The other day I said all the attacks on Huckabee come across as so anti-evangelical, so anti-southern, and so anti-social conservative that the attacks are doing nothing but helping Mike Huckabee.
I expect him to go up in the polls even further as a result of the establishment New York-Washington Corridor of Mainstream IntelligentsiaTM and parts of the New York-Washington Corridor of Conservative IntelligentsiaTM attack his Christmas ad.
Jesus Christ! Seriously. Jesus Christ — that’s what people are hung up on him saying. And there’s the floating cross segment of a book shelf in the background that the truly paranoid saw immediately (I only noticed it as something extra after all the cries from people — most of whom I suspect were just upset that their candidate didn’t think of doing such an ad first).
Are we suppose to be upset by that? Seriously? Christians can’t talk about their faith in an advertisement that they are paying for? I never thought I’d see the day when Jesus Christ being mentioned in a political ad in a positive way upset anyone — especially Bill Donahue.
Catholic League president Bill Donahue said Huckabee went beyond wishing people a joyous holiday. Donahue said he was especially disturbed by the cross-like image created by a white bookcase in the background of the ad, saying he believed it was a subliminal message.
“What he’s trying to say to the evangelicals in western Iowa (is): I’m the real thing,” Donahue said Tuesday on Fox News Channel’s “Fox and Friends. “You know what, sell yourself on your issues, not on what your religion is.”
Sometimes a bookshelf is just a bookshelf. Sometimes a “Merry Christmas ad” is just a Merry Christmas ad made all the more refreshing because the candidate is not afraid of his faith. And sometimes the criticism lodged at the candidate reveals yet again that while many in the establishment right want evangelicals in the coalition, they just really don’t want them in leadership positions or talking prominently about their faith.
For the love of God people, it’s Christmas and Jesus! You attack Huckabee for that ad, you do nothing but help him — and deservedly so.
[UPDATE:] Forget Huckabee talking about Jesus, I have photographic evidence that Ron Paul holds Jesus in his hand!!!!