HUCKABEE APPLYING FOR VICE-PRESIDENT!?!?!?!?!?!

I am really confused about the stance Gov. Huckabee is taking about the slander job Sen. McCain is doing on Gov. Romney concerning his "supposed" pronouncement in favor of time tables for leaving Iraq. Although I am not a Baptist currently, I got saved in a Southern Baptist church and spent my junior high and high school years under its tutelage. I was taught that a half-truth was just as bad as a lie. I was also taught to respect those that ministered the Word, and to give them the benefit of the doubt. I have to assume that Gov. Huckabee has not listened to the actual recording that Sen. McCain is twisting to make it sound like Gov. Romney is giving credence to that despicable idea.

While Gov. Romney did use the word "time table" in response to a reporter's question, he made it VERY CLEAR that he would veto any attempt of Congress to put an actual time table on our time in Iraq. He was also VERY CLEAR that any "time table" would be a set of goals between us and the Iraqi government to be used to gage progress AND WOULD BE A PRIVATE MATTER BETWEEN OUR GOVERNMENTS! Gov. Romney emphasized that it would be IDIOTIC to tell our enemies when we would be leaving. He used the example of World War II. How stupid would it have been to tell the Germans that if we didn't cross the Rhine River by December 24th, 1944 that we would pull out? Only a very twisted retelling could come close to accusing Gov. Romney of wanting to telegraph that information to Al Qaeda.

So what is Gov. Huckabee doing? He either doesn't want to know the truth or he and Sen. McCain have worked out a deal for the delegates that Gov. Huckabee controls. How would a McCain-Huckabee ticket play out? The "good" senator gets the nomination he wants and the former governor of the state of a possible candidate gets a chance at almost a decade at national exposure. In fact, give Sen. McCain's age, he may be hoping beyond hope (not that anyone hopes for that) to be the first vice-president since Gerald Ford to advance to the top office.

It is really time to stop it! If you notice, I have been diligent in using the titles of these august men of the Republic. Not only are they men of integrity and accomplishment, they are all striving to represent the Grand Old Party! One thing that has set the Republican Party apart is a mindset that the issues are what are important. When they stoop to tactics that the former President from Arkansas regularly partakes in (I'm sorry, did I say that out loud?) they distract the voters from the very thing that sets them apart, the strength of ideas. Stay with the issues, Sen. McCain. Take what you said you would take in the 200o race. Take the high road. If your ideas are better, your electibility will be better. You are better than that. Please act like it.