Huckabee a front runner? A mix of Jimmy Carter and George Bush. Just what we need.

When asked in a debate the "what would Jesus do" question Mike Huckabee was wise enough to answer, "Jesus was too smart to ever run for public office, Anderson. That's what Jesus would do."

That's a great answer and Huckabee should take it to heart. You can be a preacher leading a congregation or a President leading a nation, but they're very different jobs.

Huckabee reminds me of a charismatic George Bush. Now, he is starting to remind me a bit of a Republican version of Jimmy Carter.

Huckabee is the Carter of 2008, and that despite the fact that Huckabee is running as a Republican, not a Democrat. Here, in releveant part, is what Robert Novak had to say about Huckabee’s decidedly unconservative tendencies:

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.

As a presidential candidate, Huckabee has sought to counteract 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.

In other words, like Carter, Huckabee is a Southern governor; like Carter, he is a devout Southern Baptist, so like Carter, he is the butt of media sneering about his religious and moral outlook; and, most significantly, like Carter, he believes in big, big government.

I’m pretty sure that Huckabee is a better man than Carter (and, on the moral trajectory Carter’s taken in the two decades, he could hardly be worse). I like his wit and I like his support for Israel. I bet I’d really enjoy spending time talking to the man. I’m also not too troubled by his lack of Ivy League credentials, since I think we’re tending towards a fearsome elitism if we begin to expect Ivy League degrees from all future presidents. But do remember that Carter’s religiosity did not stop him from embarking on a tax and spend governance that led to one of the saggiest, flabbiest economies America has suffered through. Nor did people take well to being preached at by the White House for their own good. It’s no coincidence that many people, myself included, consider him the worst President, if not ever, (George Bush certainly rivals him) then at least of the modern era. It’s also no coincidence that it was Carter’s successor, the supply side, ebullient Ronald Reagan who captured America’s hearts and minds. And even if Huckabee isn’t Carter, he’s also definitely no Reagan.

The smiling idiot is going to beat the pompous stuffed shirt.

Neither of them is qualified to function as a world leader.

I ✞ Huckabee = Elmer Gantry

Hey "avraam jack", this Swamp story has NOTHING to do with Hillary Clinton - so why did you post your repetitive opinion? I mean, this is like the 12th time I've seen your post as a comment to a Swamp story, and all you've done is copy and paste your exact same post over and over again.

We get it - you hate Hillary Clinton. Now try posting something different.

May the gods spare us from any more religious zealots in the White House.

And spare us, too, from the "supply-side, ebullient" Reagan clones.

Posted by: avraam jack | December 9, 2007 10:00 AM

avraam jill,

Your schtick is getting old...and by the way unlike in the warped Wingnut mind of people like you, sane people know that HILLARY HAS NEVER BEEN THE PRESIDENT!, that was her husband, you moron.

This Fundie freak's 15 minutes are just about up.

Gang stalking? ROTFLMAO! Another member of the black helicopter crowd weighs in with their myopic paranoia theories.

http://www.gangstalkingworld.com/

The degree of illiteracy on the site above is proof positive that that theory was discredited automatically.

Hucksterbee believes only gay people get AIDS (much to Ryan White's and Magic Johnson's surprise).

Hucksterbee does not believe in evolution. Obviously his intelligence level has not evolved.

Hucksterbee? This is another example of the "Vote for the man because his religious beliefs agree with ours. We'll worry about whether he can govern after he's elected." syndrome.

Look where that theory got us with the.worst.vice.president.ever - gw bu$h.
Thousands of dead Americans, tens of thousands permanently disabled, requiring constant medical attention from the Federal government for the rest of their lives, at what cost to the Treasury?. Torture became a tactic and a strategy. Americans were fired for not being partisan enough to agree with the now disgraced Attorney General. An "intelligence community" whose whole purpose in life is to justify the wild meanderings of the Administration, rather than gather data to protect American citizens. Our dollar is worth less than the Canadian dollar. Millions of Americans with no health insurance, trying to decide whether to holiday shop at Wal-Mart or to buy their prescription. The US even MORE dependent on Hugo Chavez to supply us oil for our vehicles. No we don't need another tool of faux noise to help us out.

Sorry, the current crop of republicrites is a bunch of failed conservative experiments in fake conservatism. Bring us a leader that reduces spending ALONG with taxes. Bring us a leader that is truly concerned for the welfare of Americans, and wouldn't send Americans to die for a bunch of lies and piles of deceit. Not gonna happen with anyone from the RNC side of the aisle.

John Chuckman before your criticize anything that goes on in America I suggest you look in your own backyard. With some of the dumb things your government has passed in the last few years.

Wow, I like this story. It is amazing to me the surge he has received the last month. Looks like the republicans may have found their man? I hope so. Anybody besides Hillary would be nice. I would hate to see the last 4 presidents be Bush I, Clinton I, Bush II, Clinton II. We need some new people and new leaders.

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Dear BC - 3 of the last 4 paragraphs talk about Hillary.
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Dear Billy - Hillary talks about her experience. Does that mean she has no responsibility.
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Dear RNCBS - Are all 35000 google links about gang stalking fake?
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