My illegal neighbors thank you for your support of the Huckster.
Posted on 11/04/2007 7:53:41 PM PST by grandpa jones
There they go again.
The “Stop Huckabee” campaign sponsored by the Club for Growth, has launched yet another “fact-check” on Mike Huckabee’s record, similar in both style and rhetoric to most any Pat Toomey-led campaign. Like any good sleight of hand artist, Toomey’s attacks are designed to distract the audience just long enough for the illusion to be successful. So it is with this one as well.
The current Club for Growth strategy even has some Arkansas flavoring in the mix. Salon reports on “a spin-off group called Club for Growth.net, which files regular disclosures through the Internal Revenue Service. A quick review of those filings showed that the group had taken in no new money in 2007. But in the second half of 2006, a Little Rock neighbor and political rival of Huckabee’s named Jackson T. “Steve” Stephens Jr. had given the group $125,000, including a $50,000 check just days before the 2006 election, when it was too late to spend more on that election. A member of one of Arkansas’ richest families, Stephens also serves as chairman of Club for Growth.net, along with his Arkansas business associate, Gary Faulkner. The group’s only other six-figure donor in 2006 was John Childs, a secretive, Boston-based financier and longtime Club for Growth funder, who has also given money to Mitt Romney’s campaign.”
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What core campaign issue clearly separates and differentiates Mike Huckabee from his chief rivals among the Republican top tier?
What fundamental change is advocated by Huckabee that clearly defines him as an catalyst for reform, and his rivals as the defenders of the status quo?
The Fair Tax.
Huckster, the back end of the RINO quadroon Rudy McRomneybee.
A man should be judged by his record, not by his words while on the campaign trail.
As governor of Arkansas for 10 years, Huckabee was a tax-and-spender and never advocated or discussed anything like the Fair Tax. He has conveniently latched onto a popular idea among conservatives while running for president.
I don’t know why those others are going after him, but I know why I oppose him - way too nanny-state. It doesn’t matter what he says about the Fair Tax or any other subject. When he has public schools sending home report cards on obesity and trying to ban smoking in cars, he’s not conservative enough.
thanks
Tell me what a RINO is, in your opinion.
My illegal neighbors thank you for your support of the Huckster.
It’s all relative, I guess. If he somehow gets the nomination, I’d vote for him over any of the dem opponents, but never as long as I have options like Hunter.
What good would it do to advocate Fair Tax as a governor?
You’ve had some experience with him as an Arkansan.
But, the tax and spend label is interesting when you consider he left office with a sizable budget surplus, and approval ratings in the 60’s. Maybe yourstate is different than mine, but my Republican governor doesn’t get to do appropriations bills. That is done by the legislature, which in my case is controlled by the Dems. Isn’t the Arkansas legislature Dem controlled also?
Sure thing. Here it is:
Is that the best you can do?
I would love to see Hunter catch fire. He’s a great candidate.
my first impression from the headline was “I didnt know he was bald, and now the hair club for growth is attacking him?”
The Arkansas legislature is dem controlled, even more so now after Huckabee almost single-handily destroyed the GOP with his socialist policies.
Although a governor might not advocate the Fair Tax in his official position, I would think that one who believed in such an idea prior to running for office would have been for lower taxes & tax reform while governor. Huckabee constantly tried to raise taxes (often in creative ways) while governor. I think it’s very fishy that now, while running for president, he all of the sudden is for the Fair Tax.
The Republican party will definitely die if we do not purge the “compassionate” conservatives from the party. Judging from his record, Huckabee seems like a pro-life Democrat and nothing more.
Huckabee managed to destroy the Republican party and the conservative movement in Arkansas, I refuse to sit by and let his brand of Christian socialism do the same nationally.
Most conservatives care about abortion and gun rights...but we also care about other issues, the type of issues Huckabee sides with La Raza, labor unions, teachers unions and Democrats on.
The Arkansas legislature is dem controlled, even more so now That's an interesting point. I'm going to research that further. I would want the 08 nominee to have long coattails.
I think it’s very fishy that now, while running for president, he all of the sudden is for the Fair Tax. I agree. Expediency sucks.
Besides his pro-life position and his position on guns (which didn’t really take much courage in Arkansas anyway) I don’t see what makes him different than the Democrats.
He has compared illegal aliens to slaves brought here in chains from Africa, saying, "I think frankly the Lord is giving us a second chance to do better than we did before."
Toward that end, when an Arkansas legislator introduced a bill that would prevent illegal aliens from voting and receiving state benefits, Huckabee denounced the bill, saying it would rile up "those who are racist and bigots."
He also made the insane point that companies like Toyota would not invest in Arkansas if the state didn't allow non-citizens to vote because it would "send the message that, essentially, 'If you don't look like us, talk like us and speak like us, we don't want you.'
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