one final thing. we have all talked about strict constructionist. for the lay men. out there help them understand what that means. lit is right there. i took it out of my paper. that is the constitution. read exactly what it said. don t read anything to it and don t add to it and don t add different clauses whether it is the commence clause and any other clause trying to change what the founding fathers were telling us. mike: thank you, governor. thank you, governor rick perry . we ll see governor perry in the end of the forum. you can post it at facebook.com/huckabee show . tweet. coming up minnesota congresswoman michele bachmann and texas congressman ron paul
set and not have everybody go that is crazy. they never heard your message. i wrote a book called contract with europe. in an effort to argue there are sound promarket science and inivation that would lead to a improved environment than you get out of lawyers and regulators and oh, pa. mike: we have final 30 seconds. who is your favorite founding father and why? joc washington we all stand on his shoulders and this is his command flag from valley forge. without george washington we would not have america and he was in the field eight years and from your state, he returned to mount vernon for one week in eight years. that s what he thought freedom was worth and that s the standard from us. mike: mr. speaker thank you for your time away from the
it would be closer to the people and they would control that power. we changed that with the 17th amendment and one of the reasons i am a supporter of balanced budget with a gap, because it guarantees limited government and guarantee states and people being more free. mike: we are down to final two minutes. i will turn to senator president obama s refusal of defining the marriage act. constitutionally why is the president wrong? first of all the president has the obligation to defend the laws of our country. this bill was passed and stands up for an institution that has been in place for a longg time. the president s autobiographyligation to enforce the laww and when it is challenged, his obligation to step forward and argue that case. i am happy he isn t. because he was still on the
governor romney? thank you, mike. this 2012 election is really going to be an election which presents a choice to the american people about what kind of america we will have. historically, this has been what david brooks has called a merit-based society. individuals based on their education, risk taking and a little luck can have rewards based on success they achieve. that has lead us to be the strongest nation in the history of the earth. it is a nation of freedom and opportunity. president obama and his friends have a very different view for america. they want to see an entitled -based society where you take the rewards from some and spread it out to everybody else. and whereby the way the best rewards go to the people who do the spreading, the people in government. are we going to be a free society with free individuals pursuing their own course with free enterprises or a nation governed by the government. i am convinced this is a time where america will have to make that choice.
fight to have another case brought before them. 20 seconds. that s all. are the courts the ultimate and only arbtraittor of the constitution. not absolutely not. and i am the only one in the field who did something about it and i called for the abolishment of the ninth circuit. i am out of time. mike: thank you very much for coming off of the campaign trail and being with the attorneys. great to be with you. mike: we ll see senator santorum at the end of the forum. coming up rick perry and michele bachmann and texas cram cramm ron paul and mitt romney. stay with us. one more gift.