Ann Coulter Rips Huckster To Shreds

From her most recent column:

According to Coulter, the former Arkansas Governor believes sodomy is protected by the Constitution.

He responded to my column last week — pointing out that he is on record supporting the Supreme Court’s sodomy-is-a-constitutional-right decision — by saying that he was relying on the word of a caller to his radio show and didn’t know the details of the case. Ironically, that’s how most people feel about sodomy: They support it until they hear the details.

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Furthermore, he is obviously in bed with the National Education Association and LULAC.

Huckabee opposes school choice, earning him the coveted endorsement of the National Education Association of New Hampshire, which is like the sheriff being endorsed by the local whorehouse.

He is, however, in favor of school choice for kids in Mexico: They have the choice of going to school there or here. Huckabee promoted giving in-state tuition in Arkansas to illegal immigrants from Mexico — but not to U.S. citizens from Ohio. “I don’t believe you punish the children,” he said, “for the crime and sins of the parents.”

Since when is not offering someone lavish taxpayer-funded benefits a form of punishment? That’s almost as crazy as a governor pardoning a known sex offender so he can go out and rape and kill.

Huckabee claims he’s against punishing children for the crimes of their fathers in the case of illegal immigrants. But in the case of slavery, he believes the children of the children’s children should be routinely punished for the crimes of their fathers.

Huckabee has said illegal immigration gives Americans a chance to make up for slavery. (I thought letting O.J. walk for murdering two people was payback for slavery.)

Just two years ago, Huckabee cheerfully announced to a meeting of the Hispanic advocacy group League of United Latin American Citizens that “Pretty soon, Southern white guys like me may be in the minority.” Who’s writing this guy’s speeches — Al Sharpton? (Actually, take out “Southern” and “white,” and I agree with Huckabee’s sentiment).

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In a widely quoted remark, Huckabee denounced a Republican bill that would merely require proof of citizenship to vote and receive government benefits as “un-Christian, un-American, irresponsible and anti-life,” according to the Arkansas News Bureau. Now, where have I heard this sort of thing before? Hmmm … wait, now I remember: It was during the Democratic debates!

In his current attempt to pretend to be against illegal immigration, Huckabee makes a meaningless joke about how the federal government should track illegals the way Federal Express tracks packages. (Can a Mexican fit in one of those little envelopes?)

We need to stop this RINO from getting into the White House.

If Mike Huckabee Were To Say What Was Really On His Mind…

His ads might go something like this:

Huckabee Ad #1: “I’m Mike Huckabee, and I want to be compassionate with your money. I believe in scholarships for the children of illegal aliens. It’s what Jesus would do — if he was a member of the National Council of La Raza.”

Huckabee Ad #2: Mike Huckabee isn’t sure if global warming is man-made. But he still wants a cap on CO-2 emissions, because we have a responsibility to be good stewards of the environment — even at the cost of wrecking the economy. Mike Huckabee — we don’t need no stinkin’ jobs!”

Huckabee Ad #3: “Mike Huckabee believes in the DC voting rights bill, because minority-pandering and political correctness are more important than the Constitution. Vote Mike, and give the Democratic Party another House seat, and perhaps two Senators down the road, in perpetuity.”

Huckabee Ad #4: “‘This is Mike Huckabee. Did you know that Mitt Romney is a member of a satanic cult that thinks the Devil is Jesus’ second-cousin once removed? I’m sorry I said that (wink, wink, nudge, nudge).’ Mike Huckabee — because innuendo is a terrible thing to waste.”

I think that just about sums up Mike Huckabee.

More Troubling News About Huckster

It looks like Mike Huckabee’s past comments are catching up with him, which only proves to me that this former Arkansas governor should not be the Republican nominee for President, and that he should not get near the White House.

This is what bothered me the most:

—When asked whether the U.S. should take any action to kill Iraqi President Saddam Hussein, Huckabee replied: “The U.S. should not kill Saddam Hussein or anyone else.” The U.S. military captured Saddam, an Iraqi court convicted him and he was hanged last December.

People, do we really need someone who has a soft spot for rapists and illegal aliens, who also happens to be a total wimp when it comes to dealing with terrorists? Remember, Huckabee is against waterboarding terrorists, and now this?!?

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Shades of Willie Horton!

Do we really want a rapist/double-murderer-coddler in the Oval Office? Evidently a whole lot of elephants do, according to the polls! Thanks to Huckster, two innocent women were savagely murdered–and this slimebag doesn’t even apologize for his severe error in judgment.

