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The Club for Growth wants no enforcement of the rules of
trade. Laws are bad, irritating and get in the way of good
business for its contributors.
The Club for Growth rates
and donates to candidates that agree with it. The group has
condemned Mike Huckabee for straying from the reservation.
One of
Huckabee's sins is favoring "fair trade." I don't know what "fair
trade" is, but the Club for Growth does not like the smell of it. Huckabee is very strong in promoting a "Fair Tax" which is a consumption tax, which would solve many trade problems. (See the Coalition for a Prosperous America policy on value added/consumption taxes and trade).
Robert Novak piled on saying " Huckabee simply does not fit within normal boundaries of economic conservatism".
The rise of evangelical Christians as
the force that blasted the GOP out of minority status during the past
generation always contained an inherent danger: What if these new
Republican acolytes supported not merely a conventional conservative
but one of their own? ... [Huckabee] is far removed from the
conservative-libertarian model of Barry Goldwater and Ronald
Reagan. ...
Huckabee clearly departs from the mainstream of the conservative movement in his confusion of "growth" with "greed."
And (gasp!) Huckabee is mean, says Novak:
Quin
Hillyer, a former Arkansas journalist writing in the conservative
American Spectator, called Huckabee "a guy with a thin skin, a nasty
vindictive streak." Huckabee's retort was to attack Hillyer's
journalistic procedures, fitting a mean-spirited image when he responds
to conservative criticism.
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