March 2, 2007--Former Gov. Mike Huckabee (R-AR) speaks at
CPAC. He drew laughs when he said the theme of the conference
might be, "Dude, where's my candidate?" Huckabee defended his
record as governor, pointing to the first ever broad-based tax cut and
over 90 tax cuts in 10 1/2 years. "If you'll check the record, you'll
find that my consistency as a fiscal conservative is genuine," he
stated. He also described himself as a family conservative, a
free-market conservative and a freedom conservative. Huckabee
said: "...I'm probably not the first
choice to be president on Wall Street. I probably am not the first
choice to be president among the people on K Street. I know darn sure
I'm not the first choice to be president among the crowd on Sunset
Boulevard and Rodeo Drive.
"I just want to be the first choice for the people who live on Main Street out there in the heartland of America, who shop Wal-Mart, who go to church, who hunt, who fish, who drive pickup trucks, who listen to country music, who follow NASCAR, and the kind of people who are tired of politicians telling them what they want to hear, rather than what the politician truly believes." (more) |
Copyright © 2007 Eric M. Appleman/Democracy in Action |