Huckabee: Enemy of Libertarian Republicans Everywhere
ChrisB on Nov 17 2008 at 4:01 pm | Filed under: Books, Chris' Page, Domestic Politics, Libertarianism
Mike Huckabee’s new book is coming out, and in it he takes some pretty heavy shots at libertarian and economic conservatives who don’t share his populist big government views.
The real threat to the Republican Party is something we saw a lot of this past election cycle: libertarianism masked as conservatism. And it threatens to not only split the Republican Party, but render it as irrelevant as the Whig Party.
I cannot understand this view at all. From Reason:
Huckabee trains a lot of fire on the Club for Growth, [..] Perhaps the Club’s biggest success was its pre-emptive demolition job on Huckabee. The governor responds by accusing them and other libertarians of believing in “purity of politics first; people are on their own.” In a chapter titled “Let Them Buy Stocks!” he accuses “libertarian faux-cons” of driving “the party even further away from its base of the hard-working middle class.” He names names.
You can see the growing influence of faux-cons in the 2008 election cycle from the so-called Ron Paul Revolution to the economics-only conservatism reflected by some of the supporters of Mitt Romney and Rudy Giuliani.
Hopefully the GOP does not follow Huckabee or his advice because I foresee a huge exodus of non-social cons. I know I’d be the first.
FYI, Glenn Reynolds is doing an interview with Huckabee this Wed and is currently soliciting questions. Now of course a rude and/or insulting question may make you feel better but won’t get asked so if anyone has a good question put some thought into it and make it respectful.
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So the liberation theologist slithers out of his septic lair with more rotten and ruinous advice. However, I wouldn’t worry too much about the GOP turning Huckabot Chris. Remember when he pledged at CPAC that the Lord God Almighty would personally intervene to deliver the Repubican nomination for him? His predicative powers tend to be of the batshit insane variety.