A Riehl View Of The Anti-Huck Conservative..

Dan Riehl responds to my post:

Mier's identity may have been grounded in being born again as far as Bush was concerned, I have no idea. In fact, while I opposed her, this is the first I learned anything about her religion. She was opposed because she was mostly a cipher when it came to the Law and no one was comfortable in the belief that she would somehow represent a conservative ideology on the Supreme Court. That was it, pure and simple. There's no there, there as regards Marc's assertion as regards her religion and all that sort of sentiment does is create a divide on the Right which doesn't actually exist. I read legal blogs and listened to Mark Levin in formulating my opposition to Miers, neither of those sources ever mentioned her religion, so far as I recall. It is irrelevant. But this below by Marc is the most troubling of all:

So far, these bad feelings haven't filtered down the chain of tissue to Iowa Republicans, but is there a cause, in recent memory, that the conservative echosphere hasn't influenced?

"Echosphere"? "Influenced"? "Filtered down"? If Marc thinks that Allah at Hot Air or Ace influence my opinions, or I theirs - or Rush any of ours - he's just plain wrong. I suspect we all agree on much, but far from all. Read around. And that concept holds true for talk radio and its larger number of conservative listeners, as well. People read right-side media and listen to talk radio because they mostly agree with it going in, it isn't a top down affair.

It's insulting to suggest it, though I imagine that wasn't Marc's intent. But he doesn't understand what is happening as regards Huckabee, who is already flattening in the polls, by the way. I predicted it a week ago and it didn't require Rush Limbaugh or blogs to make it happen, though they certainly facilitate his fall by introducing him to people more quickly than would happen were it only being done by opposing campaigns.

Huckabee could have the same background, religion and the same career and were he a solid conservative with the record to support the claim, ... add in his charisma, Damn! I'd almost kill to have him carry the Republican nomination in the Fall. On that score, it's perhaps only a few of his more extreme past statements, on gays, for example, that give me any pause. He seems a bit intolerant, frankly. But I doubt very much all Evangelicals are.

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Oh please. Republicans take their talking points from on high. They are the most authority driven people on the face of the earth. When was the last time a non-establishment candidate won a Republican primary?

Posted by Democrats Against Hillary | December 19, 2007 2:03 PM

Former White House communications director Dan Bartlett:

[Conservative bloggers] regurgitate exactly and put up on their blogs what you said to them. It is something that we've cultivated and have really tried to put quite a bit of focus on.

The word "echosphere" is exactly appropriate, according to the man in charge of giving them their talking points.

They didn't follow him on Miers, and now they have turned on Huckabee. And, again, it's everyone, spouting the same talking points.

Even when they're not getting led by their typical svengali, they're still a bunch of lemmings.

Posted by DivGuy | December 19, 2007 3:54 PM

So because Huckabee said that homosexuality was sinful, don't vote for him? That would be quite an interesting strategy. "Vote for me, I'm not Huckabee, I think homosexuality is wonderful!" Is that the best message in the primary or the general election? Yes the media would love it. Clinton at the debate "I think homosexuality is good, while my rival doesn't."
Bloggers might too. I there theres a disconnect between "bloggers" and regular people. Republicans don't win by insulting people's religious beliefs on homosexuality. I'm sure the majority of Republicans think that homosexuality is wrong, but would you know that from the media/blog bubble?
I think that political people are letting their personal lives and personal beliefs color their opinion of Huckabee.

Posted by okay | December 19, 2007 4:21 PM