Huckabee and the 1st Amendment
Meet Mike Huckabee, the Speech Police
Washington – Just in case there was any doubt about Mike Huckabee’s liberal policies, the Arkansas Governor told NPR on Wednesday that he would like to outlaw independent political speech in the public domain:
I personally wish that all of this were outlawed. I think that every candidate ought to speak for himself, and that everything that involves the candidate’s name or another candidate’s name should be authorized and approved by that candidate, otherwise it shouldn't be spoken . . . The point is that candidates can’t force these special interest 527 groups to stop. I wish we could.
“Apparently, Mike Huckabee has decided to appoint himself head of the speech police, worthy of telling people what they can and cannot say,” said Club for Growth President Pat Toomey. “Under a Mike Huckabee presidency, no individual or group would be allowed to criticize a politician’s policies without the politician’s approval. Which part of ‘Congress shall make no law . . . abridging the freedom of speech,’ is lost on Governor Huckabee?”
“For someone who claims to believe in limited government, Mike Huckabee thinks the government should tax its citizens out of prosperity, should tell CEOs how much they can earn, should dictate wages, should control prices, and should control what a person can say in the political arena. That doesn’t sound like limited-government conservatism.”
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