I noticed Newsmax has now included Huckabee in poll.

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November 1, 2007 01:45 PM

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June 15, 2007

Mike Huckabee, though not a member, spoke to the CFR in September. Since then, his political star has risen to the point that he has become a top-tier candidate.

One of many good articles today on WND.

http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=58425

November 28, 2007 08:34 AM

nancy sivill

Member Since:
February 8, 2007

This column is archived at

http://www.chuckbaldwinlive.com/c2007/cbarchive_20071127.html

Many Christian conservatives see Mike Huckabee as the best candidate to

deliver the GOP from an impending pro-abortion presidential nomination of

either Rudy Giuliani or Mitt Romney. Huckabee is doing especially well in

Iowa, particularly among evangelicals. Is Mike Huckabee worthy of this

support, however? The facts say no.

I have already attempted to warn my evangelical brethren as to the dangers

of supporting Mike Huckabee. See

http://www.chuckbaldwinlive.com/c2007/cbarchive_20071102.html

However, that first column was just the tip of the proverbial iceberg.

Here are more reasons to beware of Mike Huckabee.

Robert Novak recently wrote a column about Mike Huckabee entitled, "The

False Conservative." In the column he said, "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."

Novak also said, "There is no doubt about Huckabee's record during a decade

in Little Rock as governor. . . He increased the Arkansas tax burden by 47

percent, boosting the levies on gasoline and cigarettes."

Novak continued saying, "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."

Calling Huckabee a proponent of big-government is an understatement.

"If you listen closely, all the things he supports increase the size, power

and cost of government. From subsidies for energy research to increasing

money for health care and government housing, the size, power, and cost of

government will not shrink under a President Mike Huckabee; they will

increase . . . Mr. Huckabee swore an oath to support and defend the

Constitution when he became governor, yet many of his proposals are clearly

unconstitutional." (Source: David Ulrich, Letter of the Week, World Net

Daily, 10/26/07)

In addition, Dr. Jerome Corsi reports that "Financial inducements arranged

by former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee to establish a Mexican consular office

in Little Rock may have violated state law, according to an Arkansas

attorney."

Writing for World Net Daily, Dr. Corsi exposed the fact that Mike Huckabee

"worked with some of the state's most prominent and politically powerful

businesses to establish the [Mexican] consulate as a magnet for drawing

illegal immigrants to the state to accept low-paying jobs."

Corsi goes on to report that "Arkansas attorney Chip Sexton provided WND a

written legal brief arguing the state government's sublease to Mexico of

office space for the consulate was illegal under Arkansas law. Sexton

contended the deal raised questions about the appropriateness of private

citizens and corporations in Arkansas providing financial incentives for the

government of Mexico to locate a consulate office in Little Rock."

Corsi also writes that "Robert Trevino, commissioner of Arkansas

Rehabilitation Services, told WND he and Huckabee helped arrange state and

private financial support to induce Mexico to establish the consulate as a

business development 'quid pro quo.'

"Trevino signed on July 7, 2006, a 'Facilities Use Agreement' with Mexican

consular officials to rent state government office space for

$1 a year on the second floor of the Arkansas Rehabilitation Services

building at 26 Corporate Hills in Little Rock."

According to Sexton, not only did subleasing state government offices to

Mexico violate Arkansas state law under Ark. Code Ann.

22-2-114(C)(i) which provides: "After July 1, 1975, no state agency shall

enter into or renew or otherwise negotiate a lease between itself as lessor

or lessee and a nongovernmental or other government lessor or lessee," but

it was even more offensive in that "there was nothing in the lease or other

agreements that would have prevented the Mexican consulate from providing

legal assistance to illegal aliens."

In addition, Corsi also exposed the fact that Mike Huckabee worked with

Mexican President Vicente Fox to help provide cheap Mexican labor for Tyson

foods and other large Arkansas corporations. According to Corsi, "Trevino

confirmed he was state director of the League of United Latin American

Citizens, also known as LULAC, an activist group strongly advocating for the

rights of Hispanic immigrants in the U.S., when on Oct. 3, 2003, he

accompanied Huckabee in a state airplane to visit [President Vicente] Fox in

Mexico."

There is more.

The American Spectator reported that "Fourteen times, the ethics

commission--a respected body, not a partisan witch-hunt group--investigated

claims against Huckabee. Five of those times, it officially reprimanded him.

And as only MSNBC among the big national media has reported at an real

length, there were lots of other mini-scandals and embarrassments along the

way."

Plus, writing for The Washington Times, Greg Pierce quoted Hillyer as

saying, "[Huckabee] used public money for family restaurant meals, boat

expenses, and other personal uses. He tried to claim as his own some $70,000

of furniture donated to the governor's mansion. He repeatedly, and

obstinately, against the pleadings even from conservative columnists and

editorials, refused to divulge the names of donors to a 'charitable'

organization he set up while lieutenant governor--an outfit whose main

charitable purpose seemed to be to pay Huckabee to make speeches. Then, as a

kicker, he misreported the income itself from the suspicious 'charity.'"

Mike Huckabee's beliefs and actions even border on the bizarre.

According to David Keene, Chairman of the American Conservative Union, "GOP

presidential wannabe Mike Huckabee suggested that as president he would, for

the good of the people, support a federal anti-smoking law.

You see, as governor, Huckabee supported such laws because, well, he doesn't

like smoking and doesn't think folks should indulge in so heath-threatening

an activity. If he could move on up to the presidency, he would continue his

abolitionist crusade at the national level without giving much, if any,

thought to the question of whether the Constitution or anything else would

legitimize a federal ban on smoking."

I have yet one more word of warning for those evangelicals supporting

Huckabee because he is pro-life: Mike Huckabee will most definitely support

Rudy Giuliani should Giuliani obtain the Republican nomination. Count on it.

I ask you, how could a committed "pro-life" conservative support a

pro-abortion, pro-gay rights, pro-gun control liberal such as Rudy Giuliani?

He couldn't.

At the end of the day, however, there is absolutely no question that

Huckabee will support Giuliani (or any other pro-abortion Republican),

because, when all is said and done, Huckabee and his fellow big-government

Republicans have no real commitment to the life issue or to any other

conservative principle.

Let's say it plainly: Mike Huckabee is just another big-government,

establishment politician who will do nothing to stem the tide of socialism

or fascism (pick your poison) emanating from Washington, D.C., these days.

Dear Christian friend, don't be duped by Mike Huckabee.

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I noticed Newsmax has now included Huckabee in poll.

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