Mike Huckabee on The Issues

For those of you who don't have a whole lot of reading time, here is a short synopsis of where Mike stands on the issues that face our country. Each issue has a link to the appropriate page on his website for your further research, if you have time.

ISSUES:

1. Secure Borders - Mike has a very comprehensive 9 point plan for securing America's Borders.
2. PRO - LIFE - Mike supports a constitutional amendment to ban abortion and protect the right to life.
3. Veterans Bill of Rights - Mike supports passage of a veterans bill of rights.
4. Education - Mike supports parental choice of public school and the right to homeschool. Mike also supports music and art education for all children to support the creative side of the brain as well as the logical side.
5. Healthcare - Mike believes that Healthcare should be consumer driven and market based with healthy competition to keep prices low. He is against nationalized or socialized medicine.
6. Taxes and Economy - Mike supports abolishing the IRS and instituting the Fair Tax, a comsumption based tax system that will distribute taxes more evenly, easing the tax burden on the poor and middle class. Mike believes that America is NOT under-taxed, but is over-spending. Government spending must be reigned in. He supports Free-Trade as long as it is FAIR-Trade.
7. Marriage - Mike supports a constitutional amendment defining marriage as 1 man and 1 woman.
8. Energy Independance - Mike has a plan to get the U.S. completely energy independent within 8 years.
9. War on Terror - Mike supports the war on terror, realizes that Iraq is only one battle in the global war, believes we should focus on WINNING it, not pulling out troops before the job is done.
10. Israel - Mike is an ardent support of Israel as our ally.
11. Agriculture - Mike believes that Farm Subsidies are vital to National Security.
12. 2nd Amendment - Mike is a fervent supporter of the right to bear arms.

Southern Baptists/Christians Taking Fire

Folks, it's time to get fired up. We Christians in America have become very comfortable in our wealth and complacent in our faith. We have ceased standing up and speaking out when something attacks our religious liberty. A couple of articles have caught my attention lately and I want to pass them on to you. If Christians as a group stand up and get counted, we CAN make a difference.

This latest article, Huckabee's Women's Rights Record Faces Scrutiny is an attack on Mike Huckabee because he supports the Southern Baptist statement of faith. Be assured, this is not an attack on just Mike Huckabee, but all Southern Baptists, and further, anyone who accepts the Bible as the literal Word of God. Basically, the tone of this article says that this quote in the Baptist Faith and Message - "A wife is to submit graciously to the servant leadership of her husband even as the church willingly submits to the headship of Christ," is a violation of women's rights, so Mike's stance on women's rights should be subject to "increased scrutiny". Where do we live, Saudi Arabia? Do Baptist people really treat there wives so poorly that we shouldn't be allowed to serve in office?

Make no mistake, what this article is really about is: is someone who actually believes the Bible and tries to live by what it says fit to serve in public office? My response is - that is my primary qualification to serve. I think Tony Perkins called it right, a reverse religious litmus test is being applied:

Tony Perkins, president of Family Research Council (FRC) in Washington, DC, says Huckabee is being subjected to the same reverse religious litmus test that was applied during judicial confirmation hearings between 2003 and 2005.

"Senator Charles Schumer of New York said that he was opposed to some of these nominees of the president because of their 'deeply held personal beliefs' and those beliefs coming from their faith -- in particular, regarding abortion and seeing it as wrong," Perkins points out. "So we see a reverse religious test being applied [saying essentially] that anyone who has a vibrant Christian faith that impacts their life will have to choose between that faith and serving in public office -- and that, simply, is wrong." Read the rest of this article>>>HERE

If you believe the Bible, you know that persecution of Christians will get increasingly worse until our Savior, Jesus, returns to take us away. But because we know persecution will get worse, it doesn't mean we have to lay down and take it, or enable it by our inaction. We are called to live out our faith daily, in our prayer closets AND in the public arena. Electing Mike Huckabee President of the United States will not stop the quickening slide down this secular hill, but by voting with our faith for every senator, every congressman, every mayor, governor, and garbage collector, we can surely make a difference, slow the slide, and leave our children a country of freedom.

Please take the time to find a candidate you can vote for. Please vote. Every vote counts. Ask Al Gore. Seriously though, take a look at Mike Huckabee. You just might find a candidate worth voting for.

Great Interview

Take a look at this interview of Mike Huckabee by Neil Cavuto on Fox News Your World. This interview took place immediately following yesterday's Iowa Republican debate. As an interviewer, Neil did a great job. He asked good, hard questions but not in such a way as to give negative spin to the question. He waited patiently for the answers and let Mike fully answer each question. It really helped clarify Mikes stand on several issues.

See the interview here.

Iowa Debate Review

Well, yesterday's debate was not what I expected. It was certainly not the cat fight the mainstream media wanted. I thought Romney would come out swinging in desperation. Instead, he kept it clean and I thought he did well, but not well enough to sway voters who are already supporting Huckabee. As to Huckabee, he did well also, but I'm not sure he really knocked it out of the park like he usually does. Overall, it was a very solid performance for him, but I don't know if he did well enough to sway any Romney voters either. I'll tell you this though, after watching this debate in it's entirety, I am convinced that this race is and should be coming down to a two man race. Huckabee and Romney. I don't think Gulianni did anything to help himself in this debate. I think his polling will go down, the only votes he'll get will be democrats that like to vote in the republican caucus. I'm really looking forward to the polls coming out of Iowa over the next few days to see who the Iowan's thought was the debate winner. Here's a couple of links for media stories on the debate and after that, links to the debate itself. The Iowa Republican debate is broken down into 10 videos, each 5 - 10 minutes long. It takes a total of about 1 1/2 hour to watch it all.


