As Mike Huckabee becomes a serious contender for the Republican nomination, so his record is being examined more closely. Quin Hillyer, a regular contributor to Comment Is Free, lines up Huckabee for his recent debate performance:
Huckabee, meanwhile, deserves special, negative mention because his populism so often ranged over the line, into sheer demagoguery. In the very same answer in which he talked about how large the hordes of people there are, all spending money, at malls across America, he sang a sad song about how many people are "barely paying the rent" because the economy is supposedly so bad.
Meanwhile, Hillyer notes, the anti-tax Club for Growth regards the former governor as a big enough threat to start its own anti-Huckabee website, Tax Hike Mike!:
Presidential candidate Mike Huckabee has taken to calling himself a 'fiscal conservative', but who ever heard of a fiscal conservative who raised taxes and spending through the roof while governor of Arkansas?
