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"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.

In the context of our world, and even our own private pain, an election, a nominating process, assumes a pettiness, even an arrogance. To approach such an event as Super Tuesday in the context of what I have pointed demands humility and sobriety.

I have been railed against since I began writing these blogs on behalf of Governor Mike Huckabee. I have been told that I was mentally unstable, that I was shameful, that I promoted class warfare, that I was opposed to capitalism, that I was a closet Democrat, that I was naive, that I wanted open borders.

Without the peace that comes of having known the unconditional, unmerited, limitless favor and grace of God through the shed blood of Jesus Christ my Lord, "I am a man of unclean lips, and I live in a land of unclean lips." My ability to successfully persuade others to accept my candidate is indeed limited, and to say otherwise is presumptuous without peer.

However, I am going to lift my voice on the Governor's behalf. I know that the polls are doubtful on his behalf, and the next two-three days will tell whether his candidacy will be judged to have been a fool's errand, or whether his story will continue. I am a realist, and I can read the polls. Until that is an official result, however, I'll still seek to persuade people that to support Mitt Romney or John McCain, while it doesn't make you less of an American, certainly, or even less of a conservative, it may make you less wise and discerning.

I will deal with the issue of his call for a military buildup. Some are thinking that to equal 6% of GDP for military spending is unworkable and unrealistic. I am once again astonished at such arguments. We reached that under Reagan, we did that regularly in Vietnam, in Korea, and way over that in World War II. We can now build the force level we will need, and the weapons and equipment, much more easily than our fathers did. We can continue to employ ever more advanced technologies in building "American weaponry" without re-dislocate our knowledge-based American economy. And it will put millions back to work for a nation that can, as a result, avoid recession or work.

I am hopeful, and stating, which he did in his interview with the 'New York Times', that Governor Huckabee will be in the Oval Office what he has been on the campaign trail. In the meantime, I can work, and I can speak. I will see you all later.

---Si, se puede, Republicanos, Conservatismos---