I was born and raised in the Christian Church. I accepted Christ at age nine, my mother was a choir director, my father was a deacon. In churches I've joined as an adult, my wife has been a worship leader, I've sung on worship teams with her, I've mixed sound and I'm currently a video camera operator for our church ministry.All this to say, I know intimately what it's like to be church person from the inside. So I can understand and share the disappointment many evangelicals feel now that Mike Huckabee won't be in the White House next January.
In fact, the Huckabee campaign was the FIRST and ONLY political campaign I've ever donated money to.
Yes, it's disappointing that Huckabee will not be our next president ... but it's NOT the end of the world! Yet when I've talked with some other Christians who have supported the Huckabee campaign, incredulously they are whining and moaning like the babies in this photo. I'm hearing comments like, "Well, then I'm just gonna write-in Mike Huckabee in November!" ... or ... "I can't possibly vote for McCain ... so I'm going to teach the GOP a lesson for rejecting Mike Huckabee." I even heard one guy say, "God has turned his back on America!"
My dear Christian friends, if those are your sentiments, then this message is for you.
If, like a spoiled child who can't get his or her way, you take your ball and go home next November ... then you might as well be putting a big red "X" on the ballot for Hillary or Obama.
It has to be understood, I am NOT a member of the GOP because I believe God sent it as a gift to Christian politics. I'm only a member of the GOP because it most closely aligns with my personal and political beliefs. Even Mike Huckabee himself has stated he's only a member of the GOP for the same reasons. Yet I'm quite sure he has not gotten every piece of his desired legislation approved during his 10 and a half years as Governor, but obviously he didn't quit the GOP because he didn't get his way.
GET A GRIP CHRISTIANS! We are NOT voting for pastor in November 2008!! We are simply using the political process available for us to use. Which is the same political process Mike Huckabee has used all his political life; and I'm quite certain will still use in years to come. The man is only 52, he's got a long political life ahead of him.
Yet, do you see Mike Huckabee crying and pouting that he didn't get his way?!?! Well, then for God's sake (and I mean that sincerely) why in the world are some of YOU crying and whining that you can't get your way???
Listen, I hate to burst your bubble, but despite the fact that I believe we were birthed as a Christian nation at the heart; the political process has rarely been a very tidy process. George Washington was very nearly deified as a great war hero and general, and thus ran unopposed as our first president. Our new nation was giddy with joy over our new status in the world, but we got over it quickly. Politics has been down and dirty ever since then when Thomas Jefferson's opponents claimed there would be murder, rape and insanity in the streets if he was elected.
It is the height of childish immaturity to go stick our heads in the sand now if we can't have Mike Huckabee as president. To simply stay home on election day is to simply ALLOW Hillary or Obama to waltz into office. And we know things will be SO much better if we let that happen. "That will teach the Republican party to turn it's nose up at OUR candidate!!!"
Listen folks, the next president will probably have 3 (count 'em THREE) Supreme Court justices to appoint. Those judges will mostly likely have an influence on the court for 3 to 4 decades. The current court has already re-written the Constitution by limiting the right to own property. (Yeah, you forgot about that, didn't you?) If Hillary or Obama get elected and appoint three new Ruth Bader Ginsburgs, the next issues up for grabs will very likely be the 1st and 2nd amendment rights.So are you telling me you are going to teach the GOP for snubbing Mike Huckabee by allowing THAT to happen?
I can't guarantee what kind of justices McCain will nominate, but what chance do we have if Hillary or Obama get to make the choices??
Even Mike Huckabee himself has stated he will support the McCain campaign and work to keep the GOP united.
So get OFF your high horse fellow believers. It's okay to be disappointed, but if you act like spoiled brats who can't have their way come November, you are NO BETTER than an 8-year-old child who cries and takes his ball home because the game isn't going his way.
Sorry if my words or graphics annoy. But I seriously don’t know how to say it any differently to some of the people I’ve heard “whine” about Mike Huckabee not being the GOP standard bearer. I think they need to be shocked back to reality. We are talking about politics, NOT the church.
I greatly desire that good, God fearing churchmen (and women) will have a heavy influence in our political process. But we don’t require that all our policemen, judges or doctors all be former pastors … likewise, it is pure folly to think all our politicians should be as well.
GET A GRIP, CHRISTIANS!!! Or get used to the idea of Hillary Clinton or Obama in office next year.
