Reasons for McCain to ask Huckabee to run as VP

THIS IS THE TIME TO RE-POST THIS.


The Huckabee Prayer Coordinator sent out the email asking if anyone is willing to pray for McCain to offer Mike the VP spot and followed with several excellent reasons.
Below is my reply and his complete message.
Daves message:
Is anyone willing to pray for McCain to offer Mike the VP spot?

I know that it is not a very appealing prospect to have to consider, but I've put together some reasons why Mike should become the VP nominee:

Reasons that Mike Huckabee should accept a VP position on the GOP ticket:
It gives Mike the opportunity to gain foreign policy experience—an area that was heavily criticized during the campaign as a weak point in his experience.It gives Mike Huckabee a bully pulpit from which to champion conservative causes.It keeps Mike in the public eye, and allows Mike to develop relationships with the national press.It will allow the press and the public to see that Mike is more than just a former Baptist Preacher, (even though we know there is nothing wrong with that) but an executive with experience.It allows the American people to get to know Mike better.Mike is very likeable.And with this opportunity, they will come to view him as Presidential.It allows Mike to establish relationships with Washington elites—the main source of resistance to his campaign in the GOP.It gives Mike input to national policy decisions, like the selection of Supreme Court Justices.It makes Mike the heir-apparent to the Presidency.It allows Mike to transition smoothly to the Presidency should McCain suffer a debilitating physical ailment or die in office—something that is very possible considering his advanced age.It prevents pseudo-conservatives like Romney from attaining power.It gives voters a choice in November between an Ultra liberal-Ultra liberal team in the Dems and a Moderate-Conservative team in the GOP.The general election tends to favor a balance toward political center.It gives conservative voters a choice.Many conservative voters will stay home in November if McCain chooses a moderate running mate.

Reasons John McCain should select Mike Huckabee as a running mate:
Mike is a superb speaker, he will be a great communicator for the ticket.McCain is generally viewed as lacking charisma.Mike brings the charisma that overcomes the personal appeal of Obama.Mike has won the conservative base—the states the McCain needs most to win in the general election.McCain has won mostly blue states, while Huckabee has won red states.Mike and John get along very well—as was apparent during their debates; John and Mitt sparred continuously with negative jabs but John and Mike were always friendly and cordial to each other.Mike has more executive experience than any other presidential candidate in either party.Mike has good ideas and a fresh approach.A combined McCain-Huckabee ticket would be hard to label as “Washington Insider”.Mike is young enough to assume the reins after McCain retires from public life—just as George Bush Sr. took over when Reagan retired. That was not the case with VP Dick Cheney.Voters will be very sensitive to the age issue with McCain, but Huckabee can defuse the issue.Mike has credibility with the social conservative base.If McCain runs without a social conservative like Huckabee, then James Dobson and other social conservative spokesmen will abandon the ticket, but with Mike aboard, social conservative spokesmen will likely support it.Social conservative voters are skeptical about McCain’s dedication to social conservative issues.Selecting Mike as a running mate will help prove his willingness to support conservative positions.Gun owners have determined Presidential election outcomes in the past.GOA’s website currently reads “McCain? No Way!!” But they say: “Mike Huckabee: Standing Tall for the Second Amendment.” Without a Huckabee running mate, gun owners will find it hard to support McCain.

Dave Mike Huckabee Presidential Prayer Team National Prayer Coordinator David QuintanaNew Mexico for Mike HuckabeeState Coordinatorhttp://www.nmformike.com/ http://hucksarmy.com/ http://www.mikehuckabee.com/ http://www.prayerformike.com/ My Reply to Dave You had me at "Is anyone willing to pray for McCain to offer Mike the VP spot?" BUT OF COURSE! I have secretly felt this was the pre-ordained outcome since I saw Mike on Kenneth Copeland and learned of his history in Arkansas - how the people were not smart enough to elect; God had him strategically positioned .Do you mind if I post your entire email on my blog, http://prayinghyde.blogspot.com/? And Dave responded: Please do post it on your site.I think that our Huckabee supporters need to hear the message.Yours is not the only one who responded in favor of my idea.Take a look at the message below--you might want to post that too! Dave Another message Dave was sent from Gail: I was thinking about that as plan B and actually God's plan A all along.God may be using McCain to get Mike in, knowing there might have been enough resistance against his candidacy in the fall election if he would have won the party nomination out right.It would be characteristic and follow the pattern of how Mike became Governor after running for Lt Governor in Arkansas.Besides, Haley Barbour, who is a surrogate of McCain's let the cat out of the bag when interviewed by Fox News that Mike would be a marvelous choice and that was after Fox News went through the litany of all the other names with him.You can maybe catch the interview on the Fox website or maybe later on today or tonight.My husband and I believe that is why Huckabee needed to get into second place on the delegate count, which he did, and have a regional following which the Lord gave him, in order for McCain to publicly justify a decision like that politically before the party establishment.With the fact that Democrats are now starting to make inroads to the more liberal element of the evangelical community, a VP Huckabee pick could squash that.There are so many reasons why, as you listed below, that Mike Huckabee would be a superb choice and we should pray that God will all that together .Mike said that the VP job was "the one that no one wanted but that no one would turn down", so he is not going to turn it down either if offered it.Besides of all the names on the VP list, Mike is the only one that isn't doing anything.All the rest either are getting older, or are in the middle of circumstances that are not advantageous to them accepting an offer.I think that for these reasons we should start lifting this up in prayer, big time!