Club For Growth Targets Huckabee's Tax Record In New Ad
The Club For Growth has a new ad up attacking Mike Huckabee's record on taxes when he was governor of Arkansas:
The ad will run in Iowa and South Carolina, as well as nationwide on Fox News. It's a sign that the economic conservatives are taking Huckabee's populist threat very seriously, and as such are ready to do everything they can to convince conservative voters that he isn't an acceptable option.
Comments (10)
Matthew wrote on December 7, 2007 3:25 PM:Any thoughts on a brokered convention in Saint Paul yet? Wonderful how these various interest groups can tear each other apart in such a "big tent" as the Republican Party.
Does anyone have any idea who the Republicans are going to put up as a nominee?
I mean, at least for our side, Clinton is rather obvious, with Barack as a backup, and Edwards as a longshot. But, seriously, the Repblicans (and myself as an observer) really have no clue who its gonna be.
The Preacher with the Horton (and tax) Problem?
Sex On The City?
Lazy Fred?
Flippin' Mitt?
Hmmm, I have trouble categorizing McCain...
Pretty exciting, actually. This Primary may get even MORE bloody!
RWN wrote on December 7, 2007 3:45 PM:Huckabee and Paul are a threat to the actual powers that be in the Grand Old [Rich Man's] party. It is interesting but Republican populists are seriously usurping the neat and orderly makings of power control.
I still think that McCain will emerge as a wounded standard bearer like Dole was in '96 leaving the door open for what appears to be the obama express.
My only hope than is to have Barack Obama nominate Fitzgerald as Attorney General and let him unleash the greatest corruption probe of our history.
zel wrote on December 7, 2007 3:56 PM:Huckaboom was never a threat to the status quo. He's playing a game to hide his puppet strings, and the Ptb do not approve.
workaday joe wrote on December 7, 2007 4:40 PM:Yeah, I'll believe his economic populism when I see it. Besides, I'm not totally sure what populist means in this context. Bush is a certain kind of populist after all - or at least he was until about 2005. He was a populist that played on people's fears about 1) the government and 2) terrorists (in that order). Ironically, he has increased the tangible threats from both of those groups.
Daniel wrote on December 7, 2007 4:45 PM:Thompson has also sent out a pretty nasty mailer out in Iowa, blasting Huckabee for his tax record and comparing him to Clinton.
Richard wrote on December 8, 2007 12:38 AM:The Club for Greed does not heart Huckabee. In a way their right he can't be trusted, to do their bidding. He's not in their back pocket the way Mitt and Rudy are.
W Action wrote on December 8, 2007 3:38 PM:The difference between the current GOP leaders are the brand of fascism they espouse. Huckabee's a theocrat, Guiliani's a mob boss, and Romney's the corporate guy. Each takes his whacks at unions, gays, and foreigners, none has a coherent domestic policy, and all are committed to military intervention. Sweet.
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Eric Kleefeld writes of Huckabee's "populist" threat. Historically those backing the farmer and labor movement known as "populist" were UNIFORMLY CRITICAL of the POWER OF BIG BUSINESS. By this criteria, is there any evidence that Mr. Huckabee is a "populist??????" Its one thing to favor schooling for kids of illegal immigrants and expanded health care (but not for women raped by men, of course) and another to say the REAL PROBLEM IS THE EXCESSIVE POWER of large economic institutions: banks, railroads, manufacturers. Has Mr. Huckabee ever come out for expanded regulatory power for the FTC, the FDA, the FCC????? Progressive journalist should not use an honorable term for a dishonorable man. Historical studies show that the Republicans and Democrats that the Populist Party candidates challenged were MORE bigoted (especially anti-semitic) than the Populists. Mr. Huckabee is a cultural bigot: he hates gays, unmarried hetero couples etc. So please, honorable writers of the fourth estate, do not call this narrow minded demagogue a populist. How about calling him a religious demagogue. Much better term.
nrglaw wrote on December 9, 2007 10:14 PM:Huckabee probably never dreamed that the C for G would ever spend money attacking him. The guy has got to be in seventh heaven right now.
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