Even the most mainstream, leftist Bolshevist media outlets are exposing his serpentine sympathies. See the front-page Los Angeles Times story for this morning (Saturday December 8, 2007, p. A1):

Parole Case May Dog Huckabee

As Arkansas governor, he believed a rapist was “saved” and pushed for his release, officials say. The man then killed.

By Richard A. Serrano, Times Staff Writer

Pastor Jay D. Cole had two close friends. One was an inmate in the Arkansas state penitentiary. There, the minister would sit with Wayne DuMond “and pray and read the Bible.” For a while, the prisoner’s wife even lived in Cole’s home.
Cole’s friendship with Mike Huckabee ran deeper, back to when Huckabee was the youngest-ever head of the Arkansas Baptist State Convention. The two men produced Bible lessons on videotape. “We worked heavily with him when he got politically involved too,” Cole said.
A little over 10 years ago, the paths of these three men merged in Little Rock, the state capital, when Huckabee was the new governor. With Cole’s urging, and with DuMond insisting he was “born again,” Huckabee played a key role in setting free a rapist who was supposed to serve many more years, say three of seven members of the state board that paroled DuMond.
After being released, DuMond moved to Missouri, where less than a year later he suffocated the (sic) mother of three in a Kansas City suburb. Police suspect that he killed another woman there as well.
How a convicted rapist went free has become an issue in today’s increasingly heated presidential campaign. As if out of nowhere, Huckabee has surged to a leading spot in public opinion polls in the Republican contest. Amid the new attention, he is facing questions about whether his deep Christian faith–what on the stump he says “defines me”–colored his view of Wayne DuMond’s case.
Trying to bury any doubts, Huckabee said this week that he had “considered”–but rejected–the idea of using his powers as governor to commute DuMond’s sentence and release him for time served. The state parole board acted before he had to make a final call. It was the parole board, Huckabee said, that unlocked the cell door.
“It was a horrible situation, horrible. I feel awful about it in every way. I wish there was some way I could go back and reverse the clock and put him back in prison,” the candidate said at a news conference this week.
Though he acknowledged discussing the case with the state parole board, Huckabee said that conversation was “simply part of a broader discussion” initiated at the request of the board chairman. “I did not ask them to do anything,” he said.
Three board members recalled it differently. They said Huckabee raised the issue of DuMond’s release, asking to discuss the matter with them in a closed session. They said his religious beliefs, and the influence of the community from which he came, drove him.
“We felt pressured by him,” said board member Erner Poindexter. “I felt compelled to do it… It was a favor for the governor.” Looking back, she added, “I regret it.”
Parole board member Deborah Springer Suttlar said Huckabee did not mince his feelings about DuMond: “He wanted him out.”
A committee of parole board members voted to parole DuMond. It took the action just before the deadline by which Huckabee would have had to decide what assistance, if any, he would grant to an inmate whom he had already said he wanted to help.
“He thought DuMond just grew up on the wrong side of the tracks, that he may have gotten a raw deal and a longer sentence than others under similar circumstances,” recalled board member Charles Chastain, who said he was the lone dissenter in a 4-1 committee vote to grant parole.
All seven members of the board had been appointed by Huckabee’s Democratic predecessors.
The board chairman declined to comment; one board member could not be reached and one said he did not remember details of the case. A seventh member is deceased.
Huckabee said at the news conference that he was unnerved by accounts from parole board and other critics that he played a larger role in DuMond’s release. “There will be people who will probably be brought forth to make statements but, you know, I can’t fix it,” he said. “I can only tell the truth and let the truth be my judge.”
Cole, the minister who befriended DuMond, said: “The governor felt compassion for Wayne. He was sorry for him. So, I asked the governor to help. I asked him if anything could be done. And Mike had a lot of people on his neck trying to get him to get Wayne released.”
“Many of them,” Cole added. “were in the Christian community.”
The story of the convict, the preacher and the governor who wants to be president rings with Gothic details–rape and castration, a corrupt county sheriff and state politics. Finally, there is murder.
It opens in 1984, when a 17-year-old cheerleader, the daughter of a mortician named “Stevie” Stevens, was kidnapped from Forrest City by a man in a red pickup. The man drove her to a field and raped her. He used a knife to cut off her bra. The Forrest City case drew public attention, because the cheerleader was a distant cousin of then-Gov. Bill Clinton.
