2007-10-27 14:05:48 · 11 answers · asked by Anonymous in Politics & Government ➔ Politics
Betsy Hagan, Arkansas director of the conservative Eagle Forum and a key backer of his early runs for office, was once “his No. 1 fan.” She was bitterly disappointed with his record. “He was pro-life and pro-gun, but otherwise a liberal,” she says. “Just like Bill Clinton he will charm you, but don’t be surprised if he takes a completely different turn in office.”
Phyllis Schlafly, president of the national Eagle Forum, is even more blunt. “He destroyed the conservative movement in Arkansas, and left the Republican Party a shambles,” she says. “Yet some of the same evangelicals who sold us on George W. Bush as a ‘compassionate conservative’ are now trying to sell us on Mike Huckabee.”
The business community in Arkansas is split. Some praise Mr. Huckabee’s efforts to raise taxes to repair roads and work with an overwhelmingly Democratic legislature. Free-market advocates are skeptical. “He has zero intellectual underpinnings in the conservative movement,” says Blant Hurt, a former part owner of, and columnist for, Arkansas Business magazine. “He’s hostile to free trade, hiked sales and grocery taxes, backed sales taxes on Internet purchases, and presided over state spending going up more than twice the inflation rate.”
2007-10-27 14:11:33 · answer #1 · answered by missourim43 6 · 2⤊ 1⤋
Maybe because the evangelicals are just like everybody else and they realize Huckabee doesn't stand a chance at winning? Evangelicals don't guide themselves by morality rather than political interests. They know Huckabee hasn't raised that much money and isn't that organized. Evangelicals sell out faster than street whores.
2007-10-27 14:36:38 · answer #2 · answered by cynical 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋
They should, the guy's a lunatic like them. It surprises me that so many of these lunatics can support Giuliani, who clearly doesn't support their social agenda and has led a very "immoral" life by their standards and even by my liberal standards. They claim this is so important to them. I guess they hate the Democrats so much that any Republican will do.
2007-10-27 17:07:17 · answer #3 · answered by Alan S 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Hopefully, the evangelicals have learned the lesson of being manipulated and scammed of their evangelical money as the Bush people did.
2007-10-27 14:15:06 · answer #4 · answered by !truth! 7 · 3⤊ 1⤋
Some Have
2007-10-27 14:09:54 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
Actually,I think they're starting to.He's been steadily climbing in the polls as of late.
2007-10-27 14:09:32 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 0⤋
I never heard of him...He is a no name as far as this race is concerned. I would like to know more about him.
2007-10-27 14:09:52 · answer #7 · answered by Free Thinker 6 · 2⤊ 0⤋
He is not of the void that is the group hatchling mind.
And his teeth are crooked.
2007-10-27 14:15:44 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
Because of his name lol.
Seriously though I think he's a good guy, but has no chance
2007-10-27 14:09:16 · answer #9 · answered by L 3 · 1⤊ 2⤋
Who says they havent? You?
2007-10-27 14:10:13 · answer #10 · answered by vinny_says_relax 7 · 2⤊ 1⤋