Mike Huckabee Talks about Reaching out to Minorities

Here is some snippets from a recent CBS article.

• (AP) Presidential candidate Mike Huckabee of Arkansas said Friday his fellow Republicans would be making a devastating mistake in the race for the White House if they ignore minorities, unions and other traditionally Democratic groups.
• While the proliferation of debates has cut into the time candidates have to campaign and raise funds, Huckabee said he has reached out to the AARP, the National Education Association and other groups that tend to vote Democratic.
• He said he also plans to participate in a PBS debate on minority issues because he believes it is critical that Republicans speak to these concerns. "If Republicans don't win minority votes and votes that we traditionally don't get, Hillary Clinton's the next president," Huckabee said in a teleconference with reporters while campaigning in Iowa.
• "I want to be the president of the United States, not just the president of the Republican Party," Huckabee said. "I'm still a conservative and I still believe in lower taxes and less government. I'm pro-life and I'm pro-family, but it doesn't mean that I'm not going to listen ... and it doesn't mean I'm not going to govern with a view to being a president to everybody."

This is why Mike Huckabee is the best choice, not just for Republican nominee, but to be President. Nothing gets done when ya have childish partisanship. It shouldn't be about Republicans winning over Democrats just because. It should be about Republicans winning over Democrats because of ideas. And Mike Huckabee has the right ideas. Mike Huckabee is the only one willing to tell everyone about his ideas.

Mike Huckabee is the most like Abraham Lincoln than any other candidate out there. Abraham Lincoln was more concerned about people than party lines. The party of Lincoln started out as a party of the people. Mike Huckabee can bring it back to the party of the people. The Republican party began as a party concerned about minorities.

Online News - OzarksFirst.Com Calls Mike Huckabee a Heavyweight! Video Added

God must love the common man, because there is so many of them.
Mike Huckabee quoting Abraham Lincoln.

I found two videos from Mike Huckabee's visit to Branson Missouri, from news station KY3.
At the house party
See how he interacts with people at the party. Listen to what people at the party say about him. Hear how people compare him to Rudy Giuliani.
There is also a quick cut to Mitt Romney at a party. Mitt sounds like the typical rich boy stereotype. Stiffly he shakes someone's hand and says "there's my old buddy." I expected him to add, "put more shrimp on the barby, lovey."

• BRANSON, Mo. -- Fresh off his strong second-place finish in Iowa's Republican Party straw poll, a former Arkansas governor, Mike Huckabee, made his first campaign visit to the area on Thursday night. The Republican was at a private home here to seek the mother's milk of politics, money, because that Iowa straw poll will matter only if Huckabee can convert it into the millions of dollars it takes to run a national campaign.
  To see a five-minute interview with Huckabee, click here.

Click the second link to see the interview.

Mike Huckabee was in Branson, Missouri Thursday. I couldn't help but include the entire article. It was too good to leave anything out.

• Branson may not seem like a big place for presidential politics, but a fundraiser there Thursday night brought in a republican heavyweight.
  Mike Huckabee met with supporters at a private home for pictures and chit-chat about the upcoming election. The former Arkansas governor says he feels a close kinship with Branson because it's so close to his native state.
  
  A recent Iowa straw poll put him in second place among republicans, right behind Mitt Romney. He says that put his campaign on the fast-track.
  "Clearly folks who maybe were waiting to see whether we have traction now realize we do. A lot of folks are looking at it and saying that if we can do what we did in Iowa with very limited resources, literally going virtually a dime against a $100 bill, imagine what we can do with resources." says Huckabee.
  Huckabee served as Governor of Arkansas from 1997 until January of this year.

God Bless from the Upper Peninsula in Michigan!

History of our Republican Roots

As many people know Abraham Lincoln was the first Republican President. President Lincoln freed the slaves. But what all else do you know about the Republican History? Back in 2005 I attended the Mackinac Island Republican Leadership Conference. It is a bi-annual conference for elected officials, candidates and grassrooters in the state to get together and hear Republican speakers. It is held on Mackinac Island in Michigan and takes place on Friday through Sunday during the third weekend of September. This is also where Somewhere in Time was filmed. That was the movie starring Christopher Reed and Jane Seymour.
About a week or two before the conference started I got a flyer in the mail stating what the events would be. One of those events was a workshop about the Republican Party not forgetting our roots. The speaker was Micheal Zak. He is an historian, speaker and author.
I will be as quick as possible in explaining what his speech was about. Basically he said that for a hundred years the Republicans in Senate and Congress had been the ones trying to push through the "Civil Rights Bill" that Democrat President Lyndon Johnson signed in 1963. It was the Democrats who kept it from going through. He also stated that Women's Suffrage for women's voting rights was a Republican issue.
According to Mr. Zac, the Republican Party has allowed the Democrats to take over the Civil Rights issues. Lyndon Johnson's New Society is basically a new version of the plantation system.
Read his book, it is called "Back to Basics: For the Republican Party. Please check out his website Republican Basics. He also has a daily blog where he honors a person in Republican Civil Rights history. Go to Grand Old Partisan.
Until I heard him speak I thought civil rights was strictly a Democrat issue. I thought it was all about making a big deal of some one's race, ethnicity or gender. That is not the Republican view of Civil Rights. It is not what Abraham Lincoln, Dwight "Ike" Eisenhower or Martin Luther King (I realize MLK was not a Democrat or Republican) would want to see. They all believed in equality of everyone and no special rights for anyone. Unfortunately many young Republicans don't know this history and think that it is funny to have "Ghetto Parties", "Immigrant Parties" or "White Trash Parties." This is gross and disgusting. As a Republican I ask myself, WWALDO, meaning What Would Abraham Lincoln Do? Personally I don't think he would think such parties were funny.