Club For Greed, Indeed!
No one will be surprised to know I'm hoping to vote for John Edwards in 2008. Even if he doesn't get the nomination, I'll still probably vote for the Democratic candidate. But I have to admit, I do need to start looking at Mike Huckabee. As the following article explains, he's starting to sound like John Edwards, which is a good thing in my book.
Honestly, the main reason I'm such a Democrat is because of the Republican party's unabashed obeisance to the almighty dollar. (That and the party's holier-than-Christ attitude towards religion. And its harsh attitude towards gays, while members of their own rank try and seduce teenage boys or meet men in restrooms. And the way they claim to be fiscally conservative but will piss away 3 trillion on a bullshit war for oil... that doesn't even get me cheap gas. And the way they claim to be strict "law and order" types when the criminal is a poor minority, but not when it's a wealthy CEO who raises millions for the Republican party.) Anyway, I liked the "Club for Greed" line.
"Like many of his rivals, Huckabee brings his own deviations from conservative orthodoxy from the table. Ordinarily when a presidential candidate declares that he’s “for Main Street, not Wall Street” and laments that he doesn’t want his party to stand for “the CEO making $100 million instead of the guy who gets laid off because of that,” one’s reflexively response is “oh, go back the hair salon, John Edwards.” But these are Huckabee’s words....
Hearing Huckabee refer to the Club for Growth as “The Club for Greed” is enough to make most free marketers take an angry spit-take. But opinion polls have shown for quite some time considerable national anxiety about the economy, despite a booming stock market and steady growth in the GDP. Huckabee’s rhetoric may match the times, and with a Fortune magazine cover declaring “Business Loves Hillary!” and detailing how Wall Street has filled her coffers, one may wonder how many times a Republican presidential candidate must come running to the rhetorical aid of corporate executives."
Of course, the fact that Huckabee doesn't (seem to) worship the wealthy will no doubt doom hi
s campaign.
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