Don’t want to be lifted? Get REAL. We are sick and tired of
being pushed around/ down, stomped on, taxed to death, lied to – – – who are
you going to believe Arkansas Times or your tired old eyes??
Sharon Stark, Little Rock
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NOT JUST A CAMPAIGN,
IT’S A MOVEMENT
by Alan Stang
January 24, 2008
NewsWithViews.com
Those of you
who are not Ron Paul people don’t need to read this. If you are, here are some
thoughts that could be helpful. I write after the Nevada caucuses, where Dr. No
racked up a smashing second place and 14% of the vote, ahead of Giuliani,
Huckabee, Hunter, McCain and Thompson, doing so in the face of the orchestrated
cover-up of highly paid network barf bags.
So, Dr. No
utterly thrashed not only the erstwhile Republican candidates who have already
departed, not only Duncan Hunter, who has now dropped out, but he also soundly
whipped Rudy Giuliani and Fred Thompson yet again, certainly proving he is a
“top tier†candidate, which will be underlined when Thompson and then Mike
Huckabee run out of money.
Remember, Rudy
was supposed to be the “runaway front runner.†Nobody was supposed to be able
to touch him. Now he is Rudy Who. The only thing you need to know about Fred
Thompson is that he is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations, the
Marxist group in New York that is the secret government of the United States
and has been conspiring assiduously for decades to destroy our national
independence.
Was Fred
Thompson inserted in the campaign so tardily as a “responsible conservativeâ€
alternative to siphon votes from Dr. Paul? Of course that strategy has failed
miserably, if that is what it was. Fred talks the conservative talk when he
finds time and is awake but he reminds me of the time somebody told Dorothy Parker
that President Silent Cal Coolidge was dead. She replied, “How do they know?â€
It was one of the few things she ever said you can repeat with ladies present.
Yet, notice
that our Communist media still treat Fred and Rudy as major candidates while
they do their best to ignore Dr. No. In a classic example, the New York Times,
which has assiduously promoted Communism since Walter Duranty, reported the
Nevada results of all the candidates – even Rudy Who and CFR Fred – complete
with pictures, except the man who took second with 14%.
The other day,
in a discussion about conservatism on the air, I heard a caller ask Rush
Limbaugh about Dr. No. How the caller got through the screener, I don’t know.
Limbag stuttered, said he “profoundly disagreed†that Dr. Paul expressed
conservative principles, hung up and went to break. That was it; there was not
a syllable of argument that proved Dr. Paul wrong, just Limbag’s expression of
profound disagreement.
Somebody else
called Republican front man Hugh Hewitt. The caller told the screener he was
for far leftist John McCain, but on the air he shouted that he was for Dr.
Paul. Hewitt told the screener who blew it that his check would be docked $10
if that happens again. Of course, Hewitt was joking, about the $10, not about
his desire to squelch Dr. No.
Maybe the
editors at the Times are too busy buggering each other to be aware of this, but
they and right wing Communist talk radio scumbags like Hannatwit are destroying
their own credibility, a symptom of the fact that the Old Media are dying. Of
course in their death throes they are more dangerous than ever. I submit that
for Dr. Paul to do as well as he has in the face of all this is something of a
political miracle.
In South
Carolina, technicians routinely test voting machines before an election to make
sure they are set at zero. But the state’s Election Commission now admits that
in Horry County this time the test was not done. The Commission blames the
oversight on “human error.†By the way, last year the California Secretary of
State decertified the Election Systems & Software voting machines South
Carolina still uses; ES & S refused to provide information required by
California law. Of course, the Diebold and other machines are equally
suspicious.
Word from the
New Hampshire recount is that there is no way to establish for sure what the
vote really was. The ballots were brought to the recount site in such secrecy
that it was even forbidden to photograph the delivery. Ballot security appears
to be defective. The same people who conducted the primary recounted the votes.
The entire
procedure was as suspicious as a one dollar bill. Despite all of which, they
will probably announce that the recount shows no substantial difference. Had
Dr. Paul demanded a recount, the dis-counters could have used that fact to
discredit him. Instead, voting machines have been discredited.
As the Florida
primary approaches, the most important thing to understand about all this is
the fact that the Ron Paul effort is not just another campaign like all the
others. The people who are supporting a candidate for the very first time, who
quit their jobs and drive across the country to work for him, who live in their
cars and sleep on the floor, who leap to their feet in roaring ecstasy when Dr.
No calls for the abolition of the Fed, are not doing all that because they hope
President Paul will name them Secretary of State or sign them up for corporate
socialism. Yes, the campaign is working all out to win, but the campaign is
more than a campaign. It is a movement. Again, many of its adherents are
involved for the first time. Without Dr. No they would not have come awake. Dr.