The police arrested DuMond, a skinny Vietnam War veteran, handyman and father of six. He had been suspected in a rape in Texas aand as an accomplice to murder in Oklahoma. Those cases didn’t stick.
While DuMond remained free on bail awaiting trial, police were summoned to his home, where the bleeding suspect told them that several men had pushed their way in and castrated him. Some authorities were skeptical, theorizing that DuMond had castrated himself in a ploy for mercy–to claim, once castrated, that he would no longer be a threat to women.
For a while, the local sheriff kept DuMond’s testicles in a fruit jar on his desk, with a sign: “This is what happens to men who go bad in my county.” DuMond sued the sheriff over that humiliation and won a $110,000 judgment. The sheriff went to prison in an unrelated extortion case and died there.
DuMond was sentenced to life in prison for rape, plus 20 years for the kidnapping. Clinton ignored his pleas for parole or a sentence reduction.
Once in prison, DuMond said he found religion.
“I became his spirtual director,” Cole said. “He was a nice fella, and it was hard to believe he could have done what he was accused of doing. And Wayne claimed to be saved. So, we’d sit and talk and pray for two hours, and other times he’d call me on the phone a lot. Collect. He was just wanting to know if I’d made any headway finding people who could help his situation.”
In 1992, Clinton was elected president, and the state’s lieutenant governor, Jim Guy Tucker, became governor. Tucker evaluated the DuMond case and found the life sentence, coupled with the castration, made for an unusually harsh punishment. He reduced the sentence to a fixed term of 39 years and six months; DuMond was now eligible for parole.
In 1996, Tucker was convicted of fraud in the Arkansas-based Whitewater investigation. Huckabee, the lieutenant governor, was elevated to governor.
Cole, meanwhile, was working to help DuMond. Cole said he talked to “probably a hundred people” about his hope of winning DuMond’s release, turning foremost to the evangelical community. He said many evangelicals were encouraged that DuMond had claimed a religious conversion, and that many joined Cole in writing to Huckabee about DuMond’s situation.
The clincher, he said, was their belief that DuMond had been “saved”.
“All of them thought Wayne was innocent,” said Cole. “And the governor knew about it. We talked about it together. But Mike was very careful. He was cautious about saying too much. In an elevated position like governor, you’ve got to be careful.”
Huckabee said the DuMond case was already “on my desk” when he became governor in July 1996. He announced that he was considering a commutation. Later, he acknowledged, he wrote a letter to the prisoner saying parole was a better option.
“Dear Wayne… My desire is that you be released from prison,” the governor wrote. “I feel now that parole is the best way…”
The rape victim, Ashley Stevens, became enraged. She and prosecutor Fletcher Long met with Huckabee at the Capitol. They warned him that DuMond would strike again.
At one point in the meeting, Stevens recalled, she stood up, put her face next to Huckabee’s and told the governor: “This is how close I was to DuMond. I’ll never forget his face, and you’ll never forget mine.”
The meeting ended, and Long, a Republican, could tell the governor was unmoved: “Most of what I think about him would be unprintable. His actions were just about as arrogant as you can get.” The prosecutor added that Huckabee and Arkansas evangelicals were conned by DuMond’s contention that he had been “saved”–a common ruse by prisoners.
“If you’re religiously converted,” Long said, “how do you go out and kill two women in Missouri?”
Before DuMond could be paroled, he had to find another state that would take him, a process that took several years. Texas did not want DuMond, nor did Florida. A new wife he had met while in prison was from Missouri.
So, in 1999, after serving 14 years of his sentence, DuMond relocated to the Kansas City area.
Less than a year later, Carol Shields was suffocated in a friend’s apartment. Scrapings of DNA under her fingernails led to DuMond. The day before DuMond was arrested in the slaying, another woman, Sara Andrasek, was killed in much the same way.
DuMond was convicted of killing Shields and in 2004 was sentenced to life in prison, this time without parole. He was not charged in the second slaying.
He died in 2005 in prison, of cancer of the vocal chords. He was 55.
Prosecutor Dan White of Clay County, Mo., the man who put him away for good, said: “The world’s a better place without Wayne DuMond in it.”

What’s the worst: the fact that Huckabee believes God wants us to free rapists and murderers, the fact that two people were killed because of Huckster, or the fact that he lies about his involvement now? Huckster’s campaign belongs in the same place where Dubya’s poll numbers are–in Iraq.

