Hickabee supporter writes column for Alabama newspaper, omits thefact that he's a Hickabee shill

Yesterday, The Press Register in Alabama ran an op-ed by Randy Brinson

entitled "Language of Faith Hijacked." In it, Brinson complained that

all of the talk of faith in the current presidential election is

confusing voters:

In this presidential cycle, nearly every campaign, both Democrat and

Republican, has developed a faith outreach component to facilitate

communicating to the faithful. The 2008 presidential election will

focus on the faith and values of the individual candidates more than

any in modern history.

While this may give solace to many faith-oriented political activists,

it only makes it difficult for voters to decipher which candidate

truly understands the link between personal faith and policy.

Despite this onslaught of personal spirituality, it has been even more

difficult for voters to determine whether some of the candidates even

understand the particular faith they profess to embrace.

Brinson went on to criticize Barack Obama, saying that his talk of

faith, "may be losing the audience he seeks to engage," and Mitt

Romney, questioning "if his Mormon faith guided his present moral

convictions, what guided him when he was pro-choice and pro-gay-

rights?"

Brinson concluded by seemingly urging these candidates, and presumably

others, to focus less on faith and more on "candor, integrity, honesty

and character," as that is what voters are looking for in a

candidate.

Of course, nowhere in the piece does Brinson bother to mention that he

has been actively involved in assisting Mike Huckabee:

The Values Voter barnstorm [through Iowa] will be led by Pastor Rick

Scarborough, an early Huckabee endorser. Participants include R.

Randolph "Randy" Brinson, an iconoclastic social conservative doctor

from Alabama who possesses a huge list of Iowa pastors and Christian

conservatives. He's also the head of ReedemTheVote, which was active

in 2004 and 2006 as a voter registration vehicle for young

evangelicals.

As the Washington Post explained last month:

Former Arkansas governor Mike Huckabee's surge in Iowa, from single

digits in the polls to a virtual tie for the lead among Republicans,

has captivated the political world and prompted speculation about just

how he did it.

The Fix may have found the answer: a physician from Montgomery, Ala.,

named Randy Brinson.

Brinson is the keeper of a massive e-mail list of much-coveted

Christian voters that Huckabee is using to reach and organize people

in early-voting states such as Iowa.

Brinson's list numbers about 71 million contacts, with 25 million

identified as belonging to "25 and 45 years old, upwardly mobile,

right-of-center, conservative households," he said. In other words, a

target-rich environment for a candidate such as Huckabee, who is

preaching a compassionate conservative message heavily infused with

religious sentiment.

In fact, this op-ed appears to be an outgrowth of an email Brinson

sent around not too long ago attacking Mitt Romney for ... you guessed

it, hijacking the language of faith:

Brinson wrote an e-mail distributed widely in Iowa that questioned the

changed views of former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney on abortion and

gay rights and that asked whether Romney was really being led by his

Mormon faith.

Some political commentators have credited that e-mail with being one

of several factors that helped turn out conservative Christians for

Huckabee.

Brinson said Friday he sent the e-mail because he was concerned that

some candidates had "hijacked the language of faith."

Since he's backing Huckabee, who has made his faith the center of his

campaign, Brinson is obviously not worried about political candidates

using faith for political purposes. But like many other religious

right activists, he seems to think the "language of faith" is reserved

for the "right" kind of "Christian Leader."

The good thing about Huckabee is the 75% who don't believe in

creationism ain't votin' for him.

Bret Cahill

On Wed, 9 Jan 2008 20:10:51 -0800 (PST), Bret Cahill

<BretCahill@aol.com> wrote:

>The good thing about Huckabee is the 75% who don't believe in

>creationism ain't votin' for him.

>

>

>Bret Cahill

If 75% of America doesn't believe in Creationism or ID....

If 35% of Americans believe in Evolution.....

You can see my point - your numbers are wrong on creationism and ID.

More folks believe in religious fallacies than in scientific theories.

WB Yeats

"Bret Cahill" <BretCahill@aol.com> wrote in message

news:27e3bd65-4a33-4497-9c67-93582ebf8932@v67g2000hse.googlegroups.com...

> The good thing about Huckabee is the 75% who don't believe in

> creationism ain't votin' for him.

How do you expect to get away with LYING when you ALWAYS get CAUGHT?

ABC News PrimeTime Poll. Feb. 6-10, 2004. ""I'm going to ask about a few

stories in the Bible. Do you think that's literally true, meaning it

happened that way word-for-word; or do you think it's meant as a lesson, but

not to be taken literally?"

"The creation story in which the world was created in six days."

Literally True: 61%

Not Literally True: 30%

Stupid: 8%

http://www.pollingreport.com/religion2.htm