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The Face of Conservative Populism (Mike Huckabee Snorts With Derision at Libertarians)
National Review reposted on Reason.com Blog ^ | January 21, 2011 | By Brian Stewart National Review

Posted on 01/25/2011 4:57:05 PM PST by BfloGuy

He snorted with derision at "libertarians" who fail to recognize that "we don't have a health-care crisis in this country, but a health crisis." He spoke with passion and knowledge on the need for preventative care to bring down exorbitant costs. And then, without the least amount of prompting, he mustered a vigorous defense of Mrs. Obama's "Let's Move" campaign against childhood obesity. This was the "art of governing," he argued, rather than the cheap "science of campaigning."

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he mustered a vigorous defense of Mrs. Obama's "Let's Move" campaign against childhood obesity. This was the "art of governing," he argued, rather than the cheap "science of campaigning

In Huckabee's view, evidently, governing includes worrying about our children's weight and telling us what we might do to bring their weight into line with what the honorable governor thinks is correct. Why, do you suppose, is he so full of himself that he imagines his wisdom on child diets is superior to ours?

1 posted on 01/25/2011 4:57:06 PM PST by BfloGuy
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To: BfloGuy

Most libertarians want drugs and abortion done freely.


2 posted on 01/25/2011 4:58:43 PM PST by Ann Archy (Abortion......the Human Sacrifice to the god of Convenience.)
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To: Ann Archy
Most libertarians want drugs and abortion done freely.

Thanks so much for completely ignoring what I posted.

3 posted on 01/25/2011 5:02:32 PM PST by BfloGuy (It is not from the benevolence of the butcher, the brewer, or the baker, that we can expect . . .)
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To: BfloGuy

Hucky wants schools to teach that Jesus rode dinosaurs.

Come on, already...his legitimacy is nulled.


4 posted on 01/25/2011 5:07:27 PM PST by warchild9
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To: BfloGuy

This is the main concern about any of the “known” republican candidates. The conviction that it is the government’s job to do any of this.

Deficit will not diminish until entitlements are removed entirely from the “business” of government.

.02


5 posted on 01/25/2011 5:09:24 PM PST by petro45acp (Hey Doc! Don't tell me how to live my life. CURE what ails me so I can live how I choose.)
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To: Ann Archy
I'm a little 'l' libertarian, and I consider abortion to be murder of a human.

As far as drugs, some drugs are legal, some are not. Adults should choose for themselves, as they do for cigarettes, alchohol, etc, and be responsible for their choices.

Personally, I'll stick to my caffine and nicotine and occasional beer, and let others use nefarious drugs like Nyquil, Sudafed, cocaine, etc.....

/johnny

6 posted on 01/25/2011 5:09:53 PM PST by JRandomFreeper (Gone Galt)
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To: JRandomFreeper

You’ve got to be careful. There are a lot of Freepers who want to control every aspect of everyone’s life, including what drugs they consume as a free agent. They’ll jump on you in a second.

/The Warchild drinks the best wine he can afford; how awful is that?


7 posted on 01/25/2011 5:13:22 PM PST by warchild9
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To: BfloGuy
Mike Huckabee Snorts With Derision at Libertarians

Will no one liberate us from these goobers?
8 posted on 01/25/2011 5:13:32 PM PST by aruanan
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To: JRandomFreeper
I'm a little 'l' libertarian, and I consider abortion to be murder of a human.

I agree with you.

I, too, have some libertarian(ish) views, but conservatives need to know that Mr. Huckabee is stretching conservatism all out of recognition by advocating government's intrusion into family decisions as simple as feeding the kids.

9 posted on 01/25/2011 5:16:19 PM PST by BfloGuy (It is not from the benevolence of the butcher, the brewer, or the baker, that we can expect . . .)
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To: BfloGuy
I'll also be voting Libertarian or Constitution Party if Huck or Mitt get the nomination.

/johnny

10 posted on 01/25/2011 5:19:01 PM PST by JRandomFreeper (Gone Galt)
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To: warchild9
You’ve got to be careful. There are a lot of Freepers who want to control every aspect of everyone’s life, including what drugs they consume as a free agent. They’ll jump on you in a second.

Well, ever since Calvin tried to immanentize the eschaton by state force in the first totalitarian state in European history, providing the template for countless other "reformers" who have plagued civilization since then, from the nuts in revolutionary France to Lenin, Hitler, Mao, and Pol Pot.
11 posted on 01/25/2011 5:20:08 PM PST by aruanan
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“They’ll jump on you in a second.”

You got right. Yep, they are really the same people as the Dems, they just disagree with Dems on abortion.

Most everything else they agree with, in that there is virtually nothing that the gov’t can’t/shouldn’t control or regulate.


12 posted on 01/25/2011 5:20:11 PM PST by webstersII
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To: JRandomFreeper

Cheers!


13 posted on 01/25/2011 5:20:46 PM PST by TigersEye (Who crashed the markets on 9/28/08 and why?)
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To: BfloGuy

Huckster snorts at victims of violent criminal, too. He snorting kinda guy.

These Rinos sit in that pup tent on the golf course just whacking away at unworthy voters with their clubs. They are soooooo smart and moderate!


14 posted on 01/25/2011 5:21:34 PM PST by SaraJohnson
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To: BfloGuy
Let me take this opportunity to snort with derision at the Huckster.

Isn't he the loser who pardoned a felon who then murdered four police officers in Washington?!?

Who really cares about this has-been's opinion? Let him keep playing bad music on Fox News, at least it's a living...

15 posted on 01/25/2011 5:21:55 PM PST by PreciousLiberty
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To: BfloGuy
Not related too much, but I thought I would share anyways.
16 posted on 01/25/2011 5:22:36 PM PST by camerongood210
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To: aruanan

Ow! You’re describing Freepers who spend a lot of time watching televangelists!


17 posted on 01/25/2011 5:30:08 PM PST by warchild9
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To: webstersII

Note, though, that the one topic we can all agree on is abortion.

I submit that’s the only thing really keeping the “conservative” community together. We all agree that abortion is the murder of a human being.


18 posted on 01/25/2011 5:34:51 PM PST by warchild9
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To: warchild9
Note, though, that the one topic we can all agree on is abortion.

Not all. Most have the good sense to shut their mouths about their pro death views since the boss laid down the law.

It's the same with Romneybots, they are still here, just keeping their mouths shut for now.

19 posted on 01/25/2011 5:42:04 PM PST by Graybeard58 (Don't tell Obama what comes after a trillion)
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To: BfloGuy
Mike Huckabee Snorts With Derision at Libertarians

And Libertarians fart in Huckabee's general direction.

Then Mobama farts in his general direction too. Huckabee isn't doing much snorting now.


20 posted on 01/25/2011 5:42:17 PM PST by lonevoice (Where the Welfare State is on the march, the Police State is not far behind)
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