Posted by
NYC prof. on Wednesday, November 21, 2007 9:54:52 AM
"Huckabee is the b-----d child of Lou Dobbs and Pat Robertson."
I guess that means Huckabee must be gaining some traction, to generate such a fearful, rock-throwing response from Jonah Goldberg today.
Specifically, Goldberg calls Huckabee a "statist", using, as the most extreme example, a proposed national ban on smoking.
Hmmm. Is there any more egregious example of statist intrusion by the federal government on the citizenry than the IRS? And how many candidates want to get rid of the IRS? Let's see: there's Huckabee.
And what about a national smoking ban? Well you know, even Rush Limbaugh says that if smoking is so dangerous, why don't we just ban it? And he's not kidding: He's talking about how stupid it is to try to tax it out of existence (all the while becoming dependent on the tax revenue) rather than to ban it. And if banning smoking is such anathema to conservatives, how many are for legalizing all the other dangerous drugs? Ron Paul, the libertarian, I suppose.
PS: I had to bleep out the quoted "b" word at the top, because Townhall wouldn't let me post it. How come Jonah Goldberg was allowed to?
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