Supporters of former presidential candidate Mike Huckabee will meet with presumptive Republican nominee John McCain on Wednesday to persuade him not to name former campaign rival Mitt Romney as his running mate.
McCain is tentatively scheduled to meet with about 10 social conservative activists and religious leaders from Michigan, according to The Detroit News. Another group of about 40 Huckabee supporters will meet separately with a McCain campaign liaison, said Debra Matney, a Huckabee supporter who is helping to organize the meeting.
Leah Yoon, a McCain campaign spokeswoman, confirmed that the Republican candidate plans to meet with “grass-roots and faith-based leaders” during his visit to Michigan on Wednesday.
McCain’s vice presidential pick is expected to be a major point of discussion at both meetings. Although McCain has remained tight-lipped on his vice presidential selection process, insiders say Romney is among the short list for the position.
But Matney said the Michigan activists and religious leaders want Huckabee to be on the ticket, but if that is not possible, then they want Romney not to be on it.
Romney, a Michigan native, was popular among conservatives earlier in the primaries. But then Huckabee became the favorite for conservative voters given his consistent record of conservative stances, his ability to weave biblical references into speeches and his deadpan sense of humor.
Many conservatives had expressed hesitation on voting for Romney because of his relatively recent conversion to social conservative stances on abortion and gay “marriage.”
Moreover, some Christian voters are uncomfortable with his Mormon faith, which they consider not only non-Christian but even a cult.
According to Matney, some Huckabee supporters will not vote for McCain if Romney is his vice president.
“That’s not the sentiment of everybody,” she said. “(But) we would certainly rather have somebody other than Romney on the ticket. Who he chooses will speak volumes to us.”
In Ohio, another group of social conservatives are also declaring they do not want a McCain-Romney ticket.
“Christians are praying earnestly for the right person,” said Diane Stover, an Ohio-resident who was a delegate for the Huckabee campaign, according to The Columbus Dispatch.
“McCain wouldn’t have been our person. But we definitely feel like it would be a huge help to John McCain to pick someone we can be confident will represent the value-voter position. I don’t think it helps him at all in Ohio if he picks Romney.”
McCain, according to Stover, is not a “real conservative,” but she and other conservatives she knows will vote for him in November because, among other things, of his consistent anti-abortion voting record.
Stover and other conservatives are trying to form the group Social Conservatives Against Romney. They say they hope their group will spread to other states.
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chris70 "Joseph Smith is a false PRophet and his Church is all about the profit!"
the likes of robertson, roberts, falwell, lindsey, hagee, etc have made nice profits themselves peddeling religion to the masses.
Sure we want to dissuade him - the guy is a phony. Look at the way he changed all of his positions to run (sort of like McCain right now trying to pretend he is one of us). A bit strange he thinks we'll vote for him.
The whole Mormon religion relies upon the Catholic Church going total Apostate in the second century. Funny, there is absolutely no historical record of this.
If you accept this notion, then all Protestants are not Christians either since only the Mormon Church has it right.
Did I tell you about how their leader died...? IN a GUN FIGHT! The book of Mormon first book had so many errors in it, that many LDS fell away. After 89 versions of the book of Mormon they finally got rid of the spelling and grammar errors. Inspired, I think not.
They are Polytheist. They deny Christ is God and they deny the Holy Spirit is God. Enough said!
Believer,
Moroni is the plural form for more than one Moron. :)
Joseph Smith after being visited by an Angel, declared his town to be under martial law and he was shot and killed in a gun fight. Funny, I don't normally read about saints who were in gun fights where they shot back?
Joseph Smith is a false PRophet and his Church is all about the profit!
McCain 2008!
Most American's DO NOT favor abortion. Nor do they wish to align themselves with factions dedicated in butchering innocent babies inside and outside the womb. And NO, that baby is NOT the women's body; it is a separate body with a separate heartbeat and separate brain activity. And YES, the unborn baby FEELS PHYSICAL PAIN as it is being ripped out of what should be the safest place on earth - mother's womb!
The Planned Parenthood abortionists lie to young women all the time just to get their money, while those ex-mothers and ex-fathers suffer emotional distress as they realize everyday that they have just allowed a child killer to convince them, not only to take their money, but also to kill their precious little baby. Abortion STOPS A BEATING HEART and the future of a civilization.
