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TechnoratiWatching the Republican primary has been less like watching a horse race and more like watching the horses on the merry-go-round at the carnival. There has been a lot of up and down movement among the candidates with no clear leader emerging. In fact we have two primaries and one caucus under our electoral belts and there have been three different winners. Mike Huckabee surprised in Iowa, John McCain won on what has become his home turf of New Hampshire and Mitt Romney won Wyoming by virtue of the fact he was the only major candidate to visit the state. So, like the merry-go-round the candidates appear to be moving in a circle with all of them getting off where they got on with little or no progress being made.
All of that is about to change because of South Carolina. With the first primary in the south less than a week away the nation looks to South Carolina where Fred Thompson has drawn a line in the sand, Mike Huckabee is surging and John McCain is depending on the highest per capita population of military veterans. Mitt Romney has pretty much pulled out of South Carolina and Rudy Giuliani’s line in the sand will be drawn in the white sand of Florida. Because of the strong evangelical base in South Carolina former Baptist preacher turned Arkansas Governor Mike Huckabee should do well.
Evangelical Christians have been burned several times by people who have sought and won the national political stage only to disappoint on the core social issues important to most believers. The reason for this is simple ... they were conservatives coming to the Evangelical community for votes rather than true Evangelicals who rose from the community to bring about real change. For the first time in the modern era we have a true Evangelical who does much more than just talk the Evangelical talk. In Mike Huckabee, we have a candidate with a genuine faith that is born from true belief, not bought and paid for with a consultant’s fee. Mike Huckabee should be president because he is the real deal.
He should be president because he is the only major candidate with a comprehensive nine point immigration plan. It begins with building a fence and ends with the modernization of our antiquated legal immigration system. In between, the plan calls for enforcing the laws and imposing stiff penalties on employers who intentionally hire illegals. It calls for a no amnesty policy that requires all illegal immigrants to register with the Bureau of Citizenship and Immigration Services, leave the country and get in the back of the legal immigration line. It increases the number of border patrol agents, bans sanctuary cities, and empowers local law enforcement to go after illegal immigrants. Huckabee’s plan has been endorsed by Jim Gilchrist, the founder and leader of the Minute Men, one of the staunchest anti-illegal immigration organizations in the country.
He should be president because while Governor of Arkansas, he pushed through Covenant Marriage which reduced the divorce rate. He led the state to pass a human life amendment that is now part of the Arkansas state constitution. He opposed embryonic stem cell research and he called for no tax funding for organizations that promote abortion.
Some people have tried to characterize Mike Huckabee as being opposed to Home Schoolers. The fact is while Governor of Arkansas he appointed a homeschool mom to the state Board of Education. Mike Farris, Chair of the national Home School Legal Defense Association and Chancellor of Patrick Henry College has endorsed Huckabee and campaigned for him in Iowa. Continue >>
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