Huckabee: The Best Form of Government

What would you consider the best government of all? Many of us would utter 'republic', 'democracy' or some other way of saying our government. Who wouldn't say those things about a country whose GDP is greater than the next four countries combined! Yet Mike Huckabee, in his book 'Do the Right Thing', posits a different answer. To Mike, the most effective government is 'self-government.' In today's climate, what a radical notion this is. You mean I actually have to attempt to fix things for myself first before asking everyone else to take care of me??

Why can't folks govern their own behavior, own up to mistakes, and stop doing stupid, hurtful, things? Why do so many leaders feign integrity during the day, and when nobody is looking indulge in terribly indecent things? Why are people always trying to get around the system? Why do we let states decide issues of common morality like abortion and marriage? How in the world can Massachusetts decide gay marriage is fine but Ohio says it isn't? People used to inherently understand killing innocent children was at the least unwise for keeping your population growing. People used to know same sex marriages at the least hurt society's ability to procreate and continue our greatness. Not anymore! With each "around the system" act committed by citizens our legislature develops a new law to combat the new wrinkle.

In Huckabee's fictional town, "Hucktown", the best form of government is COMMON SENSE guided by introspection.

You see, for Mr. Mike the root of so many problems is too many self indulgent people. The secular progressives, with their anything goes attitude, are completely dismantling personal responsibility. Oh, don't worry, PERSONAL CHOICE is alive and well, but "treating others as you want to be treated" is becoming a foreign concept these days. Do what I want to do no matter the cost to others is the new mantra.

"Hucktown's" first attempt at problem solving is asking its citizenry to evaluate their own behavior. In Mike's world, each citizen asks if they should have behaved differently in any given circumstance before asking BIG government to address the problem with a new law. Without these new, ever changing laws, comes even more freedom for Hucktown's population. Crime all of a sudden drops because folks refuse to take the easy way out of their problems. No tax decreases or increases are needed. Prosperity returns simply because people treat other people well. Sounds like manna from Heaven doesn't it?? The point of emphasis in Hucktown shifts from I do what I want and you deal with it to I do what I want until it interferes negatively on those around me. And I CHOOSE to do the right thing not I am FORCED to do the right thing.

Hucktown sure sounds good to me. Granted, it is a fictional place, and a place of perfection we can never attain. But the ideals of Hucktown's citizens should be our ideals. Let's stop putting me first. Sure, we have the freedom to do so, but what is the cost of this freedom?? Take a quick look at our fractured country and it shouldn't take long to sink in. Think of others today. Not because you are forced to, but because you want to.

Huckabee: Do the Right Thing

Every page in Mike Huckabee's 'Do the Right Thing' from Sentinel Publishers, convinces me of the gigantic mistake we've made this election cycle. We are talking a contrast as potentially stark as Carter vs. Reagan. Can you guess who I think is the next Carter and who would be Reagan??

The first sixty pages emanates more common sense than I heard from all the other candidates this election cycle. Mind you, these aren't talking points. No democratic or republican pollsters are speaking through this man. Huckabee expresses his core convictions about our country and its future with a surprising honesty I've almost assumed doesn't exist anymore. It's certainly been strong enough to energize me towards 2012 after a bitter loss this year.

Huckabee, like Bush, is a man of deep personal conviction. Huckabee, unlike Bush, has strong CONSERVATIVE principles. For "Huck" there is no wishy-washy open border policy to buy Hispanic votes, or letting Congress appropriate funds for anything they want. No government inspired solutions to our economic problems either. All of which were George Bush solutions. It was this avoidance of core conservative principles, demonstrated all to often by Mr. Bush and his wimpy friends in Congress, that tossed our butts back to the political sidelines.

What does Mr. Mike describe in these first sixty pages compelling enough for me to write about? The radical notions of self-government and respect for life. Such radical concepts they've become it almost seems too good to be true when the words leap off at you as you're reading. With each turned page, I've become more encouraged that sanity still exists in the USA. And Huck is the politician who articulates its message best right now.

Deep down, don't you dream wildly about what the good ole USA could be if it reverted back to the crazy notion of personal responsibility? We are still a prosperous nation despite the claims of liberals and our media. But how much higher could we go?? Isn't it almost delicious to conjure up images of people actually owning up to mistakes, apologizing for them, and working to not repeat them? You would vote for such a man in a minute wouldn't you? Even if you didn't agree with everything he said...Crazy ideas aren't they?

If you've dreamed about returning to this paradise, then Huckabee's book is for you. Stick around for my next posting and I'll share with you how Huckabee's radical blueprint could bring our country back from its continued nose dive off the cliff of prosperity and civility. Plus, if you've read anything lately you think is a must read, drop me a line and let me know because I seem to have this thing for books!