Why I Am Still For Huckabee, Even Now---Part IV
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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.
I have chosen Mike Huckabee. I am biased, I am partial, I have already decided. Why? Yes, I have sought to bring up issues of the problems of other candidates: particularly McCain and Romney, though I have emphasized the reality of the man I support over the image that has been created by a media that is just simply uncomfortable with him.
Uncomfortable, because they cannot handle a former minister, who, is not simply going to follow the idea that being a Conservative Christian Republican means that you have to ignore the poor, ignore the broken, the despised, the lonely, and the stranger in our gates, and not say too much about the child in the womb or the institution of marriage--while finding a way to the hearts of those whose own brokenness have driven them to become our enemies in that struggle.
We have decided that being Conservative means that we cannot ever criticize the man who is STILL Our President, yet we cannot love him too much, ere we receive his stigma. We cannot conceive of the notion that hating a government-regime of darkness cannot also mean that we seek to prevent the plague of war from destroying both Americans and Israelis....and Iranians and Muslims. To say that such is possible, and that we should keep trying to work with the rest of the world (as Pres. Bush has tried to do and as Mike Huckabee wants to do), somehow means that you are weak and that you are not a true conservative.
We are told that to end the unrestrained activity of a globalized system of trade, which destroys the livelihoods of factory workers in South Carolina, of computer programmers in Northern California, of textile workers in Delhi, and farmers in Michoacan, while piling up trillions in fragile and unstable wealth for financiers who bind them in mortgage-backed securities made through predatory practices upon the unsuspecting, and who then use their questionably-gained wealth and power to spread their own infectious poison of globalism around a suffering world while they talk to themselves in the pleasure fields of Davos, to fight against that means that YOU ARE NOT A CONSERVATIVE and that YOU MUST HATE THE FREE MARKET!!
And we are told that the desire to end the income tax and replace it with something that does not tax you for what you do but for what you buy--and only when new--something that has been the stated dream of Conservatives since Russell Kirk began telling a people led astray with Social Liberalism that there was a better way--is not workable, undesirable, and even dangerous to the free market, and therefore it means that YOU ARE NOT A CONSERVATIVE!!!
I am told what to believe. I find that the establishment has crowned John McCain, and that Mitt Romney, through his corporation and their fellows in Thomas Lee Partners and the Carlyle Group, have bought Regnery Publishing, Clear Channel Communications, cut their deals with Fox News through the News Corporation, and therefore, metaphorically speaking, "bought the printing press" and the voices of every single conservative commentator on radio or television, as they all tell us to vote only for their choice....Mitt Romney.
It is not the man's wealth that is a problem. Nor would it be an unhealthy desire to buy such companies as he did, if he himself were not the direct beneficiary, just as it was McCain and his friends who are the direct beneficiaries of McCain-Feingold as they structured the law to attempt to silence only those voices that could potentially be arrayed against him.
But Romney and McCain did. They sought to fix the process. And with that fix, they were no longer mere opponents in an election--they were opponents to democracy. And that is to do the unthinkable...and the intolerable.
I have enclosed the video that is now circulating the Net that supports and sets to music the speech Barack Obama made in Iowa. Why would a conservative Christian put a pro-Obama video in a blog committed to Mike Huckabee? Because for all the reasons that Obama cannot, Mike Huckabee represents for those who are told we should not.
Change. Freedom. Truth. Life. Youth. Hope. Peace. Strength. Patriotism. Victory. America. My Country. God.
So I am in this fight. One voice. One keyboard. And I will not be silent. Not ever.
Si, se puede--Republicanos--conservatismos.
--The Old Alcalde--
But what we are telling you is that it is not conservative. We can handle former ministers just fine. We never made an issue about Huckabee's faith, he did.
Conservatives care about the poor and the broken. We care enough to acknowledge that the federal government is not the answer to their problems. Conservatives don't hate the "strangers in our gates", but we do insist that they follow the laws of this country and at the very least get in the back of the line.
Free markets are conservative, protectionism and socialism is not.
Conspiracy theories are not conservative. Mitt Romney has bought and/or cut deals with the media? Would this be the same media that has worshiped John McCain for 8 years? As for positive media coverage, no Republican candidate received more favorable media coverage in November and December of last year than Mike Huckabee. That's how he went from "second tier" to frontrunner with no money.
The Republican party can change, that's just a label. You are welcome to change, you have free will. The issues may change, but conservatism does not.
Belisarius of Jerusalem, and of Constantinople
...and I'm still for Ron Paul. We'll fight to the very end.
In the general election I *might* support Romney, but McCain is out of the question. He's a Democrat as far as I'm concerned.
So "Si Se Puede" I will be joing the Obama campaign if he's across from McCain.
