Huckabee in 1998: “I hope we answer the alarm clock and take this nation back for Christ”
December 15, 2007 9:02 am Christian Right and GOPLiz Clarke, A Higher Power - washingtonpost.com, December 15, 2007
“I didn’t get into politics because I thought government had a better answer,” he told a group of pastors on the eve of the 1998 Southern Baptist Convention. “I got into politics because I knew government didn’t have the real answers, that the real answers lie in accepting Jesus Christ into our lives.” He concluded that speech with words he says he’d phrase differently today: “I hope we answer the alarm clock and take this nation back for Christ.”