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Huckabee says he's a threat to the GOP establishment
Chicago Tribune ^ | Jan. 13, 2008 | By Rick Pearson

Posted on 01/13/2008 6:35:51 AM PST by jdm

GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. -- Mike Huckabee broadened his populist-inspired appeal for support in Michigan on Saturday, saying he viewed his presidential campaign as a "cause" that represents a threat to the Republican establishment in Washington.

With polls showing support in Michigan's Republican primary Tuesday to be extremely fluid among Mitt Romney, John McCain and Huckabee, the former Arkansas governor also lashed out at candidates who campaign on a theme of opposing abortion but do little about it when they get into office.

"We're people who will no longer just allow people to get elected, promising that they're listening to us about the sanctity of human life," Huckabee said. "We want to elect people who will do something about protecting human life."

Speaking to about 400 people in a ballroom at the Amway Grand Plaza Hotel, Huckabee said he loved being in the GOP, "but I love my country even more."

"I'm asking you today to be a part of something that is a lot more than just a campaign. I want to think it's a cause," Huckabee said.

"Apparently my candidacy comes as somewhat of a threat to a lot of the Republicans in the Republican establishment -- some of the folks who have run the party in the Washington circles," he said. "They've maybe not understood that the heart and soul of the Republican Party is only as strong as the heart and soul of the rest of America."

(Excerpt) Read more at contracostatimes.com ...


TOPICS: Editorial; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: clintonista; gop; huckabee; mi2008
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To: jdm
Huckabee says he's a threat to the GOP establishment

Yea, he's right. He is a threat to the conservative base of the party!
61 posted on 01/13/2008 10:00:34 AM PST by SoConPubbie
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To: palmerizedCaddis

Tax cuts = revenue increases

That is a fundamental reality of tax cuts— which Huckabee enacted. It is a fundamental reality which Reagan himself enacted in the 1980s. He increased revenue to the Federal government— by cutting taxes. That did not make him a RINO or Republican liberal or whatever other nonsense we are making up here.

Using the revenue arguments as proof that he is a tax and spend liberal is ridiculous.


62 posted on 01/13/2008 10:23:39 AM PST by lonestar67 (Its time to withdraw from the War on Bush-- your side is hopelessly lost in a quagmire.)
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To: lonestar67

How about using the burden per taxpayer argument?

From the Arkansas Democrat Gazette:

“But a review of tax legislation passed while he was governor shows a net tax increase of $ 505 million, a figure adjusted for inflation and economic growth, according to the state Department of Finance and Administration.

Meanwhile, the average Arkansan’s tax burden grew from $ 1, 969 in the fiscal year that ended June 30, 1997, to $ 2, 902 in the fiscal year that ended June 30, 2005, including local taxes.”

http://www.nwanews.com/adg/national/203850/


63 posted on 01/13/2008 12:29:05 PM PST by keepitreal
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To: jdm

Hucks a threat to all that is decent and pure in this land.


64 posted on 01/13/2008 12:39:46 PM PST by festus (Fred Thompson '08)
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To: lonestar67
I am still waiting for someone to show me where a Conservative Governor cut taxes (which Huckabee did) and the revenue to the government did not increase?

The total rate of taxation under Huckabee increased, not decreased. When Huckabee says he cut taxes, he means that sometimes when he raised taxes, he exempted things from the tax. So, for instance, if I tax all soda and then exempt diet cherry colas from the tax, that's a tax cut (in Huckaspeak). However, the key fact is that the overall rate of state taxation under Huckabee increased (by almost 10% relativey or over 1% absolutely).

Secondly, when members of his own party (and some Democrats) approached him with ways of funding government programs through actual tax cuts and budget cuts, he rebuffed them.

65 posted on 01/13/2008 1:30:52 PM PST by the808bass
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To: marajade

He says he was a Reagan Republican in 1979, when he was 24. Was he a Carterite in 1976?


66 posted on 01/13/2008 4:23:21 PM PST by Theodore R. ( Cowardice is still forever!)
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To: jdm
Huckabee Took Fees From Embryonic Stem Cell Researcher

Hucklebee Supports Democrats

Hucklebee Grants Clemency

Saint Hucklebee Push/Polling in MI NH AND SC

Huckabee: Immigrants' friend
67 posted on 01/13/2008 5:23:30 PM PST by Fred (McCain..'HIS EGO IS WRITING CHECKS HIS BODY CAN'T CASH')
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To: jdm
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68 posted on 01/13/2008 5:58:44 PM PST by Eric Blair 2084 (Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms shouldn't be a federal agency...it should be a convenience store.)
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To: jdm

Huckabee is a phony slimeball and he is a threat to all good patriotic Americans.


69 posted on 01/13/2008 6:17:55 PM PST by detective
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To: jdm

Nope! He’s a threat to CONSERVATISM .. because Huck isn’t one, he just likes to play one.


70 posted on 01/13/2008 6:20:08 PM PST by CyberAnt (AMERICA: THE GREATEST FORCE for GOOD in the world!)
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To: jdm
Huckabee says he's a threat to the GOP establishment

Sure he is, he's solidly in Hillary's camp and the press loves him.

Fake fake fake fake fake fake fake

71 posted on 01/13/2008 6:55:08 PM PST by pray4liberty (Watch and pray.)
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To: jdm
Huck is a threat to the entire free world. God help Christians to see Huckabee is nothing but a liberal with an Elmer Gantry message and delivery. He is only marginally better than Hillary just because he is prolife.

vaudine

72 posted on 01/13/2008 7:03:45 PM PST by vaudine (RO)
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To: jdm

Mike Huckabee is also a threat to the US.


73 posted on 01/13/2008 7:06:05 PM PST by apocalypto
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To: jdm

Huckabee says he’s a threat to the GOP establishment

Because he is a Democrat for sure.


74 posted on 01/13/2008 7:07:08 PM PST by Gimme
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To: jdm

If by “establishment’, they mean rock ribbed, Reagan conservatives, then he is correct.


75 posted on 01/14/2008 8:24:46 AM PST by KC_Conspirator
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To: Theodore R.

Did you ever get an answer?


76 posted on 01/14/2008 8:26:04 AM PST by KC_Conspirator
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