Robert Novak Unloads On Huckabee: "False Conservative," "Frightening Problem" For GOP

Robert Novak:

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 advocate of big government and 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 and might make more progress, the beleaguered Republican Party has a frightening problem.

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Comments

[dax49]

11:16 AM on 11/27/2007

novak is a frightening problem for america (and the local distiller)

[Wilburrr]

08:38 AM on 11/27/2007

I find it odd that Novak states that Huckabee is not aligned with the positions of Goldwater. Barry was pro-choice, a lifetime member of the Sierra Club, and not opposed to gays in the military. As an advocate for personal freedom, I seriously doubt that he would have been opposed to gay marriage. He said that "Any good Christian should kick Jerry Falwell right in the ass." I can't imagine what he would have said about the "Patriot" Act, but it would have contained some choice expletives! How does that match up with anybody in the republican party today? How is Huckabee farther from those ideals than other Republicans like Cheney, Bush, Giuliani, or Romney?

[OckhamsElectricRazor]

11:09 PM on 11/26/2007

Huckabee is the epitome of just how truly strange--absolutely bizarre--a person has to be to be a candidate in this broken, crazy political system we have created for ourselves. These candidates are NOT like you and me. They are driven by powerful neuroses, dirty little secrets, and unusual appetites.

Huckabee combines a professed absolute allegience to the unborn, but watch out for what happens after that blessed event occurs. Once born, he is all for a low tax/low service world where those little bundles of joy learn to use guns but barely learn to write their names. Then sends these pistle-packing, semi-literates to the Middle East to become cannon fodder in a blatant conquest of oil fields, while waging a holy crusade against the unbaptized.

Compared to the unborn, 'the born' are 2nd class citizens. When they get sick, they get an admonishment for NOT preventing their ailments, and they better learn to get a job in their eighties to make up for the absence of Social Security benefits.

What bizarre contradictions this man carries. What moralistic barbarism he wraps in his good ole boy manner. What a mean, petty little God he worships and keeps on a leash to shock and awe his enemies. It makes one wonder what he is like behind closed doors: what are his fantancies; sexual preferences; exactly what sort of rapture occurs when the lights go out; what kind of underwear does have on when he debates.

This is a very strange puppy that WILL reveal the rest of his weird story in due time. And make no mistake that Polansky will want the movie rights.

[rovezaleeker]

09:54 PM on 11/26/2007

I love to see them eating their own. Why, Johnny Ringo...I'm your Huckleberry.

Have you ever seen a cross on the top of a mormon church? And you never will either.

[godlessclif]

06:52 PM on 11/26/2007

Even Pat Robertson doesn't endorse Huckelberry.
He is a joke. A thumper will never be President.

[unclebucky]

05:02 PM on 11/26/2007

Listen.

There are several threats to the US Constitution.

1. Neocons - In trying to parasitize the US Economy as a host for their own personal monetary gains. Makes you think of The Island, a movie about a city of clones who were being grown as replacement parts for their real world counterparts.

2. Thumpers - These guys, such as AIPAC and Pro-Israel Christians, consider the US to be merely a tool in their being able to see the Rapture in their lifetime. They consider "non-believers" suitable hosts for raising money to send Jews to Israel, to finance their evangelizing and converting non-christians.

3. Mormons - These people masquarade as a religion, but a really a cult invented in the 19th century that rivals some UFO cults. They believe that men can become gods in their own planets, and that God was once a man. Heaven is somewhere around the planet Kolob far far away. They consider it perfectly OK to morph the US Government and its constitution to help them reach their Mormon heaven with their Mormon Gods.

Each of these groups are a malevolent as NAZI spys were during 1933 to 1945, and as evil as the Soviet, North Korean, and Chinese spys of the Cold War.

But they are here. We can't fight them over there somewhere, we HAVE TO FIGHT THEM HERE...

And, baby, these people are NOT Americans. NOT at all, by definition.

Ugh.

--UB.

[nofltwlt]

03:10 PM on 11/26/2007

But, Bush is against taxing the rich?

Is this another cut-n-run?

[CALLENBY]

01:42 PM on 11/26/2007

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[rpence]

01:05 PM on 11/26/2007

This information makes me think that Count Novakula is in bed (...yuchhhhh) with Fraud Thompson.

Maybe he, Jeri, and Fraud will have a nice threesome...

[zendem1]

12:42 PM on 11/26/2007

Nocrack's come out of his cave because he has a book to sell. Give it a few months and he'll be back in obscurity where he belongs.

[tomsfork]

12:37 PM on 11/26/2007

One assumes that Mr. Novak thinks a "true conservative" will show his patriotism by activities such as outting Valerie Plame Wilson, and causing irreparable damage to our intelligence system. It has come out that Wilson is a Democrat, and as Brother Ronnie has taught us, liberalism is evil. And the liberals show their evil by spending twenty years protecting America from terrorist nukes, while a true patriot like Novak shows his patriotism by stopping her in her evil pursuit.

[stlrfan]

12:35 PM on 11/26/2007

Reverend Huckleberry is a truly entertaining story that came out of nowhere to bite the mainstream GOP in the ass. Novak and his beltway boys are all in a tizzy over his Iowa numbers and it will be really fun to watch them rip each other to pieces.

[sofia]

12:26 PM on 11/26/2007

Huckabee does not believe in Evolution. Do we really want another idiot in the White House?

[JimR]

12:12 PM on 11/26/2007

Bush is not a real conservative, either.

[Justis]

11:29 AM on 11/26/2007

Christian supremacists are courted and embraced by corporate Republicans as long as they always vote and toe the line on money issues. But once they start championing populist economics, they're instantly unacceptable. Beloved family pets become rabid curs that must be destroyed.

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