Texas and Politics

Huckabee has posted on his site a last ditch effort as he says for the election. It's a 5 minute video about how texans are courageous and don't listen to what anyone tells them to do but always do what they decide to do. He mentions things like the Alamo and other parts of texas' history that would indicate that they are headstrong people who stand for freedom, family and faith-basically celebrating the many achievements of Texans. He also uses the idea that texans are headstrong people who stand for freedom as a way to incorporate the lessons of fighting for freedom they've learned in the past to fight with Huckabee for the same freedom. Of the 137 possible delegates for the republican party in Texas, John McCain needs only 120 of them to clinch the election. So this would seem to be the clincher and some might even say the end of the road, but I guess I'd side with Huckabee and hope and pray against all hope that a miracle happens. The next set of primaries are happening on a Tuesday again in a 8 days. They will include Ohio, Vermont, Rhode Island and of course Texas. The other three states make up 125 delegates total with Ohio having the most at 88. I would hope Huckabee is putting some effort in at Ohio. His running without tax payers money I am seeing is truly a leap of faith. I didn't even realize until this year how much of a role tax payers played in the elections or that they even played a role at all. I'm finding out there is alot about Politics that I don't know. I'm glad I'm finding all this out now though when I have just turned 18 and actually have a possible part to play. Before I was too young to give a second thought to it but now I can actually play a role and so I want to know what role I play.

Cinderella Man

When Mike Huckabee first announced that he was running for president early in 2007, he was consistently voted to be unlikely to win with early gallup poles that showed 2 percent popularity early on with more than 20 percent behind the popularity of any of the other of the candidates. However, Huckabee began rising in popularity with Iowa victories with crowded rooms cheering for him as polls began to show that Huckabee's popularity was greater than anyone anticipated. As his popularity rose, so did the criticism against him. Research done on his tax policy's suggested voters should question him. I already mentioned his fair tax proposals and so I agree with his tax policy but people often surprise. It's the classic politic trick though, say what the voters want to hear and then never mention it again after you get elected. I guess I can't assume just because he is a Christian that he will be the best possible president. I am for the Cinderella man idea, I believe God can do anything and Huckabee winning the election certainly seems up to divine intervention. That would be me reimaging the probable future of America according to my values,

Now to Him who is able to do immeasurably more than all we ask or imagine, according to his power that is at work within us.
Ephesians 3:20

Huckabee Not Quiting

Romney dropped out of the election this last week but Huckabee stayed. I'm very glad that huckabee is still in and perplexed as to why Romney, who had more delegates than Huckabee or Ron Paul for that matter, dropped out. With that I want to know where the Romney's delegates will go. I really hope they go to Huckabee. Huckabee is quoted as saying for the reason why he did not drop out "I didn't major in Math, I majored in Miracles and I still believe in them." I think that is amazing and that by some move of God Huckabee will continue to run this race and become the republican front runner. I realize that in the natural McCain has around 700 delegates versus' Huckabee's two hundred but by I'm praying for a Miracle. I also voted in the Primarys the other day, it was the first time I ever voted for anything, kind of cool. It made me think about the whole party issue though since you have to check which party you are part of and I really don't want to be a part of any of the parties. They need to make a purely christian party. lol. I guess republican will have to do for now.

Energia

Huckabee's stance on energy is not a very creative one but this issue is a topic that I think is crucial to the continued economic survival of America. We have too much polution and gas prices are too high to continue using the energy we use now in our cars. When I first went to the CNN website to see where Huckabee stood on the energy issue all they showed was a very please all "We need to use every source of energy that exists and quite wasting our time on oil" statement. They also told me that he plans to end our energy dependance by his second term. When I went to his site I learned that President Nixon first declared that we would become Energy Dependant in 1980. That was 28 years ago! Huckabee also answers the objection that our buying of oil from the middle east only supports the terrorists. He wants to have a self sustained energy dependence which would include renewable environmental friendly energy sources like solar and biomass. He says if he became president he would "use the bully pulpit" to get congress to address this issue and solve the problem. This sounds good, especially if it is really possible to end our dependence on oil.
When compared to someone like Hillary Clinton I can see that all her proposals have a due date of 2030 or 2050 or something like that. I don't know how she is going to in force those after she is out of office. It is therefore nice to hear Huckabee say that he wants to stop our energy dependence by the end of his first term.