Wow, Mike Huckabee does have the front runners very, very nervous. Check out this piece in the WSJ by conservative (very, very economically conservative) John Fund hacking away at Huckabee as a conservative Bill Clinton.
...I also know he is not the "consistent conservative" he now claims to be. Nor am I alone. Betsy Hagan, Arkansas director of the conservative Eagle Forum and a key backer of his early runs for office, was once "his No. 1 fan." She was bitterly disappointed with his record. "He was pro-life and pro-gun, but otherwise a liberal," she says. "Just like Bill Clinton he will charm you, but don't be surprised if he takes a completely different turn in office."
The gist of the article is that Huckabee, while socially conservative, is an economic and environmental liberal who loves the spotlight.
Well let's think about this. He loves the spotlight? Check. He was a preacher and is now a politician - he definitely believes in himself.
An economic and environmental liberal? Yeah, he only cut taxes and fees 100 times totaling more than $375 million. He only left a state surplus of nearly $850 million. What a liberal disaster he is.
This is a pure hit piece with a curious number of quotes from Mitt Romney backers.
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I thought the criticism of Huck was that he can't handle foreign policy in the Iraq/post-9/11 era ...
And that Gail Collins piece in the NYT the other day -- with friends like that, Huck needs no enemies ...
Well, a budget surplus and competent governance are liberal these days.
Proper ideological Republican government runs deficits. After all, their "investors" demand to be paid off via tax cuts and big contracts. And it sabotages the governed's demands for due process and equal protection of the laws. Otherwise, average people might start believing those Constitutional rights, after all, and start expecting just treatment, justice, and meaningful service from government.
Inside the Republican coalition I'd say this article is a part of a building argument of the CEO/corporate owner class, which has always in fact run it, with its current core constituency of Southern Baptists.
Mike Huckabee is the Republican John Edwards.
Both Edwards and Huckabee are the best that has been offered by their respective parties, with Clinton and Romney being the worst in my opinion.
Travis - totally agree. For all my beef with the Republican pary - if Mike Huckabee is the R nominee - I will vote for him.
From what I've seen Tom Tancredo is the only candidate worth voting for. In fact, he's the only one acting as if he's running for president of the U.S. and not Mexico. The rest of them are all ignoring the ordinary American and kissing up to corporate interests who are selling out this country for cheap Mexican labor.
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