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DEL.ICIO.USFirst post-Iowa shot fired
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
As Mike Huckabee was still delivering his victory speech in Iowa, the first attack of the post-caucus era was leveled.
The Club for Growth, which has never hid its enmity for Huckabee, issued a statement late Thursday on the caucus results.
“The Club for Growth PAC urges New Hampshire voters to reject Mike Huckabee and his big-government policies next Tuesday,” Club president Pat Toomey said. “Republican voters should nominate a leader who will return the party to the principles of economic conservatism, not an economic liberal who wants to be the John Edwards of the Republican Party.”
Huckabee and the Club for Growth have tussled often over the course of the campaign, with the conservative economic group blasting Huckabee for his record while governor of Arkansas, and Huckabee responding by calling the group the “Club for Greed.”
The organization accuses Huckabee of raising taxes while governor and opposing other programs it holds dear, such as school choice.
It’s an influential organization in Republican circles, but it’s record Thursday was less than stellar in Iowa. Along with bashing Huckabee, the Club for Growth has had no love for John McCain, who was in a tie for third in Iowa, a state he barely campaigned in.
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By GaLiberal
January 4, 2008 12:06 AM | Link to this
Huckabee comes off as a sincere person, but don’t be fooled. He’s more ideologically bound than is George Bush and look where Bush has taken the country. Huckabee is a typical Bush Rethuglicon that wants to roll back the clock 60+ years. He’s a ‘compassionate conservative’ which means he’s a homophobe, a xenophobe, a bigot, and a theocrat. Huckabee wants to shove Christianity down everyone else throat. He want to amend the Constitution to ban gay marriage and abortion. He wants to ‘return the country to Christ.’ If I want religion, I go to a church. But I don’t want religion mixed in with the running of the country. He uses the specter of terrorism as an excuse to bash Hispanics and toady up to groups like the KKK. He wants to allow everyone to carry loaded guns for ‘self defense’ and to overthow a tyrannical government. This man is a prototypical Rethuglicon and to have him as President would be an absolute disaster for the country.
When you vote Rethuglicon, you vote against your own best interests. And Mike Huckabee is living proof.