Good enough for me.

On a web sit called Huckabee Alliance it should be good enough for everyone here.

Mike does not need more people calling themselves supporters going against his wishes.

Let’s quit ignoring Mike Huckabee.

His so called supporters doing just that helped defeat him in the first place.

John McCain for President.

As I said, I have voted third-party and still defend the necessity of saying that SOME basic principles are non-negotiable. I would be voting 3rd party again, had Giuliani been nominated, and I like him better than others in a lot of ways, like Romney and Thompson. As Michael Corleone said in the Godfather, “It’s not personal…It’s strictly business.”

That said, we do have to contemplate the long term political implications of each election cycle, and we must also not let anyone push or drag us around. McCain needs to know that we want to vote for the Republican nominee (or should I say against the Democrats?), but that doesn’t mean we have to.

First of all, it is manifestly clear and has been for a long time that McCain is philosophically ambiguous, certainly to some extent inherently and perhaps to some extent intentionally. So for one thing, he is prone to let sentiment drive him to logical inconsistency. And in the second place, it may be the case that certain ambiguity has served him quite well politically, in his estimation.

A relatively undefined “middle” may be exactly how he wants to be perceived. As Christians we know that, as Jesus told us, we will be scorned and hated. Notice that McCain avoids details of all aspects of his personal life, including the service in the Middle East of his sons, his adopted Asian daughter, and the fact that he has in recent years attended a Baptist church when in Arizona. Can we doubt that publication of details would, in addition to inspiring some people, turn away others?

I think McCain has conducted himself this year in a reasonably gracious manner. And, I think it is vital that he and not a Democrat be elected this year. And, I am one who has in the past voted for a conservative third party and in principle have no problem with doing so.

But as things stand TODAY, some matters on which McCain is extraordinarily strong or reasonably strong, are no longer just noble objectives. They present crucial matters for our nation’s future:

1) We may hope that at his stage of maturity he may be very sober about nominating constructionist judges and his choices certainly will be infinitely more so than Barack Obama’s OR Hillary’s. At stake is a substantial component of the federal judiciary for the next 25 years, including 2, 3, or 4 Supreme Court justices. How does 50 years of “precedence” for Roe v. Wade sound to you.

2) More obviously, McCain will be more straightforward, stalwart, and vigorous in defending American security and interests in foreign policy, and basic humanity internationally.

3) There has been a tsunami of entitlement liability closing on America for decades. Tax hikes, benefit cuts, and monetary inflation will not save us from the shortfall that will slam our nation’s economy. For years we have talked about the need for reform. But, today we are perched under the curl of the wave that will slam down on our system. This year, baby-baby-boomers are beginning to retire. Within a decade, America will be financially drowning.

By the way, George W. Bush only added to the problem in a BIG way. I never voted for Bush. I appreciate his resolve in Iraq in the face of strong pop-cultural headwinds. But when Bush was elected, I said, “Leviathan gets a night manager,” which proved entirely accurate. Not only did he not veto a bill for six years, he introduced, pushed, and signed a huge expansion of the federal education department and much worse, the largest entitlement expansion since the days of Lyndon Johnson, with Medicare prescription drug coverage.

By the way, McCain opposed and voted against that action. Senator Tom Coburn of Oklahoma is the closest thing that you will find to a “Dr. No” on federal spending in the US Senate. As I have, Coburn has often disagreed with John McCain. But, Coburn came out forcefully for McCain, because he knows both McCain’s resolve to restrain federal spending and the precarious position in which we stand, today.

Frankly, Huckabee did not emphasize enough that The Fair Tax is not just a great idea, but perhaps the only way we will dramatically grow economic activity and revenue to soften the blow of the entitlement crunch.

Especially given his mature and gracious disposition of late, we social conservatives need to befriend and support McCain, and work to get him elected and surrounded with more coherent philosophical thinkers. We need the energy of social conservatives and we need to encourage McCain, not repel him. I pray and believe that we can win his favor. We ought to graciously make the effort as emissaries of Christ and besides, you catch more flies with honey than with vinegar.