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THE CONSERVATIVE REVIEW
November 27, 2007
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The False Conservative
By Robert D. Novak
WASHINGTON - Who would respond to criticism from the
Club for Growth by calling the conservative, free-market
campaign organization the "Club for Greed"? That sounds
like Howard Dean, Dennis Kucinich or John Edwards, all
Democrats preaching the class struggle. In fact, the
rejoinder comes from Mike Huckabee, who has broken out
of the pack of second-tier Republican presidential
candidates to become a serious contender -- definitely
in Iowa and perhaps nationally.
Huckabee is campaigning as a conservative, but serious
Republicans know that he is a high-tax, protectionist,
big-government advocate of a strong hand in the Oval Office
directing the lives of Americans. Until now, they did not
bother to expose the former governor of Arkansas as a false
conservative because he seemed an underfunded, unknown
nuisance candidate. Now that he has pulled even with Mitt
Romney for the Iowa caucuses with the possibility of more
progress, the beleaguered Republican Party has a frighten-
ing problem on its hands.
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The rise of evangelical Christians as the motive force that
blasted the GOP out of minority status during the past
generation always contained an inherent danger if these new
Republican acolytes supported not merely a conventional
conservative but one of their own. That has happened now
with Huckabee, a former Baptist minister educated at
Ouachita Baptist University and Southwestern Baptist
Theological Seminary. The danger is a serious contender
for the nomination who passes the litmus test of social
conservatives on abortion, gay marriage and gun control
but is far removed from the conservative-libertarian model
of Barry Goldwater and Ronald Reagan.
There is no doubt about Huckabee's record during a
decade in Little Rock as governor. He was regarded by
fellow Republican governors as a compulsive tax increaser
and spender. He increased the Arkansas tax burden by
47 percent, boosting the levies on gasoline and cigarettes.
When he decided to lose 100 pounds and pressed his new
lifestyle on the American people, he was far from a
Goldwater-Reagan libertarian.
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As a presidential candidate, Huckabee has sought to counter-
act his reputation as a taxer by pressing for replacement
of the income tax with a sales tax and has more recently
signed the no-tax-increase pledge of Americans for Tax
Reform. But Huckabee simply does not fit in normal
boundaries of economic conservatism, as when he criticized
President Bush's veto of a Democratic expansion of the
State Children's Health Insurance Program (SCHIP). Calling
global warming a "moral issue" mandating "a biblical duty"
to prevent climate change, he has endorsed the cap-and-
trade system that is anathema to the free market.
Huckabee clearly departs from the mainstream of the
conservative movement in his confusion of "growth" with
"greed." Such ad hominem attacks are part of his intuitive
response to criticism from the Club for Growth and the
libertarian Cato Institute for his record as governor. On
Fox News Sunday Nov. 18, he called the "tactics" of the
Club for Growth "some of the most despicable in politics
today. It's why I love to call them the Club for Greed
because they won't tell you who gave their money." In fact,
all contributors to the organization's political action
committee (which produces campaign ads) are publicly
revealed, as are most donors financing issue ads.
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Quin Hillyer, a former Arkansas journalist writing in the
conservative American Spectator, called Huckabee "a guy
with a thin skin, a nasty vindictive streak." Huckabee's
retort was to attack Hillyer's journalistic procedures,
fitting a mean-spirited image when he responds to
conservative criticism.
Nevertheless, he is getting remarkably warm reviews in the
news media as the most humorous, entertaining and interest-
ing GOP presidential hopeful. Contrary to descriptions by
old associates, he is now called "jovial" or "good-
natured." Any Republican who does not sound much like a
Republican is bound to benefit from friendly media support,
as Sen. John McCain did in 2000 but not today with his
return to being more like a conventional Republican.
An uncompromising foe of abortion can never enjoy full
media backing. But Mike Huckabee is getting enough favor-
able buzz that, when combined with his evangelical base,
it makes real conservatives shudder.
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