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Huckabee: Wishy-Washy Republican

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MIKE
HUCKABEE: WISHY-WASHY REPUBLICAN

By
Richard A. Viguerie

Some voters pining for a principled conservative Republican
presidential candidate are pinning their hopes on former governor of Arkansas
Mike Huckabee.  But while Gov. Huckabee stands strong on some issues like
abortion that are important to social conservatives, a careful examination of
his record as governor reveals that he is just another wishy-washy Republican
who enthusiastically promotes big government. 

> 
>The Baptist preacher entered politics in an unlikely way for a
Republican—as the result of a meeting with Joycelyn Elders, reports The New
Republic.  As director of the Arkansas department of health under
Gov. Bill Clinton, Dr. Elders opined that preachers should “stop moralizing
from the pulpit”.  Spinning into damage-control mode, Gov. Clinton asked
Mike Huckabee, head of the Arkansas Baptist State Convention, to meet with Dr.
Elders.  Rev. Huckabee came away from that meeting uncomfortably impressed
with the “lady who genuinely believes what she’s saying and is deep in her
convictions”.  He reasoned, “[I]f people like her are creating the public
policies that will determine how our kids are going to be educated, and the
atmosphere, then maybe we need to get out of the stands and get out on the
field and get our jerseys dirty.”

> 
>But while Mike Huckabee praises Dr. Elders for her dedication to her own
beliefs, he has disparaged principled conservatives as “blind
purists”.   And his record as governor certainly suggests that Mike
Huckabee is not as firm in his devotion to conservative ideals as the former
U.S. Surgeon General remains to liberal notions. 

> 
> â€œA fiscal conservative is a person who truly understands that it’s
not a problem in the federal government that our taxes are too low,” the former
governor told the crowd at CPAC in 2007.  “It’s a problem that our
spending is too high and out of control.” 

> 
>But by Gov. Huckabee’s own definition, there’s serious reason to doubt
that he’s a truly fiscal conservative himself. 

> 
>Much of conservatives’ concern about Gov. Huckabee centers on his record
of raising taxes.  He signed Americans for Tax Reform’s no-tax pledge, but
only after dismissing such covenants as dangerous.  He blasts the fiscally
conservative Club for Growth as the “Club for Greed”.  He publicly opposed
repealing a tax on groceries and medicine, though he claims that he’s “always
philosophically supported” axing the tax.  According to ATR, after his 10
years in office, Gov. Huckabee had raised the state’s sales tax by 37 percent,
motor fuel taxes by 16 percent, and cigarette taxes by 103 percent. 

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>Not surprisingly, all these tax increases allowed for greater
spending.  According to Americans for Tax Reform, state spending under Gov.
Huckabee rose by 65.3 percent during 1996 to 2004.  The number of workers
on the state’s payroll increased by 20 percent during his tenure, and its
general debt obligation rose by nearly $1 billion.  The spending increase
is due largely to the creation of new government programs and the expansion of
existing ones. 

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>Though he told The Washington Times that he supports “empowering
people to make their own decisions”, Gov. Huckabee has consistently initiated
and supported government meddling in the market economy.  Not only did he
increase Arkansas’s minimum wage from $5.15 to $6.25 per hour, but he even
encouraged the U.S. Congress to do the same thing nationally.  He ordered
Arkansas regulatory agencies to investigate “price-gouging” in the nursing-home
industry and threatened to launch a government investigation of “gouging” on
gas prices after September 11, 2001.  He signed a bill forbidding private
companies from increasing prices on services like roof repair and tree removal
by 10 percent in advance of a natural disaster. 

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>He is on record in support of big government programs that elbow out
private-sector solutions.  For instance, Gov. Huckabee drove ARKids first,
a multimillion-dollar government program to provide health insurance for 70,000
children.  He supported President George W. Bush’s 2003 massive expansion
of Medicare by adding a prescription-drug benefit.  He called the No Child
Left Behind Act, which increased federal education spending by 48 percent and
expanded big-government control of local schools, “the greatest education
reform effort of the federal government in my lifetime”.  Although
Huckabee advocates a fence along the entire U.S.-Mexico border, as governor he
proposed granting in-state tuition rates to illegal aliens. 

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>Mike Huckabee’s wishy-washiness is perhaps best exemplified in the story
of Wayne Dumond, the most bizarre and tragic episode of the governor’s entire
tenure.  A few weeks after taking office, Gov. Huckabee announced his
intention to free Mr. Dumond, who had served seven years of a life+20 sentence
for the kidnapping and rape of a 17-year-old girl.  The following month,
the governor met with the parole board; soon afterwards, the board voted to
free Mr. Dumond on the condition that he move to another state. 

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>Although he told National Review that he “executed more people
than any governor in the history of” Arkansas, Gov. Huckabee insists that the
“concept of Christian forgiveness requires that we keep open the process of
parole” even for violent felons. 

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>The parole board’s action made Mr. Dumond’s pardon application
unnecessary, so Gov. Huckabee denied the pardon but sent him a letter
affirming, “My desire is that you be released from prison.  I feel that
parole is the best way for your reintroduction to society to take place.”

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>Mr. Dumond’s release was delayed because no other state would take the
convicted rapist.  After two and one-half more years, the parole board set
him free in Arkansas.  The following year, he moved to Missouri, where he
sexually assaulted and murdered a 39-year-old woman. 

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>As the predictable political fireworks burst all around him, Gov.
Huckabee tried to hide behind the claim that he had denied Mr. Dumond’s pardon
application.  “My only official action was to deny his clemency,” Gov.
Huckabee insists, defensively glossing over his oft-stated earlier preference
for Mr. Dumond to go free. 

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>Gov. Huckabee’s poor judgment in the Dumond case is serious, but his
failure to acknowledge responsibility publicly is truly disgraceful in a man
who would be president. 

> 
>But it fits the pattern of his inability to hold a principled stance with
courage and conviction.  Gov. Huckabee called no-tax pledges
“irresponsible” but then signed one.  He wants to fence illegal immigrants
out, but to give them cheap tuition while they’re here.  He calls
conservatives “blind purists” but poses as one of us. 

> 
>One who has cut through the fog of Gov. Huckabee’s wishy-washiness and
found something she likes is the woman who’s indirectly responsible for his political
career.  Joycelyn Elders says she’s “truly impressed.  I feel he
really did things that I appreciated.”  

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