CFG Versus Huckabee

I learned in comments to a post from yesterday the interesting fact that the Club For Growth has actually put together a whole Huckabee-bashing website lest anyone ever get the idea that one could be a conservative and have less than perfect fealty to the Tax God Idols.

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Huckabee is beloved by a group called Americans for Fair Taxation (Fairtax.org) who support abolishing the current tax code and replacing it with a national sales tax. GFR covered Huckabee's ties to Fairtax.org in the Iowa Independent.

http://www.iowaindependent.com/showDiary.do?diaryId=785

Posted by joejoejoe | October 19, 2007 8:20 AM

That's what makes David Brooks' column today so inane. Huckabee only has the strong support of one out of the three groups that generally comprise the GOP base -- the social conservatives. He doesn't have the economic conservatives (Rudy or Romney) or the military conservatives (Rudy).

I'm not sure where the anti-immigrant xenophones go. Not Rudy b/c of NYC, not Romney b/c of past apostasy, not Huckabee (see comments to MY's earlier post).

Fred is making a play for them, but he's such a terrible candidate that it's hard to see anything he does as mattering much.

Posted by bob | October 19, 2007 2:39 PM