Go show your support for Mike for VP:

http://forums.wnd.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=134

FROM: http://www.theeagle.com/local/Hope-Pregnancy-to-welcome-Huckabee

Former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee will be the guest speaker at an event benefiting Hope Pregnancy Centers of Brazos Valley.

The dessert and coffee event, United for Life, is set for Sept. 30 at the Brazos County Expo Complex. Doors will open at 7 p.m., and the program will begin at 7:30.

For more information, visit www.partnerwithhope.org or call 685-9193.

We are at a critical time that will shape the future of the Republican party and the nation.

I believe that it is important that as Huckabee supporters we strongly express that Huckabee deserves a prime speaking role at the GOP convention. It is important to provide respect and representation for the millions of voters who supported Huckabee as well as give a platform to the vital issues that Huckabee championed.

I have been concerned by the McCain’s camp willingness to bow to political pressure and not ensure yet that Huckabee has a prime speaking role. While each of you is free to decide how you will vote and who you will support and why, I wanted to express what I have and will be communicating to McCain.

I will actively support your candidacy…IF:

1) You choose a strong pro-family VP like Huckabee (Ridge, Romney, and Lieberman don’t count) AND

2) You provide Huckabee a prime speaking role at convention because of his 2^nd place finish in delegates, strong speaking ability, and party leader on issues of values, family, and life.

Additionally, MI Congressman Fred Upton, from the 6th District, has John McCain’s ear. Fred is McCain’s trusted friend and advisor.  They are fishing buddies and have been close for years.  It is very important that we contact Fred and let him know how we feel as well.

Fred can be reached at:  269-385-0039 or http://www.house.gov/upton/

McCain can be reached at: (703) 418-2008 or http://www.johnmccain.com/Contact/

PS - I was encouraged by the strong and decisive performance of McCain at the Saddleback Civic Forum tonight and encourage expressions of compliments to McCain about this.

John McCain mentioned that Mike Huckabee visted Riwanda with Cindy McCain and Dr. Frist in one of his answers at the Saddleback Forum in California.

McCain’s strong performance with highlighted by dicisive answers and direct talk with the audiance. Obama conversly spoke in general terms in his answers and seemed more guarded and he used many “ums” and “uhs”.

Additionally, supporters of traditional marriage may be bothered by the inconsistencies in Obama’s statements on the issue. Obama said he supports marriage between 1 man and 1 woman in the forum although he is on record as opposing the California proposition defining marriage as between 1 man and 1 woman.

First hand account from HucksArmy member All-in-for-Mike. Source

Yesterday (Fri., 8/15/08) Gov. Mike Huckabee spoke to a “Pastors’ and Leaders’ Conference” in Maryland, just outside of DC.

Speaking just before Mike Huckabee was coach Bill McCartney, leader of Promise Keepers. He was warmly received to a half-full auditorium.

As soon as McCartney finished his message, the room began to fill and soon it was standing room only. The auditorium was more like a gymnasium and there were probably around 1,000 people there to hear Mike. They made everyone scoot in towards the middle in order to make sure that every seat was filled, but there was still standing room only.

Before his introduction had even begun, as soon as Gov. Huckabee entered through a side door, the room went nuts, with everyone standing, clapping, and loudly cheering.

The speaker who introduced Mike remarked especially on Mike’s sincerity and humility, especially how those attributes showed in Mike’s debate performances.

Here are a few highlights from Mike’s speech, as well as I can reconstruct them from my notes:

Mike began with several fun stories about how when he began running for president, no one knew who he was. He rented a car once and handed the clerk a credit card that said, “Mike Huckabee for President.” The lady handed it back to him and said, “President of WHAT??”

Then Gov. Huckabee got to his message. The real problems of America are not political, but spiritual. Mike said, “I didn’t get into politics because I thought government has all the answers… I got into politics precisely because I knew it didn’t, and we need men and women in gov’t positions who know that, too.”

“To solve America’s problems, what we need is a change of heart.”

Mike was asked in one of the debates what is the most important issue facing America today. He did say the economy, the war in Iraq, or energy (although he could have spoken to any of those issues). The most important issue is LIFE — because if we get that one wrong, we’ve lost it all.

He said that the most heartbreaking counseling sessions during his time as a pastor were the women who –after having an abortion as a young woman — got married, started a family, and then realized how precious children were. When they began having babies, they were overcome by remorse for having taken the life of their own child(ren).

But God can forgive anyone who sincerely asks Him. Mike told about a woman he met in Rwanda. The lady was raped 15 times and then had her throat slashed. She was left for dead, but survived. She sat next to one of the perpetrators and talked about how God enables her to forgive, and live for the future, not looking back at the past.

Mike remarked on how it was the church, not gov’t, that led the way in civil rights, esp. with a preacher (MLK Jr) leading the way. But he also expressed sadness that the church was too silent during the civil rights struggle. “Too many pulpits were silent” as African-Americans were hosed down in Alabama and blacks were chased off a bridge in Selma. He said we err whenever we think that one kind of life is more precious than another!