Paul “cured their apathy.†During the almost fifty years I have been in the
patriot trenches, we have spent much time talking to ourselves, “preaching to
the choir,†trying to break through.
The Ron Paul
campaign has done it. Look at its constituents. Because the phony “War on
Drugs†has thrown many of them in jail, Dr. No’s stand against it has won him
more support among black people than any other Republican. He is a hero on
college campuses and among computer nerds. The movement has enrolled people in
every identifiable group, race, religion, financial condition, location,
culture, etc.
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Many of these
people have never lived in a free country. They have never known anything else
but government by emergency that justifies perpetual war. Now, in the Ron Paul
campaign that has launched a movement, they have had a whiff of what freedom
would be like. Not a big one. Just a whiff. But enough to convince them they
like it. Enough to convince them it’s possible. They want more. As Dr. No has
said, freedom is contagious.
Question:
whether Dr. No. wins or not, what will these freedom-challenged people do after
the election? Will they just forget all about it? Will they merely go on to the
next fad? Yes, some will. Some weak sisters have already left us, sent running
by the preposterous piece about Dr. Paul’s “racism†in the New Republic,
a magazine so famous for lying that Hollywood made a movie of it.
Others, summer
soldiers and sunshine patriots, have left and will leave for other reasons.
When the dross is gone, the hard core will remain. What will they do? They are
presently getting a priceless education in politics. They will use it in
subsequent elections to run themselves. As I write, thousands of them are
becoming precinct chairmen.
There is also
the priceless mailing list, comprising the 100,000 or so people who have
contributed to Dr. No’s campaign. The mailing list is the heart of the movement
now taking shape. The Dr. No candidacy has brought the true change the other
candidates talk about. It will bring even more. For a long time, politics will
not be the same.
The Communist
media are too stupid to understand what is happening. Again, they are dying and
don’t know it. Newspaper readership is falling as fast as the World Trade
Center. Working at NBC and Channel 13 in New York years ago, I routinely read
seven daily newspapers. No more. The networks no longer enjoy their monopoly.
They too are dying. The internet is where the action is. You Tube makes direct
communication possible, circumventing Communist media control. The Ron Paul
movement knows how to use it.
So, the fact
that these dying vestiges of totalitarian news and their front men are giving
the Soviet-Fascist treatment to Dr. Paul is irrelevant. The movement is
spreading despite them. It will certainly cascade into other areas like home
schooling, which will rescue more and more kiddos from world government
brainwashing.
Notice that the
other candidates sound more and more like Dr. Paul, which raises the question
of why voters should accept one or the other insincere imitation, when they
could easily get the real thing. The Boosh Administration has been lusting to
attack Iran. So far, they have not. Could the reason be the heat Dr. No has
applied to the subject? Could that be the reason so many military men are
expressing their distaste for Boosh’s Imperial policy?
Because of the
Paul campaign, Americans who would never have known otherwise now understand
that Fascism is the trouble with our system. The father of Fascism was Benito
Mussolini, who explained, “Fascism should more appropriately be called
Corporatism because it is a merger of State and corporate power.†He also
called Fascism the “corporate state,†a government in which the corporations
are the government. That is the perversion the conspiracy for world government
has grafted on our limited republic.
Many Americans
who until recently were in total darkness now understand that, and that
understanding is the first step in the constitutional restoration. So, there is
every reason for Ronpaulers to be encouraged. The campaign is just the
beginning. The work will continue after the elections no matter what happens.
Welcome to the movement.
Those who support Huckabee will not like this…but the
truth should always be on the table.
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Article published Jan 24, 2008
Huckabee
alienates GOP in Arkansas
January 24, 2008
By Stephen Dinan – LITTLE ROCK,
Ark. — Jake Files was a newly elected representative when all two dozen
Arkansas House Republicans met for their first caucus in 1999. They had doubled
their numbers in elections two months earlier, and were ready to join
Republican Gov. Mike Huckabee in pushing for conservative government.
That was when Brenda Turner, the governor’s chief
of staff, entered.
“Just walked in, shut the door and said, ‘There’s two kinds of people in
the world: those who are for Mike Huckabee and those who are against Mike
Huckabee. I’ll do everything I can to help the first group. I’ll do everything
I can to hurt the second,’ ” said Mr. Files, who left the legislature
after two terms.
And that’s the way it was.
“Not only would he not help you, he would go out of his way to do things
in opposition to you,” Mr. Files said.
For the 10 years he was governor of Arkansas, Mr. Huckabee was at war with much
of his party.
Now that Mr. Huckabee is seeking the presidential nomination, many Arkansas
Republicans warn that he could wage a bruising battle with the national party,
too.
“One can hardly argue that the Republican Party has thrived,” said
former Rep. Jim Hendren, who was House minority leader and ran for state party
chairman in a bitter 2001 race won by a Huckabee surrogate. “We thrived as
we were an opposition party and standing on principles as the Republican Party.
