Huckabee Defends His Breaks from Conservative Orthodoxy [Accepts Common Core, Amnesty, Cap & Trade]

NBCNews ^ | January 25, 2015

[Steelfish]

Huckabee Defends His Breaks from Conservative Orthodoxy

Former Arkansas Governor Mike Huckabee made it clear on Sunday that he's preparing to jump into the 2016 presidential race.

"When you become an active candidate, then you file the FEC papers. But I think it's pretty evident that I'm moving in that direction," he told Chuck Todd on NBC's Meet the Press. Huckabee said he will decide whether to formally launch a presidential campaign by the late spring.

Huckabee also defended his breaks from conservative orthodoxy on Common Core education standards, immigration and cap and trade. He said he would support a bill to give in-state benefits to undocumented immigrants again, as he did in 2006 as governor of Arkansas.

"You don't punish a child for something his parents did. I want to get control of the borders... But I don't know that we've ever been a nation that said, 'If you're in the back seat of your car when your dad is speeding, we're going to charge you in the back seat for what your dad did up in the front seat.'"

[bandleader]

Sorry Huck,you are “Part Of The Problem”NOT”Part Of The SOLUTION”!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[bandleader]

“RINOS NEED NOT APPLY”!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[jospehm20]

How does that work as neither one is particularly conservative?

[Democrat_media]

Huckabee is a marxist. and this article proves that:

http://topconservativenews.com/2007/10/conservative-huckabee/

Little do the evangelicals know that Huckabee is a socialist not a conservative at all but a con man.

Huckabee’s (the Huckster) job is to siphon votes away from Cruz.

[arthurus]

He is a garden variety romneybush. If we need one of those we should go for an original, not a cheap copy.

[Terry L Smith]

Dear Huck,

I have the perfect pulpit for you. It involves Denali Park, all the transferred mohammedans sans survival packs, Spring, beautiful weather, and hungry awakening bears.

[Kit cat]

People would vote for Cruz would NEVER ever consider a vote for Huckabee, if the establishment is DREAMING he can take votes from Cruz they are REALLY OUT OF TOUCH!!!!!!!!!

[Pollster1]

Huckabee also defended his breaks from conservative orthodoxy on Common Core education standards, immigration and cap and trade. He said he would support a bill to give in-state benefits to undocumented immigrants again, as he did in 2006 as governor of Arkansas.

Huck supports expanding federal power with Common Core, opposes the rule of law on immigration, and supports higher taxes with cap and trade. Why would Huckabee run as a republican when he fits right in as a democrat?

[exnavy]

Exactly, no republican wants any of that. And conservatives want to roll back the fed power even farther.

[Chainsawj]

It’s what RINOS do they TALK but they are demoRATSin disguise, I never liked huckapee and have never been tricked into believing a word he said.

Just another rino who will be taking stupid peoples votes in the primary so that romney or bush can be ‘elected’ as the nominee.

[Zathras]

If Huckster is supporting cap and trade, he is more clueless than I thought.
I’m beginning to think he is more of a pro-life RAT than a Conservative.

[Polyxene]

Old Huck-a-Buck obviously hasn’t heard that old saying, “Don’t quit your day job”.

[grania]

I liked Santorum when he emerged as the conservative front runner last time. What did him in is he kept talking about compromise. We don't need compromise. We need a candidate who sticks to constitutional conservative principles and articulates them to dissatisfied US citizens. That would be almost everyone.

We've got compromisers (or downright liars in campaigns) as a majority in DC now, and we still get the shaft. There is no compromise with evil.

I think the ideal would be someone with a proven track record of voting the way they talk once they get to DC. That would be TedCruz, Jeff Sessions, just a small handful of others.

[grania]

Neither one (Santorum or Huckabee) is particularly conservative. The votes they siphon off are the conservatives who are only in it for the social-religious issues.

[marron]

If you accept amnesty, Common Core, and carbon credit trading, then you may as well run for the Democrats. If Huckabee or Jeb Bush runs for the GOP, then Soros has, again, two horses in the race. Whichever party wins, he wins.

Soros and his crowd are trying to win the next race by winning at the primary level. He’ll make sure his people are at the leadership of each party.

If and when we break and form our own, we’ll have to take care that the same thing doesn’t happen again. Its not that hard to find someone who speaks your political language but still finds reasons to support the Sorosian position. Its not that hard, with the kind of money sloshing about, for any party to be coopted once its worth coopting. The thing of it is, the DNC is wholly owned by the Sorosians; the GOP is offering itself for sale and trying to convince its prospective buyers to give them a shake. Whatever the Dems can do, they can do better (and cheaper).

[armydawg505]

Pardoning a violent criminal who would later kill four cops in Seattle.

[Georgia Girl 2]

Huck was never conservative. Just because you are anti abortion and anti gay marriage does not mean you are really conservative.

[Jabba the Nutt]

"Huckabee also defended his breaks from conservative orthodoxy on Common Core education standards, immigration and cap and trade. He said he would support a bill to give in-state benefits to undocumented immigrants again, as he did in 2006 as governor of Arkansas. "

After these breaks from conservative orthodoxy, what's left that's conservative?

Let's hope Chuck Norris doesn't jump on Huckabee's wagon again.

[glennaro]

I though Huckabee had already achieved maximum irrelevancy.
I was wrong.

[OKSooner]

No wonder Megyn Kelly got caught mispronouncing his last name...