Thursday, December 13, 2007
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Pat Toomey on the Huck-Flops
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Posted by:
Matt Lewis at
2:12 PM
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I asked Pat Toomey, President of the Club for Growth, for a comment about this story.
According to Toomey:
Huckabee is great at making pledges, but he is also great at breaking them. In 2001, he told Arkansas “Taxes are out” but then proceeded to support higher taxes repeatedly throughout the rest of his tenure as governor. In light of his record, taxpayers have good reason to doubt his Johnny-come-lately pledges on the presidential campaign trail.
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of no surprise.
I'm shocked there's a single person who's paying attention to this race who things that Huck has any shred of integrity, credibility, or shot at being electible at this point. |
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The guy is a social liberal. He's strong on social issues but weak on economics and defense. This guy speaks the language of class warfare fluentlu like Edwards. |
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It's ok to flip flop on the murdering of innocent human life but not on taxes? Wow, this party sure has changed since the days of Ronald Reagan. |
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"In 2001, he told Arkansas 'Taxes are out'”
Was that before or after 9/11?
AR taxes up: post-9/11 & court-ordered;
Mitt Romney proposed $500 + $140 + $170 million in increases in taxes & fees;
CATO gave "C" to Romney
http://groups.google.com/groups?selm=0e6b6858-0c5b-4a0a-88d 5-c8841acdb1fc%40e6g2000prf.googlegroups.com
Romney hit hard on MSNBC -Taxes, Flip-flops, & Social Issues
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w8bSyAihn18
7 September 2007
"Fee-Fee" Can't Get Free Himself From His Record on Taxes
http://www.democrats.org/a/2007/09/fee-fee_cant_ge.php
Scherer, Michael. 20 September 2007.
"The not-so-mysterious case of the coy candidate"
http://www.salon.com/news/feature/2007/09/20/huckabee/
....the political chattering class in Arkansas was already well aware of the probable culprit behind the Club for Growth's decision to run costly advertisements against Huckabee. The ads had been paid for by a spin-off group called Club for Growth.net, which files regular disclosures through the Internal Revenue Service. A quick review of those filings showed that the group had taken in no new money in 2007. But in the second half of 2006, a Little Rock neighbor and political rival of Huckabee's named Jackson T. "Steve" Stephens Jr. had given the group $125,000, including a $50,000 check just days before the 2006 election, when it was too late to spend more on that election. A member of one of Arkansas' richest families, Stephens also serves as chairman of Club for Growth.net, along with his Arkansas business associate, Gary Faulkner. The group's only other six-figure donor in 2006 was John Childs, a secretive, Boston-based financier and longtime Club for Growth funder, who has also given money to Mitt Romney's campaign.
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"In light of his [Huckabee's] record, taxpayers have good reason to doubt his Johnny-come-lately pledges on the presidential campaign trail."
Does Fee-Fee Romney have a consistent record on *any* major issue?
(Other than saying what he thinks he needs to say to a particular audience in order to move him forward toward his goals.)
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Romney a shape-shifting political opportunist e.g. on homosexuality
http://groups.google.com/groups?selm=38cebb6b-6493-49b3-857 4-9120f8a068c0%40s12g2000prg.googlegroups.com
Romney an abortion chameleon on videotapes
http://groups.google.com/groups?selm=54f3c9a0-e082-44f8-94d 6-21110c3c25c5%40s8g2000prg.googlegroups.com
2002 Romney: I'm moderate, with progressive views-- see 0:50 on
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fbYdATLV6ZE
Sheriff of Floppingham, Friar Mike
Folger, Janet. 27 November 2007. "Sir Mike-A-Lot and the Queen of Slaughter"
http://worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=58879
Does anyone here know when Romney was last pro-choice? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ToQbeBC_fOI
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It seemed that about 4 Republicans during the last debate endorsed the fair tax. What is Flip-Flopper Fee-Fee Romney's current view of the flat tax?
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7 September 2007
"Fee-Fee" Can't Get Free Himself From His Record on Taxes
http://www.democrats.org/a/2007/09/fee-fee_cant_ge.php
In 1996, Romney personally paid $50,000 to fund a series of attack ads aimed at Republican Presidential contender Steve Forbes' flat tax, arguing that a flat tax benefited the rich because the plan would not tax income from dividends, interest, and investment profits. The ad called the tax break 'a tax cut for fat cats.'
Romney: flat tax "a TAX CUT for FAT CATS!"
http://hotlineblog.nationaljournal.com/archives/2007/03/mit t_romney_is.html
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any issue should not be taken seriously. Has Romney been consistent on any major issue in the last 5 years? abortion, stem cell, immigration, definition of marriage etc.....has been consistent in any of his beliefs about anything in the last 5 years???? and this is the best GOP candidate according to smittened republicans and Mitt's Missionaries? |
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