Posted on 02/16/2008 7:03:06 PM PST by unspun
Mike Huckabee is the choice of conservatives.
On fiscal conservatism, he believes wholeheartedly in the reduction of cost to the taxpayer, especially entitlements. In Arkansas as governor, he was able to reduce welfare rolls by 50% and he held the line on taxes, leaving them the same as when he took office. He successfully fought to increase deductions and lower taxes such as capital gains. He also signed the Americans for Tax Reform's pledge to not raise taxes.
Huckabee understands that money spent on entitlements is almost three times the amount of spending on the military. Thomas Jefferson said, "The democracy will cease to exist when you take away from those who are willing to work and give to those who would not." By working to reduce those who are dependent on entitlements, we strengthen our economy and our nation.
On conservative foreign policy, Huckabee vows to finish the war in Iraq, leaving when democracy has been established. He is fervent about removing our dependency on foreign oil by increasing our production at home for the short term and investing in renewable energy for the long term. He also is committed to securing the borders and ending the cycle of illegal immigration, which has become such a huge problem for the United States today.
Huckabee is the only candidate I completely trust to support our Second Amendment rights, as he has a longstanding track record as a sportsman and conservationist. For hunters and shooters of all sports, and those who believe they have the right to own a firearm, Huckabee is the only choice.
On moral conservatism, he is the only candidate who is firmly and unequivocally pro-life. He also wants marriage defined as a union between a man and a woman, and he successfully implemented a law stating that in Arkansas.
For members of the working class who are tired of having a large portion of their paycheck go to support those who will not work or are here illegally, to sportsmen who are tired of losing their rights, to Christians who are tired of seeing their values and beliefs represented as something to be shunned and to those who truly believe in democracy, there is an action you can take.
You can vote for Mike Huckabee.
Tim Dotson of Brookfield, a Journal Sentinel community columnist, works in facility management and is a musician. His e-mail address is tim-dotson@wi.rr.com Tim Dotson of Brookfield, a Journal Sentinel community columnist, works in facility management and is a musician. His e-mail address is tim-dotson@wi.rr.com
What is corpratism or corpratist?
You make up words and you try use them as a sword but you refuse to define them. You make up stuff that sounds like it came from a marxist revolutionary dictionary putting down corporations and the like and you then imply that your candidate would approve. You do him no service with your “corpratist paternalism” nonsense. Mike Huckabee loves corporations. He loves Tyson Foods, the ultimate corpratist paternalist. He helped them bring in cheap labor from Mexico. Those folks could be exploited, paid low wages resulting in living in squalor, many to a small house or apartment, while Huckabee took campaign contributions from Tyson. And just because he changed his tune to move to the right of McCain doesn’t change his past.
“Corpratism” is bad, especially when corporations can get the likes of Huckabee to help them expoloit poor laborers who can’t even speak the language and can’t speak out because they are in this country illegally.
I take that by your tagline Mike Hucklebee believes it is the government’s responsibility to protect us. That’s exactly what has turned this USA into a nanny state. It is the government’s responsibility to protect us from enemies, both foreign and domestic. It is not the responsibility of the government to “protect “ us from smokers or transfats or big evil oil companies or any myriad of so-called protections so generously shoved on the citizenry of these Unites States by politicians like Mike Hucklebee. Mike might be a Republican but he sure as hell isn’t a conservative.
Huckleberry should go home. With Rommey backing McCain (Payback for West Virginia?) Huck is out of the running. Like it or no, we are stuck with a McCain. Lets see what happens now. When the convention come we can see who the McCain Rino-Party picks as his poor sucker VP and what they will do for conservatives (if anything). I wish I had a Third Party but—failing that I will vote for conservatives and pick some joker third party to cast my vote as a protest (Gus Hall still Running? or Ralph Nader?)
Oh yeah, trust a Milwaukee newspaper to tell us who conservatives can “trust!”
LOL!
Huckleberry is only *slightly* more conservative than FDR was!
‘I didn’t raise taxes. I raised hope.’
Oh, and, any man who calls the Clintons 'good friends' should never be trusted,.
