Huckabee is the most liberal Republican of all time.
Lowell Wicker is second.
Send the Huck to the Rat party where he belongs.
Huck is an honorable guy, but I’m sorry: What he means here by “fiscal conservative” is someone who’ll avoid running deficits (by raising taxes, primarily, in his case), not necessarily someone who keeps spending and taxes low relative to where they began. To me and most Republicans, the latter is a “fiscal conservative,” and although Huck may not be an “F” grade in that regard, he’s probably about a D or C-.
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Yeah, and Huckabee also says he’s tough on illegal immigration.
Mike Huckabee seems to say a lot of stuff that isn’t supported by the facts.
“’We had some tax increases due to court mandates or necessitated by deficits which we had to deal with,’ Huckabee explained.”
Uh, Mr. Huckabee, the US govenrment has mandates and deficits, too.
Now we know what his excuse will be to raise taxes as President. Coincidentally, the deficit was exactly the same excuse Clinton used for raising taxes in ‘92. Must be something in the water in Arkansas.
Yep - fiscal conservatives beg for any tax increase his legislature will give him, pushes for income tax surcharges (and later resists eliminating it when the budget is back in line), promotes the largest increase in public spending in his state’s history, refuses to consider cutting or eliminating the sales tax on groceries (which his successor - a liberal Democrat signed).
He also gets credit for a balanced budget in the state (Arkansas)... um - a balanced budget is required by the Arkansas Constitution. Further - Billions of dollars in bonds to finance his spending is an “end-run” around the balanced budget requirement.
Higher gas taxes, higher income taxes, hugely increased government health care system - yep, sounds like a fiscal conservative to me....(/sarcasm)
He may be a social conservative but a fiscal conservative is not one that merely raises taxes less than Democrats. Huckabee doesn’t seem to have a clear fiscal conservative philosophy. He in the past has demonstrated a government bureaucratic fiscal model where government funding is cast as satisfying public need which is not always the case. A true fiscal conservative knows that just because there is public “need” does not mean that the government is the best place to manage or address that need. Actually a true fiscal conservative would always as a first choice choose private sector solutions first even if it requires some government oversight or regulation. Huckabee doesn’t seem to understand this. He talks like a liberal on Global Warming and Health Care. As for being a social conservative he is not very strong in holding the tide against homosexual activists so that leaves him being pro-life as his primary redeeming value.
I’d vote for Rudy first.
Where have I heard that? Gee that sounds familiar! I know I have heard that before...
Sorry. His record speaks for itself. He’s as much a fiscal conservative as Giuliani is a defender of the 2nd amendment.
huck lies like ‘toon. Some Preacher.
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What does a liberal Republican do when he is afraid to face grass roots conservatives himself? He pays his coffee and errand boy minimum wage to do it for him...
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Sitting in a cubicle at campaign headquarters you search Conservative websites like the NY Times, Washington Post, LA Times, Salon, CNN and Daily Kos looking for favorable articles about the Huckster to post on FR
(oooh, here's one from DU!)
Armed with nothing but talking points from Hucks' website, you attempt to convince conservatives that your candidate is not a Christian socialist or a pro-life Democrat...
(Jesus would want amnesty for illegals)
When FReepers say Huck is a fiscal liberal, algore loving environmental wacko, open border amnesty pusher, nanny state smoker banner you provide the brilliant original response...a link to his campaign website
(copy, paste, copy, paste)
Conservatives? We don't need no stinkin' Conservatives!
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All we need is a leftist who is pro-life, has an R next to his name, and talks about Jesus.
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Huckabee is a Bush Republican.
If you liked the twelve Bush years, you will like Huckabee.
Read my lips, Huckabee will raise your taxes.
Huckster, when you want Mitt Romney with a Southern accent.