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It's time that we Christian conservative evangelical Republicans make it known that our faith and our values are no longer for sale to corporate America. It's time that we let the party know that we are the true base of the Republican Party. It's time that our issues become the platform of the party. We are social conservatives, and we demand that our needs be paramount.
We will no longer sacrifice them to a party that refuses to fight for them. They take our votes, deny us social programs, and promise us, like a mother would her child, that we can get our way maybe next time. We get them elected and then they crawfish and neglect the issues that are of greatest importance to us. Not only this, but they have the unmitigated gall to insult our intelligence by blaming it on the Democrats. Republicans had the presidency and the Congress for six years and couldn't get one single piece of meaningful social conservatism passed? They could not only because they would not, and they would not because they sacrificed our moral virtues on the altar of a pseudoconservative plutocracy bent on serving corporate interests rather than ours.
There is one and only one God that I sacrifice to, and He's not sitting in the corporate headquarters of Enron, Halliburton or DuPont. He is in heaven looking down on our party with a heavy heart. A party that has forgotten the poor, forgotten who serves whom in government, forgotten that this is a nation of the people, by the people and for the people.
Mike Huckabee showed in Iowa that we will not be bought and lied to, and we will be victorious against the corporate candidate (Mitt Romney). Huckabee is so far out there that he actually thinks that people should be civil, believes the Bible when it says that we should despise not the poor, believes it when it says that it is harder for a rich man to enter into the kingdom of heaven than for a camel to pass through the eye of a needle. The Republican Party has become largely that of rich men, not in monetary value alone but in greed and corruption. We need a man who will speak to the heart of the party once again - a Lincoln Republican, not a Reagan Republican.
Republicans such as Teddy Roosevelt, and the infamous but mostly unfortunate Herbert Hoover used to promise us a chicken in every pot, and stand up for the common man against corporate interests and the Washington establishment. We have such a man. A man that will lead our party and our nation as a beacon up on a hill. This man is Huckabee. This nation can be under God once again, put Him at the front of the line. A Huckabee presidency will fulfill these promises placed into the pledge by another Republican, Dwight D. Eisenhower. A vote for Huckabee is a vote for a return of true conservatism and the death of the pseudoconservative plutocracy. Let's make this the Grand Ole Party once more. I'm a true conservative, and I approved this message.
Michael Luke Myers|||Honestly I dont' know as much about Huckabee as I'd like to, however when he took his picture in front of the Christmas tree and refused to apologize for it, I wanted to vote for him, right then and there.
Before the election comes around, I would like to find a little more info on him, to make a truly informed decision.
The letter is pretty good, however it may sway some the other way with the evangical method. Just a thought.|||they will call him a liberal pussy from now on...|||lol, Michael Meyers... Friday the 13th star. I believe most of what is written however I understand that to get something I want I may have to compromise something I feel strongly about.|||While Huckabee might be a great guy to invite over for a barbecue, I doubt he's the guy to sit in the Oval Office with the ability to start Armageddon with the touch of a finger. While I'm still not totally a fan of any of the candidates, I somehow feel better thinking of McCain or Rudy in that position. And, at the end of the day, that's what's most important in these uncertain times.|||Seemed a little wordy, but I would guess that the guy is on the fence about Huckleberry.|||Huckabee had his own ethics problems as Gov. of Ak. He tried to do away with the Ethics Committee. He was accused of using campaign contributions for personal use.|||I don't no what paper you are planning to try to get this printed in -- but I can tell you that it is way too long -- and you are throwing in a lot of trite platitudes and seem to be trying to give a history lesson and a bible lesson....focus on on main idea and figure out how to say it in 20 lines or less. Doubtful any newspaper would publish it. Sorry, but you asked. I did read the whole thing.|||"When a religion is good, I conceive it will support itself; and when it does not support itself, and God does
not care to support it, so that its professors are obliged to call for the help of the civil power, 'tis a sign, I apprehend, of its being a bad one."
Ben Franklin, Poor Richard's Almanac
I speak with a lot of professionals in religious organizations. I find that they are retreating from encumbrances of parochial civil support. They find that they can be who they are in their chosen faith without selling out to a flawed strategy of selling their faith in the marketplace.|||As a conservative republican. I will most likely vote for a third party candidate if Huckabee gets the nomination. Huckabee may be conservative on gay marriage and abortion. But that's about it. The rest of his political record suggests that he is a big government liberal republican (aka a compassionate conservative).
Social issues like religion, gay marriage, and abortion; take a back seat to fiscal issues. I'll vote for the most overall conservative candidate, but their fiscal record and platform is the most important to me. Limited government, low taxes and reduced federal spending is the key to get my vote, and Huckabee does not adhere to those key conservative values.|||RRRiiiipppp....
That's the sound of the Christian Conservative right tearing itself away from the Rich business right...
What a great sound...
Music to my ears...
It's been an uneasy marriage in which the right has forced ridiculous gas prices and legislated morality down our throats.
What a beautiful day for America.
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