But unfortunately, when we got some power, particularly at the state level, we
began to fight among ourselves.”
The former Southern Baptist pastor-turned-politician took control of the
governor’s mansion in 1996 with expectations that he would lead the kind of
Republican ascension in other states of the Deep South. But he left office last
year by turning over the governorship to a Democrat and with Republicans
bitterly divided over his legacy for his party.
“He destroyed it,” said Randy Minton, a former state representative
whom Mr. Huckabee worked to help get elected but who later clashed repeatedly
with the governor. “We had one U.S. senator, we had two congressmen, at
the tops we had 37 out of 135 legislators in the House and Senate. Now I think
there’s 32 in the legislature, we have no U.S. senators and we have one
congressman.”
In both on-the-record and private conversations with Republicans in Arkansas,
the picture that emerges is a governor who succeeded at advancing his causes
and was willing to fight anyone who didn’t agree.
That matters because the next Republican presidential nominee will be tasked
with trying to rebuild a congressional majority and stoke a Republican Party
after eight volatile years under President Bush.
Like Mr. Bush, Mr. Huckabee achieved some early successes. By the beginning of
1999, when he was sworn in for his first full term, his party had gained nearly
a quarter of the state’s House, added state Senate seats and held the
lieutenant governorship, one of the two U.S. Senate seats and half of the four
congressional seats.
But also like Mr. Bush, who battled congressional Republicans on immigration
reform and prescription drug coverage, Mr. Huckabee found himself fighting
members of his own party.
‘Shi’ites,’ ‘socialists’
Almost immediately after taking office from Gov. Jim Guy Tucker, a Democrat who
resigned after federal fraud and corruption convictions, Mr. Huckabee
campaigned for his first tax increase — one-eighth cent on the sales tax to
dedicate to conservation projects. He followed up with both budget cuts and
increases, but the net effect was nearly $500 million in new taxes and an
accompanying rise in spending.
What followed were clashes over the growth of government and, as the issue
heated up nationally, over immigration policy. Republicans and conservative
Democrats wanted a crackdown on illegal aliens, but Mr. Huckabee resisted.
The war of words was just as harsh. In 1998, when he faced a primary challenger
who said Mr. Huckabee lacked certain conservative principles, the governor
replied that his opponents weren’t really Republicans, but rather libertarians
or independents.
By the end of his tenure, Mr. Huckabee was calling his Republican opponents the
“Shi’ites” and they called him a “Christian socialist.”
Mr. Huckabee’s defenders said the governor was simply firing back at frustrated
Republicans who were waging a battle against him.
Jim Harris, a campaign spokesman who also worked for Mr. Huckabee in the
governor’s office, said Mr. Huckabee was deeply involved in helping state
Republicans.
“He raised a lot of money regularly; he campaigned tirelessly for GOP
candidates up and down the ballot; he gave from [his political action
committee] to GOP candidates,” Mr. Harris said, adding that Mr. Huckabee
appointed years’ worth of Republicans to boards and commissions.
“This created a strong network of individuals who will run for office in
the future under the Republican banner,” he said.
Arkansas Republicans, though, said Mr. Huckabee was building an organization
for himself, not a farm team for the party. He left many appointments of former
Govs. Bill Clinton and Jim Guy Tucker in office, including some department
heads who stayed through Mr. Huckabee’s tenure.
They said no Republicans hold any of the statewide constitutional offices, and
the state party chairman told the Associated Press last week that he doesn’t
expect to field a candidate this year to run against Sen. Mark Pryor, a
Democrat.
“In the 10 years where the governor was the title head of the party, we
actually took steps backwards,” Mr. Files said, noting that Republicans
were advancing in other Southern states. “The overall morale of the party
did not take any of those same stages it did in the other states. It started
plateauing and took a dive.”
On the campaign trail
The campaign finance records for Conservative Leadership for Arkansas PAC, Mr.
Huckabee’s political action committee, also seem to bear out the charge that he
was building his own organization.
Records kept with the secretary of state in Little Rock show that CLAPAC spent
only a third of its money on candidates between 2001 and 2006, with the rest
going to consulting, accounting and, in later years, travel and fundraising for
Mr. Huckabee.
Mr. Huckabee gave contributions as well during those years to at least three
Democrats. Given that $5,000 of CLAPAC’s money came in a 2003 donation from the
state Republican Party, that means some Republican money was used indirectly to
aid the party’s own opponents.
“Go out and ask those ladies at bake sales or out raising money if they
thought that money would end up in the hands of Democratic candidates,”
Mr. Hendren said. “That’s what drove us up a wall.”
