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Posted at 6:07pm on Mar. 6, 2008 Huckabee---The Long March Continues IV

By BelisariusVII

Ok, he lost the nomination to McCain, but he got the second highest number of votes and delegates (yes, according to CNN, and Real Clear hasn't picked up on the additional number of delegates from Texas, LA, MI, and NV that put him past Romney). The man is still a highly attractive candidate, and well-suited to be VP. But rather than reinvent the wheel, this is a response to a generic VP blog post released yesterday, the response of which I posted.

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Posted at 6:55am on Feb. 20, 2008 Huckabee--The Long March

By BelisariusVII

Yes,Mike is now pretty much relegated to 2nd place, and protest vote status. So be it, but maybe more to come. However, I had to respond to a character who laid out a bunch of specious arguments against Gov. Huckabee. From the tone of my response--given below in another blog on Red State, you can imagine what they were saying. Oh, well, here's the response below.

"Don't spill you KoolAid. Oops....

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Posted at 5:16am on Feb. 17, 2008 Huckabee for President--The Long March III

By BelisariusVII

I have been wrong about too many things in my life. This election has been no exception. This time a week ago I was convinced that Gov. Huckabee was going to come from behind and win the Virginia primary. Well, those who voted on Tuesday were dead even with McCain, but oh those early voters! Well, no more predictions, no more false bravado. John McCain appears to be well on his way to victory. But as long as he hasn't got it, I will keep working for the Governor. We conservatives still have a point to make, even if only for a few more weeks.

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Posted at 12:48am on Feb. 12, 2008 11 February 2008---Huckabee for President--The Long March Continues II.

By BelisariusVII

I am watching the way this selection process is going, like everybody else. What I think is going to happen is nothing less than miraculous. On Saturday morning, the Rasmussen Poll, which normally releases composite results based upon a 4-day tracking process, used only the two days beginning Thursday and the day Mitt Romney suspended his campaign, to post a lead of 55%-24% by Senator McCain over Governor Mike Huckabee. On Sunday morning, Rasmussen revealed that the 3-day composite poll showed that the nationwide margin had changed to 49%-29%. And this morning the numbers had narrowed to 46%-34% McCain, using the entire 4 days of polling. In order for that to happen, the following two days would have to look like this:

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Posted at 4:58am on Feb. 9, 2008 The Long March Continues

By BelisariusVII

I have not been on this blog since before the Super Tuesday primary. I have been silent through the aftermath of the primaries, the shock over the surprise victories of Governor Huckabee, the departure of Mitt Romney, the move by all of "the chattering classes" to crown John McCain, who so many of us swore we would never vote for, as king of the Party.

In the meantime, Mike Huckabee is drawing bigger and bigger crowds in Kansas, his wife is well-received in Washington, his website reports about a 20% increase in daily donations SINCE Super Tuesday, and his Meetup.com-based networks are gaining more members and volunteers, which in turn are making phone contacts with voters at four times the rate of what was done just 2-3 weeks ago.

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Posted at 5:12am on Feb. 4, 2008 Why I Am Still For Huckabee, Even Now---Part V

By BelisariusVII

"The night is coming, when no man can work." The world continues to speed at hundreds of thousands of miles per hour, spinning on its axis, its rotation around the sun, in the midst of the vastness of this galaxy, in the midst of the vastness of the number of galaxies of this universe. And in this world, while Chinese people die from unprecedented snowfall, while dozens of innocent Iraqis and Afghans die at the hands of Al Qaeda's bombs and killers, while orphan children search for food in the trash mountains of Manila, Mexico City, and Cairo, and from Delhi to Moscow to Kinshasa to Montreal young women by the tens of thousands, even over 140,000, slaughter their unborn children through legal means, we are holding the first major stage of our presidential election.

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Posted at 2:44am on Feb. 3, 2008 Why I Am Still For Huckabee, Even Now---Part IV

By BelisariusVII

Well, I am back. The approach of Fat Tuesday has certainly created a good metaphorical piece of imagery for what is going on with this super primary on Tuesday. It has certainly promoted a kind of insanity and the idea that anything goes. We are told that only certain people can be trusted to fight a war, to fix an economy, to fix Washington, to bring hope, to ensure that this class or that group will have their pet interests and hoped-for-or-presumed-rights advanced or protected. We even are led to believe that my own candidate is unqualified to lead, simply because he has the nerve to answer a call from Heaven to lead the people of the churches he pastored, just as he followed that call to lead the people of his state, a poor, neglected, forgotten place in the eyes of many, just as he hears that same voice to ask the people of his country through his chosen party to grant him the place of leadership of the free world in a time that is, and promises to be even more, a time of darkness and titanic struggle.

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Posted at 6:10am on Feb. 2, 2008 Why I Am Still For Huckabee, Even Now---Part III

By BelisariusVII

After the rant which I posted on Wednesday night (1/30), I had a chance to decompress on Thursday and today. The wife and I saw Mike and Janet Huckabee on Thursday evening for about 10 minutes in between a press conference and a conference address to about 1,000 pastors in San Diego. It was not a time I spent peppering him with my own questions, the media had done enough of that. We just enjoyed reminding him of our original meetings with him in the early days of his political activity.

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Posted at 7:44am on Jan. 31, 2008 Why I Am Still For Mike Huckabee, Even Now---Part II

By BelisariusVII

I have to confess that it is ironic how history has a habit of repeating itself. Abraham Lincoln is not remembered today as a man who was a second choice by his own fledgling party as President in 1860, and that he was considered something of a turncoat by the abolitionist movement both for not proposing outlawing slavery other than in the western territories, as well as for not proposing war against the seceding Southern states until Beauregard fired upon Anderson at Fort Sumter. He was able to win election only because the Democrats split between its Northern and Southern wings, even though the Republicans fell in its vote from the previous election (45% to 40%). Most of us know that his Gettysburg Address was poorly received by many until after his death.

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Posted at 5:11am on Jan. 26, 2008 I Am For Huckabee--Even Now--Part I

By BelisariusVII

I will have more to say later. But after a long absence, I am back, and ready to join my voice with the Huckabee camp. I do not believe he should be a reason for some to divide the Republican party, and He IS the right man to be President, in the midst of what, to be honest, believe to be the best field of potential candidates for President that I've seen in a long time, if ever, regardless of what the conventional wisdom has said writ ad nausaeum.

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Posted at 5:07am on Aug. 9, 2006 Back for more, but stay tuned

By BelisariusVII

Because this day has been bizarre, I have been away from this desk. However, I am going to say more tomorrow, especially about the attitudes expressed in a Wall Street Journal article about the date of August 22nd. It is fascinating.

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Posted at 3:32am on Aug. 7, 2006 Happy To Be Here

By BelisariusVII

I have enjoyed reading the articles in Red State for more than two years. I am happy to have finally decided to enter and get involved in the capacity of my name, BelisariusVII. I chose that name because, as the great general of the Eastern Roman Empire under the leadership of Justinian the Great and his beloved queen Theodora, this underappreciated but invincible commander was truly, the first great Christian general. In light of our struggle against the Jihadists without and the Quislings within, I felt that taking his name was appropriate. God bless you all. I am looking forward to being part of the conversation, and hope that I can be of benefit to you all. It will be good practice, thinking, and listening before writing. I sometimes forget to "be quick to hear, slow to speak." I hope this will be an opportunity to work on those character traits.

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