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Title: Source: Huckabee Tops McCain VP List
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URL Source: http://www.newsmax.com/insidecover/ ... _VP_list/2008/05/13/95611.html
Published: May 13, 2008
Author: newsmax.com
Post Date: 2008-05-13 18:17:59 by RickyJ
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Former Republican presidential candidate Mike Huckabee is at the top of the list of John McCain’s possible running mates, according to a top McCain fundraiser with ties to his inner circle. Economic conservatives are likely to oppose the choice of Huckabee as McCain’s vice presidential candidate, given the populist tone of his campaign and his tax record as governor of Arkansas. But in his “Capital Commerce” column for U.S. News & World Report, James Pethokoukis points to the fundraiser’s disclosure and cites several factors that could make Huckabee a strong asset for McCain. For one thing, the former Baptist minister is a great campaigner who could garner support in the South among social conservatives and at the same time appeal to working-class voters in the crucial states of Pennsylvania, Ohio, Michigan and Wisconsin. Huckabee would also appeal to many more voters on a “he cares about me” level than millionaire investor and possible vice presidential choice Mitt Romney, especially given all the turmoil on Wall Street this year. Finally, even economic conservatives who might hesitate to back Huckabee would certainly favor him over the threat of Obamanomics and higher taxes across the board.
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This is why Obama is pushed by the MSM. To get McCain in there and start race riots when he loses to McCain in November.
God is always good!
Just what this country needs, a crazy war monger and war loving preacher.
It could be even worse. Mad Mac might pick Joe Lieberman.
If McCain chooses Huckabee as his VP then he is defintely not going to take a dive for the Democrat nominee. Huckabee is his best choice to win in the South.
God is always good!
Yikes! I’ve already declared for the Mad Mac – hold my nose variety – but if Holy Joe or Huckabeestein are in the ticket, I’m voting for the Hamburglar. Piss on it.
Ladies are gonna love this. Republican Mike Huckabee's record on women's rights is coming under increased scrutiny, including his endorsement of the Southern Baptist Convention's stance that women should "submit graciously" to their husbands and his opposition to sending women into combat. http://www.usatoday.com/news/pol...2-13-huckabee-women_N.htm What is Reconstructionism? Reconstructionists also believe that ''the Christians'' are the ''new chosen people of God,'' commanded to do what ''Adam in Eden and Israel in Canaan failed to do. . .create the society that God requires.'' Further, Jews, once the ''chosen people,'' failed to live up to God's covenant and therefore are no longer God's chosen. Christians, of the correct sort, now are. Rushdoony's Institutes of Biblical Law consciously echoes a major work of the Protestant Reformation, John Calvin's Institutes of the Christian ReligionOff-site Link. In fact, Reconstructionists see themselves as the theological and political heirs of Calvin. The theocracy Calvin created in Geneva, Switzerland in the 1500s is one of the political models Reconstructionists look to, along with Old Testament Israel and the Calvinist Puritans of the Massachusetts Bay Colony. Capital Punishment Epitomizing the Reconstructionist idea of Biblical ''warfare'' is the centrality of capital punishment under Biblical Law. Doctrinal leaders (notably Rushdoony, North, and Bahnsen) call for the death penalty for a wide range of crimes in addition to such contemporary capital crimes as rape, kidnapping, and murder. Death is also the punishment for apostasy (abandonment of the faith), heresy, blasphemy, witchcraft, astrology, adultery, ''sodomy or homosexuality,'' incest, striking a parent, incorrigible juvenile delinquency, and, in the case of women, ''unchastity before marriage.'' According to Gary North, women who have abortions should be publicly executed, ''along with those who advised them to abort their children.'' Rushdoony concludes: ''God's government prevails, and His alternatives are clear-cut: either men and nations obey His laws, or God invokes the death penalty against them.'' Reconstructionists insist that ''the death penalty is the maximum, not necessarily the mandatory penalty.'' However, such judgments may depend less on Biblical Principles than on which