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"If he fails to win the presidential nomination, Huckabee is considered the leading candidate for the position of vice president. He's from the South (Arkansas), he is an evangelical Christian and he could balance a ticket headed by Mitt Romney, a Mormon, or by McCain or Rudy Giuliani, neither of whom are popular with the Christian right because of their positions on issues such as abortion and immigration.
In Jewish circles, this prospect has been met with dismay. Huckabee has a long record of expressing a longing for a more Christian America. Late last week, the American Jewish Committee criticized him for views it characterized as "a prescription for theocracy."
This is what Huckabee said: "What we need to do is amend the Constitution so it's in God?s standards rather than try to change God's standards so it lines up with some contemporary view of how we treat each other."
A rather opaque statement, but one message is clear: Huckabee wants to change the U.S. Constitution to reflect what he sees as divine law. It's not exactly what the Jewish voter wants.
It's not the first time Huckabee has butted heads with the principle of the separation of church and state that is so dear, for obvious reasons, to America's Jewish minority. On the eve of the Iowa caucus, an ad went on the air in which he declared himself a "Christian leader."
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