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# Rise of Huckabee is dangerous
- URL: https://www.smdp.com/rise-of-huckabee-is-dangerous-editor/
- Published: 2007-12-11T16:00:00.000Z
- Updated: 2026-10-24T04:22:26.000Z
- Author: Guest Author
- Tags: Opinion, Santa Monica, #archive-import

*By Ron Lowe Santa Monica*

Mike Huckabee’s rise in polling numbers and voter approval is coming from one source only — white evangelicals and fundamentalists — and is not in any way a representative picture of the overall voting electorate. Huckabee’s support comes from the religious right — a group intent on tearing down the wall between church and state, and having prayer in school. Huckabee represents a segment of society that is anti-abortion, anti-gay, anti-immigration, pro-war and out of touch with reality.

Has The United States become the bully pulpit of religious politics? Does America need another Republican in the White House expanding his ministry?

*Originally published in the Santa Monica Daily Press print edition on December 11, 2007.* [Read the original PDF.](https://s3.us-east-1.amazonaws.com/smdp%5Fbackissues/121107.pdf?ref=smdp.com)