Gov. Huckabee said he is leaving for his 10th trip to Israel on Sunday. He always stops at Yad Vashem, the museum about the Holocaust. He remarked, “We wonder how an educated and enlightened people could perpetrate something as horrific as the Holocaust… but we should ask ourselves how is it that in America, 50 million babies have been aborted?

Gov. Huckabee asserted, “I do not believe we will win by confrontation, or by out-shouting the other side.” We will win by demonstrating our broken hearts and by crying out to God.

ALL life is precious because God made it precious. One life is worth defending, whether it is 8 months old in the womb, 8 years old and poor, or 80 years old.

In 1994, Mike took his then-12-yr-old daughter to Yad Vashem in Israel. They prepared her for what she would see there. Mike and Janet wanted their daughter to understand what can happen when good people turn their heads and pretend that nothing is going on. THAT is why Mike and Janet left a comfortable life to enter the fray of public service. At the museum, their daughter viewed the exhibits without saying a word. At the exit there was a guest book. Their daughter signed it, and in the section for comments, she wrote just one sentence:

“Why didn’t somebody do something?”

Mike said he hopes that there will never be a museum like it which would commemorate the demise of a once-great nation like America because of it crumbling from within. He urged us to pray: “God, let ME be the Somebody… let ME do SOMETHING.”

When Mike finished, he received a loud standing ovation well over one minute long.

My only regret was that I had hoped Mike could shake my daughter’s hand. She’s been asking me since March. He now has a LOT of security around him. Through an usher, I sent him a birthday card with a small donation for HuckPAC inside it. Two beefy security guys brought it back to me and made me open it in their presence. Yikes! But I’m glad that God has brought Mike so far since the days in NH when he had just one car and one reporter following him around, and was carrying his own luggage!! Folks know who Mike is, now!!

I wonder why Huckabee has not received word of what his speaking role will be? He was 2nd in delegates after all.

Huckabee waits to hear from McCain camp on convention role

http://www.arkansasnews.com/archive/2008/08/16/WashingtonDCBureau/347533.html

Interesting read out today…talks about how cultural conservatives backed themselves in the corner by not supporting Huckabee from the beginning.

Keyes and other social conservatives torpedoed Huckabee’s campaign because they used every criteria but the moral issues they say will determine the fate of our civilization to eliminate Huckabee. Thus we are left with what Keyes quite correctly called, ‘No choice but evil’ when looking at the major party candidates.

http://www.theconservativevoice.com/article/33909.html

Read news coverage of Huckabee’s visit:

http://www.krcg.com/news/news_story.aspx?id=175199

Here are some parts I found interesting:

He says he’ll be at the GOP convention next month in Minneapolis, along with his band. He says he expects to have some sort of speaking role at the convention.

We now know that 1) Huckabee’s band will be at convetion AND 2) Huckabee will be speaking there…is it the keynote? Is it the VP speech? We shall wait and see.

Huckabee says “Everyday Values Matter Most”

Read the news coverage of Huckabee’s keynote speech at the Vitae dinner August 14th, 2008

http://www.lakesunleader.com/news/x418531697/-Everyday-values-matter-most-Mike-Huckabee-delivers-keynote-speech-at-Vitae-dinner

Washington, DC (LifeNews.com) – Former Republican presidential candidate Mike Huckabee has a message for John McCain about the kind of person he should select as his running mate. The former Arkansas governor says McCain should only pick a pro-life advocate as his vice president and that it shouldn’t be Mitt Romney.

Huckabee said on Thursday that McCain would make it difficult on Republican and pro-life voters if he picks someone like former Pennsylvania governor Tom Ridge, who is pro-abortion.

“I wish he were pro-life,” Huckabee told Fox News about Ridge.

If McCain’s running mate is “not hardcore pro-life,” Huckabee asks that McCain’s pick “not do anything that would be disruptive to what has been very important to the Republican platform.”

In an interview with CBS News, Huckabee said that the opposition to a running mate who isn’t pro-life extends to Romney, the former Massachusetts governor who switched from a pro-abortion to a pro-life position before entering the Republican presidential race.

Romney has since said he wants Roe v. Wade overturned and has put forward a consistent pro-life message on abortion, but many pro-life advocates distrust him still.

“I think a lot of people, not just social conservatives, but a lot of the Republicans I know are not necessarily comfortable with Romney,” Huckabee said. “But it has nothing to do with religion. It has everything to do with inconsistencies in positions he’s held, and that’s it.”

“The issue is that, in many ways, Mitt Romney has had very definite swings of position, not just on one or two things, but on many of the issues,” Huckabee added. “I think that there are better choices for Sen. McCain that will have the approval of values voters.”

Huckabee told Fox he doesn’t think McCain will call his name as a running mate.

“I have no expectations that I’m going to get that phone call,” he said. “My commitment is to support him. And I don’t request that he support me in order to get my support.”

http://lifenews.com/nat4133.html