The Hot Air being let out of Huckabee’s balloon.
It appears that Mike Huckabee, is a media generated apparition that is fading with the approaching new year. The scrutiny of Huckabee, has become more pronounced with his perceived front-runner status in Iowa. The mainstream media is becoming a bit dis-enchanted with the former minister, as Mr. Huckabee has a tendency to wear his religion on his sleeve. Mike Huckabee, is conjuring up images of a repeat George Bush; the softer gentler Neo-con act has already worn off with recent bizarre comment during an interview while Duck hunting. Huckabee claimed the third bird with his .12-gauge shotgun. He proudly displayed the birds and said jokingly, “See that’s what happens if you get in my way.”
It’s true that Mike Huckabee has reached his quarterly goal of 5 million, but the bulk of the Primaries 19 states are in the first week in Feburary known as Super Tuesday. If you compare Mike Huckabee’s numbers with Ron Paul, who raised 4.3 million and 6.1 million in two single day fundraisers and 20 million for the quarter. You start to wonder who really is the top tier candidate between the two of them. Do the polls reflect the voters viewpoint or are they being used to manipulate the voter’s perception of who really is in front. It seems odd to me for Mike Huckabee to be getting all this press and Ron Paul virtually none. When Ron Paul has raised the most money of any candidate in either party this quarter?
As voters and the media are scrutinizing his position more closely, they are most perturbed with his policies on immigration, during his tenure in Arkansas as governor. Mike Huckabee supported instate tuition for illegal immigrants, which is an issue that is opposed by 75% of Americans. Mike Huckabee complained in August of 2005 about an immigration raid on a chicken plant in Arkansas by the Immigration and Customs Enforcement that netted 119 arrests of illegal immigrants. He earned the moniker nationally as the “Illegal alien’s best friend”. Mike is also known in Arkansas as “Tax hike” Mike, there wasn’t a tax that Mike did not like. Huckabee solution to the elimination of the IRS is to implement a national sales tax or (VAT), similar to the Canadian VAT. Mike world’s looking less and less like a conservative Republican that he claims to be and more like a Clinton Republican. The 23% sales tax will effect the lower and middle class the worst because they spend all of the earnings and do not save. The typically low wage earner will pay maybe 10% in income taxes and often get a refund, under Mike’s plan he will be unable to avoid the 23%, rather than saving the economy in America it will destroy it as it has done in Canada. The cost of a $100 meal will now be $123; the cost of four $10 theatre tickets will now be $49.20. That is before any price increases merchants will need to add on because the cost of their goods has just gone up 23% as well. The real cost of a 23% flat tax may be closer to 40%. In no one’s world with the exception of Mike from Mars does a 23% flat tax translate into a tax break. It will wreck and destroy an already teetering economy.