Richard Land, a prominent leader in the evangelical world and president of the influential Southern Baptist Ethics & Religious Liberty Commission, tells Newsweek that the current crop of '12 candidates "have all got problems."
About Mitt Romney:
“He put ‘Obamacare Light’ in place in Massachusetts.
It’s going to be awfully difficult for him to surmount that.”
About Sarah Palin:
"Her problem is her very high negatives. Evangelicals want somebody they like, but they also want somebody who can beat Barack Obama.”
About Newt Gingrich:
“Two ex-wives is one ex-wife too many for most evangelicals.”
About Mike Huckabee:
"The problem Mike’s got is that he and Sarah Palin are appealing to the same base, and Sarah has stronger appeal to that base.”
His comment on Huck is a popular misconception.
Last year, Rasmussen noted that Huckabee was beating Palin by 17% among evangelicals, and anecdotally, Palin seems to draw the don't tread on me ethos that's familiar to libertarians but not necessarily evangelicals.
