Posted on 01/03/2008 6:46:37 PM PST by Arcy
I for one am excited about Huckabee's leading and probably winning in Iowa! Here's a guy who has made REAL income tax reform a high priority of his candidacy. While some of the other candidates have claimed tax reform as part of their plan, non have been more passionate about the need for it and willing to make it a center-piece of their plan for America as Mike Huckabee. I believe that the average American has recognized in Mike Huckabee, a person of integrity and vision, a man who keeps his word, a man of faith, and therfore, is worthy of their support. He certainly has 100% of mine!
I read sarcasm on another forum that mentioned Huckabee will set up a new "Dept of Rapture"..
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Yes, that is sarcasm, which is sometimes hard to tell. Now a “Dept. of Rapture” is hilarious.
Since this is the thread to say nice things about Huck.... er, ah, he plays the guitar well....
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What do you think has been going on for the past month? The "new" media has thrown everything they have at Huckabee and it didn't make a difference in Iowa. And, most of the south is similar to Iowa.
The other problem with your premise is that McCain, Giuliani and Romney have more liberal baggage in their records.
** NO foreign policy! ** Pro-illegal aliens! ** Pro amnesty! ** Pro class warfare! ** Soft on crime! ** Pardons for murderers and rapists! ** Hard on personal freedoms! ** The HIGH TAX candidate! ** The HIGH SPENDING candidate! ** Pro Big Government! ** Supports International Carbon Credit Trading! ** Another Governor from Arkansas, the Land of Clintoon!
So what's really the difference btw Huck and Obama? He goes to church and is pro-life. That's it. Hucksters are indeed foolish
Indeed. This is how evangelicals get the label of being “poor, uneducated, and easy to command”.
Why are so many falling for his “Fair Tax” bilge. He is only offering lip service and he attempted no such thing in Arkansas.
The Democrats and most Republican won’t let it through and you still have that 16th ammendment thingy to get rid of.
I can picture him doing a Gilda Radner with the Huckster saying “Nevermind” as he got your vote, what else does he need?
He could have written the Bible on a grain of sand, for all I care. What he has done as governor of Arkansas is run a tax-and-spend regime.
Learn to read. I am not a one issue voter, I was following up on an attack on Huckabee’s credentials as hunter.
Then you would not pay attention to just one side of the argument -- the growth of the government. You would also have paid attention to the other side -- the needs of the people. Just as an example, the state's infrastructure needed a complete overhaul. And his state legislature is controlled by huge Democrat majorities that can override his vetoes. Your solution is to not fix the problems?
We are so quick to forget Thompson voting against convicting Clinton on perjury after impeachment. We are so quick to forgive Romney's flip-flops. We are so quick to turn a blind eye to McCain's daggers to the conservative movement. But no way do we cut Huckabee any slack!
There is NO perfect candidate this year. The closest would be Fred, but if you ask the Iowans who met him on the ground, he acts like he doesn't want the job. If you are an employer, you are not going to hire an applicant like that because you cannot trust the care and consideration he will put into his work. So that means accepting one of the others with their baggage.
PAY ATTENTION to what is really going on!!! The Republican party establishment fears Huckabee! They fear he is a "new kind of conservative," one who will not shrink government but rather use it for social reform. So you can listen to the smears, or find out the truth for yourself.
The people need relief from excessive taxation, not an even heavier yoke.
Just as an example, the state's infrastructure needed a complete overhaul.
Which is properly paid for by cutting spending elsewhere.
And his state legislature is controlled by huge Democrat majorities that can override his vetoes. Your solution is to not fix the problems?
If the state legislature is controlled by Democrats, it's their responsibility to fix the problem. If they do so by sinking the government's hands even deeper into the taxpayers' pockets over the governor's veto, so be it. If they do so with the governor's assent, the governor is complicit in the evil and must be held to account for it.
We are so quick to forget Thompson voting against convicting Clinton on perjury after impeachment. We are so quick to forgive Romney's flip-flops. We are so quick to turn a blind eye to McCain's daggers to the conservative movement. But no way do we cut Huckabee any slack!
Moooooommmmmmmyyy! All the ooottther kids are doing it!!
The Republican party establishment fears Huckabee!
Obviously, people who want to protect fundamental American values fear those who have the desire and ability to undermine those values.
They fear he is a nanny state socialist who will not shrink government but rather use it for social reform.
Fixed it for you.
This is part of an article that appears on WSJ Opinion Journal, today.
Mike Huckabee’s New Deal
More God, more government.
BY DAVID J. SANDERS
Friday, January 4, 2008 12:01 a.m. EST
As Iowa Republicans prepared to caucus yesterday, polls showed Mike Huckabee, the Southern Baptist minister-turned-politician, leading in some polls and placing a close second to Mitt Romney in others. The core of Mr. Huckabee’s support, of course, comes from evangelical voters. Couching his policy positions in the language of faith and morality, Mr. Huckabee portrays himself as the dream candidate of the religious right. In October, he boasted to a gathering of conservative Christian activists: “I don’t come to you, I come from you.” The “language of Zion,” he said, was “his mother tongue and not a recently acquired second language.” Echoing the Gospels, he told the Des Moines Register editorial board that the essence of what made him tick was: “Do unto others as you would have done unto you.” He admitted that his faith shapes his policy, but “if [voters] understand in what way, I think that they will say ‘good, that’s the kind of policy we would like.’ “
But one wonders whether his newfound supporters would really say that if they took a close look at his policies. With increasing frequency, Mr. Huckabee invokes his faith when advocating greater government involvement in just about every aspect of American life. In doing so, Mr. Huckabee has actually answered the prayers of the religious left.
I like Mike for four reasons.
1. Has a personal relationship with Christ
2. Excellent communicator
3. Consistent social values
4. Plays guitar
My response.
1. He thinks.
2. So was Clinton
3. Consistantly liberal
4. So does Springsteen and Clinton played the sax.
Here's his closing line:
"Now, I have to go back to work on my New Hampshire debate opening speech. And I worked on it until pretty late last night. But I want to say one thing to the American people. I want you to listen to me. I’m going to say this again. I did not raise taxes in that state, Arkansas. I never told anybody to harbor illegals, not a single time; never. These allegations are false. And I need to go back to work for the American people."
(with apologies/thanks to FR poster nhoward14 who originally crafted the above brilliant parody of Huckabee's scary ability to channel Bill Clinton)
Fixed it for you.
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