the party more like Europe's Christian Democrats.

BY HENRY OLSEN
Sunday, January 6, 2008 12:01 a.m. EST

Mike Huckabee's stunning victory in Thursday's Iowa caucuses does more than change the GOP nomination race. With a platform explicitly grounded in his Christian faith and a populist economic message, Mr. Huckabee offers the Republican Party a new political narrative, light years removed from the limited government principles governing the GOP in the Reagan and post-Reagan era.

This pro-faith, pro-government message may sound strange to American ears--but it is a staple of conservative political parties on the European continent. Mr. Huckabee, in other words, essentially gives Republicans a choice: Does the GOP want to become a Christian Democratic party? To answer that question, Republicans should look carefully at Christian Democracy to see if it is a model worth emulating.

Christian Democracy is a reaction to the classical liberalism and socialism that came of age in late-19th-century Europe. Both of these movements threatened the faithful with their secularism and economic theories. Classical liberal emphasis on unfettered markets evoked fears of untrammeled greed and exploitation of workers; socialism made many fear for the future of private property...

Spirit of '76
01-06-2008, 12:56 PM
This is what I've been saying all along -- Huckabee represents the Religious Left.


Well, at least we'd get along with Angela Merkel...

HOLLYWOOD
01-06-2008, 01:01 PM
This is what I've been saying all along -- Huckabee represents the Religious Left.


Well, at least we'd get along with Angela Merkel...

http://reason.tv/roughcut/show/181.html (http://reason.tv/roughcut/show/181.html)] <=== HUCK in 2004 Governors Meet Video