The Trend is Real: Conservatives Rally

Contact: Rev. Schenck, 703-447-7686

MEDIA ADVISORY, Feb. 4 /Christian Newswire/ — The Reverend Rob Schenck (pronounced SHANK), in his capacity as a private citizen, today released this statement regarding tomorrow’s primary votes:

“I have spent the last 33 years as an active evangelical Christian. I am an ordained evangelical minister. I graduated from an evangelical Bible college and an evangelical seminary. I serve on the board of America’s oldest association of evangelical church leaders, and I head one of the most active evangelical ministries in Washington, DC.

“I have thought long and hard about the upcoming elections. I have prayed earnestly about them, and I have met many of the candidates and their top campaign people and I have studied their platforms and policy proposals.

“After careful and prayerful consideration, I have concluded that an evangelical vote for Mike Huckabee is a vote for John McCain, and a vote for John McCain will be a disaster for this country.

“Let me explain. It’s clear to me and many others that Mike Huckabee is not broadening his appeal enough to win the primary. Therefore, his only contribution is to siphon off votes, giving McCain a clear path to victory. It’s very possible Huckabee is being positioned to be John McCain’s pick for vice president. In order to win, McCain needs Mike Huckabee and the evangelical votes he brings with him. The specter of a McCain-Huckabee ticket is bad for evangelicals.

“McCain is proud of his signature accomplishment, the McCain-Feingold law co-authored with liberal Democrat senator Russ Feingold. McCain-Feingold severely limits the First Amendment rights of evangelicals. McCain will use this law as the litmus test for his Supreme Court nominees. If a judge is likely to be against McCain’s unconstitutional law, McCain will not nominate him. Make no mistake about it, constitutional originalist judges will be against McCain-Feingold. These same judges will also be pro-life, for traditional marriage and for the public acknowledgment of God.

“Only liberal judges will support McCain-Feingold. They will also be pro-abortion, anti-traditional marriage and against the public acknowledgement of God. So, with a McCain-Huckabee administration, or with a McCain-anyone administration, we get the wrong judges. Most distressing, we get the wrong justices on the U.S. Supreme Court.

“Evangelicals must consider both the stakes and the realities in this election. Mike Huckabee’s continuation only helps John McCain. The consequences are just too great to take this risk. A McCain victory will hurt this country because of the long-term damage of the wrong judges and justices. Worse, McCain’s court legacy will continue to hurt our children and our grandchildren, perhaps even our great grandchildren.

“Evangelicals must choose wisely from among candidates other than Mike Huckabee and John McCain as they vote tomorrow, February 5.”

For identification purposes only, the Reverend Rob Schenck (pronounced SHANK) is president of Faith and Action in the Nation’s Capital, chairman of the Committee on Church and Society for the Evangelical Church Alliance and co-founder of the annual National Memorial for the Pre-born and their Mothers and Fathers, the only pro-life worship service held inside the U.S. Capitol complex in Washington, DC.

If you live in the Southern California area, tonight is your chance to come out and show your support to Mitt Romney!

An airport rally is scheduled for 7:30 pm (or 7:50 pm, depending on the source).

Daugherty Sky Harbor
2801 East Spring Street
Long Beach, CA 90806

Bring your friends! Bring your family! Bring your favorite Ron Paul supporter!

Let’s give Romney a enthusiastic rally and tomorrow, an enthusiastic victory in California.

FredHeads for Romney

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I’ve posted several new YouTubes at NY for Mitt. Come take a look.

I’ve posted several new YouTubes at NY for Mitt. Come take a look.

Romney Rally in Illinois!

Why do we on the Republican side always seem to get saddled with the “interesting” candidates?
Back in December the polling for the Democrat field looked like this:

Hillary Clinton (35%)
Barack Obama (29%)
John Edwards (17%)
Bill Richardson (10%)
Dennis Kucinich (3%)
Joe Biden (2%)
Chris Dodd (1%)
Mike Gravel (0%)
None of these (1%)
No opinion (3%)

Here we are just two days before Super Tuesday with Republican goings-on illustrated by a recent poll in Texas (the only recent poll I have seen), which shows the following for the Republicans (The previous poll numbers are shown in parentheses.):

Mitt Romney 30% (11%)
John McCain 29% (24%)
Mike Huckabee 20% (26%)
Ron Paul 8% (4%)
Alan Keyes 3% (0%)
Undecided 10% (8%)

While the Democrats have now reduced their field to Clinton and Obama, on the Republican side Mike Huckabee, Ron Paul, and Alan Keyes are all set to play spoiler, leaving one of the two least conservative candidates of the field with a “clear flight path to the nomination” as described by Michael Barone. Incidentally, the title of his article, “Republicans Unite; Democrats Divide,” is somewhat ironic, given the love-fest which was the Democrat Debate on Thursday night. As Clinton and Obama prepared to leave the stage, he was caught on camera whispering sweet nothings into her ear, with her smiling like a little schoolgirl. It was so cute…

In 1992 it was H. Ross Perot who kept George H. W. Bush from getting a second term, giving the White House to Bill Clinton. Now it is Huckabee, Paul, and Keyes, who can’t seem to bring themselves to leave the stage.

This is so very painful to watch.

Mike B.

All McCain’s straight talk is going to get him into trouble.

First we have multiple instances where McCain openly acknowledged a deficiency on his part with regards to an understanding of the economy. “The issue of economics is not something I’ve understood as well as I should.”

Now McCain gives us a little more straight talk…apparently while campaigning in South Carolina he told reporters on his bus that “It’s not social issues I care about.” (HT to Anne Leary)

Everyone got that? He doesn’t understand economics, and he doesn’t care about social policy. Should anyone be surprised at the push-back McCain is getting from real conservatives like Michael Reagan?