I don’t know how much stock to put in the report from Bob Novak…

Nevertheless, the word is that some evangelicals dispute Huckabee’s support. One experienced, credible activist in Christian politics who would not let his name be used told me that Huckabee, in personal conversation with him, had embraced the concept that an Obama presidency might be what the American people deserve. That fits what has largely been a fringe position among evangelicals: that the pain of an Obama presidency is in keeping with the Bible’s prophecy. According to this activist, at the heart of the let-Obama-win movement is longtime Virginia conservative leader Michael Farris — the nation’s leading home-school advocate, who is now chancellor of Patrick Henry College (in Purcellville, Va.) for home-schooled students. Best known politically as the losing Republican candidate for lieutenant governor of Virginia in 1993, Farris is regarded as one of the hardest-edged Christian politicians. He is reported in evangelical circles to promote the biblical justification for an Obama plague-like presidency.

But the fact that the phrase, “an Obama plague-like presidency” got through the Washington Post’s layers of editing surprises me a bit.

And if the discussion in evangelical communities is not, “will an Obama presidency be plague-like?” but “Do we deserve a plague-like Obama presidency,” I think that evangelicals will show up at the polls for McCain.