“Huckabee is a nanny statist. I won’t vote for him.”
EXACTLY!
Huckabee is a nice enough guy, but he is a reformed fatty who said we should have a national smoking ban! This, coming from someone who is seeking the nomination of the party who claims to understand Federalism and Private Property, one of the most sacred ideals of a free society?!
No thank you!
His mandate that Arkansas taxpayers had to provide welfare payments to people who aren't even in the country legally showed his true mindset and will forever disqualify him from earning my vote for any office.
A lot of people are saying that Huckabee called for a national smoking ban.
This appears to me to be not literally true. I was looking for a source for this over the weekend and couldn't find one.
I gather that what Huckabee did say was that he would not veto a bill banning workplace smoking if it came to him as President. This to me is not quite the same thing as "calling for a national smoking ban". I suppose that almost all of the candidates, if asked the question just like Huckabee, would say they would not veto one if if Congress sent it to them. If I'm wrong, I would really appreciate a link to this. The only reference I could find was him saying that he would not veto one if it came to him.