Wednesday, December 19, 2007

Why do the Ficons Hate Huckabee?

I have friends who are mainly "fiscal conservatives." Some of them are libertarians and flock to Ron Paul but the rest seem to go to Rudy or Mitt. So why do these Ficons hate Huckabee so badly? Well one writer puts it this way:
[Huckabee] sometimes alleges that “Wall Street types are afraid to death of a guy like me,” but to date he has given them no reason to feel any such thing.

Janine Parry, a professor of political science at the University of Arkansas who has studied Mr. Huckabee’s record and his campaign, said that “Nothing in his platform is very much of a threat to economic conservatives, certainly not his tax plan.”

If anything, she said, she has marveled at how smoothly right-ward his campaign has tacked. “In his heart of hearts I think he is just slightly right of center. He doesn’t want to soak the rich, but he’s from a state with a lot of poor people, so he doesn’t want to soak them either. He’s pragmatic. I would be surprised in fact if some of what he is saying now he doesn’t abandon after the primary season as a little more regressive than he really is.”

Which, if true, may be just what the panic is all about.

Why do the Ficons hate Huckabee? He doesn't seem like a huge threat to them (unlike Hillary Clinton). I think the main reason the Ficons don't like Huckabee is quite simple: he's not their guy.
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