Go here to read this great article and then the homepage also has a sign up for the conference call tommorrow night with Stephen Strang as Huck discusses the movement going forward…
The presence of presidential contender Gov. Mike Huckabee, 52, says it all. Against all odds, his scrappy campaign has forged ahead until he trailed only John McCain in a two-candidate race for the Republican nomination for the presidency.
When he started out, Huckabee wasn’t given a chance, but he wasn’t daunted by statistics. He responded to the polls like the ordained Baptist preacher he is when he quipped February 9 after winning the Kansas primary: “I didn’t major in math. I majored in miracles. And I still believe in them.”
With little money, organization or name recognition, he was dismissed early by pundits and pompous party elites alike. Only when he snatched the crucial Iowa caucus from the hands of expected favorites Mitt Romney and Fred Thompson did the Republican movers and shakers take notice.
Since then, he’s swept the West Virginia, Tennessee, Georgia, Alabama, Arkansas, Kansas and Louisiana primaries and fought to narrow finishes in the Washington, Oklahoma, Missouri and Virginia races.
In doing so, he pushed candidates viewed as politically stronger utterly out of the picture—such as U.S. senator and Hollywood actor Fred Thompson, former New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani, and ex-governor of Massachusetts Romney.
The above is a great pat on the back for what we accomplished…but the below is the reality of where we are at…
“After a generation of activism these Christian leaders lost their first love,” says Frost, who helped raise money for Huckabee. “They started looking at polls and pundits instead of character and conviction. They adopted a ‘D.C. mentality’ and forgot that God is the one who exalts rulers.”
According to Mathew Staver, founder of Liberty Counsel and dean of Liberty University School of Law, top evangelicals passed on Huckabee because hard-core party insiders in Washington diverted them early in the process.
“There are some people in the established Republican Party who do not want an evangelical to be president,” he says. “They want evangelical votes. But they do not want evangelicals to have a significant voice in American public policy.”
It’s funny…A lot of Republican “Insiders” here in Arkansas have disdain for Huck…They say he wasn’t conservative enough…Tax-Hike Mike…They say all kinds of things about him…Most of which are true to a point…I sit and I listen…I don’t push the issue…I’m trying to network so I try not to burn bridges…some of my closest friends spit the nastiest venom at Mike…On the inside I have a quiet confidence…I know that Huck embodies the future of the Republican Party…Conservatism speaks to a lot of issues that Democrats have owned in the past…issues middle class America longs to have answers for…issues that the Republican Party has not done a good job addressing…they badmouth Huck but they must not remember the past…only 17/130 years has a Republican Governor been in power in Arkansas…11 of those were Huckabee…So the fight continues…
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“Most of which are true to a point”
Would that point be on the top of your head??
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Mike “The Huckster” Huckabee
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Thanks for the heads up on the con call!
Scott Spray
http://scottspray.blogspot.com/
I amk a lifelong doctrinaire conservative who didn’t vote for George W. Bush because he wasn’t a conservative, and in fact, under Bush spending increased at the fastest rate since Lyndon Johnson.
I argued with these “liberal” charges al year. It isn’t there. I think Huckabee’s rhetoric about “Main Street” and concern for average people (which spurred the “populist” label, made some conservatives uneasy and made all those charges possible.
But really, at bottom, I think it was discomfort among establishment Republicans with his outspoken evangelical faith that made them grab for everything to go after him; that and moneyed conservatives dislike of The Fair Tax, which would tax all their previously untaxed luxury “business expenses.”
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