Today's OpinionJournal piece by Peggy Noonan, "Out With the Old, In With the New" makes a key point about Huckabee's win last night in Iowa:
From the mail I have received the past month after criticizing him in this space, I would say his great power, the thing really pushing his supporters, is that they believe that what ails America and threatens its continued existence is not economic collapse or jihad, it is our culture.
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[W]hile the presidency, as an office, can actually make real changes in the areas of economic and foreign policy, the federal government has a limited ability to change the culture of America. That is something conservatives used to know.
Indeed. It doesn't make sense for evangelicals to rally around a candidate that's strong on social issues yet weak on others. It isn't that social issues aren't important, but if voters focus on a candidate who pours his efforts into things that cannot be changed from the Oval Office, they have wasted their time and their votes.
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