One Democrat who received CLAPAC money was Barbara Horn. Mr. Huckabee supported
her even though a Republican planned to run for the same seat in 2000. The
Associated Press reported that Mr. Huckabee’s support for the Democrat chased
the Republican from the race, delivering an open seat to the Democratic Party.
State Republicans repeatedly called that race demoralizing.
Mr. Huckabee’s campaign denied charges from a host of Republicans that he aided
Democrats over Republicans in other races.
“Governor Huckabee never gave money to a Democrat who had a Republican
opponent,” Mr. Harris said. “He did give to some conservative
Democrats money in the primaries when there were no Republicans running in the
general election.”
Records for CLAPAC’s activity in 2000 are missing from the secretary of state’s
office. The accounting firm Mr. Huckabee used said it couldn’t provide records
without the client’s approval, and Mr. Huckabee’s campaign didn’t respond to
requests to produce them.
In 2005, Mr. Huckabee registered another political action committee in
Virginia, which has less stringent limits on campaign activity.
The stated goal of that PAC, Hope for America, was to aid state and local
candidates nationwide. But records show it hasn’t donated to a single candidate
but instead has paid for Mr. Huckabee’s consultants, travel and fundraising.
………read full story at the link……….
RON PAUL WINS!!!
Important to
realize this is the home of Tyson’s, Wal-Mart, George’s, J.B. Hunt’s and most
of the infamous Arkansas Friendship Coalition organized to protect illegal
alien slave labor. They can down play it
all they like, but this is very important!!
http://www2.arkansasonline.com/news/2008/jan/24/huckabee-gets-3rd-benton-county
Huckabee gets 3rd in Benton County GOP straw poll
By Laura Kellams (Contact)
BENTONVILLE – GOP activists in the
most Republican of Arkansas counties handed former Gov. Mike Huckabee a
third-place finish in a “straw poll†ranking of their favorite presidential
candidates.
But many of those who voted in the
informal poll at Tuesday night’s Benton County Republican Committee event said
they don’t think Huckabee’s finish there will translate to a similar showing in
Arkansas’ Feb. 5 presidential primary.
Huckabee’s campaign is counting on
that.
“We’ve yet to campaign here for the
Republican nomination,†his spokesman, Alice Stewart, said Wednesday. “Once we
do, we expect to see support all across the state.â€
Ron Paul came in first in the poll,
in which committee members and guests were allowed to participate. Many of
Paul’s supporters were first-time attendees at a Republican committee meeting.
But Mitt Romney, one of Huckabee’s chief rivals for conservatives’ votes, also
beat him, despite Huckabee’s personal ties to many who voted.
Paul took 52 of 142 votes, while
Romney got 35 and Huckabee 30. John McCain came in fourth with 20 votes, and
Rudy Giuliani had four. Fred Thompson came in last with one vote, despite
having dropped out of the race earlier in the day.
State Rep. Donna Hutchinson of Bella
Vista is a Romney supporter who helped produce radio advertisements in Iowa
that blasted Huckabee’s record on illegal immigration. She said there’s a lot
of disappointment with Huckabee among longtime Republicans in the party’s base
of Northwest Arkansas.
The straw poll reflected that, she
said.
“I think it indicates a problemthat
has been below the surface that no one has talked about,†Hutchinson said. “A
lot of Republicans are upset.â€
She said they don’t like that Huckabee
grew state government and advocated for illegal aliens to receive in-state
tuition benefits. But they’re mostly displeased that he failed to build the
party successfully in 10 years as governor.
“But he was our Republican governor,
and people didn’t want to say too much [when he was in office],†Hutchinson
said.
Jay Barth, a political science
professor at Hendrix College in Conway, said the criticism of Huckabee’s
party-building efforts is widely held, especially in Northwest Arkansas.
As the longtime party supporters,
“they’re particularly conscious of a lost opportunity,†he said.
But they’re a minority statewide,
Barth said. He has no doubt Huckabee will win the Republican primary in
Arkansas, and hefigures it’ll be with a majority of the vote.
None of the other candidates are
investing much energy here, plus, “Arkansas is the ultimate homer state,†he
said.
Stewart said Huckabee told her that
he’s proud of the work he did to support Republican candidates all across the
state. But he’s also proud of working with people from both parties, she said.
Barth said he wasn’t surprised by
Paul’s showing.
“He has incredibly fervent support,â€
Barth said.
Joel Jones of Bella Vista rallied
Paul’s Benton County “revolutionaries†after hearing at the last committee
meeting that a straw poll would take place this month. The other candidates’
supporters had just as much time to find people to come out to the meeting, he
said.
“Either they don’t have the support,
or they’re not as passionate,†he said.
Jones became a member of the
committee Tuesday night and said he hopes the other Paul supporters will do the
same, though he pointed out that some longtime committee members also voted for
Paul.
