Being ultra social conservative on one hand, but ultra liberal (pushing nanny government) on the other hand does not average to being a moderate.
In most areas that matter for the presidency, he is on the same page with Hillary -- do Republicans want to nominate someone who wants the government to tell them what to eat, how much to eat, how much to exercise -- for your own good, and get punished if you don't?! How much more intrusive could the government get?
Not to mention that any Dem would demolish Huckabee.
How Clintonesque. Hah! Did he donate his underwear and write it off taxes too?
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THEY’VE found him! The punditocracy believes it has spied a rare species: a moderate Republican who’s candid, funny, charming, and doesn’t think the earth is flat or Bush has a clue.
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What conservative pundits are actually for this guy?
What is it with Arkansas politicians and gov’t furniture?
Really he is not ultra either, though I wouldn’t call him a moderate as the term is used today. He is a middle of the road social conservative with too much “compassion” in him, and he is a little unpredictable on fiscal matters, mainly because of that compassion disease where compassion is defined as robbing one American of his hard earned money and giving it to another you find more worthy or needy. It is practicing your charity before men to be seen by them, yet being unwilling to fund it yourself. Instead you force others to fund it so that you can get the praise.
Countdown to dano1 posting his spam....(No I’m not pinging you FReeper courtesy my foot)
The liberal media loves Huck because they know that he will get steamrolled in the general election. He’s to the Democrats what Hitlary is to us conservatives!
What a fraud! He claims to believe the Bible. Does he reject Psalm 67.7? "All the ends of the earth shall fear Him." How can the earth have "ends" if it is round?
Huckster is a WIMP...
I agree wholeheartedly. Perhaps C.S Lewis summed it up best when he wrote:
"Of all tyrannies a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It may be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber baron’s cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated; but those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end for they do so with the approval of their own conscience. They may be more likely to go to Heaven yet at the same time likelier to make a Hell of earth. Their very kindness stings with intolerable insult. To be ‘cured’ against one’s will and cured of states which we may not regard as disease is to be put on a level with those who have not yet reached the age of reason or those who never will; to be classed with infants, imbeciles, and domestic animals."
What I find most troubling about Huckabee is that his exercise of power is not restrained by the unchanging principles which safeguard our liberty from tyrants, but instead by his own personal preferences that may change by whim or experience. The good reverend doesn't smoke, so neither should we. It was good that he lost over 100 pounds, so perhaps it would be good for government to limit our access to fat foods or to punish our overindulgence. If these intrusions seems right to such a moral busybody, what else might offend him in the future? Perhaps the questioning attitude of this conservative Presbyterian who might not drink the same "Jesus juice" as he (whatever that shameless put down means)...
I sure don’t.
How strange. That's exactly the way I perceive him today.
Sounds like Hillary and Bill.