McCan’t Stand It? You’re In Huck!
By: Chad Stenzel
If you count yourself among the millions of disaffected conservatives suffering from rash-like symptoms including incessant itching (with no tax relief), watery eyes (when you consider McAmnesty in the oval office) and swollen glands (because you find your free speech stifled due to campaign finance reform), there is good news. When we first went to the doctor concerning these maladies we were told we just “need to relax”. Unfortunately, this treatment appears to only work if you are an elected official looking for a cabinet appointment or simply hoping to curry favor with “the inevitable”. (Sounds a lot like a death-bed conversion, doesn’t it?) Many principled republicans with no political positions to procure have sought a second opinion. Good news! There is a balm in Gilead.
The vessel that contains the precious pronouncements of healing was discovered by a group of rural Midwesterners on a cold January day. The electoral elixir recently barn-stormed through Dixie, confounding Sitting Senators and Party Potentates who dismissed the cure as an afterthought, only capable of preventing their own medicine from taking hold. Thankfully, in this day of the internet, many people now utilize websites to self-diagnose.
The wisdom found on one such location made thousands feel better when the prescription was placed in their hands. The following is a partial listing of key ingredients.
--- Abolish the IRS and Stop taxing productivity
--- Build the Border Fence within 18 months with American labor
--- Continue to aggressively fight the War on Terror and stand firmly by Israel
--- Defend the Right to Life for unborn children
--- Endeavor to protect marriage with a Federal Marriage Amendment
--- Foster energy independence through grants rewarding American ingenuity
--- Guarantee the 2nd Amendment is taken as seriously as the 1st.
Admit it. You feel better already, don’t you? In the over-regulated era in which we find ourselves, I’m required to list the possible side-effects of this remedy. (You can imagine the mile-a-minute-voice if you’d like) People who consume “Huckabee” on a regular basis can expect: a bulging bank account; a tingling sensation of American pride; a serene calm knowing Originalist judges will be appointed to the courts; and an overwhelming sense relief that Monica Lewinsky’s ex-boyfriend’s wife is nowhere near the Nuclear Football. If that picture left your throat constricted and caused you to break out in a cold sweat, head over to mikehuckabee.com and find the cure for what ails you.
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To all of you saying you would vote for Hillary over McCain, now is the time to put up (for Huck) or shut up!
Well said! More entertaining than my post along the same lines.
It IS time for the anti-McCain conservatives to "put up or shut up!"
Take the 1st ammendment as seriously as the 2nd...The BIG MAC already trashed the 1st.
Campaign finance reform ensures that the rich can't drown out the voices of average Americans. This claim about violating free speech is just BS. And unless you're making 7-figures, you're just shooting yourself in the foot.
Less government regulation? Why do we need the Federal government to "control" marraige. You wanna get married go to a church, otherwise a civil registration should be the only service offered by LOCAL governments.
Go Huckabee! Everyone send out emails, blog links, phone calls: whatever you can to get out the vote for Huckabee in Kansas, Virginia, Louisiana, Maryland, wherever. Go to mikehuckabee dot com and contribute a mere $50 to help with advertising. Let's take this country back from the condescending elites. Let's make the GOP conservative again!
I will not vote for John McCain, I will not vote for Mike Huckabee and I won't shut up either. I will write in Mitt Romney's name. To all who say, "this guarantees a democrat in the White House", TOUGH!!
At some point people we have to get back to conservative principals and John McCain 'aint it. Don't whine about Supreme Court judges either.Mr McCain doesn't exactly inspire on this issue either.
If you don't stand for something, you'll fall for anything. So now we must start from the bottom and work for real republicans (no RINOs need apply) at the local level. I thought we were all set in 2002 with the White House and congress in republican hands and what happened? we won't make that mistake again.
Mitt was just a tad too phony and liberal for me. Huckabee's the real deal. Check out the issues section on his website.
Jake - another Mitten whiner - you need to read the post on www.voteforhuckabee.blogspot.com, i think it was about you.
The end of the conserative era. It's time to celebrate. Keep fighting with each other instead of acomplishing anything. It's what your good at.
The end of the conserative era. It's time to celebrate. Keep fighting with each other instead of acomplishing anything. It's what your good at.
Ouch! That stings because it's true. I'm a conservative Christian and what this celebrating liberal says is on target, unfortunately.
:-(
The race is for president of the United States, not the Southern Baptist Convention
Jake said: Don't whine about Supreme Court judges either.Mr McCain doesn't exactly inspire on this issue either.
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I'll try not to whine as I explain this: Hillary or Obama + Dem congress = Liberal Judges! What you fear may happen under a McCain presidency will most certainly happen under a Democratic administration. Judicial appointments last for generations, and the effects can last a lifetime. I know Mac isn't the best candidate, but he is the most conservative (if nominated.) BTW, I think Huck is a fine man, I just don't think he has a shot at the nomination. If he does get nominated I will proudly vote for him.
