As I'm sure you know, we lost South Carolina.
A win in Florida will turn it back into a good tight race. Still we have to WIN Florida, having taken a significant hit in momentum.
One thing I know. I can look back at this win or lose and not have regrets. I did what I could knowing that Huckabee is the only candidate who will protect the unborn. My voice was heard. My sacrifice was made. I laid it on the line. For that I am eternally grateful to God for putting it in my heart. I can walk away from this election no matter how it turns out knowing that I represented what was righteous....not what was for me advantageous.
I don't mean to talk like it's over, but it would be unrealistic to not see that we missed a big big opportunity to really jump ahead in this race, and the road is now much more difficult.
I thank my God continually that he appoints our rulers, or else I could be more distressed. I know that His wisdom is so much greater than mine. Into God's hands we continue to leave this race as we are faithful in what we can do through God's strength.
Continue to pray for Mike Huckabee and for our nation. Pray for the children, the little people in their mother's wombs who are being murdered. Pray for our country to open it's eyes and reject this inhumane practice. Every person deserves to have the same rights to live protected by due process of law.
I fear in my heart that if Mike Huckabee is not elected, we will see in the next president's term the true wrath of God against our ungodliness. I know that might sound "fundamentalist". Sorry, that is what I believe is a good possibility. God has sent us a man after his own heart, and if we reject him, I can see that being the impetus in God moving forward with his judgment of our nation. Time will tell.
Monday, January 21, 2008
Wednesday, January 16, 2008
Presidential Election (January Update)
Hi all,
Mike Huckabee, the only truly pro-life candidate in the race (and here is the proof) is once again on top of the daily rasmussen national poll as the national front runner, but it is very very close. Mike Huckabee is really hurting for money. He's been very effective and much more efficient than his rivals, but he needs more money to fight the negative and false ads flooding South Carolina. Also, Feb 5 has like 20 states, and Huckabee needs a lot of money now to get the organizations set up in those states to get the vote out and inform the public. The primary is just a few days away and we need to give right now!!! Then forward this to everyone you know and ask them to give.
Also, if you don't have money YOU CAN MAKE CALLS FOR HUCKABEE. Go here to register:
http://phonecallsformike.blogspot.com/
If you don't have long distance minutes but DO have a computer, you can download software to make FREE phone calls across the Internet here:
http://icall.com/
All you need is a computer headset, an Internet connection and a heart that cares.
Attack groups like the Club for Growth and others are subverting election contribution limits by attacking on behalf of candidates getting far more in contributions from single donors than is legal if those contributions were given to the campaign.
On taxes, you can go to my blog and see rock solid proof from tax tables of the states to show that Romney increased the tax burden of his state as a percentage of the economy year over year 75% faster than Huckabee :
http://bradbeblogging.blogspot.com/2008/01/romney-rebuttal-enclosed.html
If you watched the debate, you know that Romney had the 3rd worst job growth in the nation during his term, while Huckabee was able to produce a prosperous state. Even though Romney increased tax on the economy 75% faster than Huckabee, Huckabee did more with the more moderate increase that he had:
What Huckabee did was govern. OK, so he's not just looking out for big business. He cares about people too. And to some, that's going to be a turnoff. But considering how well he did with so much smaller tax increases than Romney, that has to be impressive.
Please see the tax figures for yourself. Romney and Club for Growth and others have been lying, trying to stick the fiscal liberal tag on Huckabee, but its simply not true.
We have a chance to have a Christian leader with STRONG biblical principles and now is our time to be heard. He's even being attacked now for not recanting his support for a patriarchal biblical family structure. Now if there's anything you would expect a politician to compromise on, it's that, but he hasn't.
In the last update, I did not give any information about the Democrat candidates, because I thought it was common knowledge that they are not pro-life. I'm going to provide some information now to clear that up.
Barack Obama:
A Text Outline of Barack's record on abortion
Alan keyes proving Barack is even more pro-abortion murder than Hillary Clinton. (In Illinois blocked bill to prevent the murder of unsuccessfully aborted babies who were born alive)
Barack Obama himself stating his support of abortion murder
Hillary Clinton:
Hillary's website states clearly that she supports abortion murder and they even have a fact sheet explaining how tirelessly she has supported it.
On Homosexual privileges, you can see where both of them stand. They both participated in the Lesbian, Gay, Bi-sexual & Trans-sexual debate or as they like to call it LGBT. The republicans would not participate in such a debate, but you can hear the democrat candidates and how they'll support the homosexual agenda here:
http://visiblevote08.logoonline.com/2007/08/10/video-the-presidential-forum/
Once again, now is the time to act. If Huckabee doesn't win South Carolina Saturday, his chances become very slim. If you can't give, pray. I ask that you would fast and pray with me. I have been fasting since Saturday night with nothing but water, and plan to continue for about 3 more days until the primary Saturday night. I have kept this private until now, but I need to request that you participate with me in seeking God's favor in granting us a Christian leader. Can you complete these last three days until Saturday evening fasting and praying with me for our nation?
