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Dear Team:
The Democrats are beginning to arrive in Denver for the coronation, er uh, NOMINATION, of Barak Obama. In the past few weeks, some of the shine and glitter has begun to disappear as he stumbled badly trying to escape his own record on fundamental issues like the sanctity of life. His non-answer to Rick Warren in the Saddleback Forum was more revealing for what he didn’t say than what he said. He did what many far left liberals do when it comes time to discuss the life issue—he changed the topic. He said that answers to such questions either scientifically or theologically were “above his pay grade.”
Mr. Obama, most people earning far below YOUR pay grade know enough science to realize that when 23 chromosomes from a female and 23 from a male unite in the moment of conception, a life containing 46 unique chromosomes is created. For all the talk from liberals as to how they follow science and therefore end up with their positions on global warming and evolution, they seem to claim utter ignorance of one of science’s irrefutable facts---what kind of life is created at conception.
Here’s the clear “science:”
When the male sperm and female egg join, a new and unique life form is created. At conception. Not at birth or viability, or when a lawyer says so. At conception this happens. John McCain got it right; Obama pled less scientific knowledge than a 5th grader.
This life is either human or something else. Science irrefutably would declare that the life which is starting from that moment is human. It’s not a stalk of broccoli, it’s not a parrot, squirrel, or dolphin. It will never become a tree—it can only become a human. It has the entire DNA schedule that it will have for the rest of its life right then. In days it will begin to take on increasingly observable human characteristics and form, but at conception, it is biologically human.
If this life is human, then the only issue left is whether this human life falls under the notion that it has a fundamental right of existence or not. If not, it is because we as a culture have decided that some human lives are simply not worth living. If we can decide that about an innocent and unborn baby, we can also decide it on the basis of less absolute criteria than that. If we make that choice (and this is all about “CHOICE,” isn’t it?) then someone may decide that a terminally ill person is not a life worth living. Maybe a severely disabled child is a life not worth living; what about a person with a limited IQ? Say that’s absurd—that an educated and enlightened society would never be so audacious as to begin to terminate life based on such arbitrary excuses? Maybe you haven’t studied Nazi Germany, in which the murder of six million Jews was justified because of their religion and millions of others were murdered because of their politics. Germany was not a primitive, superstitious culture. It was one filled with the intelligentsia and enlightened.
This is an important issue. It’s why we can’t trust Obama with America’s future because he’s not even sure which Americans are worth saving and which ones aren’t. And it’s why that for many of us, McCain’s selection of a running mate really does matter. Because John McCain clearly is pro life, I will support and vote for him because Obama is not an option for me as a pro life person. I will be disappointed if McCain doesn’t pick a true pro life person and realize that should that happen, he will lose many of the very people who supported me. I cannot expect all of you to vote for McCain if he chooses someone whose record isn’t pro life. It will be a less than perfect decision for all of us---our only real choices are McCain and Obama; one will protect life and one won’t. Some will argue for a 3rd party candidate and I respect that, but in political realities, that is essentially a vote for Obama and I can’t go there.
I want lower taxes, less government, more local control, less spending, greater accountability for tax dollars, a strong national defense, and less government regulation. But above all, I want a government who respects life—mine, yours, and that of people I don’t know and even those I don’t like. A government that decides that an unborn baby isn’t worth anything may one day decide that about me. Or you.
This election shouldn't be about taxes. It ought to be about life.
I'd love to hear your thoughts.
Respectfully, Mike Huckabee
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Granny T
08/23/2008 01:34 PM
Gov. Huckabee,
Thank you for keeping this important issue in the forefront. This great blog article has been submitted to Real Clear Politics for voting.A Message From the Governor
Is Obama "smarter than a 5th grader? "Here’s the clear “science:” When the male sperm and female egg join, a new and unique life form is created. At conception...John McCain got it right; Obama pled less scientific knowledge than a 5th grader..."
Submitted By ConservativeC - Aug 23, 12:34 pm
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PAConservative for Huckabee
08/23/2008 01:34 PM
Thank you Govenor Huckabee for your eloquent address of the pro-life issue and the attention to Sen. Obama's lack of clarity and questionalble stance on the issue.
I was originally a resgistered democrat in my youth as I did what was required of me in my family at that time, being from Pennsylvania, and our area, you registered democrat as that is what was expected--no thought required. I later, as a young adult began to delve into politics ---thought required, and changed my party affiliation to republican mainly because of the pro-life , pro-family issues. The republican party represented me on this issue close to my heart.
Now I ask myself, which part of the republican party does McCain want to unify or worrry about unifiying? Fiscal conservatives are worried about the taxation issue and "Obamanomics", I am staunchly pro-life and joined the party because of the strong stance the party once stood for. I am interested in lower taxes but will not sell out my pro-life, pro-family convictions for the sake of compromise! This talk of a pro-choice VP is such a "ruse" on the part of the party, and I am insulted that they believe we will just all fall in place because of the drastic choice we are being offered. Social conservatives are a different breed, . ....by standing for something, we don't fall for anything,... or accept everything.
Are we to sacrifice in the short term to loose in the long term by compromising our convictions? Social conservatives are the base of the party, and if you start messing with the foundation, the whole house crumbles!!!! Govenor, you are my only choice!! -
Novak, Alexander
08/23/2008 01:24 PM
RIght on the money again. The last couple of months I have come around to wanting to support McCain but the 'talking heads' keep feeding us kool-aid to want us to support a McCain/Romney ticket.
I can't do it if Romney is the VP choice, possibly if someone else is selected and the ideal chocie would be you Governor Huckabee.
I live in CA so mine and wife's votes won't matter for president but we're going to support conservative candidates and going to vote yes on Prop 8 to support real marriage between a man/woman.
For all of Romney's shortcomings, one of his worst moments is that I lay the blame for gay marriage actually occurring and becoming a reality in our great nation, squarely at his feet. And lets not forget his horrible state healthcare system or his 50 dollar copays for abortion. Or his tax increases, or his Clear Channel connections (talking heads again) or a whole host of concerns...
Gov. Huckabee, Keep fighting the good fight!!
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Eubanks, Mary
08/23/2008 01:23 PM
Wow! Enough said. May God grant America mercy and keep us stirred up about the real issues in life. Life itself!
"Thank you, heavenly Father, for giving us a leader like Governor Huckabee who speaks out and stands up for You. May you bless his family and the ones who follow him in his endeavors. May You go before us, Lord, as we anticipate the great and awesome things you will do today. Amen."
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Brian "BDBopper" Donegan
08/23/2008 01:23 PM
Governor,
First of all let me pass along my wish for a most blessed and Happy Birthday tomorrow!
What a fantastic statement. I am in full agreement! I will be honest. My eyes welled up in tears. I am one of those people who were born severely disabled. Other cultures and sadly other parents would have let me die or (even worse) killed me because of the long odds I faced and the challenges I would face.
For those who don't know - the blind (of which I am ) were among the multitudes of innocents horrendously murdered during The Holocaust. haven't we learned our lesson from that horrible and senseless event in the history of humanity?
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SharonNC
08/23/2008 01:17 PM
My biggest fear is that McCain will choose a pro-choice running mate, and win. If that happens the issue of life no longer matters to the GOP. It will be just do what you have to do to win.
I will not be voting for McCain unless a true pro-life conservative is on the ticket. This means someone who has never wavered on the issue, if you know who I mean.
