Huckabee Just Gets More Frightening
May 28th, 2008 by Micah Tillman | 1 Comment |
Have you seen the interview with Huckabee over at the Huffington Post? The world is a safer place without Huckabee in the White House.
(Wow. That was dramatic, Tillman. -I know. Sorry. It was.)
Huckabee says this:
Republicans need to be Republicans. The greatest threat to classic Republicanism is not liberalism; it’s this new brand of libertarianism, which is social liberalism and economic conservatism . . . .
Libertarianism is not “social liberalism and economic conservatism.” It’s governmental minimalism. The only way you get “social liberalism” out of libertarianism is if you confuse the statements, “Government has no business legislating morality” with “I approve of everything about which I think government shouldn’t legislate.”
He continues:
[B]ut it’s a heartless, callous, soulless type of economic conservatism because it says “look, we want to cut taxes and eliminate government. If it means that elderly people don’t get their Medicare drugs, so be it. If it means little kids go without education and healthcare, so be it.” Well, that might be a quote pure economic conservative message, but it’s not an American message. It doesn’t fly. People aren’t going to buy that, because that’s not the way we are as a people.
Right. Because government is the only means we have of taking care of the elderly, educating children, and paying for medical care. What exactly did Huckabee’s church do when he was a pastor?!
Huckabee is, evidently, a devotee of the GIMOO/GMI Myth. But once you realize that the government is not your only organ, and that you and government are not identical, you see how warped Huckabee’s thinking is.
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