The Unelectable Mike Huckabee
His Open Borders, pro-Amnesty position guarantees failure.
by James Buchanan
Virtually all of Mike Huckabee’s support in the polls is coming from ordinary Christians, who aren’t sure who to support. Unfortunately, the Reverend Huckabee has little going for him other than the “Reverend” in front of his name. Huckabee has repeatedly voiced his support for illegal aliens. One source reports “Huckabee vehemently opposed a 2005 bill sponsored by Arkansas State Senator Jim Holt which would deny state benefits to illegal immigrants, calling it ‘un-Christian.’ ” A similar bill in California, Proposition 187, passed by a landslide vote. Seems like Huckabee is to the left of most Americans, even liberal Californians.
Meanwhile, Huckabee doesn’t consider it “un-Christian” for millions of foreign invaders to break our immigration laws and shove their children into our public schools at great expense to us taxpayers and an even worse cost to our children. Huckabee doesn’t care if the public schools have standing room only. Huckabee doesn’t care if American parents are told that their local public school is “full.” Huckabee doesn’t care if millions of poor illegal aliens from Central America burn up so much federal money (in food stamps and other services) that Medicare and Social Security go broke.
It’s only “un-Christian” in the mind of Mike Huckabee, if we Americans insist that our immigration laws be enforced and that Mexico’s poor aren’t dumped onto our infra-structure at a high cost to us in both taxes and quality of life.
It seems like the top leaders of organized Christianity are not too fond of Mike Huckabee. His failure to raise a significant amount of money in the third quarter is an almost certain guarantee of failure. The leaders of organized Christianity want to back a winner, not a loser.
The top GOP contenders Romney, McCain, Giuliani and Thompson are all so much toxic waste to ordinary Christians. Giuliani has changed wives more times than he’s flip-flopped his stand on abortion. Fred Thompson tossed out his old wife for a trophy wife. James Dobson openly doubts whether Thompson is a Christian. McCain tossed out the wife who waited for him while he was a POW in favor of a trophy wife. Romney’s Mormon religion is more than a little alarming to the likes of Pat Robertson and James Dobson.
This leaves just one man, whom organized Christianity could back, who has raised enough money to run a credible campaign, who has led a nearly perfect personal life by Christian standards and who already has an enthusiastic mass following. That man is Ron Paul.
A recent Gallup Poll puts Ron Paul and Mike Huckabee at a near tie with five percent going to Paul and six percent going to Huckabee. Ron Paul however reported over five million dollars in donations during the third quarter while Huckabee raised only about a million. If the top leaders of organized Christianity put out the word, that Ron Paul deserves the support of Christian voters, Mike Huckabee’s support would evaporate overnight. Ron Paul would immediately shoot up into the double digits, and a victory in the Republican primary for Ron Paul would be guaranteed.
The total percent of organized Christian voters (meaning politically-organized Protestant evangelicals in the Republican Party) could easily amount to 30 percent minimum and perhaps over 50 percent. Considering that the election is going to be a multi-candidate free-for-all with the “big four” splitting the pro-war vote, it seems that Ron Paul with his anti-war voters and his pro-Bill of Rights voters –combined with the organized Christian vote– would be absolutely certain to win.
Once Ron Paul won the primary, his anti-war position would give him a great advantage over Hillary Clinton. More than 70 percent of Americans want to get US troops out of Iraq, but Hillary would not even promise to withdraw our troops by 2013. Ms. Clinton also voted for the illegal alien Amnesty Bill, last June, further alienating mainstream America. If organized Christianity backs Ron Paul, they will make his victory certain and they will be able to ride his coattails into the White House —versus the alternative: being shut out of power for eight years while Hillary Clinton defiles the Oval Office.