A Hawk and a Dove

Mary Sammons

I am going to say it, get it out in the open. I am a Christian, a born again, evangelical Christian. So it might not surprise you to know that I support Mike Huckabee for President. I support even amidst all the pundits and even people I know saying he has no chance. But what might surprise you is to know why I support him. Of course I support him because he is pro-life and supports traditional marriage. But I also support him because of his ideas on immigration, the economy, border security and becoming energy independent.
The focus has been so much on his faith and issues like abortion and gay marriage that some fail to see because they cannot get past those two issues and the fact that he has been a pastor, a Southern Baptist one at that. He has a solid plan to help us become energy independent and he wants to eliminate the IRS and institute a Fair Tax. Frankly, anyone who wants to get rid of the IRS has my vote. Wouldn’t it be nice to keep more of what we make? Wouldn’t it be nice to get away from being so dependent on foreign oil and leave behind $3.00+ a gallon for gas? These plans would take time, as all things do but who else has such an aggressive approach? Huck also has an aggressive approach for securing our boarders and dealing with the illegal immigrant population. This is where McCain loses me and Huck wins me over. I admit to being much more liberal in my younger college days and thought Bill and Hillary were the best thing since sliced bread but in a post-911 world we don’t need to play around with national security. I thought Pat Buchannan was crazy to want to completely seal off the border years ago. Maybe he wasn’t so crazy after all. All the bleeding heart liberals who want to grant these folks amnesty and a path to citizenship fail to see they are just rewarding them for committing a crime. Huck wants to secure the border and get the illegals documented within 120 days or they are sent back.
No candidate is perfect and there are probably areas where I would disagree with Huck. I am for strict gun control, one way this conservative is still a leftie, and he is very pro second amendment. But when I look at his platform overall, he is a man I can get behind and be proud to see in the White House. This in a nutshell is why I heart Huckabee.