I hate to line up for or against any candidate this early in the game, but I have to agree with Susan Estrich on this one. I can’t stand her voice, I’m baffled by her ignorance and her popularity, but she’s nailed it down right: If the Republicans nominate Mike Huckabee the Democrats could nominate Charles Manson and still win by a landslide.
I admire Huckabee for his social conservatism, but when it comes to taxes, spending, and government interference in our lives — he’s a liberal. The Club for Growth states:
“Over the past ten months, Governor Huckabee’s embrace of his liberal economic record as governor and his populist, protectionist rhetoric on the campaign trail has only confirmed the Club for Growth’s original assessment,” said Club for Growth President Pat Toomey. “Huckabee himself admits that he is a ‘different kind of Republican,’ a code word for more government involvement, less personal freedom, and greater dependence on government bureaucrats.”
“Huckabee is proud of his tax hikes, his spending increases, and his regulatory expansions as governor, and he has not indicated that he would govern any differently as president. Nominating Mike Huckabee for president or vice-president would constitute an abject rejection of the free-market, limited-government, economic conservatism that has been the unifying theme of the Republican Party for decades.”
President Bush has been great on the war on terror and taxes, but he has supported huge social welfare programs like the “No Child Left Behind Act,” which has been a miserable and expensive failure. I believe that history will look on Bush much more favorably than Americans do today, but he would have been a first-class president if he had tried to slow spending in conjunction with lowering taxes. Huckabee would be like Bush on steroids when it comes to spending and he would not continue Bush’s wise path on cutting taxes.
Here is Susan Estrich on Mike Huckabee. The good thing is that you only have to listen to her voice for 17 seconds.
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