A Message To The Republican and Conservative Establishment.

This is a petition to the GOP, to Republicans and to Conservatives.  It is a message to them that my support of them will not last if they continue to attack social conservatives during the Primary only to seek their support for the General Election.

I will say that I am thankful that there atleast is one candidate who does support my social conservatives values and deeply rooted convictions, and that candidate is Mike Huckabee.  However I will also say that I am disgusted by all the attacks made against him by the Republican establisment and by many people in the media who claim to be conservative.

My comments here regarding these attacks are my own opinions and views regarding them, and are not nesscerily the views of anyone else.

For a few years now social conservatives have believed that they had a friend in certain media figures like Fox News, Rush Limbaugh, David Limbaugh, Sean Hannity, Laura Ingrahm, Ann Coulter and many others, but now during this Presidential Primary we have seen a great effort by these figures to attack Mike Huckabee who is the only candidate that we have who stands strong and consistent for our social conservative values.

Fox News constantly gave coverage to Rudy Giuliani's front runner status even long before any state held a vote.  Rudy Giuliani may have some really good views about the war on terror, but he is completely against the social conservatives on our issues.  Trusted conservative talk show hosts such as Sean Hannity knew this very well, yet still promoted Rudy Giuliani as someone we should vote for, and has stated repeatedly that he thinks that Rudy Giuliani is one of the most conservative candidates, while he does not say the same thing of Mike Huckabee.  In doing this, Sean Hannity sends the clear message that he thinks that economic policy and foreign policy are more important than social conservative values and morals including the prolife cause.  However if someone truly believes that abortion ends life, and has resulted in ending the lives of over 40 million people then how could they ever say that economic policy is more important?  If this is truly what they believe then how could they ever think of the prolife cause as anything less than an essential issue if not the most important issue by far?

Mitt Romney is one of the main candidates receiving all of the support and promotion of the Republican establishment.  I will say that I am thankful that Mitt Romney changed his position from being a social liberal who ran to the left of Ted Kennedy to someone who now is supposedly a social conservative.  However this man is seeking the office of President, and has already let social conservatives down even after his change by signing into law a health care bill that allows 50 dollar co-pays for abortion.  Two months after becoming prolife Mitt Romney appointed a pro-abortion judge.  Later he supported a lift on President Bush's ban on federal funding of embryonic stem cell research, which now he has changed again to say that he is for it.  Six months after Romney changed to becoming prolife he publically told his state that he promised to maintain pro-abortion laws.  And this is only in regard to the prolife issue.  Mitt Romney has many other issues that social conservatives are concerned about as well.  As stated before I am happy that Mitt Romney changed his position regarding social conservative values, however I am unsure that he would stand firm for social conservative values given his record which seems chaotic and haywire.  The fact that there is so much for social conservatives to be concerned about in Mitt Romney's record yet the conservative media does not report this, and reports negative news against Mike Huckabee insted is clear evidence of their bias.

Fred Thompson has been one of the leading candidates in the attack of Mike Huckabee.  Fred Thompson has been so forward in his attacks against social conservatives that he has publically stated that this is a battle for the heart and soul of the Republican party.  Though Fred Thompson does have a somewhat prolife voting record, it is clearly biased, untrue and neglecting to tell the rest of the story to say that his record is 100 percent prolife.  Fred Thompson strongly supported McCain-Feingold even when most conservatives where trying to stop it.  As most prolife people know, McCain-Feingold would have prohibited pro-life organizations from being able to broadcast educating information regarding a cannidate's position on abortion.  Fred Thompson also does not support a prolife amendment to the constitution, so he is pro-choice on that issue.  It has also been reported by many that Fred Thompson worked as a lobbyist for pro-abortion organizations.  Fred Thompson is also against an amendment that would define marriage as being a union between one man and one woman, which concerns a lot of social conservatives.  Fred Thompson has been one of the most outspoken figures to claim that Mike Huckabee is not a real conservative.  This is because Fred Thompson thinks that economic policy and foreign policy is so much more important than the prolife cause and social conservative morals and values.

John McCain has a somewhat good prolife record, however it is not 100 percent at all.  John McCain insisted on supporting embryonic stem cell research and apparently still does.  John McCain is the one who gave us McCain-Feingold.  John McCain is very opposed to an amendment which defines marriage as being between one man and one woman.  With all of these concerns  John McCain is not someone who appeals to social conservatives.

It is clear that we only have one candidate running for President that has not downplayed the importance of social conservative morals and values and that one candidate is Mike Huckabee.  Yet the one candidate that we have that supports our values is the same candidate constantly being attacked by media figures who are supposed to be conservative.  Rush Limbaugh has used his radio show and his influence to try to attack Mike Huckabee, daily.  Rush Limbaugh has made it clear that his single issue is big money for the rich and for big business, and none for the working class.  David Limbaugh has attacked Mike Huckabee in much of the same way.  Ann Coulter jumped at an oppertunity to attack Mike Huckabee over a misunderstanding, yet showed clear bias by not attacking  Mitt Romney nor Fred Thompson dispite their liberal positions on social conservative issues.  Laura Ingrahm like Sean Hannity, has put traditional republican economic policy in front of the prolife movement and social conservative values.

Dispite all of these attacks, if someone actually did unbiased research for themself, they would see that not only is Mike Huckabee the only true social conservative candidate we have, but he is also better than they are when it comes to fiscal conservativism, and even foreign policy.  Their attack against him is because as Governer, he built better roads which they needed very badly, and he made schools and education better which was also needed badly.  These attackers take advantage of the uninformed and uneducated to get them to believe half-truths and slander against Mike Huckabee.  Because Mike Huckabee appeals to the working class, they consider this not Republican.  It is the business wing of the Republican party that has given us corruption, spending and possibly even a recession.

This petition is a message to political figures and commentators that we are fed up.  In 2004 I was glad to vote for President Bush to be relected, the President who received more votes than any other President so far.  But if any candidate wins the nomination other than Mike Huckabee, then expect that you will not be getting my vote this time.  End of story.  I am fully aware that democrats who are not social conservatives and have socialists tendencies may gain absolute power in this election, but I am not going to allow you to use that against me to force me to put down my social conservative values and morals and vote for a party that has betrayed me.

If you agree with this petition and share some of these same concerns then please add your name to it, to send a message to the Republican party and to conservative media.