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by John Haskins (cartoon from The New Yorker) Homeschooling father Rick Fisk recently published an articulate and provocative "Open Letter To Homeschoolers" ( www.lewrockwell.com/fisk/fisk32.html ) about Mike Huckabee on the libertarian site LewRockwell.com. It requires an honest and thoughtful response. First, it must be remembered how we got into such a mess. Again. Limousine-chasing, pseudo-conservative lawyers like Jay Sekulow, James Bopp, radio hit man Hugh Hewitt and Alliance Defense Fund legal nihilist David French misled the Religious Right's self-appointed surrender negotiators -- Tony Perkins, Richard Land, Gary Bauer, Pat Robertson, Tom Minnery and others -- into believing that Romney had fought valiantly to defend traditional marriage and the constitutional separation of powers against marauding activist judges and their tanks, fighter planes and nuclear submarines. Snooty, bon-vivant conservative pundits and think-tankers also looked no deeper than the celebrity lawyers' transparently absurd assurances. They watched as incompetent generalissimos and petty colonels of the Religious Right were easily thrown off the trail -- in many cases simply bought with bribes. They swooned at Romney's Ivy League pedigree, his dynastic pretensions and fawned like teenie boppers over his sheer, drop-dead "presidentiality." And, of course both their anticipation of access and career opportunities in an Romney administration -- and Romney's cash gifts to them -- made him seem even more "presidential." The calculations completed, they settled on a promising political investment in a governor who, as he had once boasted, had done more to "mainstream" the most far-fetched demands of homosexual revolutionaries than Ted Kennedy could have in his wildest dreams ("but did we forget to mention his presidentiality?"). Romney had boosted funding for pro-homosexuality indoctrination starting in kindergarten, tried to trick Catholic Charities into doing homosexual adoptions, and signed into law taxpayer-funded abortion-on-demand at the bargain price of $50 per victim. But they simply could not get over the resume, the family, and the great new talking points. And that presidentiality. With slobbering kisses (and relentless manipulation of their readers, listeners and donor base), the conservative elites bionically remanufactured a very unpopular Massachusetts governor -- who could not have been re-elected -- from a willing tool of militant homosexual fascism and the abortion industry into the crown prince of conservatism. Heralds were sent out across the conservative kingdom with firm instructions to all to lay the groundwork for a coronation. Those who expressed doubts were insulted as "wingnuts" and "religious bigots." The relentlessness of the pundits, the mercenary zeal of the lawyers and the sheer incompetence of the religious generalissimos ensured that no real conservative could find money, endorsements or media attention. Continued here from front page But something went wrong. Word leaked out from Massachusetts that the prince was no prince, but rather an imposter, and certainly no conservative. As the months wore on conservative activists worked tirelessly to document Romney's record and spread it via Internet and phone against the seemingly overwhelming difficulty of a 100-million-dollar propaganda campaign, of which untold millions went to literally bribe trusted "conservative," supposedly constitutionalist and "pro-family" leaders and lawyers. Eventually, Romney's past started to catch up with him. And those who saw the imposter as the ruthless and dangerous demagogue he was had few choices remaining, and arguably only one that had a chance to win the Republican nomination. Mike Huckabee was far from the worst Republican candidate running. He was by far and beyond question the best of the "frontrunners." But what does that mean? As I privately warned colleagues several months ago when we were being urged to unite behind Mike Huckabee, I do have reservations about this former governor. The commentary by this homeschooling father addresses one of them in particular. The home-schooling movement has thrived with nothing more than lip service from either the "conservative" elites, the "pro-family" establishment or the Republican Party. This is gross malpractice. As an activist who has written on the demonic brainwashing of American children starting in kindergarten by fanatical, often diabolically ill homosexual activists, I understand the homeschooling movement as a last hope for children and parents, especially since the "conservative" and "libertarian" movements have betrayed us by failing to adamantly demand school vouchers or education tax credits (with private school options) and an end to the stranglehold of government education. Well, even the homeschooling leadership doesn't understand that the new Stalinism is coming for their kids too. Check out this cold wind from Hell: U.S. Home-Schooling Parents May Be Forced to Teach Against Their Moral Principles www.lifesite.net/ldn/2003/oct/03100607.html And Mike Huckabee has no more of a clue than any of the other establishment "frontrunners," as this father's letter reveals. I can overlook the problems inherent in Huckabee's apparent belief in the power of government to make people's lives better by creating more and more programs. Negative consequences result from that view. I can overlook his strange view that "dialogue" with foreign regimes that hate us can solve "misunderstandings." Evil consequences result from that view. I can overlook his strange comment that "what's wrong with the pro-life movement is that they are obsessed with the gestation period" and that advocating more music and art education are essential to a "pro-life" view. If that was more than an off-the-cuff quip, it suggests a confused notion of the unalienable right to life and the mushy, muddled moral reasoning that got modern "liberalism" started on the road to degenerating into libertine facism. I can overlook that Huckabee's friend, Rev. Rick Scarborough -- who endorsed him -- nevertheless pointed out "Mike tries too hard to win the acceptance of the elites." I overlooked that. That cancer has infested the entire GOP establishment to an extent that society might be