Mike Huckster: “Jesus Says Give The Illegals Scholarships”

By now this is nothing new to the right-wing blog world, but I figured I would share this basic, classic piece on Huckster anyway. So, sit back and enjoy… we might very well have a president soon who is more pro-illegal than Bush!

Mike Huckabee Advocating Open Borders at LULAC Convention, June 2005

Mike Huckabee Advocating Open Borders at LULAC Convention in 2005This is an original article from 2005 recounting Mike Huckabee’s remarks to the LULAC convention of that year, where John Tyson of Tyson Food Companies was also speaking. This article uncovers Mike Huckabee’s open border policies. Although this article has been cited in the past I do not believe it has been given full justice or the coverage it supports. Read it with interest.
Huckabee promotes ‘open door’ policy at LULAC convention
Thursday, Jun 30, 2005

By Wesley Brown
Arkansas News Bureau
LITTLE ROCK – In a impassioned speech before hundreds of influential Hispanic civil rights leaders from across the nation, Gov. Mike Huckabee told a captive audience Wednesday that America is great because it has always opened it doors up to people seeking a better way of life.

“Do unto others as you would have others do unto you,” Huckabee said, citing the Golden Rule. “I have tried to govern that way and it stands to reason that I really do believe that what made this great country so great and so unique is that it has always been a place for people to run to – and not run from.

“I would hope that no matter who we are, or where we are from, that America should always be a place that opens its arms, opens it heart, opens its spirit to people who come because they want the best for their families …,” Huckabee said as the largely Hispanic audience gave him a standing ovation.

Huckabee was the keynote speaker, along with Tyson Foods Inc. Chairman and CEO John Tyson, at a noon luncheon of the League of United Latin American Citizens, which is holding its 76th annual convention in Little Rock.

About 10,000 political, community and business leaders, along with exhibitors and speakers are in Little Rock attending the convention at the Statehouse Convention Center. The convention started Monday and runs through Saturday.

Although he never actually talked about the U.S. or Arkansas immigration policy, Huckabee made it very clear where he stood on the issue. In his opening remarks, he said the nation will need to address the concerns of the Hispanic community because of its growing influence and population base.

“Pretty soon, Southern white guys like me may be in the minority,” Huckabee said jokingly as the crowd roared in laughter.
He told the LULAC delegates that their presence in the state’s capital city was very important because Arkansas has one of the fastest growing Hispanic populations in the nation.

“Your gathering is so very significant for our state,” Huckabee said. “We are delighted to have you.”

Despite several light moments, Huckabee did not stray away from several controversial issues that made him a target of criticism during the recently ended 85th General Assembly. He said Arkansas needs to make the transition from a traditional Southern state to one that recognizes and cherishes diversity “in culture, in language and in population.”

“This is an issue that is going to require extraordinary efforts on both sides of the border, particularly those coming from Mexico,” Huckabee said of verifying the status of illegal aliens. “But I am confident that our government will recognize that we should accommodate people who wish to provide the best opportunities for their families (and) employers so that we can make sure our economy has the necessary work force.”

During the legislation session, Huckabee criticized an immigration bill by Republican senators Jim Holt of Springdale and Denny Altes of Fort Smith as un-Christian, un-American, irresponsible and anti-life.
Senate Bill 206, which died in the Senate, would have required proof of citizenship to register to vote and also force state agencies to report suspected cases of people living in the country illegally. Holt, R-Springdale, replied later to Huckabee’s comments that Christian charity does not include turning a blind eye to lawbreaking.

The Republican governor, who many believe will run for president in 2008, also backed legislation that would have opened the door for illegal immigrants in Arkansas to receive college scholarships.
House Bill 1525 by Rep. Joyce Elliott, D-Little Rock, was approved by the House but eventually failed in the Senate. Huckabee reiterated Wednesday that he believes every child, regardless of their parent’s immigration status, should have an opportunity to receive an education in the U.S.

“I … believe that an education for every child is the most important single factor to give everyone to be their very best,” he said.

In one humorous moment, Huckabee sounded very much like a presidential candidate when he recalled his educational upbringing in Hope and reminded the crowd that another famous Arkansas governor and former president grew up in the small southwest Arkansas town.

“I too still believe in a place call Hope,” Huckabee said, mimicking former President Clinton’s famous acceptance speech at the 1992 Democratic National Convention.

Before Huckabee spoke, John Tyson thanked the Hispanic community for standing by the Springdale-based food giant during the federal government’s investigation of the company a few years ago. The U.S. Justice Department investigation alleged that Tyson helped to smuggle illegal aliens into the U.S. and employed them at various chicken-processing plants across the Southeast.

