Mr. Lincoln, you make some good points. Please allow me to respond.
David W. Lincoln writes:
Instead of saying, “Don’t _____”, why not say, “Do ___”.
Response:
I agree this is the right philosophy to live by but not in all cases and certainly not in this case.
David W. Lincoln writes:
Tearing down a rival shows a lack of
confidence in the purported candidate of those who are doing the tearing down.>
Response:
Huchabee claims to support conservative ideals while intentionally siphoning the votes needed to stop the person who espouses everything we hate about government while cutting a cheap political deal. Huckabee may be a good man but is selling out the conservatives for a political position and he is also selling out those very voters who are believing in him because thier support will help the nominee who LEAST supports thier values and Huckabee knows this quite well. That’s not very grown up is it. A grown up would have dropped out after 6 out of 7 unsuccessful primaries for the good of the party. This isn’t beliefs, this is business between Huckabee and McCain and we are the beneficiaries of their back room deal. I respected Mike a great deal for his Christian beliefs while knowing that such a person would be an almost impossible sell to the general electorate but I lost respect when it became clear he sold out.
David W. Lincoln writes:
To accuse Mike Huckabee of wanting open borders, when the founder of the Minuteman Project endorses him -
how Clintonesque.>
Response:
How disingenuous; he claims to be strong on illegal immigration then gets endorsed by the shunned and I believe mentally imbalanced minuteman founder and then supports the open borders McCain??? Come On! How is that strong on immigration? In any case, there are nearly a hundred other illegal immigration organizations including the minutemen (who do not endorse him like the founder) who are dead set against him and will be pouring every resource they have into derailing this triangulation of the vote by Huckabee and McCain. You’re right, how Clintonesque of Huckabee and McCain>
David W. Lincoln writes:
As long as Mike Huckabee gets it as to why the Beltway Republicans were
taken behind the woodshed in ’06, and has something positive to say about alternatives – he is the only
grown up in the Republican Presidential Nominee race.>
Response:
A grown up would not be so naive and an honest advocate of conservative values would not endorse the one man in the race who least represents his supporters values just so he can get a Washington job. You know looking back at the debates, I’m not so sure that McCain and Huckabee didn’t plan this strategy early on. It was odd how they seemed to be tag teaming Romney almost from the beginning and after all, without a silver tongue Baptist preacher getting just enough support from evangelicals, McCain could not win and knew that from the beginning. I wonder if this deal between Yin & Yang was set up from the start. One thing is clear, the only reason Huckabee is still in this race is for McCain. At least John Edwards had the decency to bow out in order to let their electorate have a fair choice.
That being said. Of course you should vote for who you like. We are just saying to the establishment that if they force McCain on us by triangulating the conservative vote then I’m sorry but our nominee is going to lose. McCain won’t get Democrats to cross over while at the same time he will not get the solid conservative support any nominee will need to win in November. Huckabee won only 1 state and got only 13% in FL and is nowhere in the national polls. He should step out for the good of the party and the nation and he should do it soon. If he doesn’t then we will also hold him equally responsible for the disaster that will follow but somehow in spite of his eloquent espousal of conservative and christian values, I sadly suspect he doesn’t really care.
