Two "fired up" 19-year-old evangelicals create online network "Huck’s Army"

[Amerigo Vespucci]

Huckabee Splits Young Evangelicals and Old Guard

By DAVID D. KIRKPATRICK
Published: January 13, 2008



http://www.nytimes.com/2008/01/13/us/politics/13huckabee.html?bl&ex=1200459600&en=32a0d28a5423134e&ei=5087%0A

WASHINGTON — Much of the national leadership of the Christian conservative movement has turned a cold shoulder to the Republican presidential campaign of Mike Huckabee, wary of his populist approach to economic issues and his criticism of the Bush administration’s foreign policy. But that has only fired up Brett and Alex Harris.

The Harris brothers, 19-year-old evangelical authors and speakers who grew up steeped in the conservative Christian movement, are the creators of Huck’s Army, an online network that has connected 12,000 Huckabee campaign volunteers, including several hundred in Michigan, which votes Tuesday, and South Carolina, which votes Saturday.

They say they like Mr. Huckabee for the same reason many of their elders do not: “He reaches outside the normal Republican box,” Brett Harris said in an interview from his home near Portland, Ore.

The brothers fell for Mr. Huckabee last August when they saw him draw applause on “The Daily Show With Jon Stewart” for explaining that he believed in a Christian obligation to care for prenatal “life” and also education, health care, jobs and other aspects of “life.” “It is a new kind of evangelical conservative position,” Brett Harris said. Alex Harris added, “And we are not going to have to be embarrassed about him.”

[BOSSHOG]

1. Set the non white, non christian world on fire

Brett and Alex are proving that old axiom. Youth is wasted on the young.

[goldcanyonaz]

2. Some of his supporters here will be happy you posted this.

[northzax]

5. hey, while I am not a supporter, per se

I think he's a troglodyte on many things, these kids have a good point. Huckabee reflects a better wing of the religious right, one that believes we have a responsiblity to help the poor and less fortunate, one that believes the world can be changed for the better, not the old guard who believes in all the good rich people talking points.

[sinkingfeeling]

7. Saying that one believes we have a responsibility and actually doing something about it are two

different things. Huck was governor of one of the poorest states in the union for about 10 years and I saw him 'do' very little to help the less fortunate.

[madeline_con]

3. "... a new kind of evangelical conservative position."

Same old story, same old song and dance, my friend.

[billybob537]

4. OOOH you mean

an ARMY of TWO OH oh

[gratuitous]

6. Whoa, 12,000 supporters?

All he needs now is about $100 million, some party backing, and another 60 million votes, and wham-o! President Huckabee.

[Cheap_Trick]

8. while i like his stand on the poor and the rich

he'd turn this country into a theocracy, and i'll have none of that thank you.