After a seven-week trial, Tyson and several managers of poultry processing plants were acquitted in March 2003 of those charges.

“At the time, it was a very difficult and very tough time for our company,” Tyson said. “Thank you LULAC for standing by us.”

Tyson also credited LULAC leaders for pushing the company to add Hispanics to the Tyson board and promote more Latinos to upper management and executive positions.

He also said in that last 15 years, the number of Hispanics that work for the Arkansas company has increased significantly.

“I am proud to tell you that more than 40,000 of our workers are Latinos,” Tyson said of the company’s 114,000 employees. “We are learning, growing and benefiting from that diversity.”

Copyright © Arkansas News Bureau, 2003 – 2006

Now, prior to this… could anyone here fathom a fellow Republican existing who actually makes Dubya look like a border hawk?!?

FORGET about this mountebank, fellow rightists, and vote for DUNCAN HUNTER!

In His Own Words: Huckster is a FRAUD on Israel

Check out Huckster’s OWN WORDS on Israel from January of this year. Gee… time changes lots of things. This should put to rest the notion that Huckster has one iota of concern for the Chosen People.

Support Israel as strategic ally, but respect Palestine

I’ve visited Israel 9 times, and strongly believe in its right to exist & the important example it has set forth in its seriousness toward its own security as well as the admirable expectation it has of its people to be stakeholders in its preservation. Even though I support Israel, its boundaries, and its future, and believe its alliance with the US is one of great strategic value, a conversation with a Palestinian reminded me that the issue is not simple.

The Palestinian was relocated had been told one day that he would be relocated to a Palestinian camp and that his neighborhood would be occupied by Israelis. It was always easy to me to understand why the Jews, having been displaced for thousands of years, would feel a divine right to return to the land promised to their forefathers and previously taken from them. But Palestinians are still human beings who deserve to be treated respectfully since they personally have not done wrong and now are being forced from what has been their home.
Source: From Hope to Higher Ground, by Mike Huckabee, p.137 Jan 4, 2007

Please, my fellow Americans–run far, far away, and as fast as you can, from this two-faced flipflopper who will sell the Jews down the river faster than Ted Kennedy finishes a side of ham!

Chaimfan

Lots of rightists are airing doubts about Mike Huckster.

Check out the latest from the Wall Street Journal editorial page:

Redefining Conservatism
Mike Huckabee is far from being Reagan’s heir.
BY KIMBERLEY A. STRASSEL
Friday, December 7, 2007 12:01 a.m. EST

DES MOINES, Iowa–Stepping out for a press conference here Monday, Mike Huckabee fielded the ultimate question. Just how conservative are you?

“I’m as conservative as anyone could hope to be, or want to be, or needs to be,” replied the smiling former Arkansas governor, never missing a beat, and following up with a boilerplate summary of his belief in “lower taxes,” the “sanctity of human life” and a “strong military”–before moving ever so swiftly on to the next question.

It was trademark Huckabee: Sounds great, explains little. It’s a strategy that has so far served him well, rocketing his campaign in recent weeks to the top ranks of the Republican presidential field. The question is whether he can continue to pull off that trick, now that he’s receiving belated media scrutiny. A few days following the candidate on the Iowa campaign trail suggests it could prove tough. If Mr. Huckabee does turn out to be everything Republicans “want” or “need” in a conservative, it will only be because the definition of a conservative has morphed to include tax hiking, protectionism, corporate scolding and an unserious approach to foreign policy.

What aren’t in doubt are Mr. Huckabee’s social-values credentials. He has an undisputed record on questions of abortion and gay marriage, and he’s spent no small portion of his limited advertising money making sure Iowa voters know it. Christian conservatives make up an estimated 40% of the state’s GOP vote, and by all accounts he’s slowly locking up that vote. That alone accounts for a fair share of his recent rise in the polls.

Mr. Huckabee is the charisma candidate. Like another man from Hope, Ark., the onetime pastor is an extraordinary speaker. He’s self-deprecating and funny, has perfect timing, and never struggles for an answer. He has that rare ability to pull out just the right story in response to any situation, and to deliver it in a folksy, Southern way.
At a meeting in Newton, Iowa, when talking about the importance of marriage, Mr. Huckabee notes that in his 34 years with his wife, Janet, she’d never been “wrong.” He waits a beat and throws in that he likes “sleeping on the bed, not the couch.” People chuckle. When one attendee praises Mr. Huckabee as the “nicest” GOP candidate, Mr. Huckabee quips “I tend to agree. I know these guys, they’re bums.” More laughter. Along with values, the vast majority of the voters interviewed after these events said their top reason for supporting Mr. Huckabee was that he was the only candidate who struck them as “genuine” and “sincere.”

