What do Arkansans think of Mike Huckabee?
Clay K asked:
I’d like to hear from residents of Arkansas on their opinion of MIke Huckabee. Do you recall any positive or negative impact he had on your life and the lives of your loved ones during his time as governor? Do you support him as a presidential candidate? From your experience, do you think he would make a good President?
I’d like to hear from residents of Arkansas on their opinion of MIke Huckabee. Do you recall any positive or negative impact he had on your life and the lives of your loved ones during his time as governor? Do you support him as a presidential candidate? From your experience, do you think he would make a good President?
Thanks for any and all responses!
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Funny how you’re hearing how Huckabee is a liberal for raising taxes. Taxes were too low in Arkansas resulting in substandard government services and Huckabee did minor tweaks to get only some improvements.
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Arkansans are wearied that both candidates may end up from Arkansas.
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Oh! I have friends in Ark. They think he would be better than Bill and Hill.He would have trouble with the demos. in congress.
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I have lived in AR since 1978. Huckabee was a terrible governor. He ran as a conservative but betrayed us by ruling as a liberal.
He is for amnesty. He pushed a bill that would reward illegals and their children with in-state tuition, and provide $ for their college costs. He FOUGHT a bill that would require people to show an id in order to vote and to get state $.
He was soft on criminals. He pardoned over 1000 convicted criminals, 12 of whom convicted MURDERERS.
He raised our taxes numerous times. He tries to spin the past by saying how they were needed. Then, if they were so necessary, why was the democrat governor who replaced him able to give us a huge tax cut almost immediately??
When he left office he used all of the emergency funds on nonemergency items so the incoming governor didn’t have any $ in the event of a tornado, etc.
Huckabee lies, but he does it so sincerely that its easy to ignore the facts and get sucked into his spin.
I felt terribly betrayed by him as my governor. I couldn’t believe that he could be as two faced as he was/is.
As much as I don’t want any of the dems to get elected, if huck is the republican nominee I will throw away my vote on a 3rd party rather than give him my vote.
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I am a 49 year-old, third generation Arkansan who celebrated when Huckabee left the Governor’s Mansion.
I’ve been stunned to realize that he has achieved any prominence or consideration to be the leader of the United States. It scares me, quite frankly. His legacy and record are all slick rhetoric followed by pandering to a fundamentalist fan base.
The environment in Arkansas suffered greatly under his administration..civility and respect for diversity suffered..every aspect of social, educational and economic advancement that had happened under Clinton was set back. (And I wasn’t the biggest fan of Clinton’s environmental record either but that’s another story) The fundies had a field day while he was governor.
He supported and convinced voters to deny homosexuals rights to have civil marriages
He supports refusing them the right to foster children
His “covenant marriage act” that he lauded as such a wonderful victory for families is now chosen by a miniscule number of new couples marrying because of the hardships it places on women in abusive relationships seeking divorce!
< read here about covenant marriages and the pitfalls
Here are some pages to check Huckabee’s record.( also do a search on Huckabee at factcheck and these items appear:
Huckabee claimed he would “abolish the IRS.” He failed to mention that he’d replace it with another big tax bureaucracy.
Huckabee said he had proposed to make children of illegal aliens eligible for Arkansas scholarships if they “had been in our schools their entire school life.” Actually, the proposal required only three years in Arkansas schools.
Former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee praised a “fair tax” but failed to note that it would ease the burden on the richest Americans while imposing a stiff retail sales tax of perhaps 34 percent. Whether the proposal he said he supported is “fair” or not is of course a matter of opinion. In fact, President Bush’s bipartisan Advisory Panel on Tax Reform rejected the idea, saying it would substantially increase taxes for 80 percent of U.S. taxpayers while benefiting those at the top. The panel calculated that a sales tax would have to be set at 34 percent of retail sales prices to bring in the same revenue as the taxes it would replace, meaning that an automobile with a retail price of $10,000 would cost $13,400 including the new sales tax.
LOOK HERE also to see if what he supported in 2002 is what you want for your president..(He refused to answer the questions to these issues again in 2007) < Project Vote Smart
Here it indicates when given the choices of supporting either k) Support age-appropriate sexual education programs that teach about abstinence, contraceptives, and HIV/STD prevention methods.
