How to Tick off Huckabee Haters in One Easy Post

10 Comments

1. Comment by Ceecee

   I hope so. Either him or Sarah Palin. Both would be very good. Maybe they will be on the same ticket. One as president and one as vice president.

2. Comment by Robert

   Year, Huck has got a great shot in 2012 because he has a strong grassroots base with a lot of crossover appeal to Independents and Dems who like his non-caustic approach to political issues and his willingness to explain the “why” behind his positions.

3. Comment by Warner Todd Huston

   We need to re-direct this party in a conservative direction. Not a “moderate” left leaning one. Huckabee is not what we need.

4. Comment by Adam Graham

   Warner, I think on what matters most. On issues such as the bailout, the second amendment, the first amendment, life, Huckabee is a conservative. There is no Mr. Perfect and on the essential issues, Huckabee’s got it right.

5. Comment by Joan E. Harman

   I was checking my Word Press blog and posting something new to it. I took note of the fact that you had swung by and posted a link to it. Thank you so very much.

   Now on to more issues of some importance, isn’t it about time we moved past wedge issues? Is that how “conservatism” is to be defined on wedge issues? Let me give you a firm understanding about “life.” According to your own scriptures, people can be assured of their lives as long as they have behaved righteously. When you excuse sinning conduct on the grounds that it at least produces a life, a child, that is no more a support for a righteous society than what you would inveigh against as a wedge issue. I am not a Huckabee hater. If he runs with Palin on the ticket then he can get squashed, as he was the last time. But not because of hatred of what he deems to be his “Christian values” but because you guys are living in denial still over what this country is currently facing. And if Huckabee takes last century’s message on the campaign trail, he simply will not make it.

6. Comment by warnertoddhuston

   On taxes alone Huck proves to be no conservative. I won’t support anyone for a national sales tax plan, either. If it isn’t for a flat tax, we should not change the system at all.

   Besides, we are at the end of the old Republican order. If we turn back to another candidate from “then,” another loser, we will have no chance at all to be Obama for a second term. This holds for Romney, too. Actually, it holds for Romney even more!

7. Comment by Adam Graham

   I’m also for a National Retail Sales Tax and would challenge to a Lincoln-Douglas style debate on the issue. You may not agree with it, it’s certainly not a liberal sense. And I’d also point out that Reagan raced taxes as Governor of California more than Huckabee did in Arkansas. I’d further point out that Huckabee signed the ATR no tax increase pledge.

8. Comment by Adam Graham

   Joan, your theology is messed up. Secondly, I don’t think this campaign was lost on social issues. I think people are truly looking for sincere candidates who say what they believe.

9. Comment by Warner Todd Huston

   Reagan also said he regretted it.

   But, here is where I feel a sales tax is utterly unfair and will destroy the market for bit ticket items and, hence, our economy. A sales tax only will be VERY high on cars, refrigerators, et al. Imagine buying a new car and finding out that there is a $5,000 tax on it! How many cars will be sold? Not many!

   And such a tax will utterly KILL the lower income folks. Just kill them.

   A flat tax is the only way to go. In fact, more and more countries are going that way.

10. Comment by Adam Graham

    First of all, in every good you buy, it comes loaded with Embeded Taxes: Corporate Income Taxes, the Employer Portion of the Payroll Tax, etc. so the base price would be lower.

    Secondly, lower income folks can buy a used car and they will pay no Tax whatsoever on it. In fact, they will have more money because they will be paying for their car with pretax dollars. And unlike with the income tax, they can control the incidence of taxation.

    The FAIR Tax is freedom. It eliminates more than $300 billion in compliance costs, it taxes the underground economy, and will bring home Trillions of dollars currently hidden offshort in places like the Cayman Island in order to dodge income taxes.

    The Flat Tax would, in some ways be an improvemnt, but you would still have the IRS’ invasions of privacy, and the near unconstitutional requiremnt to tell the government where every dollar comes from.

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