I delivered the following address on behalf of Mike Huckabee to over a thousand people at North Middle School:
Isn’t democracy great? My wife grew up in Communist Vietnam, and this is really something for her to see.
Mike Huckabee is the best man we have because he is a man of character with the courage of his convictions and is a principled conservative whose beliefs don’t change with the wind. With 10 1/2 years as governor, he brings more executive experience to the table than any Republican or Democrat. That experience resulted in improved roads, strong schools from those which were failing, and an overhaul of the health care system. TIME magazine looked at Arkansas’ turnaround and named Governor Huckabee one of the top 5 governors in the nation.
And with kindness, as a winsome gentleman, he received nearly half of the African-American vote in Arkansas. Name another Republican who can say that. He didn’t govern as pro-choice and become pro-life after governing, he’s believed in these principles since he was a teenager.
He’s a supporter of the FAIR Tax which will help to unleash our economy instead of having us punish those who climb the economic ladder.
Gov. Huckabee was an early supporter of the surge and will take the war to the terrorists while he understands that we need to seal our borders and finally take care of the problem of illegal immigration. My wife and I know how difficult legal immigration can be.
And he’s the only candidate who believes that we should have a pro-life and pro-marriage amendment. Now, if we believe that the 2nd amendment was needed to ensure our right to self-preservation and the right to bear arms, if we believe that the 13th amendment could abolish slavery, how can we allow that we do not have an amendment to protect the most innocent of life? We pledged tonight that there is “justice for all.” Do we believe that as a party, or are we tainted by compromise and lack conviction?
Finally, the reason that Mike Huckabee believes these things is that these beliefs stem from his faith. Now that may not be a politically correct thing to say, but without it: Jefferson wouldn’t have said that we are “endowed by our Creator with certain inalienable rights.” Lincoln wouldn’t have said that “a house divided against itself cannot stand.” Ronald Reagan wouldn’t have said that “if we ever forget that we’re one nation under God, then we will be a nation gone under.”
Folks, vote your heart tonight because the polls don’t matter. Courage, character, conviction does.
Huckabee, from what I’ve read of his views, is another Bush in the waiting.
Another right wing, narrow minded, religious fundy loon with ridiculous, barking mad and arcane views on ‘morality’ and people’s private lives.
How is it possibly consistent to be a man of ‘principle’ when those very principles concern holding a set of political values that are tantamount to dogmatically oppressing peoples’s lives?
Bizarre. He is a strange man and the fact he has built up such a following speaks volumes about the dangerous and brainwashed condition of the American electorate.
Well, that’s my take anyway.
All the best
John D
http://boatangdemetriou.wordpress.com/
I haven’t seen the evidence for Huckabee’s oppression of people’s lives. If you are referring to his opposition to not allow for redefining marriage, that can not be considered oppressive. It is not as if he is pushing an anti-homosexual law akin to the previous Texas law. In fact, Huckabee has gone out of his way to state that he is against forbidding anything that a person wants to do in his or her private life. That could be considered “oppressive.” It seems to me that we have too many loose definitions for dogmatic, oppressive, marriage, and rights today.
Your thoughts?