County Chairman George Spence of
Bentonville said he organized the straw poll for fun and to help build the
party. The committee raised almost $1,000 at a chili supper that took place
before the meeting, and a crowd including lots of unfamiliar faces overflowed
into the hallway outside the group’s usual meeting room.
“You can’t over-interpret these
results,†Spence said. “This is just one small slice. But we had a good time.â€
State Sen. Dave Bisbee of Rogers,
like Spence, cast his vote for McCain. A former Senate floor leader for
Huckabee, Bisbee said after the vote that he was “thrilled†to see that Romney
beat Huckabee.
Asked why, he said he didn’t want to
say anything negative about the former governor.
“Well, I was the governor’s floor
leader while he was governor, but this is president of the United States,†he
said. Mc-Cain is the only candidate he’s comfortable supporting as
commander-in-chief, Bisbee said.
He said he still thinks Huckabee
will win the primary election here.
“But this shows it’s not going to be
overwhelming,†he said.
Jonathan Barnett of Siloam Springs,
a Huckabee appointee to the Arkansas Highway Commission, voted for the former
governor. He said was disappointed that Huckabee couldn’t win the Benton County
poll but said it’s no sign of things to come.
“I think there are a lot of people
out there who still are going to vote for Mike. He’s going to do quite well in
this state,†Barnett said.
This article was published Thursday,
January 24, 2008.
Front Section, Pages 7 on 01/24/2008
Evangelicals Reluctant To Support Minister
Thursday, January 24, 2008 9:10 AM CST
By Aaron Sadler
Stephens Washington Bureau • asadler@stephensmedia.com
WASHINGTON
— Evangelical voters appear to be unwilling to unite behind Mike
Huckabee, despite the presidential candidate’s pedigree as an ordained
Southern Baptist minister.
While Huckabee leads Republican
hopefuls in a survey of “born again†voters released Wednesday, it was
by a tenuous margin that suggested dissatisfaction with a candidate who
built his campaign by courting social conservatives.
Several evangelical leaders said Wednesday that like-minded voters see Huckabee as flimsy on foreign policy.
With
terrorism fears still on their minds, evangelicals are looking for more
in a president than harmony on social issues, said the Rev. Joel
Hunter, a Florida pastor.
“Everybody
has a question about his foreign relations experience. How is he going
to be as an international player?†said Hunter, senior pastor of the
12,000-member Northland Church in Orlando, Fla.
A survey of
evangelicals by the Beliefnet Web site indicated 28 percent support
Huckabee, compared to 21 percent for Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz. A
statistically similar number of born-again voters had favorable views
of both men.
Evangelicals spurred a Huckabee victory in the Iowa caucuses on Jan. 3, but he has not won since.
And
McCain cut into Huckabee’s evangelical base in his narrow victory over
the former Arkansas governor in Saturday’s South Carolina primary.
“John
McCain picked up 25 percent of the evangelicals in South Carolina, and
why did he do it? Because he had more experience,†said Richard Cizik,
spokesman for the National Association of Evangelicals. “That’s the
question about Mike Huckabee out there.â€
Cizik and Hunter were among nine evangelical leaders who participated in a panel discussion of the 2008 campaign.
Panelists
were generally complimentary of Huckabee, who was portrayed as a new
type of Christian leader focused on a broad area of policy priorities.
No
longer are evangelicals concerned only about sanctity of life and
marriage issues, the group said. Economic, environmental, social
justice and global health care issues are all priorities of a modern
evangelical.
Beliefnet’s survey showed the economy, government
corruption and poverty were the most important topics of concern to the
980 respondents.
The variety of issues important to evangelicals make it difficult for Huckabee to get a foothold, experts said.
“Huckabee
would have already won everything if it was just going to be, ‘I’m born
again and I’m George Bush No. 3,’†said Bishop Harry Jackson, senior
pastor of Hope Christian Church in Washington.
Bush in his first
term had a 79 percent approval rating among evangelicals. It has since
dropped to 45 percent. Cizik said born-again voters, like much of the
rest of the country, were dissatisfied with the war.
Cizik said
he liked Huckabee’s comments that the Bush administration demonstrated
an “arrogant†foreign policy. But Huckabee’s freshness on international
issues leave him concerned.
“It may be that he is so new to the
scene that he will maybe not make the nomination this year, but is he
going away? No way,†Cizik said.
Hunter, who said he is voting for Huckabee, nevertheless criticized his fellow pastor for his hard line on illegal immigration.
The
new style of evangelical voter is more compassionate about immigration
than Huckabee is in his plan to require illegal immigrants to return to
their native countries before trying to enter the country illegally,
Hunter said.
Huckabee was labeled as soft on immigration just
weeks ago for his support of scholarships and in-state college tuition
rates for children of illegal immigrants.
