Why I didn't vote for Huckabee.

I went to the Republican Caucus in Lawrence this morning with every intention of voting for Mike Huckabee. My choices for the republican nominee went like this: Thompson, Romney, Guliani, (Huckabee/McCain, not sure), Paul. Since my top 3 have dropped out, I was forced to choose between McCain and Huckabee, so I chose Huckabee for the simple fact that I've heard him talk about what he believes as a Christian and I appreciated his boldness. I got to the caucus today, waited until everyone in line was through, and listened to the campaign speeches given by campaign workers.

McCain's guy was alright but all he talked about was Vietnam (which I wasn't even alive for) and left me wishing they would talk about something that's still relevant. Paul's guy did nothing but trash the other two and then make a few plugs about pulling out of Iraq because it's an illegal war. After this, the Huckabee people got up to speak. The other two people had 1 person who spoke..granted, each candidate's campaign had 10 minutes to talk, but by the time the Huckabee people got up there everyone was ready to go..and they had 3 people speak. The second and third speakers were ladies who got up and said "I used to be sooo disinterested in politics..but now I"m a supporter of Huckabee..see? Vote for him." One girl even said "I'm almost 25 years old. I haven't really paid attention to politics for a few years, but when I graduated college I was like a politics junkie and had been for 10 years." So what? You were a 'politics junkie' at 12? Why did they have to get up there and talk about themselvels all day anyways?

Anyways, here's what did it for me. When the guy who had the actual, prewritten, substantial speech to give spoke his message was, "Mike Huckabee doesn't care whether it's left or right, conservative or liberal, democrat or republican. Mike has no problem reaching across party lines to ensure that our country is working together to do what needs to be done regardless of our political idologies." I was sitting up front and when he said "It's not about whether you're conservative or liberal" I yelled "..but it is!" Why do we have to reach across party lines? I'm tired of "conservatives" browbeating us about why we have to 'give a little' and 'reach across party lines' to 'encourage unity' in our country. Screw that. Every time we 'reach across party lines' what we end up with is "here let me give up on what I believe just to make you happy" and we get bills like McCain-Feingold (Government controlling campain donations) and McCain-Kennedy (Amnesty). How come 'unity' always means that we give in while they sit there and smile. You never hear liberals saying "well we just need to come to a compromise with the conservatives."

After this, this feller starts raving on how much Huckabee respects Senator McCain, and how much Huckabee agrees with McCain..there was at least 3 minutes of the Huckabee speech that was nothing more than a McCain love fest. What in the world is going on here...
I'll probably vote for McCain/Huckabee (if that's the ticket, which it could be) just because I can't stand Hillary or Obama even more than these two, but when are conservatives in America going to get representation again? I like the idea of not voting in order to "take them to the woodshed" but we'd screw up the supreme court if we let either of those other fools have the white house for 4 or 8 years. Can we get our own party please?