Posted on 12/13/2007 2:20:34 PM PST by jaybeegee
Never heard that comparison before.
Fred lost my support by attacking Huck
I'd call it pointing out his record.
I agree, I get so tired of people crying about people discussing candidates records on stuff.
I guess the people I congregate with are more informed than most. I think the more people see him the more they will pick up on the insincere quality that emanates from him.
LOL Good post.
It is based on pure political pandering to a group of immigrants ...Speaking of pandering, now that Huckabee is courting the Cuba-American vote in florida, he has done a full 180 on the Cuban embargo and now supports it.
Sorry to point that out : )
I didn’t realize Hunter was a liberal...
Huckabee on Taxes
Immediately upon taking office, Governor Huckabee signed a sales tax hike in 1996 to fund the Games and Fishing Commission and the Department of Parks and Tourism.
He supported an internet sales tax in 2001.
He publicly opposed the repeal of a sales tax on groceries and medicine in 2002.
He signed bills raising taxes on gasoline (1999), cigarettes (2003), and a $5.25 per day bed-tax on private nursing home patients in 2001.
He proposed another sales take hike in 2002 to fund education improvements.
He opposed a congressional measure to ban internet taxes in 2003.
In 2004, he allowed a 17% sales tax increase to become law.
By the end of his ten-year tenure, Governor Huckabee was responsible for a 37% higher sales tax in Arkansas, 16% higher motor fuel taxes, and 103% higher cigarette taxes according to Americans for Tax Reform, garnering a lifetime grade of D from the free-market Cato Institute.
Spending
Under Governor Huckabee's watch, state spending increased a whopping 65.3% from 1996 to 2004, three times the rate of inflation. The number of state government workers rose 20% during his tenure, and the state's general obligation debt shot up by almost $1 billion, according to Americans for Tax Reform. The massive increase in government spending is due in part to the number of new programs and expansion of already existing programs initiated by Governor Huckabee, including ARKids First, a multimillion-dollar government program to provide health coverage for thousands of Arkansas' children.
These large increases in government borrowing and spending significantly impede economic growth.
Perhaps with some evanglicals. This evangelical thinks it's great to attack him on his record instead of the way Huck yammers about someone's religion.
Did Huck lose your support by attacking Romney?
What? Follow Huck’s real record almost close?
It’s about time someone slammed the crap out of this phony schmuck Huckabee.
I don’t support either Willard or the Huckster.
And neither should you.
Nice tagline.
Telling the truth about a candidate is an attack now?
I ain't much for Fred, so I am probably not the one to ask.
Yes, but well deserved. Huckabee thinks that because he mentions Jesus every ten seconds, that he should be handed the nomination. Many of us remember how Jimmy Carter enthralled many evangelicals by doing the very same thing in 1976.
I mailed my second contribution to Friends of Fred Thompson today.
Go Fred!
That's an excellent question- and MY answer is that while I did buy Tom's book, and would have supported him, he (and Duncan- my answer applies to both) needed to show enough "star" power to get up out of single digits. We're nominating someone to face the machine of the beast, or Opra's magic negro, and Tom and Duncan have had their shots, and they were short.
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