faction gains power in the theocratic republic. The potential for bloodthirsty episodes on the order of the Salem witchcraft trials or the Spanish Inquisition is inadvertently revealed by Reconstructionist theologian Rev. Ray Sutton, who claims that the Reconstructed Biblical theocracies would be ''happy'' places, to which people would flock because ''capital punishment is one of the best evangelistic tools of a society.'' http://www.apologeticsindex.org/r10.html Mike Huckabee and the Christian Reconstructionists It’s been widely reported that former Arkansas governor and GOP presidential candidate Mike Huckabee flew down to Houston earlier this week for a fundraiser hosted by Steven Hotze. In today’s column, Robert Novak identified Steven Hotze as “a leader in the highly conservative Christian Reconstruction movement.” According to Novak, that fundraiser’s host committee had an unusual make-up: http://www.boxturtlebulletin.com/2007/12/20/1187 Huckabee Endorses His Christian Reconstructionist Arkansas Policy Adviser http://www.talk2action.org/story/2008/1/23/105453/278 Mike Huckabee's affinity for religious extremism is no secret. But is biblical law at the heart of his presidential vision? http://www.salon.com/opinion/conason/2008/01/18/huckabee/ Mike Huckabee's Ties to Known Extremists Come Under Scrutiny After Victory in Iowa http://www.reuters.com/article/p...1+04-Jan-2008+PRN20080104 The average evangelical might assume that Huckabee is merely talking about a constitutional amendment to prohibit gay marriages. James Dobson and others have been advocating that for the past few years. What the typical evangelical doesn't realize is that Huckabee's wording also sends a coded message to the storm troopers of the Religious Right -- the Christian Reconstructionists. mainstreambaptist.blogspo...kabees-code-language.html Christian Reconstructionism By Dr. Bruce Prescott Openly identifying with Rushdoony and the Reconstructionist movement is problematic for people in the public eye because Rushdoony was an adamant opponent of the First Amendment to the constitution. His magnum opus, published in 1973, is an 800 page tome patterned after Calvin33;s Institutes of the Christian Religion that Rushdoony entitled The Institutes of Biblical Law. On page 294, Rushdoony gives an indication why he believes that the American system of pluralistic democracy is heresy. He wrote, 33;In the name of toleration, the believer is asked to associate on a common level of total acceptance with the atheist, the pervert, the criminal, and the adherents of other religions.33; If Rushdoony and his disciples had their way, democracy would be abolished and a Christian theocracy would be established. A theocracy based on the Bible along the lines of John Cotton33;s Massachusetts Bay Colony. Rushdoony wrote, 33;The only true order is founded on Biblical Law. All law is religious in nature, and every non-Biblical law-order represents an anti-Christian religion.33; (p. 113) He also made it clear that he expects that force will be necessary to impose such order, 33;Every law-order is in a state of war against the enemies of that order, and all law is a form of warfare.33; (p. 93) At its root, Reconstructionism is a militant Biblicism. In many ways, it is a revival of the holy war theology of the Hebrew Bible under the guise of Christianity. The chief difference being that Reconstructionists believe they have a mandate to claim more than the land of Palestine, they believe they are commanded to conquer the entire world and exercise 33;dominion33; over all its peoples. That is why Reconstructionism is also known as 33;dominion theology.33; www.mainstreambaptists.org/mob4/dominionism.htm Matthew 7: 21 Not every one that saith unto me, Lord, Lord, shall enter into the kingdom of heaven; but he that doeth the will of my Father which is in heaven. 22 Many will say to me in that day, Lord, Lord, have we not prophesied in thy name? and in thy name have cast out devils? and in thy name done many wonderful works? 23 And then will I profess unto them, I never knew you: depart from me, ye that work iniquity.
I agree with Huckabee on these issues.
Are you a reconstructionist? Reconstructionists are 100% OT and think the NT is just a fairy tale.
No I am a christian. I think both old and new testament are relevant and go hand in hand. May I ask what your views are on the subject?
On the subject? Which subject are you referring to?
The Bible generally. I'm just curious if you are a believer. That way I can better understand where you are coming from.