Is Huckabee conservative on being tough on crime: No
Soft-on-crime, paroled violent criminals like he was God ...
http://holycoast.blogspot.com/2007/12/huckabee-was-commutation-and-pardon.html
http://www.arkansasleader.com/frontstories/st_07_21_04/huckabee5.html
http://www.unionleader.com/article.aspx?headline=Questions+remain+about+rapist-turned-murderer&articleId=8ca3c723-a927-4f5f-83ab-a5d2780e7911
Here’s more stuff the liberals have on him and will use at their convenience (and our inconvenience) - the pleas from the Dumond victims to please not release Dumond the rapist:
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2007/12/10/new-documents-revealed-in_n_76186.html
Huckabee’s Willie Hortons:
http://travismonitor.blogspot.com/2007/12/huckabees-willie-hortons.html
If it is slander why don’t he sue? He can sure get his lawyers up to Washington state quick enough if he thinks maybe the caucus votes can be skewed in his favor. Why didn’t he sue our state newspaper over the dog killing story if it was a lie? Was his son’s reputation not worth protecting? I think he should sue, let’s find out about all these dirty lies, I say we have a re-investigation into all allegations against him and his family members.
Arkansas business leaders, like Tyson chicken for example? Couldn’t keep that place open without the illegals.
Huckabee is not conservative on illegals either...he’s calls the tough on illegal immigration crowd “unchristian” and “racist”
Soft-on-illegals, giving in-state tuition for illegals was his “Jesus juice” ... HIS RECORD ON IMMIGRATION STINKS ...
Mike Huckabee disses Americans, Mexicans, promotes illegal immigration: http://lonewacko.com/blog/archives/005609.html
While Gov. of Arkansas, Huckabee was AGAINST proving citizenship in order to register to vote. He called those who were in favor of this “racists”... http://www.signonsandiego.com/uniontrib/20050218/news_lz1e18perkins.html
Huckabee has personally attacks advocates for a bill he disagreed with as “unAmerican” and “unChristian”.
Huckabee fought hard to kill an Arkansas bill which would have cut off social services for illegal aliens. Huckabee called the bill, “anti-Christian” and “un-American”... http://www.arkansasnews.com/archive/2005/01/28/News/316347.html
“Even if benefits to people who are in the U.S illegally could be stopped, “I don’t understand how a practicing Christian can turn his back on a child from this or any other state,” Huckabee said.”
Huckabee supported in-state tuition for illegal aliens... http://www.arkansasnews.com/archive/2005/03/11/News/318458.html
Huckabee’s ‘drank different Jesus juice’ in opposition to the illegal aliens bill: http://www.diggersrealm.com/mt/archives/000718.html
“Huckabee, also a Republican and a Baptist minister, said Arkansans should be welcoming hard-working immigrants of all races. He singled out Holt, who often talks of his strong Christian beliefs, saying, “I drink a different kind of Jesus juice.”
Wallace interview on Fox, Huckster flipflops back to pro-amnesty:
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,316253,00.html
When will the bible thumpers (the ones that scream their faith at everyone) acknowledge the fact that they are a MINORITY in this country? I don't mean to offend, but they always act like they are somehow the majority. Huckabee's supporters are old church ladies in rural areas, about as representative as the effete metrosexuals of Manhattan.
Hell no, he’s a liberal socialist and to make matters worse he’s compassionate.
Okay, where is the *BARF* alert???
Huckabee the snake-oil, used-car, televangalist shyster is TRUSTWORTHY???
The real Mike Huckabee exposed:
http://youtube.com/watch?v=NgDGlf_CDtc
We can only hope it's a conservative landslide!
One thing that bothers me about so many supposed evangelicals is the way they are out of line with Jesus' methods. Jesus didn't say, "force people to come into compliance with your beliefs." It's like they have never read Mark 6:11, wherein Jesus told His disciples: "And whosoever shall not receive you, nor hear you, when ye depart thence, shake off the dust under your feet..."*
It's perfectly fine if Gov. Huckabee would like to spend his own money on extravagant charity, etc., but it's not his role to demand us to do so at gunpoint (believe me, if you don't pay taxes, you will face gunpoint).