Historically no candidate has ever won the nomination without getting South Carolina. It is a dead heat right now between the big three: McCain, Huckabee & Romney. Actually Romney isn't as high, but I expect him to get a bump up from winning Michigan. The importance of this primary CAN NOT be over-emphasized.
God bless you all,
Brad Reynolds
Mike Huckabee, the only truly pro-life candidate in the race (and here is the proof) is once again on top of the daily rasmussen national poll as the national front runner, but it is very very close. Mike Huckabee is really hurting for money. He's been very effective and much more efficient than his rivals, but he needs more money to fight the negative and false ads flooding South Carolina. Also, Feb 5 has like 20 states, and Huckabee needs a lot of money now to get the organizations set up in those states to get the vote out and inform the public. The primary is just a few days away and we need to give right now!!! Then forward this to everyone you know and ask them to give.
Also, if you don't have money YOU CAN MAKE CALLS FOR HUCKABEE. Go here to register:
http://phonecallsformike.blogspot.com/
If you don't have long distance minutes but DO have a computer, you can download software to make FREE phone calls across the Internet here:
http://icall.com/
All you need is a computer headset, an Internet connection and a heart that cares.
Attack groups like the Club for Growth and others are subverting election contribution limits by attacking on behalf of candidates getting far more in contributions from single donors than is legal if those contributions were given to the campaign.
On taxes, you can go to my blog and see rock solid proof from tax tables of the states to show that Romney increased the tax burden of his state as a percentage of the economy year over year 75% faster than Huckabee :
http://bradbeblogging.blogspot.com/2008/01/romney-rebuttal-enclosed.html
If you watched the debate, you know that Romney had the 3rd worst job growth in the nation during his term, while Huckabee was able to produce a prosperous state. Even though Romney increased tax on the economy 75% faster than Huckabee, Huckabee did more with the more moderate increase that he had:
- Huckabee through their kids insurance initiatives brought the rate of uninsured children down from 29% to 19%.
- Huckabee took their roads which were one of the worst according to Trucker magazine to the most improved according to the same group.
- Huckabee passed the first ever broad based tax cut in the state's history, and that with a democrat legislature!
- Huckabee took an education system that was 49th in the nation, and it is now 8th. 49th to 8th!!!!!
What Huckabee did was govern. OK, so he's not just looking out for big business. He cares about people too. And to some, that's going to be a turnoff. But considering how well he did with so much smaller tax increases than Romney, that has to be impressive.
Please see the tax figures for yourself. Romney and Club for Growth and others have been lying, trying to stick the fiscal liberal tag on Huckabee, but its simply not true.
We have a chance to have a Christian leader with STRONG biblical principles and now is our time to be heard. He's even being attacked now for not recanting his support for a patriarchal biblical family structure. Now if there's anything you would expect a politician to compromise on, it's that, but he hasn't.
In the last update, I did not give any information about the Democrat candidates, because I thought it was common knowledge that they are not pro-life. I'm going to provide some information now to clear that up.
Barack Obama:
A Text Outline of Barack's record on abortion
Alan keyes proving Barack is even more pro-abortion murder than Hillary Clinton. (In Illinois blocked bill to prevent the murder of unsuccessfully aborted babies who were born alive)
Barack Obama himself stating his support of abortion murder
Hillary Clinton:
Hillary's website states clearly that she supports abortion murder and they even have a fact sheet explaining how tirelessly she has supported it.
On Homosexual privileges, you can see where both of them stand. They both participated in the Lesbian, Gay, Bi-sexual & Trans-sexual debate or as they like to call it LGBT. The republicans would not participate in such a debate, but you can hear the democrat candidates and how they'll support the homosexual agenda here:
http://visiblevote08.logoonline.com/2007/08/10/video-the-presidential-forum/
Once again, now is the time to act. If Huckabee doesn't win South Carolina Saturday, his chances become very slim. If you can't give, pray. I ask that you would fast and pray with me. I have been fasting since Saturday night with nothing but water, and plan to continue for about 3 more days until the primary Saturday night. I have kept this private until now, but I need to request that you participate with me in seeking God's favor in granting us a Christian leader. Can you complete these last three days until Saturday evening fasting and praying with me for our nation?
