[dano1]

Also see below re Huckabee's fiscal conservative credentials.

PBS Newshour | October 5, 2007 | Huckabee interview with Margaret Warner

MARGARET WARNER: Now, you have won all kinds of accolades as a governor, small g, as a manager. You were once named by Time magazine as one of the five top five governors in the country. Do you think that's what the American voters are looking for in a president?

MIKE HUCKABEE: I think they want somebody who really believes in something and can stand by it and articulate it, but they do want somebody who is a competent manager, a pragmatic person who understands that you're not elected to be an ideologue and stand on the steps of the Capitol and just make speeches. They want you to be able to solve real problems that touch them every day.

So being a governor is a great advantage. You've run a government. You've balanced a budget. You've had to do things for which there were measurable results. People could see: Were schools better? Were roads better? Was health care better? Did we bring more jobs than we lost? Those are measurable things that I think best prepare someone to be president.

[RockinRight]

Huckabee is a Fiscal Conservative

Yeah...and I'm the Easter Bunny.

[johnny7]

Hit the bricks...

[trisham]

After all, Dick Morris is the ultimate authority on conservatism.

[TommyDale]

Tax Raiser!

[mysterio]

Huckabee is a Fiscal Conservative

lol

[steveegg]

If Dick Morris says so, it can’t be true.

[HuntsvilleTxVeteran]

LOL, you must be a paid pimp for the this fraud!

[rintense]

No he’s not.

[Vision]

The power of the MSM is amazing. No wonder the country is so screwed up.

[fieldmarshaldj]

But how is Huckster on toe-sucking ?

[mvpel]

YouTube video: Huckabee begs for new taxes.

“Mike Huckabee? As governor, he never saw a tax increase he didn’t love. He presided over a massive increase in state spending, including an expansion of Medicaid, and approved increases in the sales, income, and cigarette taxes. On its annual governor’s report card, Cato gave him an “F” for fiscal policy. Most Democratic governors received higher grades.”

[Rockitz]

He raised the sales tax one cent in 11 years and did that only after the courts ordered him to do so.

Sorry. Fox has already debunked this lie. Seen the video.

[toomuchcoffee]

Dang! Huckabee has no choice but to balance the Arkansas budget, just as Clinton had no choice. It’s required in the state constution.

[Kuksool]

Huckabee is very affable, but not Presidential material. He should run a mega-church instead.

[DManA]

He HAD to do it. HAD no choice. His Martian overlords made him.

when he had to pass an income tax surcharge amid the drop in revenues

[NeoCaveman]

And I am the King of Spain.

[ejonesie22]

Bonus check from the campaign?

[VirginiaConstitutionalist]

Riiiiiiiight. Other articles in this series.

Alan Keyes is pro-abortion
Duncan Hunter loves illegals
Mitt Romney is not a weird name
Ron Paul loves the Federal Reserve
Edwards is a brawny he-man
Kucinich is 6’11”
Hillary Clinton supports the police

[Miss Didi]

First Frank Luntz on Fox & Friends this morning...now Dick Morris. The gushing for Huckabee never ends.

[pookie18]

Kathryn Jean Lopez: Is Mike Huckabee really as bad as you say he is?

Pat Toomey: He’s every bit as bad, and you don’t 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 Club’s white paper on our website, but here is a quick summary of Huckabee’s worst hits. According to the Arkansas Democrat-Gazette, the average Arkansas tax burden increased 47% over Huckabee’s 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 doesn’t sound like either.