Huckabee's Record: Anything But Conservative

NewsMax ^ | 07/03/2007 | Dave Eberhart

[Ultra Sonic 007]

This is why a candidate's record is important.

[Ultra Sonic 007]

Ping to the article I showed earlier.

[pissant]

Great guy. Liberal candidate.

[publana]

The anti-tobacco FReepers won’t understand why this guy most certainly is NOT a conservative.

[Vigilanteman]

Yep. It is also why Huckabee just doesn’t make the cut, despite his pleasing rhetoric. That and his asinine statement that it was cruel to deny illegal aliens welfare benefits.

[mohresearcher]

Gov. Huckabee hasn’t clicked with the American public, unfortunately. There is nothing wrong with his fundamentals from what I have read about him - it’s just that he doesn’t excite the voters on television. Gov. Huckabee is a really nice person, but he should drop out now for the sake of narrowing the field.

It’s time that Sen. McVain drop out also - he is finished.

[Man50D]

I want to completely eliminate all federal income and payroll taxes. And do I mean all — personal federal, corporate federal, gift, estate, capital gains, alternative minimum, Social Security, Medicare, self-employment," Huckabee says. "Instead we will have the FairTax, a simple tax based on wealth."

Visit the Americans For Fair Taxation website for more information and The Fair Tax Act Of 2007 to read the bill. Fair Tax ping!

[pissant]

The anit-abortion version of Bloomberg, apparently.

[The Ghost of FReepers Past]

I would still take Huckabee over Rudy McRomeny.

[snowsislander]

"I want to completely eliminate all federal income and payroll taxes. And do I mean all — personal federal, corporate federal, gift, estate, capital gains, alternative minimum, Social Security, Medicare, self-employment," Huckabee says. "Instead we will have the FairTax, a simple tax based on wealth."

I am not sure that the candidate was quoted correctly (Newsmax isn't a credible news source in my opinion), but the FairTax is a national retail sales tax; it has nothing to do with taxing wealth -- it taxes consumption.

[flashbunny]

Huckabee is also an illegal immigration apologist. No thanks, had enough arkansas governors in the oval office.

[flashbunny]

Thought you might be interested in this.

[PhilCollins]

Thanks for the post. I’m glad that I support Tommy Thompson. While he was a governor, he signed bills that cut tax rates and spending more than Huckabee. Two of the last three republican presidents were governors, and Tommy Thompson was a governor almost as long as Huckabee and Romney, combined.

[OB1kNOb]

Oh, Yeah! Thanks for the ping. Eberheart did his homework on the Huckster. It’s down the line what I’ve been warning non-Arkansans about since he announced his candidacy for the POTUS. I’ll add this to my article link list. Thanks - OB1

[flashbunny]

No problem. I’ve used your home page before as a resource when people have tried to forward Huckabee as some kind of conservative option. Thanks for compiling the links!

[OB1kNOb]

You are most welcome. And thank you for spreading the word. This country can’t afford to be rope-a-doped by a second man from Hope.

[pawdoggie]

Conservatives and Republicans eating their own, WOW! Who needs Liberal Democrats, we’re our own worst enemies.

[flashbunny]

Some republicans deserve to be chewed up and spit out. Otherwise you just end up with more RINOs

[TNCMAXQ]

I forget where the article was I read recently that said Huckabee would be at the top of the list for VP with Giuliani, Romney, or McCain! I don’t like that list of choices.

I don’t know much about the current governor, Mike Beebe, but it sounds like in some ways he is more conservative than Huckabee. Didn’t I read that he rejected some of Huckabee’s guidelines on nutrition and fatty foods in schools because he thought it was too much government intrusion?? Hard to believe for a Dem. Then I thought I read he had proposed cutting taxes. Sounds like maybe the Dems ought to be recruiting the current Arkansas governor for a White House run!

[pawdoggie]

Some republicans deserve to be chewed up and spit out. Otherwise you just end up with more RINOs

Compared to those who preceded him (Bill J., for example), Huckabee probably was a "conservative".

More to the point, why are we slamming a (bottom of the) second tier candidate, even if he may not be everyone's idea of a great conservative, when we need unity more than ever. Secondly, you won't make Duck Hunter look better by making other Republicans look bad. Tell him to "just say yes" to that charisma transplant procedure.