President George H.W. Bush Endorses John McCain
George H.W. Bush stood shoulder to shoulder with John McCain on Monday, offering an endorsement to the presumptive Republican presidential nominee.
Mathematically, statistically, symbolically and politically, McCain is just inches from winning the nomination, and the former president’s endorsement offers a signal that the Republican powerhouse family is coalescing around the candidate. Former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush has already endorsed McCain for president.
“I did not come here to tell any other candidate what to do, a very wise man once said influence is something you always have until you actually try to exert it,” Bush said from the Houston Hobby Airport in Texas, where he was joined by his wife, Barbara.
“Now is the right time for me to help John in his effort to start building the broad base coalition it will take for our conservative values to carry the White House this fall. His character was forged in the crucible of war. His commitment to America is beyond any doubt, but most importantly he has the right values and experience to guide our nation forward at this historic moment,” said the former president.
“I think that President Bush’s endorsement honors me, I believe it will help us enormously in that process of uniting our party as we move forward,” McCain said with his wife, Cindy, by his side. “President Bush, Barbara, I can ensure you that Cindy and I will do everything we can to make sure that you are proud and that your support of our candidacy will be something that you can look back on as having been the right thing to do.”
McCain campaign officials say they expect the current President Bush to endorse the candidate once he has numerically clinched the nomination.
Asked whether he thinks the Bush endorsement spells the end of his campaign, Mike Huckabee said endorsements don’t speak for the base.
“Does his voice count more than the millions of Republicans across the country? Blue-collar Republicans that maybe don’t have platform he has? Do their votes not matter? Do the people who have been coming to our rallies suddenly just say … ’someone else from the party establishment has spoken let’s just give up and not be heard from’? That’s not how elections are supposed to work” the former Arkansas governor said while campaigning in Wisconsin.
But McCain campaign officials are working on a plan to build the national organization for a general election.
Still, five or six senior campaign insiders spent the weekend at the senator’s ranch in Sedona, Ariz., to hold a private powwow on who they should hire for that campaign; what their national electoral college map should be; how best to use President George W. Bush on the stump in terms of fundraising and campaigning; which members of Congress McCain needs to court and spend time with; and who McCain will stump for on the campaign trail.
But most pressing among those questions is how they will craft a strategy for the Democratic nominee, who is undetermined at this time. The campaign is beginning to develop to competing scenarios to challenge either Barack Obama or Hillary Clinton.
For McCain, among his biggest challenges will be to fend off from either Democratic candidate claims that a McCain victory would amount to a third Bush term. Speaking Sunday, McCain said he has been a critic of the Bush administration’s conduct of the war, and pointed to fighting global warming and wasteful government spending as two major differences between him and the current president.
FOX News’ Carl Cameron contributed to this report.
We could have a discussion about the mating practices of seagulls and somehow the Huckabee people will drag Mormonism into it.
This is why I will not vote for Huckabee. Anyone who attracts such idiotic people in masses is too scary for me. Hell, I’d rather put up with McCain and his people, than have you overzealous bigoted retards in the process any longer, and thats saying something!
Please practice what you preach, and be loving Christians. Focus on yourselves and stop trying to save the evil Mormons from the pits of Hell. Maybe you’ll earn a little respect along the way.
McCain’s wife looks like she could be his granddaughter. I would be interested in knowing a little bit more about her.
Also, It is amazing how these blogs keep getting turned into a alter call. It is annoying. Why don’t you religious nuts exchange addresses or phone numbers and do this over the phone? The rest of us would like to discuss issues and the candadates.
Looks like Romney and Huckabee are both out of the picture, so GET OVER IT!
Please Check out the new Polling data.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3d2HQr_5qzI
It’s not over, my friends!
PLEASE PEOPLE!
THIS IS NOT A RELIGIOUS FORUM!
STOP POSTING RELIGIOUS RETERIC, IT MAKES ANY AND EVERY RELIGION LOOK BAD!
STICK TO THE ISSUES.
SUBSTANCE ON THE ISSUES.
COME ON, HEALTHY DEBATE ON THE ISSUES!
THANK YOU!
Post by Maria
“Satan is a created being,Ezekiel 28:15
Satan was originally the annointed cherub,Isaiah 14:12-17
Because of pride,he was kicked out of Heaven.
Right now,Satan is the prince of the power of the air.He walks about the earth.”
Maria, let me see if I have this right……….. Satan is a created being (who created him?) that was kicked out of heaven (if he lived in heaven, can I assume that he apparently lived with God? Isn’t heaven where God lives? Is Jesus God? Did he live with Jesus there? Was everybody living in heaven related to God? Does God’s children live there or does God have children?) You say he “walks about the earth” (does that mean he has a body in order to walk?) You still haven’t answered my question, WHERE DID HE COME FROM and WHO CREATED HIM? You can also read more about Cherub (Cherubim) in Exodus 25:18,22; 1 Kings 6:23-28; Hebrews 9:5; and Ezekial 10; 11; and 22. In the account of the Fall, cherubim are represented as keeping “the way of the tree of life” (Genesis 3:24) Explain to me a little more about cherub. Thanks…………. Mikey
ARLINGTON
ROMNEY IS OUT! THIS ISN’T A FORUM FOR YOUR MORMON RELIGION!
