Posted on 12/16/2007 8:42:46 AM PST by dano1
Mike Huckabee, like his fellow Republican contenders for their party's presidential nomination, is doing his level best to channel the spirit of President Ronald Reagan into his campaign.
The hiring of Reagan's old campaign manager, Ed Rollins, to play the same role in his campaign is cleary one example.
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Anyway, not long after that, Huckabee veers into what is assuredly Reagan territory, that he opposes the obscure Law of the Sea Treaty.
Reagan opposed the treaty many conservatives disparagingly refer to as LOST as a threat to U.S. self-determination. By saying he was the first Republican presidential candidate to come out against the treaty, Huckabee is telling conservatives he was the first to see what Reagan saw, hoping that makes him more Reaganesque in their eyes than the other candidates.
This position on LOST actually puts Huckabee to the right of Bush since the president supports the treaty.
Here's another example of Huckabee trying to assume Reagan's mantle. He wants to increase military spending to Reagan-era levels when they were six percent of the gross domestic product versus 3.9 percent today.
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Huckabee goes on to take a very Reaganesque view of the use of the U.S. military. He's opposed to nation-building. Bush was too, of course, until he got caught up in the neocon vision to remake Iraq as part of a new domino theory in which the nations of the greater Middle East would tumble towards democracy.
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Not that Huckabee disagrees with Bush on every particular. There's no discernible light between Huckabee's position on Iraq and Bush's.
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But if there's a two-term Republican president whose reflection Huckabee most wants conservatives to see mirrored in his own foreign-policy ideas, it's clearly Reagan, not Bush.
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If he wins the primary, which I seriously doubt because he has strong GOP opposition, he’ll have to appeal to a huge number of democrats. It seems as if he’s running against his own party.
Huckabee apparently earned a bachelor’s degree in “religion” from Ouachita Baptist University. That university today doesn’t offer a religion degree, but it does offer a degree in something called “Christian studies—theology.” It’s quite possible that they changed the name after he graduated without substantially changing the coursework or other content. If true, then he legitimately can claim a “theology” degree. I’m not sure that there is or ever was much of a difference between a “religion” degree from a Baptist university and a “theology” degree. The latter apparently simply sounds better.
First off it's not true, people have check and he has said so. He, the huckster, claimed he had a masters degree in theology which was bogus, he lied about and let it be reported over and over without correction.
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