Romney supporters need to cool off. I understand their disappointment. I could have voted for Romney without much problem. I voted for Mike Huckabee in South Carolina partly because the polls indicated that he was the most likely to stop McCain in his tracks.
Mike Huckabee's opponents have tried to marginalize him as simply the evangelical candidate from the start. This is not fair or true.
Face it, if McCain wins the nomination, we will once again be faced with voting for the lesser of two evils. I am quite tired of being presented with this option.
It seems to me that McCain has a commanding delegate lead simply because of the misguided "winner take all" rules. If Mike Huckabee can stop McCain from getting the necessary delegates, it would be appropriate for Romney to prove his conservatism and throw his support and delegates to Mike Huckabee.
Let's take the vote to the convention! Go Huck!
I am a former pastor, graduated from a Texas Seminary and have other things in common with Mike Huckabee. But he is about as far from a constitutional leader as there has ever been. I doubt that he or McCain have any idea that the President has only 6 responsibilities. 6! Fortunately Ron Paul is not going away so those evangelical conservatives who really want their vote to match their convictions have a candidate to support. And if RP does not win the nomination we still do not need to waste our vote on McCain, because our vote is too precious to waste, we can support the Constitution Party candidate.
Some misinformed bonehead downtopic said it is a race for President and not the SBC. He doesn't appear bright enough to realize it, but he's right. Which is why the MSM and the hysterical pundocrats should have admitted that he had more time as:
1. A broadcaster
2. A media owner (businessman)
3. A Lieutenant Governor
4. A gvernor
5. An author of several books
OK, so he did more time in all his other post-college endeavors than just pastor a church, but let's focus on that to the exclusion of all else.
Doesn't make sense, does it?
Suppose we applied the same standard to Mitt Romney?
1. Two years as a missionary
2. Eight years as an LDS Bishop
3. Seven years as and LDS Stake President
Combined eccliastical experience is 17 years.
Combined ecclesiastical experience for Huckabee? Only 12 years.
Therefore, since the only thing that disqualifies a candidate is being a minister, Romney failed by five years excess of what Huckabee served. Did anyone in the MSM -- or any Huckabee supporter for that matter -- EVER whine abut Mitt's ministry background as a disqualifier? No. It was irrelevant. What mattered was his gelatinous set of core convictions.
Therefore, since we are electing a president, let's focus on Huckabee's record as governor, taking education from the Third World quagmire Clinton left behind to the number 8th in the nation, restoring the crumbling infarastructure and giving the VOTERS an opportunity to repeal the tax cuts (couldn't fit that in between all the religiously bigoted references to him as a "Baptist pastor" could you? Oh, and he did all that leaving an $850 million surplus when he left office. so much for the stereotype of "Baptist pastors hiding the offering plate...."
So, being a pastor or a Bishop doesn't seem to be relevant -- at least not as relevant as being the 5th ranked governor in the nation.... Oh, we're not supposed to mention that because hick tent-revival preachers don't know how to manage a government.
Did I mention his clever plan to get illegals to identify themselves? Offer those who've been in the school system since Kindergarten an opportunity to COMPETE for scholarships.... trick is, they have to apply for citizenship first. Think a lot of illegals will take that bait? Probably not. Only 30 students statewide would have even been eligible to turn themselves in to INS, apply for citizenship and hopefully get a scholarship before they're deported.
Problem with idiots is they never get their facts straight but they always hit the mark with their anti-Baptist bigotry.
To top it all off, as a fellow-governor, fully aware that Huckabee was mulling a presidential bid in 2005, romney touted Huckabee an excellent choice for president. He even flip-flopped on his endorsements :-)
But all that is in the past. What matters now is that Mittens have three choices: 1. Pursuade their candidate to get back in the race to try to stop McCain, 2. Support Huckabee in hopes of getting a deadlocked convention where Mitt can emerge or 3. Join Limbaugh and Ann Coulter as the new advocates of Marxism's rennisance in America -- vote for Hillary.
If I were not an angry Mitten, I'd go for the second option. But I've been burned enough in politics to understand why that would be the last thing on your list.
Romney's service as a bishop and stake president was volunteer service - he had a full time job and performed these duties in his "spare" time. So saying that he has more years of church experience than Huckabee is a bit disingenuous.
I also get a kick out of your saying that Huckabee's 10.5 years of "executive" experience as governor of a small state is somehow more noteworthy than Romney's experience in Massachusetts.
Quiverdaddy. You scold me for making a tongue in cheek commment but then blow your civility lesson by calling me a bonehead and denigrating Romney supporters as "Mittens." And speaking of religious bigotry, it think there was a little of that going the other way towards Romney. I think Huckabee and Romney are both fine, moral men, based upon what we know about them. McCain may not be the best choice but he is not a liberal. I am prepared to vote for whichever man gets the nomination. Dem prez+ Dem Congress = abortion, gay marriage, liberal judges/supreme court justices, higher taxes, more spending, retreat overseas, economic ruin at home. Any of the Republican candidates are way more conservative than Hillary or Barack.
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