Posted on 02/26/2010 11:44:15 AM PST by presidio9
Former Arkansas Governor Mike Huckabee has criticized the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC), whose recent conference he refused to attend, alleging it has departed from its conservative principles.
Speaking on Fox News last weekend, Huckabee said that CPAC has become "more libertarian and less Republican over the last few years, one of the reasons why I [did not attend the event] this year."
The former GOP presidential candidate also suggested that the popularity of the Tea Party nation movement and its events all over the country have caused the influence of the CPAC to rapidly decline, and the organization is becoming irrelevant.
"The Tea Party has taken all the oxygen out of the room, where CPAC was historically the event," he told Fox News host Geraldo Rivera.
Huckabee was partially responding to the CPAC presidential straw poll over the weekend, in which he scored only 4 percent among CPAC voters and came in sixth place.
Meanwhile, CPAC representatives responded to the former governor’s allegations by saying they were "perplexed" and denied the purported libertarian slant.
According to the American Conservative Union, the organization that has hosted CPAC for 37 years, the 2010 event drew more than 10,000 conservative activists from across the country, including more than 5,000 college students.
Go away Huckster. Start your own party.
Hmm. If, by “Republican” he means “like him,” then this is only good.
The Huckster can kiss my arse.
Get over it Huck.
“Huckabee was partially responding to the CPAC presidential straw poll over the weekend, in which he scored only 4 percent among CPAC voters and came in sixth place.”
Zap!
It drew 10,000 Conservatives and 5,000 of those were college students?
That dosnt sound so good to me. College students are where the liberalism is coming from, or am I wrong?
It sounds like RINO Huckabee wants to get on the Tea Party train.
If he thought you’d vote for him he would.
Huckster is a Billy Clinton clone; only with a fondness for kissing up to inmates and reprobates
It’s the first thing Huck has done that I support.
The Libertarians need to go start their own Party!
Until and unless the Republican party gets rid of RINO turds like Huckabee, Crist, Graham, Romney etc. they can go fish.
I am a conservative and will ONLY vote for conservatives from now on.
You bastards foist RINO slime like McLame on us again and I’ll abstain.
Libertarian or RINO....hmmm, *pulls out the weighing scale*
=.=
Well we can always follow the Huck Nanny State model he had in Arkansas with ArKids socialized medicine, fat tests for school kids (this was after he got skinny of course), nazi-like treatment of smokers and tobacco companies, bennies for illegal aliens, and releases of hardened criminals onto the streets.
I think he’s right. I don’t like the Glenn Beck/Neil Boortz types, who are socially liberal and whose primary claim to conservatism is that they don’t want to pay taxes. There’s more to the conservative position than that.
I can't stand Governor Mike either, but I find myself thinking the same thing every time the libertarians try to co-opt mine.
I can’t stand Governor Mike either, but I find myself thinking the same thing every time the libertarians try to co-opt mine.
Do you think the average tea partyier (people he also slimed) are Libertarians?
I can’t stand Governor Mike either, but I find myself thinking the same thing every time the libertarians try to co-opt mine.
People want the government to leave them alone and the response of politicians like Huckabee and Obama is contempt.
When in doubt on the true conservative position, I find that "What Would Reagan Do?" works every time.
Libertarian = Anarchist
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