The GOP's Time for Choosing - WSJ.com

The GOP's Time for Choosing - WSJ.com

Would Huckabee take the Republican Party in the direction of the Christian Democratic parties in Europe? "The political debate for the last decade has been between a Democratic Party which essentially argues America should be more like Europe -- more statist, more secular, more pacifist -- and a Reagan-influenced GOP which argues America should be more like its historical self. The Mike Huckabee/Christian Democratic movement is an attempt to break this logjam by looking to a different European model, one that says we can be more statist without being more secular or pacifist. In deciding how to react to the Huckabee challenge, Reagan's GOP descendants now face their own time for choosing."