ADAM McMANUS URGES TEXAS CONSERVATIVES TO VOTE FOR MIKE HUCKABEE
Monday, February 18, 2008

Adam McManus participated in a press conference with Alice Patterson of Justice at the Gate and Clayton Trotter of The Justice Foundation in which they urged Texas conservatives to vote for Mike Huckabee for President. The media event was held at the gazebo 100 yards from the Alamo on Monday, February 18th at 10 a.m. KSAT 12, KENS 5, KABB 29, WOAI-4, and the San Antonio Express-News covered the press conference.

My name is Adam McManus, and since 1997, I have hosted "The Adam McManus Show" on AM 630, KSLR weekday afternoons from 3-6 p.m.

As a conservative Christian, I believe that we need a President who will make it his top priority to end the American holocaust of abortion which has claimed the lives of 46 million baby boys and baby girls. Plus, we need a man in the White House who will help protect marriage between a man and a woman as the single most important institution in our culture.

That man is Mike Huckabee.

The very reason why he left the pulpit and ran for office in Arkansas was to help protect the lives of the unborn babies. As Governor Huckabee stated at the Values Voter Summit last October, "I don’t come to you, I come from you."

Mike Huckabee, in keeping with the Republican Party Platform, believes that "we must keep our pledge to the first guarantee of the Declaration of Independence. That is why we say the unborn child has a fundamental individual right to life which cannot be infringed." Along those lines, Mike Huckabee supports the passage of the Human Life Amendment to the Constitution and will only appoint pro-life justices to the Supreme Court so that Roe v. Wade is overturned in short order.

By contrast, John McCain has been endorsed by the Republican pro- abortion group and wants to force taxpayers to fund the murder of babies at the earliest stage of development for their baby body parts. Clearly, John McCain should not be the standard bearer for the pro-life cause.

On the question of protecting marriage, Mike Huckabee supports the passage of the Marriage Protection Amendment which would define marriage as between one man and one woman. John McCain, by contrast is one of only 7 liberal Republican senators who opposes the passage of the Marriage Protection Amendment. No wonder the Log Cabin homosexual Republican group has endorsed John McCain. Clearly, John McCain should not be the standard bearer for the pro-family cause.

On Tuesday, March 4th, Texas conservatives will proudly vote for Mike Huckabee because he’s one of us.

We will ignore the foolish counsel from Governor Rick Perry. Last October, Governor Perry asked us to abandon our conservative convictions as he endorsed an adulterous, pro-abortion, pro- homosexual marriage, pro-gun control liberal Republican in Rudy Giuliani due to Guiliani’s frontrunner status at the time.

And now Governor Perry is telling us to once again abandon our conservative convictions and vote for another adulterous, anti-life, pro-homosexual marriage liberal in John McCain because of his frontrunner status. We ignored Governor Perry before and we will ignore Governor Perry again. Frankly, these endorsements remind me of the old Rick Perry who was Al Gore’s Texas Chairman during Gore’s run for the White House in 1988. Maybe it’s time for him to switch back to the Democrat Party.

I’d like to remind Governor Perry of his 2006 speech to the Conservative Political Action Conference in which he stated and I quote, "Today, we find liberals campaigning as conservatives to get elected. We need to return to our conservative roots rather than redefine them."

That’s right Governor Perry. Liberal John McCain is campaigning as a conservative just to get elected. And you have abandoned your conservative convictions for political opportunism. It’s time for you, Governor Perry, to return to your conservative roots rather than redefine them.

As Governor Perry indicated in that same speech to conservatives two years ago, and I quote, "The cure to what ails Republicans is not going to be found in focus groups or finely orchestrated photo ops, but in pursuing the path of principle though it be long, dusty and less traveled."

I will not abandon my pursuit of principle and neither should other Texas conservatives. Mike Huckabee is a man of uncompromising principles and I will stand with him in the Lone Star primary because right is right.

One-hundred and seventy-two years ago, on February 24, 1826, William Travis knew full well that he and his 200 Texas patriots were outnumbered 40 to 1 in the fight against Mexican General Santa Ana. He wrote a letter saying, "The enemy has demanded a surrender at discretion, otherwise, the garrison are to be put to the sword, if the fort is taken. I have answered the demand with a cannon shot, and our flag still waves proudly from the walls. I shall never surrender or retreat. If this call is neglected, I am determined to sustain myself as long as possible and die like a soldier who never forgets what is due to his own honor and that of his country. Victory or Death."

Governor Perry, like General Santa Ana, told Mike Huckabee and all Texas conservatives to raise the white flag of surrender. We shall never surrender nor retreat. Our honor is more valuable than political expediency.

Commander Travis ‘s sentiments in his powerful postscript remind me of the sentiments of Mike Huckabee and Texas conservatives in that letter penned on February 24th, 1826: "P.S. The Lord is on our side."

The men at the Alamo, just a stone’s throw away from here, did not die in vain for it was their valor which inspired Texans to "Remember the Alamo!" and just six weeks later, on April 21, 1836, at the Battle of San Jacinto, the Texans won a decisive victory-and their independence.

As Texas conservatives, we will vote our values on Tuesday, March 4th. We will vote our pro-life, pro-family convictions. We will remember the heroes of Texas patriotism and courage. We will vote for Mike Huckabee because it’s the right thing to do.

Thank you!