Why Huckabee needs Rush Limbaugh
December 23, 2007 · Print This Article
Huckabee hires Ed Rollins, probably the biggest idiot in Republican politics, and Rollins immediately goes out and bashes 70% of the republican party by criticizing Rush Limbaugh. Rollins should back out and write about how to win friends and influence people perhaps. Anyway Huckabee try’s to put the horse (or horses’ ass) back in the barn by extending an olive branch to Rush.
I love Rush Limbaugh; I’ve always loved his show,” Huckabee assured. “I think he’s been great for the conservative movement.
Ask him. I don’t know. … All I can do is hope that Rush loves me as much as I love Rush.
The reality is that as Rush goes, so goes the conservative wing of the country and so goes the rest of the country. Rush doesn’t endorse candidates during the primaries but he isn’t afraid to speak his mind about candidates. Recently he has, correctly I might add, compared Huckabee to Ross Perot. Huckabee is liberal on criminals, liberal on taxes and he fits in better with Hillary, and Obama than he does with Fred Thompson and the conservative movement.
There is little that Huckabee brings to the table in terms of this race. He is perhaps conservative on social issues, but that’s it. He brings no experience on foreign policy and again sounds more like Hillary and Obama on the subject than he does someone that actually knows something about foreign policy. He has raised taxes more than Bill Clinton did as governor, he has released more criminals than the six (larger) surrounding states combined.
No wonder Huckabee is appealing to the social conservatives, he needs social conservatives to turn a blind eye to his fiscal liberalism and ignore the fact that someone else (Fred Thompson) has been endorsed by the right to life groups. Huckabee, like Romney and McCain, can’t afford for voters to find out what his record really is because when they do Huckabee will lose.
The fact remains that there is only one candidate in this race that is the complete package for conservatives, fiscal and social alike, and has the record to back it up, and that is Fred Thompson. Rush has noted that Thompson is the only conservative in this race, a fact that the liberal media, as well as the Rudy McRomney media of Fox, Drudge, etc has largely ignored. Hopefully the conservatives in Iowa will see the truth and not fall for the slick marketing and packaging that Romney and Huckabee provide.
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UH when did Rollins criticize Rush Limbaugh? link please
Geaux Huckabee
Here’s the link to Rush’s comments with quotes from a CBS interview with Rollins.
http://www.rushlimbaugh.com/home/daily/site_122107/content/01125107.guest.html
I’m blown away by Limbaugh’s comparison of Huckabee to Perot. Laughable. Go Huckabee. Go FairTax.
Actually Ian the comparison to Perot is a valid one. Neither candidate was conservative, both supported policy’s that are a detriment to the country and the economy.
We are not about supporting more liberalism, we are about promoting conservatism. Huckabee and the fairtax system is more liberalism on parade.
The FairTax is liberal? You’re the one redefining conservatism and liberalism.
Yes Allen, the FairTax is liberal. What do you call a tax increase of 30%, what do you call putting every American family on government dependence? I don’t call it conservative….
Now as I have said before. I am not against a national sales tax, I won’t support one that is higher than 15%, it must exempt food and medicine, it must include no prebate, and it must repeal the 16th amendment, along with all other federal taxes.
Gov. Huckabee’s advocacy of the FairTax ( http://snipr.com/irsgone ) is the single most important policy position in this election. Research findings explain why:
The FairTax rate of 23 percent on a total taxable consumption base of $11.244 trillion will generate $2.586 trillion dollars – $358 billion more than the taxes it replaces ( http://snipurl.com/whatratewks ). [BHKPT]
The FairTax has the broadest base and the lowest rate of any single-rate tax reform plan ( http://snipurl.com/baserate ). [THBP]
Real wages are 10.3 percent, 9.5 percent, and 9.2 percent higher in years 1, 10, and 25, respectively than would otherwise be the case ( http://snipurl.com/realwages ). [THBNP]
The economy as measured by GDP is 2.4 percent higher in the first year and 11.3 percent higher by the 10th year than it would otherwise be ( http://snipurl.com/econbenes ). [ALM]
Consumption benefits ( http://snipurl.com/econbenes ) [ALM]:
• Disposable personal income is higher than if the current tax system remains in place: 1.7 percent in year 1, 8.7 percent in year 5, and 11.8 percent in year 10.
• Consumption increases by 2.4 percent more in the first year, which grows to 11.7 percent more by the tenth year than it would be if the current system were to remain in place.
• The increase in consumption is fueled by the 1.7 percent increase in disposable (after-tax) personal income that accompanies the rise in incomes from capital and labor once the FairTax is enacted.
• By the 10th year, consumption increases by 11.7 percent over what it would be if the current tax system remained in place, and disposable income is up by 11.8 percent.
Over time, the FairTax benefits all income groups. Of 42 household types (classified by income, marital status, age), all have lower average remaining lifetime tax rates under the FairTax than they would experience under the current tax system ( http://snipurl.com/kotcomparetaxrates ). [KR]
Implementing the FairTax at a 23 percent rate gives the poorest members of the generation born in 1990 a 13.5 percent improvement in economic well-being; their middle class and rich contemporaries experience a 5 percent and 2 percent improvement, respectively ( http://snipurl.com/kotftmacromicro ). [JK]
Based on standard measures of tax burden, the FairTax is more progressive than the individual income tax, payroll tax, and the corporate income tax ( http://snipurl.com/lessregress ). [THBPN]
Charitable giving increases by $2.1 billion (about 1 percent) in the first year over what it would be if the current system remained in place, by 2.4 percent in year 10, and by 5 percent in year 20 ( http://snipurl.com/moregiving ). [THPDB]
On average, states could cut their sales tax rates by more than half, or 3.2 percentage points from 5.4 to 2.2 percent, if they conformed their state sales tax bases to the FairTax base ( http://snipurl.com/staterates ). [TBJ]
The FairTax provides the equivalent of a supercharged mortgage interest deduction, reducing the true cost of buying a home by 19 percent ( http://snipurl.com/homebenes ). [WM]
ALERT: Kotlikoff refutes Bruce Bartlett’s shabby critiques of the FairTax ( http://snipr.com/bbrebuke ).
Rush brought up a good point today. If Huckabee is all about protecting conservative values, why isn’t he going after McCain? It would make more sense to me too that Huckabee team up with Romney rather than McCain.
Check it out on Rush’s website. Feb. 6th