Hillary Clinton on her childhood:
“My father really was an old-fashioned conservative with a small ‘c.’… He believed in hard work, and that everyone had to do their part and be willing to take responsibility.”
According to the Washington Post, Hugh Rodham was a small businessman who didn’t believe in “debt, big government, the capital gains tax, or public assistance for anything other than roads and schools.” He never bought anything on credit and saved up to pay for his daughter to go to any school she wanted, except Radcliffe (there were apparently too many hippies there).
In other words, he was exactly the sort of hardworking and saving American who would suffer from his daughter’s many outrageous economic and social policies. If Hillary had her way, she’d take an increasingly high percentage of his salary, what little business profits he had, and add on a few more taxes and regulations on top of that to fund her $500 million earmark gifts to big corporate donors, along with her many other pet projects that she thinks the nation just can’t do without. Her first health care plan included a mandate that all small business owners like her father would have to pay for health insurance for their employees, a huge expense among many she would like to implement for small business owners and hard-working entrepreneurs.
Hugh Rodham would apparently make dinner table “declarations about commies, corporations and political crooks.” It was too early for him to talk about his daughter in the context of those particular conversations.
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I believe the term “rolling over in his grave” is appropriate here.
Dirty Apple
December 13th, 2007
All Fiscal Cons and Libertarians need to unite behind one candidate to ward off the Huck-Monster. He is everything that we oppose – “fiscally liberal and socially conservative.” Huck? Double – Yuck!
I’m a big “Libertarian for Giuliani.” Have been for over a year.
But even I’m willing to switch to Romney if it would help unite all Fiscal Cons behind one candidate to challenge Huckabee. National Review, the icon for libertarian conservatives, recently endorsed Romney. And libertarian Republican Bill Weld is formally backing him.
The Ron Paul people need to wake up and realize that this Huckabee threat is for real. Paul is way behind other Fiscal Cons like Giuliani, Romney and even Fred Thompson in the polls.
If we all don’t agree on one candidate soon – the Thompson people, the Romney people, the Giuliani people, AND the Paul people – we’re screwed!
Eric Dondero
December 15th, 2007
There’s nothing wrong with being socially conservative– as long as you don’t want to enforce that on other people in addition to yourself by using force. That’s where Huckabee and many of these guys err. You’re right that he is certainly not a fiscal conservative.
Hasn’t National Review had a few editors endorse Ron Paul lately? “Paul is way behind other Fiscal Cons like Giuliani, Romney and even Fred Thompson in the polls.”
That’s not true at all. Giuliani is backing completely out of New Hampshire because he knows he has no hope there, and Ron Paul is tied with Romney in some states, above Thompson in others, only 3% behind Giuliani in Iowa, and only 6% behind second place in South Carolina with 11% in CNN’s latest poll.
Unlike the other candidates (with the possible exception of McCain), Ron Paul attracts many independents, Democrats, and those who have never voted before, so it’s safe to say that his support is above his poll numbers, while you can’t make that estimate for any other candidate. Ron Paul’s numbers are going up, while everyone else except Huckabee is going down (and Huckabee’s will when people find out about Wayne Dumond, etc.)
We’ll see how the polls turn out, it should be interesting. But I think everyone should unite behind Ron Paul. He’s the only one the Democrats can’t attack personally, just on positions, and he can bring people around to his positions and even steal Democrats from them. I don’t think any of these other guys have a hope against Hillary or Obama, honestly. They would be torn apart, especially Giuliani and Thompson. Romney may have a chance, but I don’t think he could win a general election since he’s not going to attract independents to his side over either of the Democrats and because some just won’t get over the Mormon thing.
libertariangirl
December 19th, 2007
Also, the war will be a large issue. 70% of the American people are against the war, so any Republican who is in favor of continuing it with no end in sight will have a really difficult time winning a general election, because they’ll have a difficult time getting independents on their side. There are many more registered Democrats out there than Republicans, nationally. Bush won basically as a backlash against Clinton, and he just narrowly pulled that one out by the slightest of margins through the electoral college (while advocating Ron Paul’s foreign policy!)
libertariangirl
December 19th, 2007
[...] weeks and she cries foul? Honestly, what a crybaby. I used to have at least marginal respect for Hillary and liked her as a person, but that’s wasted away as she’s shown her true [...]
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