Michigan religious conservatives: "We are totally done with McCain at this point, unless..."

[Amerigo Vespucci]

Michigan conservatives demand Huckabee as McCain’s VP

By Ed Brayton 8/17/08 10:46 AM



http://www.michiganmessenger.com/2461/michigan-conservatives-demand-huckabee-as-mccains-vp

As speculation ramps up on the various people John McCain is considering as his vice presidential running mate, a group of social conservatives from Michigan are drawing a line in the sand and demanding that he select Mike Huckabee.

While McCain was in Michigan last week for a fundraiser, the Detroit News reports, a McCain ally who met with a group of conservative leaders “floated the possibility he’d pick a running mate who is for abortion rights.” That prompted a furious response from social conservatives around the state and the nation as they attempted to shoot down that trial balloon with extreme prejudice. The News quoted Debra Mantey, one of the leaders of a state group of religious conservatives, as saying, “We are totally done with McCain at this point,” and saying that they will not vote for McCain unless he puts Huckabee, the former Arkansas government and Baptist minister, on the ticket.

People for the American Way, meanwhile, published an email that the group sent out requesting that people contact Rep. Fred Upton (R-Mich), who is a close friend and adviser of McCain’s, and urge him to push the Republican nominee to put Huckabee on the ticket. That email is rather blunt:

WE WILL NOT VOTE FOR A MCCAIN TICKET UNLESS:

1) Mike Huckabee is the VP; or
2) Mike Huckabee is the KEY NOTE SPEAKER at the National GOP Convention

The email contained a quote from Gary Glenn, president of the American Family Association of Michigan, expressing his dismay at the McCain campaign even asking them if they would support a pro-choice candidate, saying he and others at the meeting were “shocked the question even had to be asked, and alienated that the McCain campaign appears to be even considering it.”

[anonymous171]

1. Oh please HUCKABEE FOR VP!

[trashcanistanista]

2. I'm for Huckabee as well.

He would make a great VP.:rofl:

[bluestateguy]

3. Bring it on. We've got the Wayne DuMond ads ready to go.

nt

[Douglas Carpenter]

4. Gov. Huckabee would certainly make the race all the more entertaining

I can just imagine how the European press and even more so the Middle East press would really have one big long field day.

[lurky]

5. Sorry, I just can't celebrate that.

I mean, what if, God forbid, we end up with President Huckabee? Sure, it's only a remote possibility, but it's also the total nightmare scenario.