ABC NEWS DEBATE STORY
CNN DEBATE STORY
CBS NEWS DEBATE STORY
NEWSWEEK DEBATE STORY

IOWA DEBATE PART 1
IOWA DEBATE PART 2
IOWA DEBATE PART 3
IOWA DEBATE PART 4
IOWA DEBATE PART 5
IOWA DEBATE PART 6
IOWA DEBATE PART 7
IOWA DEBATE PART 8
IOWA DEBATE PART 9
IOWA DEBATE PART 10

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How the Establishment is Campaigning Against Mike Huckabee

It seems that the mainstream media and the establishment republicans are doing a collective "uh-oh". Starting at the Iowa Straw Poll, and then at the Value Voters summit, the media began giving Huckabee very favorable attention. They thought he was more of a "human interest story" rather than a serious political candidate. And so they ran articles like "aw, the cute, cuddly, SURPRISING, little Mikey did well at the summit" and "oh, look, little Mikey is climbing up in the polls". Through these type pieces Mike got noticed. Once people noticed, they liked him. They told other people.

Now, all of a sudden, Mike has vaulted into a statistical tie for the lead in the national polls, is leading in Iowa and South Carolina, doing well in Michigan and Nevada (all early voting states), leading in Georgia, and catching up fast in Florida. Now the media and the other candidates are getting scared with the first votes only 23 days away. They're thinking, "Oh my goodness! We've got to reel him in before he actually gets the nomination!"

So as of last Sunday, we're seeing a new, un-kinder, less-gentle (not to mention, WAY-biased) media. Mike appeared on Hannity and Colmes on Sunday. Sean Hannity is a fairly conservative, republican leaning talk show host, so you'd think that his treatment of fiscally conservative republican Mike Huckabee would be at the least neutral, if not even slightly favorable. But that's not quite the way it went down. You can watch for yourself here (pt.1) and here (pt. 2).

Basically, Sean went on the attack pulling up every negative, misconstrued thing he could think of. He tried to shape the conversation by the nature of his questions, and then tried to interrupt Mike so his answers would be unheard. Fortunately, Mike did a great job of answering the questions and you could tell that Hannity was put out by Mike's calm demeanor and seasoned handling of the questions. I guess with the truth on Mike's side, he didn't have too much to worry about.

In another example of the media bias in favor of establishment candidates, Hannity and Colmes had Karl Rove on the show to discuss the candidates chances of winning the nomination. They breezed over Huckabee as basically having no chance and went straight to discussing Romney and Gulianni at length on their road to the nomination. Then they discussed McCain and Thompson very shortly as mostly having no chance. My question is, when someone is polling as strongly as Huckabee, how can you say that he can't win? I think the evidence is overwhelming that not only can he win, I think he's going to win big.

Finally, another shining example of media bias. Fox News reported last night in big headlines that Huckabee "is no Mormon Expert" and that he asked in an upcoming article in the NY Times Magazine "don't mormons believe that Jesus and the devil are brothers?" See the article here. Fox insinuates that Huckabee was asking this question in order to make negative comments about Romney's religion. They did this by quoting a spokesman from the latter day saints, the name of the group most commonly known as mormons, but not including any real relevant comments from Huckabee. Although they used some older quotes of Huckabee's, they didn't include this comment that had direct bearing on the Fox News Article:

"A report released tonight cites an upcoming article in the Sunday edition of The New York Times Magazine which quotes former Arkansas Governor and Presidential Candidate Mike Huckabee asking a question about the content of the Mormon faith. In fact, the full context of the exchange makes it clear that Governor Huckabee was illustrating his unwillingness to answer questions about Mormonism and to avoid addressing theological questions during this campaign."

Hmmmm. Seems like the media wants to portray Mike in a negative light now rather that admit that he is taking the high road in this campaign, unlike rival Mitt Romney who has started running anti-Huckabee ads in Iowa based on the immigration issue. And by the way, Jim Gilchrist, the founder of The Minuteman Project, a group pushing for immediate action on illegal immigration, just endorsed Huckabee for president due to his nine point plan to solve the immigration problem. You can see the plan here. Here's a quote by Gilchrist on Huckabee: Gilchrist added, "Governor Huckabee actually wrote a plan that I can embrace. I found his ‘Secure America’ plan would open the dialogue and help begin the process of solving the illegal immigration problem.”

Remember, don't believe everything you see, hear and read in the media. As you decide to vote for a candidate, keep digging until you find all the FACTS - not just opinions and distortions. If you take a good honest look at Mike Huckabee, you'll find that he truly is the most consistent, authentic, conservative candidate in the race for president, and the right man for the job.

The Huckaboom Continues!

Several new polls came out today, each one showing the same thing. People are discovering Mike Huckabee, and they like him. Click on the links below to check out these polls:

CNN POLL TIED FOR 1ST PLACE NATIONALLY
CBS/NYTIMES POLL CLOSE 2ND NATIONALLY
IOWA RASMUSSEN POLL 1ST PLACE
SOUTH CAROLINA SURVEY USA POLL 1ST PLACE
GEORGIA STRATEGIC VISION POLL 1ST PLACE


Also, between yesterday and today, Mike picked up three big endorsements:
Click on these links to read the endorsements.

Jim Gilchrist - Founder, The Minuteman Project
Marco Rubio - Florida Speaker of the House
David Rivera - Florida House Member

It was a good day for Mike Huckabee!