I’ve never seen the level of denial and/or stone ignorance outside of the Daily Kos or Media Matters.

Get a real thought here people and stop your drooling;

Mike “The Huckster” Huckabee
http://mikeyhuckabee.blogspot.com/

Mike Huckabee’s Skeleton Closet
http://www.realchange.org/huckabee.htm

It would be the half that pretty much was addressed as much as Huckabee could do.

Huckabee’s other problem is with supporters causing him problems by running contrary to his beliefs.

Push-Pull, attacking other candidates (are you listening Chuck N), and other actions that made Huckabee look weak because he constantly had to say “I wish the wouldn’t do that”.

This is still going on. The primary is over.

If Mike does not address this weakness in 2012 or 2016 he will loose again. I really do not want to see that happen.

He needs to go on national news and say if you want to help me, tell people were I stand on the issues. Do not help me by attacking the other candidates. I can’t use you and do not want your help if you do that.

He needs to do what Reagan did when getting the KKK endorsement. He said he did not want it.

Leave attacks on the other candidates to the supporters of other candidates.

If he were to pick a conservative running mate I would be more than happy to vote for him.

You seem to want to go off of track in your ramblings. The topic that I addressed in my article is the fact that true social conservatives will very likely not vote for McCain unless he chooses a socially conservative running mate to act as a counter balance to his liberal tendencies. I am sorry if you are so narrowed minded and hateful to see this.

As for your so called research, I look at what the candidate has done in the past, not what some opinion writer says they have done. All you did was to take someone else’s opinion and spit it out as your own. This gives you a total lack of credibility.

In order to actually legislate an agenda one has first to be elected. An unfortunate fact of politics is the necessity to practice the art of compromise. While John McCain is far from perfect, he is close to electable.

Current voter statistics show those who identify strongly as either Conservative/Republican or Liberal/Democrat as somewhere around 25% each. Those who say they are Moderate/Independent tally in at 49%. As one of the 49% majority, I plan on voting for McCain even though he was not my choice in the primaries.

I would think you, as a social conservative, would be delighted with a candidate who plans on appointing strict constructionist justices to the Supreme Court—the only place a socially conservative agenda has even a faint hope of succeeding. Polls show that there will be little change in the political makeup of the House and Senate this election cycle. This means more partisan gridlock, very little legislative progress and a less than zero chance of socially conservative legislation even seeing the light of day in committee.

There is a very good reason most churches used to have a policy of staying out of politics. True believers operate from a point of moral certaintude that does not allow for compromise of principle. That point of view lends itself far better to education than legislation.

Convince enough voters to follow your socially conservative agenda, and you will have no problem getting a candidate attractive to you elected. Try and force Moderate/Independents to bow to your theology, and you will have the fight of the century on your hands, as you have just seen.

I am not advocating that you take your toys and refuse to play. I am advocating you convince other like minded social conservatives to vote their conscience. If you do a good enough job of attracting others to your point of view, you will become the majority. It was the message, not the messenger, that was the problem.