Dirty Trick of the Day

Another viral e-mail: Huckabee hates Catholics.

The conclusion of the e-mail is worth singling out:

Sadly, Mike Huckabee would seek to divide conservatives and Republicans along religious lines for political gain. While America needs a more robust expression of faith in the public square, it does not need a preacher politician who has shown a repeated pattern of dividing people along religious lines. The shared values of Protestants and Catholics are too important to risk endangering this important coalition by nominating Mike Huckabee, a candidate who has demonstrated a blind eye to anti-Catholicism.

(emphasis added)

It's pretty clear that the e-mail is doing exactly what it accuses Huckabee of doing: trying to split Republicans along religious lines. I can't help but wonder if this is a sign of a rift in the soft Catholic-Evangelical alliance that has slowly been coalescing in recent years. Obviously, it's going to take more than an e-mail to destroy something that's been several decades in the making, but it could be a sign of some heretofore unresolved animosity and that the relationship is in for hard times ahead.