The yawning questions are Mr. Huckabee’s stances on those other big GOP-voter concerns–national security and the economy. When he can get away with it, Mr. Huckabee is vague, broadly supporting “school choice,” “health-care reform,” “lower taxes” and a “strong America.” It’s when he’s pressed for details that things get dodgy.

On the stump, Mr. Huckabee likes to point out that we are in a “world war” against terror, and that his first duty would be to protect Americans. Yet don’t expect the Arkansan to stand firm against liberal opinion over America’s more controversial strategies. On Monday, he became the only Republican candidate to attend a meeting with retired military officers who have complained about the Bush administration’s supposed use of “torture.” At an ensuing press conference, Mr. Huckabee quickly jumped on the politically popular bandwagon to condemn “waterboarding,” and to further declare his support for closing down Guantanamo Bay because of the “symbol” it “represents” to the “rest of the world.”

On other questions of foreign policy, the Arkansan has yet to prove he is ready for international prime time. Asked how he’d handle the Iranian nuclear threat, his stock answer is that America needs to become “energy independent in 10 years,” thereby denying Iran oil money. “Iran, I promise you, they wouldn’t have enough money to build a reactor just by selling rugs,” he explained. (No word on why this didn’t stop North Korea.) When asked at a media dinner about the front-page news that the latest National Intelligence Estimate had downgraded Iran’s nuclear threat, Mr. Huckabee admitted he didn’t even know about the report.

A populist at heart, Mr. Huckabee claims he’s “no protectionist,” but over and over this week he complained about the U.S. trade deficit with China and vowed, in the best Democratic tradition, to only sign “fair trade” deals. To bring up big companies is to invite a Huckabee lecture on the “greed” of corporate executives who tower over “average employees.”

Mr. Huckabee likes to say he cut taxes in Arkansas 94 times, and has collected devotees around his promise for sweeping tax reform via the “fair tax.” He promises to abolish the IRS, and along with it all current income, corporate, payroll and other taxes–to be replaced with a 23% national sales, or consumption, tax. He’s also promised repeal of the 16th amendment–which established the income tax–to ensure Americans don’t get double-taxation.

The chances of actually accomplishing this are about as likely as Christmas three times a year. But the benefit of Mr. Huckabee’s dreamy tax proposal is that it has, until now, allowed him to avoid talk of his own checkered tax past in Little Rock. That tenure included sales tax hikes, strong support for Internet taxation, bills raising gas and cigarette taxes, etc. By this week, Mr. Huckabee had been slammed on this tax history so much he was no longer disputing the details. When asked if he didn’t have a “mixed” record, Mr. Huckabee shot back: “Most everyone who has ever governed does,” before insisting that even the great Reagan had raised taxes while at the helm of California.

Another benefit is that Mr. Huckabee hasn’t had to talk about what he’d do with the existing, messy tax system. When I pointed out the unlikelihood of a fair tax, and asked how he’d handle the real-world questions of the Bush tax cuts, the exploding AMT and high corporate taxation, Mr. Huckabee allowed that he’d keep the Bush cuts, said something about the problems Democrats face with the AMT, and launched back into a discussion of the virtues of the fair tax.

Voters are only now beginning to hear some of this, and Mr. Huckabee, with little money or infrastructure in other primary states, is still a long way from the nomination. But if by some chance he keeps up this surge, Republican voters need to understand they are signing up for a whole new brand of “conservatism.”

Ms. Strassel is a member of The Wall Street Journal’s editorial board, based in Washington. Her column appears Fridays.

Do we really need this tax-raising, Iran-coddling, terrorist-loving phony as our next president?

Attention: Mike Huckster is a FRAUD!

Yes, that’s right–everyone’s favorite “conservative” is a fraud! On issues from terrorism to immigration to Israel to crime, Mike Huckster is a bleeding-heart PHONY!

In the coming days and weeks, I will prove to the world that Huckster is about as sincere as Arafat when he talked about peace–often using his very own words! Open your eyes and minds, boys and girls. I will show you all the TRUTH!

Chaimfan