“I think he got bad
advice from somebody who said ‘You will never win the Republican
nomination unless you take a hard stand on immigration,’†Hunter said.
“He took a hard right, and I think it killed him, personally.â€
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It’s true.
I admit it. It seems I’m a
recovering Huckaholic.
I attended a “Huckabee for
President” campaign rally in St. John’s Michigan last Friday Night. Please
don’t hold it against me as it was Huckabee who invaded my space and not the
case of my going out of my way to swoon over his rock star–like status. My son
was competing in a home-school basketball game and the Huckabee campaign
decided that the venue would be a great photo op and rally site. Now, I could
have decided to just miss the game since it was being converted into an
“All ignorant Jesus lovers vote for me” rally but since I am an
assistant coach for Anthony’s team I thought I would grin and bear it.
However, since I was forced to be
there I do have an observation about those gathered, an observation about
Huckabee and a sociological observation regarding social behavior towards those
who refuse to drink the kool-aid and who scream loudly that others shouldn’t
drink the kool-aid.
First concerning the gathered
lemming; I must say it was as if I was transported to a Tom Jones concert of 40
years ago. You know … the type where all the women would throw their
undergarments on the stage along with their hotel room keys in hopes that Tom
would pick them. The swooning was surreal. Before Huckabee arrived their were
announcements on the PA about how the Huckabee staffers were nervous that the
crowd would swarm him and pleas that people would show their Christian behavior
by letting the candidate approach them and encouragement not to mob the
candidate. The people in charge of the campaign kept giving us minute by minute
updates on the coming of Huckabee. “Governor Huckabee is 10 minutes out.
Governor Huckabee is 5 minutes out. Governor Huckabee is 2 minute out.”
And on and on it went. The last time I’ve seen a person tracked this closely
with this much excitement was Santa Clause on Christmas Eve. Every time an
update was given the 500 souls in the gymnasium would swoon like teenage girls
being asked out on their first date. Then we had practice cheering runs.
“Let me hear what kind of noise you’re going to make when future President
Huckabee shows up.” Louis XVI would have been so fortunate to have such an
adoring people as these Huckabee groupies. These people were wetting their
pants over getting to be in the same room with a guy that makes Tricky Dick and
Slick Willie look like amateurs.
And then when Huckabee arrived it
was more of the same. The Huckster’s speech was boiler plate political vapid.
There was no there “there.” My 18-year-old daughter characterized it
as “bushwah.” And yet people were screaming their lungs out as if
Huckabee was serving as the prophet of Allah making pronouncements revealing
Allah’s will.
To be honest I was ashamed of
myself. Ashamed because despite all my skepticism and cynicism I had
underestimated the ability of those who call themselves Christians to be
totally deluded. Those 500 people present, most of whom no doubt would label
themselves “Christian” have no idea who Mike Huckabee is or what
policy he has pursued, and further have no desire to know. It is enough for
them that Mike says he is the “Jesus candidate.” I used to think that
these people were being manipulated by their Pastors but having spoken to a few
Huckabee Pastor types I realize that the fog in the pew is because of the mist
in the pulpit. In short, their Pastors are just as deluded as the rank and
file. Somehow a lemming avalanche for Huckabee got started and once the
avalanche begins no amount of reasoning will thwart its kinetic energy.
I know this because I got snowed
over by the avalanche. When it was announced that Huckabee was going to be in
St. Johns and when I realized it was the home-schooling organization that I am
loosely a part of that was pushing it I sent an e-mail out to those in the
home-schooling group simply explaining some of the liberal and statist
tendencies of Mike Huckabee and providing links for people to look closer at
this wolf in sheep’s clothing. Given the response I received you would have
thought that I had committed blasphemy by touching the Lord’s anointed.
So here is the summary of the first
observation. People, including Christians, so desperately want heroes that they
will turn off rational thought once they decide, for whatever reason, that some
person is going to be that hero. Secondly, the Christian community is no
different from the non-Christian community when it comes to shallowness,
practicing thought by emotion, and sheer unmitigated gullibility.
The observation about Huckabee is
that he is slick the same way that Clinton was slick except that he has added a
Jesus coating to his slickness. This is my chief reason for disliking Huckabee.
It is my estimation that he is cynically using Jesus to get elected. Let’s face
it, if it weren’t for Huckabee’s ministerial ties and willingness to invoke
Jesus at every turn he would be running neck and neck with Duncan Hunter and be
easily dismissed as a center-left moderate Republican (what they call a Social
Democrat in Europe). Recently, I am blaming him less and less for this and
increasingly I am blaming the “Christian community” for being such
willing naifs. Huckabee’s “I am the Bible’s candidate” spiel came out
again in the few minutes that he spoke where he appealed to people to help him
slay the giants he was facing in the Michigan primary the way that David slew
Goliath. This was just more identity politics and more red meat for the Jesus
people.