YOU ARE A RELIGIOUS, BIGOT!
STOP CLUTTERING THE BLOGS WITH YOUR TOXINS!
HUCKABEE’S QUESTION ABOUT MORMONISM IS NOTHING WHEN COMPAIRED TO THE HATFUL ANTI-CHRISTIAN BIGOTRY THAT HAS BEEN DOMINATING THESE BLOGS FOR DAY’S.
STICK TO THE REAL ISSUES.
I WILL NEVER TALK TO SOMEONE IN A WHITE SHIRT AGAIN. I’LL POLITELY TELL THEM-NO THANK YOU. I’VE NEVER SEEN SO MUCH HATE IN ONE PLACE. I HOPE ALL MORMON’S AREN’T LIKE YOU AND YOUR BUDDY TATER SALAD, STORMBOT, AND WHOEVER ELSE HE CAN MOCKA AND BELITTLE.
YOU BOTH ARE SHAMEFUL, YOU CAN’T BE VERY OLD.
Hello, Lets say you have a family of 4 and their is a candidate running for president that’s behind a FAIR TAX program that will give you a $500.00 PREBATE CHECK every month for your family..If your single your PREBATE CHECK is $195.00..
This candidate also states that the FAIR TAX will ensure your get your ENTIRE GROSS PAY with NO deductions..That the IRS gets abolished and all your savings and investments aren’t taxed either..Would you really have to ask too many more questions?..You’re probably saying, who is this guy?
Well, he supports the FAIR TAX, which has been call a .23 cent National Retail Sales Tax and has been stated to provide PREBATES CHECKS for just the the poor and middle class..This is halfway right..
Keep Reading please..
When you’re a worker “The FAIR TAX” ensures that you get your ENTIRE GROSS PAY with NO deductions.. Everybody gets a PREBATE CHECK based on the amount of dependents in your household..A family of 4 gets $500.00 every month..If you draw a Social Security Check now, you’ll get the PREBATE CHECK as well.
As a consumer “The FAIR TAX” will keep retail prices close to what they are now. The .23% federal tax is imbedded within the price of only NEW items..USED items are NOT taxed at all..Sorta like when we buy gasoline at the pump, the fed tax is imbedded or as some would say, included in the retail price..When we buy “NEW items only” the retailer has to send the imbedded .23% consumption tax to the federal government..
As a retailer, your wholesale price should go down roughly .22 percent from what you are paying now..This may not seem like enough revenue, but the retailer is projected to sell more goods or services..This plan is revenue neutral and will strengthen Social Security..
Nobody will have the right to complain about this economy anymore, if Mike Huckabee does NOT get nominated..
America take some time to read the FAIR TAX book, and also the NEW FAIR TAX “The Truth” book that came out 02/11/2008..Also, go to FAIRTAX.ORG for more information..
There is only one candidate that had the COURAGE to support this program..His name is “MIKE HUCKABEE”!!
Check this video out..It’s even Sean Hannity approved!!!!
http://youtube.com/watch?v=di2em2S25qM
Maria - here is how “Mormonism” became an issue in this GOP Campaign:
Huckabee Questions Mormons’ Belief
WASHINGTON (AP) - Republican presidential hopeful Mike Huckabee, an ordained Southern Baptist minister, asks in an upcoming article, “Don’t Mormons believe that Jesus and the devil are brothers?”
The article, to be published in Sunday’s New York Times Magazine, says Huckabee asked the question after saying he believes Mormonism is a religion but doesn’t know much about it. His rival Mitt Romney, the former Massachusetts governor, is a member of the Mormon church, which is known officially as the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.
The authoritative Encyclopedia of Mormonism, published in 1992, does not refer to Jesus and Satan as brothers. It speaks of Jesus as the son of God and of Satan as a fallen angel, which is a Biblical account.
A spokeswoman for the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints said Huckabee’s question is usually raised by those who wish to smear the Mormon faith rather than clarify doctrine.
“We believe, as other Christians believe and as Paul wrote, that God is the father of all,” said the spokeswoman, Kim Farah. “That means that all beings were created by God and are his spirit children. Christ, on the other hand, was the only begotten in the flesh and we worship him as the son of God and the savior of mankind. Satan is the exact opposite of who Christ is and what he stands for.”
***Mike Huckabee studied Theology in Texas. To claim that he doesn’t know much about the Mormon Religion is hard to believe.
NEWS FLASH!
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/21134540/vp/23226116#23223746
Can anyone on this post please tell me how Bush can endorse mc cain if Bush is so
for the problems that are going on in Africa,I truly think he is endorsing the wrong
person , but then again no one likes him either birds of a feather flock together, he
payed his last visit to Africa as President, I don’t see any change there for that country does anyone else on this post see anything good that happened to Africa since his being there? Those poor people in that country that he says he love’s so much?