Unhinged in Camp Huckabee

[marmar]

from Mother Jones:




Mike Huckabee's close ties to far-right activists helped propel him to a second-place finish in the race for the GOP presidential nomination in 2008. But as the former Arkansas governor mulls another White House run, the incendiary remarks and outright paranoia of one of his close advisers serve as a reminder that Huckabee's greatest asset—his relationship with the religious right—may also be one of his greatest vulnerabilities.

Huckabee has joked that he "answers" to "two Janets." One is his wife, Janet Huckabee. The other is Janet Porter, the onetime co-chair of Huckabee's Faith and Values Coalition. And Porter, the former governor has said, is his "prophetic voice." But that voice has said some weird things over the years: Porter has maintained that Obama represents an "inhumane, sick, and sinister evil," and she has warned that Democrats want to throw Christians in jail merely for practicing their faith. She's attributed Haiti's high poverty rate to the fact that the country is "dedicated to Satan," and she suggested that gay marriage caused Noah's Flood. And there's this: In a 2009 column for conservative news site WorldNetDaily, Porter asserted that President Barack Obama is a Soviet secret agent, groomed since birth to destroy the United States from within.

Porter's long history in the Christian right made her a natural ally for Huckabee, a former Baptist preacher, as he laid the foundations for his presidential run in 2007. An acolyte of the late televangelist D. James Kennedy, Porter rose quickly through the ranks of the Christian right, first as director of the Ohio Right to Life chapter in the 1990s. Later, she founded and served as president of Faith2Action, a right-wing group that promotes a theory known as Christian Dominionism—in which Christians are duty-bound to control the instruments of government in advance of the second coming of Christ. ............(more)

The complete piece is at: http://motherjones.com/politics/2011/05/mike-huckabee-janet-porter-soviet-spy

[AlinPA]

1. She sounds like a perfect fit for him and the republicans. He should win the primaries with her

guidance and leadership in the campaign.

[patrice]

2. K&R for the Dominionist connection

[patrice]

3. Evidence of Dominionists + Chamber of Commerce

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2007/07/20/360129/-Dominionisms-parallel-economy,-Pt-1:-The-dominionist-business-directory

[hootinholler]

4. Secret Aaaagent man... n/t

[Shallah Kali]

5. rightwingwatch's article archive on Porter

http://www.rightwingwatch.org/category/individuals/janet-porter-n%C3%A9e-folger

On huck http://www.rightwingwatch.org/category/individuals/mike-huckabee

Talk2action http://talk2action.org

Theocracy Watch

[patrice]

6. Here's a fully source-cited family tree of Dominionism:

http://www.discerningtheworld.com/2009/05/12/dominionism-and-the-rise-of-christian-imperialism-2/

It concludes with the following observation:

The Bible speaks (Revelation 18:2-3; 11-17) of a latter day heresy called mystery Babylon, which is a merger of Commerce and Church. This unholy Dominionist mixture, a modern-day alchemy, is what appears to be forming before our very eyes.

[eridani]

7. I guess on the Huckster's planet the Soviet Union still exists

Do the unicorns bite?