The Primary

The Michigan Primaries were last night, although on the democrat's side it was hardly authentic. Hillary was the only major candidate on the ticket so it was pretty much an exercise in futility for any democrat who had a different choice. It seems all the major republican players were on the slate. I ended up voting for Huckabee, knowing he had no chance of winning in this state. I still need to educate myself further. Sometimes I don't even think there's much of a difference between them all, cynic that I am.

The other day I read a good post on Mike that did exactly what I asked for in my post of January 10th. It gave substantiated reasons why I shouldn't vote for him. It had links to voting records and articles, etc. Unfortunately, I had to leave the computer in a hurry for some reason and forgot to bookmark it. In my ditziness, I drew a blank on where I had read it. So, thank you Richard for commenting on last week's post so I can link to yours. Go read it here. I will now go back and follow the links out of the post since I didn't get a chance to last time.

I'm freezing so I'm going to go turn up the heat and get some shoes on! More tomorrow.....

Pusillanimous Political Pontifications

I think this is the first election in my adult life in which I have been thoroughly uninformed. I just started researching the candidates recently and I've got to say I tend to like Huckabee. Now, that is really not based on much at all, other than that he seems to have a somewhat conservative leaning. I did read a comment the other day by Ralph Ovadal (a pastor I had never heard of before) that slams him and says he promotes the antichrist. Whatever you think of Mr. Huckabee, I think articles like Ovadal's only play well for mindless people who want someone to tell them what to think. It didn't give any specifics, made plenty of generalizations, and serious blanket accusations. Nothing concrete. Nothing even spelled out specifically at all. I just wanted some real information to evaluate. I thought this article was the coward's way out----throw a few poison arrows and hope some of them hit their mark. Here it is....

"Beware of Mike Huckabee. He is basely using our Lord Jesus Christ for political gain even as he promotes Antichrist and his church. Mike Huckabee is a wolfish product of the neo-evangelical movement which, quite frankly, is the major problem in this nation, not the solution. Beyond that, Huckabee's political philosophy is grossly at odds with the principles upon which our Republican form of government rests. Politically speaking, Mr. Huckabee has far more in common with Bill Clinton than with America's founding fathers. We would be far, far better off with a simple "God and country" constitutionalist for president who doesn't claim to be a born-again believer. After carefully watching and listening to Mike Huckabee with an open mind, about the only good thing I can say concerning his candidacy for president is at least it keeps him too busy to pastor a church."
Pastor Ralph Ovadal Pilgrims Covenant Church

I did find out about the released convicted rapist story from a different website. It was a horrific story and one that Mr. Huckabee, I would imagine, still loses sleep over. But.....does it disqualify him from the presidency MORE than any of the other candidates' 'junk'? Maybe, maybe not Call me a cynic, but I'm sure there are some pretty awful decisions in each of the candidates' closets. Unfortunately, nobody has a candidate that lines up with how we feel about everything 100%. If we wait for that, none of us will be voting come November.

So, folks, why should or shouldn't I vote for Mike Huckabee? Some REAL reasons, not things like , "he's a wolf in sheep's clothing". Instead tell me WHY you think what you do. Give me examples. I really want to know! You are all entitled to your opinions, and I would love to hear them no matter where you fall politically. All opinions on all candidates welcome. So that we can have fun, keep it clean & nice. I do love satire so by all means, let loose! Let's make this the first annual political "Say What's on Your Mind" blog week! We've got to start having some fun with this election because I lost interest before this one even began. Too many years of caring about it WAY too much.

Waiting to hear from you,

Karen