Brinson’s Huckabee Help

Dr. Randy Brinson, he of the prodigious email list and head of the Christian Coalition of Alabama, is among the conservative Christians rallying support for GOP presidential candidate Mike Huckabee in today’s Iowa caucuses. His recent mass email attempts to sway (and encourage turnout among) Iowa’s conservative Christians with faith-based doubts about rival Romney’s fitness as a candidate.

Randy Brinson, a friend of Mr. Huckabee’s who founded the nonpartisan evangelical voters registration organization, Redeem the Vote, sent out another mass e-mail directly criticizing Mr. Romney for “parsing words from his own faith experience as a Mormon and equating it to the Christian faith, which is a particularly difficult Christians to accept.”

“Many in the media have equated this to some kind of religious intolerance among Christians toward Mormons,” Mr. Brinson continued. “The fact is that evangelicals hold no animosity toward any faith but they equally disdain the fact that some want to rewrite the basic truths of the Christian faith to fit their own belief system, or equating Mormonism to another Christian denomination.”

Mr. Brinson added, “If his Mormon faith guided his present moral convictions, what guided him when he was pro-choice and pro-gay rights, since he states he has always been a devout Mormon?”

Doug Gross, Mitt Romney’s Iowa campaign chairman, said in The New York Times that “if Republican turnout today is 80,000 or more, Mr. Romney’s campaign could be in trouble.” That would indicate a larger-than-expected evangelical turnout, and presumable good news for former Baptist minister Huckabee.

I’m looking forward to seeing how the caucuses shake out on both sides of the aisle.

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