Speaking From the Heart, Huckabee Makes Sense

When Gov. Huckabee speaks, I'm inspired. When Huckabee speaks, people listen. When Huckabee speaks, he wins votes. When he's not speaking is when the tide turns against him.

And that is exactly why Huckabee scares a lot of people who don't want him to be "in control." They understand that he is a fantastic communicator.

I hope that over the next four years, Huckabee continues to speak and reach out to people. I hope the media pays some attention to him and that America begins to listen. I hope that he runs in four years. I hope.

Huckabee Addresses Obama's Speech

Huckabee talks like probably no other Conservative talks... maybe we conservatives need to take a lesson from him and realize that there is a bit of hate coming from the "conservatives." Conservatism without vitriol? What a concept!

Transcript below:

HUCKABEE: [Obama] made the point, and I think it's a valid one, that you can't hold the candidate responsible for everything that people around him may say or do. You just can't. Whether it's me, whether it's Obama...anybody else. But he did distance himself from the very vitriolic statements.

Now, the second story. It's interesting to me that there are some people on the left who are having to be very uncomfortable with what Louis Wright said, when they all were all over a Jerry Falwell, or anyone on the right who said things that they found very awkward and uncomfortable years ago. Many times those were statements lifted out of the context of a larger sermon. Sermons, after all, are rarely written word for word by pastors like Reverend Wright, who are delivering them extemporaneously, and caught up in the emotion of the moment. There are things that sometimes get said, that if you put them on paper and looked at them in print, you'd say "Well, I didn't mean to say it quite like that."

JOE SCARBOROUGH: But, but, you never came close to saying five days after September 11th, that America deserved what it got. Or that the American government invented AIDS...

HUCKABEE: Not defending his statements.

JOE SCARBOROUGH: Oh, I know you're not. I know you're not. I'm just wondering though, for a lot of people...Would you not guess that there are a lot of Independent voters in Arkansas that vote for Democrats sometimes, and vote for Republicans sometimes, that are sitting here wondering how Barack Obama's spiritual mentor would call the United States the USKKK?

HUCKABEE: I mean, those were outrageous statements, and nobody can defend the content of them.

JOE SCARBOROUGH: But what's the impact on voters in Arkansas? Swing voters.

HUCKABEE: I don't think we know. If this were October, I think it would have a dramatic impact. But it's not October. It's March. And I don't believe that by the time we get to October, this is gonna be the defining issue of the campaign, and the reason that people vote.

And one other thing I think we've gotta remember. As easy as it is for those of us who are white, to look back and say "That's a terrible statement!"...I grew up in a very segregated south. And I think that you have to cut some slack -- and I'm gonna be probably the only Conservative in America who's gonna say something like this, but I'm just tellin' you -- we've gotta cut some slack to people who grew up being called names, being told "you have to sit in the balcony when you go to the movie. You have to go to the back door to go into the restaurant. And you can't sit out there with everyone else. There's a separate waiting room in the doctor's office. Here's where you sit on the bus..." And you know what? Sometimes people do have a chip on their shoulder and resentment. And you have to just say, I probably would too. I probably would too. In fact, I may have had more of a chip on my shoulder had it been me.

MIKA: I agree with that. I really do.

JOE SCARBOROUGH: It's the Atticus Finch line about walking a mile in somebody else's shoes. I remember when Ronald Reagan got shot in 1981. There were some black students in my school that started applauding and said they hoped that he died. And you just sat there and of course you were angry at first, and then you walked out and started scratching your head going "boy, there is some deep resentment there."

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Huckabee in 2012. They Shout YES!

By Grant Swank on Mar 8, 08

It’s 2012 for Mike Huckabee.

His daughter Sarah told media that they have learned a lot in this campaign try. Therefore, they're going to use it as resource for the next go-round. It's no time to quit, Huckabee assures his friends and colleagues.

