Yes, this is a site soliciting commitments (and email addresses) from those prepared to pray for Mike Huckabee to assist him make the anguished decision to run for the Presidency of the United States. Or not. It’s not, his spokesman tells Ben Smith, an official Huckabee site, though it is linked to from his own Facebook page and he did write this gawd-help-us piece of simpering guff for his devotional followers:
As many of you know, I am prayerfully considering an important decision about seeking the office of President in the 2012 election. I am asking for God’s guidance now, and I humbly ask that you would join me in prayer as I seek to discern His will for my life.
When I look across America, I see a country looking for answers. The challenges facing our nation are monumental, and I see difficult days ahead. I am seeking God’s will concerning the role He wants me to play in His plan for America.
Together, let’s pray for God’s mercy on America. Pray that He will heal our land. Pray that I will hear the still, small voice of the Holy Spirit as He leads my steps according to His will.
Thank you. May God bless you and keep you.
Yours truly,
Gov. Mike Huckabee
This confirms my long-held view* that as the candidate most likely to aver that the stars really are “God’s daisy chain“, Mike Huckabee is the Madeleine Bassett of the putative Republican field. If Huckabee feels the need to ask for this kind of guidance from complete strangers now, how on earth would he make any decisions in the happily-unlikely event he were ever tasked with making them from a house at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue?
In Huckabee’s case I’m happy to stand with Mencken and his view that “We must respect the other fellow’s religion, but only in the sense and to the extent that we respect his theory that his wife is beautiful and his children smart.” This being so, it is kind of Huckabee to rule himself out of sensible consideration even before he’s decided – with or without your prayers – to enter the lists in the first place.
*A suspicion bolstered by consulting Much Obliged, Jeeves during which adventures Bertie observes of the Bassett that:
The prospect of being linked for life to a girl who would come down at breakfast and put her hands over my eyes and say ‘Guess who’ had given my morale a sickening wallop. It is always my policy in times of crisis to try to look on the bright side, but I make one proviso – viz. that there has to be a bright side to look on, and in the present case there wasn’t even the sniff of one.
He could be talking about Huckabee in the first instance and then, warming to his argument, the Republican field more generally. That field shows every sign of containing more frauds and snakes than the average Choir Boy Handicap at the Annual Village School Games.
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