Anyone who stands across from McCrazy is who I vote for.
The two are inseparable.
It is not the man's wealth that is a problem. Nor would it be an unhealthy desire to buy such companies as he did, if he himself were not the direct beneficiary
The whole idea of entrepreneurial efforts is to be a direct, financial beneficiary of it. It's called capitalism, and conservatives are in favor of it.
First of all, to the character who referred to me as a believer in "little green men", who "should be ashamed of himself," I say: If you can't hear the clear facts of Mitt Romney's interlocking controls of the very media outlets that would be charged with criticism of his candidacy, but consign his critics as mentally imbalanced, then all you have done is confirm what I have known all my life--people cannot handle the truth when it confronts them with the notion that the truth they know is false , yes even corrupted ab initio. I'm sorry that you have to respond to truth with ad hominem attacks.
To 'Land of Da Free', who challenged me as not conservative for engaging in what he referred to as a "conspiracy theory", I have to ask, "What are you thinking?" I'm not referring to the liberal media, that indeed has been favorable to John McCain for nearly a decade. They are lost and hopeless. I am referring to the very alternative media that I would expect to be 'fair and balanced.' I am talking about Fox News and talk radio, the latter of which is the feeder of so much of conservative commentary.
Furthermore, I would strongly disagree as to whether the mainstream media is responsible for talking up Mike Huckabee. The bottom line is that he has built up a superb grass-roots organization, he has a superb record as a three-term governor of Arkansas, where he left with a 70% approval rating, and he has better communication skills than anyone since Reagan during his younger years.
As to the criticisms of my sentiments on the poor and on immigration, the problem is that, in my years as a conservative, since I was a boy of eight watching Barry Goldwater accept his party's nomination, and an actor named Reagan reignite his nation's determination to defeat Communism, I cannot begin to tell you the times that, the moment that the talk turned to rescuing those who have disadvantages that are unworthy of the greatest nation in the history of man, that the reply would always be little more than blaming the disadvantaged themselves, with a secret implication that 'they brought it on themselves.' I don't mind demanding self-reliance and market-based solutions to the problems of the poor, I insist on them. I just am concerned that when it's time to step forward to provide the means to self-reliance, the suburban conservative walks away and mutters his mantra of 'tax cuts and no welfare.'
As to immigration, I would agree that people who have been here illegally should 'stand at the back of the line', as long as that line actually exists. The line they should go to the back of has no business making people who are decent and law-abiding wait for as many as 11 to 22 years to get a resident visa, or 3-8 years for an employment-sponsored visa, for people who under the law, are qualified to come, have legal family sponsors or employers who have legally sought American workers for their businesses, and could not find them. And that condemnation of such a broken and unjust system, as is the mantra of 'illegal means illegal', when you hear the stories of people who have lived here 10, 20, 30 years or more, of people who have come here as infants or small children, or who came from despotic regimes like China and worked here and established families, livelihoods, whole life networks, and all that my conservative brethren can respond with is, "they should go home." Unbelievable obtuseness---this IS their home now!! Unless you're willing to equate illegal entry and residence with kidnapping or murder, then there has to be a statute of limitations sooner or later, where there is no more fear of being uprooted from their true home and sent back to a land of strangers. If that is the definition of conservative, then conservatism is a guilty ideology that no one should ever admit to claim.
As to being accused by 'Night Twister' of class warfare, let me remind you that greed-fueled theft, bribery, fraud, and deception were not in the list of required admirable qualities of the free market in the writings of Adam Smith, Ludwig von Mises, Freidrich Hayek, Milton Friedman, and Michael Novak. Neither is it acceptable to use the market and the ability to gain direct benefit from investment to use that drive, ability, work+intelligencextime=the creation of capital, in order to corner democracy. In Russia we condemn it in the hands of Vladimir Putin. In America we condemn it in the hands of John McCain but condone it in the hands of Mitt Romney. In using his investment savvy to corner the conservative movement he is no better than Putin.
If such a confrontation against the acts of Romney, and the surrender of the conservative movement's opinion leaders makes me guilty of class warfare, then I am guilty. And I will continue to be guilty. And I will vote for Huckabee. And again.
Si, se puede.
---The Old Alcalde---
Belisarius of Jerusalem, and of Constantinople
Do you also believe in little Green men. This is just a bunch of crap and you should be ashamed of yourself.
The dis honest attacks on Romney has to make you sit up a wonder. And we thought Ron Paul Supporters where bad, but this little green man syndrome by Huckanuts is getting really bad.
http://hotair.com/archives/2008/02/02/video-huckabee-accuses-romney-of-b...
What a bunch of dis-honest hog-wash.