Tom’s Big Picture

I hear a lot of my conservative friends getting excited about Mike Huckabee. As Chuck Baldwin reveals (click here), there no reason to think this man from Hope will be much different than the last one. He raised taxes, promoted liberals while heading the Arkansas Baptist Convention, “seeks validation from elites” and exploits white guilt for political advantage by comparing illegals to “slaves brought here in chains” claiming “God has given us a second chance”. Any southern white man who says something like that is either deeply defective and self-loathing like Bill Clinton or a callous manipulator. No one representing OUR interests would try and use a distorted version of events that happened over a century ago to manipulate our people today into committing national suicide by the wholesale immigration of unassimable groups.

What I’m seeing in the Presidential race this time is a stark choice for the evangelicals: your soul or your war? Will you compromise on abortion, homosexuality, immigration and every other “values” issue to get your stupid war (polls show, unbelievably, that Giuliani leads among evangelicals)? Because outside of “Jesus is coming any minute now”-rapture-land, the rest of the country is tired of fighting Israel’s wars for them. To beat Hillary, we have to let go of the war.

Aside from Tancredo and Hunter, who likely have no chance at this point, only Ron Paul is to Hillary’s left on the war and is orthodox on every other significant conservative position. I believe he could bring in the loony left in alliance with the hard right. They get an end to the war they hate (for the wrong reasons, admittedly, but politics is about coalitions) and can legalize pot in Vermont. We can end abortion and stop the ethnic cleansing of our state by Mexico here in Texas. And we can stop fighting each other (and thus turn our attention to the more important task of purging our ranks of the traitors who only pretend to advance our cause) and live in a true federal system.

So the choice is yours. The war or your political soul?