The only remaining candidate with the testicular fortitude to talk about INFRASTRUCTURE

Mike Huckabee and I probably will never agree on the issues involving LGBT rights -- unless he has a revelatory vision and realizes how wrong he is on the subject.
But the Arkansas governor, Baptist preacher and still-standing presidential candidate and I share some common ground: America's transportation system is broken and needs a good infusion of cash and commitment to get better.
The other folks still in the race -- at this writing, it is (alphabetically) Hillary Clinton, John McCain, Barack Obama and Mitt Romney -- might have something about infrastructure buried in the position papers on, say, the economy, but on Huckabee's page, right there, high on the list, just under securing America and immigration is: "Plan to Strengthen America's Infrastructure."
Huckabee starts off with a whopper, taken from a Jan. 24 speech at Florida Atlantic:

If we're going to spend $150 billion, I'd like to suggest that maybe we add
two lanes of highway from Bangor all the way to Miami on I-95. A third of the
United States population lives within 100 miles of that.

Then he jumps right in with another:

This nation's infrastructure is falling apart.

Through a well-thought essay, Huckabee describes his vision for improving America's infrastructure, guided by his four principles of stimulus, safety, security and sustainability. He shares with readers how, on becoming Arkansas' governor, he inherited one of the nation's worst highway systems. He notes that Arkansans approved a billion dollars' in road improvements, and that Arkansas' roads are considered among the most improved in the country. He also lays out data collected from the study from Texas A&M last fall that spells out the grim fact that we waste tons of time and money sitting in traffic -- which shows no signs of getting better any time soon.

He addresses a wide range of topics, from port security to green building to water use. He talks about stimulating the economy through American labor and American steel and American concrete.

I think his hand is forced at focusing on highways, because, for good or ill, that's how we get around in this country. But he doesn't ignore rail or public transportation. Does this sound like a presidential candidate?

- We must link land use and transportation planning. It is
folly, for example, to provide rail service to places that don't have the
density to make it work.
- We keeping building schools and post offices outside of town centers, so that everyone has to drive. Our children don't walk to school or to the playground anymore, which is not only a transportation issue, but causes childhood obesity as well. So transportation becomes a health issue, a lifestyle issue, which shapes the
future of our children and our county. We need to trim the fat and produce
an efficient, sustainable plan for the future.

Well, sad to say, Huck and I have too much of a gap between us on that other thing for me to support him. But Mike, have a change of heart about gay people, and maybe we can talk. Anyone who seems to write so easily about "land use" and "LEED Certified buildings" in the same essay knows how to make a gal's heart skip a beat.