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l) Support abstinence-only sexual education programs.
He chose the abstinence only sexual education program.
I went to school in the 60s and 70s and we learned about STD’s THEN! I can recall learning that a girl in my very own class figured out she HAD an STD from watching the film in high school that taught about it. I cannot imagine a responsible parent, yet alone responsible leader not wanting a populace that is educated about our own bodies.
Is he afraid if children and teens learn about contraception and STDs that it encourages sex in that population? ( if so, he is also too ignorant to be the leader of the U.S. )
Can the U.S. afford a President whose science literacy is so low that he believes that creationism is a legitimate *alternative* to a scientific theory?
For a time I just wrote off the popularity of Huckabee among the vocal Christian conservatives in Arkansas a reflection of our states lower educational and economic status..but now that I see his rise in popularity in the general populace it downright terrifies me to think I live in a nation that is heading into the dark ages, educationally, socially and morally. Huckabee on animal cruelty. He helped to stymie efforts by thousands of Arkansans who worked to make cruelty to animals more than a mere slap on the wrist. Is this the man of compassion and ethics that his spymasters portray?
Huckabee’s strengths in being able to sound good from the pulpit are not going to lead this nation where we need to go, domestically or in the world arena. Mike Huckabee. In a recent Republican debate, when Romney pointed out Huckabee’s “failure” of giving aid to illegal immigrants’ children, Huckabee’s answered in a clever way that turned this “failure“, this act that the voters would not agree on to spend money on illegal immigrants over citizens by reframing his question with emotional appeal to beliefs of the self-concept of Americans, “In all due respect, we’re a better country than to punish children for what their parents did. We’re a better country than that.” He didn’t apologize for spending taxpayer money but said, “America is a good country” and “don’t punish children for parent’s mistakes.”
Other significant findings of Huckabee’s record (you can find more @) include:
He supported an internet sales tax in 2001 (Americans for Tax Reform 01/07/07). He publicly opposed the repeal of a sales tax on groceries and medicine in 2002 (Arkansas News Bureau 08/30/02). He signed bills raising taxes on gasoline (1999), cigarettes (2003) (Americans for Tax Reform 01/07/07), and a $5.25 per day bed-tax on private nursing home patients in 2001 (Arkansas New Bureau 03/01/01). He opposed a congressional measure to ban internet taxes in 2003 (Arkansas News Bureau 11/21/03).
In 2004, he allowed a 17% sales tax increase to become law (The Gurdon Times 03/02/04).
By the end of his ten-year tenure, Governor Huckabee was responsible for a 37% higher sales tax in Arkansas, 16% higher motor fuel taxes, and 103% higher cigarette taxes according to Americans for Tax Reform (01/07/07), garnering a lifetime grade of D from the free-market Cato Institute.
Finally, in 2007, the new Governor, Mike Beebe, a Democrat whose main campaign issue was to cut tax on groceries and medicine, enacted the largest tax cuts in the state’s history by a significant cut to the food tax.
I could go on but this post is massively long enough. Believe me, there is much more I could complain about. I pray we don’t have him become our next president. This upcoming election is a sad one for me since there is no one I really support. I think both parties are corrupt. I just know without any doubt that this nation cannot afford Huckabee in the White House .
It feels like the right wing agenda is leading our nation to hell in a handbasket and all I can do is look on with horror.
If this is an episode of the Twilight Zone, I sure need a commercial break about now.
EDIT: I didn’t even notice the fellow Arkansan calling Mike Huckabee “liberal” before now! If she thinks he was liberal..she must be off the chart conservative because was political and religious Conservatives in Arkansas who liked him and voted for him. And his time served as Governor did not prove him to be supportive of any liberal political agenda. He was definitely not liberal friendly in his policies whatsoever! The Arkansas Times ( the state’s largest liberal leaning newspaper ) is grand evidence of the complete loathing of liberals for Mike Huckabee. In fact, he apparently disgusted voters across the political spectrum as evidenced by the answers here on your question!