Huckabee’s Foot Soldiers

He has said he wants to bring the Constitution in line with “God’s standards.”
I've heard him say that three or four times since way back in September. When he said it in Michigan it was the first time people said, "Hey, we can take this out of context." Huckabee's just saying let's amend the Constitution—a human life amendment and a traditional marriage amendment. Let's go through the normal democratic constitutional process, and if it doesn't pass, it doesn't pass.

Who is in Huck's Army?
There are liberals supporting him because they like that he wants to get energy-independent. There's room to care about the environment. The main thing with him is that he has the ability to bring to an end the partisanship, the whole paralysis that comes from that. Without the media slant on that I think people wouldn't be avoiding him just because he's an evangelical guy.

So even though you and your brother are evangelicals, you wouldn't call it an evangelical group?
We don't have any specific numbers; we're organized but we're not really an organization. I couldn't tell you the percentage. But it's definitely not just evangelicals.

As of Tuesday, the Huckabee campaign stopped arranging planes, vans, meals, hotel reservations and other services for national news organizations covering his events. Is that a worrisome sign to you?
I think they've always been very frugal. I don't think it's over until Feb. 5; then it would be more clear. They're confident and we're confident that good things can even happen in Florida on Jan. 29.

That's where you come in?
It's not as if we're a part of the campaign, but we're working to complement what the campaign is doing and fill in gaps where the campaign doesn't have resources to build the infrastructure that Mitt Romney can build with all his money.

You're 19. How did you get interested in politics?
We've been involved in politics for all our teen years, here locally in Oregon. Volunteer stuff, stuffing envelopes, going door to door. Part of our home education involved real-life stuff. That included starting our ministry, Rebelution, when we were 16. It was definitely part of the environment in which we grew up, and it wasn't just our parents. We were part of the large home-school debate league, the National Christian Forensics and Communications Association. We'd be debating illegal immigration, the tax system, trade, foreign oil. We were thinking about all of those issues.