The Siberian Grinder

Here is a great post Super-Tuesday analysis by Joe Carter, which is a solid answer to the ‘reality’ that the pundits (i.e., Rush and the like) purport. According to Carter, it all boils down to this:

Pundit-based reality: Huckabee is stealing votes from Romney.
Voter-based reality: Huckabee is competing for votes with McCain.

Pundit-based reality: Romney is a full-spectrum conservative; he is the only one that can bring together the “Reagan coalition.”
Voter-based reality: Romney is a poor-man’s Michael Bloomberg; he never had a legitimate shot at the nomination.

Pundit-based reality: A McCain-Huckabee ticket would be unacceptable to the party.
Voter-based reality: The majority of GOP voters would be fine with a McCain-Huckabee ticket.

Pundit-based reality: Rush Limbaugh’s opinion carries a great deal of weight.
Voter-based reality: Thanks, but we can think for ourselves.

Pundit-based reality: McCain will destroy the GOP.
Voter-based reality: McCain is the leading choice for a majority of the GOP.

Wired blogger Loretta Whitesides gives us the authoritative word on the theory of evolution and politics. She reports that evolution is “not just a theory” and that Mike Huckabee is unqualified to be president for not seeing that. Meanwhile, Brandon Keim enlightens us as to why “the facts of evolution” are necessary in the classroom. Finally, other scientists explain why we are doomed if someone like Huckabee (i.e., a creationist) gets elected. Both of the posts and the article trumpet the same old arguments – the evolutionist, despite his blind leap of faith in regards to his beliefs about the beginning, embodies objectivity while the creationist, or even one who simply does not buy into evolution, is an uneducated, unenlightened dweeb. The posts are based on this article from the NAS, which is little more than a literary load of blatantly unscientific (i.e. biased, subjective, faith-based, not observable, not reproducible in any laboratory) conclusions, that are both godless and historically dangerous (by historically, I am referring to the several similarly God-removing ideologies that unhappily affected millions of people in the 20th century).

Iowa is a small state, and the caucuses there are not nearly as significant as the media would have it. Still, Mike Huckabee won there yesterday. It is a long way from the nomination – but it is a step.

Of course, liberals in the media like him too, but in a different, more sinister sort of way. They would like Mike to land on the Republican ticket because they think he is the most beatable candidate on the big November stage. The Dogpatch quips about Huckabee are everywhere present, but yet reserved, at least for now. An NYT opinion piece, titled Two-Buck Huck, that was published yesterday is sardonic on Huckabee while bashing the wider Republican establishment for hypocrisy and silver spoon class-war scoffing. The door is left plenty open for a direct affront.

We’ll see.