Here is the summary of the second
observation. Huckabee will ride this “I love Jesus” train as far as
he can. What is unfortunate about it is that he is getting away with what so
many ministers in our churches get away with and that is constantly having
Jesus on their lips while preaching a theology that is not particularly
Christian. The goods are out there on Huckabee in terms of his leftist, statist
and non-Christian agenda but Christians just don’t care because it is enough to
invoke Jesus.
My final observation is sociological
and has reference to the way people treat those who are unwilling to drink the
kool-aid. During the 36 hours when all this was unfolding I was told it was
inappropriate for me to e-mail people to warn them about Huckabee. My son was
told by someone that they “felt sorry for him that he had the father he
had,” and the most benign look I seem to get now is one that is quizzical
as if somebody is looking at a hunchback cannibal with the remnants of dinner
still wedged between his teeth. Like the human body, a community protects
itself by attacking foreign elements that it perceives does not belong there.
Much of the Christian community has decided that Huckabee is the man and woe
unto those who suggest that a vote for Huckabee is a vote which is, in reality,
precisely against their best interest.
So yes… I attended a Huckabee rally.
And my worst fears were realized.
January 21, 2008
Pastor Bret McAtee [send him mail]
writes on www.ironink.org
and is from Charlotte, Michigan where he dwells with his perfect wife, dazzling
children and where he prays daily for Reformation in the West.
Times Record 1/6/8 “Fort Smith School Board members to reach
a decision by fall on how the district would handle its increasing student
populationâ€. Name the population. Illegals?
Gooden and the Board are aware the unending demand for
taxpayer dollars will not cease until cause and effects are addressed. Gooden refuses to inform citizens of the
sordid state of affairs in public education. His position, demanding more tax
dollars, e.g. Gooden stated “we’ll take all we can get†referencing illegals.
Gooden opined “we need to know where we are going†and “we
need to know where we’ll be in the big pictureâ€. Huh?
Benny, Einstein said, “only two things are infinite…the
universe and human stupidityâ€â€¦you personify the latter. Envision China, India, and Mexico.
2000-2010, Hispanic
population will grow another 34%, 4 times faster than native population, 20 years teen Hispanic population projected increase is
50%, compared to a native 6% overall.
Over half of children born to illegals in the U.S. are born out of wedlock
(religious leaders?) and increasing exponentially. Arkansas’ legislature and Governor stupidly
awarded free prenatal and ancillary care to illegals, escalating to over 7,000
per month, plus anchor babies. The
illegal Hispanic tsunami is producing juvenile delinquents, gangs, school
failure, welfare, more teen pregnancies. Arkansas’ Hispanic birthrate has
increased by 40%.
Benny, you have forgotten who’s paying for the empire
building, and your obligations. All the while the school board is salivating
at rewarding you another unearned, obscene pay raise. Taxpayers are finished
subsidizing a failed, dysfunctional school system. We’re also sick of law
enforcement agencies scoffing their sworn duties. Benny, your obligation is to educate
American children. Send the bills for the illegals to the crime families, i.e.
Tyson’s, Wenderoths, Simmons, et al.
Citizens, we are falling on our own sword by immigrating
ourselves into this “Human Katrina.â€
Joe McCutchen
Fort Smith
646-8261
CHANGE?
All the Candidates are calling for it…but from what to
what?
By Don A. Bright
My Microsoft Bookshelf
dictionary defines “change†in the following way: Change: 1. a. To cause to be different: b. To give a completely different form or appearance to;
transform:
The four most prominent
liberal candidates running for the 2008 nomination for President (Barrack
Obama, Hillary Clinton, John Edwards and Mike Huckabee) have been singing from
the oldest hymnal in the church of candidacy since the beginning of the
campaign. This piece of political
rhetoric has been around since voting began.
Let’s take a closer look at what is really the status quo in the United
States and what would truly “cause (our
government) to be differentâ€.
Just so we know we’re on the
same page as to “change†and “status quo†I will add here the same dictionary’s
definition of “status quoâ€: status
quo: noun The existing condition or state of
affairs.
Currently in the
United States our status quo is socialism.
(a stage
of society in Marxist theory transitional between capitalism and communism and
distinguished by unequal distribution of goods and pay according to work done.
– Merriam-Webster online dictionary). “Changeâ€, then, would consist of a
transposition from “a stage in government
theory of socialism to capitalism, distinguished by freedom, private property
and equal rights for all and pay according to productivity. – Bright’s on
demand Common Sense Dictionary.)
