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Huck’s for Huck – Paul’s for America

Posted: November 9, 2007
1:00 a.m. Eastern





Phyllis Schlafly, conservatism’s “first lady,” had this to say about
presidential candidate and former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee: “He
destroyed the conservative movement in Arkansas and left the Republican
Party a shambles, yet some of the same evangelicals who sold us on
George W. Bush as a ‘compassionate conservative’ are now trying to sell
us on Huckabee.”

“He has zero intellectual underpinnings in the conservative
movement,” another of Huckabee’s countless conservative detractors told
the Wall Street Journal’s John Fund. “He’s hostile to free trade, hiked
sales and grocery taxes, backed sales taxes on Internet purchases, and
presided over state spending going up more than twice the inflation
rate.”

“[Huckabee] was pro-life and pro-gun, but otherwise a liberal,”
reveals Betsy Hagan. The Arkansas director of the conservative Eagle
Forum was a key backer of Huckabee’s early runs for office, and was
once “his No. 1 fan,” explains Fund. Hagan now cautions that, “Just
like Bill Clinton [Huckabee] will charm you, but don’t be surprised if
he takes a completely different turn in office.”

So too has Quin Hillyer of the American Spectator been
out-and-about chatting to folks in Arkansas. A fair number of them
describe Huckabee disdainfully as “a guy with a thin skin, a nasty
vindictive streak and a long history of imbroglios about questionable
ethics.” For instance, Huckabee used public money to fund his family’s
Falstaffian appetites, and “tried to claim as his own some $70,000 of
furniture donated to the governor’s mansion.” He was also in the habit
of scolding “the media for reporting [his] transgressions rather than
demanding that the transgressors make things right.” Consequently,
Huckabee had been investigated 14 times and reprimanded five times by
the ethics commission.

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Like Michael Dukakis, Huckabee waded into the moral miasma of
penal abolition. Dukakis, the Democratic presidential nominee in 1988,
fought to secure a prison furlough for convicted murderer Willie
Horton. Horton went on to assault a Massachusetts man and rape his
fiancée during his recreational weekend off. Wayne Dumond, the
recipient of Huckabee’s helping hand, raped and murdered a Missouri
woman. When asked about his difficult-to-defend role “in an apparently illegal and unrecorded closed-door meeting with the parole board lobbying on behalf of a rapist,” Huckabee has offered a thesaurus of excuses.

On economics, Huckabee is also a habitual offender. The Club for
Growth, which is dedicated to promoting a “low-tax and
limited-government agenda,” has few good things to say about him.
Apparently, there is nothing invisible about Huckabee’s heavy
regulatory hand. His consistent contempt for the taxpayer has earned
him “a lifetime grade of D from the free-market Cato Institute.” “By
the end of his 10-year tenure,” writes the Club’s Andrew Roth, “Gov.
Huckabee was responsible for a 37 percent higher sales tax in Arkansas,
16 percent higher motor fuel taxes, and 103 percent higher cigarette
taxes.” State spending under Huckabee increased a whopping 65.3 percent
from 1996 to 2004, three times the rate of inflation.

GDP growth declines as the government’s share of the GDP rises.
Huckabee, that economic wrecking ball, inaugurated new programs and
expanded existing ones so that “the number of state government workers
rose 20 percent during his tenure, and the state’s general obligation
debt shot up by almost $1 billion.”

Needless to say, Huckabee hopped for joy when George Bush, his
evil ideological twin, passed a prescription-drug benefit that would
add trillions to the Medicare shortfall. But not even Bush stooped as
low as to support raising the minimum wage. As someone possessing “zero
intellectual underpinnings in the conservative movement,” Huckabee
obliged. Understandably, he was incapable of grasping that fixing the
price of labor above market rate or the employee’s productivity
increases unemployment among the poor and the unskilled.

Huckabee’s philosophically limp conservatism led him to slip
between the sheets with the Democrats in his support for expanding the
SCHIP health-care program, and favoring the “cap-and-trade system to
limit global-warming emissions.” The last is a scam that’ll cause
massive job and income loss.

“F” for immigration: That’s how Roy Beck, president of “Numbers
USA,” has graded Huckabee on that front. It’s only fair to point out
that by sheer fluke Huckabee reversed his left-liberal stand on illegal
immigration when he decided to run for president.

The CAFTA and NAFTA so-called trade agreements are not free trade, but managed
trade. This is why Rep. Ron Paul, Mr. Liberty himself, has rejected
these usurpations. The Hegelian Huckabee, however, has sided with the
statists who’d sooner subordinate America’s sovereignty and allow
powerful, unaccountable bureaucracies to dictate the terms of trade.

Indeed, Ron Paul is the gold standard for personal and
political principles. “When it comes to limited government, there are
few champions as steadfast and principled as Rep. Ron Paul,” vouches
the Club for Growth. “On taxes, regulation and political free speech
his record is outstanding.”

Who other than Dr. Paul has “voted nine out of nine times against raising his own pay”? Who other than Dr. Paul has refused to partake in the obscene congressional pension scheme, a veritable shakedown of the indentured taxpayer?

Nicknamed “Dr. No” for voting against all legislation that isn’t expressly authorized by the Constitution, Ron Paul has never voted for an unbalanced budget; never voted for a federal restriction on gun ownership; never voted to increase the power of the executive branch; and never taken a government-paid junket.

And he voted no on the Iraq war.

Huckabee, on the other hand, is as wasteful about lives and
limbs as he is about material assets not his own. During a recent
presidential debate, he recommended goose-stepping Americans into
supporting the Iraq war: “We can’t be divided. We have to be one nation
under God. That means if we make a mistake, we make it as a single
country: the United States of America, not the divided states of
America.” How convenient; Huckabee wishes to collectivize the
responsibility for the wrongs he went along with.

To this fascistic folderol, Dr. Paul replied: “No, when we make
a mistake, it is the obligation of the people, through their
representatives, to correct the mistake, not to continue the mistake.”

And it is the obligation of evangelicals to heed Mrs. Schlafly
and refrain from “selling” Americans on another confidence trickster
worthy of a P.T. Barnum circus, not of higher office.

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Ilana Mercer is the author of “Broad Sides: One Woman’s Clash With A Corrupt Culture.” She is a fellow at the Jerusalem Institute for Market Studies, an independent, nonprofit, economic policy think tank. To learn more about her work, visit IlanaMercer.com. If you would like to comment on this column, go to Ilana’s blog.


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