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Why Won’t This Guy Go Away?
Tue, 11/18/2008 - 6:52am | posted by Jason Pye
Tax Hike Mike is back in the news:
Mike Huckabee is using his new book, out this week, to settle a few scores, not the least of which is with his fierce primary rival, Mitt Romney. Per Michael Scherer, Huckabee picks up where he left off earlier this year, tweaking Romney as a rich guy and firing what may be the first shots of the 2012 primary. Romney, Huckabee, writes, was “anything but conservative until he changed the light bulbs in his chandelier in time to run for president.”
At another point, Huckabee portrays a Romney proposal to encourage more investment in the market as, “Let them eat stocks!” The former Arkansas governor also takes a shot at Fred Thompson – who ensured his defeat in the pivotal South Carolina primary – as well as those evangelical leaders who didn’t get behind his bid. But none of these people may emerge again in four years as political rivals of Huckabee.
Reading through other comments he supposedly makes in the book, he just sounds like a bitter guy trying to get back at all the people who called him out for what he really is: a tax hiking, theocratic, liberal who has a freightening amount of ignorance when it comes to what capitalism is and has no idea as to what liberty really means.
He also takes some time to bash on libertarians, because we don’t like his tax hiking ways:
You can see the growing influence of faux-cons in the 2008 election cycle from the so-called Ron Paul Revolution to the economics-only conservatism reflected by some of the supporters of Mitt Romney and Rudy Giuliani.
John Tabin over at The American Spectator points out that THM’s version of conservatism doesn’t exactly jive with Ronald Reagan:
If you analyze it I believe the very heart and soul of conservatism is libertarianism… The basis of conservatism is a desire for less government interference or less centralized authority or more individual freedom and this is a pretty general description also of what libertarianism is. Now, I can’t say that I will agree with all the things that the present group who call themselves Libertarians in the sense of a party say… But again, I stand on my statement that I think that libertarianism and conservatism are travelling the same path.
I’ll echo what Doug Mataconis says, bring it on Huck. We’re ready for you in 2012. We’ll go ahead and start it right here and right now…call it the HUCK? NO! movement.
I find it interesting that Governor Huckabee insists that libertarians will “divide” the Republican Party. And yet, Governor Huckabee is the one launching inflammatory and divisive attacks toward other members of the Party.
Politics is often easy for people with no sense of self-awareness.
“Timid men prefer the calm of despotism to the tempestuous sea of liberty.” - Thomas Jefferson
If Huck ends up as the leading contender for the GOP nomination in 2012, it will be a clear indicator to me that they didn’t learn a thing from their humiliating defeat on Nov. 4th. Huck is the epitome of big-gov neo-con Republicanism and a firm supporter of the nanny-state- a true anti-libertarian.
If Obama’s presidency doesn’t turn out well, I could see Huckabee being able to win however. For all his bizarre political ideas, he’s full of folksy charm.
“Timid men prefer the calm of despotism to the tempestuous sea of liberty.” - Thomas Jefferson
He is such a likeable guy. I would like to maybe hang out with him and chat, just so long as we don’t discuss his awful political ideology.
I agree with all of the above comments, but I have a real fear that he (and Palin) are the future of the Republican Party. Somehow or another, the Republican electorate took a liking to folksy, big government types. I hope I am wrong, but this “populism” that is emerging in the party scares the hell out of me.
I agree with you. Just as the Democrats were for a long time the party of coastal liberals with few friends that didn’t listen to This American Life or go to Starbucks, Republicans may find themselves limited to being the party of megachurches and ice-cream socials.
“Timid men prefer the calm of despotism to the tempestuous sea of liberty.” - Thomas Jefferson
Clearly Huck is a likable guy, and a Christian, which is not points for you guys but it is for me, however I was not on his team. Clearly this guys is a taxer, and there was ample proof that he had not a clue about economics. So I voted for the other evangelical in the race, Ron Paul. ;)
Huck doesnt have a clue about economics but Ron Paul does!! You must be joking!!
No joke!
I would mention that George Bush is also a very likable guy when taken out of the political setting. Something to keep in mind.
Republican voters (Libertarians, Constitution Party, etc.) are frustrated with their party, and have every right to be. The Republican Party has tried to play “centrist” and “moderate” when it should have been playing straight with its base—give them a true conservative—fiscally and socially.
For disgruntled and disenchanted Republicans, there’s an answer…
The Constitution Party–-just 16 years old–-is the 3rd largest political party in the United States, and the fastest growing of the so-called “third” parties.
If you’re interested in supporting candidates who genuinely believe in small, non-nanny, non-interventionist government, who are fiscally-responsible, and who are 100% pro-life, the Constitution Party is for you.
“Constitution Conscious”
http://constitution-conscious.blogspot.com
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