Historically no candidate has ever won the nomination without getting South Carolina. It is a dead heat right now between the big three: McCain, Huckabee & Romney. Actually Romney isn't as high, but I expect him to get a bump up from winning Michigan. The importance of this primary CAN NOT be over-emphasized.
God bless you all,
Brad Reynolds
Monday, January 7, 2008
Romney Rebuttal Enclosed
Michael Medved, gives some useful information for a rebuttal in his article on townhall.com:
http://michaelmedved.townhall.com/blog/g/c6692253-551a-45e4-ba9f-37e740fe9411
Specifically he references the tax foundations statistics on tax for the states:
http://www.taxfoundation.org/taxdata/show/460.html (Massachusetts)
http://www.taxfoundation.org/taxdata/show/442.html (Arkansas)
We need to prevent Huckabee's Long tenure from being used against him. Let's adjust the discussion to put things in a yearly context.
Massachusetts's tax burden went from 9.8% in the year before Romney took office to 10.5% in his final year. Net increase 0.7% of the economy.
Arkansas tax burden went from 10.1% to 11.1% for Huckabee. Net increase 1.0%.
Now let's adjust for length of term:
RateOfIncrease/Year = (base + total increase)^(1/termInYears) - 1
Romney : (1 + .007)^((1/4) -1 = .001745 = .1745%
Huckabee : (1+ .01)^(1/10) - 1 = .000996 = .0996%
As you can see, Romney's per year increase in tax burden is significantly more than Huckabee's. Think of it this way:
that is .1745/.0996 = 175%.
I could say "Under Mitt Romney's tenure as governor the tax burden in Massachusetts increased 75% faster, than it did under Huckabee in Arkansas."
or another way to say it is to use the table below:
These numbers generated from the Tax Foundation tables show that Romney increased the tax burden of his state by an average of 1.75% each year (that is 1.75% more than the last years tax burden, not 1.75% of the economy).
This is significantly more than Huckabee. Huckabee increased the tax burden by only .99% each year.
This means Romney increased his state's tax burden 75% faster than Huckabee increased his state's tax burden.
http://michaelmedved.townhall.com/blog/g/c6692253-551a-45e4-ba9f-37e740fe9411
Specifically he references the tax foundations statistics on tax for the states:
http://www.taxfoundation.org/taxdata/show/460.html (Massachusetts)
http://www.taxfoundation.org/taxdata/show/442.html (Arkansas)
We need to prevent Huckabee's Long tenure from being used against him. Let's adjust the discussion to put things in a yearly context.
Massachusetts's tax burden went from 9.8% in the year before Romney took office to 10.5% in his final year. Net increase 0.7% of the economy.
Arkansas tax burden went from 10.1% to 11.1% for Huckabee. Net increase 1.0%.
Now let's adjust for length of term:
RateOfIncrease/Year = (base + total increase)^(1/termInYears) - 1
Romney : (1 + .007)^((1/4) -1 = .001745 = .1745%
Huckabee : (1+ .01)^(1/10) - 1 = .000996 = .0996%
As you can see, Romney's per year increase in tax burden is significantly more than Huckabee's. Think of it this way:
that is .1745/.0996 = 175%.
I could say "Under Mitt Romney's tenure as governor the tax burden in Massachusetts increased 75% faster, than it did under Huckabee in Arkansas."
or another way to say it is to use the table below:
| Romney | ||
| Year | Tax as % of Economy | % increase |
| 2002 | 9.80% | N/A |
| 2003 | 10.00% | 2.04% |
| 2004 | 10.20% | 2.00% |
| 2005 | 10.50% | 2.94% |
| 2006 | 10.50% | 0.00% |
| Average Increase/Year | 1.75% | |
| Huckabee | ||
| Year | Tax as % of Economy | % increase |
| 1996 | 10.10% | N/A |
| 1997 | 10.10% | 0.00% |
| 1998 | 10.20% | 0.99% |
| 1999 | 10.20% | 0.00% |
| 2000 | 10.50% | 2.94% |
| 2001 | 10.50% | 0.00% |
| 2002 | 10.30% | -1.90% |
| 2003 | 10.00% | -2.91% |
| 2004 | 10.50% | 5.00% |
| 2005 | 11.20% | 6.67% |
| 2006 | 11.10% | -0.89% |
| Average Increase/Year | 0.99% |
These numbers generated from the Tax Foundation tables show that Romney increased the tax burden of his state by an average of 1.75% each year (that is 1.75% more than the last years tax burden, not 1.75% of the economy).
This is significantly more than Huckabee. Huckabee increased the tax burden by only .99% each year.
This means Romney increased his state's tax burden 75% faster than Huckabee increased his state's tax burden.
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