Seven good reasons to support Mike Huckabee [be sure to read reason number seven]

My friends, I have to admit that I've been in a bit of a quandary since the Real Conservatives ® Thompson and Hunter dropped out of the race leaving us to to place our bets on one the four headless horsemen. But after having a day or three to sort it all out, I'm beginning to see a ray of hope.

Number one, my worst fear that the pro-abortion, pro-gay, anti-gun social liberal Rudy Giuliani might be nominated, and thereby bring an abrupt and unholy end to the pro-life conservative movement within the GOP has been allayed. His evil culture of death platform has been soundly rejected by the Republican voters. Thank God! If nothing else is gained, that alone is a huge victory for us!

And that leaves us with the unwelcome slippery task of having to determine and select the least evil of the three remaining RINOs. But wait! When choosing between evils, why not choose the good?

McCain is insane and there are many good reasons not to choose him, but I'll list just five: McCain-Feingold, McCain-Kennedy, McCain-Lieberman, the Keating 5, and the Gang of 14. No thanks. McCain is out!

Romney ran on a pro-abortion platform, is pro gay rights, is prone to BIG government solutions, promises anything to anyone for a vote, and flip-flops on important issues. Can't trust him.

Now Governor Huckabee. Could this be the good vs evil? He's a Baptist minister. A genuine 100% pro-God, pro-life, pro-family, pro-gun, Southron Christian social conservative!

And that would be my reason no. 1 to support Huckabee. He has the trust and backing of the Christian evangelicals and the support of the Bible Belt. You cannot win the presidency without the South, and I believe the pro-God, pro-life, pro-family, pro-gun, pro-America Mike Huckabee is the most likely of the three GOP hopefuls to carry the South. And that's a pretty darn good reason!

My number two reason is that he is NOT McCain (and that's a pretty darn good reason too).

Number three (and this will be a tough one for a lot of my FReeper Friends) is that he is NOT Romney.

Number six, he plays a mean bass and he's a traditional favorite at Free Republic's infamous quadrennial Inaugural Balls in Washington, DC. Perhaps we could persuade President Huckabee to drop by our ball and perform his rocking rendition of "Sweet Home Alabama!" Now, wouldn't that be a hoot!

Number seven, if we can keep Huckabee in the race all the way through, thus preventing McCain or Romney from gaining enough delegates to win the nomination, then maybe, just maybe a deadlocked convention might seek out another candidate. One who can re-unite the Reagan Coalition, save the GOP, and put us back on the conservative track. Of course, my personal favorite to be that man would be FRed Thompson.

Let it ring out through grassroots America and on to the convention! Support life! Support the GOP! Support Huckabee! And re-draft FRed Thompson!!

I think the early uncertainty on the conservative side - waiting to see if Thompson was going to run, unsureness about Huckabee's viability, useless discussions about Mormonism, the clutter of Ron Paul - gave McCain time to gather strength from the middle and establish himself.

Some of that perhaps. But I think the main factor was the order of states holding primaries. The early ones were in more liberal states, except for South Carolina, which wasn't all that early. This meant that "moderates" were more likely to receive support. It means something else too. The Republicans who do live in those states are a smaller fraction of the overall voter population than the nationwide average. But the delegates are apportioned by House Districts (mostly and not all of them). This means that each delegate elected from those states represents fewer, more liberal, Republicans than one one from deep Red states.

Even on the Dem side, the fact that the early states are more liberal drives the Dem candidates in that direction and gives an advantage to the more liberal candidates, like B. Hussein Obama.

I still haven't had a chance to vote, next Wednesday will be the earliest possible opportunity for early voting in Texas. But in the Presidential race, there is no one I want to vote for, and I'd want to vote against all of those "still standing". I'll probably vote for my first choice, since he's probably still on the ballot, but will consider voting for Huckabee in hopes of causing a brokered convention. I'm afraid that hope is essentially gone now that Romney has released his delegates and urged them to vote for McInsane.

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