Pat Toomey: Hes every bit as bad, and you dont have to just take our word for it. Jonah Goldberg, you and your fellow editors at National Review, Bob Novak, and John Fund to name just a few conservative writers agree that Mike Huckabee is no conservative. You can read the Clubs white paper on our website, but here is a quick summary of Huckabees worst hits. According to the Arkansas Democrat-Gazette, the average Arkansas tax burden increased 47% over Huckabees tenure. Huckabee supported (in chronological order) a sales tax hike; gas and diesel fuel tax hikes; another sales tax hike; a cigarette tax hike; a nursing home bed tax; another sales tax hike; an income surcharge tax; a tobacco tax hike; taxes on Internet access; and higher beer taxes. Huckabee also oversaw a 50-percent increase in spending; happily signed a minimum wage increase and encouraged national Republicans to do the same; favors a national smoking ban, farm subsidies, and a federally mandated arts and music curriculum; opposes private school choice; and employs class-warfare and protectionist language on the campaign trail. Huckabee calls himself an economic conservative in the mold of Ronald Reagan, but the above list doesnt sound like either.
Remove the name and it sounds like it’s describing your standard tax-and-spend, nanny-state Democrat.
BUMP