better off if they just merged with the Democrats and gave the smoke and mirrors act a rest. Only Dr. Alan Keyes and Dr. Ron Paul are basically immune to the incredible spine-liquefying zombification elixir that manifests its most extreme symptoms in un-dead demagogues like Mitt Zombie. I looked past the fact that Huckabee seems to have no more awareness than the average Republican or Democrat that swearing "so help me God" to uphold a constitution means you either stand up to outlaw judges, reject their outlaw opinions and lead an impeachment drive or you have taken the Lord's name in vain. But I overlooked this. And more besides. Why did I look past all this? Because the gross negligence, dishonesty, outright lying, incompetence, horrible lack of strategic vision, acceptance of bribes, cowardice and compulsive, ingrained sycophancy of the "pro-family" establishment toward grotesquely evil powerful Republicans put us in danger of an alternative like Mitt Romney in the White House. Nothing negative that could be said of Mike Huckabee could touch the dishonesty and destructive power of Mitt Romney. His legacy of lying about the law in order to force abortifacient pills upon Catholic Hospitals, force Catholic Charities to give children to homosexuals, force town clerks to perform sodomy-based "marriages," schoolchildren to undergo pro-sodomy brainwashing is unmatched by any politician in American history, even the Clintons. Nor was Giuliani an option, for painfully obvious reasons. Fast Freddie Thompson? Ron Paul? Well, (I hate to say this about the principled and honorable Ron Paul) their view of abortion is the modern equivalent of the slave owners view of slavery: "states' rights" trumps the rights of the helpless human victim. My, that's gotta reassure the next 40 million babies heading for the Planned Parenthood factory. If any of those 40 million babies have an issue with the states' rights rationalization they can take it up with David Limbaugh, who recently disgraced himself and insulted our intelligence and our moral sense on WorldNetDaily with a casual claim that states' rights trumps the inalienable right to life. (Limbaugh obviously does not expect to be aborted or enslaved himself on the states' rights pretext.) So, there we were, seeing Huckabee humiliate the obscenely over-funded Founding Father of sodomy-based "marriage" in Iowa and South Carolina (on a budget that Romney couldn't even bribe Jay Sekulow's son with), but cringing at some of his statements. And, it's really hard to see much courage among those "pro-family" leaders who have been aware for a decade or two that the endless compromises, sellouts and surrenders of the Sekulows, Pat Robertsons, Tom Minnerys, Gary Bauers, (publicist) Mark Demosses, the Alliance Defense Fund, the National Right to Life and its high-flying lawyer James Bopp and so many others are leading us toward Concentration Camp Amerika and that their golden boy Mitt Romney has done more to undermine their stated goals than almost anyone else. Previous generations of Americans would have revolted, defrocked their "leaders" and sent them packing. Not us. We're good little children, loyal to our mercenary "conservative" overlords all the way to Auschwitz. It is frightening to witness the sheer anger that one encounters on trying to warn Christians about the ongoing surrender of the church-ified sycophants running the "pro-family" marketing industry. We need to face the fact that, by virtue of apathy and selfishness, most of us are unqualified to discern real moral leaders from pretenders. We have a list: Nice suit. Check. Nice face. Check. Good talking points. Check. Never says anything too negative or gets me too upset. Check. Most of us are simply not qualified to vote. Too lazy to check the facts. Too eager to trust telegenic liars. Too interested in personalities and who looks and sounds "presidential.' Too frightened when a candidate "goes negative." Too focused on our pocketbooks. Not focused on the justice that God commanded us to fight for. It is important to know what we'd be getting into with Mike Huckabee, But it's even more important to realize how we ended up having no other choice. And once we've figured out that out, we'd better make it very clear that the kind of people who claim to speak for social conservatives and are selling off our votes to the GOP money men do not speak for us. That means some of our favorite celebrity "conservatives" and "pro-family" leaders and "conservative" super-lawyers that we've been reading, listening to and sending our money to. Let's admit it, the average "values voter" today is just like his secular neighbor, if not worse: feminized, apathetic and no threat at all to the forces of evil. Worse than the unbeliever next door, we fall for any leader with a nice suit and churchy-sounding talking points. As we look at where we stand in 2008, we've been grossly and recklessly betrayed by those to whom we lazily outsourced our civic and moral duties. What would our forefathers do now? Well, since you have to ask, the answer is they'd revolt. They'd get off the couch, throw the TV out the window and start behaving like their children's inalienable rights are worth dying for. We have to build a new pro-family movement based on Christ and His character. If we do not, folks, this country is going down. And you will not like what life is like when God strips you of all your idols. If we fail to do what our forefathers would do here and now, we will be judged for squandering our children's and grandchildren's legacy. We will answer to God if we continue blindly following incompetent, self-serving "leaders" who lick the boots of their Republican masters. Mike Huckabee may be a good man. He may be a very good man. Or he may not be. But if we obediently swallow the kind of lies that are necessary to vote for the likes of Mitt Romney, and if we continue to trust the "conservative" power brokers and opinion leaders who keep selling us those lies, who are we to point fingers? __________________________________________________________________________ When the "conservative" elites betray the grassroots, do you really think the mainstream media blows the whistle? The truth has gone underground. UndergroundJournal.net
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