How many of the four
liberals I have listed above are truly wanting change? On a comparative test the only answer needed
is “none of the aboveâ€. Let’s take a
look at who’s calling for what kind of change:
Clinton: Hillary is campaigning on promises to
socialize our entire medical system (1/6 of our economy) by putting it under
the control of mindless bureaucrats which will triple the cost and reduce the
quality of the system. She will work to
grant immunity from prosecution for such organizations as the Black Panthers,
Weather Underground, (which she championed during the sixties) Cair, and
Moveon.org. She also promises to raise
taxes and place more and more commerce under the heavy hand of government with
further regulation and corporate taxes.
Hillary calls this change…I call it the status quo.
Obama: Barrack is running on promises to expand
racial quotas, government controlled wages based on racial and gender, giving
Gestapoist agencies of the federal government the sole power to define
individual thought through “hate†crime legislation, remove children from
parental guidance by dictate and put the government in charge of children at
birth, (read his “0 to 5†plan for early brainwashing on the glories of
government dependency) and the banning of the Pledge of Allegiance and National
Anthem. (He turns his back on the flag
when either is in play.) Barrack calls
this change…I call it the status quo.
Edwards: John wants to regulate and tax business out
of…well, business. He also promises high
paying jobs provided by the taxpayers (apparently he thinks that is doable.)
He wants to increase
taxes and promises wage and price controls.
He defines American patriots as those wanting war. He wishes to socialize higher education
through government caps and free government tuition. Oh, and another thing: on his website he calls for more respect for
our Constitution (The fact that respecting the Constitution would make every
promise he makes an illegal act shows his disrespect for the Constitution.) John calls this change…I call it the status
quo.
Huckabee: Where do I begin? In the first place I will opine that the word
“changeâ€, when used by Huckabee, must mean replacing a dirty diaper with
another dirty diaper.
For one thing Huckabee
is very John Edwards like when it comes to the Constitution. Perhaps it’s his lack of higher education that
prevents him from understanding that the Constitution is his to ignore at
will. I have had two personal incidents
with Mike during which he categorized private property as privilege which the
government can retract on a “case by case†basis. Hardly an educated understanding of the very
form of government we live under, if you ask me.
Mike also claims to be
a “defender of the 2nd Amendmentâ€, yet he made no effort at all to
challenge any unconstitutional gun control measure in the state. He wanted more felons on the street (through
his liberal pardons) than he wanted self protection in the home.
Mike claims to be for
“free†enterprise and privacy for persons and private property and yet he
dictated what private business owners could do on their own property by ramming
statewide no smoking bans on that private property.
One of the first
things Mike did when he took office was to add to the sales tax burden on the
citizens of Arkansas. As part of the
dedication of this increase in taxes he created a new government agency. Mike raised the taxes on Arkansas citizens by
at least $500,000,000 during his reign.
He, of course, denies that using for one excuse the fact that he raised
“fees†not taxes. Only a dedicated
liberal could claim that dispossessing citizens of their income under the
police power of the state is not a tax.
Mike fooled the people
of the state of Arkansas into voting for “cap†on property taxes for the
elderly. The “cap†was easily movable by
the state for undefined conditions.
During the process of ramming this Trojan Horse down the wallets of
Arkansans he kept very silent about one part of his “gift†to the people of
Arkansas; that was the fact that the initiative raised their state sales tax
level 1/2%.
Completely ignoring
our Constitution was more Mike’s rule than exception. The reader may not believe this, but Mike
traveled to a foreign country (Mexico) and personally arranged for the
establishment of a Mexican Consulate in Little Rock Arkansas as a magnet for
drawing criminal aliens to the state to work for slave wages. (It may serve the
reader well to be apprised of the fact that Mike was propped up by support and
financial help by several corporate tycoons who stuffed their wallets with
profits made off the backs of captive exploited labor.) Mike apparently thinks repeating this kind of
governance from the oval-office is change…I would call it the status quo on
steroids.
At this point I need
to make a correction. I listed above the
four most liberal candidates for the president’s office in the following
order: Obama, Clinton, Edwards and
Huckabee. I wish to change that order to
Huckabee, Obama, Clinton and Edwards
So when you hear
candidates promising “change†consider that “change†it as desirable as a dirty
diaper.
Don Bright is a radio
talk show host, poet and editorialist.
He can be contacted through his website:
Brightremarks.com.
I’ve visited the Middle East
extensively over the past thirty-five years, including nine trips to Israel. I
salute and support Israel as our staunch ally in the War on Terror and our
greatest friend in that region. As the only fully-functioning democracy in the
Middle East, Israel occupies a unique position both geographically and
geopolitically. Israel is an important partner in the spread of freedom and
democracy throughout the Middle East and the world.
The United States must remain true
to its long-standing, bipartisan commitment to the Israelis. I will always
ensure that Israel has access to the state-of-the-art weapons and technology
she needs to defend herself from those who seek her annihilation.
from Huckabee
official website
