Why I Want Your $100

Update: Now at $46,000. Let's keep going!  Since last Monday a few friends and I have raised more than $22,000 for Mike Huckabee's presidential bid. I have endlessly researched Mr. Huckabee's views, as well as the accusations other candidates have hurled at him, and am satisfied that he will be the best President our nation has had since the Reagan era.

If you're a regular reader, or have clicked over from the Huckabee website, and want to be part of our effort, please click here to contribute. When you get to step 5, just replace what's in the box with event code 80-MM.

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I believe this election is America's most important in at least a century. It is simply too critical to be left in the hands of uninformed voters who flip a coin before they flip the lever. In fact, given the opposition's extreme shift to the left, our culture now faces as great a threat from within as from without.

My home church is building a new place of worship. Yet right now America is an inch away from hate crimes legislation that would get my pastor thrown in jail for reading Bible verses about certain sexual perversions. What good would that new building be?

Florida is an inch away from laws that would take my daughter from me if I spanked her even lightly. Can I afford to sit back and do nothing?

If a Democrat wins in November, Nancy Pelosi and the gates of hell will join forces to ram through a glut of horrible legislation, and America will find itself in the grip of the same socialist culture rot that is killing Western Europe as we speak.

Concerning our primary choices:

I will not vote for Mitt Romney, because I believe he has spent so many years trying to achieve consensus that he lacks a moral center. For example, while he comes across as sincere (for once) on his reversal from pro-abortion to pro-life, I am dismayed that it took reaching his mid-50s before he settled such a basic moral question. That's 30 years too late.

I will not vote for John McCain for similar reasons (he seems more loyal to popular opinion than the Constitution). More important, I think he'd get walloped in debates with the Democrat nominee, especially Barack Obama, whose mantra of "change" is personified by this non-inspiring, even morose, senior citizen with 26 years in the federal government.

I will not vote for Fred Thompson, although I like him, because he does not show passion for the presidency as a calling. And his clever one-liners in the last debate are just that, one-liners, not substantive positions.

I will not vote for Rudy Giuliani, because he represents everything about the way our culture is decaying from within. Why gain protection from external enemies if you surrender to an internal, spiritual one? I'll burn my vote with Alan Keyes before voting for Rudy, even if it means one of the socialists on the other ticket wins. Better to burn fast and hopefully repent than to gradually freeze to death because you don't realize it's happening.

There have been objections and accusations against Huckabee, especially regarding what he did as Governor of Arkansas with taxes and the children of illegals. Here's my take on those two issues:

He faced a dilemma for those ten and a half years:

1. As Governor he had to submit a yearly budget.
2. Arkansas' Constitution requires a balanced budget.
3. Many, if not most, of the tax hikes were court mandated.
4. The legislature is 85 percent Democrat and 15 percent Republican.

He had no choice but to give in to compromises dictated by both the court and an overwhelmingly powerful legislature. All in all, he did an admirable job of restraining hikes that would have been much worse.

In reality, he is much more fiscally conservative than President Bush, and at least as much as Romney and McCain. He is much more conservative on taxes than McCain, and would like to do away with the IRS and totally overhaul the tax system, because it is irreparably broken.

Regarding the in-state college tuition for the children of illegals, here's the scoop: Arkansas law requires free public schooling for children of illegals, and Huckabee discovered that there were 30 such students about to graduate who had excelled, but were hitting an educational dead end. He says he thought this would be awful for both their lives and society, so he devised a merit scholarship program that would accommodate only these 30, as well as future high achievers facing a similar dead end. He says he didn't think in this instance it would be fair to punish children for the sins of their parents. I think I would have done the same thing. His current stance is that all illegals should be given a few weeks to take their families and leave the country, and get at the back of the line. Period.

Please join me in supporting Governor Huckabee's campaign. And let me know if you contribute with event code 80-MM. Please act now.

Baby Boomlet: Poor Ignorant America

NOTE: Expanded at 4:51 pm EST

I've been away from blogging for this past month (will let you know why after next Tuesday). But an Associated Press story here has me fuming.

The article concerns America's current "baby boomlet," which sees our nation with its highest birth rate since 1961. Here's the line that infuriated me:

Experts believe there is a mix of reasons: a decline in contraceptive use, a drop in access to abortion, poor education and poverty.

The piece (of what I won't say) goes on to say that, oh yeah, Americans also like having babies more than most other countries, but the arrogance of the "experts" is still present. These people obviously have not considered the view that children are a blessing from God, and lots of us like making them for that reason.

Wish I had time to comment further on other paragraphs in this awful swill, but here's the kicker: The boomlet (thanks largely to Hispanic immigrants) only brings our birthrate up to 2.1, which is replacement level. In other words, we've been slowly dying off, and somehow the experts must think that's a good thing.

Sadly, even within the church there are too many young couples who say, "we want two, a boy first" and don't think beyond that little non-multiplying number (remember that "be fruitful" command?). The reason for this, in my "expert" opinion, is that even Christian young people have been swallowed up by the cult of self esteem, and view having children as mere fulfillment of their own lives, rather than God's "great commission" to expand and establish His kingdom on earth.