Posted on 12/28/2007 8:49:04 AM PST by TBBT
Greed.
The moment the word is used as a pejorative in economics one knows the speaker is a liberal. It was in fact a liberal favorite during the Reagan presidency. Indeed, the entire 1980s was labeled "The Decade of Greed" by the American left.
Listen to the left on this.
John Edwards: "Corporate power and greed have literally taken over the government."
Barack Obama: "There was a time when the Christian Coalition determined that its number one legislative priority was tax cuts for the rich. I don't know what Bible they're reading, but it doesn't jibe with my version."
Al Gore: "I believe Bill Clinton and I were right to maintain in our 1992 campaign that we should fight for the 'forgotten middle class' against the 'forces of greed.'"...
...So while it does not surprise that there are class warrior Democrats attacking the idea of economic opportunity as "greed" and promising all manner of ways to pit one group against another, it is startling indeed to hear the following from a Republican presidential front runner -- former Arkansas Governor Mike Huckabee...
...The Club [for Growth]is famous for delving into the records of GOP candidates for not just the presidency...
...Mike Huckabee, it seems, has supported any number of taxes while governor, and the Club has inevitably zeroed in on his economic beliefs.
What disconcerts is Huckabee's gut level response. Instead of either defending his record or admitting to a mistake or challenging the views of the Club he said this: "The Club for Greed, I call them. They hate that. Oh, they hate it. And I enjoy giggin' them about it..."
Hello? Is the Republican Party seriously considering nominating a candidate whose instinctive response to criticism from Reaganites is to use the favorite code word of Reagan's enemies?...
(Excerpt) Read more at spectator.org ...
I am beginning to despise Huckster-bee.
I had this debate at Christmas dinner with my wife’s Aunts (all went to Smith College, that bastion of liberal blindness). One argued that their hero, Paul Krugman, argued in the NYTimes that lowering taxes would do no good for the economy. In fact, raising taxes would have no harmful effect and would help millions.
NO HARMFUL EFFECT? HOW ABOUT STEALING MY MONEY AND GIVING IT TO TOTAL STRANGERS FOR PROGRAMS THAT I BELIEVE ARE WRONG!!!!
Huckabee has surged because he won a couple of debates and he’s got evangelical support. If a quick rise can happen to the liberal pro-life evangelical Huckster, it can happen to the conservative pro-life evangelical Hunter.
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According to Intrade, the winner of the December 12th GOP debate was... Duncan Hunter.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1938773/posts
Why the smart money is on Duncan Hunter
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1926032/posts
In this poll Hunter is up 3% and even with Paul and Thompson.
http://www.wxyz.com/news/local/story.aspx?content_id=3481ef60-8195-46a9-af04-b87b907bcfdd
Huckster is not ready for prime time, Jimmy Carter redux.
More sheer stupidity from Gomer Huxter.....
Republican Mike Huckabee took his presidential campaign for a quick pheasant-hunting expedition in Iowa on Wednesday, and at one point, a reporter asked why he hadn’t invited sporting enthusiast Dick Cheney along. “Because I want to survive all the way through this,” Huckabee replied, in a chuckling dig at the vice president’s accidental shooting of a quail-hunting partner last year.
Any good sportsman, though, couldn’t miss a distinctly Cheneyesque moment in the press accounts of the former Arkansas governor’s morning hunt: At one point, Huckabee’s party turned toward a cluster of reporters and cameramen and, when they kicked up a pheasant, fired shotgun blasts over the group’s heads.
This, friends, is dangerously bad hunting form.
It's becoming increasingly obvious that Huckabee lacks depth. I suspect the reason he answered in this way is that he's totally incapable of forming a substantive response.
More like Jimmah Carter.
There is no hope for the Huckster.
So Huckabee is up to the same ol’ demonization of business as John Edwards and Barack Obama. Sheesh, what’s wrong with these voters?
The “greed” word is used quite a bit on Freerepublic, too.
Wake up, one-issuers: even a Rudy nomination would advance your agenda more effectively than Huckabee, because he at least has a chance of defeating the 'Rat nominee and has promised to appoint originalist judges. The Huckster would go down to defeat in November as bad as Mondale did in 1984, and the 'Beast would appoint judges that would set Roe v. Wade in granite.
One word, and one issue: A-B-O-R-T-I-O-N.
Huckster’s a liberal. Period. A Rockefeller Republican, nothign more. RINO Huckster.
Eminentoes: Huckabee Attacking Reaganomics
The American Spectator | 12/28/2007 | Jeffrey Lord
Posted on 12/28/2007 1:54:22 AM EST by Aristotelian
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/1945058/posts
I see the same garbage here on FR, as recently as yesterday.
I love this game. It is an amalgam of Monopoly and Risk, with a little bit of Poker tossed in to make things interesting. The only way to win is by balancing the budget.
The game came out in 1981 and hasn't been made in over twenty years, but you can still find it on E-bay. I actually got mine from my grandfather, who'd bought it to give as a Christmas present but forgot about it and it sat on the top shelf in a closet for almost twenty years before I found it.
Anyone who believes that greed is not a problem in America does not believe in conserving the principles of our founding and therefore is not a conservative.
Such a person sounds more like some kind of utopianist.
One phrase: moral clarity.
Read some James Madison or John Adams, if you like.
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