Novak outs Huckabee

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/11/25/AR2007112501547_pf.html

 

The False
Conservative

By Robert D. Novak
Monday, November 26, 2007; A15

Who would respond to criticism from
the Club for Growth by calling the
conservative, free-market campaign organization the “Club for Greed”?
That sounds like Howard Dean, Dennis
Kucinich
or John
Edwards
, all Democrats preaching the class struggle. In fact, the rejoinder
comes from Mike
Huckabee
, who has broken out of the pack of second-tier Republican
presidential candidates to become a serious contender — definitely in Iowa
and perhaps nationally.

Huckabee is campaigning as a
conservative, but serious Republicans know that he is a high-tax, protectionist
advocate of big government and a strong hand in the Oval
Office
directing the lives of Americans. Until now, they did not bother to
expose the former governor of Arkansas
as a false conservative because he seemed an underfunded, unknown nuisance
candidate. Now that he has pulled
even
with Mitt
Romney
for the Iowa caucuses and might make more progress, the beleaguered
Republican Party has a frightening problem.

The rise of evangelical Christians
as the force that blasted the GOP
out of minority status during the past generation always contained an inherent
danger: What if these new Republican acolytes supported not merely a
conventional conservative but one of their own? That has happened with
Huckabee, a former Baptist minister educated at Ouachita Baptist University and
Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary. The danger is a serious contender
for the nomination who passes the litmus test of social conservatives on
abortion, gay marriage and gun control but is far removed from the
conservative-libertarian model of Barry
Goldwater
and Ronald
Reagan
.

There is no doubt about Huckabee’s
record during a decade in Little
Rock
. He was regarded by fellow Republican governors as a compulsive
tax-and-spender. He increased the Arkansas tax burden 47 percent, boosting the
levies on gasoline and cigarettes. When he lost 100 pounds and decided to press
his new lifestyle on the American people, he was hardly being a
Goldwater-Reagan libertarian.

As a presidential candidate,
Huckabee has sought to counteract his reputation as a taxer by pressing for
replacement of the income tax with a sales tax. More recently he signed the
no-tax-increase pledge of Americans for Tax Reform.
But Huckabee simply does not fit within normal boundaries of economic
conservatism, such as when he criticized President
Bush
‘s veto of a Democratic expansion of the State Children’s Health
Insurance Program. Calling global warming a “moral issue” mandating
“a biblical duty” to prevent climate change, he has endorsed a
cap-and-trade system that is anathema to the free market.

Huckabee clearly departs from the
mainstream of the conservative movement in his confusion of “growth”
with “greed.” Such ad hominem attacks are part of his intuitive
response to criticism from the Club
for Growth
and the libertarian Cato Institute
about his record as governor. On “Fox
News
Sunday” on Nov. 18, he called the
“tactics” of the Club for Growth “some of the most despicable in
politics today. It’s why I love to call them the Club for Greed, because they
won’t tell you who gave their money.” In fact, all contributors to the organization’s
political action committee (which produces campaign ads) are publicly revealed,
as are most donors financing issue ads.

Quin Hillyer, a former Arkansas
journalist writing in the conservative American Spectator, called Huckabee
“a guy with a thin skin, a nasty vindictive streak.” Huckabee’s
retort was to attack Hillyer’s journalistic procedures, fitting a mean-spirited
image when he responds to conservative criticism.

Nevertheless, he is getting
remarkably warm reviews in the news media as the most humorous, entertaining
and interesting GOP presidential hopeful. Contrary to descriptions by old
associates, he is now called “jovial” or “good-natured.”
Any Republican who does not sound much like a Republican is bound to get friendly
press, as Sen. John
McCain
did in 2000 (but not today, with his return to acting more like a
conventional Republican).

An uncompromising foe of abortion
can never enjoy full media backing. But Mike
Huckabee
is getting enough favorable buzz that, when combined with his
evangelical base, it makes real conservatives shudder.

 

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