Huckabee even projects being on a radio talk show whereby he presents the conservative principles he believes in. His convictions basically are biblical when it comes to moral issues. Therefore, Huckabee holds that he will have the evangelical audience for certain.

Moralists in general will take to his continuance, Huckabee reports. They will grow in concern, in knowledge and in power.

Huckabee says he wishes John McCain the best and will work for him. He has not been asked to be McCain's vice presidential running mate, but does not rule that out. He just has not been approached on that as yet.

Nevertheless, Huckabee is not ready to pack up his bags. He�s ready to keep going in strategic venues that will continue to carry his message.

He has strong faith to believe that he has a very dynamic contingency in America. And that block wants him to sit in the Big Office.

Time flies by quickly. It just could be that Huckabee could become a staple in national politics. One day he may live in that White House.

If it's up to Sarah, it's a guarantee.

Social Conservatism: The Foundation of Conservatism

The other day, I saw Mike make a very interesting statement and I'd like to paraphrase what he said. He said something about how there's a lot of these "economic conservatives" out there who believe strongly in government stepping out of the way of monetary affairs and free trade and free markets. While that is all fine and dandy, he pointed out that economic conservatism can only get you so far. He used the example of a person going to prison and how it costs more to house one person in prison for 1 year than it does to put a student through all four years of college and buy them books. Good point. Mitt Romney was right when he said that a strong country is based on three things: strong familys, strong economy and strong military. However, he gets it wrong when he puts a strong economy and a strong military right in there with strong families, as the strong families belong in a category all to themselves. A country with strong families can remain strong even in times of economic turmoil and strong families are the basis of a strong military since good soldiers realize that they are not in the military for themselves but to protect the freedoms of their families.

Hence conservatism that doesn't value the family first is a weak form of conservatism which will eventually give way to the tenacious grip of liberalism that seeks to destroy social conservatism first and then following that destroys the fiscal conservatism and security conservatism.

I like to think of it this way: Social conservatism is the foundation for the other two conservatisms. Social conservatism is the first one that liberals go after and seek to destroy. Social conservatism is the one that stands firmly on the 1st and second ammendments of the constitution, defends the rights of every individual, doesn't bow to new cultural fads (gay marriage, abortion, etc). Without social conservatism, economic conservatism and security conservatism really have no basis and eventually fall to liberalism completely.

Building Blocks... of Society

It's sad that Huckabee's out of the presidential race now.

America isn't ready for a Christian leader that lives out Christianity in his everyday life. Apparently America can't handle the idea of God in the public square anymore.

America was founded on the principles of Christianity. Liberalism infiltrated the church and now has infiltrated society. Slowly but surely the basic building blocks of a civil, Christian society are being destroyed bit by bit.

The first institution ordained by God, Marriage is under attack and liberals would like to completely recreate it's definition.

God created life and man has now the ability to destroy it in ways never known before. Abortion is now accepted by many. Abortion quickly degenerated into partial birth abortion. Some zealots for the "cause" of abortion would like to extend it to 18 months! So if you want to kill your 9 month old baby just because you don't like to hear it cry it's ok?

America, America... where is your heart? Where is your soul? Can't you see the direction of progressivism? Will I ever be able to be proud to be called an American again?

Two Winners from March 4th Primaries

"Even if John McCain secures the nomination tonight, Mike Huckabee will still be a winner. He will exceed Mitt Romney in delegates (267 in counting), and will be involved in the GOP for years to come. He came from nothing, but now is a national figure. Mike Huckabee is this year's 2nd place, but perhaps could end up in 1st in years ahead"

–Carl Cameron

Continuing on the Right

Gov. Huckabee didn't run a campaign... he started a movement! That movement is just starting and will continue to grow and if he chooses to run again in 2012, the movement will still be there. There will be others also who will pick up the banner of Faith, Family and Freedom and continue to press on.

Like Huckabee, we don't give up until the race is done. And this one is just starting now!