Why Huckabee Would Make a Good President

I've been thinking about writing a post about how Mike Huckabee might NOT be a good president. But the reasons that he might not be a good president I feel are outweighed by the reasons that he would be a good president.

The very reasons that Mike Huckabee would be a good president are the reasons that Obama has not been a very good president. Huckabee for one knows where he stands and knows what he believes. I've never heard him waffle on his core principles and values.

Huckabee is a strong believer in America. On the Medved show last night, Mike Huckabee was talking about how America is STILL the greatest place on earth to live. He's lived the American dream and he respects the American dream unlike the current president. He does not make trips around the world bashing the United States like president Obama has. Huckabee's love of country alone would be enough to make him a much better choice than President Obama.

Mike Huckabee would make a good president because he's pragmatic. He knows how to work with Democrats in a way where he can get his agenda. Mike Huckabee also believes in the values that most Americans believe in. He believes in the sanctity of life and he believes in the importance of the marriage covenant between a man and a woman.

Huckabee is a very thoughtful person. Now if you ask the liberals, they thought that Obama was a thoughtful person. Well, I have news for you, Barack Obama has NOT been a very thoughtful person when it comes to many issues facing the American people. He rams through legislation that is harmful to the future of America and then plays the victim card when people come out and hold him accountable for it.

In conclusion, there are some things that might make Huckabee not such a great president, such as his tendency to maybe compromise a little too much with the other side. But there are more reasons that Huckabee would be an excellent choice for president and he would be a much better president than Barack Obama and I dare say for that matter Sarah Palin as well.

Mark Levin Suggests Federal Spending Amendment, Huckabee Should Embrace This

Last night I heard Mark Levin talking about government spending and how they're going to have to raise taxes in order to get their fiscal house in order. Then he suggested that there be an amendment to the constitution to cap government spending. I think this is a great idea. His suggestion is that government spending be capped at 17% of the GDP. I personally think that the government should be capped at 9.5% of the GDP as that should be plenty to run the federal government. Of course, if 17% is all we can get than that is fine too.

I hope that Gov. Huckabee will take an idea like this and make it a major position in his platform to run for president. He does sometimes seem to be a little egotistical and his idea of implementing the fairtax was certainly a novel idea and I admire him for being willing to "think different" from the run of the mill politicians, but he also needs to be really clear that he will get this crazy, out of control government roped in.

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."