Heck, the American people already more than tithe to the "church" known as the government.
*I'm not saying Christians should stay out of the government process. I'm saying that convincing people of your position is more appropriate than using the political process to put governmental power behind what you want. Jesus didn't try to take political power to force His views--he tried to convince people to change the world, and walked away if they didn't listen.
Is Huckabee a conservative on taxes and spending: No
Huckster was and is a tax-and-spend-aholic:
According to the Democrat-Gazette, “the average Arkansan’s tax burden grew from $1,969 in the fiscal year that ended June 30, 1997, to $2,902 in the fiscal year that ended June 30, 2005, including local taxes,” a whopping tax increase of 47% under Huckabee’s tenure. Tax legislation passed while Huckabee was governor totaled “a net tax increase of $505 million, a figure adjusted for inflation and economic growth,” according to the Arkansas Department of Finance and Administration.
In February of 2004, Huckabee joined with two other Democratic governors in urging Congress to reject a bill that would make the Internet access tax moratorium permanent and embrace a temporary two-year extension of the ban instead.
Every two years, the Cato Institute grades the 50 governors on fiscal stewardship. Here’s last year’s assessment of Tax Hike Mike [emphasis added]:
Thanks to a final term grade of F, Huckabee earns an overall grade of D for his entire governorship. Like many Republicans, his grades dropped the longer he stayed in office. In his first few years, he fought hard for a sweeping $70 million tax cut package that was the first broad-based tax cut in the state in more than 20 years. He even signed a bill to cut the state’s 6 percent capital gains tax—a significant pro-growth accomplishment. But nine days after being reelected in 2002, he proposed a sales tax increase to cover a budget deficit caused partly by large spending increases that he proposed and approved, including an expansion in Medicare eligibility that Huckabee made a centerpiece of his 1997 agenda. He agreed to a 3 percent income tax “surcharge” and a 25-cent cigarette tax increase. In response to a court order to increase spending on education, Huckabee proposed another sales tax increase.
http://taxhikemike.org
Just because Huck talks a good talk doesn’t make this tax-and-spender a real conservative. Huckabee’s record is one of a tax-and-spend liberal.
“One of the governor’s biggest weaknesses is his record in Arkansas. While Huckabee did cut taxes during the early years of his tenure, the fact remains that he had a net tax increase under his watch, and the increase in Government size is terrifying. 21 tax increases went into effect, increasing tax revenue by almost $890 million under Governor Huckabee. These increases include the income tax, the sales tax, a cigarette tax, and a gas tax. Not only did he raise taxes, spending “more than doubled under Huckabee. “During Huckabee’s 10 years as governor, state spending more than doubled, from $6.6 billion to $16.1 billion in the fiscal year ending June 30, 2006.” There was an increase in state spending of over 65% during his tenure, and the size of the government increased by 20%. According to the Americans for Tax Reform, the states general obligation debt went up by “almost one billion dollars.” Arkansas state tax burden was at 9.8% when Bill Clinton left office in 1992. Under Huckabee, it was at 11.1%, reaching the rank of one of the top fifteen state tax burdens.”
Huck is simply NOT a fiscal conservative at all. His record on taxes is abysmal.
http://taxhikemike.org/
I would like to say, again, that I had NO intention of being anti-Christian. Just pointing out that a SMALL minority seems to think they are indeed a majority. We do not "turn off" being Christians, Jews, Atheists, Buddhists, etc. in the political process, but none of us should be arrogant to assume that our position is that of the "majority" and/or advocate theocratic principles.
I was REALLY disappointed when Alabama Governor Riley stated that "God inspired him" to raise taxes to "help the poor."
Why would the author feel it necessary to assure us it’s OK to trust Schmucklebee unless the vibes are that the Huckster can’t be trusted.
While I don't disagree with your assessment of Huckabee, I disagree strongly with your logic. You seem to be assuming that because the author is aware of a widespread sense that Huckabee is untrustworthy, the author must therefore be aware that Huckabee in fact untrustworthy, and thus anything he says to the contrary is a lie. That pattern of logic is one of the keys to Liberal Mind Fog. Conservatives had best beware of it.
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