At least according to the exhaustive research of Zionist Anti-Communist who has dug deep into the Huckster’s past to come up with some compelling(ish) evidence of Maccabees’s Red roots. He relies mostly on on this recent article by Don Feder on Huckabee’s Misguided Compassion which shows a very different image of Huckabee than that of compassionate social con:
During his years in Little Rock, Huckabee raised the state’s sales tax by 37%, the gas tax by 16% and the cigarette tax by 103% (all fall particularly hard on the poor). State spending went up a staggering 65.3% — three times the inflation rate. The state’s workforce grew by 20% and Arkansas’ general obligation debt increased $1 billion.
Conservatives most familiar with the man are the most skeptical of his conservative credentials. At its July convention, the Arkansas Republican Assembly, which represents the state party’s right-wing, took a presidential preference straw poll. Thompson swept the field with 86%.
Betsy Hagan, Arkansas director of Schlafly’s Eagle Forum, says that outside of a few key social issues, Huckabee governed as a liberal. “Just like Bill Clinton, he will charm you, but don’t be surprised if he takes a completely different turn in office,” Hagan cautions.
Huckabee is a sucker for social spending. In April 2006, he raised the state’s minimum wage from $5.15 to $6.25 an hour, levying yet another tax on businesses and consumers — one that destroys entry-level jobs.
Huckabee is particularly proud of his ArKids First program, which greatly expanded government-paid health insurance for children. Compassionate? Sure — except it’s one more small step on the road to socialized medicine — which hasn’t worked that well for the Brits and Canadians who’ve died waiting for operations, due to the inevitable shortage of medical services in a state-run system.
Huckabee supports a mandatory cap on the release of greenhouse gases. “It goes to the moral issue,” the governor intones. “We have a responsibility to reduce greenhouse-gas emissions….” This, even though he’s unsure that C0-2 emissions actually have anything to do with global warming. “But whether there is or there isn’t (a human factor in climate change) , it doesn’t release us from the responsibility to be good stewards of the environment…It’s a spiritual issue. The earth belongs to God. I have no right to destroy it.”
Good stewards also have a responsibility to consider the consequences of junk science. In the 1960s, Rachel Carson’s Silent Spring (the era’s An Inconvenient Truth) convinced governments to ban DDT as toxic to humans. In the Third World, mosquitoes multiplied. So did malaria and typhus. Since 1972, 100 million have died of these preventable diseases, mostly in Africa, due to political stewardship.
Does God want us to destroy the U.S. economy? Does He want us to sit in darkened homes, warmed only by thoughts of the imaginary benefits conferred on the penguins and polar bears? Huckabee is an acolyte of the Church of Gore because it feels good — it makes him feel morally superior to all of those energy-profligate conservatives who — by not embracing this pious fraud — desecrate the Gospel of Eco-Doom.
I don’t know if “God” wants to destroy the economy, but I know a lot of communists do. Z.A.C. also makes hay of the Huckster’s membership in the Southern Baptist Convention where he rubs elbows with American hating Commies like Bill Moyers.
The S.B.C. is a socially liberal group that seemingly hates gays, just like actual communists. Maybe there’s something to Z.A.C.’s analysis. On the other hand they are on my Blacklist for hating Halloween and The Day of the Dead, the two greatest Holidays of all time. They’ll have to do more digging to get back in our good orange and black graces.
via Hot Air, The Man comes down hard on Mike Huckleberry:
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