People weep and wail over the loss of a High School football player destined for a great professional career who had been gunned down by a random shooter, but yet we will never know the great deficit future generations will suffer for the loss of over 50 million innocent babies in this country alone. Shame on America for tolerating this horror ... and shame on its citizens for tolerating their personal complacency. Pro-choice is a lie - Babies do not choose to die!
Away with this archaic freakish, barbaric practice! It will soon be done away with, along with these fake pro-abortion polling numbers! As long as the president chooses judicial nominees his Vice-president better be pro-Life if he is ever going to win an election.
"A nation that cannot protect its most innocent and helpless citizens and the sanctity of human life is a weak nation that will utterly collapse economically, socially, relationally and entirely." - HMH
ATHEISM is a CATASTROPHIC FAILURE. Get out while you still can.
http://www.evolutionfacts.blogspot.com
VICE-PRESIDENT MIKE HUCKABEE HELPS MCCAIN WIN IN 2008
Most American's DO NOT favor abortion. Nor do they wish to align themselves with factions dedicated in butchering innocent babies inside and outside the womb. And NO, that baby is NOT the womenâ
Billy Graham's Prayer For Our Nation
Heavenly Father, we come before you today to ask your
forgiveness and to seek your direction and guidance. We
know Your Word says, 'Woe to those who call evil
good,' but that is exactly what we have done. We
have
lost our spiritual equilibrium and reversed our values. We
have exploited the poor and called it the lottery. We have
rewarded laziness and called it welfare. We have killed our
unborn and called it choice. We have shot abortionists and
called it justifiable. We have neglected to discipline our
children and called it building self esteem. We have abused
power and called it politics. We have coveted our
neighbor's possessions and called it ambition. We have
polluted the air with profanity and pornography and called
it freedom of expression. We have ridiculed the
time-honored values of our forefathers and
called it
enlightenment. Search us, Oh God, and know our hearts
today; cleanse us from every sin and Set us free.
Amen!'
Commentator Paul Harvey aired this prayer on his
radio program, 'The Rest of the Story,' and
received a larger response to this program than any other
he has ever aired. With the Lord's help, may this
prayer sweep over our nation and wholeheartedly become our
desire so that we again can be called 'One nation under
God.'
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Huckabee is the best choice for VP
I see I'm getting some people who are upset because I mentioned the fact that JS never was visited by God or Christ, but only by the angel Moroni and yet they appear to offer no defense. Plus I've always wanted to ask this question, the closest thing to the word mormon I find is moroni, so where did the word mormon come from, since I can think of only one other word that comes close to the word moroni?
"Why then are there so many Christian churches today?"
David M, doesn't revelations talk about these different churches. Maybe you should look those up and try to figure out which one the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints falls under.
David M, plus wasn't it the angel Moroni, who visited Joseph Smith?
David M, now SMU that's a school to look to if you want some real biblical insight, NOT!
People don't vote for president based on the VP, if you right wingers are that worried, go to the Bob Barr for president website, I have a strong feeling you will feel at home there.
David M, the Bible is self-authenticating and its own interpreter. Ezekiel 37:15-17 in context explains the Northern and Southern tribes of Israel being brought back together (the two sticks). The Northern tribes were taken by the Assyrians and the Southern by the Babylonian. God is not trying to rebuke Himself and say that the Bible is not correct and therefore I am going to bring forth the book of mormon to correct it since the two obviously differ in doctrine. Isaiah 29:4 in context is about God calling for repentance for Israel due to their idolatry, chasing of their own will, and prideful speaking. The speaking from the ground is the prideful boastful speaking being humbled to a whisper as a reult of the judgement being brought forth. God's Word says not to add or subtract from His word.
A typo mistake in a copy of the Bible or inaccuarate translation of a word or passage cannot be used against the Bible. A scratch in a Chevy truck does not mean that it is no longer a truck.....my dear friend David M...the most important proof that the Gospel is the divine Word of God comes when it is prayerfully read. God's Word will enlighten your mind and God will knock softly on the door of your heart. He'll truly speak to you and change your life!
McCain is thinking of Mitt for VP? I thought they hated each other.