Mike Huckabee tells me what I already knew, that I will never cast a vote for him, in his latest book. But there's a surprise. I thought he at least seemed like a really good guy. But does a really good guy attack as regularly as he seems to like doing? From Hot Air:
Mitt Romney, Huckabee’s principal rival in Iowa, comes in for the roughest treatment. Huckabee writes that the former Massachusetts governor’s record was “anything but conservative until he changed the light bulbs in his chandelier in time to run for president.” He notes that Romney declined to make a phone call of congratulations after Huckabee beat the oddsmakers to win the Iowa caucuses, “which we took as a sign of total disrespect.” He mocks Romney for suggesting, during one debate, more investment in high-yield stocks as a solution to economic woes. “Let them eat stocks!” Huckabee jokes…
He calls out Pat Robertson, the Virginia-based televangelist, and Dr. Bob Jones III, chancellor of Bob Jones University in South Carolina, for endorsing Rudy Giuliani and Romney, respectively. He also has words for the Texas-based Rev. John Hagee, who endorsed the more moderate John McCain in the primaries, as someone who was drawn to the eventual Republican nominee because of the lure of power... In a chapter titled “Faux-Cons: Worse than Liberalism,” Huckabee identifies what he calls the “real threat” to the Republican Party: “libertarianism masked as conservatism.” He is not so much concerned with the libertarian candidate Ron Paul’s Republican supporters as he is with a strain of mainstream fiscal conservative thought that demands ideological purity, seeing any tax increase as apostasy and leaving little room for government-driven solutions to people’s problems.
So, as I stated recently, Huck is unelectable. His right-wing social conservatism, mixed with populism and fueled by no inherent believe in economic conservatism makes him forever a second-fourth place finisher in the primaries. Libertarian's are a big block of right of center voters. Libertarians are fine with me - I disagree with them on a few things, I am one of them on a few issues. But they aren't trying to let government dictate life to the people. If Mike Huckabee really thinks libertarians are worse than liberals, then he is the enemy.
Americans have had enough with government telling people what it can and cannot do in their personal lives. Hopefully, after an Obama administration, they will also be fed up with government telling them what they can do, or must do, or cannot do with their money.
"Let them eat stocks," is a good line though.
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