Sometimes the word "believer" bothers me. It is as if there may be some doubt. After my blessing I prefer to say I don't believe, I know. People may ask me what religion I am and when I say I am a Christian and they want to know what kind, Methodist, Catholic, Presbyterian etc. I say I'm a Christian. I will never understand "conservative Christian" or "liberal Christian". The words conservative and liberal are nothing more than adjectives to justify the twisting of His Word. What bothers me is how people seem to take bits and pieces of scripture that meets their particular desires/viewpoint and ignores much of the other. That is wrong. Jesus Christ repeatedly said the lex taliones was remedial, not ideal. Lex taliones means to limit vengence. People seem to ignore that HE constantly corrected those who believed otherwise. I believe the following says it all. Matthew 5: 43 Ye have heard that it hath been said, Thou shalt love thy neighbour, and hate thine enemy. 44 But I say unto you, Love your enemies, bless them that curse you, do good to them that hate you, and pray for them which despitefully use you, and persecute you; 45 That ye may be the children of your Father which is in heaven: for he maketh his sun to rise on the evil and on the good, and sendeth rain on the just and on the unjust. 46 For if ye love them which love you, what reward have ye? do not even the publicans the same? 47 And if ye salute your brethren only, what do ye more than others? do not even the publicans so? 48 Be ye therefore perfect, even as your Father which is in heaven is perfect. Jesus told a group of Pharisees, Moses gave the Torah because of “the hardness of heart” Mark 10: And Jesus answered and said unto them, For the hardness of your heart he wrote you this precept. Luke 11: 39 And the Lord said unto him, Now do ye Pharisees make clean the outside of the cup and the platter; but your inward part is full of ravening and wickedness.
Having "faith" some might consider a little doubt too. I respect that you use know. I call myself a Bible believing christian. I am of no particular denomination. The other words you write are wise imo. An expansion of "lex taliones" would be appreciated. I don't believe I have heard of it before.
James Davis says it much better than I could ever hope to say it. Jesus and the Law of Retaliation (Lex Talionis)
It matters not one whit whether it is Obama, Clinton, or McCain. They will take their orders from the CFR and the Bankers who own the Federal Reserve and take America from an an almost to a complete dictatorship and police state.
The fact that McCain has the blessing of Hagee ought to give you enough reason to vote Hamburglar. And McCain is practically Lieberman's long-lost Gentile twin, with or without Joe as VP.
Mike Huckabee: Fried Squirrel Out of a Popcorn Popper Mike Huckabee congratulates Canadians Mike the Huck is sure moving and edumicated sounding at the end of this piece. Great state Arkansaw, they have sure done allot to the rest of us with the presidential timber milled from balsa wood they have given us.
I went to the pet store once. You see I like eating different things. I bought a ferret. Took it home and ate it. It didn't taste that good.
Must of been a Marshall Farms bred ferret. In any event, that was an expensive meal, as pet shops sell kits, and they cost anywhere from 130 dollars to well over 180 bucks. Next time, get an indigenous snake, they are cheaper, and taste like chicken.
At least you have a sense of humor. :)
Oh I was a paratrooper most of my nine years on active duty. I was surrounded by conservatives for years. Ate with them, picked up girls with them, got drunk with them, went target shooting and hunting with them, and I'm still alive. I'm either someone who has developed humor, is insane, or a little bit of both. Personally, my bet is on the last choice.
And here I’ve been telling them: [ … ] that women should "submit graciously" to their dates … My bad.
Finally, even economic conservatives who might hesitate to back Huckabee would certainly favor him over the threat of Obamanomics and higher taxes across the board.
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Huckabee Tops McCain VP List
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Just what this country needs, a crazy war monger and war loving preacher.
#5. To: Rupert_Pupkin (#3)
It could be even worse. Mad Mac might pick Joe Lieberman.
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#7. To: bush_is_a_moonie (#6)
Republican Mike Huckabee's record on women's rights is coming under increased scrutiny, including his endorsement of the Southern Baptist Convention's stance that women should "submit graciously" to their husbands and his opposition to sending women into combat.
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Sometimes the word "believer" bothers me. It is as if there may be some doubt. After my blessing I prefer to say I don't believe, I know. People may ask me what religion I am and when I say I am a Christian
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Yikes! I’ve already declared for the Mad Mac – hold my nose variety – but if Holy Joe or Huckabeestein are in the ticket, I’m voting for the Hamburglar. Piss on it.
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"Only those who dare to fail greatly can ever achieve greatly." Robert F. Kennedy
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"Only those who dare to fail greatly can ever achieve greatly." Robert F. Kennedy
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"Only those who dare to fail greatly can ever achieve greatly." Robert F. Kennedy
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"Only those who dare to fail greatly can ever achieve greatly." Robert F. Kennedy
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[ … ] that women should "submit graciously" to their husbands …
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