Posted by
Dr. Scott on Thursday, December 06, 2007 9:10:45 AM
I’m
surprised that Huckabee supporters are not paying more attention. If
their guy were truly pro-life, wouldn’t he be attacking the only
outspoken pro-choice Republican candidate? The apparent ceasefire
between the Guilliani and Huckabee campaigns doesn’t pass the smell
test. If he were being honest with us about his intentions, there would
be more fire leveled at the mayor of New York.
Either he is running for vice president and hoping that by playing
nice, Rudy will hand him the VP nomination, or he has decided that
political expediency (i.e., not getting hammered yet by Guilliani) is
more important than principle (which he supposedly stands for), and
believes he can actually survive when the primaries start. Anyone who
has looked at his lack of organization and lack of fundraising know
that the latter would only be wishful thinking.
Unfortunately,
it appears that Huckabee has become a willing tool of the Guilliani
campaign. Both know that Huckabee is the mayor of New York’s best
hope for removing Romney from his threatening stance in Michigan, South Carolina, and Florida,
and for taking steam out of the Thompson campaign before it becomes too
strong. But Huckabee will find all too quickly after Jan. 3 that his
usefulness to the Mayor is as thin as Mike’s foreign policy
credentials.
Social conservatives who are currently enthralled with the governor of Arkansas need to look at the primary numbers. Huckabee is nowhere near taking the lead away from the top candidates in any race except Iowa.
The only impact he can have on the election is to ensure that Romney or
Thompson isn’t able to stop Guilliani. In other words, a vote for
Huckabee on Jan. 3 is actually a vote for Guilliani. Social
conservatives, think about that for a couple of minutes, and consider
how you are being used. Consider who you will be helping, and examine
how well it lines up with your belief system.
Have
you stopped to consider why the mainstream media is so excited about
Huckabee at the moment? They love to build people up only to tear them
down later. They have no love for religious conservatives—so why all
the positive attention right now? They don’t give a hill of beans about
electing a conservative, but they can see how Huckabee is currently
benefiting Guilliani. Wouldn’t they just love it if we had a choice
between two pro-choice candidates next Fall, the pro-life movement put
forth a third party candidate, and the split Republican vote handed Senator Clinton
the presidency on a platter? A choice between Guilliani and Clinton
would be a non-choice, and nothing is bringing us closer to that
scenario than Huckabee’s surge in Iowa.
If Rudy goes against
Clinton even without a third party conservative in the mix, he will lose. Some social conservatives will probably defect Clinton’s
way, as disgusted they are with his character and moral background (at
least she has never been divorced). Huckabee won't survive past South Carolina. He is
being used as a tool of the religious-despising left. If we put him up front on Jan. 3, we will kill our chances in November. We
can say goodbye to forcefully waging the war on terror, to resolving
the social security crisis, to resolving the immigration fiasco, to
strengthening the dollar, to making tax cuts permanent, and to
appointing supreme court justices who follow the constitution. We will
have at least four more years of the Clintons. May God help us.