Posted by
cavalier973 on Thursday, July 17, 2008 7:58:26 AM
Since they apparently think that calling Huckabee a "Populist" is not gaining any traction, the Huckabee Haters are starting to call him a "Socialist". The latest charge comes from one of the early foot-soldiers in the modern conservative movement: Richard Viguerie, who claimed that Gov. Huckabee was a "Christian Socialist". You can read about him here:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Viguerie , and his website is here: http://conservativehq.com/home .
This guy was brought to our attention by Mr. Matt Lewis, of Townhall.com, who presented Mr. Viguerie's statement on the blogroll. Mr. Lewis only stated that Mr. Viguerie was a conservative pioneer; he failed to mention that Viguerie claimed that he couldn't support Ronald Reagan's re-election effort in 1984, because Reagan was too soft on the Soviet Union.
But getting back to the charge that Huckabee is a "Christian Socialist"; here is my response on the blog's thread: "This 'Huckabee is a Socialist' diatribe leads me to the conclusion that a lot of Mittwits misunderstand what Socialism is; they seem to think that Socialism is equivalent to government spending. What Socialism actually is is government control of the means of production. I'd like to see Huckabee's policy papers that says he wants the government to take over and run all of America's businesses. Otherwise, saying that Huckabee is a Socialist is nothing more than the delusional rantings of a disordered mind."
Enough said, except I would like to add that when one calls Huckabee a "Socialist", when they mean "Populist", or "Big Government Liberal", then what they are doing is stripping the term of its original meaning and replacing it with a definition of their own making. This is what people on the Left do when they throw around the terms "Fascist" and "Nazi".